The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-30 00:00:00

MORNING SUN

roner, at the Masons' Arms, Watney-street, Commercial-
road, on the body of James Holland, a coal-whipper,
aged 34. From the evidence it appeared that on Sunday
evening last the deceased had a quarrel with his wife,
in the course of which he broke her arm with a
stool. On Tuesday he was seized with a spitting of
blood, but took no notice of it, thinking it was caused
through swallowing some tobacco smoke. The follow-
ing morning he went to his work on board the Three
Sons collier, of Sunderland, lying in the river off Bother-
hithe, and, whilst in the act• of filling a basket with
coal, at the same time talking to a fellow-labourer,
named Gurling, his head suddenly fell forward, and
• blood issued from his nose and mouth. He was laid on
the deck, and Mr. Henry, a medical gentleman sent for,
' who, on his arrival, pronounced life to be quite extinct,
the cause of death being suffocation from the rupture of
a blood-vessel.. Verdict, "Died by the visitation of God."
A young couturiere, of the Faubourg du Temple,
whose mind had been perverted by reading novels, be-
came, two days ago, so excited by a slight altercation
with a young man to whom she was attached, and about
to be married, that she rushed from her house and threw
herself into the Canal Saint Martin, in the presence of
her mother and her intended. The young man plunged
in to save her, but, being unable to swim, would have
been drowned had not prompt assistance been rendered.
The infatuated girl was afterwards taken out, but not till
life was irrecoverably gone.
AN INGENIOUS IMPOSTOR.—Of all the beg-
ging-letter impostors of whom I have heard, Peter Jones
was unrivalled in the facility and success with which he
could change his personal appearance. In the course of
one day he could assume, and sustain with admirable
effect, seven or eight different characters ; so that those
who saw him, and were conversing with him, at ten in
the morning, might have been in his company at twelve,
and never had the slightest suspicion of the fact. He
had a pair of huge artificial whiskers, which he put on
and cast off just as ho pleased ' • and be bad also a pair
of moveable mustachios, which a Spanish Don would
have looked on with 'envious eye. Of wigs, too, he had
an abundant supply, embracing every variety of colour;
while his wardrobe was so extensive, that you would
have thought he had purchased the entire contents of
some Jew clothesman's shop in Holywell-street. By
these means, coupled with great natural cleverness, he
was able to assume so many different characters, and to
appear so very unlike himself (if there be not an
Irishism in the expression), that, though the Mendicity
Society had at one time no fewer than three hundred
cases of begging-letter impostures against him, and
though its officers had repeatedly seen him in the police
offices, they passed him day after day in the public
streets without recognising him.—Lights and Shadows
of London Life, by the Author of " The Great Metropolis."
BENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF BLUES.--011 Wed-
nesday evening the half-yearly meeting of this Society,
which is for the relief of persons educated at Christ's
Hospital, their widows, and orphans, took place at the
London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street. From the Report,
it appeared that the capital stock of the Society is 5,0501.,
and that the total number of applicants had been 331, of
whom a very small portion only have been rejected as
unworthy. Out of those assisted were fifty-four widows
with large families. The number of loans granted has
been above thirty, and the amount about 4001. The
number of pensioners now on the book is thirteen, and
the amount granted per annum to each male 121., and
10/. to each female.

SUDDEN DEATH.—On Monday morning, an
inquest was held at the Court-house, before John Black-
burn, Esq., on the body of John Harewood, a pensioner
of the 15th regiment of foot. It appeared from the
evidence that the deceased came to Leeds on Friday last
to receive his pension, the necessary documents for which
had been filled up at Wakefield. He went to the Excise-
office, and whilst there was suddenly taken ill, and was
removed to the Infirmary, where he shortly after ex-
pired. He is not known at Leeds, nor can any trace of
his connections be discovered at Wakefield ; the only
knowledge at present of him is derived from his pension
papers. He appears about fifty years of age. Verdict
—" Died by the visitation of God."— York Courant.
VIENNA, OCT. 19.—Prince Milosch, of Servia,
payed his first visit to Prince Metternich to-day.
BERLIN, OCT. 20.—1 t is positively affirmed
that a Convention, by which the Duchy of Brunswick
accedes to the German Customs Union on the Ist of
January, 1842, was signed yesterday by the respective
Plenipotentiaries. It is said that the Convention by
which Lippe Detmold accedes to the union was signed
on the preceding day.
The Earl of Waldegrave and Captain Duff' will
be released next week.

