The Express. — 1868-10-28 (London, England)

OCT. 27.—A singular charge Will recently brought against astaff sergeant of the Riding-house mtabliilimeut, Royal Artillery, who has for years been much respected in the service. He was ou his way to the paled° to receive a medal and gratuity of Id!., when he was stddenly arrested and taken to the guard-room on a charge of breach' of duty by allowing the troop horses under his charge to be ridden by civilians. He was tried Ly court-maital, and reduced to the ranks, but was iain.ediately oiler reinstated to be Fent to another station; but it is stated that Lis medal and gratuity will not be granted. CoILISION IN THE IifENSEY.—A collision took place yesterday between the Hipparthu% a steamer iron, the In arils, and the Countess of Galloway. a Kircudbright steamer, as the one was entming, and the other leavinz the Money. The Hipparchus was but slightly danisged, but the Countess of Galloway was so seriously injured tlat she had to return to dock.  The Mordteur of yesterday contains the appointments of 42 commanders of battalions and six chefs d'rAradreti in the National Mobile Guard of the Eastern departments. Tug lITALTH or Leanne.—lt appears from the return issued by authority of the Registrar-General, that in the week that ended on Saturday, 24th October, 4,2,1 blahs and 3,169 deaths were registered in Loudon and in thnteen other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 26 pert 1,000 parsons living. The annual rate of mortality last week was 24 per 1,000 in London, 28 in Edinburgh, and 2'2 in Dublin 09 in Bristol, 21 in Birmingham, 30 in Liverpool, 32 in Manchester, 118 in Salford, 26 in Sheffield, 28 in Bradford. 29 in Leeds, 28 in Hull, 26 in Newcastle-uponTyne. and 31 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 26 per I,COO during the week ending the 17th inst., and in Berlin 34 per 1000 during the - &even days ending the 22nd instant. In London the births of 1,012 boys and. 1,022 girls, in all 2,034 children, . were registered in the week. In the corresponding weeks of ten years, 1868-87, the avenge number, -corrected for increase of population, is 2,160. The deaths registered in London timing tho week were 1.421. It was the fortythin d week of the year ; and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correction for increase of pop uiat.c , 1,340. The deaths in the present returnturu exceed r;1 SiSI the estimated atuocut. The deaths from zymotie darates wt re 331, the corrected average number being Zi2. Four deaths from small-pox, 19 from meados, 106 fit in. scarlatina, 10 f.ow diphtheria, 21 fem whooping-cough, 67 from fever, end 30 from diarrhese, were registered. Five deaths faint tea:lntim' were emended in the sub-disti let of Kensington-town, 3 in the subdistrict of thicket south. 3 in the sub-district of (Adult noith-west, 6 in the sub-distriot of Chelsea torili-eurt, 6 iu the Luh-ditmet of Itelgeave, 3 in the ivt of Kentish-town, in the sub-district of west London South, 6 in the tub-district of Mile-end Old Town Fast, 3in the sub-district of Pow, 3in the sub-distinct of ropier, 3 in the sub-distiiet of St. Peter Walsworth.' 3 in the nib-district of Kennington tint part, and 31u the sub. district of Woohrich Arwiud. Of the 67 deaths frank fever, 19 are registered as typhus, 37 as typhoid or ga.tric fever, and 11 simply as common continued fever. Two deaths from fever wee recorded in the sub-district of St. Mary Fedslinon, 2 in the sub-distriet of Kensington Town, 2in the sub-district of Belgrave, 2in the subdistrict of Gray's-inn-lane, 12 in the sub-district of Islington West (where the London Fever Hospi. tal is situated); 2 in the sub-district of Hottest New Town, 3 yyhhthe Green sub-district of Bethnal-green, 2 in the sub-district of St. Mary, and 2 ia this subdistrict of St. John, St. George-in-the-East, 2 in the sub-district of Lintahouve, and 2 in the sub-district of Clapham. One hundred ane ninety-two deaths occerred from Oak's's, 120 from .bronollitis, and 77 from pneumonia. Diseases of the brain and nervous system proved fatal to 148 persons, and 80 persons died fmra diseases of the organs of circulation. The deaths of 8 infants from syphilis, of 4 children from burns or scalds, of 6 persons fresu drowning, of 3 infants and 1 adult from suffocation, and of 6 ',coedits who committed suicide were registered. The widow of a grengrocer, aged 84 years, died on the 11;t11 t htedwr in St. liartleidemew's Hospital, from inlurio• vetoed by having been run over by • dray.