The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1864.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

BOW-STREET.

PARING ROBBERY FROM A DIVELLING•IIGUSE.—A
decently dressed woman, who gave the name of Catherine
Neal, was charged with stealing a quantity of wearing ap-
parel from the residence of Mr Clarke, 39, Store-street,
B ed ford- square.
From the evidence it appeared that some repairs were
going on at the house of the prosecutor, for which reason
the front door was occasionally left open. A few days ago,
while Mr Clarke was sitting reading in his parlour, he saw
the prisoner coming down stairs with a bundle and a silk
umbrella under her arm. He asked her what she wanted
there, and she replied, " It's all right; I have been to see
madame on the second floor." Witness was dissatisfied
with the statement, and requested the prisoner to wait till
he had made some icquiry, bat she said she was in a great
hurry, and ran out of the house. Witness followed her
and gate her into custody, upon which she affected to be
stupidly intoxicated, and incapable of explaining anything.
The property was identified by Mrs Suerbrook, a lady re-
siding in the house, and was valued at £7.
1 he prisoner appealed to the lady to have mercy upon her
for the sake of her dear children, and tried to get up a scene
in court, but Sergeant Franklin, of the E division had an
unfavourable remembrance of her past career, and
Mr Vaughan committed her fur trial.
A young man, a native of Prussia, named Heddeler, was
placed at the bar charged with being found concealed in a
house in Hanover-street.

The prisoner was unable to speak a word of English, but
through the aid of an interpreter it was discovered that he
had been about three weeks in London, but that ho was
labouring under a delusion that he was being constantly
watched by the police, and he accounted for his being found
in the house by saying that he went in and hid himself to
escape the officer who was passing him.
Mr Vaughan said it was a very unfortunate thing that an
apparently respectable young man in such a condition should
be left to roam about London, He thought if the Prussian
consul was waited on he would send him Lack to his
friends.

A. constable was then despatched with Ileddeler to ascer-
:ain whether he would transmit the prisoner to his friends
in Prussia,

HEALTH OF LONDON.

(From the Registrar-General's Report.)

Sixteen hundred and seven deaths were registered
in London in the week that ended last Saturday.
The average number of deaths for the 30th week of
ten previous years, 1854-63, is, with correction for
increase of population, 1,302. The mortality of last
week was therefore very high, for it exceeded the
estimated amount by about 300 deaths.
The deaths in the four weeks of July successively
were 1,268, 1,300, 1,399, and 1,607. The mean
temperature of the air was in the same periods as
follows---56•5 deg., 60.8 deg., 66'5 deg., and 63.6
deg. In the third week it was 5 deg. above the
average,

The summer heat hes produced the effect which
always attends it in London. The deaths from
diarrhoea were 81, 97, and 145 in the first three
weeks of July, and i❑ the last week they rose to 274,
Of the last number all except 21 occurred to infants.

In the week that corresponded with last week in
1863 the deaths from diarrhoea were 233; in those
of 1857 aid 1859 they were 302 and 382. Up to the
present time the complaint has not been so prevalent
or not so fatal as it was at the same period in two
previous summers.
Besides the cases referred to diaracel, 14 were re
turned as caused by cholera, chiefly cholera infan-
turn. Two adults died of cholera.
In the Kensington-town sub-district 11 deaths
were recorded from diarrhoea ; in the Belgrave sub-
district 8, in the east and west sub districts of
Islington 12 in each ; in St. Peter, Walworth, 7;
in St. Paul's, Deptford, 8; in Marylebone there
were 15 ; in Pancras 19 ; in Shoreditch 14; i❑
Bethnal-green 14 ; in Poplar 9.
There were 79 deaths from measles, and 63 from
scarlatina ; 14 of the former were in Bethnal-green,
11 of the latter in Westminster.
A man, aged 55 years, died i❑ Mary's Hos-
pital, when under the influence of chloroform. A
boy, aged 3 years, diod from sucking hot water
from the spout of a tea kettle. A girl, aged 7
years, died of exhaustion consequent on eating im-
proper fish. _ _

- Among the street accidents that are so frequent
in London, and some of which as terminating fatally
are reported by the registrars almost every week,
it is proper to mention the death of a deaf and
dumb man who was killed by a fire engine. In the
verdict of the coroner's jury it is stated that he was
accidentally run over.

A widow died at the age of 97 years.
Last week the births of 1,011 boys and 940 girls,
in all 1,951 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1854
63 the average number (corrected) was 1,859.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.782:n.
The reading fell to 29.59 in. on Monday, and rose
to 30.03 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of
the air in the week was 63.6 deg,, which is 1.4 deg.
above the average of the same week in 43 years (as
determined by Mr Glaisher); the lowest night tem-
perature was 47.7 deg. on Wednesday; the highest
day temperature was 82.2 deg. on Friday. The range
of temperature in the week was therefore 34.5 deg.
The mean daily range was 25'1 deg. The difference
between the mean dew.point temperature and air
temperature was 10.5 deg. The mean degree of
humidity of the air was 69, complete saturation be-
ing represented by 100. On two days the humidity
was as low as 60. The wind blew from the south-
west. The amount of rain Wa3 0.13 in., all of which
fell on Monday. The mean of the highest tempera-
tures of the water of the Thames was 66.9 deg.;
that of the lowest was 64.9 deg.

