... HEA . Tll of LONDON D UIING te TWEP7'K. [FnOM THE REOISTaIAR-GENERAL'S RETURN.1 A declining rate of mortality affords evidence of a gradual improvement in the public health. Since the weekly mor- tality rose to its maximum at the end of March, the nnmier of deaths fell in the first week of April to 1,340, and in that which ended last Saturday to 1,243. Since the week ending March 26, in which ...

... ! We have received by extraordinary express, in anticipation of the Overland Mail, our private correspondence and journals from Bombay to the 1st March; Calcatta, 11)th Feb.; and Hong- Kong, China, 11th Feb. [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.1 BOMBAY, MARbU 1. The news from Burmah is up to the 14th Feb. By the last mail, intelligence of an expedition of boats under Captain Loch, of the Winchester, ...

... [FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] DUBLIN, FRIDAY MORNING. As the spring advances, complaints of the scarcity of labourers are becoming more frequent in some districts, although in general there appears to be a sufficiency of hands when a small advance on the old and very low rate of wages is offered. But the exodus proceeds with such accelerated force, car- rying off such large numbers of the ...

... TRIAL TRIP ON THE IMERSEY. The Boomerang screw-propeller, invented by Sir Thomas M i'sitohell, and which was so successfully tried, in May last year, at Sydney, was tested on the Mersey on Tuesday after- noon ; the application being made to the Genova, one of Messrs. MNI'Lean and M'Larty's Mediterranean steamer. The type of Sir Thoumes Mitchell's invention is, as our readers are aware, the ...

... MMUIAT9?. ?? a.a1 T Tis Exobus.-The Clnmet l Caronicle states that On Tho'sday week ?? the midst of-the snow, which was then falling heavily oe of lrieuconi'bt cars, capable of holding egteen prso n, and took its departure fally laden wthn Agive ansearn-the initagio hiogoappell tu i lately aueldsobypothe. Celtic poputationfor Waterford, where itsseinferse were tho take shipping. for Liverpool, ...

... LAEST FOREIGN NWS. I FRANCE. - PARIS, FRIDAY EVVNING, - The famous Blanqui made his escapefrom the prison at Belle- isle, accompanied by another prisoner; but he was subse- quently recaptured, and delivered into the hands of the authorities. The Moniteur, stating that efforts are being made to persuade the public that the government intends proposing a modification in the civil portion of the ...

... In oonsequence of the denunciation of a female on ber death-bed, a publio-house keeper, named Perriohard, of the Faubourg St. Antoine, was arrested some tise ago on suspl- sion of haviag assassinated the Arobbishop of Paris, at a barricade in that faubourg, in the insurrection of June, 1848. This person was brought to trial before a court-martial. The court was 'crowded, and the trial excited ...

... THE ALEM. wAll-OFFICAE, FarnA 2nd Life Guards-Lieutenant H. S. Lumley to be captain, by purchase, vice the Hon. R. N. Lawley, who retires; Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant B. 0. Jameson to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lumley. Royal Horse Guards-Cornet J. W. Biflington to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lord G. C. G. Lennox, who retires. 3rd Dragoon Guards-J. C. Still, Gent, to be cornet, by par. ...

... IFEVl ZN dTH NAVY. I The Agamemnon, gays the 7imes of Friday, is in. fected-she is rank with a contagious fever-she is a mere floating coffin-a tender to the graveyard. The wretched crew are cooped up on board her more closely than the citizens of London were cooped up in their town when the death-crm was inscribed on every second door. This is no delasion-no vain imasgination of ours-we have ...

... A long time ago we kept our accounts-not in figures, but by notches, checks and tallies. The bold barons who managed our exchequer might put their mailed hands into the money bag, but they could neither count it correctly nor divide it fairly; and their only way of getting thiough a financial mess was by roasting a Jew or robbingI a citizen. It was something when we changed that in- convenient ...

... OUR CON.TEPORARIES. Tirm BVDGEr.-(Ti ?? as it is to satisfy all parties, and impossible as it is to satisfyv those who ob- ject to every measure of relief which does not immedi ately affect themselves, it would not be easy to point out a class that is not greatly interested in the success of Mr. Gladstone's propositions. As the income-tax alto- gether is to be soon put in the way of reduction, ...

... . THE OARIDENw-By Mr, 01,A=y. SEASONABLE GARXDENMIG. Now fir graping. Provide eiarp kinives, manke clean MN, cpliec the graft to the stock ns eleverly as yeon would mend I hi1i or a walking.etick. The only conditions rcucoaary to for~ffi} a egod oaf' grr.F ne tirnt, to mailce a close aitt eondiv'te maine ?? bark of ?? gralt and the bark of the StIock *join oil one skleif not both; thirdly, to ...