The Sun.
London, England, 1846-09-21 00:00:00


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are the frequent cause of mental aberration.
An inquest was held before the borough coroner and
a most respectable jury, yesterday forenoon, when the
wife of the unhappy man gave the following evidence:—
Elizabeth Chalton said the deceased was 55 years of
age. About four o'clock yesterday afternoon he went
up stairs to bed much intoxicated. Between ten and
eleven o'clock I went up stairs to go to bed. He was
then asleep, but while I was undressing he a , woke . "
and want&d something to drink. I fetched him half ee-
a glass of brandy, which he drank, and I then get into
bed. I soon tell asleep, and did nut urvako Lin' ii .:bout
five o'clock, e hen I perceived thb deceased kreel-
ing on the felt of the - bed, with his arm around
:he bed post. I looked at him for some time, but at
length, not perceiving him stir, I arose, and then I found
he was hanging by a -handkerchief which was fa3tentel
to the bed-post near the mattress. I gave an alarm, and
Edward Peers, a boy who sleeps -in the house, called a
man who was at work, who came and cut deceased down.
He was quite dead. lie had been drinking very lei rd for
the last tour -months -a.nd during that time had hardly
ever been sober. I do not know that he was at all em-
barrassed in his circumstances.
Edward Peers, the nephew of the deceased, saw his
uncle about an hour after he went to bed on the previous
afternoon. lie then seemed very queer, and witness
asked if he should fetch a doctor. The deceased replied
in the negative, and ordered the lad to fetch him two
shillings-worth of brandy, which he refused to do.
It appeared from the evidence of the rean who cut the
deceased down, that his death was effected in the most
determined manner, by strangulation, and not by hang-
ing, as very little of the weight of the body rested upon
the neck.
The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity,
caused by excessive drinking."— Liverpal Mail.

DEATH or Loan YARBOROUGH.—We have re-
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cell-A, on the best authority, the following additional
particulars relative to the death of this lamented Noble- •
man. His Lordship sailed in the Ke-trel in the latter
part of July to rejoin the squadron at Cork, with the .-
full intention of returning to Cowes early in August. It
appears 'that Lord Worsley was prevented by a close .
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attendiince to hii Parliamentary duties accompanYing
his noble father at that time, and that his Lordship's
second son, Captain the flon:Dudley Pelham, who had
accompanied him throughout the early part of the season,
was summoned away upon business of a most urgent na-
ture, which also prevented him from accompanying his
Lordship at the time of the Kestrel leaving Cowes; but
after the arrangement of that business, he in a few days
went to Plymouth to rejoin the yacht, but found that
she had sailed from Falmouth only a few hours pre-
vious to his arrival. His Lordship appears to have
accompanied the squadron to Lisbon, and it is sup-
posed was induced, by the fineness of the weather in
that genial clime, and by the hope of receiving as
much benefit from the cruise as he had usually done, to
linger about much longer than he had intended. He •
was compelled to take to his bed on the 221 of August,
when the Kestrel's course was turned homewards, but
owing to a continuation of adverse winds, she had not
progressed further than the vicinity of Vigo, when it was
found necessary to put in there for the sake of affording
ease and quiet to his fast approaching end. His lordship
expired without a struggle on the 5th of September, at
4.37 P.m., having to the last moment been attended by
the medical gentleman who has for many years, and on
all occasions, accompanied his Lordship. The loss of so
beloved and respected a nobleman will be most exten-
sively felt, as the tenants upon his Lordship's vast
estates, remote from each other though they be, have
each and every one experienced some remarkable in-
stance of his disinterestedness and warmth of heart.
The members of the Royal Yacht Squadron, who owe to
his Lordship's judicious and conciliatory measures so
much of their present proud position, have testified their
great regret at his loss, as well as all the inhabitants of
Cowes, by wearing their flags only half-mast high. The
Kestrel's arrival with his Lordship's remains may be
daily looked for, as she left Vigo Bay for Cowes on the
9th of the present month.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT NEWARK.—A shocking
accident occurred at Newark on Wednesday last, by
which tie° men have lost their lives, and two others
been severely injured. It will be necessary to state,
first, that although the Nottingham and Lincoln Rail-
way has been opened some weeks, the station at Newark
is far from being complete; and that fo.r several months
past a large number of men haie been employed in cart-
hag earth from Beacon Hill, in order to raise the site to
its proper height. On the morning in question the men
were employed as usual, but at eight o'clock the greater
part of them had retired to breakfast, four persons only
remaining at work. They were undermining for
the purpose of more readily filing a cart belonging
to J. Hallam, one of the men killed, when a portion
of the earth suddenly gave way. Two of them
fortunately escaped, one of them being thrown to
a considerable distance without sustaining material
injury. The other two were buried under the earth,
and though one of them was immediately extricated,
his neck was broken, and he was consequently quite
dead. It was not known at the time that another man
was involved in the catastrophe, but finding that one was
still missing, the workmen continued their lacours, and
with considerable difficulty succeeded in re: overing the
other body, but so mutilated that life must hare become
extinct in an instant. Dr. Lacy had arrived before the
last body was dug out, but of course his assistance was
us, less. The names of the deceased were Robert Briggs,
of Newark, a single man, and Joseph Hallam, of Bathly,
where he kept a small publie-house and grocer's shop ;
he was Married, and is reported to have left 11 children.
He had only c immenced that morning with his horse
and cart to load the earth to the station, and had only
tak, u two loads when the fatal a:xident happened. The
cart was brokt n to pieces, but the horse was unhurt. At
5 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day an inquest
was held on the bodies, and a verdict of " Accidental
death" was returned.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—From a correspon-
dent we learn as follows under date the 12th curt.:—
Yesterday I had occasion to travel by the railway from
Glasgow t) Kilmarnock ; and as there .are few, if any,
better managed lines of rapid transit, all went well, as
usual, till we got to the Beith station, where the guard
informed me, with a tremulous voice, that a woman had
been killed within three minutes of the time he received
the mournful communication. The circumstances are
these. The porter at the station had occasion to cross
the rails to shift the signal ; the unfortunate sufferer at
this time was sitting on a form in front of the counting-
house • and scarcely had the man executed his errand,
when observed the female under -the engine-wheel,
her head dreadfully crushed, and life's vitals protruding.
Although the fatal past cannot be recalled, precautions
may be adopted as regards the future, implying some-
thing approaching to pd. ct safety. At the smaller
stations persons coming off the ordinary road can cross
by the nearest cut to the booking-office, where it is na-
turally enough expected they will take care to keep
themselves out of harm's way. Strangers, however, to
rails and locomotives aro apt to become agitated from
the novelty of the scene ; and in the case mentioned
there can be little doubt that the poor woman, on hearing
the engine puffing, had followed the porter, from an er-
roneous impression of greater safety, and thus unfortu-
nately lost her life.--:Dumfries Courier.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT.—We regret to have to record
a serious accident which occurred on Tuesday week. It
appears that Captain Whitmore, paymaster of- the pen-
sioners in the Bristol district, and Lieutenant-Maclean,
of the recruiting service in this city, were returning from
Wells in a gig, when near Pensford the horse took fright,
starting off at a furious rate. Captain Whitmore jumped
out, and succeeded in alighting on his legs, but the
shock was so great that it caused concn,sion of the brain
and other injuries, from which his life, we regret to
hear, has been in imminent danger. Lieutenant Maclean,
with considerable presence of mind, succeeded in climb-
ing over the splash board of the gig, and, getting on the
horse's back, pulled it up. Considerable sympathy is
felt for Captain Whitmore, who during his residence at
Clifton has attached to himself much public respect.—
Bristol Mirror.

