SATURDAY, Nov. 1ST.—The returns of the London districts are still of a very favourable character. In the week that ended on Saturday the number of deaths registered was 969. In the corresponding weeks of the last ten years (1846-55) the 'average number was 1099; and the same rate of mortality would produce in the increased population of the present time 1110 deaths. The improved state of health now existing has -therefore reduced the number of last week's return by 141 ; and similar results

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... been obtained during the month now terminated. The mean weekly temperature at the beginning of the month was 543°, and last week was 44.7°. Till last week it showed little variation, and always exceeded the average temperature of each week by 2°. Diseases of the zymotic class were fatal to 175 persons; affections of the respiratory organs, exclusive of phthisis and hooping-cough, to 190. Under the average rate of mortality from zymotic diseases in former years, the deaths last week would have been 295. Scarlatina is at present the most prominent in this class, and numbers 40; and St. John, Marylebone, where 5 children died of it, returns a greater number of deaths from this disease than any other sub-district. The registrar of Hampstead re-.cords the death of a girl at 19, Boundary-road, St. John's-wood, being the second from scarlatina maligna within a few days in the same house; and he reports the statement of the medical attendant, that the complaint has prevailed particularly at this spot, (which ought to be healthy,) and is, in his opinion, fostered by the accumulation and decomposition of organic matter in that part of the Bridge-road which lies in the parish of Hampstead, and where, it appears, there is a want of drainage. It is satisfactory to find that small-pox has lately been more rare, and last week the deaths from it were only 4-viz., 2 in St. John's, Westminster, and 2 in the Small-pox Hospital, Islington. The deaths from typhus declined to 32. Three fatal cases of carbuncle are recorded; and 2 of mortification in children from the application of blister. Two women and a man died at the age of 91 years, a man and a woman at 92, and a woman in the Belgrave sub-district at the age of 95 years. Last week the births of 777 boys and 792 girls, in all 1569 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years IS46-55 the average number was 1445. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 30'165 in. The mean daily reading was above 30 in. throughout the week; on Sunday it ' , was 30 '291 in., and on that day the instrument rose to 30 33 in., the highest reading in the week. It deserves to be remarked that the mean daily reading of the barometer has been 30 in. or more since the 15th of October. The mean temperature was last week 44.7°, which is 24° below the average of the same week in 38 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was below the average on the first four days, and on Tuesday and Wednesday was 7° and 9° below it. On F'riday it was 6° above the average. The highest temperature occurred on Thursday and Friday, and was 58.7°; the lowest was 31 4°, and occurred on Wednesday ; the range of the week was therefore 25 3°. The mean dew-point temperature was 43-6°; and the difference between this and the mean temperature of the air was 1-1°. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was 51 2°. The air was unusually calm. The greatest pressure of the wind was 1 Ib. to the square foot. by Osier's anemometer, on Thursday. Rain fell on Friday to the amount of 0 '34 in. On Wednesday the sky was obscured by a thick fog, which prevailed the whole day, and became very dense in the evening. Births, Marriages, and Deaths. BIRTHS.-ON the 11th ult., at Middlesborough, the wife of John Richardson, Esq., M. R. C. S., of a daughter. On the 16th ult., at the Wilderness, Box, Wilts, the wife of Thomas Fitzherbert Snow, Esq., M. R. C. S., of a daughter. On the 23rd ult., at the residence of her father, Thomas Evans, M.D. Edin., Gloucester, the wife of John Henry Bengough, Esq., of a daughter. On the 26th ult., at Burnham, Essex, the wife of S. Tayleur Gwynn, Esq., M. R. C. S., of a son. On the 27th ult., at St. John's-terrace, Renent's-park, the wife of Dr. Miller, Kyd-street, Calcntta, of a daughter. 528 On the 3rd inst., the wife of Professor Spooner, Royal Vete. rinary College, of a son. On the 4th inst., at Mylne-street, Myddleton-square, the wife of