The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-17 00:00:00

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PLYMOUTH, APRIL 15.—0 n Monday evening the First
Lord of the Admiralty, the Earl of Ellenborough, accom-
panied by Admiral Bowles and Captain Brandreth, arrived
at Moorhead's Hotel, where his Lordship held a levee on
Tuesday morning.
A ftertniensßpeeucteiinegie tthreooDp.oecn,nky,anci,apltii:in LeoKeridn, 110, Captainsgorn
hipowbee,ntanodn
board
subsequently visited her Majesty's ship Queen,
isTSi.rLHo.okJy.
eLr.eekiiiasn Majesty'storbdeerhipep
latter, and went over her. ship
Albion,hoursoBol;oarCartahine
twice The crew were mustered
in which they
(l)
,two
at divisions, and by the excellent manner
performed their duties elicited the admiration of his Lord-
ship, who appeared highly pleased.
In the evening his Lordship, and the other memberss of
the Board of Admiralty, dined with the Commander-in-
Chief, Admiral Sir John West, K.C.8., at the Admiralty-
house, where the heads of public departments, with their
ladies, and the gentry of the neighbourhood were assembled.
To-day his Lordship inspects the' Royal William Victual-
ling-yard and the Royal Naval Hospital, and at half-past 6
o'clock gives an official dinner at the hotel. At 9 o'clock the
Earl and the other members leave for Exeter, where they
sleep, and to-morrow return to town,
His Lordship is unaccompanied by a secretary, and his
visit here is quite of a routine character. He is very minute
in his inquiries, and takes notes himself. The Board do not
proceed immediately to inspect the Arsenal at Pembroke as
first intended.

THE CORN BILL AND TEE HOUSE of LonDs.—We
have never been amongst those impatient and querulous
people whose tempers cannot bear the stoppage or the dila-
tory progress of the great measures now before the House of
Commons. Never having viewed the House of Lords as a
body particularly likely to be overcome by a rush and a
shout, when it would resist a more deliberate and methodical
attack, our confidence in the final passing of Sir Robert
Peel's great measures has not been at all shaken by their
postponement until after Easter, and the delays experienced
and in prospect from the introduction of the Irish Coercion
Bill. We believe that the best chance for the ultimate suc-
cess of the Corn Bill in the House of Peers will be found in
giving their Lordships ample time for consideration before
they commit themselves by voting upon it. While the con-
versions from the ranks of monopoly are numerous and im-
portant, we hear of no deserters from free trade; and it may
possibly turn out that Lord George Bentinck and his friends,
by the delays which they have interposed to the passing of
the Bill in the Commons, have been really engaged in se-
curing its success in the Lords. We are glad to learn, from
a variety of sources, that opinion in well. informed circles in
London now runs very decidedly in favour of the passing of
the Bill through the Lords. The current estimate is, that a
majority of about twenty—some say twenty-four or twenty-I
five--has already been secured, with a great probability
further concessions, from the change of opinion whi_ tn.
taking place amongst Members of the Upper "louse. .51
chestcr Guardian.
in the
station at this place, discovered somethingoftheflocaotiansgt
.guard
On Sunday Lieutenant Parsons,
water a short distance from the shore. He immediately
put oofff wfoirtehigan bspoai
rtsi'ts.creizira.nsdopseurc,c
of
fdteiclie irnevseencuureinegutfiterret
Gertrude, also succeeded in securing two tubs of foreign
spirits in this bay on thee samboeuislaey,oall t
the
ef wpohrtichahapvooe
since
been lodged in the Custom-house
Poolepaper.

FATAL MINE ACCIDENT IN
STAFFORDSHIRE.

