The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-11 00:00:00

SHADWELL

Yesterday the adjourned inquest on the body of Anne alias
Jane Sloman, who was found dead under such suspicious cir-
cumstances,on Tuesday, June 2d, at the house,No. 6, Labour-
in-Vain-street, Shadwell, was resumed at the Half Moon,
Lower Shadwell.

It will be remembered that Gibbins, the man with whom
she cohabited, was at first charged with the murder, and
was examined at the Thames Police-court, and is still in
custody.
After several witnesses had been heard, the court was ad-
journed till seven o'clock, and was resumed about eight. The
principal facts have been already very fully stated.
Thejury retired at a quarter past eleven o'clock, and after
an absence of nearly two hours, at five minutes to one o'clock
this morning, returned an open verdict of—" Wilful Murder
against some person or persons unknown."
The interest excited was intense, and the verdict appeared
to give general satisfaction, leaving the inquiry still open as
regards the parties guilty.

THE LATE FATAL COLLISION
ON THE MERSEY.
(From the Liverpool Courier of yesterday.)
Yesterday the inquest on the thirteen persons buried in
Liscard Chapel-yard, who were killed by the late awful steam-
boat collision, was resumed at the Royal Hotel, Magazines,
before H. Churton, Esq., the Cheshire coroner.
Mr. Harden appeared for the captain of the Sea-Nymph,
and Mr. Myers for her owners ; Mr. Haqsall and Mr. Duncan
appeared for the owners and captain of the Rambler.
Mr. Askew, Captain Sarsfield, Captain John Jones, and
other professional gentlemen, were present.
The evidence taken at the former inquest only related to
the identification of the bodies; on this occasion the follow-
ing witnesses were examined as to the facts of the collision :
George Hunter, chief mate, and Peter M'Farlane, second
mate, William Jones, seaman, and James M'Gregor, en-
gineer, all of whom belong to the Rambler, and David Ko-
vanah, a passenger. Their dep6sitions substantially agreed
with what they bad previously stated before the borough
coroner, which we gave at great length in our last publica-
tion. No new facts in elucidation of this terrible event were
elicited.

At a quarter to six o'clock the Court adjourned until this
day at ten o'clock, when Thomas Evans, captain of the
life-boat, it is expected, will give some important testi-
mony; and John Hughes, one of the life-boat crew, who
was on the shore, and saw the whole transaction, will be
examined.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT RICHMOND.—On Tuesday even-
ing Mr. Carter held an inquest at the White Cross Inn, waterside:
Richmond, on the body of John Standy, aged eighteen, a shopman to
a cheesemonger at New Brentford. On Sunday afternoon last the
deceased and a young man named Parsons hired a boat at Isleworth,
and were en the river nearly opposite the Marquis of Allan's resi-
dence, when the:Vivid steam-boat, which was proceeding up the river,
and against tide, passed them, and had left them between 80 and 100
yards astern, when the deceased asked Parsons to row into the surf
that they might have a rock ; be did so, and the consequence was the
boat filled. Parsons jumped out, and swam on shore at Richmond,
and the deceased, who was lying at the bottom of the boat, sunk.
Several boats put out after him, but forty minutes had elapsed before
his body was recovered, and then he was quite dead. The jury re-
turned a verdict of " Accidentally drowned."

THE LAUNCH OF THE RECRUIT AND ERIN•GO BRAGS.

