The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-14 00:00:00

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We very much regret to announce the death, under
most distressing circumstances, of Mrs. Sarah An*
Walley, wife of Mr. William Wilkinson Walley, of the
firm of Wm. Walley and Co., wooletaplers, of Leeds.
Mrs. Walley was the youngest daughter of Mr. Jo.hus
Haldrew, of Charles-equare, Hoxton, and was married
to Mr. Walley at the church of Sr. Mary the
London, so recently us the 21st ult. The marriage took
place atter a courtship of some length of time, and with
the perfect concurrence of the members of the two fami-
lies. After marriage the bride and bridegroom repaired
to Leamington, but finding the weather so hot they pro-
ceeded from thence to Scarboro', at both of which places
' Mrs. Walley complained of much pain in her head; On
Monday week they came home, Mr. WalleY's residence
being at Bowling-house, Holbeck. On Friday in lest
week Mrs. Walley again complained of pain and giddi-
ness in the head, which she attributed to the heat,
but which, however, was thrown off by taking
a seidlitz powder. Last Sunday morning the
bride and bridegroom made their appearance at
the Wesleyan chapel, at Holbc ck, when the
saner again complained of the heat, and did nut eon-
s-Trend) attend chapel any more that day, but in the
• veiling had some friends to supper, and appeared
happy. cheerul, and co-tented, as she' had dove ever
sauce her martiag.:. On the meriting of Monday last,
she arose about six o'clock, but without dressing, re-
iern-d to bed again, where she remained till after eight
o'clock, and at or• ak ast read a cle.pter frem the Bible
to her husband. Mr. Walley left home to attend his
business at Leeds, at half-past ten o'cl, ck, promising to
return again at five o'clock to meet some friends of the
family invited ti sisit them on that day. At the time of
Otis keying home, Mrs. Walley sppeared in good health
and st lilts, and giving him an affectionate salutation, she
bath him good morriug. Abut twelve o'clock a ales.
seneer arrived at his place of business in Leads, to in.
flan] him of what hia liliWeireill=-Mrs. Walley was no
mere; ins had xpired from a wound m her throat. At
the inquest, which was held on Tuesday, and by ad-
j,surnrnerit on Thursday, at the Woodman lon, Holbeck,
Ar. Walley said he was altogether unable to account
for what had happened, as Mrs. Walley was of an exceed-
ingly cheerful and happy disposition, and so far as he
knew she was perfectly happy and contented. Mr. Hal.
drew, deceased's hi other. also gave evidence to the same
4 fleet, and read extracts from several well-written letters:
from his sister to her family at Heaton, one of them
dated so lately as the Bth July, and in all of which she
expressed herself as perfectly happy and contented. At
the time the fatal act was committed there was no one
with her in the house Except a female servant, but there
were two bricklayers working on the premises. A little
after eleven o'clock the.eervant, who had occasion to go
to her for a key to get some beer for the bricklayers'
drinking, found her in her lodging-room engaged at her
toilet, and presently aftewards Mrs. Walley came down
stairs for the key, and was seen by the bricklayers
standing at the front door. Shortly after this Mrs.
Hodgson, an aunt of Mr. Walley's, who resides near his
house, came in to the wash-house, and told the servant
that Mr. and Mrs. Varley, of Stanningly, two relations.
who were expected to visit them, were coming. The
servant at once proceeded to the foot of the staircase to
inform her mistress, who came to the land..
ing and requested her to prepare dinner.
In about ten minutes atter this, Mrs. Varley,
who is Mr. Walley's sister, arrived. After knock-
ing at the front door rather loudly for some time without
being attended to, she walked in and proceeded up
stairs, first into the best bedroom, and then into Mrs.
Walley's lodging-room, the door of which was closed,
but not locked, where thel deceased was found laid upon
the floor dead, with a razor grasped in her left hand.
This instrument had been taken from Mr. Walleyes
dressing-case, which stood upon the dressing-table. Both

the carotid artery and the internal jugular vein were
found divided on the-left side, so that instantaneous
death would be the result. The whole case is a very
mysterious one, and there are many singular circum-
stances in it. ¶1 he servant says she was in the wash-
house when Airs. Varley arrived, and saw her pass to go
to the principal entrance, at the other end of the btulding;
and she had seen and spoken to her mistress only a tow
minutes bcfOre this, when she observed nothing
whatever unusual in her appearance or demeanour.
Mrs. Varley knocks at the door without making herself
heard, and 0,1 walking up stairs, finds Mrs. Welley laid
on the floor in the state described, so that up to within
a few minutes of her death, the deceased is seen in per•
tea health, in good spirits, and so tar as is known, sur-
rounded by circumstances in every way calculated to
make lite desirable. Another circumstances is, the dis-
covery that the door, leading from the kitchen staircase
to the lodging-rooms, was found locked from the out-
side, it having alwa)s previously been left open. The jury
were a good deal puzzled -how to account for all these
things, but, atter nearly three hours' deliberation, they
came to the decision that death had been caused by de-
ceased's own hand.—Leeds Mercury.

THE SULTAN IN PIWCESSION.
It was amusing to observe the crowd, like ourselves,
waiting in patient expectation to see the Grand Seignor.
A'l the soldiers and mote respectable people wore pants-
loons and the red tat bench; but the lower classes, ever
the first to move and the last to be benefited by a revolu-
tion. adhered to the turban and capacious breeks, with
kind of tunic to match. The dervishes were moving
about with serious faces, wearing tadrd brown or green
cloaks, with felt hats, shaped like inverted funnels, upon
their heads.