BILSTON, TSURSDAL—One of the most alarming
mine accidents which have taken place in this neighbour-
hood for a long time occurred yesterday morning, at
Messrs. Benton and Pemberton's coal and ironstone pit.
It appears that at six o'clock on Wednesday morning
the men who worked at the above place came to the shaft
for the purpose of going to work. A man named,Wm.
Jones, with six others, got into the skip and descended;
but before doing so they were cautioned by the doggie,
or overlooker, not to go into a certain part of the pit
until he went down and saw that all was right. When
they reached the bottom they were again desired by
those at the top of the pit not to take the candle into a
certain part of the pit until the doggie went down with
the next lot. When at the bottom the above unfor-
tunate man would go, in spite of all remonstrance, com-
pelling a young man, named Cox, to accompany him
into the dangerous part of the pit, with a naked
candle in his hand. There being a great quantity of
damp air in the pit, the moment the candle was taken in
a terrific explosion took place, which killed Jones on the
spot, and, it was feared, fatally injured Cox. The other
five who we re at the bottom of the pit, seeing their ef-
forts unavailing in trying to restrain Jones, and dread-
ing the consequence of an explosion, went into a safer
part of the mine, and escaped with a very few slight
bruises. At the time the explosion took place, there
were six more men in the skip descending, when, such
was the violence of the explosion, that the whole six
were blown at least fifty yards into the air. Four of
them, Abraham Atkins, John Evans, Enoch Beverton,
and Jos. Vincent, were killed, and the other two so se-
verely injured that their medical attendant gives little
hopes of their recovery.
The men had not been to work since Saturday last,
and during that time a great quantity of sulphur had
collected.
The deceased Jones and Atkin have each left a wife
and five children to mourn their untimely end. The in-
quest on the bodies will take place this evening, before
Mr. Philips, coroner.

THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN
INSTITUTE.
The seventh soiree of this Society was given last evening,
at their rooms, in George-street, and notwithstanding the
very numerous attractions in other quarters, particularly in
the musical world, it was very fully attended by a large
icr.
distinguished. Soper Mr. Rou
After refreshments,
and
number of the members and their *families. As usual, the
evening was opened with instrumental and vocal music, in
which r
UiasSt
served in the saloon, a number of interesting exhibitions
eewlehiwchere
were passed under review. Among these was a complete !set
werepar' tuiap;
of night signals, invented by Mr. Rettic, civil engineer,
which, by a variety of combinations in coloured glasses,
transmitting a most intense light, a series of announcements
and directions can be made, as perfectly as by any code of
signals used during the day ; and when adopted by steam-
vessels, iu motion or at anchor, and by railroad trains
meeting at night, would prevent many of those frightful acci-
dents of collision, by which so much life and property have
hitherto been destroyed. There were also in the rooms a
large collection of ancient coins and medals, including Egyp-
tian, Grecian, and Roman. And to these were added some beau-
tiful specimens of carvings in ivory, produced by a mechanical
process, the invention of Mr. Cheverton, by which busts and
tablets may be copied on a reduced scale, with unerring
pre-
cision, and the finest works
of art therefore brought within
the busts
the means of persons of moderate fortune. Among
nals
were those of Shakspere atd Milton, from the oria_ by
Roubillac, and of modern ones, those of the late Lord Western,
Dr. Dalton, and Dr. Babington ; and of living persons one of
Sir Charles Forbes, from the statue by Sir Francis Chantrey,
all admirable likenesses. The most exquisite specimens,
however, were those of the emblematical representations of
morning and evening, in basso relievo, by the Danish sculp-
tor Thorwaidsen, which were quite equal to anything pro-
duced by Benvenuto Cellini.
The literary works reviewed during the evening in-
cluded a forthcoming publication of a young, but riming'
English artist, Mr. Henry Cook, who, daring a
two years' residence at Rome, made excursions from
it to the most interesting spots in Central
Italy, and brought from thence a rich portfolio of splendid
drawings. These have been since lithographed b), his own
hand, and are accompanied by letter-press descriptions in
English and Italian, from his own pen, proving together a
most interesting and beautiful folio volume. Mr. Pritchard's
Natural History of Man also underwent a critical examina-
tion ; and opened up the whole subject of .Ethnological science,
which were fully and freely discussed, especially in elucida-
tion of the great question of the origin of the divers races of
mankind.

In the interval between the music and the literary
descriptions, refreshments were served in the saloon, and an
appropriate address from the resident director terminated the
proceedings of a very varied and agreeable evening.

EXHIBITION OF PRINCE ALBERT'S STOCK AT
THE DUBLIN AGRICULTURAL SHOW.

