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London, England, 1849-08-01 00:00:00

THE SUN. LONDON.

of Norwich, Sir Robert Peel, Bart., Sir George Staun-
ton, Bart., Admiral Sir George Cockburn, Bart., Admiral
Sir Wm. Gage, Captain W. A. B. Hamilton, the Right
Hon. J. Wilson Crcker, and many others of the nobility
and gentry.--/71versqon Advertiser.
CONCERNING EGGS.—At breakfast, one morning,
in that quiet and comfortable old inn, the White Swan,
in York, a foreigner made quick dispatch with the eggF.
Thrusting his spoon into the middle, he drew out
the yolk, devoured it, and passed on to the next.
When be had got to his seventh egg, an old
farmer, who bad already been prejudiced against
monsieur by his moustachios, could brook the
extravagance no longer, and speaking up, said.
" Why, Sir, you leave all the white! How is Mrs.
Lockwood to afford to find breakfast at that rate ?"
" Sacrebleu !" exclaimed the Frenchman, " you vouldn't
}tab me to eat de vite? De yolk is de shicken ; de vite
de fedders. Am Ito make von bolster of my belly ?''
The farmer was quite clumbfoundered.—Gateshead Ob-
server.

GOOD WOOD RACES.

(THIS DAY.)-BY EXPRESS.

The Bunney Stakes.

of
Hood ... ... ... ... ...
The Drawing Room Stakes.

Borneo ... ... ...
Testator ... ...
Indus ... ... ...

Cotton Lord
Ferule ...

The Stewards' Cup.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, July 31.
(Before Mr. Commission,,r FANE )

THE ITALIAN OPERA HOrSE. CJVENT-GARDEN.-IN RE

E. T. DELAFIELD.

To-day was fixed for the choice of assignees in the
matter of this bankrupt, the lessee of the above-named
theatre, and who was described as of Mivart's Hotel and
Willow-bank, brewer. It will be recollected that he
was a member of the firm of Combs, Delafield, and Co.,
from which he retired with a large sum of money—
about 95,0001.
Messrs. Lawrance and Plows are solicitors to the fiat,
which was sued out by Mr. Eversfield; Messrs. Lewis
and Lewis to the bankrupt; and Mr. Banks accountant
1 to the estate.

Mr. Eversfield, described as of Horsham, gentleman,
tendered a proof for 4,896/., which was admitted, with-
out any objection being offered.
Mr. Sirly, a stonemason, next put forward a proof for
487/., for work done at Willow-bank, and a question
arose as to whether it should be proved against the
separate estate of the bankrupt, or that of Deiagield and
Webster ?

It appeared that the order for, certain work to be
performed was given by Mr. Webster, in the presence
of Mr. Delafield, at Willow Bank, and that it was
understood in the neighbourhood that they wero joint
occupiers of the house at Willow Bank, and that an
order given by one was to be treated as an order given
by both.

His HONOUR decided that the proof be rejected as
against the estate of DeMeld.
Mr. Blamiere, " property-maker," at the theatre,
sought to prove for a
,small amount.
The question was whether he should be treated as
an ordinary servant,so as to entitle him to be paid in full?
Ms HONOUR admitted the proof, ordering a small
portion to be paid in full. The Learned Commissioner
supposed there were no assets?
It was replied, "Not at present."
Debts to the extent of 6,8004 were proved during
the day; and Mr. Eversfleld was unanimously appointed
assignee.
(Before Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD.)
The certificate of a linendraper, named Anderson, was
suspended for six months, with protection, upon the
grounds that the expenses were double as much as the
profits, and continuing trade at a loss.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME CIRCUIT.—Lewes. July 31.
In the course of the afternoon the Grand Jury came
into court with four true bills for murder and attempt-
ing to murder against Mary Ann Geering.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Shrewsbury, July 30.
The civil business closed here on &stip day, rod both
Courts were consequently at liberty this morning to at-
teed to the Crown business. Several cases had been
tried on Friday, and on Saturday, by Mr. Just►ce Erle,
after the disposal of the Nisi Prius for each of those
days. The remainder were all tried to-day. Mr. Jus-
tice Erle rose at half past three, and Mr. Baron Rolfe
a; a quarter past four o'clock. Of the cases which arose
before them the following are the only ones deserving of
notice:—

CI3OWN COUAT.—(Before Mr. Baron ROLFE.)
TUE BRIDGENORTII MURDER CASE.

