The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-23 00:00:00

BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN LONDON.

The deaths registered in London, which were
1,429 in the ant week of the current month, and fell to
1,240 In the second, were in the week that ended last
Seturday (December 19th) 1,234. In the ten years 1847-68
the average number of deaths in the weeks correeponding
with last week was 1,249, which If rated in proportion to
increase of population (to admit of comparison with last
week's return) will beam 1,374. In the third week of
December, 1847, influenza raised the deaths from all causes
to 1,948, and consequestly, to some extent, augments the
average which isnow given ; snd if this element eliminated from
the calculation, it will be found that the present rate of
mortalityei approximates very nearly to that which is to be
ex towarda the clone of the year.
hat those pulmonary complaints (the result of influenza)
which lately swelled the mortality continue to grow lees
test appear. from comparing the facts of the last two weeks:
the °tenths from demean of the respiratory organs (ezclueveat
phthies) were in the previous week 338; last week they
were 298. In the former week those from bronchitis were
10.5 ; last week they were 169 ; while pneumonia declined
from 119 to 107, and oases, in which interim is eFectially
mentioned, from 19 to 16. The fluctuations in the mortality
from phthisie (or consumption) are apparently not ruled by
the same atmoepheric conditions, for the delis' from that
disease rose in the two weeks from 114 to 181. In the semi
periods hooping-Dough was fatal in 47 and 48 cases.
On reference to the zymotie clues of deems it will be seen
' with eatiedection that smell pox costtones to exhibit a mor-
tality singularly small in • population se large. The deaths
from it in the present return are three, and since the pre-
sent year beget the weekly average has been only three.
Last week mailer. scarlatina, and hooping cou produced
very similar numerical results, for the first visastale 46
CON, and each of the two latter in 48.

Lint week the births of 936 boy. end 894 girl,, In all 1,830
child, en, were registered In London. In the ten correspond
big weeks of the years 1847-66 the avenge number wa51,603.

TER TRINITY-BOARD STATION, MILFORD HAVEN.
—The locality eeketed by this board for their station io
Milford Haven tieing reqWred by the Admiralty for the w-
ake dohs Come Volunteer.' training ship end other men-of-
war, lobe moored there for the protection of the port and
oramad, the moorings laid down by the former department
have this week bees takes up and removed. The bay or
bight In question is so admirably adapted for, at least, three
line.of-battle ships. in deep water, and still completely out of
the way of the navSsion of the channel, that the Admiralty
havet bees oompdied to enforce the removal of the Trinity
depo

SPORTING.

THE TWO-YEAR-OLDS OF 11,57.

TO Till ZDITOR OF Tilt !Krill,.

