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

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Siit,—By the law of England, no man can hare 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 of bigamy,
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?—" Biganty—The
crime of haring two wives at once."--Johnson's Dic-
tionary. If the second marriage be void a man cannot
have two wives at once. B. 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
sutlers 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.
Yesterday Mr. Payne held an inquest at the East
India Arms Tavern, F'enchurch-street, on the body of
Louis Celeste Lecesne, aged fifty, a gentleman of colour,
well known in the commercial world from the strange
vicissitudes and changes of fortune he had met with.
The deceased was the person who, between twenty and
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deavouring to excite the slave population to revolt. He
WAS deported in consequence, and on arriving in this
country made his case known to Lord (then Mr.)
Brougham, and Dr. Lushington. These gentlemen, and
many other advocates of the emancipation of the slaves,
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 largo sum of money from the Go-
vernment as compensation for the losses they had sus-
tained in consequence of the accusation. The deceased
bad been ill for some weeks past, and on Sunday died
very suddenly w hile getting out of bed. The jury re-
turned a verdict of " Natural death."

CORONER S INcluzsT.—Yesterday Mr. Niko
held an inquest, at the Grapes, Mount-street, Th'01111•
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. Sl:e could not account for the
rash aci: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 he guarded night and day, by strong de-
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the people intended-to drag up the body and hang it on
a gibbet.