The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-31 00:00:00

BIJIMBUyITH,

Boy'antis Premeis,; labourer, afoot 7d yews of age, who
bade very peculiar cast of countenance, was rammed on sue-
*ion of having murdered a boy, named John Wesley
son, aged 8 years, on the night of Thursday, the 17th of
September last, or near to Nottingham Forget.
in
Government have offered a reward of 1001. for the appre-
hension of the murderer, and have oleo published in the
Alice Omens a description of a man who decoyed the boy
away. The Owner, whose Mende reside at Fulham, wee
admitted into the workhouse a short time sines, and it was
easpicted that he was the murderer, as his description roe-
responded with the one in the Folios Gazette. The prisoner
was nine into custody on Wednesday. on hie own confession
of neglecting his wife and family and leaving them charge-
able to the parish of Wellington, Shropshire. This was done
kW the purpose of enabling the police to communicate with
the chief of the Nottingham oonstandary. Mr. Ingba,
sitar bearing the evidence, remanded the prisoner until
Mr. Mr. Dayman asked Mr. Jowl, relieving officer of Fulham,
fibs thought the prisoner's description corresponded with
the men mentioned in the Gaulle 1
Mr. Jones said it oorrespcmded exactly. He could prove
that the prisoner left Fulham, after his return from
iWel-
, on the 14th September, and he was than dressed in
diapriVt7rousers, a deck jacket with round Baps, and he bad a
decent sip for a lawyer. On the Bth of October
be to be adadtted into the boom and he was then in
• most dsplceable state. He nu not wearing the same
clothes, and what be was then wearing were in rags.
11111 z. Derma wished to know if be was dined as he wee at
that moment

Mr. Jour mid be waa not. Ma me in such a ragged
Mete that they zero obliged to fuer& him with • of
troneer, and the flannel Jacket he had term given to by
• pothers' in Fulham. The rinser was also in • very
diehard Mate of mind, and refined to inform him where
he hod been from the 14th of September until the beginning
of October. The primer'. was certainly knockkneed,ba
when be walked hie lift leg turned inwards.
The prisoner mid ha wee not knock-kneed, sad could walk
se well aa any man.
Mr. Jones end that when be saw the pnsoner on the Bth
Mat. his far looked very dark, as if it bad been exposed to
the sun. He had since had hts hair cut..

niri) a yman 718 i;d7.12 the pris;n7eif he had anything Wry.
The prisoner answered that he had nothing to say.
Mr. Dayman then mid he should remand him for • week,
on suspicion of the murder, for the purpose of commas&
eating with the police in Nottingham.
The prisoner wee then remogiiic.ll enbseqnently his
worship granted permission for • likeness of the
prisoner to be taken, to be sent to N

QUARTERLY RETURN OF TEE MARRIAGES
BIRTEB,_ AND DE42718 RIOIBTIRED Lit
ENGLAND.

The return comprises the births and deaths regis-
tered by 2,188 registrars in ell the districts of England
during the summer quarter that ended on September 30 h,
1857 ; sad the marriages la 12,247 churches at chapels, about
3,888 registered places of worship tutconnected with the
established church, sad 628 oupartatendent registrars' °Doss,
In the quarter that ended on Tone 30th, 1867.
The marriages sad the birth' in the present returns are
above the average numbers. The deaths exhibit a este of mor-
tality below the •vvetsesagsa of the season, but higher than the
rates of the oonapooamg sesame of the two previous years.
Diarrheas has ;revelled In army district.; and a few fatal
OMB of cholera of • severstype b. we been registered.

11AltiiA0 lift.

Eighty-two thousand five hundred and ninety-two pr-
ams were married in the three mouths that ended in June
bat, err nearly 1,720 in every 100,000 peeaone living. This
exceeds the tromp of the goalter for the ten previona years
(1,898). The 41,298 mir.lyee cured by 2,600 the MN,
risme in the maim quarter of
of year, and by 2,747 the
miurliges in tie spin garter of the previous year. A
oarresponding suer ie observable In all the divisions except
the notthera; whets the decrease of marriages in &Met-
bad, Beath !Shields, Newcastle, Tynemotah, and some other
seal districts, barn reduced the number of marriages in Dur-
hem sad Northumberland. The marriages in Cumberland
ar the three quarters ending June, 186643-7 were 288,
O, Al.

1111T118.
The births of 181,215 living children wen registered in
the gamer that ended on the lest day of September. This
number nosed' by 3,682 the births in the convernding
quarter of the year 1856; and is the greaten number of
bbthe that ever occurred in England deg* the summer
menthe. The birth rate of the quarter woe 8.808 pet cent.
It has been only once enosedod in the simmer quarter—tn
1851 the rale was 3 317. The births in the first MI months
always greatly meted in number the births in the last sin
months of the year in England.

INCRIABE OP POPTLATION.
The births won 181,216, the deaths 100,690 ; con•equently
the recorded natural Worms* of population in England and
Wales is expressed by 80,825.
The natural increase of population in the United Kingdom
was probably about 1,000 mule daily.
61,994 anigrenta tailed from the ports of the United King-
dom at which there we government emigration officers. Of
this number 18,726 wore ascertained to be of English origin ;
and allo for • due share of the 6,516 whose origin was
not d' the probable number of English emigrants
may be set down at 20,947. 10,197 of the number smiled to
the United Blake, 1.707 to our healthy North American
colonies, 8,947 to the Australian colonies, and 96 to other

BUM 07 Tll PUBLIC HIALTIt.