At the sitting of the Court,

Mr. LIUDDLESTON rose and said that, in consequence
of the intimation which he had received from his Lord-
ship, that he would be propared to try the case of Mercy
Newten today by another jury, he, on the part of the
prisoner, wished to state that it would be very inconve-
went to the prisoner to have the trial take place now ;
and that, in consequence of the view taken by his Lord •
ship of the medical evidence, it would be necessary, for
the prisoner's defence, to call medical gentlemen who
could not be now summoned in time ; and the Learned
Gentleman handed in an affidavit in support of this
statement.

Mr. PHILLIMORE, on the part of the prosecution,
would not oppose the application.
It was then arranged that the third trial should be
postponed till the spring assizes, and that an entry should
be made on the record of the facts attending the discharge
of the jury yesterday—the giving of medicine to one of
them, and the sitting of the Court on Sunday. With re-
ference to the last point,
His LORDSHIP observed, that though it was not in
modern times the practice to sit on Sundays, yet he had
no doubt that in a case of necessity like this it was per-
tectly competent to hold sittings on Sundays. He remem-
bered some years back a question was made as to whether
a court could sit on the Epiphany.
The prisoner was then removed.
Charles Colley, a labourer, aged 40, was indicted for
the wilful murder of John Micklewright, a police officer,
in the execution of his duty, on the 2d of January, at
Acton Burnell, in this county.
Mr. Bailey and Mr. Corbet appeared for the prosecu-
tion. The prisoner was undefended.
It appeared that on the evening of the day in ques-
tion there was a great number of people assembled at
the Stag's Head public-house, in Acton Burnell; and,
a quarrel having taken place between the prisoner and
another man, some confusion and uproar ensued, uppn
which the deceased was called in to restore order. He
succeeded in doing so, and the greater part of the
company went away. Colley remained a little time
after the others, but went away on being requested to
do so. The policeman, who, as well as the prisoner,
was a little the worse for liquor, remained in the
house with two or three other men. About twenty
minutes after Colley wanted to get some more liquor,
but the landlord would not give it. The policman
went away at the end of the twenty minutes, in the
same direction as the prisoner had gone, and overtook
the prisoner, who was making a noise, try ing to pet
into a beer-house to toss for a pint of beer. Mickle
wright spoke to him gently, saying " Now, Charley,
go home quietly, like a good fellow, and do
not stop here making a disturbance," ar.d went
some distance with him. After going a little
further Micklewright left him, and he again turned
from the direction of the home towards the Stag,'s
Head. He was then making a noise, calling out
and shouting. Micklewright went up to him to make
him go home, and took out his sttrff. The prisoner im-
mediately caught the staff with his left hand, and strug •
gled for the staff for a few minutes, and then struck
Micklewright with his right hand, and knockf-d him
down, and took the stall; and jumped on his legs, and
then fill on him. Micklewright cried out, "Oh, God,
my legs are broken." He was then taken into the
Stag's Head, and Gilley came in soon atter, and said,
" Here is your stuff." Micklewright answered, " Yuu
are a nasty man for doing such an action." His lees
were broken, and the inflammation consiguent upon that
produced death in a tew dad s.
The prisoner was found Guilty of Manslaughter, and
was sentenced to ten years' transportation.
Samuel Adams, aged 25, a beerseller, was indicted for
having, on the 9th of February last, at a County Court,
holden at the parish of Wallington, before Mr. Uredale
Corbet, committed wilful and corrupt perjury.
Mr. Huddleston appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Phillimore for the defence.
It appeared that a brother-inlaw of the prisoner,
named Thomas Lloyd Haden Jones, gave his promis-
sory-note for 191. to one Sarah Sankey, and that the
prisoner signed his name as the attestine witness. Sarah
Sankey sued Jones on the note in the County Court, and
was obliged to call the defendant, the attesting witness,
who denied that he had seen it executed, or that the
signature of the attesting witness was in his hand
writing. The plaintiff was thereupon non-suited, or in
plain language, lost her suit, and then instituted this
prosecution. The facts above-stated were clearly proved.
The defence was, that what he had said was true, and
he instructed his counsel to call witnesses in support
of this position, but the first one called, who was a very
respectable-looking young woman, on cross-examination,
so palpably foreswore herslf, that his counsel refused to
call another, or have anything more to do with the case,
and he was convicted by the jury without any hesita-
tion ; and, in consequence of the shocking and aggra-
vated nature of his crime, be was sentenced to one
month's imprisonment, with hard labour, and, at the end
of that time, to seven years' transportation.
The sentence seemed to take him entirely by surprise,
and he burst into tears.

