The Express.
London, England, 1849-05-28 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUEST.-SATIIILDAT.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON TIIE DERBY DAL—Be-
fore Mr. Bedford, in the Westminster Hospital, on the
body of Nathaniel Rice, aged 11 years, who was killed
under the following circumstances on the Derby day :
—lt appeared by the evidence that it has been the
custom for • number of boys to assemble on the dare
of the Epsom races at the Millbank side of Vauxhall-
bridge, and to run after the carriages retnrnieg from the
Dswns, for the object of obtaining money, which is often
thrown from the windows, or by the riden in cabs. On
Wednesday evening, about half-put 7, Captain George
R Gardner, N., and Captain Jones, a member of the Con-
servative Clefs, arrived in one of Hansom's patent cabs
at Vauxhall-bridge, from the races, and, when the
vehicle had turned towards Millbank, the deceased,
in company with many other boys, ran after it,
and importuned the gentlemen inside for some halfpence.
The driver, in order to get away from them, pulled to the off
aide, and the deceased, by some means, fell over a stone and
was thrown under the near wheel, which pissed over his
head, and literally crushed it to pieces. He was taken to a
surgeon, and afterwards to the hospital, where he died the
same night from the effect of the dreadful frectswee.—Cept.
Gardner stated that the cab was not going at a rate of more
than five miles an hour, and the driver was perfectly sober.
Neither he nor Capt. Jones bad thrown out any money to
the boys.—The Coroner, having deprecated the dangerous
practice of throwing about money on such an occasion
amongst crowds of bele, the jury returned a verdict of " Ac-
cideatal death."

IRELAND.

DOBLIN,

There is another vacancy in the Irish representative
peerage by the death of the Earl of Mayo. There is
only one liberal peer (Lord CharLemont) amongst the
ch leen by our nobility to represent them in the
upper house.
the Cork Reporter states, "All the reports which
have reached us up to the present are of the most
cheering character as to the prospect of an abundant
potato crop." The provincial journals speak on the
whole favourably of the chances of the harvest
There is an opinion here diffused through various
circles that English statesmen, both whig and
toy, are anxious to dismantle the city of Dublin,
aad despoil it of various institutions, which give it
much social influence. It is asserted that English
rulers would be very glad to raise Cork and Belfast at
the expense of Dublin, so u to break down the
political influence of Dublin, which, it is asserted,
tends to promote agitation, and which at a future
time may prove dangerous. It is not for me to inquire
into the justice of such views ; I have only to record
their existence, and day alter day we hear more about
delenda eat Ehluna.
The Irish bar is quaking at the effect of Sir John
Romilly's act. According to Sir A. Peel, our barris-
ters at present " devour the substance of suitors in
chancery," and their brains are puzzled to know
what they will have to devour, when " a short, sharp,
and decisive" tribunal will cut away their dilatory
occupations. The bar never had gloomier times,and they
are likely to be worse. The present term is oven
am scant in business than the last, and it is now a
very common thing for barristers to keep accounts
with attornies, (contrary to the regular professional
rule) as from the state of the country the solicitors
cannot get money to fee the lawyers, who have in
many cases to wait for the fees.
The Evening Mail of last night contains a remark-
able document It is an address to the dean by hi,
protestant and catholic neighbours, testifying to his
extraordinary exertions to relieve the poor. The
address is signed by Lord Gort, and by Dr. Ffrench,
the catholic bishop of the diocese, by the county high
sheriff, and by a host of the surrounding gentry and
professional respectability. It will be recollected that
Bir Robert Peel paid the most marked compliment to
Lord Normanby for his judicious use of church
patronage, and it is to be hoped that we shall have no
more of the Knox species of promotions.
The state of Clare continues to be truly fearful : 12
deaths by starvation is two days; Capt. Kennedy,
the poor-law inspector, is making extraordinary exer-
tions which have won him much praise. In one
townland there have been ejected by the landlord 60
families.
Mr. E. B. Roche, M.P., is attacked in a Limerick
journal for having ejected some tenants, bat he is
most undeservedly censured, for his exertions to miti-
gate the distress have been mast praiseworthy, and
few have been heavier losers by the state of the coun-
try than the ALP. for Cork county.