The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-20 00:00:00

CORONERS'- INQUESTS.

Yesterday afternoon 'a jury assembled before Mr.
Higgs, to inquire into the circumstances which led to
the death of 'Mary Brooks, an elderly female, who ivas
killed on Wednesday, by being run over by the car-
riage of Richard Westmacott, Esq., of South Audley-
streei. The coachman of this gentleman was taken
into custody, and brought up at Marlborough-street
Office, and remanded to wait the result of the inquiry.
The jury proceeded to view the body, which Presented
a hOrrible spectacle, the sides of the skull having
been literally crused together. Mr. Westmacott, who
was present, corroborated the testimony 'of the steady
pace at which the coachman was driving. His cha-
racter and conduct had always been, as far as witness
knew, unexceptionable. The jury returned a verdict
of Accidental Death : deodand five shillings. The
coachman, upon the verdict being announced, was
dis'charged.
On Tuesday evening an inquest was holden at the
Houie. of Cotrection, Coldbath-fieldS, before Mr.
Baker, on vie* of the body of Anne Gunn, a fine
young woman, who died in that prison. The deceased,
Who had lived as cook in the family of Mrs. Hart, a
Hebrew lady, residing in Haydon-square, Minoties,
had left her situation at an early hour on Wednesday,
the 4th instant, and some appearances in the yard and
water-closet belonging to the house having excited .the
suspicion of the family, a police constable was sent I'or,
and an examination of. the privy being Made, the life-
less body of a newly born male child was found in the
soil. The officer in consequence went in pursuit of
the deceased, 'and finding her at the hoUse of her sis-
ter, had her taken in a coach to Lambeth-street
Police-office, and the niagistrates remanded her until
the. result of the coroner's- inquest on the body of the
infant, which she acknowledged was hers, was known.
An inquest was subsequently holden on the infant,
and the verdict of the jury went to acquit her of having
intentionally destroyed the child, but found her guilty
of concealing the birth. From the weakly state she
was in after commitment it was thought advisable not
to disturb her. In• the latter part of last week she
was seized with violent internal inflammation, produFed
by cold, but such was her feeling of remorse and
shame at the situation she hid- by. her imprudence
placed herself in; that she concealed her situation from
the prison surgeon until it was too late for human
skill to preserve her life, and she died on Sunday last.
A verdict of " Died by the visitation of God" was re-
corded.

Saturday morning last a trout, in the highest
season, and of an extraordinary size, weighing 141b5.,
was caught by the rod and line, by Lieutenant-Gene..
ral Sir Samuel Hawker, while angling in the Thames,
near Richmond, and afterwards presented to his Ma-.
jesty by that gentleman.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.--A Court
of Common Council was held yesterday, which was
fully attended. The Remembrancer laid before the
court the act lately passed for improving the ap-
proaches to London-bridge, which was referred to the
London-bridge committee to be carried into execution.
The Lord Mayor laid before the court a copy of the
resolution of the Court of Aldermen, unanimously
agieed to on the 3d inst., on the measures proposed
in the reports of the committee of the whole court,
protesting against the right of the Court of Commoi
Council to interfere in any manner with the rights an 4
privileges of the Court of Aldermen, and the mode of
conducting its proceedings. ' The protest was ordered
to be printed in the minutes, and a copy sent to each
member.

CONIMISSION OF LUNACY.—Yesterday a
commission of lunacy was held at the Mermaid Tavern,
Hackney, before Commissioners Phillimore, Winslola,
and Murray, to inquire into the state of mind of Pero-
thea Georgians Caroline Rolleston. a lady about '44
years of age. Mr. William Sanders had known the
lady, the subject of inquiry, about twenty years. In
1811 she was sent to Whitmore House, near Hoorn),
and she had been there since 'that time. The witness,
whO is brother-in-law to the unfortunate lady, had
seen hor four or five times since she had been in the
Asylum, but on those occasions he did not speak to
her; he merely looked at her, and judging from boy.
appearance; he considered her insane. The lady was
sent to the Asylum by her parents ; she was then I?
years of age, and formerly was an accomplished girl,
and mixed in good society. • Mr. Robert Bonfield,
superintendent at Whitmore-house, stated that on the
11th of September, 1811, the lady was first placed in
that asyluM. She had been under his care since 1817.
He had never heard her talk, or make anyuther °titer-
vation than "-my dear" or "my darling." She called
every person, male or female, " my dear" or "my
darling." Dr. Warburton had known Miss Rollestei4
upwards of fifteen years. ••She was at that time in 4
state approaching to fatuity. In her youth, he under-
stood, she was an accomplished girl, and mixed in
good society. He had no doubt her inability to enter
into conversation arose from unsoundness of mind.
He never knew of a case like the present, where a
person so obstinately refused to speak. Miss Rolies-
ton was here brought into the jury--room, accompanied
by a female attendant. Having taken her seat Am!.
the commissioners, Mr. Phillimore asked her what hep
name was, and she made a reply, by saying, "1.4 y
sweet, my love, my dear love, my sweet love," aed
those words she repeated several times, with a vacant
smile of the countenance. On leaving the room she
held up her hands, and as she walked towards the
door she kept talking and muttering the same words,,
"my dear love," &c. The jury returned a verdtet,
that she was insane, and had been in that state slnck
1817.

DUBLIN, JUNE 17.—The cholera has made
its appearance again in Dublin and its vicinity, with
scarcely any abatement of the virulence which marked
its first approach. In the neighbourhood of Kings-
town and Blackrock numerous fatal cases have oc-
curred ; and, although no public mention has been
made of cholera 'in the city, I have heard from good
authority that 40 deaths occurred in one parish on the
north side of the river last week. It may be right to
conceal the extent of the calamity from the inhabitants
at large, for great misery was occasioned by the daily
publication of offic id reports on the first manifestation
of the disease. But the presence of such a plague
ought to be sufficiently notified to set people •on their •
guard with respect to diet, and other necessary pre- •
cautions. Strangers from the country are in general
more susceptible of epidemic or contagious diseases
than the citizens,' and several persons of that class
have unwarily fallen victims to the disease.—Morning
Paper.