The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-15 00:00:00

Fa0:41.1 STARVATION.
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A lengthened inquiry took place on_Weanesday (Attn.
ing at the- Lo-ettoti- 11 srital, livfore Mr. 'Baker, the co-
roncr, relati,e to the death of -Hannah 810,3.,
aged :21, who died in the NWhituchapel workhouse
on on Monday last. It appeared in 'evidt.nce that on
Friday evening* last the deceased went into the tap -
room of the. Black Horse, Brow:1%-Lnc, Silit,tllidds.
Mr. Barker;the landlord, saw that she was very ill, and
he instantly sent.•for a doctor. He also gave her !nod,
as she reanedlO be almost Starving; and then took hest()
the station,house. The deceased said that she had been in
service in Spittilfields; that her relations were in G:ouces-
tersbire ; and that she had not had any food for four
days but that whicii she had received from Mr. BA':
ker. By the orders of the inspector the was then
taken to the Whiteehapel workhouse. She WAS there
provided with food, Which she ate voraciously, but sl4
soon bCcan.e insensible, and died at three o'clock on
Monday. morning. Mr. Millar, the surgeon of thu
workhouse, said that the deceased had died from in-
flammation of the lungs, produced by exposur4 to the
cold and want of sustenance. Verdict, " That the de-
ceased died from inflammation of the lungs, produced
by exposure and want."

On Tuesday night, an inquest was held before Mr.
Payne, at the George, Old Bailey, on the body of
Short, aged fifty, formerly a private in the
Grenadier Guards, but more recently an out-pensioner
of Chelsea hospital.. From the. evidence it appeared
that for three yeers past the deceased had lodged ate a
miserable house in a narrow turning called Bishop'e-
court, imwcdiate!y opposite Newgate. A person named
Cliff tenanted the room, to whom deceased paid ono
shilling per week fur sleeping. Cliff and a boy sleep-
ing in the same room, but in a separate bed. The de-
ceased's pension amounted to one shilling and a halfpenny
per day, which was paid quarterly, his next pay day
being Tuesday next. When without money he was in the
habit of borrowing from a person residing in the next
house till his pay day. On Sunday week. last the de-
ceased was found to be ill, and unable to leave his bed ;
and although Cliff and the other persons residing in the
house knew this fact they did nothing for him. The
person alluded ,to above called on him, and asked it she
should make a fire (seeing a sack containing coals in
the room) ; when lie replied, ‘• Pray don't ; for it you
do, Cliff will throw me out of the window." Oa S ur-
day last she called on him again, and, on his saying he
would like an •apple-pudding, she made him one, hut
was unable to say whether lie ate it or riot. Tee
boy who slept in the same room said he had never
seen the deceased eat anything, and it was his
opinion he died of starvation. Mr. Lynch, surzeon,
said he saw the decased on Sunday morning, and fout.d
him dead ; he had never seen such an appalling sight
before. The body was lying on an old mattress, and
Was covered with vermin and fifth ; it was a mere skele-
ton ; the knees were drawn up towards the f.e , appa-
rently for warmth. There was no covering on the hod,
and he was stark naked. Ile found the deceat•ed
laboured for some years under a severe
stricture,
and
his opinion was that death arose irons an organic di,-
ease, greatly accelerated by the want o warmth and the
necessary comforts of life. Verkliet,—That the deceased
died f, ern an organic disease, accelerated by the want of
warmth end the comforts necessary to life—the Jury at
the same time censuring the conduct of Ciiff.

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ENTERTAINMENTS-77-7-7-7 AT THE MANSlON-
nousp..—The first public dinner which the Lord Meyor
usually ;eves on his accession to (lace, is that on Plough
Morviey, , when his Lordship invites his household, con-
sistiag of the Sword 13earer, the Common Crier, and ethers;
together with gentlemen in the Chamberlain's and Town
Clerk's officers, the three Governors of the city prisons., and
other municipal functionaries. The berquet is one of
much state and splendour, the Lord Mayor presiding, and
his Chaplain taking the opposite seat at the other end of
the table ; the guests being served off Mete, and all the
servants attending in full livery down to the postillion,
in his gold surmounted c..p. The dinner of Plough Moo-
day last was excellent; the wines, especially the Hock
and Claret, were of superior qualify ; and the whole enter-
tainment was unusually agreeable to -the guests, in cue•
sequence of the kind efforts of the Lord Mayor, and the
adnaireble talents and disposition of his Chaplain. His
Lordship had preceded this entertainment by fore, al
others, amongst which was a dinner to a juvenile party on
Twelfth Night, on which occasion many young hearts, as
well as heels, danced with joy.
KIRKALDYI3URGHS ---We-understand that 110
signatures have been appended to the requisition to Dr,
I3owring ; of which three were from Dysart, twenty-four
from Pathhead and St. Clairtown (nhich are both included
in the Parliamentary boundary of the burgh of Dysart),
and the remainder from Kirkaldy and Linktown ; but
it does not appear that any of the electors in Kinghorn
or Burntisland are friendly to him. The general feeling
in Kirkaldy is, that the Doctor has no chance even tho Ugh
he come forward, as it is well known mans have given
their names in the hope of hearing Dr. Bowring, but do
not consider themselves pledged to give him their votes.
The original intention wes, not to send tile requisi-
tion unless one-third of the electors subscribed it, but
it has been despatched A ith little more than a fifth, though
the most active means were used to obtain signature:.
Should Dr. Bowring be so ill-advised as to present him-
self, he will find that the unanimous support of his
sitionists will not be forthcomieg. The opponents of Col.
Ferguson' are getting flat- on the matter; but be is no
friend to the Colonel who represents him as indiffere'lit to
the oppo.ition. Such cannot be the case. He wishes to
be Member for the burghs—and unanimously if possille .
as he is well aware that a contested election creates ani-
mosities and heart-burnings which even the lapse of many
ye irs salon entirely oblitera'e —Edinburgh Obseri er.
CALAIS, TUESDAY MORNING.— (Extract
from A Private Letter. )_A voyage from London to Ca-
lais at this season of the year is not without its vicissitudes.
We left London at nine o'clock on Sunday reo fling by
the Menai, General Stearn'Navigation Company's steamer.
\Vc had good reason to Ire satisfied with the atteution on
board, and the admirable seamanship of the captain.
Going down the Pool, if it had been crowde 1 at all,
would have been impossible from the masses of ice ;
but we were carried through carefully. Clear wa-
ter from Blackwall to Gravesend; every bo'at corn-
ing, up the river shouting to us as the, only weenier
going down, to learn the state of the pool. Beyond
Gravesend 'we had thick fogs, which delayed us consider-
ably, and when we were cff Herne Bay the wind got up
after such a lively fashion that the captain deemed it pru-
dent to lay to for the night. At daybreak we were off
again, and in a south-west squall made Calais harbour at
half-past twelve o'clock, after a disagreeable passmge of
twenty-eight hours. On the voyage we bad heavy fells
of snow, feg, frost, sleet, hail, &c. with divers bumpiegs.
Glad enough were we to be ensconced in the comfortable
quarters of Robert's Royal Hotel. The weather here has
been as bad nearly as in England. Nothing but snow
meets the eye, and the cold is intense. Every thing is
below freezing point except the warlike ardour of the in-
habitants of the north, and of this there is no dirninutim!.

