The Sun.
London, England, 1846-12-15 00:00:00

DESTITUTION AND DEATH.

Last night an inquest was held by Mr. Bedford, at the
Tw•o Chairmen, Dartmouth-street, Westminster, as to
the death of Elizabeth Dodderneade.

Mr. Lavies, of Great George-street, surgeon, who had
opened the body, said ho found it very much attenuated,
but there were no external marks of violence. From the
state of the viscera, and also finding no organic disease,
he could come to no other opinion than that destitution
was the cause of death.

Mr. Barber, the landlord of the White Hart, Little
St. Ardrew-street, Seven Dials, said he was the brother
of the deceased, who had been ivell off when she married,
but her husband had been extravagant. lie had himself
done what he could for them, and had made them an
allowance until lately. They had an allowance from
Marylebone, but in consequence of their state becoming
known, it was stopped at the beginning of the year,
and they were requested to go into the house, but she
said she would starve first. They had been in great
want for some tune, and had not common necessaries.
She was subject to fits, and was very violent and
obstinate.

James Doddemeade, the husband, said he was now a
jobbing carpenter. They had been in great distress for
seven years. When the allowance was stopped in Mary-
lebone, he never applied there or in Westminster, for he
would not let her go into the workhouse.
CORONER—Did you give her anything before she died?
Doddemeade—l gave her a little coffee I had, and a
piece of bread, but she could not swallow the bread ; she
soon after died in my arms.
Mr. Thomas, the receiving officer of Westminster,
stited. that the last time he saw them was in February,
when he wished them to go into the house ; but they
would not, and no other application had been made
to him.
The jury returned a verdict, that " the death of the
deceased was caused by the want of the common neces-
saries of life."

ENGLISH WILLS IN FaaNce.—l3y the will of Mr.
William Stacpoole, which has already given rise to
much litigation, he left to each of two daughters a sum
of 3,000/. sterling, but ordered that if either should
marry without the consent of Mr. James Stacpoole, she
was not to receive her legacy, and it was to go to her
sister. Miss Eleanore, Staepoole, wishing to contract a
marriage with M. Caillet, an officer of iutantry in garri-
son at Strasbourg, applied frequently to Mr. James
Stacpoole for his consent in writing, but could receive
no answer. She therefore resolved to summon him
before the Civil Tribunal, in order that he might be
compelled to give his consent, or that the court might
order the clause in the will to be set aside. M. Caillet
also appeared as an intervening party. The cause
was heard on Thursday, when, after hearing coun-
self for the plaintiff and defendant, the court declared
itself incompetent to interfere, the parties being both
English. We extract the following from the decision of
the Tribunal, as pronounced by the President :—" It the
French tribunals take cognizance, as between foreigners,
of certain urgent and provisional affairs, yet as this is
only a faculty which they are at liberty to use or not,
and as in the present cause the plaintiff and the defend-
ant are both English, and the question is, besides, the
appreciation of a will governed by the laws of England,
it is not a case in which the tribunal can enter upon the
affair. That as Caillet, who has come forward with the
plaintiff, without having any quality to authorise his
doing so, cannot plead in his -favour article 14 of the civil
code, inasmuch as he is unable to show that any con-
vention existed between him and the defendant, the
tribunal declares itself incompetent, and condemns the
plaintiff and Caillet to pay the costs."—Galignani.
THE CONDE DE MONTEMOLIN.—HIS Royal High-
ness was occupied for the greater part of yesterday in
receiving and returning
visits. Amongst the nobility
and gentry who called upon his Royal Highness were
the Earl of Carnarvon, Mr. Sheriff Kennard, Mr. Under-
Sheriff Tilleard, Mr. Beresford, M.P., Mr. Sinclair the
younger, of Ulbster, Mr, Challis, Sir Augustus Foster,
&c. His Royal Highness paid visits to Lady Petre,
Captain Ryder Burton, R.N., Mr. Mackinnon, M.P., Mr.
Laurie, &c. His Royal Highness honoured Mr. Edwin
E
D. Smith with a sitting for his portrait, and in the even-
ing visited St James's Theatre.
ANDOVER the weekly meeting of the
Guardians of this union, held in the board-room of the
workhouse on Saturday, there were more than fifty
fresh applicants for admittance into the house, or to have
out-door allowance granted them, being the greatest
number ever known to apply on one day since the for-
mation of the union. In the union, this year, the
annual Christmas dinner is to be discontinued ; there-
fore, instead of the poor inmates having good roast beef
and beer, as in former years, on that day, this year they
will have a cheerless meal of bread and cheese. The
plea against it is'-that the number being so great,
that purpose cannot be raised by voluntary
contributions.a suf-
ficient sum for

MRS. 51DD0N5.......A statue of this eminent tragedian
is to be placed in Westminster Abbey. The execution
has been intrusted to Mr. Thomas Campbell, the w-
sculptor, h
° has just finished the model, which may be
,
seen in the studio of the artist. The original intention
was a hell length figure
in has relief, which may also
be seen in the artist's studio. The half-length bas relief,
however, was abandoned for a full length figure, in ideal
drapery, with a scroll in the right hand and nothing in
the left. The design was oritinally set on foot by Mr.
Macready, who placed his name at the head of the cata-
logue of persons who contributed to the expense of the
monument.—Musical World.
OMNIBUS ACClDENT.—Yesterday evening, between
four and five o'clock, as Mrs. Gardner, the wife of a
wood cutter residing in Deptford, was mounting an
omnibus in Wellington-street, Strand, she slipped from
the steps, which were slippery from the frost, and pitch-
ing on her head, she sustained a concussion of the brain.
She was removed to the house of Mr. Williams, in
Exeter-street, where she lies without hope of recovery. I