The Express.
London, England, 1852-09-01 00:00:00

ALLEGED MURDER IN SMITHFIELD.

Last evening Mr. Payne held a lengthened inquest
st St. Bartholomew's Hospital on the hndy of Miry Ann
Charnbrilayne, aged 3S years, whose death war aimed to
have been cued by violence inflected on her iu Smithfield
on the morning of Thursday week.

John Ryan deposed that about .1 o'clock on the morotrig
of the 20th ult. he was walking through Long-lane, smith-
field, when he Raw deceased lying in the road on her hack,
and groaning very loudly. Two policemen tame up, and
she was removed on a stretcher to the station.howw, and
fawn thence to the hospital.

Thon.as Smith stated that deceased lived with him at
Foz•eourt, Turnmill•etreet. On the night of the 19th ult.
they went home together and had supper. Witness went
to bed at 12 o'clock, and left deceased eating her supper.
Ho awoke at 3 o'clock the following morning, when she
had gone. Soon afterwards a young woman, whom he did
not know, came to him and said deceased was in the sta-
tion.house, and that she had been knocked down by two
men.

William Rowland, 217, City police, was on duty let
Lore lane on the morning in question. lle heard the my
of " Police," and, on going to the spot, found deceased
lying in the road. She told witness that she had been
knocked down by two men, and complained of a pain in her
back; hot she did not know who the men acre. There
was another woman on the spot, but he did Lot kwisr where
to find her. . _

James Eames, 2.58, City police, deposed that, on the
morning of the 20th ult., lac saw deceased with two men in
Smithfield-bars. He asked the men it they knew her, as
she was the worse for hcluor, and they un,wered in the
negaoise, and said they dad not want to. Da ceased told
witness she was going towards West-street, hut, on going
in that direction, she turned back again and went towards
Long•lane. Witness saw the same two men standing in the
pens near Long lane, and advised them not to go up that
thoroughfare, as the woman had gone in that direction.
One of the men said, " She had better not collar me again,
or else I'll give her something." Shortly after ho met
Constable Rowland, and whilst talking to him he heard •
cry of " Police! stop thief!" which, on hastening to the
spot, he found proceeded from a c.ibman, who, on witness's
arrival, mounted hie vehicle and drove off at a rapid pace.
He lifted up deceased, whom he found It ing in the road,
but she could not stand, and was at once removed on s
stretcher. She had been drinking, but was not incapable.
Deceased told witness that the two men who had knocked
her down ran up Lung-lane, towards Barbican. The two
men might have passed round through the pens towards the
woman without being seen by witness. He could identify
one of the two men, as a gas lamp shone full in his face.
There were no marks of violence to be seen on the woman.

John Langdon, surgeon, said that when deceased wu
brought into the hospital he found she had sustained a
severe injury to the spine, and had several broken ribs. Sho
died on Sunday afternoon, hut as ho bad made no post-
mortem examination, he could not speak positively as to
the cause.

Inspector Teague (City Pollee) deposed that when de-
ceased was brought to the station-house she told him that
she had been knocked down by two men.
The Coroner said that so this was all the evidence which
could at present be brought forward, he thought it neces,ary
to adjourn the inquiry, although there was very little doubt
on has mind that the two men first seen by police-constable
Eames with deceased, inflicted the injury on the unfortu-
nate female. It was requisite, however, to produce the
cabman and the woman seen on the spot on the arrival of
the police, and also to apprehend the supposed offenders.
The investigation was accordingly adjourned.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.
The official report says : The mortality has de-
clined in London, and 980 deaths hare been registered is
the fourth week of August. This number is less by 104
than the number registered in the previous week, and less
by 144 than the numbers registered in the first week of
August. Of the 980 persons who died 508 were males, 472
females; 558 were children under the age of 15,277 were
adults of middle age, and 144 were people who had attained
the age of 60 and upwards. 701 of the deaths occurred in
the districts north, 279 in the districts south of the Thames.
120 of the deaths took place in public institutions, namely,
80 in workhouses, 28 in hospitals, 4 in lunatic asylums, 4
in military and naval asylums, 2 in the Dreadnought, and
2in the Westminster House of Correction. No death was
registered in any other prison.
Scarlatina is still prevalent ; it has destroyed the lives of
61 children. Fever was fatal to 32 adults and 16 children.
Disrrhma was fatal to 107 children, 8 persons in the middle
of life, and 10 of the age of 60 and upwards It is gratifying
to observe the sudden decline of the deaths from diarrhas
from 208 to 12.1; 15 deaths from cholera are registered, in-
cluding II children and 4 adults. Ten males and 5 females
died of the disease, 12 on the north and 3 on the south
side of the Thames. The death of the labourer's wile, aged
34 years, in Itotherhithe, after 15 hours' illness, is the most
remarkable of the cases.

to the interval between the two great epidemics of Asiatic
cholera in the years 1832 and 1819 on the continent a par-
tial outbreak occurred, which did not reach England, and
we may hope that on the present occasion this country may
enjoy the like immunity. At the same time all the mea-
sures contemplated for purifying the earth, air, and water
of London, and other cities, should be accelerated.
Mr. Edward Joseph, registrar of the rectory sub-dis-
trict of Marylebone, adds the following note to his return
of the week ending August 28th " Since the let of Au•
gust 1 have registered the deaths of 19 children under one
year old, the causes of which have been variously termed
convulsions, dysentery, diarrhees, marasmus, &c. Most of
these children were what is termed brought up by hand:"
some of them were illegitimate. The mothers obtain situa-
tions as wet nurses,and their owe offspring are left without
any one to take proper charge of them. The toed given is
often improper, and it is irregularly administered. Usually
in about four or five months death occurs literally and
truly for the want of nature's own nutriment—breast-
milk."
The registrar of Lewisham village, Mr. James Beldam,
remarks that no death has occurred in his district since Au-
gust 8.
Last week the births of 743 boys and 746 girls, in all
1,199 children, were registered in London. The average
number in cram corresponding weeks of the years 181.5-51
was 1,331.
The barometer stood on an average at 29.933 incites, and
on some days was above 30 inches. The mean height of
the thermometer in the shade was 61.2 degrees, or 4 degrees
above the average. The dew-point was 8 deg. lower. The
height of the thermometer was once 104 deg. in the sun,
46 deg. in the shade on the grass. The mean temperature
of the polluted waters of the Thames was 67,', deg. acid
64.4 deg. The wind blew N.N.E. and S.W. at the average
rate of 42 miles daily. One-tenth of an inch of rain fell
on one day ; no electricity was shown during the week.

GENER tf. STEAM NAVIGATIoN CoMrANT.—Tho
fifty•fifth half yearly meeting of the shareholders in this
company was held yesterday, at their office:, 71, Lombard-
street, John Wilken, Esq., in the chair. The report of the
directors, and a statement of the accounts for the half-year
ending the 30th June last, were read to the meeting and
unanimously adopted by the proprietors. The customary
dividend was then declared, and the cordial thanks of the
proprietors voted to the chairman and directors for their
zealous services in the management of the company's affairs,
afta which the meeting separated.