The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-26 00:00:00

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Julia Leahy, a young Irish-woman, with an infant
in her arms, was brought before Mr. Bingham,
charged with having stabbed John O'Brien with a
knife in the throat, whereby his life is seriously en-

dangered.
From the statement of police-sergeant Mackenzie,
B 5, it appeared that about half-past eight o'clock,
while on duty at Hyde-park-corner, he received in-
formation that a man had been stabbed in the park,
and that the wounded man had been conveyed to St.
George's Hospital. Witness proceeded to the hospital
and found there John O'Brien, a labouring man, who
appeared to have received a wound in the region of
the throat, which had gone through the root of the
tongue. The wounded man told him he had been
stabbed by the prisoner, who lived in John-street,
Edgware-road. Witness proceeded to the prisoner's
lodgings, and very soon succeeded in meeting with
her. When he mentioned what he came about the
prisoner at once admitted that she had inflicted a
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not allow anything towards its support; and
that she had been obliged to have him before a ma-
gistrate, and to get an order of affiliation to pay so
much per week, which order the man had not obeyed.
She met O'Brien on Sunday evening, near St.
George's Hospital, and asked him if be meant to do
anything for the child ? He told her " the child and
herself might be d—d ;he would never pay a far-
thing." After some more conversation he took her
into the park, and there some angry words passed,
after which the man seized her by the throat and said
he would do both for her and the baby. She strug-
gled with the man, and getting one hand at liberty,
she pulled a clasp knife out of her pocket, and having
opened it with her teeth, she struck at him with it
in the face. She was not conscious that she had done
him any serious injury, as O'Brien walked away im-
mediately afterwards, and did not give any alarm.
Witness asked where the knife was ? The prisoner
said she dropped it in the park, because it shut on her
fingers and cut her.
The prisoner, in defence, made a similar statement
to that which she bad given to the constable. It was
in consequence of O'Brien's attack on her that she
drew the knife from her pocket with which to defend
herself.
The surgeon's certificate was handed in. It stated
that the man O'Brien could not attend in conse-
quence of a wound in the mouth, which had injured
the tongue.
In the course of the day a relative of the wounded
man called at the court, and said the latter was in a
very dangerous state, and the worst result was feared.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.
WORSHIP-STREET.

John Barratt, a tall weather beaten sailor, was
charged before Mr. Hammill under the following cir-
cumstances :
A cabman named Plumley stated that he had just
set down a fare at the Euston-square railway terminus
on the preceding evening, when he was hailed by a
policeman, who directed his attention to the prisoner
and another man, the former of whom was in a state
of helpless intoxication, and told him that as the sailor
was entirely incapable of taking care of himself, he
had better receive them both into his cab and take in-
structions from his friend, who was. quite sober, as
to where he should convey them to. The prisoner
was then helped into the cab with the assistance of
his friend, who desired witness to proceed to St.
Katharine's Docks, and he accordingly drove them in
that direction, but on reaching a street near Fins-
bury-square, the sober man pulled the check-string
and got out, telling him that he must call upon
a friend close by, and would be back in a few
minutes. After waiting nearly half an hour without
seeing any more of him, he opened the cab-door to
obtain further instruction from his remaining fare,
when he found the prisoner stretched out in the cab,
in a state of partect helplessness, with all his pockets
turned inside out. As it was manifest that he had
been robbed by his friend, and was too insensible to
comprehend anything he said to him, be considered
the best course he could adopt was to drive him
at once to the police• station, that he might be pro-
properly taken care of.
On being called upon by the magistrate to state
what he knew about the transaction, the prisoner said
that he had not even the faintest recollection of either
the cabman or his vehicle ; but he remembered to
his sorrow, that on leaving a messmate, with whom
he had been cruising about the New-road, he was
picked up by a man who claimed his acquaintance,
and that he had then a good round sum in gold and
silver in his possession ; but what became of the man
whom he bad never before seen, he did not know, and
upon recovering his senses that morning at the
station, he found that the whole of his money was
gone, with the exception of a few shillings, which
were stowed away in the corner of a side pocket, and
had escaped the clutches of the thief.
Mr. HAMMILL, after expressing a hope to the pri-
soner that the loss he had sustained would be a warn-

ing to him for the future, intimated to him the ne-
cessity of devoting his few remaining shillings to the
liquidation of the cabman's fare and expenses, to
which the poor sailor very readily acceded, and, having
handed over the amount, he was thereupon ordered
to be discharged.

