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afterwards, be found it had been e "ed, and plun-
iered of six pilot coats, three do of silk handker-
Chiefs, six pair of trousers, knives, a variety of
boots and shoes, and 12/ n gold and silver. The
money had been taken om a box, after it was forced
-open with a poker. Mr. Harris, jun., saw both pri-
soners loitering about his house on Friday afternoon,
land as he was leaving his shop, Budd looked very
earnestly at him.
Mr. BINGHAM—There is ample evidence to commit
for trial on the first charge. They are remanded till
Thursday.

THE MYSTERIOUS AND MELAN-
CHOLY DEATH OF MR. LOUIS SHADWELL.
Yesterday Mr. W. Carter, the coroner for East
Surrey, enrennelled a highly respectable jury at
the Red Lion Tavern, Hammersmith-bridge-road,
Barnes, to inquire into the circumstances attending
the death of Mr. Louis Henry Shad well, aged 38,
a barrister, and second son of Sir Lancelot Shadwell
Vice Chancellor of England. ,
The jury, having been sworn, procceeded to the
Vice-Chancellor's residence, Barn-elms Park, tr. view
the body, which lay in the library. The face of the
deceased was much bruised, partieularly the nose,
and water-insects Ind commenced eating away the
lower portion of the face. There was coneiderable
abrasion of the skin on the knees, as els° the hands.
The jury having returned, the following evidence
was caild:—
Mr. Alfred Hudson Sha lwell, solicitor, residing
at Barn-elms, deposed that the deceased was hie
brother, and a barrister-at-law by profession. He
wonld have been :39 in May next.
Police constable Liee, 282 V, deposed, that on
Tuesday morning he went, accompanied by Boyce, a
gardener in the service of Sir Lancelot Shad well,
along the towing path, to search &ditch which skirts
Barn elms Park, for the bedy of Louis e hadwell,
whom he understood to be missing. They had
proceeded -about half a mile towards Hammersmith-
bridge, and were standing on the Cotton bank,
opposite the Crab Tree, when Boyce called his atten-
tion to some dark object in the ditch, and he went
down the bank and distinctly saw the body of a man,
lying face downwards; the back of the head was
about an inch above water, hut the other portion of
the body was immersed. He knew the body to be
that of Mr. Louis Shadwell, and with the essistence
of the gardener, got it out of the -ditch. The head
was bare, as also the feet, and he did not see any hat
or shoes. On searching deceased, witness found 4s.
ad., a door key, and a gold signet ring on the third
finger of his left hand, and a pair of wet socks, the feet
of which were covered with gravel or sand. These were
in his right hand coat pocket. Both the knees of the
trowsers were very much torn, and there were
scratches on the knees. The clothing had not been
otherwise disordered. The water in the ditch was not
more than two feet in depth. There were no appear-
ances on the bank at that spot as if the deceased had
slid or rolled down, and there was no indication of
violence haring taken place. Witness's opinion was
that deceased had vrelked into the ditch, unknowingly,
and fell in attempting to get out. His hands were
clenched, and full of black mud, and he was partly on
his knees.
George Boyce, the gardener spoken of by last
witness, was next examined. Ile said, that on ascer-
taining that Mr. Louis Shadwell was missing, he pro-
ceedid to drag the ditch from the fishing-bridge to
the lodge, and afterwards as far up as the high bridge.
lie also dragged the lock, but did not discover the
object of his search. The witness then corroborated
the facts deposed to by last witness, and gave it as his
opinion that the deceased had first get out of the
river and then tumbled into the ditch, where he was
suffocated. Had known deceased nearly 12 years,
and believed him to be of sound mind. He believed
that Mr. Shadwell had in the first instance missed the
road, tumbled into the dock, and as a means of extri-
cating himself, swam out into the river (it being then
about high tide), and was carried by the tide up the
river to where be landed.
George Pearson, butler to Sir Lancelot Shadwell,
deposed it was the custom of deceased to come from
town on Saturday ev,ning and remain till Monday.
He slept at the lodge, but took his meals with the
family. lie generally resided in chambers. On last
Sunday evening deceased dined with Sir Lancelot and
the family, and he appeared in his usual health. Wit-
ness last saw Mr. Shadwell alive at half-past nine
o'clock that evening, when he came down stairs from
the drawing room. Went to the cellar and had one
glass of port, which was his usual custom before
leaving, and then left for the lodge; the distance he
had to go was 880 yards. Witness saw Mr. Shad-
well out at the stableyard-gate, and at that time it
was wry dark and foggy.. Ile did not hear of him
again until nine o'clock the next morning, when Mrs.
Samuel, the woman at the lodge, asked him if he had
seen Mr. Louis, as his door was locked, and she
believed he hod not been in his room all night.
Witness procured a ladder, looked through the
windaw, and saw that he was not in his apartment,
nor had he been to brd. His hat and gloves were in
the room, and his watch in the table-drawer. De-
ceased, when at the mansion, usually wore a cap.
