The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 1862.

continued very bad ; at night more moderate. Ar-
ranged to launch our boat on Friday if possible, as
several of the men were able to get about, the others
getting much worse, especially George Elliot, the
second mate, who gave up completely, but a very
heavy gale came on suddenly, and in a short time
the breakers were round the boat, and 13 who
were unable to move were carried up amongst the
rocks in the snow until the others could make a
place to cover us. I consider we all owe our lives
to the untiring exertions of Mr. Hopkins, the mate,
who has been the chief means in procuring food
and shelter. Our boat, lam thankful to say, has
not received much damage, although thrown a long
way up the rocks. Up to Sunday, the 6th, the
weather unsettled, but very cold and frosty, six of
us being able to get about, killed our pig, and a
quantity of penguins, and commenced to- get our
boat down the rocks, intending to get away on
Monday. Monday, 7th, towards the latter part of
the day, launched our boat. Left nine men and two
boys on the island, nine of them in a sad condition,
the other two to wait and attend on them. In the
boat, four seamen, the mate, passenger, and myself;
had a slight variable wind, and rain, but towards
night got a strong southerly wind, steered to the
N.W. 2 a.m., Tuesday, Bth, made land, and found
it to be the western part of the East Falkland, near
100 miles from Port Stanley. Throughout Tues-
day the wind southerly, steered up along the
land. Tuesday night fine, but sharp frost, suf-
fering much from cold, wind westerly. 9th, Wed-
nesday, about 8 a.m., sighted the lighthouse,
bearing north, about 15 miles, but the wind at
that time hauled to the northward, and com-
menced to blow strong, we at that time being about
12 miles off the land ; put our boat about to stand
in, shore, intending to beach her if we could not find
a place to run in, our feet getting very bad, and the
whole of us nearly exhausted. About 11 a.m. saw
a vessel steering towards us, and in a short time ran
down and took us on board, where we met with the
greatest kindness from all on board, giving us
everything we wanted, washing and dressing our
feet, and putting us into warm beds, and had the
first sleep for 19 days. The schooner was on a seal-
ng voyage, her name the Perseverance, of Stanley,
Captain Nicholls, belonging to the Falkland Islands
Company. The captain immediately put about for
Port Stanley, and shortly afterwards spoke the
company's schooner Victoria ; reported to Captain
Van Zandt that there was 11 men on the Beauchene
Island in a sad condition. He immediately steered
away for that place. About 2 a.m., Thursday, July
10, 1862, we arrived in Port Stanley, in the Perse-
verance, when the sailors were removed on shore in

lodgings, and put under the care of Dr. Hamblin ;
the Governor kindly supplied them with clothes and
everything they required in their sad state. The chief
mate and myself and passenger were taken to Falk-
land Island Company's storekeeper's house, Daniel
M`Carrell, where we met with every kindness and
attention from Dr. Hamblin. Saturday, July 12,
1862, the schooner Victoria arrived from the island
at Stanley, with the remainder of the crew, when
they were removed on shore to lodgings previously
prepared for them, where they had the attendance
of Dr. Hamblin, and were well supplied with every-
thing required, and servants to attend them with
everything. On Sunday, 13th, George Elliot,
departed this life; he had been very low previously.
Tuesday, 15th, William Edwards, A. 8., also de-
parted this life. The men report having every
kindness and attention shown them on board the
Victoria schooner. Dr. Hamblin has been under
the necessity of amputating the legs of several of
the crew, and I think thereby saving their lives.
The crew, with myself, beg to return our warmest
thanks to his Excellency the Governor, the Govern-
ment officials, and people of Stanley, for their great
care and kindness.
ANDREW PEARE, late Master of the barque
Cubana.

DAVID HOPKINS, Mate.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING TEE

WEEK.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
_ _ _

In the week that ended last Saturday the deaths
in London were 1,229. If the deaths from epidemic
cholera in the 40th week of 1854 are excluded from
the facts on which the calculation is based, it will
appear that the average number of deaths (with cor-
rection for increase of population) for corresponding
weeks of ten years 1852-61 is 1,132. The deaths in
last week were therefore in excess of the estimated
number by 97.
There were 12 deaths in the week from small-
pox. Three of these occurred in the sub-district of
St. John (St. George-in-the-East). The deaths from
measles rose to 59, of which 20 occurred in the east
districts, chiefly Hoxton, Haggerstone, and Bethnal-
green. There were 4in the sub-district of Wands-
worth. Scarlatina was fatal in 88 cases. There were
four deaths from murder or manslaughter.

