The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-27 00:00:00

DEATH FROM STASVAITIO.
Yesterday afternoon Mr. Mill, e the ilkke
of Wellington, Crawford-street/ !:..• )44 attin-
quest, adjourned from last Frifl4,-.Vni-,,...-Zait
Mordaunt, aged 35. f •
The ConottEn prefaced thei,-intintlf:lo444l6l4
when he and the jury viewed the 1764*Pi‘ithWthei
imagined that the deceased wltts
they were much astonished upon a
was only 35. Upon further inquiry
ed
that the deceaSed, her mother and sister, to
had been without food, without fire,fand:without
clothing. The inquest was adjourned to afford:vari 'op-
portunity to the parochial officers to explain how the
family were left in that destitute condition, and in order
that some little relief might be obtained for the sur-
vivors. In conclusion, the Coroner asked Mackenzie,
the summoning officer, if he had informed the parochial
authoritiei of the destitute condition of the family?

Mackenzie replied in the affirmative.
Mary Anne Mordaunt, examined—Deceased was her
sister, and expired suddenly during her absence on . the
18th instant. Deceased, witness, and their mother lived
together at 93, Crawford-street. Witness went out to
needlework on the morning of the 18th, leaving her
sister in bed, and upon her return in the afternoon found
her dead. They had neither a sufficiency of food,
clothes, nor firing. Witness sometimes earned 38., at
other times 2s. and ls. a week. Her mother had 2s. 6d.
a week from the parish, out of which they paid 2s. 3d.
a week rent.

By the-CottobtEß—They were totally starved. Her
sister, who had been for months unable to work, occa-
sionally earned 6d. a week. They sometimes got a loaf
of bread from the workhouse. On one occasion, Mr.
Merson, the relieving officer, said to her, " Mind, I have
done with you ; no more relief will be granted you."
That fretted her much. On another occasion her de-
ceased sister, after having been kept waiting at the work-
house from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M., was sent away unrelieved.
She told the workhouse authorities that they were starv-
ing; but the authorities refused any further relief unless
they went into the workhouse. Since Friday last no
one called upon them from the workhouse, nor did they
receive any relief from it.
Mrs. Emma Bryant confirmed the above evidence.
Mr. Robert Dawson Harding, surgeon, in a very ela-
borate statement, detailed the result of the post mortem
examination, which distinctly proved that deceased died
from starvation.

Mr. Merson, who with several other parochial officers
attended, explained his conduct towards deceased and
her family, by stating that he had acted in compliance
with the regulations of the workhouse.
The jury, who severely censured the conduct of the
parochial authorities, retired to consider their verdict,
and after half an hour's absence, returned, and handed
to the Coroner the following verdict :
" That the death of deceased was caused by the want
of the commonest necessaries of life, and that they re-
gretted that the parochial authorities of the parish of
Marylebone had not evinced sufficient diligence in
scrutinizing the wants of deceased."
The Foreman said that they equally regretted that the
authorities had paid no attention to the wants of de-
ceased's family since last Friday, although on that day
their attention was particularly directed to their destitute
condition by the coroner and jury.

THE LATE ACCIDENT on the EAST

LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—ln your paper of the 24th inst. I observe a
paragraph which purports to give the particulars of an
accident which occurred on this railway on Monday, the
23d inst. Your account of the accident is wrong in
every particular, as you will perceive from the statement
which I now forward to you.
The train in question consisted of four carriages
(three second-class and one first), and left the Rawten-
stall station at lh. 15m. P.m., and proceeded in safety to
Summerseat station. About three-quarters of a mile
nearer to Bury than Summerseat is Spring Side Bridge,
and here it was that the accident occurred. The engine
mounted the metals at the north end of the bridge, and
ran about 40 or 50 yards after crossing it, and then fell
over against the side of the cutting (if so it may be
called), which is about five feet high. The curve here
is 80 chains radius. The only person injured is a man
who is in the employ of the company, as master carpen-
ter. He was on the engine at the time, One of his feet
were cut off, and the great toe of the other injured.
Excepting a few bruises, which none of the passengers
thought worth complaining about, this was the only
casualty that occurred. The policeman, who is stated to
have lost one leg and severely injured the other, only
received a bruise on the shin. The carriage next the
engine had the pannels in front knocked in, the other
three were but slightly injured. The engine and tender
did not receive any considerable damage. A special
train took all the passengers for Ward to Manchester,
causing them a delay of only thirty minutes. The line
was clear and in working order at five o'clock the same
afternoon.

I have to request the favour :of your inserting this
account in your next publication, in order that a report
so full of error as the one which has already appeared
may not remain uncorrected a moment longer than is
possible.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant.
JOS. SPAWFORTH,
General Superintendent.
Bury, Lancashire, Nov. 25, 1846.
[The paragraph in question was copied from a mora-
-1 ing paper.—En. Sun.)

