The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-02 00:00:00

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1411.741 I 141,11111
MASI 571,634
MUM /410,313

The masa of marriages is ieesmplete ; bat the
numbers mauling are inconsiderable, sad have been
supplied from the previous years. Baum. of the
birth. and deaths have been remind from every regis
fear. While the returns of the expects, imports, and rev
furnish food indications of the 'madames, consumption,
sad comuirree of greet classes in the country—the marriages,
births, and deaths supply a rarer teat of the coadidee of the
whole population. It is gratifying to Gad that the
general results of both classes of returns are favour-
able. The marriage', which in 1847 were so mach de-
and leagued almost imperceptibly in 1848, rose to
te41,e5.9d9 in the year 1819 ; and in the autumn quasi:were
43,632; which is a higher number than has ever berate been
sekbrated, exeeptieg in the autumn quarter of 1845. The
deaths have also declined ; they were 05,607. The country,
which, after the failure of the potato mop fa 1846, was
severed with funerals—in the train of a multitude of dis-
eases and of two greet epidemic', the :'atal Whim's of
1847 8, and the more deadly cholera of 1849—is now la-
health apsin. The deaths in the first quarter of 1860 were
lees by 21,065 sad 21,414 than the deaths in the correspond-
log quarters of 1847 and 1848. Fewer children hays been
left Whorl's', fewer parents have been bereaved of their
sitildren. Blokes's lid safferisg—though, perhaps, notipeo-
duly ia the late redo as the mortality—hays diminished.
The skilled and active industry of the kingdom has been
Ines iatarrupted by the illness of workmen and the in-
capacity of masons; the pririshe" hays had fewer poor to
relieve ; the friendly socieues fewer rick members to sup-
port illailrantil societies lees to pay on policies • everything
dependent on the duration of homan life has b:aes relieved
ef pressure ; the minds of the ricple hays not been irritated
by, hacger, fever, and discontent.
The improvement in the state of the public health may be
estsibed to various causes. The NS= was natural. Janu-
ary and Muth were cold, as they usually are in
England; February warm; the three months were dry and
bracing. The great epidemics subsided in 1849. Their form
was perhaps expended. It is usual to say that they carry
away the weak; but to this it should be added, that their
attacks leave much weakness behind them. Then although,
as hitherto has always been the cue, much more has been
said than done in the way of sanitary improvement, un-
doubtedly many houses, streets, and cities have been purified.
noes flagrant salaam have been suppressed, and have not
bad time to reescumulate. _ .

Food too has been abundant. The high prices of provi
elms in 1847, when wheat was on an average 70s. a quarter
Is Upland, and potatoes still dearer, induced agricultural-
ly% everywhere to extend the breadth of land under culture
is 1848, which, as the crops were scanty, did not then pro-
ds% an amount of subsistence sufficient for the population.
The agricultural returns, which by the command of the
Lerd•Lieutesant have been so ably digested by Captain Lar
cos, show how much this culture was extended in Ireland;
872,038 acres of land were under wheat and potatoes in
1847, and 1,308,646 acres were under the same cultivation in
1848; while the produce, which wee 2,385,308 tons in 1847,
was 3,269.689 toss in 1848, without supplying the ordinary
manta of the
No attempt bees made to procure returns of the
breadth of land or the produce is England; and the Irish
returns of 1849 nave not yet been made yip; but there can
be little duabt that all over Europe the breadth of land
under potatoes, wheat, and the other cereals, in that year,
was sufficient to yield, on average crops, enough food to
supply the markets. The crops were generally above the
average ; the potato did not fad ; and the supply of whist
wee consequently superabundant, so that prices fell lower
than they have been since 1835. The general advantages
of Osmium are unequivocal ; but whether the part of the
population which is engaged in producing food for sale, pro-
ewe as much lame, for the good trope of 1849 as they
procured for the scanty bad food with which the markets of
many counties were Supplied in 1848, or for average cram
is uncertain, and must always remain uncertain, until
• comprehensive system of agricultural statistics is argots-
bed. No one On imagine, however, far • moment because
wheat wus at 51s. a quarter in 1848, and 445. a quarter
fa 1849. that the TALUS of the produce was in that
ratio; for if 10 million quarters of wheat at 61s. are worth
264 million pounds, evidently 11,690,000 quarters at 445.
will be worth the same sum. This relation most hold if
rim, are is the bonne redo of the quantities ia the mar-
bet; and it the prise varies mows than the quantity, it is
nevertheless slam that the value of the produce will very
within a narrower limit than the price. The returns from
the agricultural districts exhibit an improved state in the
health of the great body of the inhaoitants; and there Is
nothing is the Lets which ma jaatify us ineen=s;
ascribe a part of the improvement to the
abundant supply of the neesmaties of Mt
The annual rate of mortality the first quartos gibs 11
your 1940 50 was 2.751 per sent. in 117 districts,
the chiet towns; and 2.222 per mat I. the distrie=srall
towns and country parishes; by 1860 the mortality in the
first elate of Mottles full to 2 401 per oast., and in the second
elm of disteicts to 2.067 per cent. Is the most favourable
winter quarter which hag been experienced since 1846 the
saartality of the inhabitants of towns exceeds the mortality
of the red of the country by 16 per cent.
INCILIABE or POFFLATION..— The 144,602 births m-
ended the 98,607 deaths is the quarter by 46,996; and
from a return with which the Registrar-Oennal has been
favoured by the emigration enomissioners, it appears that
46,423 emigrants left the poets of the United Kingdom, at
which there are govemateat emigration offices. Uf these,
40,927 left English ports ; but it is probable that greet stun-
ben were of Irish eat:Action.

