The Sun.
London, England, 1837-11-22 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

ACCIDENT ON VIE 9'FII OF NOVEMBER. —Last night a Corn-
ncr's Inquest was taken before'Mr. PAYNg, at Guy's Hospital.
on view of the body of Mr. John Thomas, aged 66, a.boot and
shoemaker, who met his death by an accident which took
place on the occasion of the celebration of the Lord Mayor's
Day.
It_ appeared from the evidence of Mr. John Thomas, the
deceased's son, who lives at No.. 10, Spencer street, New Inn,
Shoreditch, that on the 9th c( November he was informed that
his father had reeti,,ed au injury in Bishopsgate-street. He
proceeded there about eleven o'clock at night, and heard that
be was removed to this hospital. Witness went there, but was
not admitted, it being past the time. Ile saw hiA father the
next morning, and heard from him that while looking at a
transparency in front of Mr. Spencer's wine-vaults in B'shops-
gate.s'reet he V; as pushed off the ~:arlment at the time that a
coat..w.iggon was passing, when one of the wheels rested on

his hg,.
;1!r. Cooper, the house surgeon, said that the decnsed had
reee:vcd a fracture of the rigl:t leg. raid nhieli lito brought on
!lig death, his constitution not being able to bear ap azaitist

the injury.
Verdict, Accidettal dtath.
Arother inquest was held on the body of Mr. Civvies
Spencer, aged 9,1 a Custom-house olfwer.
It appeared from the evidence of the deceased's brother
that, on Thtusday last, he was on duty on board the 13ritannii
flimbur4 merchant vessel, when, on passing from that vesA,l
to the Gir ai:other Ihrnl,urgh vessel, his foot siipped, and
be fell into the hold, a depth of 25 leet. Ile received a frac-
ture of his skull, and he died in the huspital on Sunday last.

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Verdict, Accidental death.
A thit d inquest was held oil the body of James 13agstcr, a
bor. It appeared thnt lie on board .t Scotch vessel, when,
wh`le:l.-icending the rigging I,k: get a vane down, his foot
slipped, and he fell a depth of 40 feet. Death shortly after
ended his suffclings at the ho3pital.
Verdict, Accidental death.

The interest:Av! aceonnt of Mr. O'Connell's recep-
tion in Stockport, which we abridge from an express edition Of
711 e Sun, whose exertion?, have concHerably elevated the cha-
r cter o' the Pritish Press, will be read with much interest.—
ll'erbrd
" .1.11 E N'' NE WSP E R.—TO
exertions of our spiritel London Contemporary, The Suit,
not only the Press, but the public, of the United Kingdom,
have been on various ocea-ions much Lidebted for the receipt
of early t-,nd important intclligerc s. During the last Session
of Parliament, ne frequently felt bound, on bily,lf of our
readers, to thank the enterprising proprietor of that Paper for
havirg conveyed to us news of the most interesting nature
with unparalleled dispatch. We trust that the public will re.
ww-d, by its lib2ral patronage, the com!uct of our able and ac-
tive Contemporary.—KilkenvJournal. In the foregoing ac-
knowledgments to our valuable Contemporary in London, wo
feel bound to express our full concurrence. The express edi-
tion of The-Sna, f;nvarded to our office heat week, and con-
taining a full account of the honours paid to the Queen on her
311esty's vii to Loodcn, did not reach us in time for U 9
avail ourselves of it to,til the present. W 43 are not the
ever ; and for this and rviry.
obliged to the proprietor, how
rst instance of his k:udn-ss we have to return our most
sincere thanks.--Ed. L. Independatt.

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Tile Western Tinzei states that au inf-Jrmation has
been by at.t3rney against the Ilig,h Sheaf of Devon-
shire fur sbuotmg without a license.
The tlimisval of the B Ivarin Niinistor fur the Li.
tenor, Prince Oettingen Wallerateio, is looked upon as like!),
to give a great proponderatte. to th., Proteatant party.
CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. —The mission of the
the Itu;siAtt Prince liolgorucki. vita), after a short stay beres
set cff for Servia, affords our di:.lornatists matter fur a variety
of suppotitions. , T, ere seems to be no doubt that he is sent
to arrange the differences bete.Fen the Porte and :he Servian
Government, and at the same time to serve as a mediator be.
tiveen the Prince and !!is rople, on the occasion, of the intro.
duction of the new Servian constitution,—Ai ntaine Zeilung.

MiSTRUCTIVE HURRICANE AT

NEW ORLEANS.

