The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-14 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

On Friday afternoon an inquest was held before Mr
Payne, at St. Bartholomew's, on the body of Thomas
Brian, aged five, who died in Aubin's pauper establish-
ment, at Norwood, on Monday last. The body was
sent to the East London Union workhouse, the deceased
child having belonged to Cripplegate parish. It ap-
peared that the child died of measles. The inquiry
was adjourned to Monday, in order to obtain the evi-
dence of the master and of the assistant of the esta-
blishment.
SUDDIN DEATEL—Last night an inquest was held
before Mr. Higgs, at the Red Lion, Portland-street,
Oxford-street, on the body of Mr. W. Drury, a person
of property, who died suddenly on Wednesday evening
while at tea with his wife, in their lodgings in Poland-
street.

Mr. Airie, surgeon, of Poland-street, stated that he
was called to the lodgings of the deceased on Wednes-
day evening. He found him stretched on the floor near
the table, supported by his wife and another lady. He
was speechless and insensible, and evidently in a dying
state. Seeing that he had been attacked while at tea
he examined his throat, lest it should be obstructed by
a morsel of food, but the passage was free. He then
bled him, but it was of no use, as the man was dead in a
few minutes. He found a doctor's prescription on the
deceased for a palpitation of the heart. It thus ap-
peared that be was subject to a disease which might at
any time cause instant death.
Verdict, " Natural death."
THE SUDDEN DEATH ♦T THE FRENCH AMEASSA-
DOR'S—EIEMPTION IROM THE CORONER'S JURISDIC-
TION.—The inquest on the body of M. Pierre de Bou-
quet, the house-steward of General Sebastiani, the
French Ambassador, who fell dead in the hall of his
Excellency's house while speaking to a fellow-servant,
on Thursday evening, was appointed to be held by Mr.
Wakley, at the Westmoreland Arms, yesterday morning.
At ten o'clock the Jury had assembled, and soon after
Mr. Bell, the Coroner's clerk,came into the room, and said
that Mr. Wakley regretted the gentlemen of the jury
.had bad the trouble to attend. Mr. Wakley had learned
since he issued his warrant that the deceased was in the
service of the French Ambassador, and died in his
Excellency's house and was, moreover, a foreigner. As the
French Ambassador had not expressed any desire that
an inquest should be held, he (Mr. Wakley) did not
feel authorised to go into the inquiry, unless upon the
request of the Ambassador that the English law should
be administered. The Ambassador, under all the cir-
,-,umstances, might not think it proper that an inquest
should be held —he might claim exemption.
A servant of the General said, his Excellency had
spoken to him on the subject last night, but made no
objection to an inquest.
Mr. Bell—But he has not requested it should be
held.

The servant—He neither desires that it should, nor
does he he object to it : he appears to have no wish on
the subject.
Mr. Bell—Mr. Wakley f!els he would not be justi-
fied in holding tile inquest, unless at the request of the
Ambassador ; upon receiving that information, of course
he will do so.
The servant said the deceased was now in his coffin,
which must soon be soldered down. The only tbing al-
luded to by the General, was a wish that the jury should
see the body before be came down stairs.
Mr. Bell observed that Mr. Wakley would not be
there that day, for the reasons he had stated.
The Jurymen were then discharged.

