The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-21 00:00:00

INQUEST ON THE BODY.

Yesterday afternoon a lengthened investigation was
entered upon before Mr. PAYNE, and a highly respect-
able Jury, at the Belle Sauvage Inn, Ludgate-hill, to in-
quire into the circumstances causing the death of the
Rev. Wm. Rust Cobbold.
Geo. Elset Evans, a sergeant in the City Police force,
stated, that about eight o'clock on Friday, the 13th inst.,
be perceived one of the mail carts coming down Ludgate-
hill at a rapid pace, and almost immediately after, the
deceased, who was crossing the street, was struck by the
chest of the horse, and the wheel of the cart passed
over his person from the shoulder downwards to the hip.
The driver immediately pulled up, and witness found the
cart to be the Portsmouth mail, and bore the name of
William Chaplin, Swan with Two Necks, Lad-lane.
The guard who accompanied the mail hams begged
that the driver might be allowed to proceed,'' the time
allowed to take the bags being limited, which witness
consented to on condition of the guard being responsible
for the driver's appearance. The deceased was then re-
moved to the shop of Mr..Ponton, surgeon, of 42, Lud-
gate-hill, and- his injuries attended to. The deceased,
who told witness that at the time of the accident he was
going to Kennington, was able to walk, with the assist-
ance of a constable, from Mr. Ponton's to his lodgings,
at the Belle Sauvage."
By a Juror—The streets were almost clear of car-
riages at the time of the accident.
By the CORONER—The driver was on the proper side
of the street, and quite sober. He also expressed much
regret for the accident. The cart was going at the rate
of about seven miles an hour.

After several other witnesses had been examined,
touching the circumstances of the accident, whose evi-
dence, however, was nothing more than a repetition of
Sergeant Evans's,

Mr. Ponton said, that on Friday evening the deceased
was brought into his surgery, and he being from home,
his assistant upon examination found the shoulder
dislocated, which he set, and deceased left. On the fol-

lowing Sunday witness went to deceased's lodgings, and
found that the bone had again slipped from the socket.
He again set it, and on further examination found
two ribs were broken, which he treated according to the
usual practice. He considered death to be caused by
weakness of the constitution arising from the injuries,
and the deceased's extreme old age.
By a Juror—His assistant had not a diploma from
any College, but he considered him perfectly competent
to practice as a surgeon. The deceased being of rather
an obese habit, rendered it more difficult to discover the
fracture of the ribs. The dislocated bone might a second
time slip from the socket, on account of the muscular
relaxation, as well as on account of improper bandages.
A gentleman named Morgan, whom we understood to
be a relative of the deceased, identified the body as that
of William Rust Cobbold, a clergyman residing at Sel-
burn, in Yorkshire. He asked some questions of Mr.
Ponton concerning his attendance on the deceased, as he
had been informed deceased was under the impression
that the assistant was a principal in the establishment.
He was anxious to investigate the case thoroughly, as
Mr. Cobbold was at a distance from his friends and rela-
tives at the time, and consequently rendered the
faithful discharge of the medical attendants' duty
the more imperative. In justice, however, to
Mr. Ponton, he felt bound to state that the
deceased was on Tuesday visited by Mr. Copeland,
an eminent surgeon, who said he considered he was
then going on well ; however, on Wednesday he got
worse, and expired on Thursday morning. He was
sixty-eight years of age, and, as well as he (Mr. M.)
could perceive, was defective in neither sight nor hearing.
The CORONER having summed up, the Jury retired
to a private room, and after a long deliberation re-
turned a verdict that the deceased came by his death
accidentally, but at the same time they should record
their opinion that the deceased had not had the proper
medical attendance which his case required.
The driver of the cart, whose name is John Maslcell,
was present during the inquiry, and at its termination
bhi; employer gave him a very high character for so-
riety and steadines

PRICES OF BREAD IN PARIS AND LONDON.
The present assize, or fixed price of bread, of the first quality,
in Paris, as established by the Municipal Authorities of that
City, for the second fortnight of the current month of
August, is 33 centimes for the loaf weighing one kilogramme,
which, at the present course of exchange in Paris, on Lon-
don, for bills at one month's date, or short paper, of
25f. 30c., money, per pound sterling, corresponds with five-
pence half.- penny and seven-tenths of a farthing for the
English four-pound loaf. The present price of the best, or,
as it is termed, full-priced bread, being eleven-pence for the
four pound loaf (although all bakers have not yet advanced it,
but such price is on the point of being generally demanded),
shows that the best bread is dearer in London than in Paris by
five-pence farthing and three. tenths of a farthing, or, in other
fivepence and one-third of a penny, and that of the same
amount
money, namely, eleven-pence, as above, which can
pwuorrds
cha, bf
purchase in London no more than four pounds of the best
bread, there may be obtained, in Paris, seven pounds, twelve
ounces, and nearly three drachms, English weight, of bread of
the first quality.