Slit,—After Ascot, Beverley ie the next Meet-
ing at which I find myself, and the young ones were buy
enough there, five of them running for the Kingston-upon-
Hull Stakes, against two three year-olds, which was won by
the promising-looking Ambreeta ; bat there was another bird
of promise in the race called Conductor, whose day had not
red. The Driffield Selling Stakes lot must have been very
bad when the winner fetched 'but 32 guineas, and they can
be pared over for a much more respectable half-dozen lii the
Bishop Burton Stakes, where Sermon was a " certainty ;"
but ho was beaten by a hone little expected, Long-
range's 71b penalty preventing him being feared, and
his stable, likewise, still did not appear to believe
in hire. Besides Sermon, there were Lies Lyon, Ronconi,
and a good-looking colt called Turret behind ; and the
manner In which Sermon galloped from Esperance next day
made Longrange look as good • young one as J. Scott bad
just them. There was another selling race, where the two-
year-olds are not worthy of mention.
At Hampton, the 1.50 son. Claremont Stakes tempted
Polly Peechum, especially ea it looked en paper the " cer-
tainty " ft proved, as she beat the moderate Woodosite and
Georgie without an effort, despite her being In
condition. The three young ones in the Rellwalriel=
Plato were of • little beds'. quality than those generally
showing foe such stakes, although them-year-old Hew
barity beat them.
Newton brought together some rare uselni.broking.r.
dawn, end in the Golborne Park Stakes, Hernea
successful &AMC by beating Intercidona, Knockburn, De-
pute (51b extra), York, and two others, after a pretty
struggle, in which Knoekburn exhibited to gre iter advan-
tage than he has ever been able to do since ; and his previous
performances bad been very bad. York's Ascot effort. sad
• slb penalty took it all out of him, and the distance was not
as he liked it, so that he was the worst off of the five at the
finish. In the Idakerteld Handicap, and Garswood ditto,
Herne's 'table companion and half-brother, Broadlands, did
enough to make Buckthorn look a most useful sire, is he ran
second for the first-mentioned and won the other, Old Timm
receiving 10Ib from him end running fourth ; but they both
represented one interest, and it was not the olditleenan's
day then. Mainstay =owed her speed by gi Intact-
done, Plague Royal, Trebncio Ambrosia ( worth
notice), &c 51b and the beating for the St. Helen's
Puree ; sad the Lyme Park Stakes served to prove the
correctnees of the running for the Golborne Park Stakes, GI a
bib penalty on Herne just put him behind Intercidema sad
Dispute, and York and Knockburn were again in the rear, In
company with a promising stable companion of Intercidona
(not wanted then), christened Honeystick, after the 1853
Daby impostor,oneywood.
At Newcastle, Herne very easily =did with Sainstone,
Ambrosia, and Conductor for the Trial Stakes ; and Thorn-
hill best an inferior lot for a selling race. For the Tyro,
Honeystlck, who had not been idle since Newton, =owed
Oat .J Osborne's " fondue.. " wee not misplaced, as his
besting Chewy Chap, Garnish, Rancour, Seek, sad Bred-
' ine& mast =Ma him look respectable, as neither of his
opponents ma yet be called very bad. Good as Meta was she
could not live laths horse like Saunterer for the Grand Stand
&aim, and Intercidona and Medallion ran well enough with
her to require attention.
The Bibury, Stockbridge, and Winchester meetings can
all come under one head, and at the former place the defeat
of Haymaker, Maelstrom, and Tambourine for the Chem.
page. by a pretty looking Danebury pet, called My Niece,
wee the only item of interest. At Stockbridge the home
stable was not quite so sucoseatul, as the Cymba colt ought
never to have auccumbed to Star of the East, who, thanks to ,
Flatman, got home first by • neck. Pinaticker and the Rom
of Cashmere colt were behind, which asya something
favour of both worthies, and the nnnemed one may figure
more conspicuously next mason. The four runners for the
Madeira—Vandyke, Wilton, Bald Faced Stag, and Beacon,
were all good, as far as looks were concerned, and the victory
of Vandyke made the engagements of Loud of Lorn at
Goodwood look wholesome. My Niece gave away 41k,
sad ran a dead heat with York (who appeared to
be losing form rapidly) for the (image Park Stakes at Win-
chester, where the Grand Duchene end Haymaker were of
no
use, and a good-looking filly from King's stable, Lily-
dale, belied her looks by running last. Admiralty, as at
Startle idge, was in aufidently good condition to beat better
animals than himself for a selling race, but be could not
get • new claimant there.
At Carliele, Intercidona beat Meta for the Coeby Castle
Stakes, but the after running of the latter showed which was
the superior animal, when fit.
Chelmsford saw the downfall of Volatore, who had gone
" all to pieces" since his race with Gemma di Vergy at
Northampton, and the numerous false starts caused School-
fellow to depose of Miss Waters (who was very freedom)
by half • length for the Brentwood Stake!, there being nothing
else running worth looking at, Maggie Lander's perform-
awe the lame day for the County Members' Plate, coupled
with her running Schoolfellow toe neck, giving him 211 b
for the Stand Handicap the day following, made her
of • very different stamp to anything else at Chelmsford,
7:d
Manselon won a selling race so much like &racehorse that it
cost his owner twice the value of the staked) retain him.