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This city was oti the 6th of October last visited with a
devastating q4IP, besides the yellow fever, which is raging
with feartitl violence, and carries off upwards of 20 daily.
The tolhwing, which has been extracted from journals of
the city and the provinces near, appear to be the most
aeercate p•irticulars

On the 6th of October the city was visited with con-
lama rain, the wind blowing at the same time with great
violence. Great damage was done to the shipping in the
port, and the French ship Carolbw, from Cette, ready for
sea, lost her mizenmast and bowsprit. The roof of the
Citizen's Bank had suffered ; its roof, although fastened by
strong iron bolts, ha.ing been carried off by the violence
of '.he gale. The if nitie, whicn had arrived only the day
previous, had lost her bowsprit. by collision o ith other vessels.
In the evening the continu.mce of the gale raised the
waters to such an elevation in the lake that it inundated
the swamp rapidly, and by S P.M. three feet of water was
in the Gas-house-;square, which, covering the valves, left
the city in total darkness. The waters were still out on the
Bth, and persons residing in the streets were obliged to go
home in their boats. The burial ground was covered so

ep that the dead remained unburied, and the new Ceme-
tery was in the like condition. The new City Exchange
was severely disfigured from the effects of the storm, as
was also part of the marble frontage of the Bank, in Tou-
louse-street. The steamers Columbia, Mobile (best in the
trade), and Pontchartrain, were half a-ground, with a
small schooner, left high and dry on terra jirmn, and much
doubt was entertained of their being got off. A steamer,
called the 31erchant, had sunk, and it was feared that se-
veral se.,inen were lost. The steward and a blacksmith of
the Columbia were missing, supposed to he drowned.
The ship Lotus and bark Olive, which lay at the end of
St. Joseph's, after parting from her moorings on shore,
swung round, and tailed in the mud-bank, where they re-
mained with theirsheathings much stripped. The steamer,
Fort Adams, undergoing repairs, was carried down as far as
SlaugLer-house-point, in a sinking state, and before those
on board succeeded in getting her into shoal water she
had sunk to her hurricane deck ; little chance of recovery
was entertained. Up the river, from Captain Wright's
statement; it was learned that the hurricane had been
felt severely. Several flat boats, between the river and
Baton-range, deeply laden with corn, hay, and sundry
articles of produce, destined for the New Orleans
market, had either completely sunk or been driven
ashore ; the crews, in most instances, providen-
tially escaping. On the 9th the city at the back
was completely submerged, and all hopes of saving
either the steamers Columbia, _Mobile, or Pontchartrain
were abandoned. Only eight or ten dwelling houses at the
edge of the lake remained standing, and those had received
such serious injury that considerable repairs would be re-
quired. The building at the entrance of the Bayau had
been overturned, and a man unknown killed in its fall. In
one of the bathing establishments the proprietress saved her
life with difficulty, but was necessitated to witness the
death of her offspring, aged 12 years, without power of
rescue. A hut belonging to some fishermen had been
carried away, and the inhabitants not since heard of.
Numerous small tenements had been prostrated, and the
crops each side of the river were greatly injured. The
estimates of the damage sustained had been numerous, but
as none were relied upon at present for accuracy, it is for-
borne to state any sum.

CURRENTS OF THE OCEAN.--A bottle was picked
up last week in Machrehanish.bav, fire miles west of Camp-
belltown, Scotland, containing the following note :—" The
bark Albion, of London, Robert Thompson master, from
Gloucester, bound to Miramichi, in lat. 41, 22 N., and long.
43 55 15 W., 35 days out ; and I have had nothing but
strong north-west g.des for 26 days, so that I cannot get to
the northward. Whoever picks this up will please to make
it knoWn, and oblige your humble servant, ROBERT THOMP-
SON.—Oct. 20, 1836."

