The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-30 00:00:00

ERALIH OP LONDON.

The relies of births and deaths in London issued
by the Reetstrar-Getwral states that the deaths tea Loudon
continued to teasers in the week that ended het flettirdey.
Tee numbers registered to the two previous weeks were sac-
cessively 1,061 end 1,233; het week the number was 1.307.
In the ten yeses 1849.68 the average number of deaths wee
1,210; but se the deaths contained in the pretest return
occurred in a population which has =crewed, they abotdd be
sompered with the amend railed is properties to the =-
creme namely, with 1,831. The comparisos shows that the
death: to het week were below the calculated number, but
that the difference is notuf important amount.
The birthsof teat week exceeded 'the deaths In the sews
Stied by 478.
The diseases which perdominate ae the year draws to •
ditnrosittinne to increase. The thighs refitted to affections
of Vs wpm of resplistiou rase In the bet throe Weeks as
Anew :-179, 233, 314. These emud by pkibleix on can-
sanspeica ere net included in them ntunistes; they were 182,
167, end 166. bronchitis wee fetal in the same periods ti
the following numbers of oases 102, 138, end 198;
pneumonia 00, 64, and 73 ; hoophigteough 14, 20, 30. Of
the 198 dodo been bronthids lest week, 21 wowed to in-
timate ; 19 occurred at one year of age sad unidiw ten ; 10 in
the period of life 20-40 years ; 46 in the peeled 40-60 years ;
86 at the age 60-80; and 17 at 80 years and upwards.
Smallpox wee feel lest week In 30 wee, 11 of which oe.
ceared in to Sesallpor Hospital. Although that institution
L situated in the north &w rites, dullest, In which 10 deaths
from this &erase were militated, returned more than any
other group of &striate. Eighty-fov deaths wan aearibsd
se ilearlanaa, 13 to diphtheria. The imam appears to pro.
•will bunk in the worth prate al Landis; L wee fetal In 6
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Niue infests died by named= ; 2 by murder or man.
Xlmuittter ; a cbild suffering from inflammation of dee lump
was irs•ted with a no:030o pawn by en unqualified weird-
ness.. ; a man died from destitution; another from exposers
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Of hthiclaytes 2 died in the week, of bricklayers' wives
sae, d beiekloyers' chikkre 4; of =paters 13 died ththe
week; of iterpastere wives 6, of earpentere' &Ude= 18; of
menu one died, of mamas' children 4; of painters 8 died,
al Fithian' wives 2, of painters' children 12; of plasterers 2
disk el piestereth wives one, of plasterers' children 2.
lasi week the births of 904 boys end 881 gbh', is all 1,786
wan registered In London. In the tra correspodd-
of tee years 1849.68 the average number *ea
At the loyal Observatory, Greenwich, the awe kebab; of
the bummer is the week wee 22.787 in. The readtap yell
from Bb.ll tn. en Mersilay to 2941 in. on Scskaiday, being
reepesuraly the Melee eed lowest is the week. The mean
keiperstem of the sir is the week wee 41.1 deg., which is
I 8•3 deg. below the average of the name week th 43 yeere.(es
determieed by Mr. Glet.aer). The tbermanetar in the shade
tell take *wen point 25 8 Mg. on Timothy, end Erse Wits
highest 63 deg. on Wed:wader on [Wards,. The range a
temperature to the week wee therefore 24•2 deg. The mesa
daily range wee 16.8 deg. The diMirenteb•tvlilk the 'imma
eiter-point temperature and air temperature wee only 11 deg.
The mean degree of humiditiof the Mr wee so high ea 416 ;
on Tuesday sad Werlosieduthaltualidity reached the point
100, which Is equivelent to complete esturation. Dame fog
okepared:tke sky an the . toorniege of those days. when the
temperature of the water of the Thames was 48 deg., end
that el the dr, which wee elm, fell below the freezing point
et wow. OlDA_lleaday the thermometer on the peas dell
to 18.2 deg. 'The wind blew almost always fro* a south-
sisterly point. Rath dell to the amount of 0.08 in. ,

