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of 1850 . In parts of the country "" . ftSJ ^ JLJS inconsiderable ; in others the marriages ofl 851 excee fled those in the corresponding qmrtw f ^ "SL . sSotem " Ml ^ r ^ lf or atfc ? ff •»** & S ttLssLS : Se ; su ^« £ « % yrt *^ . ^™ of In the South
««^ nff ouarters 1849-50 . Midland Sn " ' Bucking hamshire , Oxfordshire , Northamptonshire Bedfordshire , and Cambridgeshire have fewer Sages in the quarter of 1851 than in the correspond . ine Quarter of the previous year . In Essex and Norfolk , Wiltshire , Dorsetshire , and Somersetshire a similar decline took place ; in Suffolk and Corn wall the marriages sliehtly increased . In the South-Midland , Eastern , and South-Western counties the number of marriages , though less than in the corresponding year of 1850 , was not below the average . The same state of things is observed
in the West-Midland division ; the marriages were less numerous in Herefordshire , Gloucestershire , and Shropshire , than they were in the previous year ; in Staffordshire and Worcestershire the numbers remained above the average , and there was a considerable increase in Wolverhatnpton and Stourbridge ; in Warwickshire the marriages are more numerous than they were in 1850 , and the increase is chiefly in Birmingham and its suburbs . In Leicestershire , Nottinghamshire , and Derbyshire the marriages rapidly increased from 1847 up to 1850 , and have now slightly declined . Lincolnshire , which was at the lowest point in 1850 , increased in 1851 . The marriages in nearly all the districts of Lancashire , declinedbut
including Liverpool and Manchester , ; were more numerous than in any previous Septembe / quarter except that of 1850 . The marriages have progressively declined in the North Riding of Yorkshire since 1848 ; they still remain above the average in the West Riding . In Keighley , Halifax , Leeds , and Sheffield , the number of marriages in the quarter exceeds the number in the corresponding quarter of any previous year since 1847 . In Leeds and Sheffield the increase is remarkable . In Hull and Sculcoatcs the rate of marriage declined . In the northern counties and in Wales the rate of marriage remained above the average , but was rather lower than it was in the September quarter of 1850 .
Births . —149 , 155 births were registered in the last quarter , and 616 , 251 in the year 1851 . These are the greatest numbers ever before registered . The average annual rate of births in the 10 years 1841-50 was 3261 percent ,: in the year 1851 the rate was 3428 percent . To every 100 , 000 of the population 3428 children were born in 1851 instead of 3261 ; and there was consequently an excess of 167 , or of 5 per cent . The excess appears to have been distributed very generally over the whole country . Increase of Population . —While the births in the last quarter of the year 1851 were 149 . 155 , the deaths of 49907 in the
were 99 , 248 ; leaving an excess , population . The deaths in the year 1851 were 385 , 933 , the births 616 , 251 ; consequently 230 , 318 at least was the natural increase in England and Wales of a population amounting to -17 , 977 , 000 in the middle of that year , and now exceeding 18 , 000 , 000 souls . —Emigration still continues ; 59 , 200 people left their homes and the ports of the united kingdom in the last 92 days of the old year . 52 2 . 92 sailed from English ports—namely , 42 , 680 from Liverpool , 6252 from London , and 3360 from Plymouth . 1524 persons sailed from Glasgow and Greenock ; 5384 from Irish ports . A great proportion of these emigrants from Liverpool were of Irish birth .
Provisions have been cheap . The price of beef by the carcase has for the last half-year been 4 d . per lb ., of mutton 4 | d . per lb ., at Leadenhalland Newgate markets . Potatoes , which were at the average price of 5 s . per cwt . at the time the supply of old potatoes ceased in the September quarter , fell to 3 s . 6 d . in the 13 weeks ending December 31 . In the same periods wheat was 40 s . 7 < 1 . and 36 a . 7 d . per quarter . It appears that while 74 , 714 quarters of wheat were sold weekly in the 290 cities and towns making returns in July , August , and September , in OctoberNovember
the amount sold after the harvest , , , and December , was 109 , 506 quarters weekly . The average weekly amount sold during the nix months was 92 , 110 . The amount of wheat consumed is unknown ; but at the estimated annual rate of a quarter a head , it is 345 , 712 quarters weekly in England and Wales ; and it will be observed that in wheat and flour 69 , 513 quarters —equal to three-fourths of the wheat sold—were imported weekly , and entered for home consumption on the average during the aix months .
