The Sun.
London, England, 1824-11-23 00:00:00

THE ORMONDE PROPERTY.

It has been asserted in some of the Morning Prints, that the
Sutton Hall Estate, which was sold to the wealthy Mr. Ark-
wright for 218,0001., had been parted with at much less than
its value. We have reason to know that this statement is
erroneous, having exceeded the valuation by several thousand
pounds.--The aggregate of these sales amount to 482,4321., a
SUM exceeding by 260,000/. any previous auction, and the
amount full 80,0001. beyond the expectation of the respectable
valuers. The average being more than 40 years purchase upon
a rack rent. Indeed the rents were considered so high, that the
tenantry required (and it was conceded to them) a deduction
of 25 per cent. in the years 1820.1 and 2.—The Chilcote Estate
produces 2,0091. a year, and had the same deduction during
the agricultural distress; it produced 87,000/., being upwards
of forty-three years purchase.—The Coton Park Estate is let at
2801. a year; it sold for 12,800/., a 47 years purchase; and in
no one case throughout the whole of the sales, did any estate sell
at less than 40 years purchase, being an unequivocal improve-
ment in landed property of 10 years produce, with reference to any
previous soles._—Thepurchaser of the Dowles Lodge Estate, near
Andover, of 080 acres of wood land was gold by Mr. George
Robins on the day following his Ormonde Sales, to Mr. Thos.
Gould, for 17,000 guineas, the timber to be paid for in addi.
tion ; this Gentleman was the bidder at 200,0001. for the
" Leviathan Lot" on the previous day ; it is said lie was de-
puted by Sir M. Lopez, Bart. A freehold House in Lincoln's
Inn.fields let on lease for 1501. a-year, (part of Lord Ormonde%
property) sold for 4,5161. a 30 years purchase; it should therefore
appear that houses as well as land are improving on an equal
ratio. The Agent for the Duke of Devonshire was the bidder
at 215,0001. for the estate purchased by Mr. Arkwright. The
aue[ion-duty payable to Government out of these sales, is
14,0701. 18s. 8,1, a sum greatly exceeding the amount paid to
the Excise since the origin of auctions.

CORONER'S INQUEST.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON DLACKFRIARS-BRIDGE, OW•

ING TO TUE DAD STATE OF THE PAVEMENTS.

Yesterday afternoon an Inquest was held at
the Committee-room of St. Bartholotww's Hospital, before
Tuns. Str ELTON Esq., the Coroner for 1...0nd0n, on the body
of John Hide, Who was killed on Blackfrlars.bridge, on
Saturday last.
Mr. John Kinner, residing in Garden-row, London-road,
deposed, that on Saturday last, about three o'clock in the after-
noon, he was passing to town over Blackfriars-bridge, and saw
the deceased driving a peculiarly constructed vehicle; tilled
with somo kind of slush : it was a very large tun or cask capable
of holding at least four hundred gallons, fixed on a carriage
with two wheels, and drawn with three horses. The deceased
was walking by the side of the horses on the foot-pavement,
when suddenly his foot slipped down the descent, and he
fell under the belly of the wheel horse, and the near wheel
passed over hislower extremities ; the deceased groaned heavily
whilst under the wheel, and the blood flowed from his small
clothes in,torrents. A. gentleman procured a coach, into which
the deceased was placed, and conveyed to the Hospital. He ap-
peared tobe nearly dead when picked up, but as well as he was
able he gave his name and address. ‘Vitness considered the
weight of the vehicle and • its contents to be at least two tomk.
and a halt: _

'll--4koreman of the Jury observed, that the state of the
bridge, since it had undergone the new system of Macadamia.
ing, was truly dangerous.
Juror said, that the only thing that surprised him was,
that accidents of this kind were not more frequent. It was
most shameful to witness the state of the pavements since the
alterations (improvements they were styled) had been made;
the carriage-road on the centre of the bridge was at least thirty
inches below the foot pavement, and should a passenger by
chance slip down the descent, it was fifty to one they ever got
up alive.
: The Conottrat could not but agree with the opinion of. the
Jury as to the dangerous state of the bridge at present; and if
it was the intention of the Bridge Committee to let it remain as
it is, and the foot-pavement to be three feet above the carriage-
road, the public sought to be protected from accidents by the
erection of a hand-rail, whereby the passengers would not be
liable to slip from the curb-stone. , In its present state, no
nervous person ought to pass over after dark.
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Mr. Barclay, a chymist, residing in Fleet-market, deposed
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then ran for a hackuey.coach, and accompanied the deceased to
this Hospital : he thought the poor fellow would have breathed
his last before he reached his destination. In justice to Smith,
the brkige.beadle he begged to state, that he acted most hu-
manely towards the deceased man.
The CORONER complimented Mr. Barclay, and said that
his conduct, and that of Smith, the beadle, was highly ere-
ditable to them.
The House Surgeon to the Hospital stated, that he saw the
deceased when brought in he was in a dying state. He had
a desperate wound, about four inches in depth, on the poste.
riors ; his left.leg was terribly lacerated, anti, the small bone of
his right leg was broken. He also was severely injured in the
lt.ins and back. He lived about two hours in the most excru.
elating agony, and the injuries he had related caused his (lbw-.
le iron.. .
The Jury, under the learned Coroner's direction, returned a
verdict of Aceirientta Death.

Mrs. M‘Ginnnt4 (daughter of the well known
and esteemed WILLIAM WOODFALL) who some
years ago performed at Cogent Garden Theatre,
has recently been highly distinguished as the
principal Actress at Liverpool and Manchester;
her benefit at the former place amounting to the
large sum of 300/., an unprecedented amount,
except once) when poor EMERY attained a similar
bum.