The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-09 00:00:00

Each of the great European armies offers a well-
characterised type of officer, beneath which type
individual peculiarities of manner, language, and
even constitution, in some sort disappear. An
English officer does not resemble an Austrian officer ;
a French officer differs from a Russian officer.
11I‘Clellan reminds you of the type of the French
Artillery officer. The reason is, that he was edu-
cated at West Point school, which is a mixture of
the French Military and Polytechnic schools. The
student of West Point speaks foreign languages,
principally French. In respect to literature, science,
and military art, he has been nursed in the worship
of the great European models. Consequently he is
a stranger to that narrow patriotism, that national
exclusiveness, which concentrates all the ideas,
studies, and admiration of tile Americans upon
America. The study of pure scienca and mathema-
tics has inspired him with a taste for theoretical
speculations which is shared by few of his country-
men. He is polite, discreet, reserved. He has ac-
quired the art of appearing modest, and of obtaining
respect by unpretending manners. He is able to
I conform to the habits and customs of the strangers
with whom he comes in contact, and he practises
every rule of the most scrupulous urbanity with a
certain dash of republican pride which is wanting
neither in charm nor in dignity. This class of men,
so different from the Yankees, does not seem to have
hitherto obtained, in the direction of public affairs,
a share proportionate to the merit, the knowledge,
and the conscientious integrity which distinguish
the majority of its members.

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Yesterday the inquest was resue
hampton on the body of William Ch .16
Ann Corbett, of Dudley, deposed the :‘
day, a month ago, a woman came to herNiat air S
house in Tower-street, Dudley, and asked her to
be allowed to see a house which she (witness) lia.r:Z
to let. She went away, saying she would go anel
tell her husband. This was in the dusk. She af-
terwards returned, and told her her husband's name
was William Smith, and that the house would suit
him. Witness gave her the key, and did not see
her again. The house remained locked, and a few
days afterwards witness's husband went to the gas
works and found that no one worked there of the
given name. At length William Johnson got into
the house by an upstairs' window, and came down
day
forced open the front door. On the following
:itYuels.(er'lru'icn'iudnrisen(n37ex).eAdlornSilti,aewndansdomhe'ls
a mad woman lyingoffatihnei'llyr ethhoilkdrtehne,
upstairs, came back. craing, " There's
went up into the upstairs," herself
attic, end
iLaving seen' the foot
and leg of a woman:
gave an alarm. The - byes down and
police then took possession
of
.za Field, the wife of ab . railway guard,
theia rhyo.uEseli
said that on the Saturday night, aortnight before
the woman Steadman was .found, shef
quarter past 12 at the door of the house wsmv-lhich she
at a
afterwards took. She was dressed in a dairkekiiri(;
and a lilac body. The skirt was drawn over her
head, which was without a bonnet. Witness die'
not see her again. Yesterday (Monday) shesaw
the body exhumed. By the clothes she could re-
cognise that the body was that of the same woman
she had been speaking of.
Elizabeth Farnell, mother of the man Chenery, was
recalled. She averred she was the wife of the man
with whom she was now living. She saw the body
that had been taken out of the grave. It was in the
tool-house of the cemetery, and the witness was
satisfied in her own mind that the body was that of
Rosannah.
A letter was here produced by Mr. Nesbitt, sur-
geon, of Wolverhampton, which was found in the
pocket of the woman exhumed. The envelope was
addressed to "Mrs. Welleham, Post-office, Willen-
hall" (Mrs. Farnellsometimes called herself by that
name). The letter inside was as follows
31, 1863.
My dear Mother.—l have been trying to get work at
Birmingham, and I cannot get any. I cannot live this un-
happy life any longer. You know the reason that I have
never known what it was to have one day's peace since she
came back. I cannot get work, or, mother, would; and I
am too tired of this work altogether. It is not selling—it i 3
begging the people to buy. Tell that party if I could have
got anything to do I would have done according to promise.
Witness continued—There was no signature to
the letter. The writing was that of her son. Wit-
ness also identified a purse found on the body of
the exhumed woman as that which Rosannah used
to have in the market. She could not tell whom her
son referred to when he wrote " tell that party."
She knew nothing of her eon having "no neace
since she came home." When she last saw her son
he said, " Mother, you look very bad, come and
have a glass of port wine; I have got some money,
for I have received it from that party, and I have
got it here," pointing to his breast. Her son never
complained to her of having been robbed by any one
but the deceased woman.
Mr. Francis A. Nesbitt, Mountferd-place, Wol-
verhampton, surgeon to the South Staffordshire
General Hospital, &c., deposed that in obedience to
the coroner's order he proceeded to the cemetery at
Dudley on Monday, Sept. 9,1863, at 3 p.m., to be pre-
sent at the exhumation of the body of the deceasei
woman. The body was much decomposed. The hair
(of a brown colour) had all fallen from the scalp,
the eyes from their sockets, the flesh from the
cheeks, and several teeth from the mouth. Parts
of her dress were removed for analysing. The re-
mains evidently belonged to a full grown and well
developed .hough a small woman, and bore nu
marks of violence. It was ill/possible to speak to
the cause of death. No bones wore traotured, and
as far as could be found there was no internal injuries.
Henry Gibbons sworn—l am a surgeon, residing
at 28, Stamford-street, in this town. I am also
medical officer to the Wolverhampton Union-house
and the Fever Hospital. On Friday, Aug. 14, at
about a quarter after ten o'clock in the morning, as
I was preceedieg along Bilaton-street to attend to
my public duty at the union, I was, when opposite
No. 4 Court, accosted by several people, who ap-
peared to be in a very excited state. I was informed
that a man had just been found dead in an upstaire
room in that court As soon as a key of the house
was procured, I entered the aouse and went up-
stairs. At that time the dilavitien was almost in-
' tolerable. I did not at that time make auytherough
examination. By the direction of the coroner, and
in conjunction with Mr. Shadwell, surgeon ot this
town, and. Mr. Keogh. senior surgeon of the South
Staffordshire General Hospital, I have since 4ona
so. After examining the room we then adjourned
to the dead-house at the union to make the post-
mortem examination. "'he body was black, was-
very much decomposed, and after minutely describ•
ing the course of the examination, the witness con-
tinued—l have made an analysis and microscopic
examination of the stomach and its contents, and
various matters found in the room. The
stomach did not reveal any trace of poi sun.
The mattress, the straw, and the stains on the floor
revealed traces of human blood in considerable
quantities. The sheet had upon it ordinary gas tar,
as had also the skin of the body. From the inves-
gation and examination, I urn of opinion, first, that
the deceased died from injuries to the head and great
loss of blood (apparently several quarts) ; second,
that these injuries and this violence were inflicted
by some person or persons other than the deceased
himself ; third, that after death the body was laid
out, and the pillow placed under its head ;
fourth, that after death the body was painted or
brushed over with tolerably hot gas tar (this pro-
bably with a view of preventing detection from
smell as long as possible) ; and, fifth, that the sheet
and counterpane were placed on the body and tucked
under the head by some person or persons other
than the deceased.
The Coroner then said he thought it would be
better for them to adjourn the inquest to enable the
police to make a further investigation of the circum-
stances. the identification of the woman Stead-
man, however, was now complete.
Two or three other Wolverhampton witnesses
then identified Steadman by her clothes.
Mr. Gibbons afterwards remarked that there was
um thing he wished to state to the jury. The Tat-
tress beneath the head of the deceased was stained
with a large quantity of blood. Anotherlarge
quantity had also been shed up on the centre of the
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surface of the mattress, and both poo s of blood had
met. He was therefore of opinion that not only
the head had been injured but also another part of
the person.
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A Juror remarked that much had been said out of
court that ought to be said in evidence.
The Coroner said that if any of
the jury, all of
whom lived near the deceased's house, could bring
forward any one Whose statement would tend to
elucidate the matter, they ought to have it produced.
The Coroner adjourned the inquiry to that day
fortnight, for further evidence.

