The Sun.
London, England, 1836-09-05 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

On Saturday afternoon an inquest was held at the Guy,
Earl of Warwick, on the body of Charles Frude, and 68,
who was said to have committed suicide.—The deceased
occupied apartments in Tower-street, Seven-dials, and had
been in a desponding state of mind ever since the death of
his wife, which occurred two months ago. He was found,
suspended by a soldier's military sash, in his own room, on
Wednesday last. Mr. Nation, the surgeon who was called
in, stated he would not give his testimony without an order
for the payment of the usual fee, which, by a late Act of
Parliament, had been awarded to medical men summoned
to attend inquests. In doing so he was only anxious to
support the respectability of the profession.—Verdict
" Temporary Derangement."
On Friday night an inquest was held at the Rainbow
Tavern, Bow-lane, Cheapside, on the body of a fine new-
born female infant, alleged to have been destroyed by the
mother, a young woman, named Margaret Spencer, a house-
maid in the service of Mr. Robertson, surgeon, of No. 3,
Bow-lane.

Margaret Spencer, the mother of the infant, had only
been in Mr. Robertson's service for the last seven weeks.
On Thursday evening the suspicions of Mrs. Robertson,
the mother of Mr. Robertson, were excited in conse-
quence of some circumstances that had occurred during
the day. Mrs. Robertson being of opinion that the young
woman, Spencer, had given birth to an infant, communi-
cated the same to her son, who taxed Spencer with it. She
at first denied that such was the case ; but, on Mr. Ro-
bertson insisting upon examining her, she confessed the birth
of the infant, which was found in the chamber utensil.
Verdict—" Found dead, but whether born alive or still-
,'
born there was no evidence to the Jury.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—At Leyton, a little vil-
lage in Essex, about five miles eastward of London lives
Thomas Spackman, a thatcher and hay-binder. This humble,
honest, hard-working peasant, is a striking instance of the
strange and singular freaks of nature. He has 12 toes, six on
each foot; and a few years since he had ten fingers, five on
each hand, besides thumbs ; but by accident at work, the small
finger on the left hand was torn off, leaving full evidence,
however, by the stump left, where the extra member had
been. The additional toes, like the odd finger, are not arti-
culated, although in all other respects of natural formation.
They arc without leader or tendon, merely connected, as it
seems, by slight ligaments. If this [uses naturce stopped with
Spackman, as one of a family, our surprise might case,
as
similar cases of supernumerary toes and fingers have
eben
known ; but the astonishing fact is, that his great-grandfatherd for the
tubers
—in short, the whole of his ancestors, have been
wonderful generation of the additional nu,
True to his stock, he has several children with t
hele same extra-
rnsotdeeseribed.
ordinary parts ; the only exception is in that of a daughter of
twelve years; she -has twelve toes, but her bands are of the
ordinary formation. In this tender branch, thereore, the in-
heritance of extra shoots of fingers .3
and rocs likely to be lost.
Town and Country Magazine.
A grand French enterprise of steamers. in the Me-
diterranean is nearly completed. Ten of them, each of 500
tons, and magnificently fitted on English models are in the
t i np Therele , theare
to
port of Marseilles ready to eomarsmceinlclees_thtoe service.canon st o
be two lines, one from
m
other from Athens to Alexandria. They will intersect each
other at the little island of Syra, and change passengers and
despatches. Between Marseilles and Constantinople they will
touch at Leghorn, Civita Vecchia, Naples, Messina, '!Malta,'!Malta,Syra, and
Smyrna. They will stop twenty-four hours at
Malta and Smyrna. The departures will be so managed that
three times per month three steamers, one coming from Mar-
seilles, the second from Constantinople and Smyrna, and the
third from Alexandria, will arrive at the central station at
Syra ; so that a person at Marseilles can receive on the 29th
day an answer to a letter written to Constantinople or Alex-
andria, while at present 45 or 50 days are employed in going
and returning between Marseilles and either of those places.
BERLIN, AUG. 27.—The celebrated Dr. Hufeland,
chief physician to the King, died yesterday, after four weeks'
illness, having just entered the 75th year of his age (he was
born August 12, 1762). The King has lost in him one of his
most faithful servants, and medical science one of its greatest
ornaments.—Hamburg Paper.
LARGE-SIZED PEACH.—A peach of a very ex-
traordinary size was presented by his gardener on the table of
Lieutenant-Colonel Green, of Kilmainham
Castle. It mea-
sured 15 inches in circumference.— Tipprary Free Press.