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OF 2H ACIIIDARJUL

On Monday we announced to our readers the
fact of an &woolen@ 'Riveter having hems committed dt a
small and pawed Alike known as North Nibley, in Woe-
e•aritkoe. TM Utile village above named wee much -
sited throughout the day, and many strangers tat in
ter maleacittuly meat lewd their way to the plea, atom
sieworderag eftereribe. weemed gloomy. Sheppard, it- ap-
ple% elkswaheadmi Mies Smithsm, proceed, d to a towhees@
Ile maglibeerheed and attempted hia own dearnetioe ;
hems la eareinwelm • of the buret of the gun hang. nether
, lee& he erns obliged to lean over on one side to get at the
teloprlbe melt of which was that hie left cheek and eye
wen Mown away, but strange to say he lived op totem
efaisek • Monday. Neely • that morning an inquest was
W William Oaleford, Esq., county Coronas, at the
whim Meet, oa the body of Man anithent, aid evidence to
the blowing slam wee adduced :
ham Smithey weaver, said—l live at North Nibley, in
*sweaty of Gionoseter. The demised, my daughter, was
111 yam of age. On Saturday evening last she wee enuiding
in my kasha, ol.we toe round table near the window,
serideg. Thin was a lighted candle on the table in front of
'be" mad between her and the window. I was at work at
:alarm fa eke shop adjoining the kitchen, the door of which
erns ern. . I am her take the oandle off the table and g•
te the window, where there was a white curtain drawn the
whole knob of the window. There Ye window in the shop,
whisk had so curtain to it, and any person looking through
the window meld have seen the deceased standing at the
table. I saw my daughter move snide in the farthest comer
on the left-Mad tads, mid beard her say, " Thou beast there,
bee'entr 1 haveceneht thee." I heard her mother say," Is that
Sheppard!" and she said, " Aye' 'de." I said, "It doesn't
I seem to matter what weather It is, rain or wind, or what
not, he's about." She said, "Not • bit;" sod letting the
curtain fall back again, returned to her work and put the
candle on the table. She was standing in rather a leaking
position ever the table, sewing, with her face towards the
kitchen window. I wan baud the report of a gun outside
j sod close to the hitches window, about three or four minutes
after abe had renamed flaw the window. She soreamed out,
sad I get up isumastly from my loan sad went towards her.
Her mother came aapp an; and she was in the act of falling
whoa I sppeosaked. She sewer spoke. I observed blood
owning from her mouth,. sad I then wt for my sons who
was at Mr. Pareett's, low above. There were no other per-
sons in the house but my wife, grandson, the demand. end
myself. It wee very dark, end raining • bide. I dkl not
look to sem who wee amide the window sad had d'
the gun. When I got beck to the house I found thede-
ouaed lying down in the kitchen. She gasped ones, and
died within ten missies from the time I Maid the gun Ire&
1 examined the window, and !amid a small pane broken on
the left side.
Mrs. Smithson, the mother of the demand, was neat
celled, sad after corroborating much of the testimony given
by her husband, she said—hly daughter had kept company
for four years previously to but Christine' with Joh* Shep-
pard. Ste bad wished to give up his company Wog before.
but he would never take no for an answer. I have myself,
them oat of number, told him she should not think anything
of him, for she should have no prospect but the Union before
her, and elm would sever give up her home tur such a cha-
racter as him. Lem Christmas he came to my house end in-
quired for bee. She had gone from home to an uncles,
to avoid hum. I told him she was not at home,
and be said he would see her if he went to for her.
I do not remember that I Dave spoken to him
but one @Moe Let Friday. The time I allude to
was bat Whitmore** when be came about the middle
of the day, deemed and I being then at home. lie
cane to the Mohan, wham she was standing, end said he
wanted to know her mind. The vibes* hate detailed a con-
versation, in which the deceased said she would have
=thin more whatever to do with him, end described Dios as
a worthless piece of hwasaity. Witnese produced several
letters, whims ware proved to be in Sheppard's handwriting,
and which were couched in threatening tonne
Denial Ford, • ooaeaeble, said—From information I re-
ceived from the father MI the deceased I went in search of
John Sheppard, but I could not find any trace of him during
the whole of the night. A little before eight o'clock an Sun-
day morning I went to Slitde's orchard, near Zip-
porah Teatimes, sad there saw Sheppard Wing
on his back, about 16 yards from a shed, his head inclining
dews hill. The lalt cheek of bie fare appeared to
havebern blown clam away. He woe bleeding a little, and
there was a quantity of congealed blood around the wound.
Hie clothes ware mode saturated with blood. His hat wee
lying about ten yards from him and wee not 'Owed. I
spoke to him, but he made no retily, as he did not appear to
tet sensible. There was a quantity of straw to the Mead and
a pool of blood Wit, and there was mach blood in different
places in the abed and open the door-posts. Outside them
were matte on the door of a pereon's ken having been
waled it. Directly underneath the straw, I found the single
barrel gun produced, smeared with blood, end indicating that
It bad been recently discharged. I removed Sheppard upon
• hurdle to the White Hart Inn and searched Lim. In the
epocket I found a powder-flask containing powder.
ions 4 al the waistcoat pocket. there were tome coppers
and two plems of gun wadding. In his Musses
pocket was a canvas beg containing some shot of the same
site end sort as that found under the deceased end takes
from her. He was kept warm and bad
fordmical seeistasioe;
he because sensible, &Alpe several times toast and waters
He made so aliorion whatever to Ann &Mutant.
The coroner then gemmed up the evidence, and
The fury without any hesitation found a erdict of " Wil-
ful mardee" against John Sheppard.
It was then made knows that Sheppard bad died during
the holding of the inquest on
The y
of Mim Smitham, as
appears by Ford's evidence. The jury were moordingly
being a the mooed ore,
and the evidence of P. C. Find
being reed over, end Kr. Hill, surgeon, att dimming the cause
of Amth to the effete of a gun-shot wound inflamed by
Sheppard himself, a verdict of filo de so wee returned.

TEE FINSBURY MuRDER.—At the Worship-
Dims Polies.ooort yosterday, after our report left, a solicitor,
who attondid on basalt of pasotoe's friends, abstained from
;intim; any question* at pretest. The lolsonrr, who dented
the 'muslin, TM remaedsd to Pita' the to of the
*Flag.

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