The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-10 00:00:00

HEALTH OP LONDON.

The wee return return of births and deaths in
London, Issued authority of the Registrer-General, states
that in the w that ended last Saturday the total num-
ber of deaths registered in London was 1,220. The mortality
has anetuated within very narrow limits during the last six
weeks. The avenge number of deaths as obtained from the
weeks, corresponding with last week, of ten years 1851-60,
and corrected for increase of population, is 1,32.1, with
which, when the present return is compared, it exhibits a
decree.° of a hundred deaths.
The deaths from scarlatina declined to 19, end those from
diphtheria rose to 15. Three of the deaths from the latter
diocese were registered in one farail7 living at No. 2, The
Limes, Brixton ; they occurred to children aged respectively
2,4, and 6 years, between the With March and Ist April in-
clusive. Of 82 deaths from whooping-cough 6 occurred in
the =at sub-district of Islington. Of 24 from measles a
sixth part was in Kentish-town ; 3in the sub-district of
Saffron-hill. A man died in Shoreditch Workhouse at the
age of 97 years. Two deaths were caused by privation ;
one that of a man aged 43 years in the West London Work-
box= hem serous apoplexy brought on by destitution (in-
quest) ; the other that of a girl aged 3 months at 1, Butler's-
buildings, Bethnal-green, who died suddenly from "defect
of the vital powers from want and medical treatment" (in-
quest). Three infants were murdered. A gas-fitter was
killed by an explosion of gas.
Lit week the births of 1,012 boys and 988 girls, in all
2,000 children, were registered in Loudon. In the ten cor-
responding weeks of the years 1851-1860 the average num-
ber was 1,642.

The name of a new opera, Shakspeare, composed
by Kaman) Benvenuti, appears in the Italian journals.
The French Minister of Commerce and Public
Works has just lamed an order that in ell passenger trains
on IsPways the nesrred compartments shall bear plates
having the inscriptions, " Post -Aloe," "For ladle' only,"
"For smokers," or, simply, " Reserved," according es the
on.. may be, and that no parson except those entitled en to
do shall enter such compartments under pain of being pro-
secuted before the tribunals.

Roger has been Ringing with much success at
with Mdlle. Artot for prima donna. He took leave
of the Berlinese in Le Prophets. During a late calmed at
the palace. his Majesty expressed his sympathy with Roger
on the severe accident to his arm, " but," the Ring added,
"I am an older victim to field sports, as you see," and he
showed him his hand, one of the fingers of which was
amputated from a similar cause.

We give the titles of three new German operas
Mot coming out : Sing Onerge, by Hen' Ehrlich, in Madge-
berg; Watekind, by Herr Raphael, in Gets; and TAe
Love Ring, by Herr State :by, in Inarpruck.

At the Jardin Zoologique d'Acclima tation Paris,
two interesting emote have occurred • the first is the birth
el • 1111 y, nate of a Shetland mare and a Java horse, the
Young nue not being bigger than a kid. The sewed is the
birth of a fawn, of the bud of the largest stage known,
which French naturaliste call d'Ariatote, and which come
from India
TEX KING OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS AND THR
CHVICH OF ENGLAND.—At the monthly (April) meeting of
the members of the Society for Promoting Christien Know-
ledge (the Ray. Dr. Haney, Prebeodary of St. Paul's and
bead master of Merchant Taylors' School, in the chair)
a insesorial was reed from the consul-general of the King of
the Sandwich Islands, appealing on behalf of an effort now
being made to establish a branch of the English episcopal
church in the Hawaiian islands. The King is represented
to be extremely anxious that an English church should be
built at Honolulu, the capital of his kingdom, and that
English clergy should be mint out to *Deduct the services ef
the church in their integrity and withal! the rites and ex-
ternals customary in England. The King has nue then
written autographically to her Majesty the Queen and the
consul has transmitted to the Archbishop of Canterbury and
Lord Juhn Russell letters from the -King's Minister of
Foreign Relations, asking the sympathy el the church
and state to promote this object Communications
have been made to the members of the episcopal church in
America through the Bishops of California and New York,
and a strong hope has been expressed that the two churches
should find a common object in which to unite their la-
burs. Two or three clergymen have already been de-
mired to proceed to the Sandwich Islands in co-operatics
with those from England, and under the leadership of an
English missionary bishop.
SOCIRTY 07 ARTS.—Dr. Milligan, Secretary of
the Re* Society of Tasmania, read. ►a paper descriptive of
the proincta and-resources at that *Dicey liefors the society
this evening.
CAMBRIDOZ, APRIL 9.—PROTISSOMIAL CHRTIFI-
CATS EILAIIINATIOW—Regius Professor et Law. (EsArnined
and approved).—Brailaford, Trinity Hall ; Knapp, Em.
manned ; Lemke,. Corpus ; Stevenson, Trinity; Misters,
Trinity Hall. Lumina+ J. T. Abdy, LL.D. (Professor);
John Roberts, M.A.
Erma TERM.—The Court of Probate and Court
for Divert& and Matrimonial Causes will sit at Westminster
on the 16th hut, and take probate cause without juries.
The causes for dissolution of nuirriage to he tried without
juries will be taken after the probate emus are disposed of,
on the ISO, 19th, and 20th April. No causes for *laser:-
lieu of marriage without juries will bo taken after No. 39
on the list. The full court will sit on April 22, El, 25, 26,
and 27. Probate oases with juries, and wefts for judicial
separation and dissolution, with common juries, April 29,
SO, May 2,3, 4, li. 7,9, 10,11, 13, and 14. On Waluesdav,
the 17th Mat , gull each successive Wednesday during the
sittings of the court, the judge will sit in chambers to hear
ARRUDisases at eleven o'clock, and in court to her motions
at twelve o'clock. Papers for motions are to be left with
the Clerk of the Papers before two o'clock us Fridays.