We waited for some time; and as the Sultan wits
about to appear in public, our imagination pictured the
magnificent enti ez of a great o(torean monarch—troops
of warriors; splendidly caparisere d horses, and all the
barbaric pomp of an oriental court—when a low mur-
mur indicated that the p r4ige was approachitig.
First came, walkieg backwards, the Imaum of the
dervi:h.,s, in a high green felt hut, swinging a censer
tilled with burning incense, and followed by a grave,
melancholy-looking young man, with a rather
scanty black beard, the red tarhouch upon his
head, and wearing a blue military frock coat
and fawn•coloured pantaloons; the coat fringed or laced,
with a standing collar; fawn coloured gloves upon his
banes, and a short blue cloak thrown lightly over his
shoulders. It was the Sultan! He was followed, in
single file, by slx or eight persons, attired in blue, some
wearing swords, and others carrying small leather pork
fueilles, richly embossed with gold.
Contrary to expectation, the Sultan had dismounted
outside, and his gait, as he passed us, was feeble and
almost tottering. Indeed, most of the Turks walk what
is termed " parrot-ioed"—vcry much like our Indians.
Ascending a covered stairway to en upper gallery, with
windows towards the court, he approached one of thee,
and looked intently down upon us; but our interpreter
imprudently exclaiming, "'Voila le Sultan! le Sultanr
he turned slowly away, we presume, to his devotions.
Without the court were his horses; splendid steeds,
caparisoned in richly-ernbroidered, but chaste saddle-
cloths, which, as well as the reins and the pommels of
the saddles, were studded with precious stones; the
head-pieces were t mboased gold, and the froutlets glit-
tered with gems.
The Sultan% figure was light, and apparently feeble.
I thought so when I saw him before, in a scmi-obscure
apartment, and big appearance this day confirmed the
impression. The expression of his features at the mo-
ment of passing was that of profound melancholy. Like
the Mexican prince of whom he so much reminded me,
his mind may be overshadowed by the general and
spreading (pinion, that the Ottoman rule upon the
European side of Turkey is drawing to a close. This
impression has become so prevalent that hundreds, when
they die, dirt ct their remains to be interred on the
Asiatic side of the Bosphorus. It is sad to think that,
trom the destruction of the Janissaries by Mahmoud to
the present time, the very advanceinent of the Tufkiin
civitization should increase the weakness, and precipi-
tate the dismemberment, if not the downfal, of the
empire! It was a singular scene!_ A few ragged Turks
in the old turban, the only-relic of the past; the mixture
of European costumes and the red tarboueh; a company
of Christian officers, from a far-off land; the mild-
looking young Sultan, so humble! so gentle! with BO
little parade! so different from his haughty Osmanli*
ancestors! And then there was a backgrouud of veiled
women—the ghouls peeping out of the graveyard.—
Lynch's Expedition to the Dead Sea.

Two LIVES LoST.-13etVIEEI1 seven and eight
o'cLek on Thursday evening, a most singular and
melancholy occurrence took place at Camden-town, by
which a poor man named John
. Emery, residing at
Crouch-end, Hornsey, and a child about seven years of
age, residing with his parents at Rawlings's Wharf, St.
Peurs-road, Camden-town, lust their lives. It appfre
that Emery, who is a blacksmith by trade, was passing
over the bridge which crosses the Regent's Canal in
the King's-road, when be observed a child fill from
the bank of. the canal at Rawlings's Wharf, in.to
eth_fi
water. He instantly rushed round from thettrelaterso
the wharf, and was preparing to plungeintoobserved
to
to save the child, when he was suddenly
stagger and fall close to the edge
who had observed the
on the other side of the canal,of the bank. People
occurrence, at first supposedm!_n to be an accident, but
i ed motionless whilst the
child perceiving
w a dtrhoawt n
it
nhge ,
severall6lr' ran round to the wharf to
happened. It was then discovered that the
see what had
had
disappeared.
Ewer
meantime the child
s iunfortunates ,
and i
n
itinheaandying condition, was removed, and
being found to be totally insensible, and
Einerey,ntly.
„,''P.,PdHierai aid sent for. The body of the.child was got out,
but life was extinct. Emery was conveyed to the In-
tirmary of St. Pancras Workhouse, where he received
the attention of Mr. H; C. Robinson the parochial our-
, geon, but expired shortly after his admission. Mr.
Robinson gives it as his opinion that the death of Emery
resulted
from either a sudden disease of the heart, or
,
I paralysis of the entire nervous System, caused by his
fright at seeing the child fall into the water and his
anxiety to rescue it. It appears that the unfortunate
man, who has in the attempt to perform so praise-
worthy an act lost his
life, has left a widow, row in her
confinement, with four children totally unprovided for.
Mr. F. O'Connor declares his intention, soon after
a conference which is to be held in Nottingham on, the
6th of August, to retire from public life.
EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.--:011‘ W"1--nes,"Y
evening, the dress of a lady named:Webb, pastgonatong.
the New-road, was observed by a__Plmtan spopli„tion fi
of
tra`"7l.4B:esa,- but not be-
He gave an alarm, and by an
the flames,
were seriously
his leathern apron extinguished th
fore the dress and shawl of Mies
injured. It is supposed
alit InitlOn was the, come.
quence of her treading upon a ip! fusee.
STABBING AT BiRKENBEAD.—L
agar
ast evening an al.
tercation arose between two butchers, named Knott and
Pennington, whilst they were together in the'
The affair turned to blows,
,and Knott drew
b•ri
house.
slaughter-
h his knife and stabbed his antagonist in the tare.
severing his upper lip; and entering the jaw to a consi-
derable extent. He afterwards knocked him down, and
left him in a lifeless state. As yet Kuutt has not been
apprehended.—Liverpool Mercury.