The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-27 00:00:00

COMMONS INCLOSURE BILL.

This Bill was read a third time and passed.
Sir W. SOMER VILLE obtained leave to bring in a Bill
to enable the Board of Works to purchase a site for the erection
of a prison in Ireland.
Mr. FOX MAULS obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
regulate the stations of soldiers during Parliamentaryelections.
Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
provide further facilities for the permanent improvement of
landed property in Ireland by the owners thereof.
Viscount SANDON nominated the Select Committee on
our commercial relations with China :—Viscount Sandon, Mr.
Francis Baring, Mr. Beckett, Dr. Bowring, Mr. Brown, Mr.
Cardwell, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Harcourt, Mr. Hawes, Viscount
Jocelyn, Mr. Matheson, Mr. Moffatt, Mr. John Abel Smith,
Mr. Spooner, and Sir George Staunton.
Captain PECHELL moved for returns of slave vessels cap-
tured since the Ist day of January, 1842, distinguishing those
brought for adjudication before the Courts of Mixed Com•
mission and the several Vice-Admiralty Courts; describing the
tonnage of each vessel, and the flag under which she was seised,
and whether such seizure took place in the presence of or with
the assistance of any foreign vessel of war, and of what nation ;
stating the number of slaves, if any, on board at the time of
seizure ; the date and decretal part of the sentence, whether
forfeiture or restitution, with the amount of proceeds
of sale or costs awarded ; also, the expenses of
condemnation as distinguished from the charges for breaking up
each vessel, and the period when the proceeds for distribution
were paid into the Registry of the High Court of Admiralty ;
of slave vessels that have been taken into her Majesty's service
since the Ist day of January, 1842 ' • stating the tonnage, and
the appraised or estimated value of the hull and stores, and
the sum or sums which the Commissioners of the Admiralty
have doomed a proper price for the same.—Agreed to.
Also return of copies of the bills, disbursements, and fees of
the Marshal of the Vice-Admiralty Court of the Cape of Good
Hope, relative to the slave-vessels Jehovah and Diana, sold by
auction by virtue of decree of condemnation and sale, bearing
date the 22d day of February, 1840, and the 22d day of
January, 1846 ; together with the proceeds of sale of said ves-
sels, cargoes, and appurtenances, and the date when the same
was paid into the Registry of the High Court of Admiralty.
Agreed to.
The remaining orders of the day were then disposed of, and
the House adjourned at Half-past One o'clock.

THE SALE OF TUB LIBRARY OF MR. WILKES.—
The tenth sale of this most extraordinary assemblage of books
took place on Tuesday, at Messrs. Sotheby's rooms, in Wel-
lington-street. Among the books sold on the last two days
(the best days, as they were styled, the following are de-
serving of notice :—" Shakspeare's Tragedies, Comedies, and
Histories, published according to the true original copies, by
Heminge and Condell," first edition, printed by Js. Jaggard
and E. Blunt, 1623. This copy, stated by judges to be the
most pure ever offered for sale, contains the original portrait
and the leaf of Ben Jonson's verses, and sold for the large
sum of 1551. The second edition, date 1632, fetched but 11
guineas; whilst the third edition, printed in 1664, sold for
25/. 10s. The disparity is accounted for by the greater por-
tion of the third edition being destroyed in the great fire of
London. The fourth edition, printed in 1685, sold for Si. ss.
