The Express.
London, England, 1868-07-11 00:00:00

FATAL LEAP FROM 4 WINDOW.

Mr. Humphreys held an inquest last evening, at the
London Ho: pile., relative to the death under very singular
circumstances, of Ellen Macnamara, a domestic servant,
26 years of age.
The deceased was a domestic servant at the Sussex
Anna, Poplar, and on Sunday evening she complained to
her mother of having been badly treated, and said that
she had got another situation.
Early on Monday morning, however, as George
Stewart, a watchman was going his rounds, he saw
the young woman lying on the ground outside the Sussex
Arms. Be thought she was a loose character, and he
paned on. But when he passed that way a second time
the woman said, "Don't you know me ? You don't know
what I bad to put up with in this house." The window
on the second floor was open, and it was evident that she
bad thrown herself out of it. She was taken to the
hoital.
The barmaid at the Sussex Arms saw the deceased at
the hospital, and the latter said that she got up during
the night to leave the house and that she flung out her
bundle and then got backwards out of the window until
she became giddy, and she knew nothing more. The de-
ceased was well treated in the house, and she could have
left by the door at any time. She used to be a little vacant
in her look occasionally.
Mr. Sheffield, house surgeon, said that deceased's back
was broken by the fall from the window.
The jury returned a verdict that " The deceased died
from fracture of the spine, caused by her throwing herself
from a window while of unsound mind."

Mr. Longfellow left yesterday for the Isle of
Wight, on a visit to Mr. Tennyson. Subsequently, he
will proceed to Switzerland and Italy, and he is expected
to return to London in May of next year.
The Bishop of London will preach to-morrow
morning at her Majesty's Chapel Royal, Whitehall, in
aid of the funds of the Incorporated Church Building
Society,

Yesterday Chang, the Chinese giant, who is SI
feet high, accompanied by his wife, paid a visit to Barclay
and Perkins' brewery, in Southwark. The singular
visitors were in full Chinese costume, and were received
by Mr. Barclay, Mr. Perkins, and Mr. Bevan, the princi-
pals of the firm, and their ladies. A host of clerks, brewers,
porters, maltsters, and draymen turned out and cheered
the giant loudly. They were hospitably entertained, and
their "'wit extended over some little time. _

AMATEUR eITAIIP3OMBHIP-O;THE THAMES.—
The trial heat for the Wingfield Challenge Sculls was
rowed Testerday afternoon from Putney to Mortlake. The
competitors were Mr. Stout, of the London Rowing Club,
and Mr. Mitchell, of Magdalen College, Oxford. Betting
was heavily in favour of Mr. Stout ; indeed. it had been
thought vary questionable whether Mr. Mitchell would
start, as he was known to have had a very serious illness last
year, and to have sprained his ancle about three weeks ago,
from which causes he was scratched for both Henley and the
Metropolitan Amateur Regattas. Feeling physically well,
he determined to start, but from his want of practice it
was a very hollow rare. Mr. Lawcs, as the last holder of
the scullt, not competing, was the umpire and accom-
panied the nor in a Citizen steamer. A Loudon Rowing
Club 12-tared boat, with Joseph Sadler in the bow as
his pilot, went up with Mr. Stoat; a Leander eight,
with Mr. Mollingworth, of Oxford University, accom-
panied Mr. Mitelw,l. Me. Stow had the (thole° and took
the Middlesex station. Mr. E. Searle. the eminent boat-
builder, ma, marten At about ten minutes put 6 they
were off. Stout etme away with a slight lead, hut it was
what is b., mei( .• a waiting race' with both. After a few
yards Ott lseame level, and when only about a furlong
from the starting plaee, Mitchell fouled his right scull
against ri barge. and Stout, who was at the time a quarter
of a Knuth ahead, went clear of him. Mr. Mitchell
exerted lianself to the utmost, but his opponent's great
superiority was manifest throughout. Stout was four
lengths ahead at Hammersmith, which, with a favourable
wind, took ten minutes to reach. Stout gained consider-
ably more, and was well ahead within a few yards of
home, when Mitchell rolled out of his boat and swain to
the Leander. Time, 2.1 min. 23 sec. According to the
rules Mr. Stout has to row against Mr. W. B. Woalgate,
the holder of the sculls , on Monday.—Times.
ANOTHER DEATH THROUGH CRINOLIXE.—An
inquest was held before Mr. Humphreys last evening,
at the London Hospital, on the body of a girl •namsd
Spangenberg, aged 14 years. The girl was previously in
service in Gough-street, and it appears that her clothes
caught fire through being projected to the grate by a
crinoline she was wearing. Death was the result of the
injuries she received, and theverdict of the jury attributed
the accident to the wearing of crinoline.
NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF WORKS OF ART, AT
Laub 1868.—Return of adrnitssions :—Friday, July 10,
by season tickets, 1,027; by payment, 1,447. Total,
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