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

TiiE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 3, 1861

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

BOW-STREET.

111.11ING ROBBERY FROM A DWELLING. HOUSE.--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,
Bedford-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 rills
umbrella under her arm. Ile asked her what sha wanted
there, and she replied, " It's all right ; I have been to see
madame en the second floor." Witness was dissatisfied
with the statement, and requested the prisoner to wait till
he had made some inquiry, but she said she was in a great
hurry, and ran out of the house. Witness followed her
and gave her into custody, upon which she affacted to be
stupidly intoxicated, and incapable of explaining anything.
The property was identified by Mrs Sherbrook, a lady re-
siding in the house, and was valued at £7.
2 he prisoner appealed to the lady to havo 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 for 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 he was
labouring under a delusion that he was being constantly
watchod by the police, and he accounted for his being found
in the house by saying that fie 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 en ho would send him hack to his
friends.

A constable was then despatched with Heddeler to ascer-
tain whether he would 4411°144 qlo prisoner to his friends
iu Prussia.

WESTMINSTER.

EXEMPLARY DAUGHTER AND MODEL SERVANT.—
Elizabeth Carby, a girl 23 years of age, was charged under
the following circumstances:—

Mrs Carby, the defendant's mother, a very creditable
looking elderly woman, in widow's weeds, said that the de-
fendant came to her house, at Chelsea, at half-past one this
morning, and pulled violently at the bell. Complainant
opened the window and inquired what she wanted, when
defendant demanded some money, and because it was not
immediately given her she demolished ten panes of glass.
Mr Arnold—Does she live with you?
Complainant—No, I should be afraid to let her. We all
go in fear of her. She threatens both me and the children,
and it is only a little while ago that she ran after one of
them and threatened to cut her down with a chopper.
Mr Arnold—How does she get her living ?
Complainant—By service, when she pleases, but she is as
bad in place as she used to be at home—she won't keep a
situation. She has been in many excellent ones, but always
leaves. She thinks nothing, if her mistress offends her, of
taking up a jug, or anything:of that sort, and throwing it at
her. When she leaves her situation she disposes of her
clothes, and fresh ones have to be purchased for her.
Mr Arnold--Has this sort of conduct continued long ?
Complainant— For something like five years, during
which she has been the cause of great pain and trouble to
me. She has been in the workhouse, where she broke the
windows, and has also been twice in prison. Nothing can
exceed her violence of disposition.
Mr Arnold (to defendant)—What do you say to the
charge ?
Defendant—l wanted something and she would not give
it me. I hadn't had anything all the day.
Mr Arnold—You aro charged with breaking the
windows.

Defendant —That's true. I broke them—l don't deny
it. Why did not she give me something when I asked
her ?

Mr Arnold ordered her to And bail to keep the peace for
he neat three months.
Committed in default.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A MAN CHARGED WITH SEVERAL VIOLENT ASSAULTS

—John Cunningham, a rough fellow, who has several times
been convicted for violent assaults, was charged before Mr
Tyrwhitt with the following violent assaults:—

Mrs Emerton, wife of Mr Robert Eneerton, of the Two
Brewers, Little St. Andrew's-street, said that on the pre-
vious afternoon the prisoner entered the house and began
abusing her husband, who was ill, in the vilest manner.
She requested him to leave the house, and put her hand on
his arm, when he turned round and seized her by the throat,
and, but for the interference of her brother, she believed the
prisoner would have strangled her. lier husband thon gave
tite prisoner into custody.
In answer to Mr Tyrwhitt, Mrs Emerton said the pri-
soner had been drinking in the house.
Mr Henry Stephens, of Avenue-terrace, Lewisham,
brother of Mrs Emerton, proved seeing the prisoner seize
his sister by the throat, and said that on releasing her he
knocked him about a good deal, and made a great disturb-
ance.

A female servant at the house said she had been with a
boy to a place to get some sand and lime, and prisoner had
been employed by the person where the articles were pur-
chased to load the truck, and therefore came to her master,
thinking he had a claim upon him for doing so. The prisoner
caught hold of her (witness) by the throat and throw her
down because she would not leave the truck.

