The Sun.
London, England, 1834-09-05 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

On Wednesday evening an inquest was held before Mr.
Payne, at the Falcon, Old Fish-street, on the body of E.
Ackeroyd, aged seventeen, who committed suicide. Geo.
Frederick Corfield, quite a youth, lived at No. 8, Fetter-
lane. The deceased was his brother-in-law, and was ap-
prenticed to his father, who carried on business as a painter,
plumber, and glazier, at No. 3, Old Fish-street, but re-
sided with his family in Fetter-lane. On Tuesday after-
noon witness and he were alone in the shop, and he went
up stairs and continued up an unusual time, and witness
went to see what was the matter, and, on looking into the
water-closet, saw him hanging. Witness ran down the
ladder, and got a knife, and cut the rope, and let him
down gently. He groaned once, and that was the last wit-
ness heard ofhis voice. His legs were crossed, or else he could
have reached the floor. After cutting him down, witness
locked the shop door, and ran home to Fetter-lane and ac-
quainted his mother. He did not alarm any one in the
house, as the deceased had often frightened him by produc-
ing a knife like a dagger, and saying he would stab him-
self, and he thought it was all sham. His mother and
another person instantly came to the spot, and two surgeons
were sent for, one of whom cut open a vein at the temple,
and the other at the arm. The deceased had previously been
employed in grinding green paint. The string with which
he hung himself was of catgut, and was taken by him from
the wheel in the shop. The deceased had been rather dull
in the afternoon. He had beat witness that afternoon be-
cause of his not returning to his writing immediately after
dinner. He knew of nothing to cause him to do it. Hie
father-in-law had scolded the previous day, but had not
beat him. He lived happily with all the members of his
family. Mrs. Elizabeth Corfield, mother of the deceased,
said that the deceased had been of a melancholy temper
from infancy. Witness could only account for the act by
imputing it to a love disappointment. ,He had a strong
affection for a cousin, whom he had been given to under-
stand was engaged, and since then an alteration had mani-
fested itself. The story of his attachment and the effects
of the disappointment were communicated to witness as a
secret, not to be told to his father-in-law. He was very
religious, and regularly attended at church. J. Pitkin.
apprentice to the deceased's father-in-law, said he knew
that the deceased was very much in love, and that he ae
certained on Monday week that the young lady was engned.
He had been dull ever since, but witness thought this rather
arose from the religious talk he had almost every livening with
some new acquaintances. Jeremiah AftlYur; said he was
acquainted with the deceased, and knew him to be in love,
and understood he had been rejected by the lady. The
deceased was fond of reading, and often lent witness books,
among others a book called " Little Henry and his Bearer,"
a very religious book, written by Mrs. Sherwood, and which
he particularly pressed on witness's notice. From further
evidence, it appeared he had been of remarkably steady
and regular habits.--Verdict, " Suicide, committed while
in a state of temporary insanity."

INT TO LADIES WITH ARTIFICIAL
COMPLEXIONS.

Women, says Labruyere, would be inconsolableb.if na-
ture had made them such as they make themselves, with
! rouge and ford. Incontestible as this truth is, it is never-
theless as true that from north to south, and from east to
west, among civilized and among savage nations, the taste
for artificial embellishments is universal. The wandering
Arab, the sedentary Turk, the handsome Persian, the
small-footed Chinese, the fresh-coloured Russian, the
phlegmatic English woman, the indolent Creole, and the
light and vivacious French woman, all desire to please, and
all resort to the use of fard. This eccentric taste is as
predominant in the desert as in the seraglio. Dupperton
relates that a young " belle sauvage," wishing to attract
his notice, stealthily took a bit of burnt wood, and, retiring
to a corner, rubbed her cheeks and forehead with it, and
then returned with an air of coquettish triumph, as if this
artifice had rendered her beauty irresistible. M. Castellani
in his " Letters on Greece," describes nearly in this man-
ner the portrait of a Greek princess, whom he painted at
Constantinople. " She was not," said he, " the imaginary
beauty I had pictured to myself. Her black eyes, large
and impressive, shone like diamonds ; but her blackened
eye-lashes spoiled their expression : her eye-brows, united
with a line of paint, gave a sort of severity to her look ; her
mouth, very small, and of a deep colour, might have been em-
bellished with smiles, but I never had the pleasure of seeing
them: her cheeks were covered with dark rouge and patches,
cut in the shape of a crescent, disfigured her face. Imagine
the perfect immobility of her deportment, and the freezing
seriousness of her physiognomy, and I might be supposed
to be depicting the Italian madonna." The wish to please
thus misleads equally the daughter of the desart and the
beautiful Odalisque. The highest point of civilization is
that which brings us back to nature and to good taste,
which never swerves from nature. The oxtongue Las been
made the symbol of artifice, because its root enters into the
composition of many kinds of ford, for the female com-
plexion. The fard which it constitutes the basis is perhaps
the most ancient and the least dangerous of all. It, in-
deed, combines many advantages ; it lasts several days
without obliteration ; water refreshes it like natural colours,
and it never wrinkles the skin which it adorns. Nothing
can imitate that " pudeur ;" and art destroys it beyond
repair. Do we wish to please permanently, to please for
ever ?—let us dismiss falsehood from our hearts, lips, and
aspect.

GREENWICH RA IL WA Y.--Yesterday the footpath
between Deptford and Corbett's-lane, Bermondsey, was opened
to the public, effecting a saving in distance of upwards of a
mile, of which numbers of persons who daily walk to tom) on
business availed themselves by paying a penny each.
Mr. Henry Bulwer's work on France will be pub.
lished, we understand, in the course of a few days. The sub.
jects discussed are all of the liveliest interest and character,
such as—the state of Paris, now and formerly; the influence
of women; crime ; the old regime; the revolutions of 1789
and 1830 ; the consulate and the empire ; gaiety and frivolity ;
the Tuilleries and the Palais Royal; the two periods of the
restoration; state of parties since the revolution ; the drama
gallantry ; military influence, &e. Mr. Bulwer's connexion
with the English Embassy has put in his possession eve
facility for his researches into the state of society and the in.ry stitutions of our continental neighbours.
HOME.—At Ingestrie, OR Thursday
HARVEST
Women, and boys, who had
Earl Talbot, in the exercise of that ge.nerosity by which his'
Lordship's conduct to his dependents is invariably marked re.
airndso f
getting 200 i
in theen harvest, with
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roast
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between the men employed on different farms. Dancing was
kept up till a late hour, and hilarity and joy were triumpha"
—lVolverhampton Chronicle.