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follows :----"Births, 340 ' • deaths, 231. Of the deaths
there were registered in October, 70 ; November, 60 ;
December, 101. The excess, therefore, is in December,
which may be chiefly attributable to the state of the
weather, which has been almost constantly wet. Nearly
half of the deaths registered in that month have been
from disease of the respiratory organs. The deaths
from fever of all kinds have been only five in October,
six in November, and eight in December, including one
II from malignant fever,' supposed to have been yellow
fever, the deceased having been one of the engineers of
the La Plata steam-ship, from the West Indies, which
lost several on board from that fever."
The registrar of Broughton, Stockbridge, who is a sur-
geon, says :—" Since the Ist of August last, upwards of
90 cases of fever have been attended by me in East
Tytherly alone. Under one roof in two rooms (and one
of them a small one) 14 persons sleep. In one room the
mother of one family lies delirious, and in the other
the mother and daughter of the other both ill of fever.
Nuisances surround the cottage ; there is defective drain-
age on a clay soil. In Broughton fever has raged and
is still existing in a very swampy locality."
The mortality was below the average in several dis-
tricts of the South Midland Counties ; but Uxbridge,
Peterborough, Huntingdon, and a few other districts
were exceptions to the rule. • Ware suffered from rheu-
matic and intermittent fevers - Waddesdon (Aylesbury)
and Higham Ferrers from typhus ; Suffolk and Norfolk
were healthier than usual ; in Essex the mortality ex-
ceeded the average. Low typhoid fever prevailed in
Rayleigh, Rochford—the registrar himself had attended
130 cases of low fever. Typhus prevails to a great ex-
tent in the solitary parish situated in a valley of South-
minster, Maldon, in the low village of Horningham, St.
Faith ; and in Downham typhus prevailed in the vicinity
of a foul pool of water in the parish of Lyng (Norfolk) ;
the cause was removed at the instance of the Board of
Guardians, and the fever has abated. The dirty ponds
which are found all about the country, near farm and
other houses, are unquestionably noxious, as is proved
by this and many other examples. The registrar of Mid-
dle King's Lynn, where the births of 235 living children
were registered, has ascertained that, in the year 1852,
24 still-born children were interred by the sexton. In
Ludham emigration, the registrar says, appears to have
diminished the births.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1853.

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A decree of the Emperor, .dated the 29th ult.,
consisting of not fewer than 54 articles, regulates
the uniforms and official costumes of maritime pre-
fects, officers of men-of-war, officers and agents .of
other corps of the navy in service in France and the
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It is announced that the bishopric -of poulogne-
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MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS.

Or, The Days We Live In,
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Our readers will, perhaps, be amused to observe
from the following stateMent made by the Paris
correspondent of the Morning Herald, in re-
ference to ourselves, that serious notice has been
taken on the other side of the channel of a para-
graph quoted in the columns of The Sun, princi-
pally for the sake of its vulgai jocularity. It was,
in fact, an amusing illustration (amusing at least to
those in any way acquainted with the subject) of
the length to which a petty partizanship will some-
times carry even the veracious correspondent of a
weekly newspaper, descending, in this instance, to
the gross caricature of an illustrious personage,
whose beauty had long previously become, we may
say, with truth, universally appreciated. The fol-
lowing is that to which we have referred
" I have just been given to understand that The Sun
of Monday has been seized in consequence of an afticle
which it extracted from a Radical weekly paper, and
which was offensive to the feelings of the Emperor."
The rumours in circulation for the last few days,
relative to a change in the Ministry, have acquired
yesterday still greater consistency. The names of
the parties to •be affected by it are the same
as already so often mentioned. Of the whole
Cabinet it is said that only MM. Fould, Ducos,
and Magne remain. The' last-named undertakes
the Finance department, and is to be succeeded
in his present post of Minister of public Works by
the Duke de Mouchy. I\l. Tie Morny goes_ lo_the
Interior, and M. WaldiVski is still- spoken of for'
the Department of Foreign Affairs. General Ran-
don takes the War department ; and the same ac-
count adds that M. Bineau is to succeed the Count
d'Argout in the Governorship of the Bank of
France, and that the son of Count d'Argout is to
be appointed to a Receiver-Generalship.
The price of bread for the first fortnight of the
present month is fixed at 31e. the killog., first
quality, being a reduction of lc. ; the second qua-
lity remains as it was, at 24c.
The Moniteur publishes the returns of the corn
trade in the different markets in France, in Janu-
ary last, from which it appears that the average
price of the hectolitre of wheat was 19f. 43c. at
Toulouse, Gray, Lyons, and Marseilles ; 17f. 37c.
at Marans and Bordeaux ; 18f. 73c. at St. Laurent
and the Grand Lemps ; 17f. 58c. at Mulhouse and
Strasburg ; 18f. 9c. at Bergues, Arras, Roye, Sois-
sons, Paris, and Rouen ; 17f. 64c. at Saumur and
Nantes ; 17f. 59c. at Metz, Verdun, and Charle-
ville • and 18f. 36c. at St. Lo, Paimpol, Quimper,
and nennebon.

