The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-02 00:00:00

COAL MARKET.-THIS DAY

Carr's Hartley, I LA.; Eden Main, Its. Ud.; Tanfttld
Moor (Bute,), 134. 9d.; Walls End Riddell, I Is.; Walls
End BraddytEs,Lia.:Sd2 Walls End Haswell, I. 'JAI.; Walls
End Ilettun.lss. 9d.; WIdIAAEnAI handgun, to. 141. ; Walla
End Stewart'., I. 91. ; Walls End Tees, lea. thl.—Shipa
at market, VI.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.—TIic
official report says: The deaths registered in the metropo-
litan districts in the first three weeks of March were suc-
cessively 1,217, 1,401, and 1,412; and in the last week they
were 1,118. If the ten weeks of 1811-50 earn:spending to
last week are taken for comparison, it appears that tho
lowest number (*cams' in the corresponding week of 18-12,
and was 8:11; and that the highest ~seared in that of 1804,
and wa: 1,191. The average of the ten weeks WILY 1,073,

which, if corrected according to the msumed rate of increase
in the population, namely, 1•55 per cent. annually, lacomes
1,171. Lade week's return, therefore, exhibits :in excess,
on the estimated amount, of 247. But it is satisfae-
factory to ohasrve that this apparent increase is not duo
entirely to the complaints which have recently swelled
the weekly contributions of mortality. A number of
ease,. on which coroners inquests had hien held, have been
allowed to accumulate for some weeks, and now, at the end
of the quarter, appear for the first time in the regist,c-
hnoks. It will be seen, on inspecting the table, that the
clam of casualties on which the carener'a function is chiefly
exercised—namely, hanging and drowning, fatal burns,
fractures, somas, and peison—comprises 129 moss, though
in the previous week the number was only 2.3, and the
average falls short by at least two-thirds of the number now
jreturned. Intemperance is recorded as the cause of death
, in four eases, besides three in which fatal injury was re-
ecivell in a state of intoxication ; 4 pi.rsons died of
privation, 7 children from want of breast milk, 3 Kr-
ems front told (2 of these being cases of exposure
in travelling), 7 from poison, 26 limo burns and
maids, 23 from hanging and suffocation, 14 front
dreaming, 12 from fractures, and 17 from wounds and other
injury. Sixty-six eases cases also fell under the coroner's
observation in which persons are reported as having been
s' found dead," or having died "froth the visitation of
God," the fatal cause not being described in more sufficient
terms, probably because it could not be ascertained. The
class of distueve effecting the respiratory organs, including
hirvngit is, bronchitis, pleurisy, pneumonia, asthma, wad
others less accurately defined, numbers this week 272,
whilst the corrected average does not valved 195. Them
is, however, a marked decline on the previous week, when
the deaths in this class were 350. Beenchitie has fallen
from 136 in the former week to 199 in the let; pneumonia
from 126 to 117. !looping-cough has declined from $1 to
G 3; influenra from 63 to 37. Plithisie (or consump-
tion) which was fatal in the pr., inns week to 164,
numbered last week only 129, which is rather less
than the average amount. Small-pox continues to grow
less fatal, and only twelve easel were registered lust week
front this disease. With the exception of hopping-cough,
measles now appears most prevalent amongst the complaints
peculiar to children, though it has not risen to any consi-
derable amount. The births of 1117 boys and 833 girls, in
all 1,780 children, were registered in the week. The aver-
age of six corresponding weeks in the years 184.5-30 was
1,510. At the Royal Obsersatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer was 29.310 in. The mean tempera-
ture was 461 degrees, which is about 3 degrees above the
average of the same week in ten years. The daily mean
rose towards dieted of the week. The wind blew generally
from the south-west.
SUICIDE OF A CAPTAIN IN THE ROYAL NAVY.—
Yesterday Mr. 11. M. Wakley held an inquest at the mei-
&nee of br. Semple, 8, Torrington-square, on Captain Rd-
ward Harris, Butterfield, R.N., aged 41. Jane Bradley, the
housemaid, deposed, the deceased was her truistic', brother-
in-law, and that he had resided in her master's house six
months. Last Saturday she last saw deceased alive as he
retired to his bedroom. Instead of eating Iris 'nipper as
usual in the parlour, he had it in his bedroom. For the last
month he was very melancholy, but why she could not say,
as he was on the best possible terms with all his family. Ilse
never eat down without falling asleep. At tea on Saturday
he complained of pain in his head, and therefore went to
bed earlier than usual. At half-past eight on Sunday morn-
ing she knocked at his door to call him, without getting an
answer, when her suspicions were aroused, and she culled
her wister (the conk), with whom she entered his bedroom,
when they found him quite dead in bed, with his throat cut.
She immediately informed her master of the dreadful
occurrence, and he sent fur Drs. Cooper and
• Browne. Deceased never threatened to destroy himself.
Dr. Hobert Hunter Semple, brother-in-law of deceased,
said that on Saturday night witness imagined that he went
to dress himself to accompany him and his wife for an hour's
recreation oat of doors; but instead of doing so deceased
fell asleep in his chair, and when awoke complained of ill-
ness, and refused to go out. lie sufficed from liver disease
and congestion of the brain, and had been such a martyr
to illness for the last two years that nothing could sooth
him. Some years ago, while capturing u prize, he sus-
tained a severe injury of the head by the boom of the prime
falling on him. In witness's opinion the disease of his
brain and liver wan caused by lung residence on the coast
of Africa. Although deceased was eccentric, he was not so
insane as to require being watched. He would fall sud-
denly asleep, and as suddenly start up, as if frightened,
and would take a dislike to persons whom before he I°,o,
Some further evidence seas given ; after which the j pa-
turued a verdict of" Temporary insanity."

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