The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-25 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Stn,—By the law of England, no man can have two
wives. Now, taking Lord Denman's ipse dixit in the
above case, ought a man who marries a second time,
during the life of his real wife, to be acquitted ofbigamy,
on the ground that the second marriage was void, and
consequently the woman, by second marriage, not his
wife—so that he had.not two wives?—" Bigamy—The
crime of having two wives at once."—Johnson's Dic-
tionary, It the second marriage be void a man cannot
have two wives at once.
W. D.
Ilfracombe, Nov. 22, 1847.

THE Bisnor or LONDON...-. The reports which
have lately appeared in many of the public journals rela-
tive to his Lordship's serious indisposition, are, we are
happy to say, incorrect,. Although his Lordship still
suffers from the effect of his late accident, he is suffi•
ciently recovered to travel, and on Saturday
last he left Brighton for his town residence. A slight
contraction of the muscles of the face is the temporary
result of his late accident, but the inconvenience eonse-
quent upon it does not prevent his Lordship from at-
tending to many of his ordinary duties. His Lordship
is still attended by Sir Charles Clarke, his physician.
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well known in the commercial world from the strange
vicissitudes and changes of fortune he had met with.
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thirty years ago dso much of the public sym-
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Messrs. Scoffrey and Gonville, he I,,,,...thaeccused by the
Duke of Manchester, the governor
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deavouring to excite the slave population
was deported in consequence, and on arriv'neg"!t"Se
country made his case known to- Lord (theinn this
Brougham, and Dr. Lushington. These gentlemen a .c 1 many other advocates of the emancipation of the al9avens,
espoused his cause warmly, brought the subject before
the house:of Commons, clearly established his inno-
cence, and the result was that the deceased and his
partners received a large sum of money from the Go-
vernment as compensation for the losses they had sus-
tained in consequence of the accusation. The deceased
had been ill for some weeks past, and on Sunday died
very suddenly while getting out of bed. The jury re-
turned a verdict of " Natural death."

CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday Mr. Bedford
held an inquest, at the Grapes, Mount-street, Gros*,
nor-square, on the body of Anne Akers, aged 48, who
committed suicide on Saturday evening by nearly se-
vering her head from her body with a razor. From
the evidence of the married sister of the deceased, it ap-
pears that the deceased was not in so destitute a condi.
tion as had been asserted. The deceased had shown
signs of mental aberration two years ago, and was
placed in a lunatic asylum, but was discharged three
months since as cured. She could not account for the
rash act:of the deceased. Verdict—Temporary insanity.
It is stated in a letter from Cracow, of the 15th,
that the tomb of M. Zajaskowski, President of the
Political Criminal Tribunal, who was assassinated on
the 4th, has to be guarded night and day, by strong de-
tachments of cavalry and infantry, it being reported that
the people intended to drag up the body and hang it on
a gibber.