The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-01-12 00:00:00

corroxEn's I 1 QUEST.

INQUI:ST ON TILE BODIES OV THE TWO YOUND
WIIO WERE DROWNED IN TIIL CANAL IN
T. JAMES'S PARK.

Last evening, at seven o'clock. ing,tisidoas were taken at the
Bid Lion, in Prinee'a.street. Westilanister. by Mr.
Coroner, on slaw of the bodies of the two yuuni men who wets
drowned in the canal on Tread. y afternoon.

Notwnhatantling the many liu-ndre,la who witnessed the brcal:i;.g
of the ice, iod the aulwetinent droweii g of the wihrtnea
caved relsona. only one individual, named I:cttr•und fah.7.ylr, of
iihx: on Commons, came forward in describe the (:.reui-
Int oaurrence. He stated that about tutli-pa,t two o'clock a
mur.ber of young persona who had been eli linK, ruscinLlei: in a
body to away the coming of some oho were then editlinA tows;, s
them, that one and all might shirt so lei to tollnw regOtirly ; abet,,
from the great weight, the ice gave way. and they all nook. 'the
witness and itonte others immediately extricated f.:ur or five, 1.1:t
the lce cracking to a eonsielershle tx:trit, they were et 11. VA !!,7;',.

treat to save thedisclres, The two t,c,:castd perm,' a tqllikt
sand upon their rising the second time, w•rre +.9 ealattoe.ed :•: t,

be either conscious of, er ghle to avail ihemstlven of the re
offered by the bystanders, many of %limo marred thetfi.•rbtt
tacit other. la bia opinion, the dreadful affair was pure:). ac.
citiental.

The Jury, having viewed the bodies, returned a verdict of—
" Accidental Dra h.' "

Neither of the bodies hese been yet owned.

On Tuesday an inquisition was held at Lowestoft. before John
E.Spirrow, Gent. Cornier, on view of the body of Mary Clark!,
an aged woman, • hose death, it was rummer; d, had been earsed
by injury she received from several boys who hail illtreatod her.
The deceased lived in one of the aims-houses in Lowestoft, sad
it appeared in evidence, that in the afternoon of Saturday last twee-
ral boys came into the yard before the house, and endeavoured w
force open the door, in order to pelt her with snnw-balls. The de-
ceased prevented this by going into the passmge and placing herself
against the door ; upon which the toys forced open her window,
and two of thew, John 011 by and John Norman, throw several
snow-balls at her, but it did not appear that F4le had been struck by
any of them. On a sudden the deceased fell gown, apparently in a
ht. nn which the bop, being alarmed. ran ;way.
Ore of the witnesses, Elizabeth Lock. who was in the yard dur-
ing the time, went into the deceased's house, and found her lying
thud on the door.

Mr. Baxter. a surgeon, was immediately sent for, who came and
examined the body, and in the evening he and some othergentle•
men attended and opened thebody of th. 2 Deceased ; the result of
which he explained to the Jury, and which moved, that the whole
of the viscera was in a very active state of &scan, particularly the
large artery, the aorta leading from the heart was in a complete slate
of oahitication, and stated his opinion, that the death of the deemed
was caused by disease, and not from any butt or injury, of which
there was no appearance, except a contusimi cast the kti cheek bons
and a cut on the lip, which he suppos•Ad to here been occasioned by
the deceased's falling on the Soon Be nisn stated, Mat any swiden
irritation or excitement of mind acting upon it person labouring
under disease similar to that of the deceased, might bring on int-.
mediate death.

Upon this and other evidence the Jury returned their verdict,
that the dectrod died from an ex•reme state of disease. but that
her death OW eicoelerated by the mi►cuaduct of the 'nay*,lby and
Norniati.—BaryGozette.

Another accident of drowning, similar to that which oe-
alined in St. James's Park on Tuesday, happened in a pond near
klitree about the seine time. tone youths had ventured on alto
ice to skait and elide, when a part of it gave way, and William
Ontlilard.aged 17, nephew of a neighbouripg farmer, was drowned.
llis cousin, who was with him, had a narn;vr escape in endeavour-
ing to save him.

SI:DDEN DEnTit.—Yeaterday morning, as the gaoler of
the New ['limn, Clerkenwell, opened the town in which the Fri.
soners who are committed for. short periods are confined, he ob-
served one of them, of the name of Dole, lying on the ground,
whom be desired to rise, but having no aiswer returned, he
west up to him, and on touching him found the poor fellow
was quite dead. From the statement of 'hitt two fellow.prisonero it
appeared that Dale rolled out of bed about a quarter past threw
o'clock in the morning, but not hearing him complain of any tbaeg.
they thought that he had fallen out in turning in the bed, and genlis,
soon after to sleep, they never missed him. The deceased, who was
a pauper in St. George's workhouse, Mount street, %at; on Tuesday
brought before Mr. Conant, the Magistrate at Illarlburough-ameet.
by Mr. Grist, the assistant overseer, for using abusive language to
Mrs. Nash, the head nurse at the workhouse, of such an offensive
description that we cannot state it, when in ehnsequence of his frac.
ing been brought up for the same offenes two or three times before.
Mr. Conant committed him fur 21 days. .11e was then in goad
health. ()n being taken to the cell, previous to his removal,
he again used sumo very bad language to the gaoler. Pepper,
on taking him down in the evening into the prison saw no
difference in his appearance, and he then said, . Pepper, how
long sin I for ?" The gaoler replied, teenty.orie days. " Oh,"
said he, " I have only a short time to stay before I am back." Upon
further inquiries it appeared that the deceased was at timer subject
1 to tits, but they were never thought to be of a dangerous nature,
and from a surgical examination since his drab, it appeared that
II he was seized with one when he rolled out of bed, which tem&
noted in his death.