Abridged from the Leeds Afereury,-) •
day last George Goodman, Esq., the Mayor
igh gave a sumptuous entertainment to Lord
George Strickland, Mr. Baines and other Li-
es for tlic West Riding, in the Music Hall. to
which a considerable number of the most influential gentle-
men in the Reform interest, in this and other parts of the
riding, were invited. The arrangements for this large and
very agreeable party were made in haste. The Mayor
had originally invited Lord Morpeth and the other Mem-
bers to a private party at his own house ; but finding, yes-
terday week that his Lordship was leaving this very week
for Ireland, to discharge this official duty there, and that
probably not be anotl4lrobability of his Lordship meet-
ing his friends in the West-Riding f',;,r some months to
come, the Mayor resolved to afford a large number of
them that gratification, and therefore provided, at his own
expense, a dinner in the. Music-hall, to which he invited so
numerous a party as to constitute it a public dinner.
His Worship, wearing the splendid gold chain presented
by-the burgesses, received his guests in the picture gallery
of the Music-ball, and the dinner took place in the Concert-
room. It was nearly 7 o'clock when the company sat
down. They were 123 in number.
On the right of the Mayor we observed the Right Hon.
Lord Viscount Morpeth ; Edward Baines; Esq., M.P. ;
Daniel Gaskell, Esq., M.P. ; Honourable Sir E. M. Va-
vasour, Flazlewood-hall ; W. Busfeild, Esq., Upwood ;
C. H. Dawson, Esq., Low Moor ; J. G. Marshall, Esq. ;
Rev. J. E. Giles ; James Williamson, Esq., M.D. ; James
Musgrave, Esq. ; John Scctt, Esq., &c. &c. ; on the left
were Sir George Strickland, Bart., M.P. ; E. C. Lister,
Esq., M.P. ; W. R. C. Stansfield, Esq., of Esholt ; F.
H. Fawkes, Esq., of Farnley-ball John William Clough,
Esq., of Oxton-house ; Henry Benyon, Esq. ; T. W.
'Pottle, Esq. ; George Wailes, Esq. ; D. W. Neil, Esq. ;
William Bruce, Esq., &c. &c. At the other tables were
the Rev. R. W. Hamilton ; Rev. T. Scales, J. Holdforth,
Esq. ; William Smith, Esq. ; Joshua Wordsworth, Esq. ;
John Clapham, Esq. ; J. R. Ikin, Esq. ; Edwin Eddison,
Esq.; J. P. Clapham, Esq. ; J. R. ByvrAt6r;- .Escp ; John
Brw4den, Esq., of Bradford ; Holland, Esq,.., of Sled-
house ; William Ackroyd, Esq., of Otley ; Edw. Bijoes,
jun., Esq., &c. &c. _

The Mayor was seated in the chair used at LOrd Mil-
ton's election in 1807, lent by the trustees of the coloured
Cloth-hall. The cloth being drawn, and the usual loyal
toasts having been drunk,

The CHAIRMAN gave, " Lord Melbourne and his Ma-
jesty's Ministers."—(Loud cheering.) •
Lord Viscount MORPETH rose, and was received with
loud and continued cheering. The Noble Lord said—Mr.
Mayor and Gentlemen, subordinately as I am connected
with his Majosty's Administration, I yet am induced to
think that I am not stepping out of my place in rising to
tender my acknowledgments to you upon their part for the
high compliment and the marked feeling which you have
just been pleased to exhibit towards that Administration,
under which I think it is an honour and a privilege to
serve.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Living in your own
quiet and peaceful homes, you most justly value any effort
that can be made to settle those fierce ecclesiastical dissen-
sions which have too long distracted our unhappy sister
country—(Hear)—upon a basis that can be acquiesced in
by the people of that country at large, and that supports
and will confer the blessings of religious peace.—(Cheers.)
Reposing yourselves under the shelter of your improved
municipa institutions—(Great cheering)—sharing in the
first fruits of that system in all possible prosperity and
credit, under such courteous and kindly auspices as those
which we note appreciate, you only feel a redoubled and a
generous anxiety to impart to your fellow-countrymen in
Ireland those advantages and privileges of self-government
and of local control which you have yourselves acquired,
and which you have yourselves ascertained can be exer-
cised without confusion, turbulence, or outrage. Indeed,
I believe 1 might appeal to your Conservative fellow-
townsmen themselves to know whether the chief magis-
trates elected by the majority turn out such crocodiles and
hyenas as some previous representations might induce us
to suppose.—(Laughter and cheers.) Gentlemen, our
chief retrospect at the, close of the present session of
Parliament must consist in bewailing the untimely fate of
slaughtered Bills.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) And I can
imagine my Lord Lyndhurst retiring to his couch like
the tyrant on the eve of the battle of Bosworth-field, and
seeing the grim array of mangled measures arise before
him, scaring his slumbers and banishing his sleep.—(Hear.)
There would be the grisly ghost of the Irish Corporations
Bill ; there would be the bleeding remains of the Irish
Church Bill ; there would be the dissevered fragments of
the Corporations, Act Amendment Bill ; there would
sprawl the battered Jews ; and there would issue an un-
fortunate wailing, which, to the parent ears of my honour-
able friend, your worthy representative, on my right (Mr.
Baines), would be recognised as the untimely plaint of the
Civil Offices Declaration Bill.—(Cheers and laughter.)
But without entering into further particulars of these lost
and strangled measures, which we hope may one day re-
vive under better auspices, I feel I do not misinterpret the
general line of political sentiment which pervades this as-
sembly, and also that I am not wrong in saying that this
assembly represents, with tolerable accuracy, the larger
proportion of the sober and enlightened feeling both in this
most important town, and also in this most opulent riding.—
( Hear, and cheers.) Difference of opinion there may be—
(Hear) ; gradations of opinion do exist and ought to
exist, as all opinions on matters of such pressing interest to
the public weal ought to be well sifted in a sieve together,

