The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-21 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average pride of Brown orlluscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending January 18,
1848. is 24a. 7:Rtd. per cwt.

INQUEST on Mrs. SHUTTLE WORTH
On Thursday evening an inquest was held at. the
Manchester Arms, Adam. street East, Manchester-
square, before T. Wakley, Esq., M.P.' upon the
body of Mrs. Martha Rhodes, alias Shuttleworth,
who died on the 6th instant, at. the Lunatic Aaylutn,
York House, Battersea.
Before the jury was sworn, Mr. WAKLEY stated
that the informations originally forwarded to him for
the purpose of holding the inquest, at the re-
quest of Miss Rhodes, the sister of the de-
ceased, had not appeared to him to be sufficient,
as there was no statement made of any grounds for
supposing that the deceased's death had been occa-
sioned by any violence or ill-treatment. That he had,
therefore, attended in the first instance more to
satisfy the feelings of the sister of the deceased than
for -the purpose of holding an inquest. But, that
having inspected the body of the deceased, he found
it so extensively covered with ulcerated sores and
mortification about the hips. and sacrum, and so
reduced to a skeleton, that he.was quite con-
vinced that an inquiry ought to take place ;
that, although it would occasion him great personal
inconvenience, he was prepared to hold the inquest,
if the jury, and the relatives of Mrs. Shuttleworth
demanded it of him, but that he would recommend
that the body should be taken .back to the parish of
Battersea, where the deceased had died, and that the
inquest should be held before the Coroner of the
county of Surrey ; as the inquest would be held with
much disadvantage away from'the asylum where the
death took place, whereas .the Coroner for Surrey
might proceed with the jury to the asylum,
and examine some of the patients, as well as
the matron and nurses, as to the treatment
He was, however, prepared to do his duty if so re-
quested, and to show that he had jurisdiction, as
it was most important that persons should be made
aware that they could not evade an inquiry of this
sort by removing the body from one county to
another, but that the coroner could,cause an inquiry
to be made where the body was found. In this case
the body had been in the jurisdiction of three
coroners, as it had been removed from Battersea to
the undertaker's who resided in Westminster, and
thence into the county of Middlesex.
Miss Rhodes being called, stated that she was very
anxious that an inquiry should be made into the
causes of her sister's death, as she wished to know
what her death had been occasioned by, and why
she had been removed from Battersea ; that she had
not seen her sister since the 10th of November, when
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which took place upon the 6th instant, till the 11th of
January, wllen she was informed of it by Mr. New •
land, a solicitor, and that the body was lying at Mr.
Stockings, an wideria,ker, hi plinlico that, how-
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