The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-16 00:00:00

THE GUY'S CLUB,

The Guy's Match, fbr a pair of silver oars and rudder, was also
rowed yesterday evening over the same distance, the prize being
presented by Dr. Lever, a warm patron of the club.

, Messrs. Cox, Gruggin, Prance-, and Edwards ; A. Poland,
steerer.. • •
Messrs. Forster, Evans, Wall, and Cole ; Thompson,
steerer ................. ..... ..—...... •••••• •• .. (Yellow) 2
Messrs. G. Cooper, Manthorpe, Shelley, and Layre; J. Poland,
steerer ....
Messrs. Ferguson, Weller, Rose, and Brenchley; Greenwood,
_

steerer....... ....... ... .. . .......... .. . ... .
Messrs. Hunt, French, Collins, and Beck; Hicks, steerer 0
Won by a length, the others all close up, and a good race
throughout.

MRS. MABERLYS NEW NOVEL, " LEONTINE."—The
great attraction of this new work of Mrs. Maberly's, consists
in its exhibiting one of the most lively pictures of French
Court life that has, perhaps, ever appeared. The French
character is drawn in all its lights and shades, and the histo-
rical personages are sketched with the greatest accuracy.
The King, fickle and despotic—the Queen, bigoted to the ex-
treme—the Due de Richelieu, dissipated, daring, and hard-
hearted, but always fascinating and witty, intellectual and
magnificent, selfish and avaricious, a strange compound of
contradictions. Hortense, his victim and accomplice, is a
most finished portrait of a coquette, and this character is
placed in admirable contrast with the clever and accom-
plished, though vain and frivolous, Marquise de Pompadour,
and with the pure and high-souled Leontine. _ _

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CORONER'S INQUEST.-MYSTERIOUS AND ALLEGED
SUICIDE of A BOY.—Yesterday forenoon, at ten o'clock, a length.
sued inquiry, which was begun on Friday last, was continued and
concluded at the Plough, Lordship-lane, Dulwich, before Mr. Carter,
to investigate the cause of the death of George James Benwell, aged
16, in the service of Mr. G. W. Evans, a manufacturer of Piqua tea,
which took place under the following mysterious circumstances :
Mr. Thomas Roberts, shoemaker, Lordship-lane, said that on Tues-
day night, between nine and ten o'clock, Mr. Evans called upon him,
stating that he and his son had been out for an hoar and a half, and
that when he returned he found the house fastened. After he got in
he observed written on the door of the bedstead, in chalk, " George
Benwell is in the pond behind the house. Give my lave to all my
friends." When he saw that, he procured a pitchfork, with which
he searched the pond, but discovered nothing except
awrlptieteene
of quartering about three feet long, on which was
in chalk, " George Benwell." Mr. Enna t
that he was in
of his clothes to go into the water, when he observedMk off
a portion
a great perspiration. He then sent his son for a boy to dive in the
pond. Deceased was rolled about upon the grass,rs to b
.E vane
restored
them to do so, observing that he had known per Msob
after having been two hours in theeusrgitornedg
water. When deceased was
taken up it was found that his hands were tied, and that
of a cwt. was fastened round his neck. Mr. Ray,na
oqfuapeuir-
wich, stated that the deceased had been dead threeusrgeorfoirr hours
when he saw the body. In his opinion drowning was the cause of
death. Harriet Benwell, deceased's stepmother, New Cross,
Hatcham, said that a few months ago deceased asked her which she
would rather do if she were tired of her life, poison or drown herself?
She thought deceased had made away with himself. (The boards
with the writing on them were produced.) It was witness's opinion
that they were in his handwriting. Since this occurrence Mr. Evans
has occasionally slept at her house. He came on Thursday or Friday
morning, about tlzree o'clock, say were that he could not sleep at home.
[ Deceased was of a dull temper. Some other witnesses
exa-
mined, and the jury returned a verdict "That the deceased drowned
himself in a state of temporary insanity."
u—sARING -CROSS.--
ROYAL OPHTHALMIC HOSPITAL,
The 29th annual meeting of the subscribers to this charity was held
f the president, his Grace
yesterday, at the hospital. In the absence o .
ed b his Grace the
occupi y
the Duke of Wellin•-ton the chair was had
been
° ' the report 4,187 persons
Duke of Richmond. According w
relieved by operation, Sec., during the past year, and 1,486 had been
restored to sight, being an increase of 581 on the numbers of the
preceding year. Of the whole 221 were in-patients, the average
number of the same in the house each day during the year being 20 :
since the opening in 1817 down
to the Ist instant, no less than 61,635
i
Persons had availed themselves of the benefits of the charity. 'I he
total receipts amounted to 6951. Is. 4d., and the expenditure, it is to
um by 381. The funded property amounts
be regretted, exceeded that sum
.will
be required to fully carry out
to 2,8001., but the sum of 10,0001.
the views of the coutruittat•