100,590 deall;;;;Wereg-iSisterriia;Titi7t;; ending Sept.
30; and the death rate was 2064 per cent. The deaths in
the summer quarter c the previous year were 91.330 ; end
in the summer of 1855 the deaths were 87,646. The excess
of deaths in the lest rammer quarter over this number was
12,944.
The simnel rate of mortality per 1,000 during the summer
wee 2.5 in this town districts and sub-districts where 8,247,017
people dwelt in 1861 upon 2,149,800 add; end 17 in the
other dietricta and sub-district. of England and Wales when
9,680,692 people dwelt on 36,175,115 acres. The arts which
have been invented in cities are now required to render their
I natural homes healthy. Au a preliminary to all other stage
1 the peoplemustbesupplied with pure water. The townmenures
must be metered to the disinfecting Odds every lily, dad no
longs. be suffered either to remain under human dwellings,
or to pollute the attests and stream, around them.
If the mortality in the towns had been et the raw yrs r
the mortality in the other district., the deaths, Instead of
amounting to 66,733, would have only amounted to 88,000.

VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN
THE CIVIL HERVlCl.—LaplDepertatteck—The Rueter-
ship of Doncaster hes become ramie by the death of the
Hon. Edmund Phipps. Mr. J. K. Aspinall has been ap-
pointed deputy mouthy of LiTirpool,vke Mr. Blair, ap-
pointed judge of the County
_Court. The Dockyards.—Mr.
Joseph Beer third class clerk, Davenport Dockyard, km
been appointed acting second class clerk during the abeam
of Mr. William Morison Richards, on service in the Stow
keeper-OeneraEo Department at Hong Kong. Customs.—
Mr. James Montan ban been appointed a de* in the Bast
and West India Docks, London. Mr. Harry Loveless has
been appointed an extra clerk in London. Mr. M. D. Croatia
ban been promoted from principal clerk and asobtant comp-
troller of accounts, St. Kathenne's
comptroller of accounts in the London Docks. Mr. Richard
Oowllend hsa been promoted from clerk first class in the
Legal Quys to be principal clerk and mutant comptroller
of accounts in the London Docks. Mr. 0. 0. Lowe has been
promoted from third to second class clerk in the London
Docks. Mr. R. M. Paton has been promoted from fourth to
third class clerk in the Imports end Exports Department,
London. Mr. F. W. M'lntosh hen been promoted from
fifth to fourth rises clerk in the Imports and Expels De-
partment., London.—Creil Berries o.eter.
SALE OE LITERARY PROPERTY.—Yesterday the
seventh and concluding day'. sale of the literary property of
the late Mr. Bogue took place under the hands of ]Mews.
Southgate and Barrett, at their Auction Rooms, Fleet-
street. The Heroines of Shakeeprare, 46 steel platen, 6001.;
Landscape illustrations to the Waverley Novels, 222 copies
of letter-press and 80 steel plates, 140/. ; Findon's Gallery of
the Graces, the copyright, stereotype, and engraved steel
plates, 951 ; Brandon's Analysis of -Gothic Architecture, the
navy:lest, woodcuts, and zinc plates, ; Funny Books
Poi Boys and Girl., the copyright, atersotype, wood blocks,
and elective, and 6,6E9 copies- 6, 301.; Brandon's Omaimz.
tar Roofs of the Middle Ages, the copyright, lit
emu and 280 copies of otter-pre.., 1101.; i=
Parish Churches, the copyright and mine plates, 1201. • flag-
stations in Design, the tom plates, SR • Tilt's Miniature
Classios, 39 vole.. 2201.; Views in Rome by Cooks, the
copyright, steel plates, and wood blocks, 601. • Goldsmith's
Traveller, by Birket Foster, the engraved steel plates, 961.;
Albert Smith's Mont Blanc, the copyright and wood blocks,
1101.• A Month in Constantinople, by Albert Smith, the
copyright, 181. 13a.; Claret end Oben, by Angus B. Reach,
the copyright, wood blocks,_rn
and BURSON 181. 18s. ; Turner
sad his Works, by John Barnet and Peter
the copyright and steel plates, 201.; Burvetimire
map
Painting in Oil Colours, the copyright and steel plame, 204
Brunet on Portrait Painting, the copyright end steal pietas,
!IL ; Rembrandt and his Works, by Burnet, the copyright
end steel plates, 201.; Stuart's Antiquities of Athens, the
Migt sad steel plebs, 19/. 19s.
lfil4 SCHOLARSHIP AT Oiroitio.—There will
be en election to an opa exhibition (besides the two scholar-
ships announced) on Saturday, December 66, of the annual
vane of about 401., and will be tenable for ems yeses, if the
exhibitioner shall be so long resident ; candidates if menteme
of the University most not have attained to their degree.
Certificates of baptism end testimonials of good conduct to
be presented to the Provost of Oriel, cm Monday, November
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