The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-01 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—DISCOVERY OP A CHILD STOLEN
BY a MENDICANT.—On Tuesday an inquest was held at the
Golden Eagle, Mile-end-road, upon the body of a mendicant,
who went by the name of Elizabeth Allen, and who died sud-
denly in the above house. The body of the deceased 13y in
an out-house of the tavern, and when viewed by the jury, each
one expressed his opinion that she was of the male sex; and
from a view of the head, hair, and breasts of the deceased, no
one could have doubtea that to have been the fact. The an-
droginous character of the deceased, however, being under-
stood, the jury returned to the inquest-room, when the follow-
ing evidence was heard :
Charles Skeat, a waiter at the Golden Eagle, deposed that
on Friday evening, about eight o'clock, the deceased came
into the tap-room, and begged of him to allow her to warm
herself. She appeared to be about forty years of age, and had
chart curly hair like a man, and from her whole appearance
he took her to be of that sex, though she was dressed like a
woman ; she had a child with her about three years of age,
and she took some tripe (such as is purchased at the shops
in an uncooked state) and a half-quartern loaf from under her
dress, and, giving the child a small quantity, began eating a
part of the tripe herself: she shortly after appeared to
be choking, and put her fingers into her mouth, as if to
pull something out of her throat. There were several
persons in the room, and they all appeared to think
it was an attempt at imposition ; they all said it was a man,
and witness was so frightened when the woman fell upon the
floor that he did not attempt to assist her, nor did any cne in
the room ; the poor creature appeared to be in violent agita-
tion, and witness ran out for a doctor ; a Mr. Sunley, a chemist,
promptly attended, but said the woman was dead ; and Mr.
Story, a surgeon, came in shortly after, and confirmed that
opinion ; witness believed she died from choking.
The Coroner—And was no attempt made by the medical
men to extract anything from her throat ?—Witness : No, Sir;
they said she was dead; and the people in the room " sung
out" that it was a man and an impostor, and when they saw
her breasts every one believed that to be the fact.
Police &.rgeant Osmond, No. 9 R, shortly after brought
into the roam a piece of tripe about two inches long and an
inch a half in diameter, which the surgeon had just taken from
the deceased's throat, and which had evidently been the cause
ofl-,er death.—The Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental
Death "

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

HOUSE OF LORDS, JAN. 31.
CANADA GOVERNMENT BILL.
The House met at Four o'clock, when Mr. BERNAL and
others brought up the Canada Bill.
The House then adjourned during pleasure.
The LORD CHANCBLLOR again took his seat on the Wool-
sack at Five o'clock.
On the motion of Lord GLENELG, the Canadian Go-
vernment Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be printed
and read a second time on Friday.
Lord REDESD ALE moved for a copy of all dispatches
received from Sir Colin Campbell, Governor of Nova Scotia
in 1837, the dates of the receipts of such dispatches, and the
dates of the answers to them.
The House, on the motion of Lord SHAFTESBURY,
then adjourned.
As the Lord Chancellor was leaving the Woolsack, Lords
Brougham, Ellenborough, and other Peers, entered the House,
which occasioned some laughter. It was understood that their
Lordships had adjourned to Friday, but that day not having
been named by the Lord Chancellor,
Lord BROUGHAM said—Of course, my Lords, you have
only adjourned till to-morrow?
Lord SHAFTESBURY replied in the affirmative.
The House stands adjourned till to-morrow (Thursday).

Bartlett. the constable, said the woman was wtll known in
the neighbourhood as a beggar, and there was every reason
to believe die child she had with her wa3 net her own, but
procured for the purpose of inducing elms from the humane ;
the child was now in Mile-end workhouse.
The Jury said the child had been probably stolen ; and by
their desire the Coroner examined three Irishwomen, one of
whom, named Norah Murphy, told a singular story of her
acquaintance with the deceased. She said that she lived in
White horse-court, White Horse-lane, Stepney ; and that
about eleven weeks ago the deceased came to her door ; it I
was night, and her husband looked out of the window and in-
quired who it was. She said she wanted a loigirg, and that
a policeman had driven her up the court. Witness, hearing
that she bad afbild in her arms, told her husband to let her
in, which he did, and she had been with them ever since, and
she got her living by begging. When she came she was in a
very wretched condition, -wrapped up in a piece of carpet, ai:d
only Lad a few " taters" to eat ; she had always lived very
hard, and upon the day she died she had nothing before she
left holm. but a little coffee, without sugar or milk. The child
was suckled by her when she first came—[this must have been
a pretence]—but it did not appear fond of her, hut was rather
afraid of her. She used to call it Edward, and some-
times Bill, and told the witness she had picked it up in the
' road near to the White Swan, in soiree part of the country,
witness could not tell where, but it was near to some place
where the deceased's husband teas at work harvesting ; witness
understood about ten miles from London. The deceased told
witness that there was a row, and a policeman told her to take
the child out of the way, when she took the opportunity to run
off with it. The child had fine linen upon it, and a pair of
red socks, when witness first saw it.