State ov thk Public Health . —England is one of the few countries of the world in which the rate of mortality is lowest in the hot season . In the three months ending September , 18 /> 1 , the mortality , calculated on the population , was at the rate of 2 ' 0 'iO per cent ., which was slightly below the average ( 2-009 ) of the ten preceding summdr quartern ; in ' the three months ending December , 1851 , the mortality was at the rate of 2 * 182 per cent ., which , on the other hand , is slightly above the overage ( 2 ' 1 62 ) of the ten preceding autumn quarters . The- spring months of April , May , June , stand higher than the autumn quarter in the order of ' mortality ; while in the three inonihn of January , February , » nil March the mortality is higheBt in winter .
The mortality of the large towns is , m the first and second hulf of the year respectively , one-fifth and onethird part higher in the large towns than it ia in the country districts and small towns , where many causes of insalubrity also exist . The same causos that destroy the lives of so many people degrade tho lives of more , and may ultimately , it is to be feared , have a very unfavourable effect on tho energies of a large proportion of
the English race . Here is , , a - ^ mor ^ of « £ S * e town districts in laet auarter of 1851 is slightly below the average : and this Tay be hailed with satisfaction as an indication of samtary activity . Unfortunately , the mortality in the small towns andYn ^ he . country districts has ™ £ 'eased ^ Sorne « xtent , and . thus left the mortality of the kingdom above the aV Sca ? fatina , measles , smallpox , and fever have been epidemic in many districts , and are still prevailing . In London 14 , 355 deaths were registered m the quarter , while only 12 , 956 deaths were registered in the corre . sponding quarter of the previous year .
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MISCELLANEOUS . Mr . Bennett read himself in last Saturday , but did not preach . He has issued a long , temperate , and eloquent pastoral letter . The Bishop of Exeter has published a very conclusive pamphlet on the Necessity for Episcopal Ordination , " in the shape of a letter to the Archdeacon of Totness . _ Mr . Gladstone has published a " Letter to X > r . Skinner , Bishop of Aberdeen , on the Function of Laymen in the Church . "
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We understand that the Marquis of Normanby has , since his return to this country , resigned his appointment as British Ambassador at Paris . The events which succeeded each other so rapidly in France and Europe during the last six years have made the post filled by the noble marquis one of no ordinary difficulty . It is much to the credit of the noble marquis that bis firmness and ability have enabled him to maintain undiminished ^ the friendly relations of the two countries during these vicissitudes . We believe that Lord Cowley , Minister at Frankfort , will succeed to the post which is become vacant by the resignation of the Marquis of Normanby . —Globe . _ *
. The United Service Gazette has " reason to Believe that the retirement of Mr . Algernon Massingberd from the Blues has been brought about in a great measure by an intimation he received that his attention to the celebrated Hungarian Magyar , in placing his mansion m Eton-square at his disposal , as well as accompanying him in his progress through this country , was by no means befitting the position he held in the household troops of her Majesty . Mr . Massingberd is now m America , and report avers that he is determined to attach himself to the fortunes of Kossuth . " [ May we-not profitably take this in connection with the Foreign spy system recently established in England under the Russell-Palmerston-PotreW Ministry ?] _ _ _
Galignani presents us with a picture of Lord Brougham in the city of the Coup d'Etat : — " Lord Brougham , on Mayday , read at the Academy of Sciences , before a most crowded auditory , a paper on the optical and mathematical inquiries which have occupied his time during his late residence at Cannes . His lordship accompanied the reading of this memoir with numerous demonstrations on the board , and for upwards of an hour occupied the attention of his hearers . MM . Arago , Biot , Tenard , and other eminent scientific men , were present , and appeared deeply interested in the explanations of their learned confrere . "
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The St . Alban ' s Bribery Commission , which stood adjourned until the 27 th instant , was finally terminated , without another sitting on that day . It appears , by a parliamentary document lately published , that the debts due by various distressed unions in Ireland , incurred before the 17 th of May last , amounted to £ 372 , 437 . An official inquiry ia now proceeding into the loss of the Amazon . Boats and pieces of the wreck , are found on the Channel coast . None of the missing passengerB or crew have been heard of .
