The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-11 00:00:00

THE CHOLERA.

The number of deaths registered in the week was
1,070; the weekly average tor the summer quarter (which
commences with the present month) of five previous years,
is 1,008 , this rotors, therefore, shows an excess of 62. The
whole mortality is also rather high as compared with the
samisen returned from week to week during the last two
menthe. There is en obvious increase in deaths caused by
symo ic or epidemic diseases, with a decrease, tho.gh not to
ea equal extent, in those produced by affections of the respi-
ratory crests. In the former class, during the last three
weeks, the deaths have been progr. ssively 277, 349, and 393;
iu the latter the numbers in the same weeks were reepeo-
Lively 119, 10.5, and 87. Homing cough numbets 47, or
double the usual amount of fatal cares. Diarrhoea increases
a little; but the deaths from it, which last week were 46,
have not reached the average of the season, which is 76; for
in previous years, chiefly in a mere advanced part of the
quarter, this ooasplaint has carried off many children of
milder age. In the correspoodiog week of 1846 the deaths
from diarrhoea were 70. Two cares are reported of childrea
who died, one of diarthrea, another of hydrocephalus, at
No. 3, Linney-court, Museumstreet, where the back
of the house has no windows, and the emelt from
drains and other nuisances in front is extremely of-
fensive. The average at this season from cholera
is only 8; its recent progress is shown by the deaths in the
last six weeks, which were successively 9, 22, 42, 49, 124,
and in last week 162--aarnely, 94 of males and 58 of females.
Of the 162 victims of this disease, 19 were under 6 years of
age, 30 at 6 and under 15 years dare, 88 between 16 and
60 years, and 13 at 60 and upwards. The ages of two are
not returned. It is worthy of observation, that not more
than 14 deaths from cholera lest week occurred in the west
and northern districts, though the population which they
comprise is ;about a third of the whole. On the south aide
of the Thames there were 93, and in this region the districts
of Rotherhithe, Lambeth, and Bermondsey are fatally dia.
anguished. Other epidemics differ, at present, not much
from the average. A young man died of " want" in Came
den•town, and an infant of " exposure to the night air, and
purpure hemorrhagic*" in the Borough-road sub•diatriot
A man of 48 died of " paralysis from working in a lead rota-
tory, after an illness of 13 weeks." Mr. Butterfield, the Re-
gistrar of Islington But, has recorded what he describes as
" a curious fact," but without stating Iris authority, that
woman employed in this manufacture last much longer than
men.
The mean height of the barometer in the week was
29.799. On Setay, when the temperature was highest,
the thermometer reached 82.1 in the shade, and 103.6 in the
mu. The mesa temperature, which for the week was 62.1,
was 111. her than the average on five days, and on Saturday
exceeded the average by 9.2.

LORD DENMAN AT JUDGE'S CHAMBERS. —Yes-
terday Lord Denman announced that he would attend on
this morning in the Queen's Bench Hall, fierjeant'minn, at
11 o'clock, and every succeeding morning at 10 o'clock, to
transact business during the absence of the judges on their
circuits.
Tnn BISHOP OF BERM% BUTLER CHARGED
WITH STILLING A PORTILILITRAIL—At the Devon county
sessions, last week, George Evans, butler to the Bishop of
Exeter, was indicted on a charge of stealing a portmanteau
containing clothes. The indictment contained eight counter
the fleet four charging the prisoner with stealing, and the
lest four with feloniously resolving. The property was laid
is the mama counts as belonginKrespectively to the Great
Wagons Railway Company, the Bristol and Exeter Railway
Clempaay, the South Devon Railway Company, and Master
reancis De Pre Montagu. The prosecution was instituted
by the Great Western Beltway Company. It appeared that
la May, 1848, Mester Montagu lost his portmanteau on a
Imrimy from Bristol to Newton, and nothing was heard of
W the month of June last, when the police received in-
itermallon which induced them to search the prisoner's
in the bishop's residence at Bishopstowe. They
thew
nd a quantity of articles marked "F. D. Montagu."
ibffllnfi taken posses ion of these things, they charged
the prisoner with steeling the portmanteau, and he replied
that he had brought a portmanteau from London by mis-
take, and he supposed the things were in it. He was then
taken into custody, and it appeared at the trial that in May,
1848, the bishop travelled by railway from London to Tor-
quay, giving his luggage.in charge of th. prisoner. A pro-
bability was therefore need that the portmanteau might by
accident have been placed amongst the things belonging to
the bishop. This being the defence set up by the prisoner,
the Chairmand the Sessions left it to the jury to say whe-
Gum they believed his account, or whether they thought he
had stolen the portmanteau. The jury retuned a verdict of
Not Guilty. In the course of the trial several witnesses tes-
tified to the good character of the prisoner, and the Bishop
of Exeter saW that if be should be acquitted he would take
him into his service again with unimpsir• d confidence.
SUICIDE OF A BRIDE NEAR LEEDi.—A sad event
occurred at Holbeek, near Leeds, on folowLy afternoon, at
the house of Mr. William Wilkisnon Wa'l y, of liolbeck,
near Leeds. Mr. Walley, who is a wooletspler in Leeds,
was married on the 21st ult., at the church of St. Mary the
Virgin, London, to Sarah Ann, the daughter of Mr. Joshua
Haldren, of Horton, the lady being about 27 leans of age.
Up to Monday last nothing but recurred to create
any :dissatisfaction between Mr. Wi'ley and his bride,
and on the day named he was about to receive company.
When Mr. Wally left home in the morning, his lady
appeared in her usual health and spirits, and in the course of
the day retired to her dreesing-room, t or the purpose of
changing her dress and preparing her toilet, previous to the
earttral ot her friends ; but es she chi not return, the servant
groemded to her room, where the unh.ipny lady was found
WS dead. She had committed suicide by dividing the
Ardor vein of the neck. Yesterday an inquest was held
ea*, body, sad wee steamed.

•1 t
t '
,„- •