The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-06 00:00:00

REPRESENTATION OP CHELSEA AND

KENSINGTON.

A requisition, numerously and influentially signed
by the inhabitants of Chelsea: and Kensington, having been
prmented to Mr. Tot ems 51'Culligh, late M.P., calling on
him to become a candidate fur the representation of the
new borough, that gentleman has returned the
gloatg reply :
" Brompton-crescent, March 5, 11161.
Gentlemen,—Accept my last acknowledgment: for the
kind expression of your wish that I should allow myself to
be put in nomination as a candidate for the honour of repre-
senting in parliament your expectant borough.
" Having long and earnestly laboured in concert with you
to obtain those rights to which you are so justly entitled, I
should feel especial pride and pleasure in becoming your first
representative in the House of Commons, and in being
enabled to advocate in your name those liberal principles
to which I have always been attached. I have sat long
enough in that assembly to know that the distinguished
posliaon you design for me will be no sinecure ; but I am
persuaded that by a faith al and fearless performance of hie
duty • man may retain the confidence of • just and gene-
rous constituency ; and in the retention of that confidence
be must look for his true reward.

" If I dud not believe that I should prove myself worthy
of your preference I should shrink from incurring the re.
'possibility your kiudnels would impose ; but believing as I
do that experience already gained in parliamentary life, and
a sincere devotion to the intonate el our new borough, will
enable me to vindicate your choice, I shall not hesitate,
should the pending Enfranchisement Bill pass this session,
to place myself at your dispoeal.—l have the honour to be
your very faithful servant, " Tossass WCutuoll."

REPREMENTATION OT BODKIN. —The transfer of
Mr. Gower, one of the present M.P.'s for this borough, to
Sutberlandshire, being anticipated, Mr. E. W. Cox, re-
corder of Falmouth, has offered himself for the expected
vacancy. lie states in his address that he is warmly
attached to the principles of civil and religious liberty, and
opposed alike to the tyranny of an oligarchy and the despot-
ism of a democracy.
DULWICH Coueoa—Yesterday a deputation from
members of the vestrieed St. Betel ph, Bishopegate Without ;
St. Giles, Camberwell ; St. Luke's, Middlesex ' • and St. Sa-
viours, Southwark, being the four parishes interested in the
management and cootrul of the abovecollege, had an in-
terview with Sir George Coruewall Lewis, at the Home-
office, for the purpose of urging upon the government the
necessity of taking some measures for the alteration of the
system by which it is now governed. Mr. H. Potter, in re-
ferring to the object of the deputation, said that though
there was an set of parliament poised three or four years ego
for the government of the college, there was scarcely any
Improvement in its managenieut Having entered into
several details of the evils complained of. he read a memorial
on the subject, praying that her Majesty's government will
cause inquiries to be made, with a view to such modifica-
tions in the present act of parliament as they shall think ne-
cessary. In reply, Sir G. C. Lewis said he would take care
that the matter should be inquired into.
HEALTH OF LONDON. —The weekly return of
births and deaths in London, issued by authority of the
Registrar-General, indicates a very favourable state of health
in London. In the week that ended last Saturday the num-
ber of deaths was I,Zeit showing a considerable decresoe on
the return of the previous week, which was 1,318. The
average number of deaths obtained front corresponding
weeks of ten previous years, 18:4-60, and corrected for in-
crease of population, is 1,387 ; and the result of comparison
is that the number of persons who died last week was less
by 149 than it would have been if the average rate of mor-
tality at the end of Fehrnary had prevailoL The births of
last week exceeded the deaths in the renteperloil by 718).
Zymotic diseases wore fatal in the week in IN. cases, whilst
the average for correspondar• weeks, corrected, is 3i6. The
most fatal dismiss in this clue at the present time is whoop-
ing-cough, which carried off 86 children, 51 of whom were
not two years old. Seven children died from this Com-
plaint in the subdistrict of St. John, Westminster; 7 also
in the west sub-district of Islington. There were 31 deaths
from scarlatina ; 6 from diphtheria ; 6 from syphilis, all of
which, except one, were those of infants. Three deaths
were referred to delirium tremens' 3 to intemperance.
Bronchitis was fatal in 147 caws. the corrected average
being 183. Ten nonagenarians died in the week, of whom
7 were women. The two oldest were widows, aged respec-
tively 93 and 98 years. Three children died on the 17th,
18th, and 26th ultimo respectively at 0, Hare-walk, Hag-
gerstoae West Of 7 deaths by burns, 3 are stated to have
been caused be the clothes taking fire ; the wife of a
labourer was killed by an explosion ot gunpowder. Besides
these, there were 3 fatal cases of scald. Seven infants were
suffocated in led, mind 3 by means not stated. One person
was choked by food Two infanta were murdered_ Last
week the births of 1,020 boys and 1,008 girls, in all 2,028
children, were registered in London. In the ten cone-
spending weele of the years 1651.60 the average number wag
1,762.

ROYAL INniTirrimg OF GREAT BRITAIN.—The
following arniugeineete for the lectures after Easter, 1861,
have been announced :—Three concluding lectures on fishes,
by Richard Owen, Egg., D.C.L., P.N.S., Fullerian Professor
of Natural Physiology, R.L ; three concluding lectures on
electricity, by John Tyndall, Req., F.R.S., Professor of
Natural Philosophy, R.I. ; six lectures oe modern music,
by John Mullah, Fag. ; six lectures on the Devonian age of
the world, by William Pengelly, Esq., F.G.S. ; nine lec-
tune on the science of language, by Max Muller, Fag.,
Taylorian Pmfessor, Oxford ; two lecturer on musical aeons.
ties, and on the phyniologienl and peveholo-neal causes of
musical harmony and discord, by Professor 'Hehuholtz, of
Heidelberg.