WINDSOR, THURSDAY EVENING.-It will be recol-
lected that last year his Royal Highness Prince Albert
exhibited at the Agricultural Cattle Show, Dublin, a
couple of short-horned oxen, fattened upon Flemish
Farm, which, although not considered to be entitled to
a prize, were very highly commended by the judges.
They were very splendid animals, having been sold to
one of the principal butchers in Dublin for seventy
pounds and seventy guineas respectively. This year the
Prince again exhibited at the Dublin Show ; the animals
being a twin ox and heifer, which were bred in the
north, and also fattened upon Flemish Farm. They
were conveyed from Slough to Bristol by the Great
Western Railway, and there shipped for Dublin, under
the care of Mr. Yates, his Royal Highness's bailiff. Her
Majesty also exhibited, at the same time, four Cochin-
China fowls (three hens and a cock), reared at the royal
aviary in the Home Park, under the superintendence of
Mr. Walter, the Queen's head poulterer. One of the
hens, known as " Old Bessy," laid the extraordinary
number of 94 eggs during 103 days, previously to its
being sent to Ireland. A peculiarly constructed cage
was made, agreeably to the suggestions of the Prince
Consort, by lfr. Welman, ironmonger, of this town, in
which to convey them from Windsor to Dublin, where
they arrived perfectly free from injury. A letter arrived
at the Castle from Ireland this morning conveying the
intelligence that although very fine beasts, the Prince's
ox and heifer had not been fortunate enough to have a
prize awarded to them.

THE FOREI -
% N MAILS—POST-OFFICE NOTICE.
Notice relative to the departure of the foreign mails was
yesterday posted t the Chief Office, St. Martin's-le-Grand.
The Peninsular ails—The next mails for Lisbon, Ma-
deira,-&c., will-be dispatched from hence this morning, .I7th
inst., and will be conveyed-1:7.y the Pacha from Southampton.
We;st Indies—Mails dispatched this. day, inst., And
will be conveyed by the Clyde from Southampton.
India, &c.—The next mails for Gibraltar, Greece, the
lonian Isles, Malta, Egypt, Ceylon, India and China, rid
Southampton, will be dispatched from hence on the evening
of the 20th inst., and will be conveyed by the Oriental from
Southampton.
American—British North-America, Bermuda, United
States, &c., dispatched from hence on the evening of to-
morrow, 18th inst., and will be dispatched by the Cambria
from Liverpool.
The next mails for India, &c., rid Marseilles, will be dis-
patched on the evening of the 24th inst.
Holland—Mails dispatched by the Columbine on the morn-
ing of the 18th (to-morrow).
Hamburgh—Mails dispatched by the Neptune this even-
ing, the 17th inst.
Sydney, New South Wales-30th inst.
Further detention of the Ferret—Her Majesty's ship
Ferret has not yet sailed from Devonport for the Island of
Ascension. It is probable she will be detained for some
days longer.

THE WAR IN INDIA.
We are infOrmed that Lieutenant and Adjutant Wale, son
of the late General Sir C. Wale, K.C.8., who in the recent
dispatches from India was misnamed Wall, is out of danger
from the awful wound he received at the late battle of
Aliwal.
During the hottest part of the fire he was struck from his
horse by a cannon ball, which broke all his left ribs, caus-
ing a severe laceration of the lungs, and wounding his left
arm, under which it passed.
to In
a the srteaatre,been plundered a awdhme int
ct ien scarce
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ionfg hope he was ca rrie
nd
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ransacked by the enemy in his absence) he was taken
• • n he began and still h .charge
hse, aoldbyti
hther wife of auinvreouninidtetdedbrcoatrhee,
aorflteicrerr,ei; whose
g
some days in a hopeless conditio
(con-
tinues to improve.
present, Li
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eavwirg
had a charger killed under him in the battle of Moodkee,
on the 18th of December, and having barely escaped a Can.*
2n
losut- b; a lhl ,e whhaicciha spassedecon
dc
charger
rtgoerhkisil
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sFtreurogzgeslehatbo, odnrivtehetheveensienlghosro
as-
sistingfefthme
out of their entrenched camp at Ferozeshab, on the morning
of the 22d.

We have only to hope that this brave young officer may,
like his late veteran father, live to count well nigh seventy
years since he first fought and bled in the service of his
country.