" Rommant de la Rose," printed upon vellum, by Verrard, at
Paris, in 1496, sold for 1011. ; " Recuyell of the Histories of
Troye," by Ravel Le Fevre, first edition, and believed to be
the earliest production of Caxton's press, printed by Caxton
in 1471; only two copies of this ancient romance in a perfect
state are known, one in the British Museum, the other in
the library of the Marquis of Bute ; this copy, although
defective in ten leaves, fetched the large sum of
165/. "Rob Roy," the original manuscript of this
well-known novel, in the autograph of Sir Walter Scott,
the author, sold for 821. Edmund Spenser's " Faerie
Queens," &c., first edition, Wm. Ponsonbye, 1590-6, sold
for 18/. " Vitus Patrum ; that is, the Lyfe of the Old
Auncyent Fadres, translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe,
by Wm. Caxton, of Westmynstre, late dead, and fynysshed
it at the last day of his Lyfl'; emprynted in the said Towne
of Westmynstre by One Wynkyn de Worde, 1495 ;" this
book, supposed to be the finest production of Wynkyn de
Wortle's press, sold for 81/. A collection of State Papers,
consisting principally of drafts and precis of Dispatches from
the British Government to the English Ministers at Berlin,
Denmark, Dresden, &c., during the veer 1796, formerly in
the library of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, sold for
30/. Vigerii (Marci) Decatrordon Christianum, printed upon
vellum, a presentation copy from the author to Henry VII.,
sold for 68/. Strutt's Antiquities sold for 60/. " Rycharde
Cuer du Lyon," an English metrical romance, printed by
Wynkyn de Worde in 1528, sold for 47/. Sarum ; " Mis-
sale ad Usum Insignia Ecclesix Sarum," printed in 1508, sold
for 30/. 10s. ; " Roxburghe Revels," a curious compilation
of manuscript and print relating to the Roxburghe Club, by
the late Mr. Haslewood, and containing a letter of Sir Wal-
ter Scott, dated Feb., 1823, sold for 221. 10s. ; " The Prymer
in Englyshe and in Latin, sette out along, after the use of
Sarum," printed in 1504, sold for 231. The other lots sold
fetched good prices. On Thursday the sale of the library
of Mr. Wilkes was concluded, after lasting eleven
days, by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson. The principal lots
sold yesterday consisted of Oriental and Sanscrit manuscripts,
nearly the whole of which were bought by Sir Frederick
Madden for the British Museum. With regard to the "His-
tory of the Hoole Life of Jason," sold for 121/., on being col-
lated it was found to have one leaf in fac simile. It was
returned, and being put up again sold for 105/. The amount
realised by this sale is between 6,0001. and 7,0001.
ROYAL ART ILLERY.—WOOW ICH, MARCH 25.
'Your companies of the 'Royal Artillery assembled at eleven
o'clock to-day, on the guard-mounting parade in heavy
marching order, for the inspection of Lieutenant-General
Sir Thomas Downman, C.B. and K.C.H., Commandant of the
garrison, being under orders to leave head-quarters at Wool-
wich to-morrow, Captain Ward's No. 8 company of the 10th
battalion to add to the strength of the Royal Artillery at
Portsmouth, and Captain Crawford's No. 4 company, Cap-
tain St. George's No. 5 company, and Captain Needham's
No. 6 company, all of the 10th battalion, for Chatham, to
make room for the reception of recruits in the garrison of
Woolwich, upwards of 600 fine young men having recently
enlisted, but were ordered to be detained at their respective
places of enlistment until the barracks were made ready for
their reception. About 300 of the recruits have been en-
listed by the veteran officer Lieutenant Clark, stationed at
Lisburn, in Ireland. The companies Nes. 1,2, and 3 of
the 10th battalion are to remain at Woolwich to go
through a course of field battery instruction, and No. 7 com-
pany recently proceeded to Devonport and Plymouth to add
to the strength of the Royal Artillery in that quarter. The 1
remains of the late Major-General Cockburn were interred
privately in the churchyard at Plumstead, at eleven o'clock,
A.M., to-day.
THE NAVAL CLUB.—The members of the Naval
Club dined together on Thursday evening, at the Thatched
House Tavern, St. James's-street. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence
presided, and was supported by Lord Edward Russell, Sir H.
Dillon, Sir Augustus Clifford, Sir Thomas Hastings, Captain
H. Eden, Captain E. Eden, Captain George Pechell, Captain
Sotheby, Captain Blackwood, Captain G. King, Captain
Pouter, Captain Frankland, Captain Meredith, Captain
Hevingham, &c.

DETERMINED SUlClDE.—Thursday night, Mr. W.
Payne, the City Coroner, held an inquest in the Cogers'
Hall, at Mr. Ashton's, the White Bear, Bride-lane, on the
body of Joseph Parkes, aged 32, manager and clerk to
Messrs. Deeling and Thomas, of the Dudley Foundry,
Tipton, Staffordshire, and also at Dudley, who committed
nicide on Thur sday morning, about two o'clock at Mr.
