... The wveekly report issued by authority of the Registrar-General states that the deaths in London in the 'week that ended lest Saturday numbered 1,179. If the deaths from epidemic cholera in the thirty-sixth week of 1854 are ex~cluded from the returns on which the calculatipn is based, it will be fouind that the average rate of mortality in the first week of September in ten years (1852..61) ...

... BEPRESENTATION OF STOIJC- ON-TBL'.NT I Mr. Beresford Hope has published a reply to Mr. c Grenfell's letter, in which he says: -i deny that I took any advantage of au unfinished correspondence. I com- F menced the correspondence in a letter claiming one specific act of justice, and reserving publicity. Mr. Grenfell mado a reply, which I accepted-closing the correspondence. I i had the full ...

... INDIA. The following is from the overland summary of the Frisnd of India of August 8th: The most stirring subject in politics is from home. The fact of Mr. Laing's resignation has been announced by telegraph, and the bitterly personal and unjust despatches of Sir C. Wood condemning his financial measures have been received here. They have excited intense interest, and have brought down on ...

... IMON VESSELS OF WAR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DALY NEWS. Sert,-Iu reply to the letter of Mr. T. C. Clark- son, in your columus of this day, I have simply to say that I do know what Iam talking about. I never did propose, or would propose so foolish an idea as buildingavessel of kasoptulicon. I merely suggested its Uti& ns a lining for 'ron vessels of war. Mr. Clarkson may havetried his ...

... )ceed LOSS OF TWENTY-THREE LIVES. I saw A second edition of the Liverpool Albion, on Monday 1 lid he gives particulars of an awful fire, at the Workhouse, in 3 o one that ?? Albion says:- About two o'clock this being morning a fire broke out in the Workhouse, and before Paults, it was extinguished about twenty-three lives were lost- - eorge, prineipally infants-and the church adjoining the ...

... A ?? ?? - -- A correspondent of a London contemporary calls attention to the atrocious assaults committed by convicts on the warders and other officers in Dsrtmoor Prison. He says :- On Thursday last, Warder Rose, who was in charge of 56 con- victs employed in trenching land, had occasion to stoop down to examine the trench, to sec that it was level and properly laid out, when one of the ...

... Mr. Henley, M.P., is speecbifying in various parts of c me Oxfordshire, and i8 everywhere most cordially welcomed. t in At Woodstock, on Tuesday, he alluded to the improved 2 uld dwellings for the poor, a subject upon which Mr. Disraeli a also congratulated the agricultural association of the ii ne neighbouring county on the following day.-II must* an congratulate this society and the country ...

... ex- During the Past ten weeks 857,079 Persona have visited the ica- Crystal Palace, being an average of abov85o rwek Aman, who is believed to be insane, heas00 e we five in London, for threatening to assassinsate Sire GeorgeheGded to A waitress and charwoman namned Wombwell , a un. in Tuesday night's list of bankrupts. lkr nor The weekly return of the slate of employment in alanches ailar ...

... .: YESTzRDAY, the usual weekly meeting of the guar-t aians of this union was held in the Board-room of the d workhouse, when the Chairman (DAvID TALoRn, Esq., m ?? presided. The other Guardians present were- w Dr. M'Gee, J.P., H. Harrison, J.P., R. Carlisle, J. . Ireland, A. Brown, J. Adams, T. Gaffilkin, J. Kava- 5 nagh, J. Hamill, S. Teirney, W. Johnson, J. Emer- son, and J. Entwistle, ...

... CHEMICO-AGRIGULTURAL SOCIETY OF i - : I 0 .. ULSTER;. : - i F1rnAv, the 6th inst., the Insual.nionthly meeting 'of the Couneilwas held at the Laboratory, Arthur Street- J. Bonrmwica, Esq., JE, Carriokfergns, in the chair. There were also pregent-Rev. W. Bruce, The Farm, Belfast; John Roberts, Esq., J.P., Collin' D. J. affe', Esq., Belfast; J. Stronge, Esq., M.D., Belfast; Professor Hodges, M.D ...

... [FROMX THE TIMES' CORRESPONDENT.] TuraN, Sarr. 1.-The particulars of the encounter at Aspromonte between the Royal troops and the Garibaldians will only reach Turin with the Neapo- litan mails this evening, when it may be too late for me, perhaps, to communicate them. These, meanwhile, are a few of the items of news which have reached us here by private correspondence:- On the day following ...

... THE FIGHTING FOQREOFTHE (ONFEDE- RATE STATEIS. -; . - . A WRITER in the Mobil Re sier gives the statistics of the fighting force of the Confederate States, pro- fessedly derived from the United States census tables of 1840 and 1850, and assuming that the ratio of in- crease from 1850 to 1860 is as great as that from 1840 to 1850. The census tables for 1850 showthat the fourteen Slave States ...