The Sun.
London, England, 1825-08-10 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY OFFICES.

Yesterday the proposed alterations, by pulling
down houses, &c. in Cotton-garden, for the form-
ation Of new Offices and Committee-rooms for the
House of Commons were about to be commenced
tinder the directions of Mr. CitnEKEit and Mr.
LEE, of the Board of works, when they were
suddenly interrupted by Gentlemen connected
with the House of Commons. Pursuant to the
Report of the Commons' Committee, made at the
close of the recent Session, the house of Mr.
Ley in Cotton-garden, one of the Clerks
at the table of the House, the Journals Offices
and the Engrossing Offices, situated bet Ween
the lobby of the House of Commons and
Cotton-garden, were to be pulled down, to
make way for the proposed alterations. In com-
mencement of these works, several Irish labourers,
&c. appeared at Mr. hey's house to remove the
roof, and to proceed with the pullings down :
but Mr. Ley, who happened to be in town and
at home, checked their career,' wishing to know,
not only where his residence was to be, but where
the clerks of the Journal and other offices were
to be accommodated, especially as those official.
personages are still engaged on the labours of the
last Session. These works of pulling (101111 were
of course stopped, and for the present are sus-
pended, till the plans are More completely and.
satisfactorily matured. It has however been deter-
' mined, in promotion of further accommodation for
Comtnitteesof the House of Commons (of which ac-
commodation there was much want, nine and
twelve Committees meeting in the same room last
Session I) to convert dining and other rooms now
allotted to Mr. Bellamy's coffee-house into Com-
mittee Rooms. Amongst these alteraions, .a uew •
Library for Commons' Journal and Members is•
mentioned, but no distinct plan for it is yet
formed. The present Library Room is of very.
limited space ; and yet till the Speakership of
Mr. Abbott (now Lord Colchester), the House
was-without any such advantage. At the House of
Lords alterations on an extensive scale are also
proceeding. Those buildings that were partly
raised during the last Session of Parliament, and
which were stopped about four months ago, have.
been cleared out for more enlarged alterations.;
and, in addition to various pullings down, work-
111n have removed walls, &c. near the new
.Royal staircase, also the cupola, &c. over such
staircase. A complete clearance is made on its
site of the Bishops' former entrance, and the resi-
dences of the housekeepers; on such spot Com-,
mittee Rooms end Parliamentary Offices are to.
be built forthwith.—(Morning Paper.)

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

EFFECTS OF JE.I LOUSY.

An inquest was held on Monday night, and
again by adjournment last night, before Mr. limos, Coroner
for Westminster, at the Triumphant Chariot, Pembroke-mews,
Grosvenor-place, Pimlico, on the body of Samuel 'White, a
labouring man, whovesided in Haystack-lane, Paddington' who
.cut his throat in a fit of jealousy. Many exaggerated and un-
founded reports were in circulation respecting the death of this
individual. The following facts were proved in evidence :
The deceased was near 50 years of age, and had „lived with his
wife 21. years ; he was a drunken, passionate, and jealous hus-
band, and, in his fits of jealousy, he had repeatedly beaten his
wife so .dreadfully that she had left him ; but she had gone to
live with him again,on his expressing his sorrow for his con-
duct. A short time ago a brother of the deceased returned
from sea, where he bad been for 25 years. Recently the de.
ceased had taken it into his head, when he was intoxicated,
that his brother and his wife carried on a criminal intercourse,
and on Sunday week, about one o'clock in the morning, the
deceased struck his wife a violent blow on the head, and the
two brothers went into the garden and fought. The deceased
received several severe blows with a broomstick, and the
neighbourhosd -was alarmed by the cries of " 'murder:" It
was stated that the wife put her head out of the window, and
exclaimedem Give it him.eit serves him right." This language
was addressed by her to the brother. On the following day the
brother was charged by the deceased, at •Marylebonnt Office,
with an assault, and ..after the case was heard, the .deceased
forgave his brother, and the warrant against him was dis-
charged. On Wednesday last the deceased went to his wife,
who had left his house, and entreated her to return and live
with him. She said that she would not, for he had blasted her
character by charging her with being criminal with his brother,
and be made an oath he, would kill himself if she did not., On
the same Morning the deceased returned home in a dejected
state, and shortly after he was found lying on the steps of his
door, having his throat cut with a razor, which lay on the
ground by his side.
Mr. S. C. Griffith, of Connaught-terrace, surg.,ion; stated, he
was called-in to attend the deceased on Wednesday morning,
and found him lying on the sill of the door where he resided, in
Haystack-lane, Edgware-road ; a person was kneeling down
holding his hand to the Wound. There was a vessel bleeding,
which.he secured, and applied a bandage, and then had the de-
ceasert,conveyed to the Hospital. He was insensible all the
time. A razor was lying on the ground bloody.
Mr. Henry Pitman, house-surgeon of St. George's• Hospital,
sworn, stated that the deceased was brought Into the Hospital
on Wednesday last, with a wound in the throat between two
and three inches in length, and several bruises on the body ; he
regularly attended him till one o'clock on Monday morning,
when he died,; the cause of his death was the inflammation in
the throat, which extended to the lungs • he could sneak in .a
low tone of voice, and said he had been beaten by his brother;
the bruises were on the chest, head, loins, arms, and other
parts ; the blows did not appear to be inflicted with a sharp in-
strument, but might be done with the fist.
In addition to the above evidence, several persons came for_
ward, who stated, that the deceased had repeatedly charged
different persons, who had defended his wife, from his violence,
with being criminal with her. The wife, a very decent woman, •
was examined, and she satisfied the Jury that the reports against
her reputation were unfounded.
Mr. ritman was re-examined, and deposed, that the blows
did not cause the death of the deceased, ,but the wound in the
throat. The Jury returned a verdict, ." That the deceased
died from a wound which he inflicted in his throat, when in a
state of insanity." The brother, whohas been for several days
in custody, will therefore be liberated.
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