Cll?(..WlT.—Warwick. July 30.
The commission for the southern division of the
county was opened on Saturday evening as late as ten
at night, the judges not being able to get from Coventry
until a late hour. The business here is light, there being
but 16 causes and about 50 prisoners. Of the former,
one only is marked as a special jury, and there is no
doubt the whole of the business will be gone through by
Wednesday evening. Mr. Baron Parke presides in the
Civil, and Mr. Justice Coleridge in the Criminal Court.
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE --OWEN V. C

Mr. Whitehurst, Q.C., and Mr. Hayes were the
counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. Mellor conducted the
defence.

The father of the plaintiff is a farriv=r at Middleton,
in this county; the defendant is the icy' of a. farmer, who
died last Christmas, and who also resided in the s,,me
village. During his father's lifetime he mi.w4ged the
farm (240 acres) for him, and now he manages it, for his
mother. The parties were neighbours. The plaintiff
is now twenty years of age, the defendant 25. An inti-
macy sprang up between the parties, and in the end, the
plaintiff, yielding to the solicitations of the defendant,
became pregnant. The promise of marriage was made
out by a sister of the plaintiff, from a conversation
overheard by the sister which passed between plaintiff
and defendant. She was telling Cox her father was
very angry she had done so, and she wished they should
get married, observing, " She would have a home as lontz
us she wanted, and as long as her father had got a home."
The defendant said, " Where you are, there I shall be,"
and laughed. She said, '• It is not a laughing matter;"
to which he made answer, "It is not a crying matter; I
,i 1 not cry, and you have no occasion He further
sa'cl, " We can't be married now, hut we will as soon as
harvest is in, if you can wait till then." She replied she
as willing to do that;" he said, " I will marry you,
Nanny, if we have to leave home and go to New t'a-
land." The same night an interview took place between
the father and the defendant, the plaintiff being present
The father told Cox he had ruined his daughter, and he
said he had not. He ask, d him whether be intended ter
marry her? hiS reply was, "Not at present." The father
told him ho had ruined the girl and the family. The de-
fendant said he had lint, and that he Aid not know the
child was more likely to be his tha❑ other people's, and
intimated his suspicions of one " Dick Parker." This
turned out, however, to be without the slightest foun-
dation.
The jury ultimately found for the plaintiff-75/.
damages.

MORTALIT Y in the METROPOL IS

NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1849.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*1173
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 126
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 45
Dist itses of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... 86
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... ••• ••• ••• ••• •••
Disease:s of the Kidne)s, &e. 10
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, 11
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 7
Diseases of tie Skin, &c. 1
Malformations... ... ••• ... 5
Premature Birth •• ••• ••• 25
Atrophy
Old Age
Sudden ...
Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance ... 38
Causes not specified ...

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... 1,931

Population Average weekly Deaths
Enumerated, Deaths 1844-8 , in the

1841 Five Stitnmers. Week
West District;... 300,711 . . 147 ... 206
North D'....tricts.. 375,971 .. 191 ... 278
Central Districts 373,653 ... 183 ... 274
East Districts ... 392,444 ... 227 ... 344
South Districts.. 501,190 ... 260 ... 829

Totals... ..... 1,948,369 ... 1,008 ... 1.931
Males . ... ... ... ... 952
Females ... ... ... ... ... 979

Males
Females

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

... ... 689
... ... 624

Total ... ... 1,313
* In this number are included 783 cases of death by
Cholera, 32 by Scarlatina, 37 by Typhus Fever, and 224
by Diarrhoea.

THE CHOLERA.

RETURN OF CASES_OF CHOLERA, JULY 31.

