The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-10 00:00:00

THE MUBDERER BARTHELEMY.

The following sketch of the life of Emanuel Barthe-
lemy will be found very interesting :
Emanuel Barthelemy is the son of poor parents, his
father, a very honest, obliging, worthy man, being at
this moment a concierge, or house porter, in Paris. In
early youth, Barthelemy, who was endowed with a very
reraarkable mechanical genius, soon made himself con-
spicuous in the French capital by the turbulence and
levity of his character. On one occasion of creating
political disturbancein Paris, and on his liberation from
prison he deliberately shot, in the open streets, a gen-
darme, who he asserted had denounced him to the autho-
rities, and caused his incarceration. For this crime he
was tried and convicted, and finally sent to the Bagnes
at Brest or Toulon, for a long period, or for life. In
these receptacles of crime the evil tendencies of his na-
ture were of course aggravated by contact with the worst
criminals in France ; and that his moral perversion was
completed there, unhappily, his subsequent career in
France and England fully proves.
Upon the downfall of Louis Philippe, however, an op-
portunity presented itself for his liberation, which was
availed of by his friends, and which was effected in this
manner .—Within a week after the revolution had taken
place, an application was made to the distinguished
member of the Provisional Government who then filled
the functions of Minister of the Interior ; and it having
been represented to this gentleman that Barthelemy
was suffering for a political offence, he at once signed
an order for his release. It is a curious illustration of
the old adage, " Serve a bad man and he will
never forgive you," that Barthelemy has ever since
been the mortal enemy of his benefactor ; and that he
has repeatedly declared his determination to kill him on
the first opportunity ; a determination which no doubt
he would have carried into effect had he not been cut
short in the career of crime.

The great insurrection of.) une, 1848, found Barthelemy
engaged in its ranks ; and the credit of undoubted bravery
upon that occasion is not to be denied to him.

After this sanguinary episode he came to England,
where he led a very equivocal life for a considerable
period. He then went to Switzerland, and returned to
London in the summer of 1853, with the avowed inten-
tion of killing Frederick Cournet in a duel. This duel,
it was believed at the time, was promoted by the French
police, as a female agent of that body had lived with
Barthelemy for some months previously as his mistress ;
L.t all events, it was a " God-send" to them to get Cour.
net out of the way, he being a man of immense energy
and strength, and an honest, unswerving republican
officer of the French navy. That there was "foul play'
in the case is pretty clear, and that the rag did not find
its way into Cournet's pistol by accident before the
charge few men will doubt. For this murder— for mur-
der it morally was—Barthelemy was sentenced, toge-
ther with some of the seconds on both sides, to a short
period of imprisonment.
Upon his liberation he resumed his old habits of life ;
that is to say, he lived, none seemed to know how, but
he was always dressed in the first style of the fashion ;
always dwelt in apartments for which not less than a
guinea a week was paid ; had constantly on hand two
or more sets of such apartments in different quarters of
the town ; uniformly consorted with loose women and
disreputable men ; and was never without plenty of
money. The French Republican exiles, who as a body
are most respectable gentlemen, avoided him as a police
agent and recent circumstances referred to in the news-
papers' such as an empty grave discovered in the house
where he resided, together with other things not need-
ful to mention on this occasion, would point to his car-
rying on at the same time another trade equally ob-
noxious and still more immoral. The murder of Mr.
Moore and poor Collard completes the catalogue of his
ascertained crimes.

Why Collaid was murdered by Barthelemy is obvious
—not so, however, the murder of Moore. It is perhaps one
of those things that will remain for ever in obscurity ; but
so far as the facts go, every circumstance in connection
with it points to predetermination, while the key of the
safe found on the floor tells of meditated robbery as well.
The probability is, that having worked for Mr. Moore he
was well aware that Moore made his weekly payments
on a Saturday morning ; and the wages of Moore's men
were known by him, therefore to be, in the safe in the
back parlour on the Friday night, the night of the mur-
der. The supposition explains the ticket for Hamburg
—the Hamburg boat sails on the Saturday morning—
the heavy bludgeon, the poignard, and the loaded pistols.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE

WEEK.

(Front flee Registrar-General's Return.)
In the first week of the year the deaths of 1,404 per-
sons, namely 671 males, and 733 females, were registered
in the metropolis. In the ten corresponding weeks of
the years 1845.54 the average number of deaths was
1,313. With a correction for increase of population,
necessary for the purpose of comparison, this average
becomes 1,444, a result which differs to no great extent
from the number of deaths as returned last week.
Of the 1,404 deaths, 692 occurred under 20 years of
age, 193 at 20 years and under 40, 213 at 40 and under
60, 246 at 60 years and under 80, and 60 were deaths of
octogenarians. Of 335 which were caused by zymotic
diseases, 265 occurred in the first vicenniad ; of 36 re-
ferred to small-pox, 6 were those of persons who had at-
tained their twentieth year. Of 140 cases in which
phthisis (consumption) was fatal, 19 occurred under 20
years, 76 in the period 20-40, 37 in the period 40.60, and
the remaining 8 under 80 years of age.
The return of this week contains two new tables.
The first table, page 3, exhibits for the first time the
occupations of the males who died in London at the four
vicennial periods 20.40, 40-60, 60.80, and 80 and up-
wards, in juxtaposition with the numbers of the living
enumerated at the last census (1851.) The investiga-
tions, of which this is an example, will assist us in
determining the influence of occupation on life and
longevity.
The second table, page 7, shows the distribution of
small-pox, measles, scarlatina, hooping-cough, diarrhoea,
and typhus over the several sub-districts of London ;
thus, it will be observed that small-pox has been chiefly
fatal in the north, east, and south districts, while no
death from small-pox occurred in the west districts.
Measles prevail chiefly in Bethnal-green and St. George-
in-the-East. Scarlatina is widely diffused, and proved
fatal in 85 instances. Ilooping-cough was fatal in 64
cases. The west, north, and south districts suffered
from diarrhoea ; the east and south districts from
typhus.

Last week the births of 908 boys and 879 girls, in all
1,787 children, were registered in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the years 1845.54 the average
number was 1,546.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 30.052 in. ; the
mean daily reading was above 30 in. on five days of the
week ; by the end of the week the reading increased to
30.30 in. The mean temperature of the week was 45.5
deg., which is 9.5 deg. above the average of the same
week in 38 years. On Monday the excess of mean tem-
perature above the average was 12.2 deg. ; on Wednes-
day, 10.6 deg. ; on Saturday, it was so great as 13.0
deg. The highest temperature occurred on Tuesday,
and was 52.4 deg. The lowest occurred on Sunday,
and was 36 5 deg. The mean dew-point temperature
was 40.7 deg. ; and the difference between it and the
mean temperatare of the air was 4.8 deg. The wind
blew principally from the west and south-west. The
rain-fall was 0.20 in.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. .
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JAN, 6.
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 5O
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration ........, 319
biseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
83
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bores, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations 1
Premature Birth and Debility 3B
Atrophy 53
Old Age
53
Sudden
4
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 23
Causes not specified

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
Enumerated. sponding week in the
1851. of 1853. Week.
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals
Males 671
Females 733