The Sun.
London, England, 1851-09-05 00:00:00

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.

The receipts yesterday amounted to 2,1371. 18s., the
number of visitors being 44,209. There were no less
than five schools in and around the metropolis present,
and the paupers of St. George's, Southwark, were also
kindly treated to a view of the Crystal Palace. The
mean temperature in the interior of the building during
the day, according to Bennett's thermometers, was 67.6.

DEATH OF THE AUTHOR OF "PERAULT."

In this day's obituary we have to record the death of
Mr. Robert Kennoway Ross, writer, a gentleman well
known in the literary world from his numerous con-
tributions to the magsaines and other periodicals of
the day. Mr. Ross is best known as the author of
a cleverly written and very popular Indian tale, ea-
titled " Perault, or Slaves and their Masters," which
originally appeared in Tail's Magazine; but his
numerous productions in various departments of litera-
ture were all of a superior order, and displayed a genius
of more than ordinary brilliancy. In his profession
as a writer and procurator before the Glasgow, Airdrie,
and Hamilton Courts, Mr. Ross at one time occupied a
most respectabie position; but his love of literary pur-
suits so frequently interfered with his professional duties
as a lawyer, that for many years his legal acquirements
were less in requisition, and a consequent falling off in
his pecuniary means was the ruinous results of his labours.
Mr. Ross, it may be surmised, from his protracted illness,
and the circumstances already adverted to, has finished
his career, like many brighter geniuses, in poverty and
neglect, leaving a widow and helpless little family to la-
mament the loss or a kind and affectionate husband, father,
and friend. These remarks are offered in the hope
that they may meet the eye of some of his old friends,
who, we doubt not, would gladly contribute to raise a
stone to his memory; but his works will be his best
monument, and his memory will live in the hearts of
those who knew him best, in his earlier and happier
days. Instead of a stone, however, to his memory, we
think it would bu a more fitting tribute, that a subscrip-
tion should be raised for supplying with bread the widow
and helpless children of his undeviating attachment.
Should this serve the purpose intended by the writer of
this notice, his object is gained.—Glasgow Chronicle.

DEATH CAUSED BY A LUNATIC.

An inquest. was held at the Kent County Lunatic
Asylum on Wednesday last, before F. F. Dully, Esq.,
coroner, on the body of John Hubble, 76, a patient at
the above asylum, whose death was caused under the
followieg circumstances:— William Faucett, a keeper at
the asylum, deposed the deceased was under my
charge in No. 11 ward, en the middle floor. Ila was
quiet and harmless. At a few minutes before six o'clock
on the morning of Saturday, the 9th of August, just
after I came on duty, as I was in the act of changing
my clothes in my own room, I heard an unusual noise
and a call for the keepers. I ran immediately and un-
lccked the door of No. 13, the room in which deceased
and nine others were, and when I opened the door I saw
Henry Hills, a patient, beating the deceased, who was
lying in bed, in a murderous way with the tin chamber
utensil on the head. I saw only one blow struck, as I
immediately interfered, and, upon my going towards
them, Hills threatened me with the utensil ; but upon
my remonstrating with him, ho threw it down, and
came into the middle of the room very quietly, and did
not speak or offer to strike any of the others. Thu
deceased was lying in the bed apparently suffering from
the blow he had received. The blow that I saw struck
was a very violent one, so much so that the handle flew
off by the concussion; the tin pot I now produce was in
Hill's hand, and covered with fresh blood. There were
two other pots, which were also wet with blood, and
the handles broken off. I ran for assistance, when three
keepers arrived, and Hills was locked up, Mlle and
deceased had been sleeping in the same room for the
last two or three months, and I had seen them daily
during the time and I saw no quarrel between them. Dr.
Huxley, medical superintendent at the asylum, deposed
en the day of the occurrence I asked the deceased who
had struck him, and he said i t was Hills. He stated
that he had given Hills no provocation, and that he com-
menced the blows whilst he (deceased) was asleep, and
he should think he must have struck him forty timee.
When I saw Hills, immediately after quitting the de-
ceased, he seemed very much depressed. I asked him
how he came to do it, and he answered, "It was the
work of God." I consider it to have been an act of
pure insanity, and judging from his condition, I did not
consider him to be in a responsible state of mind at the
time.

Verdiet—" Dir.(' from irflammation of the membranes
of the brain, caused by blows inflicted on the head by
Henry Hill., a lunatic."—illakhtone Gazette.

SEABORNE MAILS.
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by the night—and ref by the morning—dispatch.]