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LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—IMPORTANT
RaovcrloN Dr THE CARRIAGE OF GOOD.. —We have to
congratulate our fellow-townsmen on Another important re-
duction which has just been made by the directors of the
London and Birmingham Railway Company, in their rate for
goods from Birmingham to London. We understand that
the charge for the conveyance of hardware and manufac-
tured goods for any distance over fifty miles is now reduced
to 2d. per ton per mile, including locomotive power, and all
charges except for collecting and delivery. We are also in-
formed that the company intend, by a Bill which they have
now before Parliament, to propose this as the maximum rate
which they shall have the power of charging. The follow-
ing statement will afford some idea of the effect of a reduc-
tion in charges on the carriage of goods by railway. It ap-
pears that in the quarter ending December, 1844, the quann
tity of goods carried on the London and Birmingham line
was 85,520 tons, the receipts for which were 44,8241. In the
corresponding quarter ending December, 1845 (a large reduc-
tion having taken place in the charges in the interval), the_
quantity carried was 129,560 tons, being an increase ol!"
44,040 tons on the quarter, but in respect of the entir..e.!...0411,
nage during the latter quarter the receipts were only 51 411+ •
correaasned increase
expenosefs 611, 6u6eon/.,,,
iscarcely
isaurflgiecrienatintoonannt answer the
uI business
done.—Front the Midland Counties Herald of yesterda .
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amount of
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ioissioners on account of savings'-banks names the Com-
was 32,388, dnttohfe
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savings'-banks were establishedommi september last, and on the
c equer. bills. Military
in
sth of January last the C
for them to 14,944/. 3s. ssioners had purchased stock
as deposits from soldiers 4d., having received 14,894 L Is. 11d.
in a very short period.
CONVERSIONS TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC Cannon
iii SCOTLAND.—Robert Monteith, yr., of Carstairs, was re-
ceived into the church on the festival of St. Joseph (19th of
March), at Oscott College . and on the festival of the An-
nunciation of our Lady (25th of March) his lady was received
into the church at the convent of St. Margaret, Edinburgh,
on which occasion the inmates of that made establishment t .
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Customary annual room' of their ¶9711--Tablet,

WW WAS THE BROAD GAUGE
LAID ON THE GREAT WESTERN ?

(Prom the Railway Chronicle.)

We have already explained the leading principles on
which the adopti6n of the broad gauge was recommended
on the Great Western Railway. That principle, as
stated in the quotation we gave from Mr. Brunel's re-
port of Dec. 27, 1835, was—that different circumstances,
such as gradients, curves, and amount of traffic, called for
different gauges ; that therefore the curves and gra-
dients of the Great Western Railway, being superior to
those of any other railway at that time projected, re-
quired " a different gauge from any other railway. We
demonstrated that this principle, leading directly as it
does to endless diversity of gauge, is utterly untenable,
and indeed ridiculous in practice ; and that no further
proof of this was required than the fact that the Great
Western Railway Company themselves had not applied
their own principle in practice on their own line, but
had actually, in order to prevent a break of gauge, intro-
duced the gauge which was expressly stated by them to
be only adapted to gradients and curves of the best class,
and to lines of great traffic, upon lines with very inferior
gradient, curves, and traffic, much inferior, indeed, in
these respects, to those very lines which had been cited
by them as adapted to the narrow gauge, and not to the
broad.

