The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-17 00:00:00

SUDDEN DEATH IN THE 'STREET.

On, Saturday afternoon Dr. Lankester held an
inquest at the Elephant and Castle, King's-road,
Camden Town, touching the death of Mrs. Hannah
Maria Mold, aged 51, who died in the streets on the
previous Saturday night.
From the evidence of several witnesses it ap-
peared that between eleven and twelve o'clock on
Saturday night the deceased was observed to fall
down, apparently in a fit, at the railings of No. 5,
Frederick-street, Hampstead-road. Several per-
sons endeavoured to render assistance, among
whom was Mr Hook, a butcher, who provided water
and brandy for the deceased, and also offered to
pay for a cab and give a man a shilling to ac-
company the unfortunate woman to the Univer-
sity College Hospital. A cab arrived, but three
policemen who were present, believing the woman
to be in a state of drunkenness, sent for the stretcher,
on which she was taken to the police-station, and
there pronounced dead. A purse, containing ss,
and two duplicates, was found in deceased's hand.
Tho police, it was stated, behaved kindly to the
woman, and endeavoured tv administer the brandy
to the deceased, condemned
wbieyfrh. wmaoslbd:onght.
husband
the conduct of the police in allowing his wife to
remain nearly three-quarters of an hour in the
streets on a bitter cold night, and in taking her to
the station-house instead of to the hospital. He
said she was
a most temperate woman—scarcely
ever taking
even porter—and he was surprised
if the hospital was objected to, she was not taken
home, which was close at hand, particularly as she
had money and cards of her address in her pocket.,
Mr. Jakins, of Osnaburgh-street, deposed to being
called to the police-station on Saturday night a little
after 12, and attended immediately. His attention
was drawn to a female who was quite dead, and
had been so for about half an hour. He had made
a postmortem examination, and found death to have
been caused by ossification of the valves of the
heart. She must have died almost immediately
after the fall. Her life could not have been saved.
He could not expect a policeman to distinguish be-
tween drunkenness and apoplexy, it required great
medical experience.

Police-sergeant Conway, 16 S, explained the con-
duct of the police. He said information was brought
to Albany-street station that a woman was lying
on the pavement in Frederick-street, and the
stretcher was sent, and they returned with the wo-
man without delay. The constable thought she was
drunk, as they had so many similar cases in that
neighbourhood. Their orders were to bring such
cases to the station-house, and send for medical ad-
vice. If they had evidence of illness, they were
to take the person to the nearest hospital, surgeon,
or apothecary.
They did not search females--it
would not be prudent. If noted felons or broughtprosti-
eturopfo
in,sb
satisfiede.
Death
they Were searched y
with the explanation, and
from natural causes.
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HIGH WATER ..AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 9h. 37m.—Afternoon, 10h. 12m
To4.foßhow.-Islonting, 10h. 43m.—Afternoon, 11h. 16m

American Democrats have triumphed, and. Eng- '
lish Tories rejoice. They even, like the Persian
Rings of old, take off their own crown, seat the
Democrats on their own horse, and dub them Con-
servotives. What has brought about this new
affection ? Why are the Times and the Tories, all
at once, so in love with the party which is most
rabid in jimerica TOT tilt' insilut, rcipal ssar..s9
State Rights,—in short for referring everything,
even the elections of the Judges, to the decision of
the whole people by secret voting, if they care to
keep it secret. We are told that the Ballot and
Universal Suffrage are the mothers of all evils; that
eminent and eloquent politician Alderman Rosu,
now Lord Mayor of London and candidate for
Southampton, assures us that " the Ballot is the
most flagrant iniquity and pest known to
society ;" the limes has generally found it toe
irritating a topio to write on with calmness, and
yet we are now toll that the party which owes its
origin and principles to JEFFERSON himself, and
which deviates as far as possible from the sobriety
of Washington and Hamilton, is the American
Conservative party !
Englishmen ought well to understand the real
character and objects of these Democrats, these
Conservative advocates of the most unbridled
popular Government, we might almost say of
adminjetration itself, by the people. What have
their antecedents been ? Their strength has been
in the North, far in the South, where a white
aristocracy of 300,000 slaveholders hold all
power in their hands, universal suffrage
is hardly known. In the North they
have long been in various forms the dominant
party. By union with them, though they hated
their principles, the slaveholders have always
secured the upper hand in the Government till the
election of BUTHANAN. And hence it has been the
Democrats who, with the slaveholders, have been
responsible for all sbepublic acts by which England
has been insulted, and all the mti-English demean-
our of the successive idministrations. In New York
city, and other places where Democracy is most
Powerful, the Irish patriots who cannot carry out
their treason to their satisfaction in their native
isle, to a man vote with the Democratic party.
Cardinal WisesaAN's
Hyde-park lambs—their
fellows in
.e'N York we mean—are the strength or '
Democracy there. And this is the party which has
undoubtedly triumphed at the late elections.
The causes of its success against the Republican
party, which eorrespmd
Son the whole to the middle
and educated classes in E
than it is to predict the ngland, are easier to trace
ultimateAd result. The failure
of LINCOLN'S Administration doubtless a chief
cause. Had the war
been
managed prosperously
the Democratic party
would hae still power-
less against the party whose President
suc-
ceeded. We all know how ill success
had
e 4 turn a
Minister in England out of office, while a
great war
is yet raging. In America: a Minister cannot
e
removed by the people or by the Congress ; they
can only do what they have now done, give their
votes to the party opposed to him, end so
warn I
him that 'unless he reverse his policy, when the Pre-
years of dictatorship are expired, he
bident's four
t must quit together. The Pee.
and the l' r'egi'den
sident is believeLT to be honeet but not very capable,
his Mini3iers sbari,, fellows, bt't not sharp enough
The Democratic
to match DAVIS and e'lis Cabinet.
success is, therefore, a vte that the war has been
e•
demand some
ill-conducted, and that the people
better results.
he
There must also be great dissatisfaction witth
corrupt expenditure of the Government. In Eng-
land and Old World countries, the jobbing and cor-
ruption attendant on every war have been notorious
enough, but probably nothing ever surpassed the
extravagance and corruption practised almost by
the highest in office themseiwes. 74LroLE himself

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THE SUN.
LONDON, MONDAY, NOV. 17, 1862.