The Sun. — 1844-10-24 (London, England)

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.exceptions to the general rule are Good Friday, Christmasday, 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, Grosvenor-square, on the body of Harriet Parker, aged fiftythree, wife of John Parker, in the employ of Mr. Thomas Cubitt, and now in custody on remand from Marlborough-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 manner, 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 attendance 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 request, 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 sixtythree 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 pinlattslhe ofwas ibroughtnt os et She had marks of violence on her body, and complained vheer ev%l• yo rbkehaotue sne,b 3,7lhreenr she bcaonmd-. 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 Committee "to inquire into and report to the Council as to the best means of establisNrig a cemetery in the suburbs of Leicester."