The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-16 00:00:00

NEWPORT, ISLE OF WIGHT.

The Quarter Session for the Island, was held at our
Town-hall, on Monday. The calendar was very light.
There were only seven prisoners for trial, and those all for
minor offences,
The weather has been very severe. We had a fall of
snow on the 4th inst., followed by a sharp frost. The
days beautifully fine, till the evening of the 9th, %hen we
had another fall, which lasted nearly the who;e night; the
wind from the S. S. E., barometer 28 87. Sunday brought
the wind round to the S. W., the mercury still sinking :
and on Monday and Tuesday the frost continued, with the
wind frerri the southward and westward; the snow, which
was about four inches deep, melting in the day and freezing
hi the night, locked up the land from man and beast,
making the roads almost impass4ble. The " Quicksilver"
coach between this town and Cowes ceased running, to
that the' " Mercury” was brought to a standstill, regularly
frozen up. Persons might have skated from one extremity
of the island tO the other. Many might be seen on the
roads, and the fine parade at West Cowes was alive with
the numerous L-katers. Yesterday (Wednesday) the
wind came round to the east, attended with rain, which
still continues, so that the thing is quite reversed. We
got frost from the west wind, and thaw from the east wind ;
barometer 23.77, thermometer 33. We have had no
intense frost, but long continua and severe, followed by
a hitter cold rain. _ .

We have been supplied with vast quantities of sprats,
which save been sold as low as a halfpenny per quart.

DEATTIS IN THE LONDON HOSPITAL.—
On Thursday taJr. Baker, the Coroner, held three inquests
in the above institution, The first was on. the body of
John Shenery, aged 21, a seaman on board th.e ship Lime •
rick, now lying in the London Docks. On Sandal morn-
ing lsst the deceased was found lying insensible in a &wall
cabin in the forecastle of the vessel. A surgeon was sent
for, who said that the deceased appeared to be dying from
suffocation, and he soon afterwards expired. It appeared
from the evidence of a youth named Cameron, the mate of
the ship, that there is si register stove in the ,cabin in
which the deceased was found lying, and, than niitiin
being very confined when aie deer was shut, it wits
usual to open the stove so a 3 to permit the free descent
of air, as without this was done no air eould enter. The
de:kcased omitting to take this precaution baaame suffocated:
He U.'d gone into
when discovered,--The t.eerind
the cabin to lie down to sleep, and
it is suppos7i.was sleeping
the death of Catherine Carey, aged t 4.
inquest related to
A lodger living in tzio
,Eawo house as deceased stated
that last Saturday fort-,igil.it to heard screams proceed
from deceased's apartment, timll op going to see what was
in extinguishing them, but
the matter she found het in .4464'5' The witness suc-
ceedednot Warn the deceased
fire alone, was very much burnt. The deceaseLl was sitticg by the
grate. She died on Monday last.
when she fell asleep and fell 1
of Hannah _
be
last
into it. 2
T 'ilSC was that
poor parents, Warren a child two ears old, the child of
living at No. 3, King-street, Olt:
clothes igniting by playing
Gravel-
lane, Wapping, whowas
death owing t o her
burnt to , . , ,
p.m from home. with the fire while her mot.."tri
The accident occurred on Saturday, ant.
she died on Monday. Verdict in each case—" Acciden-
tal death.".