JOSEPII BONAPA RTE.—The Count de Survd-
Hers (Jos. ph Bonaparte) whose health suffered severely in
the autumn, has had it quite re-established, under the care
of Dr. Granville. The poor of Monks Kirby, a village
adjoining the domain of Newnham Paddocks, where the
Count resides, have had twenty-five guineas distributed
amongst them by his orders. The uniform benevolence
displayed by the ex-King, during his protracted residence
in this country, would seem to indicate that the epithet of
" the good Joseph,'' applied to him by Madame Junot, in
her memoirs, was fully merited. lie is extremely popular
in his neighbourhood.
COURT-MARTIAL.—A court-martial was assem-
bled on board her Majesty's ship Powerful, on Tuesday,
Dee. 14, in Marmorice Bay, to try Lieut. G. W. Wink),
of her Majesty's ship Implacable, upon a charge preterrvd
against him by Captain Harvey, of that ship, for havi!
on h)ec. 22, -Is4o, appeared on the quieter-deck in a state
of drunkenness.. The Court fully acquitted him.
The lower we descend into the scale, the greater
tolerance of violence and the greater powers of reparation
and renewal do we observe. When a salamander's held
has been cut off, the weund has healed.• If the Lead of a
planaria from our ponds is divided longitudinally a cer-
tain way, the wound heals ; if completely, other row matt, r
will be deposited and join the two heads into one of gre,:t
size, with ono or two additional eyes; or each halt will
become a new head. If the whole body is divided, emeept
tit the tail, Siamese twins arc made, which pull discordantly
and tear asunder their bond of union, and Irccome inde-
pendent. Not only does a planaria acquire a new Lead
after decapitation, but, if the two heads which have been
pt
brroecleu
teiemdebayi
ndivisionv arein,
ar md
,otvheed,
aontibmear havebein
being
p tr uh ne
roahte
di-
vided throughout and its head cut off, one head only wzs
aaild. If cut
now produced. If the animal is divided across,
tail the
rinks,an-
terior
halfbut a
swftiemrsaoffieawnddaelvsenEesneldas furrotih a
across into three, the anterior and posterior proceed thus,
and the middle part shoots forth both a head and a tail.
Nav a planaria has been cut into ten pieces, and each has
become a perfect anima—Dr. Elltotson on Human Phy-
siology. • -
IRISH REFORMERS.--The Dublin papers are
nearly filled with the names of the requisitionists for the
c„iting-aggregate meeting. In a supplemental requisi-
tion the names of the Duke of Devonshire and the Earl
of Fitzwilliam appear.

FALSE ALA
llMS,—Either some pettifogging
politicians, or some penny-a- liners, have been mischievously
misleading even the leading journals of London, with
Chartist wars in this county. There is as much truth in
such reports, as in Mr. Attwood's vision of a Russian fleet
at the Nom—Monmouthshire Merlin.
DESTRUCTION OF TIIE SALMON FISHERY--
On Wednesday last the conservators of the Severn ap-
pointed for this city (Messrs. Hood anti Flinn) exhibited
before the sitting Magistrate at the Guildhall ( Mr. Side-
bottom) the heads and spawn of two salmon, which were
a few days since caught in the Severn, near Gloucester.
The object of the conservators in producing the above was
to show the great mischief which was occasioned by taking
this fish out of reason, which practice is now being carried
on, especially at Gloucester, to a very considerable ex-
tent, where salmon was recoatly sold at 6.1. per lb., while
the same species of fish in season often fetches 3s. 6d. per
lb. there. The two fish in quertien ecntained 51bs. of
spawn ; the one having 3ilbs., the other 41bs. This
quantity of spawn would, it is calculated, have produced
08,000 fish 1 Here we have brought to our own doors
further proofs of the extent of the injury which is con-
stantly being inflic!ed upon the fisheries; thus curtailing
the means of sussistence of the honest fishermen, many of
whom in this city are unable to obtain employment. We
arc informed that in the Teme much illegal netting and
spearing is carried on, to which the attention of the conser-
vators have also been directed, and wo.have no doubt we
shall soon hear more from tbeto aetivo bfficere.--Wurces-
ier Chronicle. •
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