The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-15 00:00:00

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
TUE WEEK ENDOG SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1852.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*221
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 45
Tubercular Diseases ... 207
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... 97
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 33
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ••• ... 235
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... e••• •••• ••• 48
Diseases of the Kidneys, &o. •• • ...
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, Esc.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &o.
Malformations...
Premature Birth
Atrophy
Old Age •.•
Sudden ... ••• •••
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance
Causes not specified ...

... 7
••• 3
... 3
••• 6
... 30
... 24
... 52

' •••

... 16
~, 4

DRATHO FROM ALL CAUSES ...
Population Deaths in corre-
Enumerated, sponding week
1851. of 1851.
West Districts... 376,427 . . 157 .
North Districts.. 490,396 .. 194
Central Districts 393,256 ... 176
East Districts ... 485,522 ... 223
South Districts .. 616,635 ... 292

1,051
Deaths
In the
Week.
175
205
206
200
365

Totals..., 0,362,236 ... 1,042 ... 1,051

. .
Males ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 537
... 514
Females ... ••• ••• •••

_
BIRTHS a THE WEEK.
Males ••• ••• ••• •• • ••• 737
Females ... ... ... ••i ••• 723

Total ... ... ... ... ...1,460
*ln this number nre included 35 by Scarlatina, 44
by Typhus Fever, and 14 by Diarrhoea.

BRISTOL DISTRICT COURT OF BANK.
RUPTCY, April 14.
(Before Mr. Sergeant STEPHENS.)
BE PHILIP JONES, BANKER, LLANGATTOCK.
The bankrupt came up on his adjourned last exa.
mination. The balance-showed as follows :

DR. FROM OCTOBER 19, 1848, TO NOVEMBER 6, 1851.
To capital, October 10th, 1848 £33.027 17 10
To creditors holding security 139,422 15 0
To ditto unsecured 28,446 14 1
To liabilities
To rents, royalties, dividends, &c 24,164 7 2

CA. £264,980 14 41
By Debtors:—Good £615 11 Of £4104 9 8
Doubtful 3,488 18 0 ,
By the property in security to creditors 123,635 0 0
By ditto not in security 16,309 0 0
By liabilities per contra 39,919 0 3
By losses
By interest, discounts, &c 26,557 6 11
By law charges
By private expenses
66 19 0
By difference

£264,980 14
.4

The examination was again adjourned, as the bank-
rupt was more than ordinarily tender as to taking the
oath of declaration, and the balance-sheet accordingly
was not completed in the form for passing the court.
After some arguments, the examination was adjourned
to the sth of May.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, April 14.

Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge, at the

Guildhall, Westminster.)

The Court sat to-day to take bail oases.

Joseph Gale and John Weygood were indicted for
having assaulted Henry Spicer, a broker, in the exe-
cution of his duty.
Mr. Trevethan Spicer appeared for the prosecution ;
Mr. Sleigh for the defendants.
It appeared from the statement of the Learned
Counsel, in opening the case, that the defendant Gale
had for the last three years occupied a house in
Newland•street, Pimlico, but during the whole of
that period he had not in any way concerned himself
about the payment of rent, and in addition to his
neglect in that respect he was a troublesome tenant,
and suffered the house to fall into a dilapidated con-
dition. The landlord naturally became anxious to
get rid of him, and, by way of inducing him to quit
the house, actually offered to forego all claim for the
rent in arrear, and to present him with 101., bat Mr.
Gale was not inclined to give up possession of a tene-
ment in which he had resided on terms so very advan-
tageous to himself on those conditions, and demanded
501. as a compensation for giving up his
rent-free occupation. Easy and indulgent as
the landlord had been, his good nature was
proof against so extravagant a proposition, and
he determined at length to got rid of him;
and the prosecutor of this indictment, being a broker
and appraiser, was employed to distrain fur the rent
due, and on the 28th of February he made an entry on
the premises, under a warrant duly signed by the
landlord; but Mr. Gale, not liking such an intrusion
on his rights, very unceremoniously put him into the
street. The prosecutor vigilantly watched for a better
opportunity to levy, and on the 2d of March, think-
ing one presented itself, he again got into the house,
but he found Mr. Gale as resolutely determined as
ever to resist him in effecting the distraint. He took
up an axe and aimed a blow at the prosecutor's head
with it, but fortunately it missed him, though he did
receive a blow on the face, which was the assault
complained of in this indictment. Ttie other de-
fendant was concerned in the transaction.

