The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-02 00:00:00

STREET MUSIC BILL.

The house went into committee again upon the Street
Music (Metropolis) Bill.

Mr AYRTON moved to add to clause 1 a proviso that
the musician shall be truly informed by the person making
the charge of the circumstances under which he is required
to depart.

This amendment was negatived, upon a division, by 98
to 67.

Sir G. GREY moved a proviso, that the person making
a charge shall accompany the constable who shall take into
custody any person offending to the nearest police station-
house and sign the charge•sheet, which was agreed to.
A new clause, moved by Sir G. GREY, as to the treat-
ment of a charge brought to the police•court when it was
shut, was likewise agreed to.

The remaining orders were disposed of, and the house
adjourned at half-past two o'clock.

Coroner's Inquest at Plymouth.

PLYMOUTH, July 1.-0 a the 13th of May last a
waterman named M'Coy, while sailing through
Plymouth Sound, was shockingly injured by a shot
fired from the citadel during the artillery practice.
He died after six hours of great suffering.
A coroner's inquest was convened on the following
day. It was adjourned five times, and a large mass
of evidence having been carefully investigated, to-
day the jury returned the following verdict :
" We return a verdict of manslaughter against
Major-Gen. Hutchinson (the General commanding
the district). We consider him guilty of great
negligence and indifference to the public safety,
which alone, in our opinion, is the cause of the
death of George M'Coy."
Th 3 coroner accepted the verdict, but stated that
he did not concur in it, because the law did not bear
it out.

The inquest is adjourned until to-morrow after-
noon, to afford time for binding over the witnesses
and admitting iVlajor-Gen. Hutchinson to bail.

POSSIBILITY OP LORD BROUGHAM'S APOTHEOSIS.
—Had Brougham lived in the time of Egyptian
Paganism, he would assuredly have been looked upon (at
least) as an inspired individual, and he would have been set
up as an idol. You may perhaps say, so he will be as it is.
1 admit that, in respect to his philosophical mind, ho will
be ever remembered as a grand specimen of humanity, but
the wide-spread intercommunication of nations and gradual
exposure of the fallacies of idolatry will at least leave the
human mind free to worship the Deity through such rules
of philosophy as aro laid down by Brougham, as a man,
without idolising him, pet,onally, as a god; in fact, I know
sufficient of his lordship to say that were such an unholy
influence existing, he would be the first to raise his voice
in disgust against the abomination of prostituting the attri-
butes of the Divine essence, so as to bring them within the
scope or nature of an earthborn mortal. Yet such things
do exist, but they are nothing more nor less than the tag-
ends of mythological idolatry.—Jones's Hundred Lectures.
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