THE LATE MURDEROUS OUTRAGE AT THE
UNITED SERVICE CLUB.—In a letter published this
morning, Mr. Fenn states, that " on the evening pre-
vious to the lamentable affair, I went with Mr. Elder,
toe then butler of the Club, to the Surrey Theatre, and
returned with him about half-past twelve. I then went
into the library, and saw the superintendent, with whom
I conversed for a short time as usual, and then proceeded
at once to my own room on the basement, which is si-
tuated so far away from all other rooms in the house,
as to render it impossible for any cries proceeding from
my room being heard in any other. As far as I am
able to judge, I had not been in bed more than an
hour and a half or two hours, when I was awoke by
a blow on the forehead which nearly stunned me. I,
of course, on the instant, jumped up, and struggled
with all the desperate violence I could muster with
my assailant, who appeared to have on a flannel
jacket ; but I was at that moment struck by another
man on the right arm so violently that I thought it
was broken, when a series of blows followed upon my
head, arms, and thighs, which eventually produced
utter insensibility, in which state I lay till morning,
when, on being aroused by some voice I crept to the
door and called for assistance, the exertion of which so
exhausted me that I sank down, and was found upon
the floor by one of the servants of the establishment,
who in the first instance threw a blanket over me, and
then alarmed the house. When I recovered myself I
found that I had two dreadful cuts across my fore-
head, which in both places reached to the bone ;
five severe blows on the arms ; three upon the right
and two upon the left, which are now distinctly
visible ; and two black eyes, produced evidently by a
blow across the nose, from which a piece of bone was
extracted. The truth of this statement I beg leave to
say can be proved by nearly the whole of the servants
of the establishment; and yet in your paper, and cer-
tain others, with no disposition, I am sure, to blast the
reputation of an innocent man, suggestions have ap-
peared having a tendency to create in the minds of the
public an impression that I inflicted the whole of this
horrible torture upon myself, and that for the purpose
of plundering the Club, whose servant I have been,
without a stain upon my character, for upwards of thir-
teen years. These reports and insinuations, of course,
operated upon the minds of the Committee, who, without
giving me the smallest opportunity of explaining the cir-
cumstances, discharged me, and threw me pennyless
upon the world, with a sick wife and four helpless child-
ren, without condescending even to inform me upon
what ground, but left it to be inferred that they believed
me (upon no evidence) to have committed the murde-
rous outrage upon myself."
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Feargus O'Connor has returned to Cork, from
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EDUCATION AND THE ESTABLISHED
CHURcH.—" It is loudly urged by the most devoted
friends of the Church, that religion is essential to teach-
ing, and that instruction without religion is worse titan
utter ignorance. Religion is essential to teaching, but
it is also essential to the untaught ; and if it must be
absent, it would not follow that the sufferer must also
las deprived of all advantage. But, in fact, the
obability of coming within the reach of religion
Pr ss vastly increased by mental cultivation. The in-
,
struc. *ed intellect has a thousand avenues by which it
1, • reached, while the unlettered peasant knows
many bnt one. The deaf or the blind have temptation at one
uite shut out, and also the wisdom which
H' atrance q
me temptation. It may be that the let-
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more'
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cause a vigorous ba
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The root of the error
1 w.cirls each is to be perfected
be used to good or evn, bu •
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litation for the Bible, the whole Bible, an.d nothing
any a,
but the ' Bible."—British and Foreign Review.
At t, '-ie Westminster Sessions on Friday, the :Ira-
gistrates , Iranted licenses for music and dancing to Mr.
John Braila m, for the St. James's '.theatre ; for the
' t I Lowther Bs, orns s for the Grapes, in Old Compton-
; ; for the els Du, ess of Clarence, Vauxhall Bridge-
a 1 street
road for the Svaa a Tavern, liungerford Markettr
; to
a I ; • ' N.1%fl %eel, Wind 'll
1 the Catherine street ; and for the
Lone. Acre. Windmill-street
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THE LATE LADY HESTER STAN
HOPE.