eerrleyd returns una
thes
divisions,o f the
orur inatgi
ee
ss:
hirt
hl
se
and
odwe iant gh s
qeugaTstt
and districts of England, has just been issued (published
,
by authority of. the Registrar-General) :
This return comprises the births and deaths registered
by 2,190 registrars in all the districts of England during
the autumn quarter ending December 31st, 1852 ; and
the marriages in more than 12,000 churches or chapels,
about 3,342 registered places of worship unconnected
with the Established Church, and 624 superintendent
registrars' offices, in the quarter that ended September
30th, 1852.
The return of marriages is not complete ; but the de-
fects are inconsiderable, and approximative numbers
have been supplied from the records of previous years.
The marriages and the births, in nearly the same pro-
portion, greatly exceed the average number of the season ;
and the average of the corresponding quarters of pre-
vious years is slightly exceeded by the deaths.
The registration of the year 1852 is completed, for the
births and deaths by the present return. The births
were 616,251 in 1851, and 624,171 in 1852. The deaths
395,933 in 1851, and 407,938 in 1852. The average an-
nual rate of births is 3.282 per cent., or nearly one in 30.
II 1852 it rose to 3'472 per cent., or one in 29. The
average annual rate of deaths is 2.242 per cent. (rather
less than one in 45) ; in 1852 it was 2'269, or slightly
above the average (one in 44 nearly). •

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THE 139th Number of the HYGEIST and
MEDICAL REFOaMER, for February, contains:—A most
important article on the Blood, by Dr. Southwood Smith, with re-
marks thereon—Death of a Penitent near Bristol—Obj.ctionable
Sledleal Advertisements, &c., &c.—May be had at the British Col-
lege of Health, New-road, London ; and at the Office, 262, Strand.
Price Id.. or 2d. by post. Also of all the Agents for Morison's
Vegetable Universal Medicine throughout the country.

The Minister of Public Works has charged a
commission to investigate the various causes which
lead to accidents on railways, to draw up statisti-
cal tables of the same, and to suggest the best
means of preventing them.
The Courrier de Marseilles, in announcing the
arrival in that port, on the 29th ult., of the Euxine
steamer, bringing intelligence from Calcutta to the
22d December, and from Bombay to the 3d of Jan-
uary, remarks that this vessel commences a new
service from Calcutta. Previously, there was only
one direct departure per month from that port for
Europe, the second being from Bombay. Hence-
forward there will be two direct departures each
month from Calcutta for Marseilles, on the 6th and
the 20th of each month. The above journal adds
that its private letters contain no political news of
importance. The price of indigo of the new crop
is much higher than it was last year at the same
period.
The Independance of Douai states that several
new and extensive -Veins of excellent coal have, just
-Fe-CirTiidaregd near that place. -
The sums received in the Paris Savings' Bank
during the past week amounted to 549,190 fr., from
1,497 depositors, of whom 639 were new, and the
sums paid out to 541,819 fr. The amount of money
received during the same period by the Caisse de
Retraites for the aged, was 742,783 fr., from 773
accounts, of which 530 were new.

