The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-25 00:00:00

szihrm OP LONDON.

It appears from the weekly return issued by
authority of the Ragistrar-General, that is the week that
ceded last Saturday the total number of deaths in London
was 1,248 ; it exhibits • &creme on those of merlon'
'Mans shoes Oetobar. The avenge number of deaths in
the earreepamSwg warier of Ma priwkrus yearn (1861.60),
earressal !sr lams= of peraktine, is 1.337. The mortality
of last week was therefor* less by 89 deaths than it would
have bees if the average rate calculated for the third week
at Deeember had ruled.

Owe hundred sad 6ft7 pine= Aid hem phthisis (one-
aumpetes). the aoeraded avenge Wag 141 Dreachitia sad
peeumoaie were fatal •ia 110 said 74 seem the respective
average' being 158 and 191 Thom pabsofbarf oomplainta
that ass meet subject to the Theses el the weather are at
preensi
less prevailed, or eartainly leas Mal, than is meal
at this period of Owl year. Whesplegmeogit wee retuned
MBl mem, which is Owe the &view motility.
numbered 41 mem bet week *Mart y'lB7
elcall:Zth the \TRW mes/1-poz measles 14, mark.
ties diphtheria 10, croup 34. Four deaths hem searim
Wee marred is Fulham, 3 is Belgrave. She Gray'riss-
lane, 4 is lassies Zeal, 3is St. Jam" Olerimswell. S is
St. Se visor.seetkwark, 3 I. Waterloo-read (Int sub-dis-
trict), 3 is IL Peal, Deptford, S is Phuseteed.
In the esh-dietrict of St. George, Niessabga7, 14 deaths
were is the week ; sad el than Wore were 4
from 1 hem typhus, and 1 from whopping-
emark. A joenvoyma tailor, aged 25 years, died M March.
mommtreet hem mariatisa, after riz days' illneem The
registrar mates that the deaths continue very much above
the avenge, sad that scarlatina prevails chiefly in the
aortlioaders pieties of his seb-district.
Four deaths teem searlatios were registered is Norwood ;
two of them is Gipsy-betworead.
A widow died at the age of 97 year,. AD old man of
96 years did I. Hostas House, who had been an inmate of
that asylum for limo& of 56 years.
Lott week the biethe of 958 boys ash 914 girls, is all
1,902 &Whys. wme registered in Landes. In the tes
nrirep,benh.of
ssoweeke. of the peels 180140 the average

At the Royal observatory, Gresawielt, the mien haight of
the barometer in the week was 30967 In, 11e readings fell
to 29131 in. na Wednesday, and they roes to 3010 ie. on
Friday. The MOW temperature of the air in the week wee
42.6 degs., which is 3 dep. above the Renege
of the mine week in 43 years (a. determined by
Mr. Olaisher). The air was warm till Thursday, when
the mean temperature fell below the avenge. The
highest day temperature was 51 dogs. on y;
the lowest was 34.5 dogs. a. Thursday. The range of the
thermometer in the week wee therefore 16.5 dsp. The
mean daily range was 7.1 dep. The difference between the
mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 3.7
dogs. The mean degree of humidity of the ail wee SS, aein-
plete maturation being represented by 100. The wind wen
generally in the north-west in the earlier belt of the week ;
is the northeast for the remainder. The whole amount of
rain was 9.huodredthe of as inch, whit* tell cm Monday.

SOCIRTY 701 TER PROPAGATION OP INS GOGPISL.—
A 'plaid easetlag of society was held yesterday at the
Ales ia Psll.niaU, to boar se address from the Bishop of
Loaders to four saissiosaries about to go abroad on behalf
of the society. There was a large attendance of church
dignitaries and clergymen. The Bishop of London having
taken the chair, the Rev. Mr. Dalton iebroduced the roads.
dates to the bishop. He said they bad all honourably peered
the Hoard of Kermiaere coder the most searching maws-
tam The first on the list was Mr. Preetie, educated at
King's College, who was going to Bombay ; the mooed was
Mr. Culpepper, educated at St. Augastioe's College, Oen.
terbury, who was destined for the West Lodi* Islands; and
the remaining two gentlemen were also student; of Bt.
Augustioe's College, and were of Turkish extraction ; the
firm, Mahn:loud Effendi, who had been baptised under the
name of 51 almond. had been a major in the Turkish army, and
having come to this country to get inetructioe in engineer.
rag, had been converted from Mahommedenian, sad had
sacrificed his high prospects in the Ottoman army, and entered
himself as a student at the college with the view of entering
the church ; the second was the son of a Christian Turk at
Constantinople, named Selina Effendi, who had been bap.
Used in the name of John Williams, and who hail also
entered the above college. They all came before the beard
highly recommended. Mr. Dalton concluded by paying a
high compliment to list. Augaetioe's College, fur the large
number of efficient missionaries it kad tensed oat. The
Bishop of London then delivered an earnest and impremive
address to the young men, exhorting them to remain sted-
fast its the life they hail chosen, and expressing the
.plessure
be felt at ordaining men of education for mioneasines, who
would thereby afford the heathen an example of Christian
education and civilisation as well as Christian religion. The
remarks of the bishop were listened to with the most de-
vout attention by those to whom they were addressed. The
Bishop of Colombo also addressed the mimicessries, and
after sow remarks from other clergymen, the procoadiep
terminated.

Morar Owns Orrlels.—Ou the let of January,
1162, the followieg alterations will be made, via.: England.
—I. Mosey order cakes will be opened in London and the
suburb at Broad-green, Droydosi ; Hscksey-wick ; Horn-
church, Essex ; North Woolwich, Skinstemetreet, stack-
well-puss, Stratfonl New Town, Thames Dittos, Uniom-
street. S. The money order office now bairn r " War-
wick-reed Messy Order Ofßee," Padditigtos, W., will is
future be " /instal-gambits Money Order Ones,
Paddlogtos, W. 3. Meow order offices will he owned is
the oonstry at Ashton on-Mersey, Head-Mike llaschester ;
Bishrosk, Herbst Eases ; Stslotti Lytleard, Taunton ;
Dow, Hallway Sob-Mice ; Budd b, Newton Abbots;
Chapel Town. Shellield ; Charley, anchester ;CI daeb,
Aberpressy • Hale, Waningtoa ; Kiingrove, Stoke-oo-
Trent ; Norton, Binsisgham ; Kirkstall, Les& ;
Lbweelly Lowell, ; Usarksiedr, Oswestry ; Parwick,
Ashbourse ; Pendleton,Headwater ; Qum' Dune), Taun-
ton; Qseessissad, Halifax Ithealkenerebnageg, Wrexham
shop, Penrith ; Shepley Huddersfield ; South Lowestoft.
Lowestoft ; Stockstield, EltritfOrd•TOld. Hsu-
chaster ; Terriegtos St. Clawas, Lyme ; Winsford,
toe ; Wilton Park, Darlisgtos, 4. The mosey order Ake
" North Petherba" will be dimentinued. Scotland.-
6. Nosey war Maces will Limd at Dilly, 'Whole ;
lashwismseh, Paisley ; Wesbs, Folioburgh helm&
—4. Mosey eider offices will be opened at Atmigbratreek
DOH, ; Insisonme, Babe. 7. The mousy order business
as " Isllyhrittae" will he diboatined.—By comnutod of
the Temossar•Oisersl, Romano Hat, Seirrebry.