PROPOSED EXTENSION OF THE ELECTRIC TELE-
GRAPH TO THE ROYA.I. PALACES, GOVERNMENT-OFFICES,
DOCKYARDS, GARRISONS, &C.—We understand that the
Government have recently taken into consideration a
series of improvements for effecting an immediate com-
munication with the royal palaces, Government offices,
dockyards, garrisons, and fortresses throughout the
kingdom, by means of the electric telegraph. The pro-
posals are stated to be the extension of the telegraph
from the Slough station of the Great Western Railway
to Windsor Castle in subterranean pipes, the wires being
connected with extensions from the Paddington terminus
to Buckingham Palace, the Treasury, and the Home-office.
Extension of the telegraph on the Great Western and
South Devoii Railways to the Plymouth Dockyard, with
a corresponding extension from Paddington to the Ad-
miralty. The extension of the telegraph now completed
on the South-Western to the dockyard and arsenal
at Portsmouth, to the Admiralty. Extension of
the telegraph on the South-Eastern Branch
line now constructing to Woolwich and Gravesend, to
connect the Woolwich garrison, arsenal, and dockyard
with the telegraph extension from the London-bridge
termini to the War-office and the Admiralty. Also a
similar extension along the Rochester line to Chatham
and Sheerness. It is also proposed to lay down the
telegraph between the War-office and the Tower, which,
by the extensive improvement now going on in
the interior of that fortress, will become a most efficient
garrison. There has been an objection, it is said, raised
to the present mode of erecting the wires on poles along
the various railways, the demolition of the telegraph
being a work of little difficulty. It has been suggested
to convey it under ground in a similar manner as the
extension from the South-Western terminus is now being
conducted under the streets of London, and which has
been found to act accurately. By this plan the wires
are not only secured from injury, but are less liable to
get out of order than those exposed in the open air.
According to Act of Parliament, the Government have
the power of seizing all electric telegraphs on railways.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS
RAILWAY.—The first Parliamentary or cheap train from
Nlanehester to Leeds, on Monday morning last, left the
station at Manchester, at a quarter-past six o'clock, and
arrived at Wakefield about nine, where it stoppod for a
short time. Everything had been reported right, and
[he engine again left the station, but had not pro-
gressed more than twenty or thirty yards, when it was
stopped, in consequence of an unfortunate accident
which had taken place in that short space of time. It
appears that one of the assisting guards, named James
Corns, was proceeding along the foot-board to his break
a 3 is the custom, after all has been found correct, when
'he side of his head or neck came in contact with a lug-
gage waggon on the siding. and be was struck
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violence as to be knocked from his standing
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and another carriage attached to the tender, passed over
his legs, and severed them both from his body, the one
above and the other below the knee. He was at once con-
veyed to a public-house near the station, where stirgical
aid having been promptly procured, it was at first thought
esirable that amputation should take place ; but as the

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unfortunate man gradually sunk under the - injuries he
had sustained, this operation•was not resorted to. Corns
never rallied from the time of the accident, and died
yesterday morning, at three o'clock. He was a young
man, not more than twenty-one years a age, and bore
an excellent character for steadiness and sobriety. He
had been in the service of the company for several
years, and was fully acquainted with the duties which a
guard has to perform. An inquest was held at the
Hertford Arms public-house, yesterday, before Mr. Lee,
coroner for the county, and a respectable jury. After a
protracted inquiry, which did not terminate until five
o'clock last night, during which a minute investigation.
of all the circumstances attending huphapp occur-
. Chester c i
Guardian nta t d a t ho;
rweansceunma-ansiminosutsiityuteadg,reaedvegLctig
yesterday.
AT MESSRS. ROGERS'S.—..-
THE BANK ROBBERY
d that it is
obtaine expected will throw some light on
Wednesday, from information that has recently been
this mysterious affair, the offer of a reward of 3,000/.
together with her Majesty's pastrdon, was renewed.
On Saturday, as the tug am-boat, the Rouen,
of 160-horse power, was getting up her steam, at Quille-
beuf, to proceed to Havre, one of her boilers burst, and
the boiling water rushed with such violence against a
Custom-house officer, named Debussercl, who was stand-
ing near the boiler, that he was scalded to death almost
instantaneously. The engine-man and one of the stokers
were severely scalded.
DiscovnaT OF A SICELETON.—On Saturday morn-
ing a skeleton was found in the highest state of preserva-
tion by a young man of the name of Simon La.dbury,
who was digging in the chalk for flints at the back of
some cottages on Chatham-hill. It was discovered be-
neath some pieces of rotten boards about three feet below
the surface, and was lying in a twisted position with the
right arm over its body. The tibia of the right leg was
fractured, and it was considerably shorter than the other.
It was evidently the remains of a very large man, and,
in the opinion of a surgeon to whom it was shown, must
have been lying in the chalk between thirty and forty
years. A very old inhabitant recollects, about forty
years ago, that a man named Hooker, a notorious smug-
gler, who lived near the spot in a cottage, was missing,
and crom certain circumstances that transpired, it was
considered that he was murdered, and that his body was
made away with, for he was never heard of. The coroner
considered an inquest unnecessary, as the body had evi-
dently been buried many yeara.