The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-12 00:00:00

died of internal haemorrhage produced by a wound
of the left renal artery, which must have been
caused by a sharp cutting instrument. There is no
appearance of pressure on the neck, but I ( an't tell
you . how the abrasions on the chin or lips have
been caused.

A Juror—Would a kick produce them ?
Witness—lndeed it would ; there also some
hair in her teeth. I think the woman must have
fainted almost after she got the renal wound. I
really could not say what description of instrument
caused the renal wound ; it must have been a sharp
knife, and the instrument went in a good distance,
but a chisel- would have done it. I measured the
wound with the chisel in the room, and found the
wound to be a little longer than the edge of the
chisel. The appearance of the lungs gives no indi-
cation of suffocation. The stays of deceased was
produced; it was much torn, and had something
like a long tear or cut on the right breast, and also
a small incision on the left side, but there was no
mark of blood whatever on it.
Dr. Porter took the stays into the room where
the body lay, for the purpose of making a further
examination, and on his retnrn said that, by fitting
- the torn stays to the body, it was possible to make
the tear or cut in it correspond with the wounds
on the deceased's chest and side, but he could not
swear that the stab was inflicted through the stays.
The circumstance of the stays being wholly free
from blood was not easy to account for, if it were
on the deceased's person at the time of the infliction
of the wounds. There were three slight abrasions
on the knuckles of the left hand. The renal wound
is very. clean throughout, and the renal artery is

quite cleanly cut. .
To a Juror—At the instant she got the wound
she might have screamed.
Another Juror—There was no one in the room
at the time.
John Salmon examined—l live at No. 10, Deane-
street. lam a clothes broker. I knew deceased
by sight perfectly well, and I. also know Thomas
Black by sight. I saw him getting shaved on
yesterday morning in the shop of Browne, a barber,
at about ten o'clock. He got shaved by. Browne.
He appeared to be sober. I heard Black say some-
thing about a grey linen jacket which he had in
his hand rolled up. He said that it went astray
the night before, and that he had got it again. He
was not more than five or ten minutes in the shop.
I was sitting on a form at the time. Black did
not get his whiskers shaved off. He did not appear
to be excited, but spoke in a cool, regular manner.
Mrs. Catherine Kelly examined—l live at No.
12, Deane-street. I know Thomas Black. At very
near nine o'clock on Saturday morning I saw
Thomas Black standing at his own hall-door for
about five minutes, after which he walked up New-
row very quickly, with his right hand thrust into
his breast, and his left hand swinging. He seemed
excited—in a great hurry like—and I thought he
wanted to be in time for mass at the Nunnery. •
Constable Thomas Bell, 164 A, examined—l was
on duty on Sunday about 12 o'clock on the side of
the street opposite to this house. Hearing a scream
apparently proceeding from the house, I crossed
over and asked a little girl at the door what was
the matter, and she told me that there was a.woman
murdered. I came up stairs here, and on my way I
heard a woman say 'that "he murdered her, and
that he was gone." I went into the deceased's
room, and saw Mrs. Quin there, crying; laid my
hand on the body of deceased, which lay on the
bed naked, and on her back, and found it to be
quite cold. I saw the wound in her side, and the
sheets stained with blood. I looked about for any
instrument that might have inflicted the wound,
and found the chisel now produced opposite to the
.bed, lying on the upper of two boxes placed on one
another. I found no trace of blood on the chisel. I
found her stays and some of her clothes on the foot
of the bed, and more of them on the ground.. Her
chemise was on the ground, torn in pieces, and with
blood on a portion of it. Her cape was on a chair
at the foot of the bed ; it was not torn. I did not
observe the fender or notice a poker. I left a con-
stable to take charge of the body, while I made a
report at Chancery-lane Station. I saw a straw
bonnet on the table, which appeared uninjnred.
Several chisels of various sizes and gouges, which
belonged to the husband of the deceased, were pro-
duced to the jury,
Catherine Walsh examined—John Walsh, my hus-
band, is a labourer. I live in the front dining-room
of this house. I knew deceased and her husband.
I heard them coming up stairs on Saturday night ;
I think at about eight o'clock, but could not exactly
tell the hour. I heard Black giving his room door
two or three kicks, and in about ten minutes after-
wards I heard deceased come up the stairs and call
out " Tom" twice. He muttered something which
I did not hear, and when she got to the top of the
stairs she tuned up some sort of a song to please
him, and after that I heard no more of them until
she was found dead.
To a Juror—l could not say.whether or not either
of them was then drunk or sober.
The Coroner recapitulated the evidence, and said
there appeared to be no doubt that the deceased had
been murdered by her husband.
The jury, without hesitation, unanimously found
" that Margaret Black was wilfully murdered by
her husband, Thomas Black, on the night of Satur-
day, the Bth of January."
An order was made for the interment of the
body of the deceased, and the coroner issued a
warrant for the apprehension of, Thomas Black,
for. the murder of his wife, who surrendered him-
self to the police yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon,
and he was committed to gaol on the coroner's
warrant.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE

