The Sun.
London, England, 1837-01-10 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

An inquest was last night held at the City of Hereford
public-house, Lichfield-street, Soho-square, before Mr.
Higgs, Coroner for Westminster, on the body of William
Pizzy, who committed suicide by hanging himself. It ap-
peared that the deceased had been latterly in a low des-
ponding way, from the fear, which was, however; unfoun-
ded, of pecuniary difficulty. Verdict—" Temporary insanity."
CHILD MURDER.—Yesterday evening an inquest was
held at the Black Horse Tavern, High-street, Marylebone,
before Mr. STIRLING and a respectable Jury, on view of the
body of a fine new-born female infant, which was discovered
in a sewer of a house in James-street, Oxford-street, the
unfortunate little innocent having been murdered and placed
there by the unnatural parent, or some other party.
Several witnesses were examined, who proved the finding
of the child, but could give no clue to the parent.
Tile house is a lodging-house, full of lodgers. There
are no single women residing in the house. It had not been
of late observed that any female in the house appeared to
be enciente. It also appeared that the sewer is in the back-
yard, and that persons can obtain ingress to it from the
street without the knowledge of the inmates 'of the house.
Mr. Edward Barnard, surgeon to Marylebone Infirmary,
deposed that he had examined the body of the infant ; it
was certainly a fine full-grown child. The umbilical cord
had not been fastened, which neglect would occasion death,
admitting the child had been born alive. The body did
not exhibit marks of violence to account for death. Im-
mersion in the soil immediately after the birth would occa-
sion death. As a matter of opinion, witness thinks the
child was born alive.

The CORONER said that no doubt the poor innocent in-
fant had been thrown alive down the closet by some un-
natural wretch, and that it had perished either from suffo-
cation or exhaustion, from loss of blood, the cord not
being tied.
The Jury without hesitation returned a verdict of
Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown."
The parish intend offering a reward for the apprehension
of the offender.

SUICIDE THROUGH DlSTRESS.—Yesterday evening an
inquest was held at the White Hart in Bethnal Green-road,
before Mr. BAKER, the Coroner, and a respectable Jury,
on view of the body of Thomas Clarke, aged 45 years, who
had hung himself on Saturday morning.
Wom the evidence of a son of the deceased, a lad of
14 years of age, it appeared that the deceased had been
in the employment of Messrs. Barker, warehousemen, of
Wood-street, Cheapside, for eleven years, as carman or
waggoner, and was discharged on Saturday week, as he al-
leged, for taking a pitch—namely, taking some goods be-
longing to other persons into his waggon as he went along,
and receiving remuneration for it. He endeavoured to get
other employment during the week, but being unsuccessful,
and having a wife and six children dependent upon him for
support, he exhibited symptoms of great uneasiness of
mind upon Friday and Friday night, and on Saturday
morning he was found suspended from a beam in a small
wash-house.

Several of the jury expressed much surprise that the
deceased, after so long a servitude as eleven years, should
have been discharged for so trivial an offence.

A juror remarked that, in all probability, the reason for
his discharge was different to that which they had heard.
There had latterly been discovered a most extensive system
of plunder carried on both by the carmen themselves, acid
with their connivance.

The jury ultimately returned a verdict that the deceased
had hung himself while labouring under temporary insanity.
Nothing could exceed the wretchedness and misery in
the residence of the deceased. There was scarcely a ves-
tige of furniture in the place, and the wailings of his wife
and unfortunate children were truly heart-rending.
Another inquest was held before the same Coroner and
jury, at the King and Queen, Hate-street, Bethnal-green,
on the body of James Stephens, a broad silk-wearer, aged
43 years, which had been picked out of the Regent's Ca-
nal on Sunday morning.
The deceased, it appeared, had latterly been afflicted
with disease seas to be unable to do his work, and for
some weeks past seemed in a very dejected state of mind.
On Saturday evening he left his residence, and nothing
more was heard of him until mid-day on Sunday, wben his
body was brought in a shell to the workhouse. Verdict,
" Found drowned."

During the past year no fewer than 1,065 packets
entered and quitted the Port of Boulogne, with 55,512
passengers, being five times the number of the preccdin„
year, and much greater than the number of the vessels which
entered and quitted Calais. This vast increase arises from
the improvements made in the port of Boulogne, and also
from the extraordinary cheapness of the fares between Lon-
don and Boulogne, and from Dover to Boulogne.

A melancholy accident happened at Bordeaux on
the 31st ult to M. Senegre, stock-broker. Wishing to un-
load his gun, he put his mouth to the muzzle. His leg
having unfortunately touched the lock, the gun went off,
and killed him on the spot. His young wife was present
at the time.

The most active preparations, we uncle' stand, are
in aking for the Grand Reform Dinner to be given at Drury-
lane Theatre on the 23d instant. It is expected that in a
few days the number of stewards will not be much under
500, while the number of persons expected to sit down to
dinner is estimated at from 1,2005t0 1,400, the latter being
the greatest number the theatre will comfortably accommo-
date. We are also enabled to state that Reform. Members
of Parliament from all parts of the country are daily inti-
mating to the Committee their intention of being present
on the occasion. We have reason to believe that some of
the country Members who are not in the habit of speaking
in the House of Commons, will address the assemblage on
this occasion at considerable length, and that some very im-
portant declarations will be made as to the course which
the Reform party ought to pursue in the existing circum-
stances of the country.