The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 14, 1866.

minutes. The stoker, a Iran named Gallard, was
killed ; his body was frightfully mutilated. Many
of the sailors were also mach injured. The Passe
Partout sunk soon after the accident, and the
Maria suffered considerable damage.

A tragedy of real life, with startling accessories,
has been elucidated by the Court of Assize for the
Department of the Haute Saone. Two widows,
mother anddaughter, were charged with the murder
of Jean Baptiste Collileux. The murdered man was
the son in law of the former and the husband of the
latter. The prisoners arc Virginie Pipert, widow
Petet, Marie Louise Petet, widow. Collileux was
her husband. It appeared from the evidence that
the mother in law had for some time past been actu-
ated with bitter hatred against her son-in-law, and
she had been successful in making her daughter
share that hatred against him. The father-in-law
also joined in the feeling, buthe was not inclined to
commit murder to satiate it. There was, however,
suspicion against him, and he was taken into cus-
tody, but he avoided inquiry by cutting his
throat in prison. The victim, the unfortunate
son-in-law, was a man of rare credulity.
The mother-in-law persuaded him that there
was a valuable treasure concealed at the bot-
tom of the Rahin, a river which runs near the vil-
lage of Lure, where the prisoners resided, and that
they knew how to obtain possession of it ; but they
told him that to effect this object it was necessary
that he should sit on the ground, allow his feet and
hands to be bound, and that he should be placed
parallel to the river, his face turned towards the
west, and that he should fix his eyes steadily upon
the river, and watch its course until a sudden light
from heaven should indicate the spot where the
treasure was concealed. All this the victim did
without difficulty, and in full confidence of success,
and placed himself in the position which his two
near relatives desired. As soon as the two women
had arranged the matter, and while the poor
victim was looking out for the light from heaven
which was to lead him on to fortune, the elder pri-
soner struck him on the head with a heavy hammer
with such force that he rolled over on his side
and become insensible immediately. From the con-

fession of this tender-hearted woman it seems that
she did not like to go too far, and she therefore
called to her daughter, and said, " There he is."
The daughter was unwilling to interfere in such a
delicate affair, and this being so, the mother took it
upon herself to finish it. The man being dead, the
daughter lent her assistance to throw the corpse into
the river. The jury found the mother guilty, and
she was sentenced to death. With the usual kind-
ness and consideration of French juries, they
found " extenuating circumstances" in regard to
the daughter, who had at least been a spectator, if
not an aider and assister, while her busband was
being murdered, and so she was only condemned to
hard labour for 20 years. This account may be
read as if it were a sensation romance in a cheap
periodical, but it is an " ower true tale," analysed
from the records of the Court of Assize of the De-
partment of the llaute-Saone, which has not yet
finished all the cases to be submiteed to it at its
present " gaol delivery."
As an appropriate addition to this illustration
of murder and disregard of the admonition " no-
thing extenuate," it may be added that a man
named Jean Barre, found guilty before the
Court of Assize for the Department of the Correze
of murdering his wife and two of his children, has
escaped the punishment of death from the sovereign
sway which " extenuating circumstances" have over
those who administer justice in France.
Last evening we had a slight storm of thunder
and lightning, and to-day the weather is unsettled
and showery, and rather cooler. The observations
at the Observatory lead to the expectation of vio-
lent storms all over Europe. Thus the new moon
to-day is ushered in under troubled auspices.

HEALTH OF LONDON.

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

In the week that ended on Saturday, June 9, the
births registered in London and twelve other large
towns of the United Kingdom were 4,149 ; the
deaths registered 3,091. The annual rate of mor-
tality was 26 per 1,000 persons living.
_ _ _

In London the births of 1,006 boys and 953 girls
n all 1,959 children, were registered in the week
[n the corresponding week of ten years, 1856-65,
the average number, corrected for increase of popu•
[ation, was 1,947.

The deaths registered in London during the week
were 1,383. It was the 23d week of the year, and
the average number of deaths for that week was,
with a correction for increase of population, 1,196.
The actual number exceeds the estimated amount
by 187.
Under the influence of summer weather there is
a decrease of the mortality that prevailed in May,
during which the average weekly number of deaths
was above 1,500. There were, last week, 34 deaths
from small-pox, 71 from measles, 43 from scarlatina,
75 from whooping cough, 53 from typhus, and 22
from diarrhcea. In the last three weeks the mean
temperature of the air was 52.0 deg., 56.2 deg., and
61.0 deg.
The following three deaths from cholera were
registered in the week :--.

At 18, North-street, Marylebone, on June 1, the
widow of a journeyman carpenter, aged 49 years,
died of " choleraic diarrhoea (48 hours)."
At 1, Duke's-lane, Kensington,. on June 2, a
needlewoman, aged 33 years, " English cholera."
At 47, South-street, May-fair, on June 6, the
daughter of a physician, aged six months," choleraic
diarrhoea (four days)."
A labourer died in St. George's Hospital of
" elephantiasis, amputation, exhaustion."
A carman, aged 33 years, died in St. Bartholo-
mew's Hospital, from " small wound of first finger
of right hand ; pricked by a thistle (one month) ;
gangrene of chest and arm."
The following four deaths by carriage accidents
in the streets were registered during the week :

The wife of a painter, 51 years, knocked down by a
horse and cart in Earl-street, Kensington, died
after three days' illness on 3d June in St. George's
Hospital ; the son of a paper-bag maker, aged five
years, run over by a brewer's dray in the Euston-
road, died on 25th May ; the son of a mariner, aged
four years, run over by a cart, died on 2d June in
Poplar Hospital ; the daughter of a labourer, aged
four years, run over by an omnibus, died on 30th
May, in North-wharf-road, Paddington.
The annual rate of mortality last week was 24
per 1,000 in London, 28 in Edinburgh, and 25 in
Dublin; 22 in Bristol, 21 in Birmingham, 39 in
Liverpool, 27 in Manchester, 30 in Salford, 28 in
Sheffield, 34 in Leeds, 19 in Hull, 29 in Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, and 34 in Glasgow.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.878 in.
The atmospheric pressure declined to 29.66 in. on
Sunday, and rose to 30.11 in. on Friday. The mean
temperature of the air in the week was 61.0 deg.,
which is 3.7 deg. above the average of the same
week in 50 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher).
Saturday was very warm. The highest and lowest
temperature in the week occurred on that day, the
former 84.7 deg., the latter 50.67. The mean tem-
perature on Saturday was 10.1 dg. above the average
of that day. The thermometer in the sun reached
157.0 deg. on tho same day. The difference between
the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature
was 6.9 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the
air was 78, complete saturation being represented by
100. The wind blew chiefly from the south-west.
Rain fell to the amount of 1.48 in., of which so
large a quantity as 1.34 in. fell on Monday.

We regret to announce the death of Count Kiel-
manscgge, for many years the Hanoverian Minister at this
Court. He died at his country seat in Holstein, and the
news of his death only reached his daughter, Lady Walden,
on Tuesday night. During his long residence in England
Count Kielmausegge had formed many friendships, he was
very widely known beyond the ordinary bounds of diplo-
matic society, and will be much and deservedly regretted.
THE ARRANGEMENTS OF THE LIVERPOOL STOCK
ExcHANGß.—During some discussion yesterday at the
meeting of the council of the Liverpool Chamber of Com-
merce on the question of the recent panic, Mr. Stitt ex-
pressed his satisfaction and that of the council with regard
to the course adopted by the committee of the Liverpool
Stock Exchange, with a view to prevent the wholesale de-
preciation of stock in periods of panic. He expressed a
hope that similar arrangements would ere long be adopted
by the Loudon committee.