WEEK.

(From the .Registrar-Generar s Report.)

In the week that ended last Saturday, Jan. Bth,
the number of deaths registered in London was
1,338. In the ten years 1849-58 the average num-
ber of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last
week was 1,227 ; but as the deaths returned for
last week occurred in a population which has in-
-creased, they should be compared with the average
after the latter is raised in proportion to the in-
crease, a correction which will make it 1,349. The
actual number of deaths in last week approximates
very closely to the result obtained by calculation.
The deaths from zymotic diseases, which in the
previous week were 400, decreased last week to
317; but they are still rather above the corrected
average, which is 299. Measles declined from 53
to 43, scarlatina from 135 to 119, whooping cough
from 61 to 45, typhus from 52 to 31. Last week
there were 15 deaths from small pox. There were
2 from intemperance, besides 4 in which the cause
is returned as delirium tremens. A woman died
from destitution in the Westminster workhouse, to
which she had been removed before her death.
Last week the births of 886 boys and 852 girls,
in all 1,738 children, were registered in London.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1849-58
the average number was 1,561.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 30.421 in.
The•mean daily reading was above 30 in. from Dec.
31 to Jan. 8, both days included, and last Saturday
it was so high as 30.526 in. The barometrical read-
ings varied from 30.25 in. to 30.56 in. The mean
temperature of the air in the week was 35.4 deg.,
which is 0.6 deg. below the average of the same week
in 43 years. The. thermometer in the shade attained
its highest point, 43.5 deg., on Tuesday ; and fell
to its lowest, 29 deg., on Saturday. The range of
the week was, therefore, 14.5 deg. The mean daily
range was 7.4 deg. The difference between the
mean dew-point temperature and air temperature
was 1.8 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the
air was 94 ; on Sunday and Tuesday the humidity
100 (or complete saturation). The mean tempera-
ture of the water of the Thames was 40.8 deg. On
the last four days the wind blew from the north-
east. The amount of rain in the week was only
0.04 in. Fogs were prevalent.

QUARTERLY SUPPLEMENT TO THE RE-
GISTRAR-GENERAL'S REPORT.
In the 13 weeks that ended Ist January the mor-
'N' in London was high. The deaths registered
.A that period rose to 17,688, whereas in the four
corresponding autumnal periods of 1854-7 they
ranged from 13,840 to 17,238, the latter number
having
.been in part the result of cholera and scar-
latina in 1854. The excess of mortality in the
quarter that has just passed arose from two causes :
scarlatina (including diphtheria), which has been
extremely prevalent throughout the period, and in
the earlier part of it carried off about 160 persons
in a week ; and bronchial complaints which became
unusually fatal towards the end of November, the
air at that time having been remarkably cold for
the season. Though the mean temperature for the
quarter, 44 degree§, was high, the early severity
of the weather and its quick transitions proved
fatal to young and infirm constitutions. Pulmonary
diseases, which include chiefly bronchitis and pneu-
monia, carried off 4,075 persons ; in the four corre-
sponding quarters the numbers ranged from 2,510
to 3,732. Scarlatina was fatal in 1,814 cases, 70 of
which occurred in Westminster, 141 in Marylebone
(59 of these in the sub-district of Christchurch),

206 in Pancras, 84 inlslington, 88 in Poplar, 110
in Lambeth. These are some of the parts in which
it was rife.

Of 471 violent deaths, 366 were by accident or
negligence, 12 by murder or manslaughter, 63 by
6121C10.