LAMBETH.
Yesterday Stephen Alfred Downlancl, who stands
charged with a most determined attempt to murder a
young woman named Sarah Harriet Evans, on
Dulwich. common, by first cutting her throat with a
razor and then striking her repeatedly with the but end
of a pistol, was again placed at the bar before Mr.
Elliot for futher examination.

Sergeant Thomas Pitchard, 22 P, informed the
magistrate that he had been to Guy's Hospital that
morning, and seen the young woman Evans, but she
was not in a fit state to attend, and he in consequence
procured the following certificate as to her present
condition : _ . _

" I hereby certify that Sarah Harriet Evans is
still in a precarious state, but progressively improving.
" CHARLES SAUNDERS,

" Assistant to Mr. B. B. Cooper,

" Guy's Hospital, Sept. 25."
Mr. ELLIOT—Has Mr. Saunders given any opinion
as to the period at which the young woman will be
able to attend ? Pitchard—He has not, sir.
Mr. ELLIOTT—Then I shall remand the prisoner
for another week.
Mr. Games—l attend on the part of the prisoner,
and I have no objection whatever to offer against such
a course.
The prisoner, who has a very youthful expression,
and who, as on the last examination, appeared per-
fectly indifferent, was remanded for a week.

"THE LORD OF THE MANOR''—The forthcoming
work, announced by Mr. Shoberl, from tho powerful
pen of the author of " Raby Rattler," is said to be one
of thrilling interest, and founded upon fact. Its plot i 3
stated to be at once startling and extraordinary, and ar-
rangements are even thus early in progress for drama-
tising it at our national theatres. One of the principal
objects of the writer 13 to pourtray the horrible conse-
quences of vice—and thus to ameliorate the condition of
society—to show the' hapless situation of that man who
is ae unfortunate as to fall into the trammel. of a boll,
bad woman, ready for the commission of any crime.
The readers of worka of fiction will, no doubt, look
forward with impatience to its publication.
THE Sr. PANCRAS BOARD OP GUARDIANS —Yes-
terday a very numerous meeting of the board of direc-
tors and guardians of the poor of St. Pancras was held
at the new vestry-room, King's•road, Camden-town. Mr.
Churchwarden Healey presided, and a long discussion
arose upon the question whether the parish authorities
should yield obedience to the order of the Board of
Health, requiring them to adopt the house-to-house aye.
tern of visitation. The Chairman, Mr. Hickman, and
other speakers contended that system was calculated to
do more harm than good, from the alarm it created, and
that the parish authorities of St. Pancras had done
everything they could for the prevention of cholera, by
early treatment of the premonitory symptoms. Mr.
Liddlet on behalf of the Board or Health, pressed for an
immediate compliance with its order. It was ultimately
agreed that an additional inspector of nuisances should
be appointed, but no provision for house visitation rAS
' agreed to, •

from the truth ;
More than 5 in 1,000 of the inhabitants of London
died of cholera; the more accurate proportion was
53 in 10,000 inhabitants. From all causes the mor-
tality was 116: a rate which is equivalent to an
annual rate of 4.64 per cent.
35 in 10,000 of the inhabitants on the north side of
the Thames died of cholera.
104 in 10,000 of the inhabitants on the south side
of the Thames died of cholera.

The mortality was therefore three times as great
on the south side as it was on the north side of the
river.

