The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-24 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARES.

St. Germain ......... ..... 912 50 .. 512 50 912 50 .. 912 50
Versa R.B • ••• • • • 395 .. 395 .. 395 .. 395
L. 8.. ..... ...••• 277 50 . 280 .. 277 50 .. 280
Rouen . •

itouen to Ilavre•• ••
Orleans .......•• -• •• ••1018 75 ..1025

.. 770 .. 770
..1018 75 -1025

Strasburg to Bale •••••• 277 60 .. 280 .. 277 5.5 . 280
Mignon to Marseilles.• •••• 780 • 780 .. 780
.. 780
RAILWAY SHARES FOR TIIE ACCOUNT, OCTOBER 31.
St. Germain. •. •. •• •• •• •• •• 915 •• 915 .. 915 •• 915
Versailles, •. • •
Rouen •• ...
Rouen to Havre• .•
Orleans •• •• •• ..... •• •• •• • 1018 75 ..102G 25 ..1018 75 —1026 25
Strasburg to Bale•• .• •• •• •• 278 75 .. 278 75 .. 278 75 .. 278 75

MORTALITY IN THE ISTETROPOLIS.—The returns
for the week ending Saturday, Oct. 19, shows a
decrease of 123 as compared with the preceding
week. The number of deaths in the first class is still
large, being 226, while the average for the autumn
months is only 191. This has been caused chiefly
by small-pox, scarlatina, and typhus, which, with the
average, are respectively as follows :—Small- pox,
35_17 ; scarlatina, 81-45 ; typhus, 38-29. The
number ofei d pneumonia is small, the
average being
while last last week it was 74. Asthma
shows a still greater decrease. The following is an
elaot7h, s from
analysis of the list of violent deaths :—Fracture, two
cases, of which one was by a fall. Wound, three
cases, result of accident, of which two were suicides.
Burns, one case. Poison, two cases, of which one was
suicide. Drowning, two cases (whether the result of
accident or otherwise, unknown). Hanging, one
case (suicide). Suffocation, two cases. Total, nine
males and four females (including one case of tetanus).
The quantity of rain fallen is great, as might have
been anticipated, the amount in inches being 1.78—
the greatest quantity fallen in any week, probably,
during the whole year.

It is scarcely necessary to remind the public that
ihe holyday given on the occasion of the Queen's visit to
the City next Monday has nothing whatever to do with
the payment of bills of exchange If these are due on
Monday, they must be paid the same as on any other
day ; arid if a bill becomes due and is dishonoured on
Saturday, notice of dishonour must be given by the holder
on the Monday as a matter of course. The only.excep-
tions to the general rule are Good Friday, Christmas-
day, and days appointed by her Majesty's proclamation
for solemn fast or thanksgiving.
ALLEGED AIDiLDER.—Last evening, Mr. Higgs
held an Inquest at the Rising Sun, Charles-street, Gros-
venor-square, on the body of Harriet Parker, aged fifty-
three, wife of John Parker, in the employ of Mr. Thomas
Cubitt, and now in custody on remand from Marlbo-
rough-street Police-court, on a charge of having caused
her death by wilful neglect and ill-treatment. Jt appeared
in evidence that deceased lodged with her husband, who,
besides being a labourer, was an out-pensioner of Chelsea
Hospital, at No. 9, Ranelagh-street, Thames-bank, and
that on the 20th ult., he came home drunk, pushed her
about, tore her clothes off her back, and kicked her on
the legs. He assaulted her next day in a similar man-
ner, but no one saw him strike her with his fists, though
in the evening he threw a board at her, which, striking
her on the right cheek, the bone was split in two by the
concussion The cheek, though much bruised and
puffed, was not cut open by the blow, because it was
given by the flat part of the board. After this, sho took
to her bed, and her husband would get nothing for her,
telling her to get what sho wanted herself, that her
illness was noting more than laziness, though at the
time sho was unable to sit up, Subsequently, she was
attended by Mr._Davis, of Belgrave-plane, but his attend-
ance was rendered nugatory by the annoyance she
received at her husband's hands, who eventually stripped
the bed on which she lay of all its covering.
Mr. Davis got an order for her admission to the
workhouse in Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, whither
she was removed on the 12th instant, at her earnest re-
quest, because she said her husband 'had received his
pension that day, would get drunk in consequence, and
kill her before morning. Deceased had been formerly a
nurse in St. George's Hospital ; her husband was sixty-
three years of age, and they had been married only a
year. Mr. 11. Harding, surgeon, of 38, King-street,
Berkeley-square, saw the deceased tho evening (12th
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of a pain in the stomach, where, she said, she had been
kicked by her husband. She was seized with almost
continual nausea, and firtally with convulsions, to which
she had been subject from her birth, and those diseases
increasing, she gradually sank, and died on Sunday
morning last. Ile had since opened the body, and her
death was immediately caused by an effusion of serum
into the cavities of the brain, and into all the serous
ones of tho whole system. The ill-treatment did not
produce this general effusion, but it might have hastened
it. The inquiry having lasted three hours and a half,
was adjourned for the evidence of Mrs. Davis, who had
Attended deceased immediately after the ill-treatment.
runmc Moore, a member of the
Town Council of Leicester, has given notice of a motion
fer the next meeting, for the appointment of a Com-
mittee "to inquire into and report to the Council as to
the best means of establisNrig a cemetery in the suburbs
of Leicester."