We announced in our last number the death of
Lady Hester Stanhope. Our readers will no doubt
be glad to have a brief sketch of the principal cir-
cumstances of that extraordinary woman's life.
It is at Djouni, in Syria, that Lady Hester has
died, after a long illness, at the age of sixty-four.
That reader must be indifferent who reverts not with
interest to his recollections of a woman who has
expired on the borders of the Desert, amidst th.-
bruses and Turkomans, over whom that noble
daughter of the infidels once exercised so strange
and so marvellous a sway The destiny of Lady
Stanhope presents one of those features of which
not anotherinstance could perhaps be found in the an-
nals of the East. Only imagine forty thousand
Arabs suddenly assembled upon the ruins of Pal-
myra, and these wandering, savage, and indomitable
tribes surrounding, in silent astonishment and admi-
ration, a foreign woman, and proclaiming her Sove-
reign of the Desert and Queen of Palmyra ! Con.
vey yourself in thought to the scene of this incre-
dible triumph, and you will then conceive what
woman that must have been who imposed silence on
Mussulman fanaticism, and created for herself, as it
were, by magic, a Sovereignty in the domains of
Mohammed I _ _ _ _

" Lady Hester Stanhope," says M. de Lamar-
tine in his admirable work, " was a niece of Mr.
Pitt. On the death of her uncle she left England,
and visited various parts of Europe ; young, hand-
some, and rich, she was every where received with
the attention and interest due to her rank, fortune,
mind, and beauty ; but she constantly refused to
unite her fate to that of her worthiest admirers,
and, after spending some years in the principal
capitals of Europe, embarked with a numerous
suite for Constantinople. The real cause of this
expatriation has never been known ; some have
ascribed it to the death of a young English officer,
who was killed at that period in Spain, and whom
an eternal regret must render for ever present in
Lady Hester Stanhope's heart ; others have im-
puted her voluntary banishment to a mere love of
adventure in a young person of an enterprising and
courageous character. However this might be, she
departed, spent some years at Constantinople, anii
then sailed for Syria in an English vessel, which
carried also the larger part of her fortune, as weh
as jewellery, trinkets, and presents of all sorts, o!
very considerable value."
The vessel encountered a storm in the Gulf o'
Macri, on the road to Caramania ; the ship syn.:-
wrecked, Lady Hester Stanhope's property was
lost, and it was as much as she could do to say
her own life. Nothing, however, could shake 11,2:-
resolution. She returned to England, gathered
remainder of her fortune, sailed again for Syria.
and landed at Latakia, the ancient Laodicea. Sh,
had at first thought of fixing her abode at Broussa.
at the foot of the Olympus ; but Broussa is a com-
mercial city, situate on the avenues to the Ottoman
capital, and reckoning not less than sixty thousan6
inhabitants ; and Lady Hester Stanhope sough:
the independence and solitude of the Desert. SIR•
therefore selected the wilderness of Mount Leba-
non, whose extreme ramifications lose themselv
in the sands. Ruined Palmyra—Zenobia's
cient capital—suited her fancy. The noble exi:
took up her residence at Djouni, prepared for ever::
vicissitude. " Europe," said she, "is a monoto-
nous residence ; its nations are unworthy of freedom,
and endless revolutions are their only prospects.''
She applied herself to the study of the Arabic
language, and strove to obtain a thorough acquaint-
ance with the character and manners of the Syria.,
people. One day, dressed in the costume of the
Osmanlis, she set out for Jerusalem, Damascus.
Aleppo, and the Desert ; she advanced amidst ;,
caravan loaded with wealth, teots, and presents for
the Scheiks, and was soon surrounded by all th,,
tribes, who knelt to her, and submitted to her su-
premacy.
It was not solely by her magnificence that Lad
Hester had excited the admiration of the Aral),
her courage had been proved on more than one oc-
casion, and she had always faced peril with a holi-
ness and energy which the tribes well remembervi.
Lady Hester Stanhope knew also how to flatter, the
Alahomedan prejudices. She held no intercourse
with Christians and Jews; she spent whole days in
the grotto of a santon, who explained the Koran co
her; and never appeared in public without that
mein of majestic and grave inspiration which was
always unto Oriental nations the characteristic of
prophets. With her, however, this conduct was
not so much the result of design as of a decid:d
.
proneness to every species of excitement and
Lady Hester Stanhope's first abode was but it
monastery. It was soon transformed into an Ori-
ental palace, with pavilions, orange gardens, and '
myrtles, over which spread the foliage of the cedar,
such as it grows in the mountains of Lebanon.
The traveller to whom Lady Hester opened tins
sanctuary, would behold her clad in oriental gar-
ments. Her head was covered with a turban made
of a red and white cashmere. She wore a long
tunic, with open loose sleeves ; large Turkirili
trousers, the folds of which hung over yellow mo-
rocco boots embroidered with silk. Her shoulders
were covered with a sort of burnous, and a yataghan
hung to her waist. Lady Hester Stanhope had a
serious and imposing countenance ; her noble ai.d
mild features had a majestic expression, which her
high stature and the dignity of her movements en-
hanced.