At the request of the Jury the Reporter visited the child
at tho workhouse, but was not enabled to ascertain that it
had any peculir marks by which it might be identified. If

well taken care of it would be a fine boy, having dark blue
eyes, light hair. and a fair complexion. The nurse stated that
it was in a horrible state of filth when brought to her, but the
frock in which it was dressed appeared to have been very
fashionably made, and was of brown silk, and was no doubt
made for it. Its other clothes were coarse and bad, and the
whole very filthy. From the circumstance of the frock being
made to fit the child, the nurse expressed an opinion that it
had belonged to respectable people.

BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK.

(YESTERDAY.)

(From our Second Edition of last night.)
Mr. HARDING, in continuation from our First Edition, said—
What was the meaning of the word " extension ?" Some per
sons gave it one meaning, another another. The only meaning
he could attach to it was Universal Suffrage. —( Hear, hear, and
cheers.) The time was gone by for trifling with the working
men. The working classes would not support the middle-
man for the Ballot, if he would not support them for Univer-
sal Suffrage.—( Cheers.) They could not get the Ballot
without the support of the working classes.—(Cheers ) And
they would not have their support unless in return they
had their's for Universal Suffrage. (Loud Cheers. )
The working men asked for Universal Suffrage, because every
body could understand what it meant, and they claimed it as
their right.—(Cheers.) It was said indeed that if too much
were asked nothing would be obtained. But the working
man said, " If all were asked, a part would be obtained—if a
part only were asked, nothing would be obtained." It was not
true, as was sometimes said, that the working classes were
too ignorant to exercise the franchise.—( Cheers.) If they had
the franchise, there would not be such a batch of scoundrels
in the House of Commons as there were at present—
( Cheers.) It was falsely asserted that the working men
were immoral—that they were not virtuous enough
to exercise the franchise. ( Hear, hear, hear.) If
virtue were anywhere in existence, it was to be found among
the working-classes.—( Loud cheering.) True, they did
not, like the Aristocracy, spend their nights in gaming
and debauchery—they could not, like too many of to
middle classes gamble and speculate, at the expense
of the roasses--(Checring)—but they could and did
work for all the other classes of society—( Cheers)—and they
were always ready to contribute from their scanty means
to the necessities of their poorer brethren.—( Cheers. )
The working men were now abused, and threatened with the
sword of the law for the Trades' Combinatia`ns. And many of
those who called themselves " patriots" were talking very big
against the combioations of the working men, and
he who called himself the " Liberator of Ireland"
had proved himself the arch enemy of the working
men.—( Hear, hear, hear, with loud cries of " No,
no," hisses, and great confusion.) The working classes would
have universal suffrage—they were determined to have it or die.
The feeling throughout the country in favour of Universal
Suffrage was spreading fast. The Birming :ttei Political
Union had been re-organised, and it had declared
that the people should have the suffrage—that bode,
joined with the Working Men's Association, would
get up a system of organised agitation, which
the aristocrats and even the shopocrats would find it impos-
sible to put down. If they were Christians they would deplore
the state of misery into which the working classes were
plunged. In many cases they were obliged to starve on
2,id. a-day. The working classes were determined to get the
franchise—by fair means, if possible—if not, then by forcible
ones, if drisea to extremity. He would not detein the meeting
further, as he was anxious to hear their Representative, and
although he might be a little oat of order, he claimed that
Gentleman's support in the sentiments he had uttered. He
thanked them for the attention with which they had beard him,
but protested against the manner in which the second resolu-
tion was passed. A man opposed to Universal Suffrage was
the enemy of the working classes.
Mr. BROWN suggested that Mr. Humphreys ought to be
requested to support the petition. As the resolution at pre-
' sent stood, Mr. Harvey's name alone was mentioned in it,
which appeared rather invidious.
The resolution was then amended by inserting a requisition
to Mr. Humphrey s to support the petition, and carried una-
nimously :-
4th. That a petition to Parliament, founded on the several
resolutions, be agreed to, and that the High Bailiff be re-
quested to sign the same on the part of the electors ; and that
D. NV. Harvey, Esq., he requested to present, and John
Humphery, Esq., to support the same.
Mr. JOHN DAY rose to move the following resolution :