Police-constable Wright, 131 F, was called to the Two
Brewers, where the prisoner was given into his charge for
assaulting several persons. Tho prisoner became very
violent, and struck and kicked him, and swore he would
have his life. The prisoner had been several times in ous-
tody for violent assaults.

Rogers, 89 F, went to the assistance of the last witness,
and was thrown down by the prisoner several times. The
prisoner tried to bite him several times, and all the way to
the station behaved in the most violent manner.

There were the names of other persons who had been
assaulted by the prisoner on the charge-sheet, but they
were not called.

The prisoner said he had some drink and it did him no
good.

Mr Tyrwhitt fined the prisoner 10a or 14 days for the
assault on Mrs Emerton and the servant, and 5s or seven
days for each of the other assaults.

John Lamb, a labourer, was charged with assaulting
Police-constable Reimers, 595 A.

Reimers having been informed that the prisoner had been
assaulting his wife in Waterloo-place went there, and saw
the wife's face smothered in blood. He asked the wife
whether she would charge her husband, but she declined to
do so. Prisoner then struck his wife again, and Reimers
seeing the assault took him into custody, when the prisoner
struck Reimers and became very violent.
Mr Tyrwhitt committed the prisoner for a month for
each assault.

The prisoner and his wife (the latter having been charged
with disorderly conduct and discharged) were surprised at
the result, the wife stating that she had not charged her
husband with assaulting her.

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 us
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 has produced the effect which
always attends it in London. The deaths from
diarrl,o3l were 81, 97, and 145 in the first three
weeks of July, and in 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 diarrhccl were 233; in those
of 1857 and 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 diarrh nes, 14 were re-
turned as caused by cholera, chiefly cholera infan-
tam. Two adults died of cholera.
In the Kensington-town sub-district 11 deaths

were recorded from diarrL cei; 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; in
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 in S. Mary's Hos-
pital, when under the influence of chloroform. A
v, aged 3 years, died from sucking hot water
from j:2e spout of a tea kettle. A girl, aged 7
years,died 91 exhaustion consequent on eating im-
proper Among the street acthdents that are so frequent
in London, and some of which as terminating fatally
fish.
are reported by the registrars almost every week,
it is proper to mention the death of a deaf and
dumb men who waslilled 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 boy; 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 barotneter in the week Was 29.782 in.
The reading fell to 29•59 m. 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 GlaL.stier); the lowest night tem-
perature was 47.7 deg. on yVednesday ; the highest
day temperature was 82,2 deg. el; Friday. The range
of temperatnre in the week was the,-efore 34.5 deg.
The mean daily range was 25.1 deg. Thb 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 was 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 dog.;
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 Greenwich 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 end 61
females) in a population of 2154,808 (in 1861) spread
over an area of 3,808 statute acres.

The Weather and the Crops.

Daring 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 nest week. There are some farmers
who treat the lice trade lightly, and think the w heat
crop will prove rather light, but very good in
quality. Barley does not appear tube touched by this
insect plague, but is generally spoken of as light, but
promising in quality. Beans 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-
ter's 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 th© prospects of scarcity,
or at least dearness, of fodder is the coming winter.
Another week of splendid snm•ner 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 threatenings of a change in the weather and
of coming rain, the menaced "fall" has ended in a
mere few small drops, or has passed oft' 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 N. ery injuriously felt, and premature
ripening of the grain 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 end 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 resic:ing 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
sLs-ken.

The :ecident resulted from the 2.20 p.m. train
from Londe.: running into the station at full speed,
and coming vieLently into collision with a short
train waiting to b.: despatched to Ramsgate.
The Ramsgate train cone:sted of on'y three car-
riages—one first, one second, and one third clefs
—in which a number of passe'Dgers had taken
their seats, while others were walinog about the
platform. Things were in this state ve;len 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 pat-
Rogers 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
carriages were forced up on their ends, and the
third glass carriage. which was first struck by tee
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-looms 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.