MURDER OF THREE PERSONS, AND
SUICIDE OF TEE MURDERER.

A triple murder occurred on Tuesday evening last,
in the Wood, at Weeks, near the names of Lord Talbot,
Staged.

Ina lamely part of the wood belonging to the legatee
estate is situated a house, which was until Tuesday teasing
inhabited by the parkskeeper of Lord Talbot, whose name
was Spencer Yorker, and who it is understood had bees
upon terms of friendship with the other keepers until some
short then sinew. Daring the last few weeks Tinker hashed
attacks of delirium tremens. Tuesday afternoon, in company
with another keeper, namedW. Horny, he proceeded into the
woods, sad 5011 same cause at resent unexpkined, no
other pen= being present, Money was shot by Taker, and
was subsequently discovered eta place called the Pavilion.
quite dead. From subsequent circumstances it appeared
that Tether, after having deprived his fellow keeper of life,
proceeded towards his own house, the distance of half a
mile, upon entering which be levelled his gun at a servant
who was sitting belays the fin, and discharged the contents
in her body, the poor creature falling forwards on the floor
•eirpse. Parker then pointed his gun at his sister, who
had but just returned from Stafford, but she fortunately
escaped the contents of the gun by falling forwards at the
moment he raised it to his shoulder. At this jtutettun the
wife of Yarker rushed down rain, and whether to pones the
murderer or punned by him is not at present known;
but she ran out of the hoses into the wood, joined by Yorker
who, having reloaded hie gun, fired its contents at her.
One charge entered her forehead over the left eye, and the
other penetrating her body, and instantly depnved her of
life. The infuriated murderer then discharged iffse rut ob.
liquid, in the direction of his own head, literally carrying
away one half of his fees and shattering the head. During
this tragical event, his little child was sleeping in a cradle
near the spot where the servant was killed. His other
two children, who are now left orphans, were fortunately at
a neighbouring village.
The reports of the gun having created an alarm, some of
the servants connected with the farm buildings were soon
upon the spot, and discovered the Stelae corps, of the ser-
vant upon the house floor lying in a peel of blood. Further
search diseased the sad sight of the dead bodies of Yorker
and his wife, who were discovered a short distance from the
house, to which place they were cone, yed and laid side by
side upon the floor. Subsequently the body of Money was
discovered, also lifeless, and was in like manner coaveyed to
the house of the murderer, and placed by the side of the
other bodies.

The &Ansa occasioned by this lamentable *VIM, to cow-
eiderably augmented by the fact of a family of seven young
children being deprived of a parent and of all swans of aup-
port, by the death of Money, who was much respected by
his node employer
The inquest on the bodies was to have beta held yesterday
(Wednesday).

COFFEE AND EATING-HOUSE ASSOCIATION.--The'
annual dinner of this association wee held yesterday at the
Freestones.' Tavern. There were about 150 present. John
Marersaan, M.P. for the City of London, truk the choir.
The Cbsirmut proposed the toast of the evening, " The
success of the C.ffsi and Eating House Association," to
which full honour was done. Subscriptions were then
raised from those present, and the treasurer having been
called up:n by the chairman to report the result of his
labours up to the present time, begged leave to say that the
trade ley under great obligations to the chairman, whom he
announced en standing at the head of their list subseriptioca
as giving 101. 10e Oiler subscriptions to the amount of
1001. were also announced, atter several toasts led been
Ana.
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oilicial notice has

b•;•1;;;a b7b;;;-1.;;;;i 74: i:l;t7;;;;li7iCat the
Austrian government niters sit prime kw locomotive engines,
.01i0w : A pr as of 10,0001. for • locomotive the mot
enitsbly omit/acted and via tad to convey pods and pea-
mows on the railway of the Biismerinf mountain ; and eve
whet pr 5.., of the Telma iv. velue of 6,0001, 4,500 t, 4,0001.,
3,6001, sad 3,0001. for eve ether locomotives welds Approach
nearest to the Ant prim la the to indiestod. The total
'shoot the rims in about 3040001.

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515,11166 6113,111 674,102
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