The Sun.
London, England, 1862-04-11 00:00:00

THIS DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, April 11.—Wind this day 'at noon—North-
North-East; moderate breeze and cloudy. Weather still
unsettled.

PLYMOUTH, April 10.— Wind N.W.—Arrived—St.
Ann, from Havana; Wellesley, from London, for Mel-
bourne. Sailed—Princess Royal and City of London, for
Quebec.

CARDIFF, April 10.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Emma, for
Rio Grande; Sunrise, for Havana; Rosalia, for Ascen-
sion.

SWANSEA, April 10.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Ceres, for
Quebec.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning.
Arrived—Keziah Page, from Seaham; Argyll, steamer,
from Carentan.
Sailed—Euxine, steamer, for Marseilles.
(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.
Arrived, April 10—Vrow Peter and Ada Purvis, from
Porto Rico ; Henderick, from Emden ; Lucretia, from
Middleharnis; Gem, from Constantinople; Elida, from
Landscrona.
Arrived, April 11—Hutton Chayter, from Palermo;
G. Glitner, from Bandholm ; Wigoline. from Warborg ;
Catherine, from Groningen ; Mathilde, from Aalborg;
Caroline, from Aarhuus ; Clara, from Havannah.
DEAL, Friday Morning.
Passed—Chase, for Balsinore; J. Barden, for Malta;
Truant, for St. K tt's; Eslephanie, for Nassau; Mary
Broughton, for Surinam ; Wolverine, for Quebec—all from
London.
Anchored—Baron Clyde, for Quebec.
Saiied, to stop a leak—Prinz v. Orange, for Rotterdam.

STRANGE DEATH OF AN ATTORNEY'S
CLBRK.

Yesterday morning, at ten o'clock, Mr. John
Humphreys, the coroner for Middlesex, opened an
inquiry at the King's Arms Tavern, Charles-street,
City road, St. Luke's, to investigate the cause of
death of Mr. John George:Webb, aged 42 years, the
chief clerk to F. Webb, Esq., the conveyancer, &c.,
of No. 31, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane.
Emma. Webb, the sister-in-law, said that the
deceased was a married man, and his wife was too

clerk, and always enjoyed good health
ill to attend the inquiry. Deceased was an attor-
ney'suntil Monday week last, when deceased returned
home from his place of business in Southamp-
ton-buildings, and said that he had met with
an accident while attempting to
light his tobacco
pipe. He told her that he had been sitting before
the fire, and while in the act of stooping to reach a
light the long straw pipe which he was smoking
touched the front of the stove-work and forced one
endbe:aintom e
h worseis tongue
and called in a
and caused hims much pain. He
o r
geon, who pre-
scribed for the deceased, but he died on Monday
morning last. Witness understood that deceased
was alone, and he said that his employer was out of
town. He had been several years in his situation,
and was a steady man. H• was a man of full habit
of body, and after the accident the deceased's mouth
and tongue were very much swollen and became
a portion of the
tobacco
oed pipe wasunderstoodfd
fixed in the thick part of the
mortified She
oen that
deceased's tongue.
Mr. Robert Bolton, surgeon, of Claremont-square,
stated that he was called in on Friday to see the
deceased atpa
pain,
his re ,
tongueseare el y suffering con-
siderableandsitdoelndcew. itnHeesswtahsat he had
while stooping to
sus-
tainedlight
hisa np
iipnej.o r yHeofootuhled
speak, and wit-
ness prescribed for him. Witness visited the de-
cee wasased age
tsecond
worse.time on tht day, and found that
h
On tne following morning
gangrene, or mortification, of a portion of the
at
tongue had set in and witness treated him accord.
inhgelY
deceased,Witness
andcontinued
e
continuedoo do all he could for
attendance upon
him until twelve o'clock on Sunday night, when
he died. Had since made a post-mortem exami-
nation of the body, and found the chest in a
t
highly congested state. The heart was weak and
fatty. The other organs Were generally in a healthy
condition, and the stomach was quite healthy. On
opening the mouth he found a wound on the left
side of the tongue, which was in a state of mortifi-
cation. Witness then, upon making an incision,
d o
in
discovered a piece of tobacco pipe firmly embedded
in the fleshy or thick part of the tongue. The
deceased had no doubt died from gangrene of the
tongue produced through the puncture and injury
by the tobacco pipe.
The jury returned the following verdict :—" That
the deceased died from mortification of the tongue,
caused by a puncture through the breaking of a
pipe accidentally and by misadventure."