Merewether's, the Albion Coffee-house, Bridge-street, Black-
friars, by cutting his throat in the most determined man-
ner with a small pen-knife, literally cutting his throat
from ear to ear, inflicting two deep wounds, completely
cutting through the jugular artery. From the evidence,
it appeared that the deceased had been in London on the
business of his employers, in superintending some works
at the Government Dockyard, at Woolwich, and at West
Ham, since which time he had been stopping at Mr.
Merewether's ; nothing was noticed in the deceased's
manner, nor did he exhibit any symptoms of aberra-
tion of intellect until Wednesday afternoon, about five
o'clock, when the deceased acted in the most extraordinary
manner, going up and down stairs quickly, and asserting
that he knew there was a conspiracy to kill him. Endea-
vours were made to quiet him, but without effect, after which
he opened the window and got on to the balcony, and called
"Police, police:" On two of the City police-constables
going in, he told them that he knew there was a conspiracy
to kill him, and that he had heard the witness and two men
talking outside his room, one of whom said he would kill
him, and throw him out of window, and that they wanted to
steal his clothes ; he however became quiet for a time, but
'eon broke out again. A policeman was left 'with him in
plain clothes, until Mr. Merewether returned, about eleven
o'clock, who reasoned with the deceased, and remained until
near two o'clock, when on the deceased becoming calm and
promising to lay down in his clothes, without a light, he was
left, but soon after a noise of falling was heard in the room,
and on Mr. Merewether going in, he found him lying on
his back weltering in blood. Mr. Hutchinson and Mr. Hold-
ing were called in, but on their arrival he was quite dead.
Mr. Hutchinson said he had no doubt the deceased was
labouring under delirium tremens. Verdict—" Temporary
Insanity."
NEW ARRANGEMENTS FOR CONDUCTING THE
CORONERSIIIP FOE MIDDLESEX.—Thursday, in consequence
of the large increase of unnecessary applications from the
various summoning officers to the Coroner for warrants to
authorise the holding of inquests, Mr. Wakley, ALP., caused
to be distributed to all summoning officers throughout the
western division of Middlesex copies of the following form
which is to be for the future the only mode of application for
the Coroner's warrant for such purpose :—" No. 1, Bedford-
street, Strand, London. On applying to Mr. Wakley, Co-
roner for Middlesex, for inquest warrants, the constable in all
cases should fill up such blanks in the following form as the
information he has been enabled to obtain will permit him to
supply. The application should be made without delay, and
the constable is not to apply personally to the Coroner,'unless
he should receive a communication from the Coroner direct-
ing him to attend at the office:-1. What was the name of
the person deceased? (write the name at length.) 2. Where
is the body lying? 3. What was his or her age? 4. On what
day and at what hour did the death happen? 5. Who were
present at the death ? 6. Was the person found dead ; and
if so, where? 7. When was the person found dead, and by
whom 8. If found dead, when was the deceased person
last seen alive, and by whom. and where ? 9. What is the known
or supposed cause of death? 10. Did illness exist before the
death • and if so, for how long a time ? 11. 'Was the person
speechless or insensible during the illness, and for how long a
time? 12. Is blame attached to any party, and, if so, to
whom? 13. Did any medical practitioner attend before the
death, and, if so, for what length of time, and what his name
and place of abode? 14. If no medical practitioner was pre-
sent at the death, was one called in afterwards? and, if so,
state his name an 1 place of abode. 15. Was the deceased
person attended medically as a pauper or a lunatic, and, if so,
by whom ? 16. Can the inquest be held in the house where
the body lies, or, if not, at what other house, and how far is
that house from the body? (When the house where the in-
quest is to be held is situated in a street, whether it be a
public-house or not, the number of the house should be
stated.) 17. When any poison, or anything supposed to be
poisonous, is known, or is suspected to have caused the death
of a person, the poison (or supposed poison) should be put
under seal in the presence of a witness, and forthwith be put
into the hands of the constable, who is to dispose of it as the
Coroner shall direct. 18. At what hours are letters delivered
to you (the constable) by post? 19. The constable must
here write his name and address, which should be written on
the Coroner's warrant, so as to insure its quick delivery to him
(the constable) by post. 20. The constable should here
write any further particulars which he may deem to be ne-
cessary foilthe information of the Coroner." The form, which
is in the shape of a letter, bears the following superscription :
—" Letter fur Coroner's Warrant. Thomas Wakley, Esq., ,
M.P., 1, Bedford-street, Strand. From —, constable of
the parish of —."