At Worcester, Polly Nacho= got round sufficiently well
to give Mainstay 216 and • very easy beating in the half-
mile T.Y.C., thus showing that for speed it would be diffi-
cult to find her equal; and on the same coarse Polly
Johnson was eo much at home, that she nearly ma easily
ran through a field of older hones for the Flying Stakes; but
a subsequent handicap stowed her to be barely within •
stone of PoUy Peachum, who gave her 91b, and got home
first, although neither won.
Newmarket attracted • viwy different lot to that running
there last year for the July Stakes. AU eyes were on the
" great" Cock-a-doodle-doo and G rrenfinch, and as they repre-
sented stables that had been previously very enooesdul with
their two-yr-olds, it was thought a piece of vanity on the
part of the others to run with them, so impossible was it for
• mistake to be made. Bat no two " cracks ' ever figured
se ingloriously , the issue being between Gin and Coxwold
(who lost start) sad the draw of Gin in consequence of
having been prepared for his earlier engagement. got him
through. The Coek-a-doodle-doo, before he bad gams •
quarter of • mile, was found dead amiss, end Greenfinch
being lame, it would have assuredly been a win fur Coxvrold
had he got off with the remainder. As it was he ran game
enough to utisfy anyone he is of • very different clamp to
the winner, and had he not gone off soon afterwards he
would have proved it this year. The Brother to Mary Copp
ran with them, but in such an unprepared state that hie
de-
feat was • greater " certainty " then the victory of the
Melton crack. A half-mile sweepstakes showed the two
thitizipioeed Polly Peachunt at lissepton, Wiradmite and
03 to be pretty equal ; while • T.Y.C. ditto proved
that o y Johnson was_greatly superior to the pair, as she
beat them in a canter. The Chesterfield tumors were not of
a better quality than these for the July, and Hydroinel, !rack-
eted ea she was, managed to secure the stake for her owner.
The Royal Sovereign, Windham, the Gala colt, end=
Stanley may, however, as• better day, end beat the .
July, whenever she gives them the chance.
At Liverpool the Mersey Brakes produced a tremendous
rare with three of the best two-yr-olds that have shown this
season—Sunbeam, Polly Pesch= (31b extra), sad Proud
Preston Peg running home lacked together, with Polly In the
centre, and so distressed were they all that her opponents
swerved towards her, and perhaps shot hermit and prevented
her from winning. She and Peg seamed to have the beet of
it, but eimultaaeously with the decline of Polly, Snubs=
came with a rush and won by a head, there being but that
space between the other two. As soon as they posaed the post
Polly Peachum was jammed in between bot h of them, so that she
was thrown down and shaken severely. Terrific, OrehehUl,
York, end Bravura were behind the trio, and they are not
the cattle to be despised. The same day Sunbeam, who is •
rare strapping filly, attempted to give • lump of weight away
for the Nursery, but her severe raw had taken a great deal
out of her, and Conductor, receiving equal to 20th,
beat her, after a close race Measure and Taiwan Maid also
getting crape to her. Lord Giugow lost the best looking two-
vr-old be had at this meeting, the Clarissa colt, who broke
own while running a match with Whitewall; Massacre, re-
craving 81b from Broadlande, beat him Ina canter for a handi-
cap ; but it was not " aooerding to Cocker," for Broadlands
sill reverse the positions another der y ; and Ytrk, although
nosived 401 b for the year, was of no use to Saunterer for
the mile Sweepetakes. The last day was full of surprise.,
for after Polly Peachum, with 3 to 1 on her, had ructunbed
to Terrific and Meracre for the Stanley Stakes, the fell pro-
bably causing such a palpable reversal of the first day's run-
ning, 0 ildermere (the Sister to Ellington) was easily beaten
by Star of the East, who had, however, Sib the best of the
weights.
Nottingham found out Polly Johnson's week point, as
Roneystiek best her and Tanstall Maid in • canter for the
mile Trial Stakes. Maggie Lauder made herself appear es
Lod as Sunbeam, a., after beating Roneoni end Night
(the latter tried to be a flyer) for the
Eobfg Hood Stake. she met Conductor on but
Slb better terms than Sunbeam did at Liverpool,
and best him easily, liesperithusa, the Pester colt,
,Ethos, Madame Rieke, Atoka.* Trot, and Printed Den-
mark also having to give way while recei.ing weight ; but
the Prince was not then in form, or be would have given me
• different tale to tell. Still " Maggie" had done suMcienUy
well for me to think her worthy of being looked after, espe-
cially by handicappers The Bonney Perk Stokes produced
some strange running, Bess Lyon, Night Ranger, and
Princess Royal having to run home behind Terrifle, Hooey
stick (Sib extra), and Georgie, who finished neck-and-neck.
The running of the Princes was most unaccountable, and
very different to that at Epsom and Manchester; wblls
Night Ranger for the second time deceived his party.
At Stamford, York did menage to test Bus 14ot (otto
was more unfit than himself) fur the Colktyweelan gal IPA
Marlborough, Lucca della Robbie and King William, wee so
backward that they could not compete with Lady Elliott** -
and the moderate Plumetone.-
Goodwood was of as much Imporbusciffiti feet Sidi' taped'
to Its two-yr-olds, end the Levant Stakes showed

