The Sun.
London, England, 1836-02-22 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

On Saturday, an inquest was held in the Vestry Hall of
Christ Church, Newgate-street, on the body of William Ar-
dolf Ries, aged 53, formerly a wealthy merchant in Poland,
but of late years a refugee in this metropolis, whose death
was suspected to have been caused by swallowing poison. The
Jury not being able to decide without the body being opened,
the inquiry was adjourned for that purpose until this evening.
On the same day, an inquest was held on the body of Mrs.
Mary Glover, aged GO. The deceased resided in a wretched
hovel in Fleur-de-lis-court, Peter's-lane, Clerkenwell, where,
she was found dead. She was the widow of a rich West India
planter, and would never let her friends know where she lived,
Her habits were extremely eccentric, and she kept several
cats and dogs. She received parochial relief, and lived in
great misery. It was, however, ascertained that she died
from natural causes, and a verdict to that effect was returned.

MEXICO.

ARTICLES OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION OF THE MEXICAN

REPUBLIC, ADOPTED AND DECREED BY THE SUPREME

FEDERAL CONGRESS, AND PUBLISHED OFFICIALLY IN

MEXICO, OCT. 23, 1835.

Article 1. The Mexican nation, sole, sovereign, and in-
dependent, as it has heretofore been, neither professes nor
protects any other religion than the Apostolic Roman ca-
tholic, nor does it tolerate the exercise of any other what-
soever.

2. To all strangers dwelling in the Mexican territory, so
long as they respect the -religion..and laws of the country,
the nation will guarantee and caused to be observed, all
those rights which legitimately.,belonged to them the
rzgitfs-efilmons, and internl-7-riglaW3ll37sl)46§e
which appertain to foreigners ; a constitutionaT„law - will
more particularly declare these for the instruction of every
Mexican citizen. •

3. The form of the Government of the nation is repub-
//can, based upon popular representation. 1*
4. The exercise of the supreme national ifoiver will con-
tinue to be divided into legislative, executive; and judicial
functions, which, in no case, and under no pretext, can be
united. Sufficient precautions will be adopted to prevent
any of these three powers from exceeding the limits of its
due attributes.

5. The exercise of the Legislative power will reside in
a Congress of the Representatives of the nation, divided
into two Chambers, one of Deputies—the other of Sena-
tors—the Members of which shall be elected, periodically,
by the people. The Constitutional law will specify the
qualifications tO be possessed by the electors and elected,
the time, form, and manner of the elections ; the length
of time that the elected shall serve, and all matters relating
to the organization of the Legislative power, and the sphere
of its functions.

'6. The exercise of the Executive power shall be vested
in a President, popularly • elected by. indirect suffrage,- and
for a 'limited period ; 'a. Mexican .by birth, whose other
qualifications-, as well. as the circumstances of his election,
the duration of his power, his faculties, and the mode of
exercising them, shall be established by the ConStitu.:
tional law.

7. The exercise of the Judicial power shall be vested in
a Supreme Court of Jtistice, and in those tribunals_ and
Judges who shall be established by the Constitutional law ;
their functions, nUmber, duration, jurisdiction, responsibility
and mode of election will be preseribed.by the said law:-
8. The national territory shall'Ve divided into. Depart-.
molts, upon the basis of populatithaocality, and other con-
ducing circumstances ;: their number,: extent, and sitbdivi-,.
sions will be detalledin..n.Constitutional law. -
9. For the govenment of the departments there shall be
Governors and Depathnental Juntas--these latter shall be
elected popularly, in the manner and- of the number which
the law:shall.eStablish, _and the former (the governors) shall
be nominated. 'periodically by the • Supreme -Executive
power,.upon the prop.psition of the said JUntas.
10.. The EXecutit4 power of the departMents shall be
vested in the subject to the. Supreine Executive
of the nation. The departmental juntas shall be advising
councils of the governor, and shall be intrusted. With Oc
duty of determining or promoting whatever may conduce
to the well-being and prosperity of the•departments;
iiuch
financial, municipal, electoral, and legislative functions snail
be exercised by them, as will be-explained by the particular
Liw relating to their organization-*--bnt4mainiii4jii all
eases 'of-the- latter cht, subject and responsible to -the
genoral -national .Congress.
11. The functionaries employed by these two powers in
the departments, and their immediate agents, shall be, with-
out any exception; native bdrn Mexican citizens, or persons
resident within the actual limits of the particular depart-
ment in whoie service they are engaged. The, constitu-
tional law Will define the other qualifications of such func-
tionaries, and the intervention Which the Geiiera/Rxecutive
and the Governors of Departthents shall exercise in the.
nomination of persons employed in them.
12. The judicial power shall be exercised in the depart-
ments to the last appeal by tribunals and judges resident in
the same, who shall be named or confirmed by the National
High • Court of Justice, with the concurrence of the su-
preme executive power of the departmental juntas and the
superior tribunals, in the terms and under the responsibili-
titis which shall be specified by the constitutional law.

