The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-13 00:00:00

SHOCIING ARAM oft 0048YOVI1D

3041141'.

A boatman in the Gosatimard service, wood Jame
I. Mc ago! 3r yours, and whit kw Moat Mahe mambo hat
lam gal:treed in Whitebait*, hen ma with his death wader
nowt pailful cirewaassina The dud body tithe =Sur-
tussle man having been letnall. shook *AO easel so ll° a;orettag of Sued., last, MI the back stem to Ike W 444 Pier
at Ulu town, information was glow as the pikes;
and on holiday afternoon, William Lusals_ &go in.
1141 an inquest at the Wellington lan, Wail Stood,
relative to the poor fellow's untimely and. Tram the
erilence then adduced, it seems that the ditasamd, whit
had not Nan on duty during Friday hat, had emit
• considerable portion of the day in esipposy with
soma fronds, and had partaken of Nur. Tb• steamer
fur Lirsrpcil from this port being advertised to
;NEI at midnight, and the deceased's (etude intagl-
io,. to awl in that meal, ha wrompoisel them down to the
eug.ir-tosigoe, aid was there awn and spoken to by Mr. John
14046001 a, the blepseter of theWhitaharen Blum Narita:ion
Compaa7. Soma pawing remark. woes made by the demand
and Mr q, therm, whn, though observing that Vise had got
liquor, did no: think be was otherwise than quite capable of
taking can of himself. Tha steamer sailed from the Sugar-
tongue eorsowhere about half-past lon Saturday worming,
aid the deceased we. sever seen alive from shortly before
that thee. A. his devise notaunimeed on Saturday rum-
ing, and u Vine did not make appearaace, inquiries
were wale rerpectiag Mtn, but he could not be found.
ThJakior that ha Wight possibly have got on board the
steamer pit prior to her departure, and bang unable to
get on chore again had been carried at to Liverpool,
Cinimaader Comber, the principal coast•gnard olSoer
at thi, station, telegraphed to that port, but received an
answer that nothing wee known of hiw there. Under these

eircumetances it jaa hand that sometbizig serious bed
recurred to the unfortunate man, and this apprehension was
fully verified by the ending of We body on Sunday morn-
tag, NA &Pentad above. Au examination of the corm.
eh feted that the heed was fearfully injured, the skull being
fractured, :sod there being bedew, &n., upon the face and
other parts. The fracture alone was quits sufficient to
came death. No reliable Informatke can be socertained se
to how the r. ir fellow came by hi. death ; but the mot pro-
bable eau-• of the fatality is that, Whig somewhat affected by
the drink he bad weaken of, the detained bad walked an to
the Wen Pier, pethape for the pupae of seeing the steamer
round the pier heed, and stumbling in the darksem, had
fallen over steward. Year the steps so the town end
of the pier there to on the outside of the structure a oronn
buttrera, the top of which (about 12 feet from the top of the
pier) project. outward considerably; end it is conjectured
that. havuw gm, up the steps, he had fallen over at this
particular place. Felling with hie heed upon this projection
the irritate would of course naturally result, and. if not
produrfue death at once, would render him utterly end in-
stantane,o•lv irweisige. so that on machine the *ea he
woold out have the smallest chance of raving homelf. There
was no suspicion I f foal play toward. the decree. 4, and
the tory, titer considering the facts, gave a verdict of
Pound deed.-

The de. r toed was e ream= on board the steam triple
Tiger, Ceptain G list, &Arkin' part of the Itueitian wee, and
was on board the ill-feted real% when aim west on shore near
to Oirwee. and wea taken pieces. by the Rnaalens.—Cron-
kelead l'arLit.