The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-04-22 00:00:00

UNION-HALL.

Yesterday a men, named it/u;rtiS7;ffs. residing in a lonely
part of the Wand...worth-road, was charged with great cruelty to a
little boy under tire years of age. by beating him unmercifully with
a thick stick. The child's body presented one mass of bruises, the
rffe,:ts of the brutal usage he had received at the hands of the de-
fendant. The charge was made by a Mrs. Jones, who resides in
the neighbourhood.
The defendant admitted the asgault, and urged that the child
was of so perverse a temper, it was absolutely necessary to make
him feel the la.M.

lie was held to bail in the sum of Of. himself; and two sureties
of 2W. each to appear at the Sesaiona.

CORONER'S EVQUEST.
'Yesterday evening ao iuqu.st was held at the Westminster In.
firmary, before dlr. Mgr. the Coroner, on the body of Wm. Her-
rod, who came by his death in the following dreadful manner. The
body presented a frightful spectacle.
Mt. TllOllllll W ileo,l. • coll.meter. residing at No. 3, Cottage-
green. Giaosberwaill. aeaa 4, Abet the deeetwag was in them ploy of
Messrs. Amok' and Penny, coal.merchanni. in Scotland-yard.
About live o'clock last Saturday ssening, the witness was standing
in the counting-house, anti hearing a noise, ran out, and Raw the
deceased sitting sideways on a horse, and leading three more (all
belonging to Messrs. Brooks and Penny) into the Thames, to wa-
ter them. At the time some men were throwing slates from a barge
into the dock, which frightened the horse, and the deceased fell off,
and in attempting to get up, the animal struck out with both his
hind legs, and kicking the deceased in the forehead, knocked both
his eyes out, and fractured ids skull. Ile was picked up quite in.
sensible, and brought to this hospital.
Coroner—Was the hone at all vicious, and unsafe to ride ?
Not at all, Sir ; a cnild might ride him. A holm, when lie gets
his head, after a fright, will kick and plunge in play.
Juror—Then you think the horse was free from vice ?
do. Sir.

John Busby, anteher witness, described the accident. and spcke
to the gentle disposition of the animal, attributing the death of the
deceased entirely to accident.
Mr. Henry Seymour Casey. one of the house-surgeons of the In-
firm:Ty, stated that the deceased, when brought in, was properly
attended to. His skull was dreadfully fractured into pieces, and
both his eyes were burst. He remained insensible till Thursday
afternoon. and then died. Witness considered that the direct cause
of death was the dreadful injurgin the brair.
The Coroner, in his address tithe Jury, told them, that, by law,
the horse was forfeited to the Krng but was redeemable by the
owner paying any aunt they might award.
The Jury found a verdict of " Accidental Death by a kick from
horse. Deodand on the animal, Is."
Mr. Brooks, the master of the deceased, was present, and do.
dared that lie was so valuable * servant, he would rather have lost
the horse than been deprived of his services.

WAITIIM•X TOR Evr;n.—LONDON EI.F.CTTON.—The
Weekly Dispatch of This Day and To-morrow will point nut the
guslitirations that (nigh- to be posstssed by a Representative in Pim-
!lament for the Ci•y of London, and advance a variety of argu-
ments to yhew th no man is more entitled to the support or the
Livery of London than Mr. Alderman 117a10m:tn. The Dispatch
will also contain the Address of the Alderman's Committee to the
Livery of London. An Edition of this Paper is published at
Four o'Clort: every Saturday afternoon, and may be received at the
distance of MO miles from London on the Sunday morning. Office,
139, Fleet-street.

DIED.
On the Nth Inst. at Hoddesdon, lierts, aged 90, the Rev. W. T. Say,
Wiest of Rainlmm, Essex, and of Amwell, In the county of Hertford. He
was formerly of Emmanuel College, LL.B. 1703.
On the 9th Init. at his mother's house at Whitton, near Ipswich, aged
34. the Rev. John M. Bolton, Curate of Ilemblington and IVoodbaAlck,
Norfolk. He was formerly of Catherine Hall, B.A. 1917.
On the 11th Inst. at Brighton, after a long aged 13, Caroline
Mary Seymour, eldest daughter of the Rev. Robert Walpole.
On the 10th April, In the Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, of typhus fever,
caught In the discharge of hie duty, Mr. S. Gordon, Physician's Clerk.
At Fenwick, on the oth Inst. In the With year of his age, Hugh Lock-
hart, A.M. Student of Theology, and author of most of the Notes and
1,:lcon In the Greek Extract+ used In Glasgow College, of a useful vo-
lume on Greek Idioms, and of copious and valuable notes In Chalmers
and Collins' editions of Horace, Lire. &c.
At Montrose, on Tuesday, In the 90th year of her age, Mrs. Milne, relict
of the late Bailie Andrew Milne.

At Greenock, on the 7th inst. Mn. Robert Maitland. raged 72 years.
At Portobello, on the 7th inst. Joseph Williamson, Esq. prim Ipal clerk
of tetnds, need $2.
. _ .

At North St. Jetrure. atreet, Edinburgh, on the lith of April inst. Mar- 1
!caret, youngest daughter of the late 111 r. James bounder., writer to the
signet, and wife 01 Mr. Thome. Bever writer. Edinburgh.
At Kingston. 'amides. on the liith of January last, Mn. Waddell, relict
of the late .1. Waddell, E.g. of St. Andrew'', In that Island.
On the Nith in.t. at Extfory, aged 27, Harriet Louisa, granddaughter of
W. Milford, Esq. the historian.

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