The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-01 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

Yesterday afternoon an inquisition was taken before
William Carter, Esq., the coroner for Surrey, at the Sun,
Battersea, on view of the body of William Charles
Swarten, aged 17, son of a respectable tradesman, in the
Blackfriars-road, who met with his death by drowning,
while in a boat in the river Thames.
Verdict—" Accidental death."

Yesterday afternoon an inquisition was held in the
Board-room of St. James's workhouse, Poland-street, Ox-
ford-street, before Mr. Higgs, the ooroner, and a highly
respectable jury, on the body of a new born female child
unknown, which was found in the carriage-way of Great
Pulteney-street, on last Wednesday evening. It was
wrapped up in a piece of linen and some brown paper.
From the evidence of the surgeon it appeared that, from the
examination he made, the child had been still-born. It
had been born a week or ten days, and it was in a very
decomposed state. The birth had not been attended by
any medical assistance.
The jury returned a verdict of " Found dead."
Yesterday evening an inquest was held at the Union pub-
lic-house, Essex-street, King's-cross, St. Pancras, before
Mr. Stirling and a respectable jury, on view of the body
of Mrs. Martha Itickett, aged 41, who drowned herself in
a water butt.

It appeared that the deceased was living apart from her
husband, and that since their separation she bad been very
melancholy, had attempted to poison herself, and had also
exhibited general symytoms of mental derangement. On
the night of her death she bad been particularly inco-
herent, and a nurse sat up with her. The latter fell
asleep, and during the time the deceased escaped from the
room and committed the act of self-destruction. When
discovered she was quite dead.
Verdict—" Temporary derangement."

" Astoria," Mr. Washington Irving's new work, is
announced for publication early in October. The great variety
in the works of the celebrated author of " The Sketch Book"
is not among the least of his attractions. He is, truly, a man
of genius. No matter how cold and barren, and desolate the
scene, he fills it with life and motion—with interest and pas-
sion. He strikes, as it were, the desert rock, and it flows with
the full tide of fancy. He peoples a bare and blasted heath
with men, with phantoms—with the visions of kingdoms
grasped, and won and lost. The barren surface of the sea—
ploughed by the solitary private who knows his fellow-beings
only as objects to be alternately shunned or assailed—is made
by him the theatre of the most deep and stirring interest. Whe
can be surprised, then, at the popularity of Washington Irving ?

MRS. ROBERTSON OF INCHES.—The lady of
Arthur J. Robertson, Esq., of Inches, died suddenly on. Fri-
day evening, on the eve of the ball at the Northern Meeting,
in the house of her relative, John Ross gsq,, blinker, Her
decease took place instantaneously from the bursting of a blood-
vessel in the head. The intelligence soon spread over the
town, and the street was filled with persons anxiously inquiring
into the particulars, or mourning over the event, Striking as
such a case of sudden and awful death must have boon at any
time, it was peculiarly so amidst the bustle and preparation of
the Northern Meeting, when the town was thronged with car-
riages and •families from the country, to participate in that
gaiety of which Mrs. Robertson had been a happy spectator
only a few minutes before her death. No event hal occurred
for many years which produced so strong a sensation in Inver-
ness as this melancholy cifctuustauce,-4inverne-4 Paper,