the moderate diameter el the Newmarket July runners, as
Harry Stanley and (tinware last to the Lord atone, Wilton,
and Amsterdam, the Lewd winning M • common •unter, end
as Wilton and Amsterdam sre no joke, he must possess some
rare speed to have disposed of thus so easily, for Wilton has
always shown a good horse, and his fort, to be speed. Mr.
Merry afterwards won another rich stake—the Ham—with
an neripood-looking two-yr-old, Blanche of Middlebie,
miirynho
opp,
Wolhittheit7AM•iat Imo(
tilKeentkaltedeofni brinothe.r
colt,
without having to rams a gallop. The Whitewall otable was
in feather hem, as Tolophollte, with a 51L allowance, dia-
posed the Cymba colt, Beadsmen3lb), East
(31b) and Sermon for the T.Y.C.Sweepetakm ;
Target beat Hamming Bhd and Bodkin for a similar
stake' and Longrange beat Rocket, the Latitude colt,
and Dwaine for the Bentinek Memorial. All three
winners looked, too, as if they could do some-
' thing equally as clever whenever called upon; but it must be
borne in mind that Sermon was about as it to run as a
donkey, and Deceiver had previously rat a evert race.
Toxopholite and Loogrange arc two fine-looking Longbows,
the hitter especially, and why he has given way to Tote-
pholite M the Derby quotations I cannot end( retard, as at
that day he was considered several pounds the =prior
animal. The Lord of Lom ventured for the Holcomb with
a 71b penalty; but he had little difficulty in defeating Van-
tlyke (Sib extra) by a neck, Queenstown., who ran for Mr.
Howard, running gamely enough with the pair to appear
likely to prove of great marries to him when a looms distance
ham to be traversed. Wilton could not meager pit
OD MU his lordship as for the Lamed, biros
utter -41 ms Vs* end h• malatet-IferT7r
biearn to Island the rear. The lot running for the
Mara Nebel' was a • very valuable one ; but few of
then. were ep M the Weak, and Perfection and Sunbeam (31b
extra) had the actual etmggle to thenorelvoe, Perfection
whetting bye neck. Deceiver was not beaten far from them,
and he got home before Ancient Briton, Chanel/seem, the
Subterfuge colt, Blackthorn, and one or two other backward
yamg ones. This running made Perfection, uho was not so
forward as Sunbeam, one of the cracks of the year, end she
helped to make the Findon stable look very formidable, she
being the third great card they had played up to that time.
The Ifuntery was remarkable for the greet improvement ex-
hibited by the Kelpie, Old Times, and the Brother to Mary
Copp ; the former exhibiting so remeetably that be has
since been made a favourite ;for the Darby The favourite,
Yeller Gel, was most unaccountably "nowhere ;'' and when
she won the last race, the Much Stakes, it was even more
strange; but she beat nothing particularly good, as the only
one worth the selling price, Interridotm, disappointed
while about to come out and win. There were several minor
landkaps and sweepstakes where the two-rvulds were
allowed to tun ; but they did not bring out any great won-
der, and only exhibited the falling-off of Greenwich Fair, in
comparbon with her spring running.
At Brighton, Wrestler won the Nursery from an inferior
field of opponents, and Deceiver and Wilton defeated some
" rips" for the Biennials; while the Plate on the Club day
only showed the correctness of the Goodwood Nursery run-
Ripen saw lierne put in the shads for the Trial Stakes,
and there is no saying what Codrington, the winner. may not
have turned out had he gone on well. For the Two-Year-Old
Stakes Cheery Chap and Intercidona were obliged to cry
enough to Terrific, whose stable companien, &Anatolie. Ten
through a large field for the Nursery- ; the " notable," be-
hind, who ought to (and will) have thorn better were
Meta and the Hadji. They have quite Si touch pretension
to future notice as the wiener, and a successful career may bo
in store for them. _ _