This taeit acknowledgment, by the advocates, in
theory, of diversity of gauge, of the necessity of uni-
formity of gauge, in practice we consider to be conclusive
on the question of the necessity of uniformity of gauge
throughotr Ergland. If the Great Western Railway
Company itself does not, from motives of self-interest,
carry out its own principle of the necessity. of adapting
i
the gauge to the character of the line, but is compelled
to aopt uniformity of gauge on its own branches, in
what may be called the Great Western Railway
system, when that gauge, on their own admission, is.
unfit for lines of the character of their branch lines, id
unnecessarily expensive as applied to such lines ; for the
very same reasons the country cannot, consistently with
its interests, admit of diversity of gauge in the national
railway system.
Without, then, going into the question whether the
broad guage has in any measure succeeded on its own
line, the Great Western—expressly, we are told, made
for it and adapted to it—it is enough for us to know,
and that from the statement of the advocate of the broad
guage, that the broad guage is only adapted to such a
line as the Great Western (which, in point of the expense
which has been incurred in procuring first-class gra-
dients and curves, has fortunately no equal), in order
to prevent it from being extended into the branch lines
and extensions of the Great Western Railway, which
have far inferior curves and gradients to the main line.
In such lines it is, by the principles of its own advocate,
unfit : it is admittedly more expensive, and it directly
leads to a number of breaks of guage—nuisances so
great, demonstrated by the practice of the Great
Western Railway Company themselves, as most mate-
rially to detract from the value of any line of railway
communication on which they occur.
All the lines of last year obtained by the Great West
ern Railway, whose construction is just now commenced,
come under this category—the Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton • the Oxford and Rugby ; the Berks
and Hantz ; the Wilts and Somerset ; the South Wales
Railways—all bring the broad and narrow gauge systems
together at many points, and introduce many breaks of
gauge.
In this argument, which we believe to be unanswerable,
we do not moot die question of whether the introduc-
tion of the peculiarities of the broad gauge on the Great
Western Railway itself has been attended with sue-
eess or not. We will glance at this for a moment
in one point of view, and that we think the true point.
We grant :that the Great Western Railway is a
line of peculiar character ; its gradients (with the ex-
ception of two short inclines of 1 in 100) are all flatter
than 1 in 600 ; it is, in fact, for 120 miles, almost a dead
level. It has no curves sharper than one mile radius—
very few, we believe, so sharp. To obtain these peculiar
advantages, a peculiar amount of expense was required;
the experiment of such curves and gradients never has
been, and is not likely to be repeated. On such a line
it was plausible enough, in 1838, to hold that a peculiar
gauge might be advantageously introduced; so perhaps
it might have been, if lines of railway were like rows of
houses, having no necessary connexion with each other.
But the facility of intercommunication is the very pur-
pose and meaning of railways ; it is the source of that
vastly increased traffic which alone can support them,
and which is the proof and reason of their being benefi-
cial to the countries into which they are introduced.
Throw art impediment in the way of this facility of in-
tercourse, obstruct the circulation of traffic, and you cut
off the heart's blood of the system ; an arrangement
which isOlates a railway from its neighbours cannot be
good.

To return to our argument, or rather the argument of
the advocates of the broad guage—to what does it lead ?
In the first place, it settles the question of its being de-
sirable, if it were practicable, which it is not, to intro-
duce the broad guage on the present narrow gauge rail-
rays ; for, as the advocates of the broad gauge state, it
is only suited to a llne of peculiarly excellent curves and
gradients ; if you introduce it therefore on a line of or-
dinary curves and gradients, such as every line in the
country is compared to the Great Western line, you are
applying it to circumstances to which it is utterly un-
suited ; the consequence will be that you get a much
worse railway than the narrow gauge now affords—a
railway less safe, slower, less convenient, and much more
expensive. The huge weight of the engine and train of
the broad gauge causes them to be unsuited to ascend
the steeper gradients of the present narrow gauge lines,
the long axles unfit them for the safe passage round its
sharp curves, and the enormous vehicles are ill adapted
to the requirements of the traffic in goods and pas-
sengers.,

Whatever, then, you may think of the broad gauge on
its own line, the Great Western Railway, it is certain
that to the very extent to which it is superior to the
narrow gauge (if it is so) on a line of the character of
the Great Western Railway, to that extent will it be in-
ferior to the narrow gauge on the existing lines now laid
to the narrow guage. For precisely the same reasons is
the broad gauge unsuited to the branches and extensions
of the Great Western Railway itself, these lines resem-
bling, as they do in curves and gradients, the existing
narrow gauge lines, and not the Great Western trunk
line.

By adopting the broad gauge, then, on your extension
lines, shareholders of the Great Western Company, you
are actually getting a worse railway than the narrow
gauge would give you on those lines, and that at a
much greater cost; you are adopting a form of railway
more expensive in its first construction, more expensive
in its working (see Reports of Commissioners), and
less convenient than the narrow gauge, a form under
which the traffic can never flourish so well as under the
more convenient form of the narrow guage, and one
which, at the same time, separates you from the ge-
neral railway system of the country.

