The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-31 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS.

Mlles rap Met, ,
oyes.. augers. chandMe. -11017. 181&
Woek smilax Nov. 1. 1 I. S. II
Grrat 40athern al ladla l5l 4,6 455 731 1,367
IN ~..,k ending Dec. 21.
Est.'s htl.l San rranchro 761
Wed. ending/Jan. 24.
Delhi' and Meath IS
Wool( elulintt Jan. IS.
1.1 ::, I mot I Ignore - - Pli 770
hurt:, LiMent 1111 14,536 47,638 61.174 56.7,1
Week ending laa. M.
1141(44 and rty Do 441 404 141 655 591
Itrrr.ni stud Merthrroun wn
71 •41 978 1.214 1.165
00rth Mritult

1,211 861
1888. 1867.
274 tit

01:1•11AN WORCING SCHOOL. --A general court of
the governors of this inetitutton was held yesterday, at
the London Tavern; Mr. John R. Welch, the tremnrer, in
the chair. The report stated t' at during the past year
the number cit ehildnin in the schools hod reached 400 (all
that the building, with its enlargement, was intended to
hold). There were in the schools at the last report 242
boys and 109 girl —total, 31.4 ; added during the year, 94 ;
left, their time baring expired, ; died, 3; expelled for
extremely bad conduct, 1 ; leaving at the present time in
the schools 369; to which would be added this day 30,
making the number after the present election 39d, viz.,
26 m
i; boys and 132 girls, or 47 ore than at the same period
last year. The future admissions. row that the building
was full, would be governed by the vacancies. The
state of the school was very satisfactory, and the health
of the children has been very good during the past year.

ldtitaunes, BIRTH', AND DRAT/Pl.—The Regis
trar-General's return shows that the births of 242,974
children, and the deaths of 133,02.1 persons of both sexes,
were registered in the three montha ending ea Dec. 31.
The recorded natural increase was 89,949 ; the =tint
emigrants were 30,433. The registered merrier& of the
United Kinglom in the quarter ending Sept. 30, 1867,
were 74,7)82. The death-rete of the United Kingdom
differs little from that prevailing in England and M ales.
The several facts concerning the other divisions of the
kingdom are set forth in the quarterly reports of the
Registrar-General of 'aloud and the Registrar-General
of Ireland. The resident popuLtion of the United
Kingdom in the middle or 194:7 Is estimated at 30,157,473;
that of England and Wales amounting to 21,429,506. of
Scotland to 3,170,769, and of Ireland to 5,557,196. The
corrected death-rate of the quarter b 2.135 per cent. ; the
birth-rate, 2.:2J0 ; the marriage-rate for the previous
quarter, 1.520. The returns of pauperism are heavy ; the
average numbers relieved on the last day of each week In
the quarter were in-door, 144,237 ; out-door, 771,230. In
the Member quarter of 1863 the respective numbers were
129.038 and 721,2;7.9.
TIRE Frvas me ESREX.—A well-informed corre-
spondent writes to ns concerning the fever at Terling
Up to the present time there have been about 240
cases, with 22 deaths ; while there are many eases want-
ing but little to turn the quivering balance between life
and death. Lord Rayleigh has willingly offered to pro-
vide a convalescent home for children, and it is already
in progress ; and when in work it will help to diminish
very materially the existing overcrowding, until more
effectual means are brought about. Real working nurses are
sadly wanted here. The first case of the real outbreak oc-
curred, not at Terling Place,but at what is called 'The Dairy
Farm.' in the immediate vicinity. This case sou quickly
followed by scattered ones throughout the parish, which,
at the time of the lad census, had a proportion of 902.
Nor was it possible, BO far as I could ascertain, to trace
the tint scattered cases to the source of infection
whence others have tried to trace them, viz, the Dairy
Farm. The first fatal case was that of a woman, who,
from ~c=ounts seemed from her husband, had had no com-
munication with the 'tainted spot ; but her illness (and the
case was one of the earliest) commenced after a long and
exhausting walk upon a soaking wet day. And this state
of things may, I think, be mull!: explained by the frost,
thaw, and subsequent percolation of water from the sur-
face through ground charged in many places with the ex •
- creta of typhoid fever patienta ; true, these excreta had
- been more er less treated with chloride of lime, but privies
open to the air above, and bounded below by no barrier
save a gravelly soil, are treacherous receptacles for such
matter."—Brifish Medical Journal.
A CENTENARIAN. —A poor woman resides in
Spalding named Nary Sharman, who is above 100 years of
age. She has had three husbands, bat has only two
children living. Her faculties are wand, and she can see
to sew. She will attain her 101st year in ApriL—Siass.
ford Mercury.
Roebling, the builder of the Niagara suspension-
bridge, has retired to farming life in lowa, His Milo
garden coatelne 23,000 awes.