The mortality was below the average n all the south-
western counties except Wiltshire. The health of North
Bradley is in a satisfactory state, which the registrar
ascribes to the " larger command of the necessaries of
life now possessed even by the poorest." The deaths in
the Amesbury sub-district excee&the births, owing to
the prevalence of typhus in Bulford and in Amesbury.
An airy healthy house has been engaged as a temporary
fever hospital by a gentleman in the neighbourhood.
Fever prevails in Cerne. In Lyme the sewers have been
thoroughly cleansed, and the Common Lodging-house
Act has been carried out; the deaths have fallen consid-
erably. Scarlatina has been fatal in Newlyn, St.
Columb; dysentery in Falmouth, where the last of 21
deaths from the disease occurred on November 15th.
Ilchester is healthy; a friendly society of 240 members,
of the average age of 30-35, has lost only two members
by death since June, 1849; but at Kington Magna,
Wincanton, fever of a very bad type has, within the last
three months, made its appearance in the parish. The
cottages are small, crowded, badly ventilated; decayed
vegetables and refuse have been allowed to accumulate.
In the sixth division the deaths in Herefordshire and
Staffordshire are above, while the deaths in the other
counties are below, the average. Small-pox has been
fatal in Bristol ; the registrar of St. Augustine notices a
variety of the disease which has been fatal in Thatched-
house-lane. Typhus and scarlatina prevail in Webbley.
Herefordshire ; measles and hooping-cough in Clun ; and
the registrar of Wem, Shropshire, records an instance of
fever apparently generated by putrescent matter adja-
cent to the house. Scarlatina has prevailed in Staf-
fordshire ; fever and pulmonary complaints have pre-
vailed in Birmingham. The mortality has been above
the average in Stoke-upon-Trent, Woistanton, and New-
castle-under-Lyme ; also in Wolverhampton and the dis-
tricts around.
In the North Midland Division, the mortality in the
counties of Leicester, Nottingham, and Derby is above,
in Lincoln below, the average. The health of Leicester,
Grantham, Basford, and Derby has not been good.
Scarlatina has been fatal in Loughborough, Spalding,
Worksop, and Nottingham, where typhus has also pre-
vailed.

The Bourse was yesterday as agitated as on
Monday ; but, towards the close of business, prices
improved. The Three per Cents, opened at 79f.
10c., fell to 78f. 60c., rose to 79f. 40c., and closed
at 79f. 25c., for the end of ;the month. The Four-
and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 105 f. 10c. Orleans
Railway shares, 985 f. ; Rouen, 967 f. 50c. ; Havre,
470 f. ; Great Northern, 830 f. ; BMe, 345 f. ; Paris
and Strasburg, 742 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 850 f.;
Lyons and the Mediterranean, 720 f. ; Caen to
Cherbourg, 585. • Dijon and Besancon, 510 f. ;
Bordeaux and Cette, 555 f. ; Bank of Credit Mo-
bilier, 710 f.

The Emperor and his Imperial bride still remain
at St. Cloud. On Monday they visited Versailles
and were greeted with every mark of respect.
So perfect were the arrangements on Sunday,
that notwithstanding the vast crowds who thronged
to every point on the line of march to view the

In Cheshire and Lancashire the mortality is above
the average; 17,255 people died. Scarlatina has pre-
vailed in many districts, and typhus in some places has
been epidemic. The deaths in Liverpool are fewer, in
Manchester more, than is usual.
Yorkshire experienced the average rate of mortality ;
10,657 persons died in the quarter. In Leeds and
Sheffield the mortality is below the average. Scarlatina,
typhus, and small-pox were epidemic in many parts of
the county ; 24 deaths from small-pox, 11 from scarla-
tina, happened in Scarborough. The healthiness of
Barnsley is referred to the active employment of the
labouring population.
The Northern Counties have been less healthy than
usual ; 6,679 deaths have been registered ; scarlatina has
extensively prevailed. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and the
districts around, Durham, Carlisle, Cockermouth, and
Whitehaven, have lost more than the average number of
lives, chiefly, it would appear, from scarlatina.
In Wales, 6,005 persons died. Small-pox, through
the neglect of vaccination has been prevalent and fatal.
Parts of Wrexham are in a filthy state, and there epide-
mics prevail. Cardiganshire, and the other high districts
of Wales have been as healthy as usual.
The meteorology of this unusual season is discussed by -
Mr. Glaisher, as follows :
" The daily temperature was below its average value
till October 19, and it was alternately in excess and
defect from October 20 to October 29. On October 30
a period of weather set in, of higher temperature
and longer continuance, at this season of the year,
than any on record. The mean temperature of the
month of November was 48 deg. 9 min., being 64 deg.
in excess of the average of 80 years ; during which
period one instance only of a higher temperature has
taken place, viz., in 1818, when the average temperature
of this month was 49 deg. The mean temperature of
December was 47 deg. 6 min., exceeding the average of
the month by no less than 8 deg., and being of higher tem-
perature than any December so far as our records extend.
The nearest approach to this value was in 1806, when
the mean temperature of December was 46 deg. 8 min.
The quarter has been remarkable for a continuanee of
heavy falls of rain, which characterised the preceding
quarter. In some places as much rain has fallen within
this quarter as occasionally falls in the entire year. The
fall in the year has greatly exceeded its average, amount-
ing to 50 inches in depth nearly, in the counties of Corn-
wall and Devonshire ; between 30 and 40 inches at
most inland places ; and exceeding 58 inches at both
Stonyhurst and North Shields. During the whole of
the quarter the weather has been unsettled, the reading
of the barometer has been subjected to great and fre-
quent fluctuations, and has been generally low ' • the
amount of water mixed with the air, in the shape of
vapour, notwithstanding the continued rain, has been
that only due to the season, and, therefore, on account
of the much higher temperature than usual, the degree
of humidity has been less than that common to the sea-
son. The mean temperature of the air at Greenwich for the quarter ending November, constituting the three ,
autumn months, was 51 deg. 2 min., being 1 deg. 9 min.
above the average of 80 years."

cortege; not a serious accident is knowii to have
occurred. It may be as well to add that whilst the
police in general arrest from 70 to 80 persons
per day, on Sunday the number of arrests was
only 17.

