The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-03 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

Yesterday evening a Coroner's inquest was held on the
body of M'Millan, who was second engineer to the Archi-
mides. From the evidence of the surgeons examined, it
appears that M•Millan died from internal scalding of the
tongue and throat. He was in dreadful agony when he
came on board, and expired soon afterwards.
Mr. George Rennie, of Whitehall-place, engineer, de-
posed that the engines and boiler were constructed under
the care of Mr. Talbot, and under the direction of the firm
to which the witness belonged. They were constructed
on a principle which was to raise a greater quantity of
steam from a smaller quantity of fuel, and the water
was subjected to a larger surface of iron. The steam was
better produced from a temperature of 600 than from white
beat, and on this principle the boiler was made. He never
made such a large boiler before on such a principle. He
thought the boiler was quite strong enough. It was not
usual to test boilers, as they bad often been injured by so
doing, and he did not approve of it. The boiler was made
on his premises, of the best materials. The vessel had
been out twice for a fortnight, and to Portsmouth, and the
valves worked very well. He went on board on Thursday,
and saw the steam issuing from the fracture. He ascer-
tained that the water was well up. He was in the engine-
room shortly before the explosion, and saw nothing to
indicate any danger. He attributed the accident to over-
pressure.

CoaoNEß—Do you consider 81bs. an over-pressure ?
Mr. Rennie—No; it would stand a great deal more.
I saw the steam rising up very rapidly, and remarked upon
it. This was previous to the explosion. He gave no
orders to the engineer, that was not his business. He had
examined the iron, and it appeared to be good. The long
fracture, however, appeared to be faulty in the rivets, but
it was difficult to say from what cause. The accident was
difficult to account for. When he made an examination
that day, he found the valves tight, and not to be moved,
but considered it was the effect of the explosion.
The inquiry was adjourned until Wednesday next.

AUGSBURG'', MAY 26.—The courier has this
day brought nothing positive relative to the reports of war
in the East. Whilst one of our Vienna letters gives the
news of a battle fought near Meraasch, half way between
Malatia and Semisat, another speaks of a movement of the
Turkish army in the direction of the East, towards Orfa, in
the direction of Bir, and which would have passed the
Euphrates, which separates Syria from Mesopotamia. Bir,
the ancient Birtha Beredschik, is a city of 4,000 inhabit.
ants, with an old castle, and walls in ruins. Bir serves as a
passage for the caravans which go from Alep to Orfa,
Mapul, and in the Diarbekir. The caravans here pass the
Euphrates, which is about 200 feet broad at this point.
The Bath Chronicle is brimful of the Reverend
Mister M'Ghee's bigotted rant. The first anniversary
meeting of the " Bath Protestant Association" afforded
the occasion on Tuesday for M'Ghee's outpouring of more
than eleven columns of reported trash.
On Monday week Mr. William Tinmouth, for-
merly of Bishopwearmon!' ikeeper, was released from
Durham prison, after having suffered incarceration in that
place for nearly nineteen years, for non-payment of a
penalty to the Excise.