-713. The laws and rules for the administration of justice,
civil and.criminal,.shall be uniform throughout the nation,
and there shall also be equal uniformity in those laws which,
establish general imposts and Colltrilitions.

Alaw shall systematize the department of the public
finance in all its branches ; shall establish' the method to be
observed in stating and balancing accounts ; shall ormnise
the Audit Tribunal ,for the revisiou of' acccouts, ail shall
regulate the financial and contentious jurisdiction in this
branch: of the public service.,

[Then follow the signatures, the,
.aet being decreed by
the General Congress, and isseed ley General Barragan as
i3terim President, in the absence fr the capital of the
President Santa Anna.]
Another decree, issued by the same authority, prescribes
.more minutely the proceedings to take place in tlle, vew
departments, heretofore .states of the Union, on, the elissoht,,
tion of their local legislatures, and the 'Ces6tion of,the
functions of the different slate authorities heretofore sub-
sisting.

Mackarel have been caught in; largeruantities off'
the. coast of Brighton lately than is remembered by the oldest
fisherman, at so early a period of the•season, for many years.
They are of lino flavout4 but without any rqc. Th% l'n!ve belt]
retailed for six or eight a shilling%

_is .a.ajesty's ship Racelto;sc has arrived 'at Barbadoes
from Para, having on- board the sole survivor orthe crew of
of the 'erg Cho. The man, whose name is Alexander Paton
gives the following melancholy statement :
" I sailed from Liverpool on the 7th of August 1.
brig ao, of Montrose, Mr. .I,',hri Reed master. Mr.
Boyd was chief mate. I did the duty of. second' mate, in-
cluding these there were seven of us. • On the 'aili of
September we anchored about twelVe miles cif Salinas.
Next morning Mr. Boyd was directed to go on shore and
inquire for a pilot. One W. Lloyd and myself pulled the
boat. Upon getting on shore we met an American, who said.-
Lis name was Priest, and who told us that the province was.
involved in civil war, and that all the pilots.had left the place. -
Priest asked Mr. Boyd what cargo the Clio had, and w„._
answered that she had arms. ' lie then asked to whom,
consigned, &c., and Mr. Boyd answered to every question.
The Governor was present, rind Priest informed him of
everything that had passed. Priest then told Mr. Bay&
that he must go on board' and that the Captain must go
on shore, -when (if a man whom the Governor had sent
for did not arrive) ,he would make a bargain about
taking her up to Para. Mr. Boyd asked him to go
off at once arid save the Captain the trouble of coming-
on shore ; but he refused to go. Next morning, the brig.
}roving been worked up till within five miles of the village, the
Captain went on shore, Boyd and myself pulling the boat as
formerly. When the. Captain landed, Priest asked him what
cargo he had. Captain Reed said a general one; but
Priest told him that he had arms ; and after finding that the-
Mate had exposed all, the Captain could not deny it. Our
oars were taken away, and at four o'clock in the afternoon the--
Captain insisted upon their being returned, that he might get
on board his ship. Priest told him that we must remain ow
shore, and that he (Priest) must first go off and see the arms-
We slept in an empty house, and next morning I saw Priest
with six Indians go off in a canoe to the brig. Some time
afterwards I saw the, Indians return in the canoe, but Priest
was not in it. At the same time the brig was under weigh and
working up. When the tide suited she came inside the reefs,
and, closing with the shores was run up a creek, where we lost
sight of her. Here the Captain burst into tears, and, going
to the Governor, implored him that Joe might be allowed to
get his oars and go-on board his vessel. The Governor them
armed himself with a large sword and told us we could not
go trittil the next morning.. When it was dark we went to the
same place and lay down, but could not sleep, and, at nin4 '
o'clock P. m. , four men came and deiired us to get up, as they
were going to put us on board the brig. We all followed
them, but when they reached the beach they made us go be-
fore them. After walking about half a mire they halted,
cocked their muskets, and would have shot us, but that every
one of the muskets missed fire. Captain Reid exclaimed,
" Oh, don't shoot !" at the same time turning to run, his hat
fell off, and he attempted to pick it up. I saw him struck on
the head with a sword (for beside their muskets each had a
sword). He appeared to fall, and three of the Indians were
upon him. Lloyd and myself fled for the wood. I never
saw Captain Reid again, but,
~tv running, I heard hint
aii
shrieking in the most wailful m , „ We soon got into the
woods, where we remained all nit: :Next morning (Oct. 4)
we came to a hut, where a black woman gave us some boiled
fi,di and farma. We had seen her the day before, and she
was weeping .the greater part of the time we were in her
house. On leaving her we went into a plantation of Indian
corn, where we pulled about ten heads each, and, laying
down, slept for several hours. Upon waking we got to the
edge of the creek, and, finding a canoe, got into it, and, pad-
dling all night, we found ourselves at four o'clock A. M. in the
midst of a number of empty boxes, which we knew had been
taken out of the brig, and when daylight came we were nearly.
opposite to the vessel. She was covered with Indians, and
surrounded by canoes." ,