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The annual dinner in aid of the funds of the Newsvendera' Benevolent Institution took place on Tuesday night at tho Albion Tavern , and was presided over by Mr . John Forster , supported by Mr . J . Harmer , Mr . Charles Dickens , Mr . John Leach , Mr . Bradbury , Mr . Charles Knight , Mr . Peter Cunningham , Mr . Evans , Mr . Mark Lemon , and about sixty other gentlemen . In the Court of Exchequer on Monday the case of " Miller v . Alderman Salomons , M . P . " came on for argument . It will be remembered , that when Alderman Salomons took his seat aa member for Greenwich , last year , and took all the oaths required by law except the words " on the true faith of a Christian , " the plaintiff brought the action to recover certain penalties which , he
contended , the defendant had incurred by voting in the House , notwithstanding hia refusal to depose on the Hue faith of a Christian . The plaintiff contends that he is entitled to recover from the defendant the penalties sued for , the defendant having voted , as in the declaration mentioned , withoutlirst having taken the oaths of Abjuration , as provided by tho 13 th WiUiam"III ., cap . 6 , 1 st George I ., statute 2 d , cap . 13 , and 6 th George III ., cap . 53 " . 2 dly . That the defendant was not , as a member of tho House of Corrimons , entitled , by reason of his being a Jew , to tuko the oath upon the Old Testament , and that the
defendant was not duly worn . 3 dly . That the 1 st and 2 nd Victoria , cap . 105 , did not entitle tho defendant to take the oath of Abjuration upon tho Old Testament . 4-thly . That if no objection arisen to tho form in which tho defendant wus Bworn , yot the defendant , having purposely omitted to repeat or ausent to the words , ' ? upon tho true faith of a Christian , " refused to take , and has not token , the oath of abjuration by law required . Mr . Sergeant Channel and Mr . Macnamara appeared for the plaintiff , and Sir Fitaroy Kelly and Mr . Goldamid for tho defendant . The arguments terminated on Wednesday , and the Court took time to deliver judgment .
An accident occurred on Monday at the Ringley Fold Colliery , near Bury , Lancashire ; belonging to Mesar » Stottand Knowles , which has resulted in the death of three persons , viz ., Thomas Smdley , aged 19 yean Henry Page , aged 38 years , and George Gundry , age d 32 years . The accident occurred m consequence of th » ignition of foul air , but the cause of the explosion has not yet been ascertained . -Ten other persons were in the pit at the time of the fatal occurrence , most . of whom are so seriously burnt that there is not much prospe ct of their recovery . . - ¦ ¦¦ The steam-ship Glasgow , which sailed from the Clyde
on the 10 th instant ,, with fifty-four passengers and freight valued at £ 106 , 000 , returned here last night , She was 8 truck by a dreadful sea on the evening of Tuesday , the 20 th instant , which carried away the starboard bulwarks , the wheel-house and binnacle , and filled the saloon with three feet water . Mr . Robertson , the second officer , wag swept overboard and drowned . The first and third officers , the carpenter , and three of the crew , were severely injured . Captain Stewart , therefore , thought it prudent to return . The hull of the ship and engines are injured . [ The " Glasgow " must not be confounded with the "City of Glasgow . " ]
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Letters from Berlin announce the arrival of Lieutenant Pirn in that city , on his return from St . Petersburg to London . The King of Prussia has conferred the Order of Merit upon Professor Owen . General Sir Lewis Grant died on Monday last in an omnibus . Mrs . Cumming has been pronounced of unsound mind . The trial has lasted sixteen days ; and the total cost of the commission is upwards of £ 6000 . A fire broke out in Banner-street , St . Luke ' s , on
Monday , which nearly resulted in the loss of life . As it is , a great deal of property is destroyed . Mr . Richard Alfred Davenport , aged seventy-five , aa author , who has been living a hermit-like life at Camberwell , was found nearly dead in his own house by a policeman , on Sunday . Mr . Davenport , who had used opium freely , had—so the j ury charitably thought—inadvertently taken too much at last , and died . A foreman porter was . . ' killed-at the Windsor station of the Great Western Railway on Tuesday . He was standing on the line issuing orders , and was knocked down by