The day came when all this prestige, so expel-
sively kept up suddenly vanished. Lady Hes.ci's
fortune rapidly declined; her income yearly ck-
creased ; in short, the substantial resources with h
had, at one time, sustained the magic of her ex-
traordinary domination were daily forsaking 11;1.
The Queen of Palmyra then fell back into the rank
of mere mortals, and she who had signed absolu; e
firmans enabling the traveller to visit in security Lie
regions of Palmyra—she whose authority the Sub-
lime Porte had tacitly acknowledged—soon saw her
people disown her omnipotency ; she was left the
title of Queen, but it was but an empty name ; a mere
recollection, and again the monastery's silence ruled
over the solitude of Djouni. A Queen, stripped of
her glory of a day, Lady Hester Stanhope has ex-
pired, the sport of fate, at the moment the East is
convulsed. She has expired in obscurity and lone-
liness, without even mingling her name with the
great events of which it is now the theatre;--
Eastern Print.

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Mr. FENIMORE COOPER'S ARISTOCRATICAL
CONNECTIONS.—We observe by the American papers,
:Taunt Mr. Webb, the editor of the Neu)
that Mr. Fenimore Cooper has commenced a criminal
proseetztina
York Inquirer, or a libel, and, according to the rep,rt
in that journal, actions for damages against the pro-
prietors of several otter papers into which the ii'oel
was copied. According to the ex parte statement
of Mr. Webb, the circuingtances are as follow :
Mr. Cooper's work, " Hom'Ward Bound," was in-
tended, and calculated, to produce an imprez.,ion
abroad, that he (Mr. Cooper) was a gentleman of high
aristocratic pretenaion, the scion of a noble Eleiish
family, living on " the estate of his father"in a kind of
baronial style, surrounded by a depends ilt peasantry,
consonant alike to his early education, his :toble de-
scent, and habitual tastes, while his country:lloa We!'e
a set of ignorant, vulgar, uncivilised boors, .suit-
able subjects for the jests and jeers of his noble Eti,g-
glith visitants and his French governess. Mr.
therefore, who spent years of boyhood in the neighbour-
hood, and who knew that nine-tenths of Mr. Cooper's
neighbours were persons of better family than himself,
thought it his duty to expose the assumption of this, :n d to
state what he knew to be facts—that Mr. Cooper was
descended of humble, but honest parents ; that his Le, ler
was a hawker of fish through the streets of Bailioa!‘
subsequently a wheelwright, who, by industry an(' e.n-
terprise, rose to be Judge of the county where be no"'
resides ; that his paternal (maternal) grandwg: Ller,
Mrs. Fenimore, for 30 years occupied a stall, and is a
vender of vegetables in Philadelphia market, and is a ell
remembered by many, who often exclaim, when s heir
vegetables are not so fresh as they should be, jas,
when shall we again see such as Old Mother Fenill.pre,
i:urnished us ?"—ilthenceum
The Shrewsbury Chronicle says that a Er ,tier
near Osweitry was so enraged with his narometer (le r:og
the late unfavourable weather, that he broke it top:: ees,
and another, because the " glass" did not sal: Lim,
brought it to town to " de Italean" to get it alte,,•c •