Last week the births of 832 boys and 855 girls, in
all 1,687 children, were registered in London. In
the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1852-61
the average number (corrected) was 1,699.
At the Royal Obsery atory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.937 in.
The mean reading was above 30 in. on the last three
days. The readings fell to 29.58 in. on Monday,
and rose to 30.30 in. on Saturday. The mean tem •
perature of the air in the week was 58.1 deg., which
is 4,5 deg. above the average of the same week in 43
years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean
daily temperature was above the average on every
day except Wednesday; and on Monday and Friday
this excess was 7 deg. or more. The lowest night
temperature was 43.7 deg. on Wednesday ; the
highest day temperature was 71.7 deg. on Friday.
The range of the thermometer in the week was,
therefore, 28 deg. The mean daily range was 15
deg. The difference between the mean dew-point
temperature and air temperature was only
2.5 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air
was 92, complete saturation being represented by
100, which point was reached on Saturday, and
nearly attained on Sunday, Monday, and Thursday.
The amount of rain was 0,61 in., which fell chiefly
on Monday and Tuesday.
In the 13 weeks that ended on Saturday, Sept. 27,
15,133 deaths were registered in London. Of the
persons enrolled on the list, 8,184, being consider-
ably more than half, had not entered their 21st year,
and a large proportion of the latter number died in
infancy ; 413 persons were 80 years old and upwards.
The mortality of the summer quarter is much
governed by the temperature. In the two seasons,
embracing corresponding months of 1861.62, the
mean temperature of the air was 60 deg. 4 min. and
58 deg. 7 min. respectively, and the deaths in either
were about 15,000. In the warm summer of 1859,
when the temperature rose to 62 deg. 9 min., the
deaths rose to 16,000 ; in that of 1860, when the
temperature fell to 56 deg. 8 min., they declined to
12,916. Observations on summer heat according to
its effects on various situations, as these may differ
in elevation, in water supply, in drainage, in the
moral and physical condition of their inhabitants,
might be undertaken with much advantage by the
medical officers of health in their several districts.
The total deaths in the quarter from zymotic
diseases were 4,721, or not much less than a third
part of the deaths from all causes. Diarrhoea, to
which 956 deaths were referred, was the most fatal
disease in this class; cholera, to which head cases
of choleraic diarrhoea are assigned, was the cause of
89 deaths. The deaths from diarrhoea were more
numerous in St. John, Westminster, than in any
other metropolitan sub-district; 28 were returned
there, whilst in other localities of nearly equal po-
pulation, viz., St. Mary, Paddington ; Christchurch,
Marylebone ; Regent's-park, Somers-town, Mile-
end Old-town East, the numbers were respectively
13, 87, 6, 12, and 15. In Bow, with a population
of 36,000, the deaths from diarrhoea were 121,while
in Kentish-town, which contains 44,000, there were

dry. He told Gardiner that some of the marks of
blood were not there when he searched the place
before, as he had himself taken the board twice to
the window to examine it on the Monday, and again
on the Thursday, and there were no marks on it
then. They went downstairs, and the prisoner said
it might have been done while washing the corpse.
When they got downstairs Gardiner pointed out a
mark of blood on the curtain of the front window
on the ground floor. He opened the window, and
on the inside of the shutter he found the mark of a
finger in blood. He then told Gardiner that he had
examined it on several occasions, and he was quite
sure it was not there. Gardiner made no reply to
that. They went up stairs again, and Gardiner
said he was quite sure his wife had been murdered.
He asked him what made him think that, and he
said, " Because her poor hands were cut so, and he
believed that girl did it." He asked him why he
said that, and he said, because she knew she had to
leave ; and, moreover, he had on one occasion been
up to her room before she was up, and he found a
knife sticking in the edge of the door. He asked her
what that meant, and she said she did not intend
that he should find her alive, and he had more than
once heard her threaten her own life or his. On

Saturday, the 20th, he went with Monger to Graves-
end. He took a change of clothes with him for
the purpose of bringing back those worn by the
prisoner Humble. He saw Humble at her mother's
house at Gravesend, and asked her if she had upon
any occasion taken a knife upstairs with her, and
she said " No;" and that Gardiner had never been
in her room before she was up, to her knowledge.
He asked her to change her clothes, and she did so,
and gave him those she said she took off. He
brought them to London, and the underclothing was
taken to Dr. Segueira, but nothing was discovered.
There were three rooms to the prisoner Gardiner's
house in Northumberland-alley, one above the other,
and also a cellar.