The deaths in Vienna, as returned by Dr. Glatter,
were 335 and 314 in the weeks ending the 16th and
23d of July, when the mean temperatures were 67.6
deg. and 64.7 deg., those at Greet wich having been
60.8 deg.-and 66.5 deg.
The births registered in Dublin during the week
ending the 30th of July were 140 (76 boys and 64
girls), and the deaths were 112 (31 males and 61
females) in a population of 251,808 (in 1861) spread
over an area of 3,808 statute acres.

The Weather and the Crops.

During the past week a general complaint has
arisen in the corn-growing districts of Yorkshire
that the wheat and oat crops are extensively invested
with black lice. These appear in myriads in some
places, and are said to prey exclusively upon the
ears of the corn. The crops adjoining the-quickest
hedges are the worst, the middle of the fields being
comparatively free. It is supposed the lice have
been generated owing to the lengthened drought,
and considerable anxiety is felt by most farmers
lest their presence may still more injure the crops,
which are already estimated as being one-fourth
lighter than last year, and are to some extent pre-
maturely ripening from want of rain. Indeed
there is every reason to suppose that the harvest
will be begun next week. There are some farmers
who treat the lice trade lightly, and think the wheat
crop will prove rather light, but very good in
quality. Barley does not appear to be touched by this
insect plague, but is generally spoken of as light, but
promising in quality. Beaus and turnips have made
no progress last week ; indeed, the latter are said
to have gone back, and in some of the East Riding
districts (where no rain worth mention has fallen
this year) the crop has become so burnt up that the
fields are being ploughed out for summer fellows
for wheat sowing early in the autumn. This, of
course, will cause a serious deficiency in the win..
teed supply of meat. The hay crop was never
better secured, but now that the harvest is com-
pleted the yield is said to be only half the average.
Hay is rising rapidly in price, and farmers are
looking with anxiety to the prospects of scarcity,
or at least dearness, of fodder in the coming winter.
Another week of splendid sumtnee has passed,
completing (says the Sussex Advertiser) a month
such as is rarely witnessed in July. With the ex-
ception of a very few slight and partial showers,
little or no rain has fallen throughout the month,
and although during the past week there have been
daily threaten tugs of a change in the weather and
of coming rain, the menaced "fall" has ended in a
mere few small drops, or has passed off in thick
mist. Harvest has begun in various parts of the
district upon a small scale, with wheat, peas,
and barley. The warm suns of the past
ten days have rapidly ripened the grain, and
the only fear is, that the ripening process, owing
to the long continued drought, will proceed at a
rate that will bring the crops to maturity all at once.
The reports from different quarters are somewhat
conflicting, but looking to the accounts as a whole,
there seems a pretty general agreement that on well
farmed and good soils the crops will be very satis-
tory though not particularly heavy. On thin and
light soils the effect of the protracted absence of
moisture is eery injuriously felt, and premature
ripening of the graiii is apprehended. At the same
time we are bound to add that, from the statement
placed at our command, the injury arising from the
want of rain does not appear to have been so great
as might have been anticipated. From the hop
districts the accounts come extremely favourable.
In spite of the absence of rain, the want of which
is universally lamented by every correspondent, the
bines seem,on all good and well-cultivated grounds,
to have made considerable progress, and to be show-
ing plenty of fruit. Some good soaking showers
are, say the planters, all that is wanted at this
moment, and if these be followed by a fine time for
picking, all will go right. Many planters declare
that the picking will be early.

The Railway Accident at Margate.

MARGATE, Aug: 2.

The railway accident which took place at the
South• Eastern station here yesterday afternoon was
of a more serious character than was at first appre-
hended. One passenger, the wife of a stonemason
named Locke, died about an hour and a half after
being extricated from the broken carriages. She
was literally scalped, a great portion of the hair
being found with her headdress among the rubbish.
Both her thighs were fractured, and she had other
bruises and contusions in different parts of her body.
Another passenger, a gentleman residing at Favers-
ham, had two ribs fractured, and sustained other
injuries; and two ladies belonging to Margate were
fearfully crushed, but had no bones broken. Seve-
ral other persons were more or less contused and
shaken.

The accident resulted from the 2.20 p.m. train
from London running into the station at full speed,
and coming violently into collision with a short
train waiting to be despatched to Ramsgate.
The Ramsgate train consisted of on y three car-
riages—one first, one second, and one third clad
--in which a number of passengers had taken
their seats, while others were walking about the
platform. Things were in this state when the
London train was observed approaching at the rate,
it is said, of fully 20 miles an hour. A cry of alarm
was raised on the platform, and several of the pac-
sengers escaped death by jumping out of the
stationary carriages. In a few seconds the advanc-
ing train dashed into the stationary one, jambing
the three carriages against the fixed buffers, at the
end of the station. The first and second class
crrriages were forced up on their ends, and the
third class carriage. which was first struck by tne
force of the advancing engine, was thrown on the
top of the other two, all three being broken and
crushed into a shapeless mass. In one respect it
was fortunate that the Ramsgate train was in the
way, as otherwise the London train, to which very
little damage was done, would have run into the
waiting-rooms and booking office, and the destruc-
tion of life and property would have been immense.
As soon as possible the unfortunate passengers
were extricated from the debris of the carriages,
and prompt measures were taken to clear the line.
In the course of two hours the trains were received
and despatched from the platform as usual.