The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-07 00:00:00

LAMBETH-STREET.

Yesterday J. French, a journeymen in the employment of
Mr. Robison, a rope-maker, in Limehouse, was brought be-
fore Mr. HARDWICK, and a County Magistrate, on a charge
of assaulting William Anderson, a fellow-workman, who had
been induced, through distress, to work for smaller wages
than the other men received.

The defendant was ordered to find bail for his good be-
haviour for two months, and to give twenty-four hours' no-
tice of the solvency of his sureties.

CORONER'S INQUEST.

Yesterday a Coroner's Inquest was taken before Mr
HIGGS, at the White Lion, Hemming's-row, on view of the
body of Thomas Read, aged sixty, a man well known for
the last ten years in the purlieus of Covent-garden Market,
by the soubriquet of " Old Tom," who died from exposure
to the late inclement weather.

Robert Burden, hostler to Mr. Pearie, proprietor of the
King's Head-yard, Russell-street, Drury-lane, has known
the deceased for the last eighteen months. He knew him
by no other name than that of " Old Tom." The de-
ceased had no place of abode, and no relation, that he is
aware of. Witness never saw him in liquor. He does not
believe he was in want of food. Till within the last three
months he slept at night against the pillars of the Piazzas,
Covent-garden, or any place that he could find in the mar-
ket. He was almost destitute of clothing, pieces of sacks
forming his only covering. Three months ago witness's
master stated to the deceased that he might sleep in his sta-
bles at night, which offer he accepted, and he was accustomed
to sleep in one of the stables. On Friday last deceased
complained of the cold. Witness saw him the last time alive
about eight o'clock on Saturday evening, when he had half
a pint of warm beer. Witness left him in the stable. The
next morning, about nine o'clock, he found him dead, lying
in the kennel, a few yards from the stall. The body was
cold, and was partly covered. 'Witness called a policeman
when the deceased was conveyed to the workhouse of St.
Martin's parish.
From further evidence there was reason to believe that
the deceased had one time kept his carriage and a stud. His
relations were stated to be persons of property ; but no clue
was obtained as to their names or residence. The Jury re-
turned a verdict " That the deceased died from exposure to
the cold, without sufficient clothing."

MURDER AT NAPLES.—The Observatore Tries-
lino contains the following account of an extraordinary
murder in the theatre at Naples, during the performance
of an opera :—" A rivalry existed for some months between
Mdlle. Gambrici and Mdlle. Marina, two singers, engaged
at the Theatre Valle. Mdlle. Marina appeared to attract
the most attention for several days, and was received with
great applause whenever she presented herself, and crowns
of flowers were showered down on her. Some parties, with
a malicious feeling, waited on her rival to condole with her
on the superior success of Marina, saying, she must feel
Mortified by it. Gambrici answered, that so far from being
chagrined, she acknowledged the other lady sang beautifully,
and would herself throw her a crown that evening. She
kept her word. The loudest cheers greeted her rival on
her appearance on the stage, and, as usual, at the end of
the first act, floryers and garlands were thrown by the
audience. Suddenly, from one of the upper tiers of boxes,
a crown fell on the head of the favourite actress. She ut-
tered a cry, and fell dead on the spot ! The crown was of
massive bronze. Mdlle. Gambrici is in the hands of justice."
We learn that more than one new Hell has recently
been opened under the Quadrant, and that another close
adjoininc, the entrance doors of the Opera-house is open
day an enight.

CLERICAL PARTIZAN.—At a dinner to celebrate
Mr. Maunsell's return here last week, there were assembled
sixty-three persons, a fifth part of which number were cler-
gymen of the Established Church, including the vicar and
curate of the parish The vicar, Dr. James, is a pluralist
of the first water, makes "able speeches" at political clubs,
and leads on the resident clergy of this cathedral town to
condemn the supporters of the Government. Contrast
with the troop of clergy proclaiming Mr. Maunsell at Pe-
terborough and elsewhere, the entire absence of the cloth
from the assemblage of Liberals at Kettering, and it ap-
pears a bad' party business indeed, and is truly startling ;
but when we recollect that witla all this array of B.D.'s
and M.A.'s, together with their compelled supporters, Mr.
Maunsell had still to supplicate the waverers, to canvass
them over and over again, and if his life depended on adding
one more to the 1,900 promises, we can only regent the.
whole as a desperate effort, too successful I It is insultAng
to the nation to know that a county election has been de-
cided by such means (not the worst, by the bye, that were
used) ; and with such concomitants T. P. Maunsell, Esq.,
M.P., may cling to his dearly purchased honours. Con-
scientious, worthy, and even high-minded men, are doubt-
less to be found in the ranks of his supporters, though few
and far between. The 1,800 and odd are to be spoken of
in the gross as bigots, bondsmen, and hirelings, the compo-
nent part of all Tory constituencies.—Nerthampton
Chronicle.

MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.—The district of Broad-
ford, county of Clare, has been thrown into excitement by
information given by the postboy who lately conveyed the
mail from Limerick to Tulle. He was discharged by the
contractor with the post-office, named Burns,- a miller and
farmer on the line, and in revenge has charged Ole con-
tractor with burying an old man in his employment alive!
His story is, that the old man being in a feeble state was
sent on a car to his friends in the county of Tipperary.
They refused to receive him, and sent him back ; when
Burns, assisted by his son and the informant, buried him
alive in his clothes. Burns and his son have been arrested,
and admit that the old man was buried in his clothes, but
deny that he was alive. The coroner and magistrates have
been for some days searching for the body, which was
interred in an old church-yard, but, although assisted by the
informer and the accused, they had not been able to dis-
cover it when our informant wrote. The postboy has
sworn that he heard the old man groan as they throw the
earth on him in his grave.—frith Paper.
The man named Carroll, who lived in the
Town, Limerick, and bad been a notorious drunkard, from
some pecuniary motive took an oatl pot to drink ardent
liquors for five years. His alt owa time should have expired
on Christmas-day 110 s 9, great was his desire fora renewal
of his c.vk 140*, that he commenced drinking again on
plu:istNateve--went to bed quite drmakx and was found a
corpse next mornini, The grAli-vac is, raking great ravages in Denmark.
anci 40 persons were dying weekly at Copan-
4agen, from the disease, which seems to attack even those
who have formerly had the infection.