It is for you, proprietors of the Great Western Rail-
way Company, now to determine if it is wise to attempt
to keep up your exceptional gauge upon one isolated
line—a gauge which,-while it confers doubtful and dis-
puted advantages on the traffic of the particular trunk
line to which it is said to be united, brings with it many
indubitable disadvantages to the extension lines from
which the trunk must hereafter look for support, and to
which, as its own advocates have argued, the broad gauge
is utterly unsuited.
The recommendation of the Commissioners to prevent
the broad gauge from being introduced on the extensions
of the Great Western Railway, is consistent not only
with c,)mmon sense and national policy, but with the
principle on which the introduction of the broad gauge
was justified in 1838, and with the real interests of the
proprietors of the Great Western Railway.

CIVIL WAR IN THE ClTv.—lt was expected that the
indictments preferred by the Watermen's Steam-packet Com-
pany against the corporation pier at Blackfriars, and the in-
dictment of the St. Paul's-wharf floating pier, by the City
Solicitor, would not be prosecuted, and that. with the con-
sent of the Corporation, the Watermen's Company would be
allowed, to retain undisturbed possession of the very conve-
nient pier they had thrown out for the convenience of the
citizens at. St:Paul's-wharf, as well as to embark and land
passengers at the Blackfriars-pier. pier. The Corporation, how-
ever, are determiwaducagomfivagery, and have not only en-
listed their: whole legal the Watermen's Coro-
t:eat of the Black,
pany, but have al t.° removed thrt
abutments of the
Black-
friars-plat, plan which is erected close to tits-
bridge, by writ of certiorari, into the Couurttraeorfk
Bench. The Watermen's Company applied to the City Queen's
thorities to remove the indictment against the St. Paul's
wharf floating pier into the same Court, which they de-
clined doing, and wished to have it tried in their own Court,
where the Recorder would preside. The directors of the
Watermen's Company, on learning this determination, im•
mediately applied for and obtained a writ of certiorari for
removing the indictment into the Court of Queen's Bench.
Both indictments will, therefore, be tried in the same Court,
and will decide the alleged right of the Corporation to erect
piers, wharfs, embankments, and bridges on the river without
the authority of the Legislature.
AN ALLEGED CASE OF MURDER AT BROMPTON.—At
two o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, J. Hinde, Esq., coroner,
held an inquest at the Golden Lion Inn, High street,
Brompton, near Chatham, on the body of a married woman,
named Ann Allpresse, whose death, it was alleged, was caused
by her husband beating and kicking her on the night of the
4th inst. The evidence, which was very voluminous and
contradictory, occupied the court for nearly five hours. It
appeared that the husband and wife lived in lodgings in
Broad-alley, Brompton, and that he is an excavator, em-
ployed under Mr. Kitt, the contractor for forming the drain
opposite to the Dockyard. The deceased was represented to
be a well-conducted industrious woman. On the night in
question, the husband was out drinking at the Dolphin
public house. The deceased and Jane Chaney, at whose
bouse they lodged, about half-past eleven o'clock at
night, went to the Dolphin, to fetch the husband home,
but they returned too-ether without him, and in a few
minutes the deceased agaia went out alone to fetch
her husband. When she returned she was covered with dirt
and could not speak, and blood was running from her face.
The deceased next morning was found to be so ill that Mr. I
Weeks, surgeon, was sent for by a neighbour, who found the
deceased in bed, and she complained of being very 'sore all
over her, with violent pains in her stomach and back, and
also her head ; her left eye was much swollen and blackened ;
and she had a severe contusion on the lower part of her
back, which she said were the effect of blows from her hus-
band given at the Dolphin l) üblie house. The deceased re-
peated the same tale a few hours
tbefore her death, which
last. took place on Monday evening Weeks said that
death was caused by the blows received,
mortem examination nothing was discovered to cause death,
as upon a post
the inside being perfectly healthy. The injuries had so
worked on the nervous system that they caused death. Xared the
The
Coroner, after consulting with some of the jury,
court. On its being opened, the Coroner ordered the husband
of the deceased into custody, and adjourned the inquest
Friday. The prisoner was taken to the lockup-house. until

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