—The launch of these two vessels took place yesterday from the
yard of Messrs. Ditchburn and Mare, at Blackwell, at three o'clock,
in the presence of some thousands of spectators, and with the ho-
nears usual on such occasions. They are both beautiful vessels of
their respective classes ; they are built of iron, and with all the mo-
dern improvements of naval architecture. The Recruit is not It
steamer ; she is a gun-brig, and will have when rigged and com-
pleted an armament of twelve guns. Her length between the per-
pendiculars is 113 feet; her length of keel for tonnage 94 feet 10
inches ; her breadth for tonnage is 30 feet 3 inches ; and her depth
lin hold, 14 feet 2 inches ; the burden being 482 tolls. She is a
splendid model of a man-of-war. The ether vessel, the Erin-go-
Bragh, is a very fine steam-boat of 810 tons burden, and is designed
for the Peninsular service. The length between the perpendiculars hi
201 feet 6 inches ; her length of keel for tonnage is 184 feet 3 inches ;
and her breadth for tonnage, 28 feet 9 inches ; her depth in hold,' 17
feet 4 inches. The ceremony of giving names to these vessels was
performed by Lady Adeline Paget. After the launch they were
moored off Blackwell, and to-day will be taken into the, basin of the
West India dockyard, to have their rigging and paddles and so forth
pflattretood.k
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MEXICAN PREPARATIONS.—We are informed, from a
reliable source, that within the last year and a half, or two years, they
Mexican Government has been receiving, from time to time, schooners,
powder, cannon, and ball from the city of New York. Within this
periodthere have been built, by our shipmasters, 12 strong schooners,
of sufficient strength and capacity to act as privateers or vessels of
war. These vessels were built with an eye to strength, (combined
with swiftness of sailing. These vessels were dispatched to Mexico
(under American colours and under the captainship of Americans)
from time to time, as they were built, and were paid for by an eaten.
sive Mexican house in this city. Each of these vessels =Tied, like-
wise, from eight to ten tons of gunpowder as cargo, and likewise a
number of guns, amounting to 180 in all, which were cast in a foun-
dry in this city, and proved by an American of skill in such matters.
At one time, it is said, the Mexican Government were indebted to
this Mexican house in half a million of dollars for these supplies. A
shipmaster, lately from Vera Cruz, reports that when he was there
he inspected the Castle of St. Juan de Ulloa, and saw a cannon of 162
pounds calibre, which, with 40 or 50 Palxhan guns, are now mounted
on that fortress. The beach where the French landed is likewise
completely fortified. We have the names and dates for all these
facts, which we suppress for the present.—New York Herald.
TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION BETWEEN FRANCE
AND Elseeetip.—lt was) stated some time ago, that a submarine
telegraph was to be laid down across the English Channel, by which
an instantaneous communication could be made from coast to coast.
The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, with a view of testing
the practicability of this undertaking, have been
of the projectors laying down a submarine telegraph across the har-
bour of Portsmouth from the house of the Admiral, In the dockyard,
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the working of the plan is found to be successful, this mode of tele-
graphic communication will be adopted in preference to the morn
exposed one. The telegraph will be conveyed from the terminus to
the water-side under ground, and after crossing the harbour will
again be conveyed in a similar manner to the Admiralty-house, It
being a subterranean as well as a submarine telegraph. In a few
days after the experiment has been successffilly tested at Portsmouth,
the submarine telegraph will be laid down across the Straits of
Dover, under the sanction of both the English and French Govern-
ments. - - - - .

RAGGED ScHOoLS.—On Sunday last the Lamb-eOurt
Sabbath and Day Free Ragged Schools, Clerkenwell-green, ware
visited by the Lord Bishop of Norwich, who was introduced to the.
schools by the Rev. Hugh Hughes, 8.D., rector of the parish of st.
John, Clerkenwell, the patron. His Lordship spent a considerable
time in examining the children and the general arrangements, with
which he expressed much satisfaction.
The Hon. Arthur Petre, fourth son of Lord Petre,
sailed on the 3d of June, in the Trafalgar, for Sydney, where he will
ombark for Wellington, New Zealand, to try his fortune in that In•
teresting colony.

Mr. and lifts. Charles Kean's return to this country is
postponed until next year. Their success, both at New York and
throughout the States, has been so great as to induce a general re.
engagement by all the managers.
OXFORD, JUNE 9.—The Rev. David Lewis, Fellow
and Tutor of Jesus College, Oxford, who last week conformed to the
Catholic Church, has declined resigning his Fellowship at Oxford.
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