in order that the soundest and most valuable of them may
be retained, and those which arc useless, because mis-
chievous, may be cast away.—( Hear, hear.) And let not
this be imputed as any exclusive fault to us ; for if we look
a little sharply we shall find that those differences pene-
trate even through the ranks of Conservatism.—(Hear,
hear.) It befals no less exalted personages than the Duke
of Wellington and Lord Lyndhurst himself, for we find the
Duke most candidly and most considerately avowing that it
is not his wish to throw out the present Government from
office, whilst the fastidious delicacy of Lord Lyndhurst is
not so forbearing.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) But Ido
not mistake the character of the general policy which you
wish to see his Majesty's Administration pursue.—(Hear,
hear.) You want to see the principle of equal laws extended
to every part of his Majesty's dominions, and to every class of
his Majesty's subjects.—(Cheers.) You want to see enlight-
ened institutions cleansed from every remaining abuse, and
made more comprehensive and more accessible.—( Hear,
hear, and cheers.) You want to see education, knowledge,
and religion more widely spread, more fully developed, and
more profitably purstied.—(Cheers.) You want your repre-
sentatives—the representatives of the British people—(Loud
and prolonged cheering)—forward in the propagation and in
the pursuit of what they deem right and just ; and then,
Gentlemen, with corresponding energies upon their part, and
upon your own, we will not doubt that union and persever-
ance, acting in legitimate modes, for the attainment of legi-
timate objects, will win their irresistible way, and secure
their imperishable reward.—(Loud cheers.) And now,
Gentlemen, I hays?, only to turn the few observations I have
made on the conduct of his Majesty's Ministers to your-
selves, and return my acknowledgments to you, by asking
you to do that which is most appropriate to the occasion,
and, lam sure, most grateful to myself—l need not say
that I turn to my friend who now so worthily fills the chair
—(thunders of applause)—a chair not unknown in the for-
mer contests for Yorkshire freedom.—(Renewed cheers.)
Much as I value the Municipal Corporation Amendment
Act, I think it a fortunate circumstance for that great legis-
lative measure, that the system of reformed Corporations
should have first been brought into 'operation in this town
under such auspices.—((;Treat cheering.) Gentlemen, in
conclusion I have to request you to fill you glasses to the
brim, and drink the " Health and happiness of your worthy
chief magistrate, the Mayor of Leeds." (His Lordship sat
down amidst loud cheers.)
Thewhole company enthusiastically responded to his
Lordship's wishes, and the toast was drunk with the loudest
applause.

The MAYOR rose to return thanks.
The CumamAN—The next toast I have to propose is
one tshich you will drink with as much cordiality as any
that have gone before it it is—" The Members for the
West Riding, Lord Viscount Morpeth and Sir George
Strickland."

Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND, Bart., rose to acknowledge
the toast, and was received with much cheering. The
Honourable -Baronet 'congratulated the meeting upon the
prosperous state of our manufactures and commerce now
happily prevailing through the country at. large. After
which he took a rapid view of the political events of
the last year, with a view to show the difficulties in which the
Government were placed.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Now, gen-
tlemen, (continued the Hon. Baronet), in what 1 ant
now, saying I think I have fully explained to you the
difficulties in which the Government is placed. The repre-
sentatives whom you have sent will hereafter be placed in
some difficalty likewise, as to how they should give their
votes onirese, in ordertionsot to vastimportance
pmrpez,enrtatncaeny difference ; anderltheienkbetitwebeen-
coming i m
you and myself, distinctly and boldly to state how my votes
will in future be given.—(Hear.) It is not unlikely that
the question of a reform in the House of Lords will be
brought forward.—( Hear.) I think it almost certain that
the proposed reform will be, that the principle of represent
tation shall be applied to that House.—(Hear.) Now, gen:.
denier', although I may run the risk of not agreeing with all
of you, I shall distinctly state how my vote will be given, if
that question ever should be brought forward.—(Hear.) In
doing this, I must revert to first principles—to those prin-
ciples which throughout have been my guide and conduct