This witness was of a similar opinion as the last,
as to the cause and manner of the death.
William Alason, a labourer, living near the Crab
Tree at Hammersmith, proved that on Sunday night,
at about a quarter to eleven o'clook, he heard cries
from the other side of the river, and a person repeating
"Oh, Lord! Oh, God !" many times, and groaning.
The party also said, " George, George !—a light !" It
was a weak voice, and witness thought it a female.
By the advice of lUr. Bullin, the landlord of the Crab
Tree, they went to Hammersmith-bridge and got a
boat and a lantern ; but by the time they had reached
the spot where the cries proceeded from, more than
half-an-hour had elapsed. They searched' the towing-
path and bank, and on the latter discovered the im-
print of naked feet from a distance of twenty or thirty
yards and back. These marks were seventy or eighty
yards from where the body was found. There was
no sign of any recent violence. They called aloud,
but got no answer. The tide was nearly at its height,
but not over the towing-path.
W. Morris, a labourer, produced the deceased's cap,
which had been found near the Putney steam-boat
pier on Monday afternoon, as also one of his shoes,
which he had picked up off the College of Civil En-
gineers.
After some further evidence,
The CORONER addressed the jury, and after enume-
rating the facts, remarked upon the mystery that
shrouded the case. The singular fact of the deceased's
socks being in his pocket, his cap and one shoe being
found in the river, clearly proved he had been there,
but how he came on to the footpath, and then into
the ditch, could only be surmised. The hypothesis
trust be that he lost his life by‘mischance.
Mr. Bullin, the landlord of the Crab Tree; here
observed that he heard some one cry distinctly " Help,
help," and "George, George," and a paddling in the
water. Had he had a boat, he was convinced he
could have saved the party.
Mr. Alfred Shadwell said he could not conceive
that his brother was the victim of violence, as no
money had been taken from him; and he believed,
with the rest of the family, that the melancholy event
was Fundy accidental,
The jury were unanimously of' opinion that Mr.
Louis Shadwell was accidentally drowned or suffo-
cated, and returned a verdict accordingly.

DREADFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION.—About three
o'clock in the afternoon of Friday last the neighbour-
hood of the Moss, near Wrexham, Denbighshire, was
the scene of unusual excitement in consequence of au
explosion'which took place in a pit there, the property
of and worked by the Brymbo Colliery Company. In
this pit about forty men were at work at the time of the
explosion, and, as may well be imagined, the utmost
consternation prevailed when the fact became known.
From inquiry made en the spot, it appears that acme of
the mfg whilst dig i.ng cut through into the level of
some old workings filled with foul air, which rushed like
afl tod into the pit w here the men were at work, and
then by some means ignited. Three of the colliers im-
mediately made their way to the bottom of the shaft,
and signalled to the enginemen to wind them up, which,
in the fright he did, after some delay. By this time the
bleze was ascending the mouth of the pit, and whilst
being drawn up the poor fellows' clothes caught fire,
and they were dreadfully burnt—two of them receiving
such serious injaii, s that they have both since died, and
the other man now lies in so precarious a state that he
is not expected to recover. The other men in the pit,
wills great presence of mind crept through an aperture into
an adjoining pit, which most providentially was the means
of saving their lives. A long time elapsed before their
safety was ascertained, and in the interval hundreds of
people were congregated round the pit, many of the
persors present being relatives or friends of the colliers,
and whcse cries and shrieks doting the awful suspense,
were of the most heartrending description, and testified
the agony of their feelings. The fire blazed for two stays
to the height of about ten feet above the mouth of tee
colliery, end roared like a la!eot furnace. Water has
been let into the pit, and the month has been stopped up,
but up to this time (Wednesday) tie tire continues o
burn with great fury, although it is expected the moans
adopted will eventually extinguish it.
THE OUTWARD-BOUND OVERLAND 11% DIA MAIL
—We learn from cur Malta correspondeht ihat the
Overland India mail, dispatched from London on the
24th of November, had not reached Malta up to ten
eon on the 4th of December; in consequ ace of which
it was feared that some accident had happened to the
machinery of her Majesty's steamer Medusa, conreying,
the same to that island from M ,rseillcs, though even in
that case, with the s‘r)ttg north west winds which had
prevailed for many days, the yeos:l might have m.de
her passage nearly as quickly under canvas. The Pe-
ninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship India, which
reached Malta on the evening (seven o'clock) of the 30th
of November, left for Alexandria at nine P.M. on the
3d of 1) cernber, with the Southampton mail of the 20th
of November, after a detention (by the senior naval
uflicer argil post-office agent) of twelve hours beyond the
time specified in her contract. Her Royal Highness the
Princes, Maritally() of Holland, formerly the wi!e of his
Royal Highness Prince Alert of Prussia, with a suite
of ten persons, took passage to Alexandria in the Indus,
en route to PAlestine.