Taking 10,000 inhabitants as the basis of compari-
son in each district, the mortality ranged from 8 in
Hampstead to 225 in Rotherhithe.
The large north districts extend from the Edge-
ware-road to the river Lea; the mortality was, for
Marylebone, 15 ; St. Pancras, 17 ; Islington, 20;
Hackney, 15. The mortality of Marlyleborie and St.
Pancras is slightly raised by the Middlesex xnd
University College Hospitals. Some cholera patients
were sent out of Islington to the Free Hospital in St.
Pancras, where their deaths were registered.
The middle districts, extending in a curve from
Kensington to Bethnal-green, present generally a
much higher rate of mortality ; yet there are remark-
able exceptions. The mortality in Kensington dis-
trict, including Paddington and Fulham, was 19 ;
St. James, Westminster, only 12 ; St. Giles, 48 ;
Holborn, 28 ; Clerkenwell, 15 (5 less than Islington);
St. Luke, 30; Shoreditch, 65; Bethnal-green, 75.
St. James, Westminster, is a wealthy parish ; the
houses were rated at 691., on an average, in 1841.
The rookery and other bad streets contributed
among other things to raise the mortality of St.
Giles district to 48. Clerkenwell, extending across
the higher part of the New-road to Pentonville, has
lost only 15 in 10,000 ; St. Luke double the propor-
tion. The rated value of the houses, and probably
the income of the inhabitants, diminish rapidly in
passing from the vb est to the east parts of London.
The average rating of the houses in 1841 was,—for
St. James, Westminster, 691.; St. Giles, 48/ ; Hol-
born, 30/.; St. Luke, 28/. ; Shoreditch, 131.; Beth-
nal-green, 81. The two last districts are poor, and
badly drained. Some of the deaths registered in
Shoreditch, in a certain sense, belorg and have been
counted to the district of St. Luke, whose workhouse
is in Shoreditch.

The river-side districts of the north present a
higher rate of mortality from cholera than the cor-

responding districts of the middle and outside range.
Chelsea lost 42 in 10,000 inhabitants ; Kensington, we
have seen, 19; St. George, Hanover-square, extending
from Oxford-street to the river, lost only 14 in 10,000;
and 71 out of the 106 deaths were in the Belgrave
sub-district. The mortality (57) was high
with less than half the population in the low West-
minster district ; St. Diartin-in-the-Fields and the
Strand, rising fast from the banks of the river, lost
27 and 31 in 10,000 ; the city of London within the
walls, 33 ; the London city, east district, 38 ; the west
district, traversed by the Fleet ditch, 70 or 128, ac-
cordingly as we include or exclude the deaths in St.
Bartholomew's Hospital. At the close of the epidemic
these deaths may be distributed over the districts from
which the patients were brought; in the meantime,
the mortality of the City from cholera must lie between
43 and 57. Whitechapel lost 50 ; St. George-in-the-
East, Stepney, and Poplar, 35, 40, 67, the mortality
here being inversely as the density of the population.
Opposite the city and Whitechapel lie on the other
side the Thames, St. Saviour, St. Olave, and St.
George, Southwark, where the mortality was 141,
151, 142 ; further east the mortality rises to 163
in Berrnond•ey and in Rotherhithe, intersected by
stagnant water, reaches the maximum 225 in 10,C00,
or 2f per cent. It will be observed that on
the north bank, opposite Bermondsey and
Rotherhithe, the deaths from cholera were only
35 and 40 in 10,000, yet the ordinary
rate of mortality in St. George's•in-the•East is 2.89,
and of Itotherhithe 2.77 per cent. The mortality of
Greenwich, including D.-ptford and Wouiwich, was
61 in 10,000; Camberwell and Newington 88 and
125, less than the mortality of districts on the south
river side, but much higher than even Shoreditch and
Bethnal-green. The Lambeth district extends from
the Thames to Norwood ; over this great area and
population the average mortality was 97 in 10,000.
The mortality from cholera of the river side parts of
Lambeth is as high as the mortality of St. Saviour,
St. Olave, &c. The parts on the south side the river
where the cholera has prevailed with so much violence
are below the Trinity high-water mark. At Nor-
wood there were only two deaths by cholera; at
Dulwich, in Camberwell district, none; at Eltham,
three; Sydenham five, in Lewisham district; so that
the mortality from cholera on the high ground, and
in the outer districts of Surrey on the south side the
Thames, was as low as in Hampstead, Kentish-town,
Stoke Newington, and Stamford hill.
The physical causes of cholera, or rather of the mor-
tality of cholera, may now be investigated in the soil,
atmosphere, and people, of the several districts of
London.