4111eWeerT PrzUticker upset • mat " pot " on Royal Sove-
reign for the Two-Year-Old Stakes (where the rarmer's Son
was not quite so fit as be will be next seasem), end be after-
wards ran through a good Geld for the Nursery, Tambourine
still showing in very bad colours.
Kelpie bad the beat of the weights with MeinetAy for the
Chillington Stake. at Wolverhampton, but he bad hurt him-
self soon after his snivel there, end ought not to have started.
Mainstay and Orchehill ran a dead heal, end Kelpie was s
length behind. This made Mainstay (who wen the deciding
heat by a head) 31b superior to Orchehill on the half-mile;
but on s longer distance it may prove the reverse.
At Reading the Nursery Plate proved whet a mistake the
running of Yeller Gel fa the Nursery at Goodwood was,
although of those behind Yeller Gal the Rose of Cashmere
colt and Young Dutchman were not in any form. The
former, with Bat 21b, afterward, kept Filen.. Royal, Jet 131 h;
Maggie Lauder, Bit 71b; Polly Johnson, hst 11b; and My
Niece, Bet 41h, company among the lot beaten on from Lord
of Loa, Sot 121 b, and Ancient Briton, Rat 411,, for the Abbey
Stakes, and the lormer's victory would be the beet perform-
ance of the Beeson if it could only be rappoesd the Briton wee
op to the mark, for he himself was far from tit. Chao:entree
gave us the first taste of her quality by betting Polly
Peachum (Slb extra) for the Reading Stake, but Polly had
evidently been indulged since the Liverpool week, .1 she
does not seem to be the same mare time her Evident there.