ARREST ON MESNE PROCESS.—A Bill (which was
on Friday printed) was laid on the table of the Howie of
Commons at the close t) the late session, and ordered to
be printed for consideration during the rece:s, to restore
arrest on mesne process in civil actions under etrtain
limitations. The Bill was prepared and brought in by
Mr. Warburton and Mr. Leader, according to the cus-
tomary endorsement on such matters; and bythe preamble
it is declared that " it has been found, by experience,
thet the abolitidn of arrest on mesne process has greatly
increased the expense and ditfi:Julty of compelling the
payment of debts, and has enabled debtors to continue to
resist their creditors until the greater part of their assets
has been wasted or concealed, or distributed amongst
favoured creditors, and it is expedient to restore the
power of arrest on mesne process in civil actions, with
proper precautions to prevent such power from being
abused.' The evils pointed out by the preamble do
exist, and there has been of late a growing disposition
among men conversant with the law of debtor and cre-
ditor that the power of arrest in certain cases should be
restored, to prevent the waste of propert obtained by
debtors, and to teach them there is such a thing as
punishment for their misconduct. By this measure it is
proposed that no arrest should take place except by
order of the Court of Bankruptcy; that no commissioner
is to issue an order unless the creditor first swears fully
to the particulars of his demand, nor unless there is a
prima facie case of debt due, and of two applications
having been made for the same. On the debtor being
taken on a writ of capiar, he is to be brought imme-
diately before the commissioner, with liberty to show
cause against the arrest, and the commissioner may
either discharge the party or order him to find bail. The
party arrested may be discharged on the payment of
money into court, or on filing a declaration of insol-
vency, or a petition as an insolvent debtor. The sug-
qestions will probably he considered by the Lord Chan-
cellor, who hes promised to give his attention to the
law of bankruptcy and insolvency.
Our readers will remember that not long since the
intention of the of the French to visit QueenVictoria
during the present autumn was announced in the London
as well as in the Parisian .journals. We at the time
made inquiries into the subject, and found that such was
the declared intention of Louis Philippe. We have now,
however, to state, that no such visit is to take place ;
the idea is altogether abandoned. We speculate not on
the causes of this departure from previous arrangements
—we state only the fact, leaving
it to others to estimate
its significancy at this particular juncture. We are in-
debted to a Paris correspondent of high rank for the
first intimation of this change of purpose on the part of
' the King of the Frencb.—Observer.

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