The Express.
London, England, 1861-09-06 00:00:00

" FRUITFUL" DISTAICTS.

The entire increase of births, to death., in En.. -
land aud Wales in IYRI wu about 36 per coat ; and there
are 20 districts in which the increase we. 100 per cent. and
upwards; while there were some districts in which
the bureau was less than 5 per cent. The 20
places where 10U per cut was reached iu 1854)
ere : Farnham, Surrey ; Yakohaar, Sun: ; Aires-
fool, Branford. and C.therinstam, Hants; On and
Eppiuq. Foss: ; Leighton Bossard, Bedford; Clacton and
Linton. Cearthridvi ; Hones, !Suffolk ; St. Faith's, Nor.
(elk ; Liskeard and Mt. (plumb, Cornwall ; Ormakirk, Lan-
cashire; Pickering, Yorkshire; Famingtoo and Hartlepool,
Durham; Rothbury. Surthuntherlaul ; Rhayader, Radnor-
shire.

districtNo of the metropolis reached the @tendon' bat
Bermondsey, where the birtbs were 2,361, and the deaths
1,140—s surplus of 1,190 in this manufecturing district to
the national strength. Canterbury registered but 4i4 births
to 354 deaths, and iu IrVirt the births tell short of the deaths
by 15. Chichester and Exeter are scarcely lour dormant.
So in various degrees are the other cathelnd cities. Peter-
borofigh alone is prominent as appreaching the healthy
standard 11,20 rt births to tial &Wu). Liverpool is bad, and
the returns are deprftnag —n.,9118 births to A, led deaths in
18:19 ; while is 18M the deaths outnumbered the births by

-There ore two towns in Middlesex Staines sod Barnet—
nearly equal in population and acreage, where the widest
difference prevails u regards the preporsierenco of births to
deaths.

Barnet had in 1*59 a population of 14,619, in a district of
2't,610 acres ; in that nor the death■ were 431 and the
births 349. In Isrot the births were 481 to 429 deaths—ie
the two years an increase of 70 to it. population. Malawi
had in WO a population of 13,973, in an area of 'A,OBI
acre■. In 19:18 the births were 501 to TX, deaths, and is
1830, 454 to 295 isathe—a ssrphis of 404 is the two yews.

DEATH TROY ATITKIPTUIO TO SWALI4II/ AN ONION.
—On Friday last. a bey, Ewa Onadleld, is tie mph" Mr
Mr. Hillier. of Cowep Belo. while tekisig breakfast la Ib
kitchen with dhoti' sifopptod to swallow so onion, whisk
stock io his throat, wad Wore medical asiestaoce could boo
procured he had breathed his last Wilishirc Independent

•
AceIDENT IN A CIRCUS.—At a circus, at Leicester,
oa blenday, a youth who was meeting the part of a man-
monkey accidentally set himself on Are, sad was much in-
jured hefting the dame. were extinguished. It seems that
MO of bin tricks was to climb a rope by the side of the pole
in the centre of the circus, and, going too close to the liglite
at the top of the pole, his dress caught lire. The l,ul dropped!
into the ring an soon as he discovered he was on fire, and wee
rolled about amongst the sawdust until the flsmes were
ettiuguished. The circus was crowded with spectators, and
much excitement was manifested.

A melancholy case of death from hydrophobia
oecurrad three days since at litlionort (Ewe). The Abbi
Goatee, cure of that parish, was bitten about five weeks Mace
=bad& he was owessing, and the animal immediately
exhibited till the symptoms of madness. Instead
of having the wound properly cauterised, the curd applied
to • quack who administered some smarms which he
vaunted as • certain cure for the bite of • mad dog. The
abbe felt ow evil results till the 2.3 th ult., when the first
sigma of the fetid disease made their appearance, and after
several days cif horrible suferiag he breathed his last.—
Galigamti.