That in the opinion of this meeting, D. W. Harvey,
Esq., their esteemed representative, is pre-eminently qualified
to be a member of the Committee for Enquiry into the Pen-
sion List, inasmuch as it is well known to the public that his
devoted attention to, and unwearied perseverance in, exposing
the evils and injustice of unmerited pensions, has been the
great means of obtaining such enquiry—and it is the opinion
of the electors of this borough, that such enquiry will give no
satisfaction to the country at large whilst the name of Mr.
Harvey is excluded from the Committee : and the electors of
this borough cannot but consider themselves to en extent dis-
franchised by the exclusion of their Representative from the
Committee. That a petition to Parliament, founded on the
above Resolution, be agreed to, and that the High Bailiff be
requested to sign the same on the part of the electors, and
that John Humpbcry, Esq., be requested to present the same."
He would now offer a few remarks explanatory of his reasons
for proposing such a resolution. He was among those who
cordially approved of the whole public conduct of Mr. D.
W. Harvey. That he believed was the opinion of a
great majority of the electors of the borough of
Southwark.—( Great cheering.) He believed there were
private motives by which the Chancellor of the Exchequer was
influenced in opposing the placing of Mr. Harvey's name on
the Pension List Committee. It would be recollected that
one high and honourable personage in the House of Commons
had stated that he did not so much object to Mr. Harvey,
on the grounds stated by the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, as because Mr. Harvey had made a comparison
between the rich and the poor, and that he had expressed a
determination to remove frora the Pension List the name of
every person who had not a fair claim to his pension.—
( Cheers. ) He trusted that Mr. Harvey, who had so manfully
(ear. )
declared his sentiments upon that point, would receive the
support of every independent man in the country.—H
Had Mr. Harvey acceded to the proposition of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, he would have compromised not only his
own integrity and honour, but he would have established a
precedent for slavish submission to the will of the Minister
which would be most prejudicial to the interests of the public.
—( Cheers. )
Mr. PETERS, in seconding the resolution, said he did not
think, with Mr. Arrowsmith, that any dependence could be
placed on the Whigs. In order to obtain office, they promised
to give the people their rights when they had the chance. But
what had they done? They acted worse than the Tories.—
(No, no ; and yes, yes.) He maintained that they were worse
than the Tories, because they held out promises which they had
no intention of fulfilling. The Tories, on the contrary, told what
they meant to do, and what they said they abided by. They
did not act in the " Jim Crow"manner of the Whigs.—(
Hear. )
What did the Whigs do in the case of the Dorchester la-
bourers? They promised to bring them home again, but had
they done so ? Those who brought these poor men before the
tribunals of the country ought to have brought before them
the Hanoverian Prince, and brand him as a traitor to his coun-
try, for where would the present Queen have been, had it not
been for the exertions of Mr. Flume and others in the Commons?
Until he saw there was a fair principle of open voting, he
should be in favour of the Ballot. He concluded by seconding
the resolution.

SLAVE SIIIPS.—We have advices from Jamaica
to-day to the 13th Dec. Two slave vessels had been cap-
tured, one by her Majesty's ship Snake, and the other by the
Sappho. The Council were to meet to determine how the
Africans, above 400 in number, were to be disposed of, as the
planters felt little disposition to take them. The following
are the particulars of the capture of one of these vessels, ex-
tracted from one of the Jamaica papers :—" A remarkably line
hermaphrodite brig, the Arraganta, a prize to her Majesty's
ship Snake', Alex. Milne, commander, arrived at this port
on Sunday last. She had on board 330 Africans, ham+,
lost, it is said, above 140 during the passage. Several
were afflicted with dysentery, and the whole have in con-
sequence, been disembarked, and are now domiciled in
the building about to be appropriated as a house of correc-
tion for this parish. Considering everything, they are re-
markably fine looking negroes, many of them very young.
There is among them a young man who has already been a
second time sold, on his return to the interior from his first
liberation at Sierra Leone, instancing most forcibly the ab-
surdity of facilitating any such mode of ameliorating their con-
dition. The slaver took in her cargo at Gallinas, near Sierra
Leone, and after a tedious passage of forty days, was espied on
the morning of the 23d ult. The Snake immediately went in
pursuit, and came in with her about noon the same day. No re-
sistance was offered, and when the vessel was boarded most of
the crew were found intoxicated and much alarmed. These, in
company with several passengers, were landed at Zagua, the
master, the pilot, and four others, being all that were detained
on board. The slaver was under Portuguese colours, and
bound, report says, to Havannah. The accommodation was
wretched, there being only room for the miserable inmates to
sit crouched together in each other's laps, and that as close as
they could stow, so that nothing but heads were visible.
Their food was entirely confined to rice, the water we regret to
say, abominable, which, together with their confined situations
(their legs are absolutely not thicker than broomsticks), suffi-
ciently accounts for the vast proportion of deaths which oc-
curred."