_
.Attacks. Deaths.
In London and vicinity
In England and Wales
In Scotland

Tot al 547

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.
(From the Registrar General's Return.)
Again the return indicates an increase on the ex-
cessive mortality of the previous week. The deatha
from all causes, which in three previous weeks were
respectively 1,070, 1,369, and 1,741, rose to 1,931, a
number which is almos.t double the weekly average,
and exceeds that of the former week by nearly 200.
To compare these results with the deaths from all
causes in four weeks, when influenza was unusually
fatal, in the last quarter of 1847, it may be stated
that the mortality at that time increased in the fol-
lowing numbers :-1,086, 1,677, 2,454, 2,416, and in
the fifth week continued to decline. The deaths from
cholera, which in three previous weeks were 152,
339, 678, rose in the last to 783, a rate of increase
which it will be observed is not so great as in the
first weeks of the outbreak. But the deaths from
diarrhoea (fatal in a great majority of cases to chil-
dren) and dysentery, which in three previous
weeks were 54, 100, and 146, increased in
the last to 238, showing a more rapid
increase recently than the mortality from the more
malignant form of the disease. In the corresponding
week of 1848 the deaths from diarrhoea and dysentery
amounted to 187, a mortality which is almost as con-
siderable as the return of last week. The total deaths
from the three diseases in the present return were,
therefore, 1,021, whilst the weekly average of the
season is only 92, a result, when compared with the
excess of mortality from all causes, which shows that
the aggregate deaths from other diseases do not vary
much from the usual amount. Smallpox, scarlatina,
and typhus, however, are now under the average,
especially the first two of these zymatics ; measles
and whooping cough have fallen to the average.
Cholera was fatal last week to 382 males and 401
females ; previous returns showed a majority on
the other side. The districts on the south side of the
river still form the field on which the disease is
most active. The deaths from it, which in this region
were in three previous weeks, 93, 192, 443, rose last
week to 514. There is a slight decrease in the
eastern districts. In the western and northern, com-
prising Kensington, Chelsea, St.. George (Hanover-
square), Westminster, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St.
James, Marylebone, Pancras, Islington, Hackney, and
Hampstead, the deaths were only 68 against 53 in
the preceding week. The districts which show the
greatest mortality are Bermondsey, where 64 deaths
occurred last week, Newington, where there were 66,
St. George (Southwark), where there were 70, and
Lambeth, where there were 111.

The mean height of the barometer in the week
was 29'598. The temperature was generally below
the average during the week. The mean was 58
deg. 9 see.

The following is extracted from the quarterly
return of the marriages, births, and deaths, regis-
tered in the divisions, counties, and districts of
England, published by the authority of the Registrar-
General :

The following return comprises (1) the births and
deaths registered in all the districts of England during
the spring quarter ending June 30, 1849; and (2) the
marriages in above 12,000 churches and chapels, 2.869
registered places unconnected with the Established
Church, ard 623 superintendent registrars' offices, during
the quarter ending March 31, 1849.
Looking at all the circumstances of the country, the
general result of the return is favourable. The mar-
riages continue steadily at the average; neither swelled
by speculative expectations, nor depressed by idle doubts
of the adequacy of the industry, science, and nature of
the country to supply its wants. The births are increas-
ing. The deaths also increase; but the healfh of the.
country h.d quite recovered at ihe or 1848 from
the des,ructivc epideeiies which raged, and were so fatal
to the people—and particularly the inhabitants of towns
—in the two years extending from the middle of 1846 to
the middle of 1848. The epidemic ch. lera, which reached
England in October, 1848, and is now causing many
deaths in London, Liverpool, and other places, will, it is
true, increase the general mortality of the country in the
months of July, August, and September, as it did before;
but the ravezes of cholera, of typhus, and of the in-
sidious influenza, which th• eaten the country, may be
greatly
mitigated if the same talent and e.nergy are ap-
plied to the improvement of the public health, as have
been applied to other great undertakings in which Eng•
land has engaged.
Cholera is a disease well calculated to excite alarm by
its wide, well-marked mann over the world, the sud-
denness of its invasion, the sufferings it awakens, the
fatality of its attacks, the helplessness of medicine, and
the helplessness of its victims. But it cannot be denied
that the epidemic of cholera in 1832 aroused attention,
and led the way to sanitary inquiries and ameliorations,
which, however imperfect, have saved more lives than
cholera destroyed. For cholera is a health inspector
that speaks in language which nobody can misunder-
stand; it visits the prisoner in the hulk on the polluted
river, the neglected lunatic in his cell, the crowded
workhouse, the establishments for pauper children, the
sides of stagnant sewers, the undruined city, the un-
'cl!ansed street, the cellar, and the attic; as well es the
fair open
quarters which strangers frequent and admire.
The oversights, the errors, the crimes of persons who in
responsible offices have charge of the health and life of
men, are proclaimed aloud by this inexorable voice.
Registration did not exist in 1832; but it appears from
the returns then made to the Board of Health, that in
London 994 persons died of cholera in the first part of
the epidemic, extending from February 14 to May 15.
1832; 4,266 in the second part, extending from June 15
to October 31; and 15 in November and December. Al-
lowing for defective returns in 1832, it is not probable
that the fatality of cholera will be greater in 1849 than
It was then; or that the danger will emount to more
than this, that for a few weeks an inhabitant of London
will incur the same chance of dying in one week as he
usually incurs in two or three weeks. But it has bee n
shown in the annual registration reports, that in ordi-
nary times (1838.44) the chance of dying in London is
constantly 40 per cent. greater than in the neighbouring
counties. Taking the rates of mortality at each age for
1838-44, and the population of London for 1848, the
deaths would be 53,137 in the year: while at the rates
which prevailed in Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire,
and Berkshire, the deaths in Loudon would be only