Glasgow Courier. — 1859-11-17 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES.  Monthly return of the births, deaths, and marriages registered in the eight principal towns of Scotland; with the causes of death at four periods of life, published by authority of the Registrar-General. During the month of October there were registered in the eight principal towns of Scotland the births of 2,684 children, of whom 1,354 were males, and 1,330 were females. Of this number 2,482 were legitimate. and 202 were illegitimate, giving the proportion of 75 per cent, of the births as illegitimate, or one illegitimate in eve 7 132 births. The proportion of illegitimate births m the several towns (considering Edinburgh and Leith as one town) was the following :—ln Greenock, only 34 per cent.; in Paisley, 52 per cent.; in Edinburgh and Leith, 54 per cent.; in Glasgow, 6.6 per cent.; in Perth, 84 per cent.; in Dundee, 10 per cent.; and in Aberdeen, 18.2 percent. 607 maniages were regis. tered in the eight towns during the month of October. The deaths of 1,677 persons, of whom 842 were males, and 835 females, were registered in the eight towns during the month. Of this number, 779, or 464 percent., were tinder five !years of age. The proportion of deaths under five years of age in the eight towns was Perth, 22 per cent.; in Aberdeen, 33 per cent.; in Edinburgh, 37 per cent.; in Paisley, 39 per cent.; in Dundee, 40 per cent.; in Leith, 46 percent.; in Glasgow, 53 per cent.; and in Greenock, 56 per cent. The zymotic (epidemic and contagious) class of diseases proved fatal to 556 persons in the eight towns, and thus constituted 33 per cent, of the deaths; in Greenock. however, owing to the virulence and great fatality of scarlatina, the mortality from the zyrnotic class of diseases amounted to 60 per cent of the deaths. 43 deaths were attributed to small-pox, in the eight towns; 22 to croup; 43 to diarrheas; 11 to dysentery; 3 to cholera; and 57 to gastric and typhus fevers. 92 deaths were ascribed to heaping-cough in the eight towns, and thus constituted 5.4 per cent, of the deaths. Scarlet fever cut off 245 persons in the eight towns, and thus constituted 145 per cent, of the deaths. Of these, no fewer than 77 occurred in Greenock, thereby raising the proportional mortality from that disease, in that town, to -503 per cent, of the deaths.  Among the more remarkable causes of death may be noted that of a child, 2S years old, who was accidentally drowned in a washing-tub; and that of an infant, aged 14 weeks, who died of inanition, being unable to take food from disease of the tongue. Among the deaths attributed to violence the following may be noticed :—A man, aged 22 years, pistol-shot through the head- suicide. A man, aged 25 years, gun-shot wound through the head—supposed suicide. A man, aged 60, hung himself. A woman, aged 52, cut her throat. A girl, aged 19, was poisoned by laudanum. A child, aged 6 months, was smothered. And an infant, aged 7 weeks, was overlaid —the mother, it is believed, having been Intoxicated. The deaths of four nonagenarians ware registered during the month. Of these, two were males, the one married, the other a widower, and aged respectively 93 and 90 years; and two were females, widows, aged 91 and 98 years. The meteorological returns of six of the principal towns in Scotland for October, 1859, reduced and else. sited as heretofore, and corrected in their thermometrical results for daily range, give, for their mean position, L' e. lat. re 12' N., long., 3° 44! W., and height 140 feet above sea level .—Mean barometric pressure 29680 inches, less than the mean of 1856-7-8 by 0.263 inch. Barometric range, 1244 inch, leas by 0142 inch. Thermometer, highest in month, 656, greater by 2"5. Thermometer, lowest in month, 224, less by 11°0. Mean temperature, = 46°A lees by 2"8. Mean daily range of tempemture,=-12"2, greater by 6°ll Mean humidity, 81, leas by 2. Rain, number of days on which it fell, 15, same. Rain, depth in Inches, 443, greater by 11k inch. Wind, mean pressure on square faett 56 lbs., less by 0/8 Ihe Wind, diroctior4 E. to W. oto 8, and N. to S. as sto 6; the combinations being S.E. and N.W.; the average for former years being, 6 to 10 and 3 to 7. From these numbers may be gathered that the wattler of the part month kas been characterised by rentarkalAe severity and premature advance of autumn. The barometer has been more than a quarter of an inch below it. mean height for October; or lower than it has ever been before in any registered month, except ouly the month of December, 1856; its range during the period being small. The mean same  te—m—pers— .ture  et the  while 2**B e fluctua• highest  v e, u Ol:u.nrigred towerds the  may say, of SE. and NW. r and lightning wets on six night.,  Acrivcry u Tas  hero; the averagn, hem experienced tions' and to such an extent that vs._ Usertnonieter has been 2-5 greater than that month in former years, the lowest is as below its counterpart the severe frusta which mouth. The humidity and the number of rainy far from the average; but the depth of by one-fousth; and this result has been r by Aberdeen having contributed no less . and standing thereby at the head of the tity of nun. This unusual position appears eceowlanied, we may - partly unusual amount wind in which, thunder noted silent lightning