Telegraphic dispatches were sent by the Govern-
ment on Sunday to the prefects of the departments
at different periods of the day, announcing the
commencement, progress, and termination of the
ceremony, and srating the reception of the Emperor
and Empress by the people of Paris to have been
most enthusiastic.

The Patric says :—" The accounts received by
the Government are most favourable. In a great
number of churches by a spontaneous movement
Te Deums were sung on Sunday to commemorate
the marriage of the Emperor. In a number of
towns there were fetes and illuminations. A
great many towns of the provinces, such as Nantes,
Rouen, Limoges, &c., were illuminated on Sunday
evening in honour of the marriage of the Emperor.
The Prefect of the Seine-Inferienre decided that
an extraordinary ration of provisions should be
distributed to the persons confined in the pri-
sons of the department. In many places,
distributions of food have been made to the poor.
The following is a copy of one of the telegraphic
dispatches sent on Sunday evening by the Govern-
ment authorities to all parts of France, as stated in
our account of the religious ceremonies : " The
ceremonies of the religious marriage of the Emperor
have taken place at Notre Dame, with an order, a
pomp, and a solemnity worthy of the empire. Their
Majesties, in going to Notre Dame and in return-
ing to the Tuileries, have passed through the
crowds of an immense population,
in the midst of
which waved numberless banners of workmen's
associations. Everywhere on her passage our young
and beautiful Empress has received from the people,
from the National Guard, and from the army the
most touching and enthusiastic reception. Paris
will preserve the memory of this national solemnity
for a long time."

It is announced on high authority that her
Majesty the Queen of Spain is about to present the
Empress Eugenia with a costly coronet, richly and
magnificently adorned with diamonds.
The crowd of visitors to the cathedral of Notre
Dame, yesterday, was immense. At noon there
was a line of people -waiting for admitsion extend-
ing at least a quarter of a mile, arranged in line
The magnificent decorations of the
oHoteluAr
Ville also attracted thousands of visitors.
Among
dodeneo gp.the most conspicuous of the illuminations
f
on Sunday night was that of the Baron Roths-
child.

AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS' STRIKE IN SOUTH WILT-
SHIRE.—The effects of the tide of emigration, which has
for some time past carried away from English shores
large bodies of our labouring population, has already
been felt in Wiltshire and the adjoining counties. The
labourers at Barford, Codford, and Fovant, with scarcely'
ee d f r oo nm the.
faanrmeexrscephtyiodne,phautavteiolne,dftwemorakn,dianngd
anhava,de
vwaainct
to 9s. per week. The farmers seem not unwilling to ad-
vance slightly upon the old rate of wages, but the peas-
antry refuse to make any concession, and resolutely de-
clare they will have 9s. a week or nothing. On Monday
last the parish of Barford St. Martin presented an un-
usually excited appearance, in consequence of a body of
labourers, numbering from ltiO to 200, assembling in the
farm-yard of Mr. Swetman, a large farmer in the parish.
Mr. Swetman had to fill the dung-cart himself, his la-
bourers having joined the strike, and was so engaged
when the men surprised him in his own homestead
however, they were exceedingly peaceable, merely stat-
ing their determination to get the advance they asked,
and to obtain a Friday instead of a Saturday night's
settlement. Whole bodies of men who had joined the
strike then proceeded from farm to farm, and ultimately
the rector of the parish, the Hon. and Rev. S. Walde-
grave, was called upon to endeavour to compromise the
matter. The rev. gentleman set about his task with the
earnest desire of benefitting both parties, but his recom-
mendation of a uniform rate of wages of Ss. per week,
thus " splitting the difference," was scornfully rejected
by the men. Matters remain up to the present in the
samestae
AGRICULTURE AND POTTERY.—The congress of the
ode-
legatesccupie
do f
otnh e
Saturday
wi
societies
thsomofe the departments
eonneewtedas
with as Count de Vigneral brought forward
the question of sheep breeding, and, after some discus-
sion, the congress came to the decision that the merino
race ought as much as possible to be kept pure in France,
and that the flesh of the French race would be improved
for food by a cross with the English race. M. de la

The register which was used at the Tuileries on
ievreiaslofhotuhsee
the occasion of the civil marriage of the Emperor,
State. The first entry in. it is dated March 2,
ibsetehnaptreosfertvheedfoirmn theer airalchl)
1806, and records Napoleon's adoption of the
'S
ewc ri 1 le
te ah r y has
o f
Prince Eugene as son of the Emperor, and as Vice-
roy of Italy. The record immediately preceding
that of the marriage of Napoleon 111. is that of
the birth of the King of Rome, bearing date March
20, 1811.