Suicide on the Railway at Wandsworth.

Au inquest was held on Monday evening at the
Union Workhouse (Wandsworth and Clapham
Union),
Wandsworth, before W. Carter, Esq., coro-
ner for the eastern division of Surrey, on the body
of Daniel Lane, a bricklayer's labourer, who met
his death on Saturday morning under very extra-
ordinary circumstances.
James Saunders, the driver of an engine on the
Brighton and South Coast line, stated that on
Sa-
turday last, about 10.50 a.m., he left London for
Victoria with a train which was to stop at all the
stations. They stopped at Baiham, and were to
have stopped at New Wandsworth. Half a mile
before reaching that station witness had shut off the
steam with a view of stopping there, when he saw
a man (deceased) standing beside the fence, near
the Patriotic Fund School. When the train `vas
within eight or ten yards of him he stepped between
the metals with his back towards the approaching
train, which was then proceeding at a rate of be-
tween 25 and 30 miles an hour. Witness whistled fur
the breairs to be put on the carriages, and he him-
self put the engine break on. The man appeared to
be watching the approach of the train. He was
overtaken almost instantaneously, but the train
could not be stopped until it had proceeded nearly
500 yards. Witness at once went to the front, and
tuutld deceased hanging un to the lamp-iten, which
had caught him at the back of the neck and entered
the base of the skull. His toes had been dragging
on the ground. The body was taken down and com-
mitted to the care of the plate-layers, and
witness
proceeded with the train. From his manner, wit-
ness was Sure that the deceased meant to destroy
himself.
Evidence was then given to show that the un-
fortunate roan had been suffering in his head.
The jury returned a verdict, "That the deceased
had destroyed himself while in a state of temporary
insanity ;" end, in reply to the Coroner, the jury
declared that the engine-dryer and other raiiway
officials were entirely free from blame,