Last week the whole village of Ferrybridge was
thrown into confusion owing to a report having spread
that Rylah Richardson, a person living in the village, was
murdered in his own house, by his wife, and her son, Robt.
Lowther, who resided at Knottingley, a village close by.
Lowther and his mother were both taken into custody, an
inquest was held, and a post modem examination of the
body taken ; and after hearing the surgeon's opinion, and
examining several witnesses, the Jury returned a verdict of
" wilful murder" against Robert Lowther, who was taken
to York Castle. On Tuesday evening Richardson was in-
terred at Ferry Fryston, when a large body of people at-
tended ; the police were obliged to come for the wire's pro-
tection from the assembled multitude, who hanged and
burnt her effigy before the door.—Doncaster Gazelle.
It is, we presume, to Lord Lyndhurst that the
public are indebted for the following piece of information
respecting the cause of Sir Robert Peel's absence from the
Guildhall banquet. The Right lion. Baronet, it seems, was
prevented from doing honour to his own Sovereign, not by
an engagement with the Sovereign of another nation, but
with a personage of infinitely more importance. The pa-
ragraph is from the Quolidienne :—" The Morning Post
is completely in the wrong when it attributes the absence
of Sir Robert Peel from the banquet given to the Queen
in Guildhall to an invitation from the King of the French
to accompany him to Versailles. The absence of Sir Robert
was designed ; he was glad of keeping away from the
Whigs. He did not go to Versailles with the King, but
he went over there with Lady Peel, the day after his ar-
rival at Paris, to spend a day with Lord and Lady Lynd-
hurst. Sir Robert Peel, during his stay in Paris, had no
political interview with the King, or any Member of the
Gevernment."—Morning Paper.
MONTREAL, SEPT. 9.—We understand that an
Indian was yesterday lodged in gaol, charged, along with
another of his tribe, with the murder of seven individuals
connected with the lion. Hudson's Bay Company. The
murders are said to have been committed beyond the
Rocky Mountains, and his companion, after for some time
tludinz the vi.,;ilance of his pursuers, was at last taken,
and shipped to England from some port on the shores of the
Pacific Occan.—Arantstal He. ald.
Tit E LORD MAYOR OF LONDON.—In haroducing
an article which appeared in the Sunday newspapers under
the head " The Lord Mayor approved of by the Queen,"
flue Stirling papers have the following observations :—" The
following presentation of the Lord Mayor elect of London
we place among our local news, because of its very great
importance to our town. There is not, we are certain, en
individual in the place who will not rejoice in the announce-
u;ent that any descendant of the munificent John Cowanc
is in existence, and not 0:4 so, but also that he has borne
himself so as to be counted worthy of being the first Ma-
gistrate of the flrst city in the world, and that too at a time
when the citizens of (oat city, with Mr. John Cowane, their
Lord Mayor, at their head, are about to entertain their
youthful Queen at a public dinner, which takes place this
day. In our Opinion, the Town-council cannot do less than
present this gentleman with the freedom of the burgh,
handsomely bestowed at the expense of Cowane's Hospital,
which is perfectly able to express gratitude to the de-
scendant of a man whose benevolence is daily diffusing
comfort and satisfaction to hundreds of persons. We beg
to inform his Lordship, that his ancestor's charity has been
so well managed that it now yields annually several hun-
dred pounds more than the whole amount of the sum mor-
tified by this excellent and worthy man." The word "mor-
tified" means here " bequeathed."
On the day after our October fair, a young man
who gave his name John Hall, and who stated himself to be
servant to " Mr. Evans, the Speaker of the House of Com-
mons!" and that he had come into the country for the be-
nefit of his health, took lodgings at the house of Mr. S.
Vaughan, a highly-respectable farmer, residing at Pencoid,
in this county. He remained for a fortnight, conducting
himself in such a manner as to lull suspicion, but on the
night of the Bth inst. the lodger, who, there is no doubt,
formed a part of the " swell mob," suddenly decameed,
having broken open a box, and taken away 451. in 5/.
notes of the Herefordshire Branch Bank, besides other
moneys in gold and silver, amounting in the whole to
901. We subjoin a few particulars, which may assist in
the detection of this scoundrel, for whom our active
police arc on the look out. He is about 5 feet 6 inches high,
light hair and complexion, with numerous eruptions on
his face, and was dressed in an olive-coloured frock-
coat, black trousers, and waistcoat. He wore a gold ring
with a white stone on his finger, and had a tortoise-shell
cased watch in his pocket. The thief had also with him
a dark red carpet bag containing a ribbed moselle stripped
waistcoat, plaid moleskin trousers, silk stock with black
buttons, the latter having the representation of a king's
head upon them, &c. Among the silver stolen were some
old coins, such as .ss. (id. pieces. The success which at-
tends the efforts of these vagabonds is a serious evil. Not
one of the six swell mob taken up at our fair had much less
than U. lOs. in good money on his person ; and two of them
came to the city in a handsome gig, and with a capital
horse.—Heref)rd Jou/ nal.
COLOSgALCABBAGES.—A man in Paris, of the
name of Obry, is said to have realised 20,0001. by adver-
tising the seed of a colossal cabbage, just introduced from
New Zealand, which would grow to the height of fifteen
feet, and which would have the effect of improving the
wool of the sheep that fed on it. This precious article was
sold at one franc for each seed, and when sown produced
merely common cabbages. One gentleman, who had laid
out twenty francs for twenty seeds, determined to bring
the cheat before a tribunal, and the fellow is now under

arrest awaitigg his trial. The Gazette des Tribuneaux
altYlitlia‘llifeiltrick has been simultaneously played off in
.—Ntis; but in London the article has been
Inn Cabbage,

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