The remainder of the narrative etails the dangers and
privations the poor mariner endur for; his companion,
Lloyd, was drowned on the night of the 6th, in attempting to
cross a large river. He was a native of Broodhampton, near
Eastport, Devonshire. After various escapes, Paton arrived
at Cintra on the 13th, and he states that" While staying here
the Governor told me that at Salinas they murdered all the
crew except one, who jumped overboard ant was drowned.
He also told me they killed the Captain on the beach. He
appeared sorry for them, and was always very kind to me.
Here I saw many cases of muskets, swords, pistols, belts, &c.
which had formed part of our cargo."
From Cintra Paton proceeded to Vizia, and after remaining
a month there, fisherman brought him a letter frgrn the
Captain of his Majesty's ship Racehorse, stating that he was
to follow the orders of the fisherman who brought it, and he
would get him off Accordingly Paton and his guide struck
into the woods, and after -walking about four miles they came
to his canoe, and on the 4th of December the unfortunate man
arrived on board the Racehorse.

After receiving him on board, the Racehorse went to Sa-

linas to reconnoitre, and have a conference with the Governor.
Here, while the boat was on shore, a squadron of five Brazi-
lian vessels hove off the place. This circumstance exciting
suspicion the conference was broken off, and the officer,
having seen Priest and his associates, returned :o the ship. la
the squadron were soo troop3.

TREMENDOUS STORM AT SCARBOROUGH.—
ELEVEN LIVES LOST.—An obliging correspondent at -Scar-
borough, writing under date of Thursday last, has favoured us
with the following melancholy particulars of a tremendous
storm by which that port has just been visited—a storm more
dreadful and de.;tr4ketivntr4iF.Aes,t.,,llini an,y t. e-n. known at
chat pldee before- .---neTh'urricane
_Commenced cn Tuesday
night about eight- o'clock, the wind N. N. W., but during the
night it veered round to N. N. E: The night was readered
truly awful by the raging of the storm and the roaring of the
foaming billows. On Wednesday morning at about eight
o'clock- a sloop hove in sight, the sea at the time running
mountains high, but, failing in her attempt to gain the har-
bour, she let go her anchors, and whilst in that situation
fifteen men volunteered to endeavour, wit& the life-boat, the
rescue of the crew ; but, alas !of the fifteen eleven very soon
found a watery grave, owing to the upsetting of the boat.
In consequence of the failure of this attempt the sloop was
obliged to slip her anchors, and was driven on the beach
south of the Spa, but providentially the three men on board
were ultimately saved by Captain Marby's valuable apparatus
for affording assistance in cases of shipwreck. Before the
day closed ait a vestige of the ship was left standing.. It is
impossible to give any thing likda description of the scene the
beach presented this morning (Thursday). The Spa, dicker-
man's, and Cooper's lodgings, &c. &c., to the easternmost
pier, have suffered severely. Ships were thrown from the
stocks, and rolling timbers, from thirty to fifty yards in length,
cables, &c., tort in every direction. On Wednesday night a
sloop, When about 800 yards from the pier, went down, and all
hands on board perished. Not one of the bodies of the un-
fortunate men has yet been found. The cries of one young
man on board are represented 'by the survivors as being truly
piercing. He was on the point of marriage. I have just
learnt, conclndes our correspondent, that a Dutchman is on
shore in. Burlington harbour, Another correspondent, after
relating the particulars of the upsetting of the life-boat, adds--
" On Wednesday, evening another vessel Was seen off the
Castle in distress ; she foundered, end all on board perished.
Several other vessels it is feared are lost. The Spa has been
much injured, and the damage done to the shipping in the
harbouo,- and the property.in the.ship yards, raff yards, and the
houses neat the/sands, is' immense. Scarborough is in a
greater state of confusion than the oldest inhabitant ever_
before recollects—Leeds intelligencer.

