The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-02 00:00:00

,nip is bAng pre.
saio, by Captaiti King-
her fittings.
ld Albert, Captain Lord
T., will be docked on
overhaul, Sze.
The following young gentlemen, having pissed the
required examination for Royal efine Cade.s at the
Naval College, have joined the Excellent :—,Messrs.
C. B. H. Mitchell, J. W. H. C. Morris, J. P. Mur-
ray, J. F. Sanders, W. L. Tinmoutb, G. W. T.. Hem.
mans, C. H. Clendon, L. S. Williams, F. -Creighton,
and C. J. D. Napier.
The Hydra steam-sloop, Commander Belgrave,
will embark Major-General Cathcart and staff -at this
port on the 7th, for conveyance to the Cape, on which
station the Hydra will remain.
The Victory, 104, Captain G. 8., Martin, C. 8.,
will be paid six months' money on Monday.
The Britannia, 120, Captain Goldsmith, flag of
Rear-Admiral Dundas, and the Hydra steam-sloop,
will be paid advance at this port on Thursday next.
PLYMOUTH, SUNDAY.—It is reported that the
Britannia will be here on Thursday next, from Ports-
mouth, for the Mediterranean.

Orders were received yesterday for the riggers
employed on the steam block-ship Sanspariel to pro-
ceed with all dispatch.
On Monday evening last a waterman coming
down Hamoaze was driven by stress of weather into
the basin of the Keyham Works, when, not being
able to hear the challenge, or being incapable of
making himself heard in the storm, he was fired on
by the sentinel on duty, and received a ball in the
lappel of his coat. Except the fright, the poor fellow
escaped uninjured.
DEYONPORT, FRIDAY.—On Thursday evening last
a seaman named Lucan, of the St. George, in charge of
of the Sparrow, schooner, lately paid off, and now
alongside the Dockyard, was detected by Police
-sergeant Cox in attempting to embezzle a deep-
sea lead, some metal cordage, &c. He was brought
-ft•wr..nnir* •••14
some
ereof Commodore Seymour. Mr. Eastlake, and

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three months' imprisonment.

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UNROLLING OF THE MUMMY FOUND
IN ST. STEPHEN'S CRYPT.
On Saturday, at noon, a deputation of members of
the Antiquarian Society met at the New Palace of
'Westminster, for the eureee,'"'— of_examining the
mu or preserved bo-dy,"found n leve"-titys since
in the ea all of St. Stephen's Crypt. Mr. Barry,
the atchilect, was in attendance to receive the party,
among whom w:.-noticed Dr. Lyon Playfair, Mr.
Hawkins, and Mr. Franks, of the antiquarian depart-
ment of the British Museum, Mr. Prior, Mr. Bruce,
and Mr. Akerman, secretary to the Antiquarian So-
ciety. Mr, Pettigrew, accompanied by his son, Dr.
W. Pettigrew, was also present, these gentlemen
having kindly undertaken the responsible duty of
unrolling the body.
Until Saturday the mummy had remained half
imbedded in the stone wall where it was discovered,
nothing being visible beyond the crozier and the
upper pert of the cere-clothes in which the remains
were folded. ThC Examination having been de-
termined on, the body was removed from its narrow
cell at an early hour on Saturday morning, and
placed upon a bench within an inclosed hoarding,
where the gentlemen appointed to examine it assem-
bled as above stated. The removal was effected
without injury, beyond the fracture of the right
fore-arm, which had been injured by the pickaxe
of the workman who first broke in upon the venerable
remains. The preparations having been completed,
Dr. Pettigrew commenced his operations by making
an incision down the centre of the abdomen, and in a
lateral direction round the skull. After some little
difficulty a layer of five thick canvas cloths was re-
moved from off the face. A second series, bound
round by string, then presented themselves. In due
course these were loosened, and to the great satisfac-
tion of all present, 1)n being raised the face was dis-
closed in a most remarkable state of preservation.
The cartilage of the nose was not at all decayed, and
with the lips and other portions of the face remained
perfectly flexible to the touch. Even the expression
of the countenance was in a degree retained, and it
was remarked that identity of the individual would
not have been impossible had any compeer of his ve-
nerable age been present. The abdomen was found
to be folded in ten layers of canvass cloth, each of
which appeared to have been soaked in wax and
nitre, or salts ,of some such, description.
On the wrappers being removed the stomach
was found to have retreated from the cloth and to
have become a mass of adipose matter,lin which state
the legs and arms were also 'found. No writing of
any description was discovered in the folds, nor was
any mark leading to an identity of., the individual
found. The body measured 5 feet 11 inches in length ;
and, judging from the front teeth remaining, three or
four of whiclain the lower jaw were much worn, must
have been that of a very aged man. The mouth was
filled with tow, which had evidently:been ateeped in
wax, and a small quantity of hair remained on the
chin and upper lip. The body was 'lnclosed, in ten . -go
layers of very thick canvas, and bound round by
string, the latter being in a very remarkable state of
preservation. The crozier was entirely of oak, with
an elaborately carved crook—the whole measuring six
feet two inches in length. Although there remains
an absence of any positive proof as to the identity of
the body, it may be stated that the gentlemen present
unanimously agreed that the presumption of its being
Lydwolfe, Bishop of St. David's, who died about the
middle of the fifteenth centurydwas almost indisputable.
The examination having been completed, the remains
were placed in a strong elm coffin, and screwed down.
For the present they remain in a place of security, but
it is understood the body will hereafter be replaced as
nearly as possible in the spot where it was discovered.