Tgiven to the trade of Paris by the
late
The impulse
imperial fetes is said to have proved highly
satisfactory to the bourgeoisie. The etiquette at
official balls and receptions requiring gentlemen to
wear embroidered coats and vests has caused the
ladies pmonat
costly rivalry in their toilettes, and
already an enormous demand has been created for
al
articles of attire for
both sexes. A perfumer, who has a rather exten-
sive clientele in the aristocracy, is said to have sold
in one week fans to the amount of 9,000 f., gloves
to an equal amount, and perfumery to the amount
of 6,000 f. There have been also extensive orders
for carriages, furniture, and jewellery.
A scaffolding which had been erected in the new
rue de Rivoli broke down on Sunday just before
the cortege arrived at the spot, from the too great
weight of the persons who had been admitted to
place themselves on it. Six females were much
bruised.

It is stated that Raron Brenier, Secretary-
General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has
been appointed Envoy Extraordinary of France at
Constantinople. He is about to proceed to Toulon,
to embark on board the Eclaireur steamer for his
post. The appointment of M. Brenier to Constan-
tinople may be fairly regarded as a fresh tender of
peace. That Austria is about to take advantage of
andan offerM of a media-
the difficulties of the Porte in the affair of Monte-
negrowith Great Britain,
cannot be doubted, and in doing so will, of
Brenier is in
course,tat
01 li.iprobabilityaa.lvehbtaher,eaac tdoe e
rll
gers at the
hands of the two northern powers.
.
(the reserve), which was sup-
pressede ibnf
from chargedßussia,om h l evt g conjunctiongrowing owi n g da n
The Emperor, by decree dated the 29th ult., '
issued on the report of the Minister of Marine, has
a similar
re-established the second section of the General
measure hdving al-
ready been carried into effect in the army. The de-
cree enacts the law of May 19, 1834, on officers, shall
be applicable to those of the second section, and that
they shall receive three-fifths of the pay of their
Btaffof
inthAepNrila,vYlB4B,
grade; also that they may in time of war be appointed
to commands at sea, or in the interior—and, if
senators, to commands in the interior in time of
likewise. The Moniteur announces that the
officers have, on their demand, in virtue
fpoofellatochewisindgecree, been removed from the retired list,
and admitted to the second section of the General
Staff. ;—Vice-Admirals Bergeret, Grivel, and Baron
.

Eresnaye read a paper on the osteology of birds, and on
the modifications to be perceived in their skeletons ac-
cording to their manner of living. The question was

then examined as to whether " the ceramic irt could not
receive a new impulse in the departments by means of
the Academical Societies." M. de Caumont observed that
formerly Lisieux possessed a celebrated pottery, whereas
at present nothing was more ordinary than the ware
manufactured there. M. d'Elruc said that the manu-
facture under discussion had gained much ground at
Forges les-Eaux (Seine-Inf4rieure). A large quan-
tity of the pottery from that place was even exported
to England. M. Bordea,u said that the pottery of
Lisieux was in the 16th and 17th century esteemed
nearly equal to that of Palissy. At present, at sales of
curiosities, dishes were frequently sold as made by Ber-
nard, of Palissy, when in reality they had been manu-
factured at Lisieux. Rouen in the 17th century was
famous for a species of white delf with blue ornaments,
marked by great correctness and richness of design.
Alsace also formerly possessed an extensive pottery,
known by the name of Cailloux, of Strasburg, but it is
now quite extinct. St. Germain-de-la-Poterie, near
Beauvais, mentioned by Rabelais, was not only cele-
brated for its ware,-but for its tiles for paving churches.
M. Rame said that an immense impulse could be given
to the ceramic art in France by giving up to it the de-
coration of the floors of chapels, as was practised in the
M.
banks o
Rame f the
said, possessed
Loire to Ang
middle ages in the north of France, and in following the
English at porfesteinlets,
Angers.
Tilme Entoanufac
intended for buildings, to which they gave the name of
Norman tiles, in allusion to those formerly manufactured
in such quantities in Normandy.—Gcclignani.