When Lord Eldon was Chancellor of the palatinate
of Durham, an application was made to him on behalf of a
young man, a ward of Chancery, who was entitled on becom-
ing of age to an estate of the value of about 3001. per annum,
for an allowance to him at college. Whether his Lordship
felt any particular interest in the welfare of the young gentle-
man it would be now difficult, if not impossible, to determine.
Certain it is that, in granting the application, his Lordship
addressed the youth in terms to the following effect :—" You
will shortly become entitled to a small property, which may
prove to you either a blessing or a curse, according as you use
it. It was, perhaps, fortunate for me that I was not situated in
my early life as you are now. I had no small fortune to look
to ; I had nothing no depend on but my own exertions ; and
so far from considering this a misfortune, I now esteem it a
blessing ; for, if I had possessed the same means which you
will enjoy, I should in all probability not bo what I now am.
I would, therefore, caution you not to let this little property
turn your mind from more important objects, but rather let it
stimulate you to cultivate your abilities, aid to advance your-
self in the gradations of society."
The discovery of a high temperature in the interior
of the earth suggests one source from which a supply of heat
may be derived. Even in frozen Siberia, for instance, the
temperature of Jamaica would be found at the depth of 1,700
feet, or one-third of a mile ; blood heat would be found at a
depth of 3,000 feet, and that of boiling water at the depth of
a mile and a half. It is true we are yet without a process for
bringing this hcat to the surface (except where springs of
water can be obtained at these depths by boring); but who
will venture to say that a method may not be found of pump-
ing up heat, as we pump up water ? Science has accom-
plished more wonderful things than this.— Scotsman.
Early on the morning the Ceres smack, which left
our port for London on the previous Wednesday, was descried
in the bay—having from adverse winds been unable to
prosecute her voyage and after having been as far south as
Whitby, at fall tide (eleven o'clock) she stood for the harbour,
the entrance to which seemed to bid her defiance. The pier
and walls exhibited crowds of spectators, whose fears and
hopes were alternated, but who could render no assistance ;
the hardy crew though much distressed by the previous night's.
storm, and some them then lashed to the vessel, hesitated not
a moment, but directed her bows to the foaminc, waters, while
in the midst of which she seemed
quite at the' mercy of the
element. One sea struck her stern and dashed her boat into
countless pieces, and also damaged her bulwarks; with this
exemption the vessel safely reached her berth at the quay.
The life-boat was in readiness to be launched, with an ample
crew in attendance.—Berwich Advertiser.

Mr. SHARPS then came forward to speak to the resolution.
In his opinion the exertions of Mr. Harvey with respect to the
Pension List deserved well of every working man.—
( Cheers.) Although the poor were cast into a bastile to live
upon 18d. a-week, yet they were found to keep up in splendor
state paupers.—( Cheers.) In his opinion Universal Suffrage
and that alone was the only thing that would benefit the
working man.—( Cheers.) He had seen Tory Goveraments,
Whig Governments, and other Governments, but he was
sure no Tory Government, or tyrannical Government would
have given them such a measure as the Poor Law Bill.—
(Cheers.) He was an advocate for equal rights, equal laws,
and equal justice, and in conclusion he would say, give then
Universal Suffrage, and they would take care no one robbed
nem.—( Cheers.) He did not think much of the Ballot, but
ne would sooner have it than nothing.
The resolution was put, and carried unanimously.
Mr. Rusuross moved that Mr. Humphery be requested to
present the petition, stating that the omission of his name had
been unintentional.—( Hear, hear.)
The motion was seconded, and unanimously carried.
DANIEL WHITTLE HARVEY, ESQ., M. P., then came for-
ward, and was received with loud and long-continued cheers.
When the applause had subsided, he spoke as follows :
apology
—Mr. High Bailiff and Gentlemen,—lf I allude to the
puperosnonaltwisneoonovees.sniioenn,cepresent
itw hiicsh
only feelb y iwnaybe ionfg
for not having been present at the beginning : because I am
one of those who think that no consideration save that of ab-
solute indisposition, or the discharge of legislative duties, can
be offered to a eonstituency for the absence of their represen-
tative.—( Cheers.) Least of all would it be becoming in me
to be absent on any such occasion, when I call to mind the
strenuous efforts which you made at the last election for this
borough, and the liberal manner in which you chose me,
as your representative.—( Cheers.) lam also the more
pleased to be here on this occasion, as this is especially a meet-
ing of those who may be called Ultra, or Liberal Reformers.—
( Cheers.) It would grieve me much to have it thought that
my conduct was regulated by the circumstances of those who
may form a public meeting,—( Loud cheers.) Though,
therefore, I may regret the absence of many es,tserned
individuals whose presence would have given strength
to this meeting, and whose countenance would have
been appreciated by us, at the same time I am delighted to
find, that all orders of the community are assuming their right
position ; that they are directing their minds to objects in

THE SL N, LONDON , TEI URSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1838.