a carriage . Mr . Somes , the shipbuilder , has just imported in the Coromandel , from Moulmein , the largest mast ever brought into this country . It is of teak , 72 feet long , and 27 inches in diameter ; By the will of Mr . Thomas Dickinson , late of Upper Holloway , the contingent reversionary interest of £ 12 , 000 ( in addition to £ 1000 immediate ) is bequeathed to the Governesses' Benevolent Institution on the death of his daughter , Mrs . Henry F . Richardson . Mr . Dickinson has also bequeathed ( all free of legacy duty ) £ 4500 to the Animals' Friend Society ; £ 1000 to the London Hospital ; £ 1000 to the Indigent Blind School ; £ 1000 to the London Orphan Asylum ; £ 1000 to the Infant Orphan Asylum ; £ 1000 to the Marine Society ; £ 1000 to the National Benevolent Institution : £ 1000 to the
Destitute Sailors' Home : £ 1000 to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum ; £ 1000 to the lloyal Free Hospital ; £ 500 to the Holloway Dispensary ; £ 500 to the Labourers' Friend Society ; £ 4000 to Whitechapel parish , the interest to find twenty poor people with bread , potatoes , and coals , who are constant attendants at divine service ; £ 4000 on similar conditions , to Holloway parish ; £ 2000 to the Idiot Asylum ; £ 1000 to the Fistula Society ; £ 1000 to the Charing-cross Hospital . The legacies are of various amounts , not exceeding £ 20 , 000 to each relative , with various legacies of £ 10 , 000 and £ 5000 each to other branches , with £ 10 , 000 to his housekeeper . Mr . Dickinson was a merchant of eminence in Whitechapel , and a member of the Court of the Drapers' Company , from whom he received a testimonial , which he has bequeathed to his daughter .
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BIRTH 8 . On thelCth of January , at Delvine-houae , Perthshire , the wife of Sir John Muir Mackenzie , of Delvine , Baronet : a daughter . On the Slat , at Brighton , the wife of Captain Farquhar , Royal Navy : a daughter . On the 22 nd , at Dorset-square , the wife of Joseph Ridge , E * q . M . D .: a daughter . On the 22 nd , at Peckferton Castle , Cheshire , the wife of J . Tollemache , Esq ., M . P .: a son .
MARRIAGES . On the 20 th of January , at the parish church of Headington , Oxfordshire , the Keverend Robert Hake , M . A ., of New College , to Octavia Frances , youngest daughter of W . H . Butler , Esq ., of Oxford . On the 02 nd , the Reverend Edward Ridgeway , M \ A ., of Jeau « College , Cambridge , to Blanche , second daughter of Sir Joseph Paxton , of Chataworih . On the 23 rd , at All Saints ' , 8 t . John ' s-wood , Marmaduko , son of the Inta Archibald Constable , of Edinburgh , to Anne Mary , granddaughter of tho late William Brainah , ol Symington . On the 27 th , at St . Leonard ' s , George Beaufoy , of 8 outh Lamboth , Esq ., to Anno , tho llfth daughter of the lute Mr . Thomas Harvey , of Abhburnliain . , ' '
On the 28 th of December , 6 f feverl at New Orleans , Jamef Aloxnndcr George , Lord Loughborough , aged twenty-one . On'tho 22 nd of Januury , at Woolwich-common , John Read , E » q ., lato of the Ordnitnou Department , at the very advanced age of nlnc-4 'iglit . Mr . Read acted a « military secretary to the mission sent out to Turkey and Egypt to assist the Turks agalnat tno French , und took part in Ux > Egyptian campaign of 1801 . re " coivlng for hia aervioe-B during tlmt period the modal lately lBSuea by her MuJoKty '/ j Government , nnd nlao tho gold medal given by the Grand Viielarnttue termination of tho operations . Mr . « e « a aldo sorvml with the late 81 r William Congreve at the bombardment of Copenhagen and In the expedition to Waloheren .
, On the 24 ih , at Loumington , Evelyn Marcella , fourth daug hter of air Tliomas and Lady Gladstone , aged five years . On the 21 ih , Qootgis Wilbruham , Esq ., of Delamere-house , Cheshire , and of Lower Brook-street , GroBvener-equaro , Lond on , aged eeveuty-three .
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 31, 1852, page 102, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1920/page/10/
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