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roLICE REGULATIOS.-A young woman was
on Wednesday night taken to the Marylebone-lane sta-
tion-house, and there charged with having stolen a shawl.
She was locked up, at the same time loudly protesting her
innocence, and in the course of a couple of hours another
woman was charged with the robbery of the identical
shawl, having been stolen by her, and concealed beneath
her dress. Application was then made, and bail offered,
for the liberation of the female falsely accused, but all to
no purpose, the Police Commissioners having issued strict
orders to the effect that it shall not be in the power of any
inspector, or other person on duty, to set free any one
against whom a charge of felony has been entered in the
books without first taking the accused before a magistrate.
IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT BILL.—The
operation of the new Bill for the abolition of arrest may be
traced from the following facts:—On the first day of the
present Trinity Term there was not a single surrender in
either the Queen's Bench or Fleet Prisons, nor a single
prisoner charged in execution, nor has a solitary writ of
Habeas Corpus issued ; and up to the present day but four
persons have been charged in execution—a circumstance
which has never before occurred. In the year 1826 there
were ninety surrenders in the Queen's Bench in one day
alone. The fact is, by being admitted to bail, as in the
case under the present Act of Ist and 2d Victoria, the in-
solvents have an opportunity of seeing and arranging with
their creditors, the opposition to whose discharge has, in
consequence, dismissed one-half, and with it a diminution
of Counsels' fees in the Insolvent Debtors' Court. One
prisoner, in No. 13 staircase of the Queen's Bench, has the
whole of the rooms (nine in number) to himself.
HOPS.—WORCESTER, MAY 29.—We have
had but thirty-five pockets of hops through the public
scales since our last—namely, one during the week, and
thirty-four on Saturday ; and in consequence of this limi-
tation of business it is difficult to quote prices with exact-
ness. The inquiry for hops of the finest samples was fre-
quent, but there were none upon the market, or ae have
no doubt but they would have found ready purchasers at
an advance. In consequence of the unpromising appear-
ance of the bine in this district, the holders of fine hops
are reluctant to force them upon the market, hopino. no
doubt to realize higher prices in a short time. Fine hops,
it is stated, are not very plentiful among the planters. The
flea is very numerous on the bine, but as yet no fly has
appeared.
Amongst our well-informed circles here there is a
strong impression that the existing difficulties which have
for some time prevailed in our commercial markets will
be materially alleviated in the course of a week or ten
days. Looking at the position in which the Joint Stock
Banks have lately been placed under the modern, yet some-
what salutary, restrictions of the Bank of England towards
many of those institutions in particular, and with all in
general, it is evident that the Bank saw the coming
danger, and we have some reason to believe that it has
been for the present averted, although the rulers of that
establishment have never been famed for the gift of a
" second sight." One thing in favour of the safe result
for the present, of the late Bank restriction, has arisen out
of the circumstance that the late heavy speculations in
cotton, &c., have been chiefly confined to Liverpool and
the adjacent markets, thus leaving- the London Bill Market
free from local paper. The exportation of bullion has di-
minished this week very considerably in the aggregate,
though that of gold bears much the larger proportion.
From the official returns for the period between the 23d
and 29th of May, both inclusive, it appears that gold bul-
lion in bars has been exported to the extent of 8,060
ounces, and in coin to 6,150, but in silver the exports has
been reduced to 11,272 ounces in coins only.—Morning
Herald.

On Friday evening last, a Lecture on the Prin-
ciples, Operations, and Claims of the British and Foreign
Temperance Society, was delivered by the Assistant Se-
cretary, Mr. Clarks, at the Boy's National School-room, in
Hampstead, by permission of the Rev. S. White, D. D.,
Vicar of Hampstead. In the absence of the Venerable
Incumbent, who was prevented from being present by in-
disposition,
of
ositiutie
ni, the chair was taken by the Senior Curate of
meeting,
and
only advocated
upontheir thees claimspect which the
the parish, the Rev. John F. Calls, B. D., who, in a few
words, though in an impressive manner, introduced the ob-
jects
and grati-
tude, but upon their cordial support. Mr. Clarke then
entered upon his address, which being most ably and
forcibly delivered, was listened to throughout with the
r
Society possessed not
deepest attention by a very numerous audience. Several
of the principal families of Hamstead honoured the ',pc_
Curer by their attendance ; though the meeting chiefly
consisted of the operative classes, amongst whom a collec-
tion was made in common with the rest, before they se.
parated, towards supplying the necessary pecuniary means
to carry forward the important operations of the Society.
BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, MAY 29.--The
demand for all descriptions of sugar has been extremely
animated since our last report, and a very extensive busi-
ness has been done at ve full prices, the whole of the
late arrivals having been brought to market and all sold
readily, except a part of the cargoes per Anna and
Britannia, at an advance of ls. 6d, to 2s. per cwt. Bar-
badoes, low middling to fine, 68s. to its. Other kinds
for the scale sold from 665. for brown, to 695. for good
middling. The cargo of Mauritius per Mary sold from
655. 6d. for brown, to 69; for good. The whole of the
Bengals per St. George, have. also been sold at full prices.
Nn Molasses on hand. Tire few rums imported up to this
time have not yet been sampled,—Bristol Gazette.