At York there were several surpriees is store, the first
being the defeat of the " roaring" Stream, r by the Maid of
Masham colt, for a stake worth fire times Lae muil as the
combatants ; and the second the easy victory of Gildermere
for the Convivial. Wilton, Sunbeam (who gave Sib to
almost all her opponents), and Star of the Bast were next
to her, the Star being much the furthest off, and the 51b
diffisreace in the weights is not auffiekmt to account for the
reversal of the Liverpool running. Wilton made the Lord of
Lora look exceedingly well, as he was mond, and his lord-
ship moot be at least a 10Ib. superior animal. Coxwold was
not in his July form, and he had to look on, in oompany with
Lady Alice. several lengths behind. He ran no better for
the Rurcliffe Stakes, where Gilierrnere *gain best Sunbeam
easily. Massacre's friends thought he could beat Target for
the Juvenile Stakes, but he was made a sorry example of,
sad Target must not be considered out of the Oaks. The
Prince of Wales'. Stakes saw Proud Preston Peg •
for the first time since the Liverpool week, and althoug
ailingg she beat Amsterdam, the Princess Royal, Cock-a-
doodledoo, Terrific, he., very eerily, the Melton horse,
despite hie July defeat, being again made the favourite.
He ran wretchedly, and it appears strange bow such
mistakes should happen. Afterwards Amsterdam was made
the favourite for the Biennial, and, although Interoidona got
considerably the best of the slur, he managed to beat her,
besides Terrific, Ditto, Hepedea, Lady Alice, Ac. Considering
what these have since accomplished, Amsterdam makes Peg
nearly equal to anything that has shown during the season,
when properly peir. Hepatica, who did not figure too
conspicuously, is one of the most useful-looking fillies that
Balton hag turned out, and she ran a severe race with
Ttutstall Maid (who received 81b) for the Eglinton Stakes
next day such flyers as York, Herne, and Night Ranger
being obliged to succumb. The running for the Gimcrack
was of a strange character, for Gildermare, with a 316
penalty, was beaten by Princess Royal. Qocenetown also
running very close to the pair, while Lord of Lorn was
fourth, and 'Terrific next. Now, as his lorrl.hip of born had
beaten Amsterdam in a canter at Goodwood, and Am-
sterdam had rhown himself quite as good so the Princess the
day previously, Lord of Lorn should have beaten the latter
as easily as he won the Levant, unless the ilisi.mee for the
Gimcrack (one mile) was more than he liked on such heavy
ground. This was one of his defeats that 1 do not believe
in, as his previous running sets It aside, and it should not
prevent km looking dangerous for all his engagements.
There was one running here, Queenetowu, who appeared to
glory in the mile, and -how she got home before the Lord
while meeting hint on slb worse terms than in tLo hlolecomb
at Goodwood, has yet to be accounted for—and she might
do so by winning some of the long dietana 'WI, next epring.
Gildennere's defeat was not on much a eurprise, es rho had
run and won twice previously at the muting. and the
ground, besides, was not so heavy as on the too iirst days,
which did not suit her so well. Lady Alice, In the Nursery
Plate, showed what she wascapable of when wanted, and rho
must be coupled with Hepatica, Quenstown, &e., as one of the
useful animals over a distance in 1858, Halm winters well.
I have now got through that part of the ‘eiogn during
which the 2-yr elds were most active, as bete, ,n Ascot to
York nearly all our beet young ones made tie it appearance,
and so much improved on their opting running as to came it
to be ignored. During theft few weeks there appeared ani-
male whose performance nearly equalled those of Sed_bug• in
the spring for Gildeentere, l'rond Preston Peg, Lad of
Lorn, Sunbeam, Blanche of Middlebie, Lagrange, T ho-
lite, and Perfection, did same very goods things; and G.lder
mere's performanees are sufficiently good to be ranked at least
the equal of &dairy's. MrTEOR.

SEWING AT MANCHESTER.—Tt MOAT.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
6 to 1 apt Clydesda
sto 1 Brother le
(t)
to tdueltiouses
8 to 1 Happy Lead (t)
10 to 1 any other
DERBY.
11 to 1 art Clydesdale (t)
100 to 7 Toaopholite (t)
18 to 1 Kelpie (t)
26 to 1 Happy Land (I)
100 to 3 Samoa (t)
40 to 1 Grand Secret (t)

SUICIDE.—INQUEST.—AD begonia was held yen-
lanky, at Horselydown, on the body ot Mr. Enderick
aged 30, who committed suicide under cinowelames noticed
in our ltsnalon-hone police report yesterday. It will be
remembered that the dammed bad soma dealings with Mr.
Stems, stockbroker; that the deceased was given in custody
on the charge of ettemptieg to steal 1,6171. 'W. 24. • and
that the Lord, Meyer, who herd the, ere; diacharpvd him
w:th the remark that he left the teas without the alightest
imputative en hi chamoter. Mr. Kilby,aw....ma's brother,
'and theme Long, his animate, now stated that the hexing
been locked up in the police cell monad to have a great
Mixt %Toll the mind of the deoemed, sea that he appeared
to remember noththg tightly afterward,. Ile woe Band in
his bedroom, dead by this own bend, en Sundey morning.
Tile jury returned a verdict that " the .1,, rowed ertroyed
hitotelt in • It of temporary inpanity, beouvt.l on by the
I transactions with the broker."

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