Tuesday, the railway train, which left Glasgow
at twelve o'clock for Greenock, when nearly opposite
Dumbarton Castle, ran over an old woman, and killed
her on the spot.—Ayr Observer.
M. Dumont, Chef du Bureau des Beaux-Arts,
in the Office of the Minister of the Interior, has been rut
on the retired list, and has begin succeeded by Al. F. de
Mercey, a landscape-painter of merit, and author of se-
veral works on -the fine arts.
FOOT RACE.—On Thursday last, a foot race
took place in Caygil-walk, between two young men of
the names of Parker. and Whitworth. The distance was
100 yards, and the latter was declared to win by a
shoulder ! Thus the winner saved his crown by putting
his shoulder out —York Courant.
Colonel Tickell, C. 8., and family arrived at the
Adelaide Hotel, London-bridge, on Thursday, from Paris
SUDDEN DEATH IN THE STREET.—On
Thursday Mr. Iliggs, Deputy Coroner for Westminster,
held an inquest at the Grange Inn, Carey-street, Lin-
coln's Inn, on the body of Joseph Renton, aged 45, who
died suddenly. It appeared from the evidence that the
deceased was a hackney-coachman, out of employ, and
had latterly laboured under a severe cough and rheuma-
tism, for which he had been an hospital out-patient. On
Tuesday evening last he appeared better than usual, and,
after tea, left home, saying that he was going to the
Pilgrim coach-stand, Holborn. About eleven o'clock he
was returning home, when, opposite Southampton-street,
he fell down as though shot. lie was quite dead. Ver-
dict, " Died by the visitation of God."
BUTCHERS' CHARITABLE INSTITUTION.—
On Thursday a very numerous meeting of the donors and
subscribers to the Butchers' Charitable Institution was
held at the Freemasons' Tavern, for the purpose of
electing three men and two women as additional pen-
sioners on the funds of the Society. The Chair was
taken at two o'clock, when the ballot commenced, which
closed at four, when the names of: the successful candi-
dates were announced. The Institution was founded in
1828, for affording relief to decayed and distressed mem-
bers of the trade, their widows, and children. The
amount of pension payable to the men is 211., and to the
women 151. 15s. per annum. Thanks being voted to the
Chairman, the meeting adjourned.
Her Grace the Duchess of Somerset has sub-
scribed the handsome sum of 501., for the relief of the.
Paisley operatives.
FALCONS.—A few days ago a very fine speci-
men of the osprey was shot in the neighbourhood of
Chin, by one of the gamekeepers of the Earl of fowls.
A bird equally rare, and infinitely more valuab'le
Oldto
the falconer, was netted on Monday last, on the
Oak Farm, East Acton, in the occupation of Mr.
Pain. The hawk we now refer to was immediately
taken to town, and shown to several bird-fanciers, who
could not recognise the species. It was next conveyed
to St. John's Wood, to the residence of a gentleman who,
from his application to the science, may be regarded as
an authority; and he, to his surprise, at once perceived
that he had before him a superior specimen of the pere-
grine falcon, and fortunately a female bird, which he at
once purchased. She is now under the process of re-
clamation, is of exceedingly good temper, well propor-
tioned, powerful, and, he thinks, will make a first-rate
bird for rook-hawking.
LARGE POTATO.—There has been produced
this season, at Poplar Bank, Kinnoul, a potato measur-
ing in girth 15 inches by 14, and weighing one pound
three-quarters. This might almost be a meal for a
couple of Irishmen.--Ayr Observer.
Mrs. Thom, the widow of the unfortunate maniac
who called himself Sir William Couitenay, and who was
shot in the mad affray near Canterbury a few years since,
died lately at Guernsey.
LATE RIOT IN DIJRNESS...-We are happy to
learn that the excitement which led to the recent distur-
bances, by Mr. Anderson's tenants.in Durness, has sub-
sided, and that the people are quite peaceful, and fully
sensible of the illegality and unjustifiable nature of their
proceedings.—lnverness Courier.
SUDDEN DEATH.--On Thursday, as the Rev.
Mr. Swain, Chaplain to the Earl of Haddington, was
returning-home from Derby 'on foot, he fell down, and
suddenly expired.
OVERLAND MAILS.-;-The arrangemeentbseosn,eoewn
in progress through Egypt will reduce the t
Suez and Bombay from
month. Ere a
Presidency be reached from London in a
and become a
year more this will be accomplished,
neness, or rather
per-
manent Government system. The sa:
in high quar-
tersthe unaccountable apathy, that was evincedreason
why
18 to 13 days, and thusim will that
this great
years ago, is probably the reas
all the connecting links
ad-
vantage to the two countries—
annd British Ins been shown, a
de-
layed. A better spirit countries—to
and England—was -
more and more a
din become, Perhaps the public remem-
ber of the British emr/ire
.ast ad van tage to the two
ber the projector of this vast
i that the British authorities.
coun-
tries. It is painful to
public benefactors, have in this in-
b variousmes, interestsby eiery bocit•hei-el overland d mail,
ever ready to reward p
stance strangely o
rlooked a meritorious individual.
The toils he endured e
in his passage through Egypt, and
he exerted with the energetic P
ache.
the great interests -
in themselves sufficient considers_
tions that country,
;esterday afternoon, in
favourable notice of
"de to the --
men
molt The name of
wise and Wag
need scarcely be added, but for whom this commu-
nicationhorn
would have slumbered for years to come.
Ap
person, between between 40 and 45 years of age, went to
tions toreecnolimo.
of
thelictoeilitemduiGoorfe
Jury
the top he was t•
'company with a party to whom 1111.1:10Wn. Whil,
they were all occupied in enjoying the view, he threw
himself
.ever the balustrade down to the pavement below
and was taken up lifeless, with several of his limbs
broken. His body was deposited at the Morgue, where
it now lies, and Where that of another person, who sad
thrown himself, in the morning, from a third st4:,-
ry win-
dow, had previously been taken, but as •
immediately recognised, his body was -
II
tLe latter was
A size pumpkin ;of extraordinary • exposed.
y ze was gathered
last week in the garden of thr. rev. G
• H. Scott, curate of
Colyton, which measured four feet inches in three cir-
cumference, weighed thirty-four pounds, and was grown
in the open air. In the same garden
a carrot was pulled
of the weight of *lbs. thirteen inches in circumference,
and nine inches inlength.—Sherbourue Journal.
Mr. Robert Heilings, grocer, of Bedminster,
who lately took the benefit of the Insolvent Act, having
now come into possession of a small property, has called
his creditors together, and undertaken to pay them 20s.
in the pound.— Worcester Journal.