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EXTRAORDINARY LA STANCE OF PRE-
SERVATION OF LIFE,
On Saturday week Mr. Wakely, M.P. held an
inquest at the Pier Tavern, Strand-on-the-Green,
Kew-bridge, on the body of Robert Chambers Rich,
aged 13 years, the son of the proprietor of the above
extensive premises.
to the
It appeared in evidence that about three o'clock in
the afternoon of the previous Wednesday the deceased
e
was sitting on the top of the stairs leading
apcierro7s
sa nthdecalling
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came
e a eldersh brother,ore.
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Thee
wind was par-
ticularly who had rowed
his
life, b
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down the stairs into
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yt thehee
effort
ooi r nrpteo,
\f‘a,
ansd a violent gust suddenly
blew the
the stairs
used
to asgavaeinst
the back
of the deceased, and forced him
the water.
unfortunately without success.
The jury returned a verdict of A • Accidental Death.
The following- is a curious and interesting
the death of the poor child fact that
was
pre-
servation of the life of his the cause of the
appointed for twelve o' l mother. The inquest was
c
car-
riage [arrived at the d o'clock, and Mr. Wakley's
oor exactly twelve minutes
before that hour. At
that instant a man rushed out
of the Tavern, exclaiming " She's dead !" and ran off
as fast as he could
towards Brentford. When the coroner
entered the young
and the woman and children were all scream-
ing,behind the bar landlady was supported in a chair
counter, apparently a corpse ; the skin
of her face
and lips were entirely bloodless. The
coroner inquired what was the matter, but could ob-
tain • '
no information till one of the daughters ex
claimed, " Burst a blood-vessel—burst a blood-
vessel !" The coroner instantly rushed round the
counter, where he saw an immense pool of blood of
the floor, and found that the landlady's left leg was
wrapped up in an immense number of towels and
clothes, all saturated with blood, and a large stream
still bowing from the clothes near the foot. The
coroner instantly laid her head back over a chair
lower than her body, end held up her legs higher than
her body, and then lodged them on a pillow on the
top of the back of a chair. At this time the unfortu-
nate lady had apparently. ceased to breathe; there
was no pulse, and not a single sign of life. The
clothes having been removed from the leg, the coroner
placed his thumb on the small opening from whence
the blood had been flowing and not another drop was
lost. After she had remained in that situation for about
two minutes she gasped and breathed. The coroner
administered to her, in a few drops at a time, about
a table-spoonful of brandy-and-water. She gradually
recovered ; and when Mr. Cooper, the surgeon, of
Brentford, arrived, she was removed to a sota in the
Parlour, where, from her completely exhausted
notstate,
she was obliged to remain until ThursdaY• Had
the coroner arrived before the time appointed for the
inquest, the death of the unfortunate woman would
have been inevitable. At the inquest the coroner
stated that he had held five or six inquests at least on
the bodies of women who had died through the rup-
ture of varicose veins in the legs. In all those fatal
instances the deaths had resulted in consequence of
the bystanders not having sent for a medical praeti-
tiont:'s with sufficient promptness ; and because
that the bleeding might have
they bad not known _ .
been instantly stopped, by placing the thumb with
some degree of force on the. opening whence the
blood flowed, and from their not having, when the
fainted, immediately placedtheir head
persons bad .
body, and
their their le
lower thanlegs higher than
their body. As an enormous number of females who
have borne children are afflicted with varicose veins
of the legs and feet, the system of treatment necessary
for their safety could not (the coroner observed) be
too generally known.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN CLERKENWELL.—ShortIy
after nine o'clock last night a fire of a very destructive cha-
racter broke out at the Sun coffee-house, No. 2, Little
\Varner-street, Clerkenwell. The flames co mmenced from
a spark flying out of the grate upon a bed, and in an instant
afterwards the room was in a general blaze. They were un-
able to get the fire extinguished until the whole of the top
rooms of the buildiug,pand all they contained fortunately
and the premises damaged. Mrs. Legg was y
sured in the Norwich Union Fire.ofiace.