SUICIDE of A WIDOW.—On Friday afternoon,
an' inquest Twas held at the. Elephant and Castlei, Pancras-,
road,..before Mr. Stirling, ,en.view of the body of Mrs. Sarah-
Daniel,--a- widow lady, aged 49, who drowned herself in the
Regent's Park Canal, under the following melancholy circum-
stances :—Mr. Joseph Payne, of No. 55, Charles-street,
' Westminster,- deposed that the deceased, since 4107 death of ,
her husband, which - took place last -month, had • occupied
apartments in his house. , She _had been in a low_dejecteci-
siate since the period in question..
_......Witriess saw her last
alive on Sunday, when She-was unusually depressed in spirits.-
' She left her home between ten and eleven o'clock on Mon-
day morning last, and never returned; and her relatives were
in4'de. acquainted with "her unfortunate end on Tuesday. Ily
the Jury—The deceased was not in bad- circumstances. Her.
late husband was 'an uplielstercr,` and carried-on business in
king-street,• Westminster, for:mere than 30 years. • F. Gar-
lick, a young girl, about. 15, whovai'ni4.o affected 10145
„giving her dt-,•po:;iti,-,n, stated that the .deettltsed.-was-7-hota
and sine 6 the death 'of Mr. Daniel witness had resided with'
her. She bad beers very unhappy and dejected since the
death of hir husband. On Monday: morning 'she. (cleceaseo
left home; saying that she was going to some friends in the
parish... She did not return; and witness 'discovered on the;
Tuesday a. piece of- paper, on which was written, in the de-
ecaged's ""hand=writing,_ " This is re), *death-blow." Witness
was not aware to what- the expression alluded. A nephew of
,
the 'deceased said that on Tuesday he received a letter from
liislaine:nte.'d aunt, written evider.try in ri.state of great mental
excitement, arid saying that it. would be the last- letter she
should write in this- world.' 'Police cenitalifeCrine; Of the S
division; stated that the body 'of .the deceased was 'piCked out
of the :canal on, the Tuesday moping: Her cloak, crape
ti,pet; .and widoW's bonnet were found on the towing-path..
The bodY Must have- been in the water some time. • There
were no. external marks Of violence. :Verdict—Temporary de-
rangement.
A CHARGE OF .ATT6II'TING TO STARVE A.
G7,11L TO MATH; AT PENni.nrorr.--At the last sessions but
'sine 'for this Hundred, a true bill was found by the grand jury
against a man named - Ellis, and his wife, for leaving their
daughter,' an idiot girl, locked up in a house at Pendleton,
without feed or other convenience whatever, where she would.
probably have been starved- to death, had it not been for the
the hands
humanity of the neighbours, by -Whom she was liberated from
a benciehi warrant was
confinement. The inhuritan parents were bound over to appear
at the sessions, but not, making their appearance when called
on, their recognizancos were forfeited,
issued fsetr, tthheeirdaepppurteyhecno
„Derbyshire, an search of the de- .
On - Tuesday
fer,dants, having- ascertained they were living
last, Frost west to Ashbourn,
at -a house of a
relation. On approaching the house which •he had been told
Pendleton. lietaocne. n
was their place of refuge, he saw
snss°t9ttitlwel iocfh
Ellis make his escape down
Lcoo side of thd'hill on which the house stood, while he ascended
on the other Eide*ut he succeeded in securing Mary Ellis, the
wife, and brought her to Manchester, where she was lodged
in the New I3ailey.—Derby Reporter.
pErrEit BROWN T. -LORD KILBURN.—This
Muse, which was tried one Thursday
at Paisley, and arose oat
erthe circumstance of one of his Leffiship's fox hounds having-
seivd and swallowed a- large pi ace of fineeef, Brown, the
rieblier, lost his beef, and gainedAteral seare blows from his
I:4°rd'lliP's whip. As compens4ion however, the issue of the
trial gate Brown ' . '
patagn., tor ins beef. The blows wove A-
judg4.d at It. 5' . -1'"".1. - ' .
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