Ma. BRIGHT, M.P.—This gentleman returned
from Ireland on Monday, having occupied upwards of a
month in a tour of observation and inspection through-
out the south and west of that country. In the course
of his tour Mr. Bright has visited the counties of
Dublin, Wicklow. Wexford, Cork, Kerry, Limerick,
Tipperary, Clare, Galway, Mayo, Roscommon, and some
others. As might have been expected, the union work•
houses have been carefully visited, and the condition of
the peasantry and of the land has been extensively ob-
saved. With regard to the existing relations between
landlord and tenant, we have reason to believe that Mr.
Bright has seen enough to convince him of the absolute
necessity of a law to give security to the tenant toe the
improvements he may create ; and it is not improbable
that, should the Government refuse to legislate on this
all-important subject, Mr. Bright will be prepared to
bring Use matter before Parliament at the opening of
next session, backed by influential opinions from all
parts of Ireland. We should be glad to hear that
Eeglish Members in large numbers had been visiting a
country whose condition so much demands their atten-
tion.—Manchester;Examiner.
SUICIDE raos STARVATION...4AM night an in-
quest was held before Mr. F. S. Langham, deputy-coro-
ner, at the Aran Arms, New Bond-street, touching the
death of John Jenkins, aged 37 years, a gentleman's
coachman, who destroyed himself under the following
very melancholy circumstances :—From evidence deposed
to by the witnesses, it appeare that the deceased lived at
No. 17, Lancashire-court; he had been out of employ-
ment since May last, and was reduced to very great
distress, and in want of the common necessaries of life.
All his and his wife's wearing apparel had been pledged
to obtain food, and for several days last week they had
no coals to make a fire or any food to eat. It preyed
very heavily on deceased's mind, who refused to allow
his wife to apply to the parish. The deceased had not
tasted anything for several days, and his mind appeared
to be affected. He remained in bed, and never spoke to
his wife or children. On Sunday morning last he got up
and went down stairs; shortly afterwards his wife dis.
covered that he had hung himself, with his child's skip-
ping rope, to an area railings. One of the jurors re-
marked that one or the deceased's children came into his
shop on Saturday last, end asked for some bread and
butter, and said his mother was crying at home and had
nothing to eat. He said he had nut tasted mood for two
days. Verdict —" Temporary insanity,"
SINGULAR. AersiusrhastitcPoilu wENOZEnigONii.—kriy clear,The
at-
mosphere on Saturday aano
although the sky was covered with clouds, so as to ex
elude the rays or the sun, except here and there a small
patch. The writer of this paragraph was taking a walk
on the outer part 01 the I.:we-course, and en looking
back tarsal die the town was surprised to find the Lie of
Wight appearing with es muen distinctitess as the ordi-
nary aspect of Worthing from the Brighton Thu
high ground of the N..w F, rest bl-yi u‘i Southampton
Water, was a'so as Vainiy diacernibl- us is ti•uslly High
Down-1011, beyond Worthing, when Nit...cud from Blign•
ton. A shepherd, who had spent on these hills neatly
the whole of fifty years, width constituted the duration
of his life, deviated that he had never seen the island so
distinetl3.—Briglion (,azette.
MUNIFICENT DONATIoN.—An anonymous dolor,
under the signature of "Z /"." i i"the So-
ciety for the Propagation
.of th'i
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auti.,,.llutt per Cent. Consols, ' e applied towards
Parts the munificent donation of 2,0 .. h,ce-
the Funds of the Colonial Bishoprics' Eillowmeut
Fund."
CURIOSITIES FROM THE CAPE.—A vessel arrived in
he duck from Alga Bay, Cap- of Good Dope, has
brought 33 casks of curiosities, consigned to order. The
same vessel brought Cotten packages of sea•cow heads
(so termed), which appears rather 5 6ingsltlr ITLVOrtgti.CA
from that place,

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