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

THAMES.

MURDEROI7B ASSAULT.—Alexander Weir, a shipwright,
was brought before Mr Paget, charged with violently
assaulting his wife.
Ambrose, a police-constable, No. 192 H, put in a medical
certificate stating that the injured woman, Elizabeth Weir,
was in the London Hospital suffering from injuries on the
abdomen, and was in great danger. Ambrose then pro-
ceeded to state that he was called into the house, No,
23, Leman-street, Whitechapel, yesterday afternoon, at 4
o'clock, and found the prisoner's wife lying on the first
floor landing, at the top of the stairs. She complained of
great pain ; her hands were on her stomach, and she said
that her husband had beaten her, and kicked her on the
belly. She was immediately removed to the hospital.
Mr Stoddart, solicitor, who appeared for the prisoner, said
the woman in the hospital was a person of very drunken
and dissipated habits, and that she sold her husband's pro-
perty. She was intozicated yesterday, struck her husband
across the hand with a poker, and scratched his face. She
was a bulky woman, and fell down on her face and hurt
herself,

Mr Paget remanded the prisoner for a week.
Mr Stoddart asked the magistrate to take bail.
Mr Paget—With this certificate before me I cannot take

bail.

A DELICIOUS SUOGESTION.—It has bean urged
as a comm2reial question that honey is not now of
the same importance as it was before the sugar-cane was
discovered, and that gas has superseded wax candles. I
am satisfied from many considerations that if people would
eat honey at breakfast instead of rancid London butter and
nasty greasy bacon, not only would their health be better,
but their temper would be sweeter. I find invariably that
people who like honey are persons of gmial and affectionate
temper. If Mr Cobden and Mr Roebuck had only taken
honey at breakfast, or a choice fragment of virgin honey at
dessert, they would never have given birth to I hose vinegar
speeches which did them no credit. I wish somebody
would send Mr Spurgeon a supper of good honey. Three
months' diet on this celestial food would induce him to give
up those shockingly bitter and unchristian tirades he has
been making against the clergy of the Church of England.
The producers of honey never draw their stings unless in
defence of their homesteads, and the eaters and admirers of
honey rarely indulge in acrimonious language. I believe
a great deal of bud iesling is not moral or mental, but phy-
sical, in its origin. If you have in a congregation, or in a
school, or is a convocation some one who sets everybody
by the ears, treat him to a little honey at breakfast for six
months, and the "thorn will blossom as the rose." People
thL:t can't eat honey—hune tis cavcto—they can't
.evcr fit
,‘ a land overflowing with mil's and honey,—.77iePeentcpter
in the Ti

(From the Registra:-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, 1851-63, 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 has 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 in the last week they rose to 274.
Of the last number all except 21 occurred to infante.
In the week that corresponded with last week in
1863 the deaths from diarrhoea were 233; in those
of 1857 and 1839 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 diarrl.ce a,14 were re-
turned es caused by cholera, chiefly cholera infan-
tuna. Two adults died of cholera.
In the Kensingtonetovn sub-district 11 deaths
were recorded from diarrlce ; in the Belgrave sub-
district 8, in the east end 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 53 years, died in S. Mary's Hos-
pital, when under the inilaence of chloroform. A
boy, aged 3 years, died 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, acd some of which as terminating fatally
are reported by the registrars almost every week,

it is proper to men!ioll 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 in.
.
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. Glaishcr); the lowest night tem-
perature was 47.7 deg. on Wednesday; the highest
day temperature %V 81382.2 deg. on Friday. The range
of tempenatnre 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 bouth
west. The amount of rain was o'l3 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 (51 males and 61
females) in a population of 254,808 (in 1861) spread
over an area of 3,808 statute acres.