In the course of the examination of the witnesses
allusion was made to the warrant, when
Mr. SLEIGH required the production of that docu-
ment to show that the prosecutor had a legal autho-
rity to enter the house.

It was stated that the warrant was in the possession
of the person by whom the prosecutor was employed
and he was not in attendance.
The ASSISTANT JUDGE said the absence of t e
warrant was fatal to the case, and under the direc-
tion of the Court, the jury would acquit the de-
fendants.

The jury then returned a verdict of Not Guilty

John-Henry Croyden, a waiter in the refreshment-
rooms of the House of Commons, was indicted for an
assault on Mary Neale.
Mr. Birnie prosecuted ; Mr. Ballantine appeared
for the defendant.

The prosecutrix was an elderly widow, living in
Thom's-court, Duke-street, Grosvenor-square, and
it appeared she was acquainted with the defendant's
wife, from the fact of her having kept company with
a son of her's before her marriage to the defendant.
They were on visiting terms, although the defendant
was very averse to the acquaintance being continued
intimately, and on the day mentioned, the Bth inst.,
she and her daughter accompanied Mrs. Croyden to
Ebury-street, Pimlico, where she resides, Mrs. Croy-
den having that afternoon called, and taken tea with
her. According to the evidence of the prosecutrix,
as she left the defendant's house, be followed her out,
and on getting to the corner of the street gave her a
blow on the left eye, and another on the lower part
of that side of her face, the result of which was that
she fell and broke one of her arms on the kerbstone.
The other was injured, and she had a dreadful black
eye. She could assign no reason for the defendant's
conduct except that she had called his wife " Mary
Ann" instead of Mrs. Croyden.
Mr. BALLANTINF, in his cross-examination of the
prosecutrix, endeavoured to show that she was ad-
dicted to gin drinking, and that she was in the habit
of inducing Mrs. Croyden to indulge in the same pro-
pensity. She did not admit the whole of this, but
said she drank gin sometimes, and on the day in ques-
tion they had a shilling's worth of gin and sixpenny-
worth of brandy and water, but that was because
Mrs. Croyden was going to be churched at St. Bar-
nabas, Pimlico, having been recently confined. She
admitted that she had once been charged with break-
ing a woman's jaw, but that was compromised. She
positively denied having " clawed" the defendant be-
fore he struck her.

In addressing the jury, the Learned Counsel said
the defence was that the injuries the prosecutrix had
sustained were the result of accident, brought about
by her own intemperance and violent conduct. The
defendant had merely pushed her, when she fell, and
unfortunately received the injuries described. The
defendant objected to a person who was an habitual
gin drinker, and who induced his wife to join her in
the gratification of that propensity, being in his house
at all, and on this occasion he had requested her to
leave, when she used the most scandalous language,
and scratched his face ; and when in the street be
might have given her a push, but that was all. She
had no friendly feeling towards him, because he had
married the woman she had wished to be the wife of
her own son.
Witnesses were examined to prove the facts stated
by the Learned Counsel.
The ASSISTANT JUDGE, ill summing up, told the
Jury, that, even admitting the defendant's case, he had
no justification for even pushing the prosecutrix,
which was a common assault, and the jury would
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say
whether
they considered he had or had not committed
a commonl 3u r
the defendant Guilty.
The A
IsiaesisTANT JUDGE ordered him to enter into
Tecon
mengt iniz
a fortnight, i
s,. with one surety, to come up for judg-
nlght, and suggested that n the mean-
-1 time an arrangement parties. should be come to between the
The Court the •
a adjourned.

held an inquest at the MaTryuleebsoditileY wOrrrk.hoWuseakoineYtehe,Mb.oPdy"
of a fine, newly-born roc,
morning last tound in an inclosure of the Regent's Park,
near Portland-town, by a lad named Phelps, wrapped in a
piece of linen, a black-apron, and part of a blue cloth shawl.
Mr. Gilham, the workhouse s child, which was on Sunday
urgeoa, said that on examining
the deceased child he had
sou or persona Unlin9Wab
A verdict was returned of wniolfunionmbut
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