The Sun.
London, England, 1834-02-28 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

At two o'clock yesterday, Mr. Carttar, of Kingston, one
of the coroners of the county, arrived at Banstead, and a
jury having been eropannelled, evidence was taken, after
wh,ch the jury returned a verdict that the deceased was
murdered by two men whose names were unknown.

Mr. It. Gordon, the member for Cricklade,
has been appointed secretary to the Board of Control, in
the room of Mr. B. MacAulay, who has left town for
Portsmouth, on i)is way to embark for Calcutta. Mi.
Gordon's previous office of Cominissioner of the Board, it
is understood, will not be filled up, at least for the present.
The official return of the exportation of the
precious metals from the port of London, from the 7th to
the 20th instant inclusive, gives the following :

Silver coin to Oporto — 958 oz.
Ditto India 23,852
Ditto New York 96,650
Ditto Havannah lO,OOO
Ditto Calais 1,225,642
Silver in bars ditto 61,000
Gold coin New York 5O

A communication from the Mexican Govern-
ment relative to the English dividends was referred to yes-
terday. Tie following is an extract from the official letter
in which that communication is made by the Mexican
Minister of Finance to the agents in London :

" MEXICO, DEC. 21

"The political convulsions which have distressed the Repub-
lic, increasing materially its expenditure, and proportionably
diminishing its resources, rendered it indispensable for the Su-
preme Government to direct, although with regret, the mission
of only the 6 per cent. of the proceeds of the custom-houses of
Vera Cruz and Tampico de Tamaulipas, in lieu of the sixth part
of the said proceeds, which, according to the law of the 2d of
October, 1830, is to be applied to the payment of the half_
yearly dividends of the loans contracted for in London. But
the present administration, desirous of fulfilling religiously its
engagements with the exterior, has directed that the setting
apart of the said sixth part be continued, in order that it maybe
applied to so legitimate an object. And as it is to be expected
that very shortly peace will be completely restored in the Re-
public, the Government will then have the satisfaction of being
able to direct the restitution of that part which, up to this time,
has been omitted to be set apart in the said custom-houses of
Vera Cruz and Tampico de Tamaulipas, appertaining to the
half-yearly dividends mentioned."

We understand that one of the authors of
" The Young Muscovite" has dramatised that novel; but
that he has hitherto forborne bringing it out at any of
the theatres, until the work itself should be published.
The drama in question is spoken of as possessing intense
interest, much novelty of incident and character, and ex-
traordinary scenic effect. The same writer, we are in-
formed, has just finished a play, in which the character of
Peter the Great of Russia is boldly but fairly developed.
AN ATROCIOUS MONSTER.—Of late many
children have been kidnapped in the city of Delhi for the
lure of their ornaments, without any traces being discovered
of the kidnappers, although the city Kutwall employed
spies to find out the perpetrators. By chance, on the sth
July, a traveller discovered a Byragee in the plains cutting
the throat of a child with a knife ; the traveller imme-
diately seized both the hinds of the Byragee and called
out for help ; on this some passers by came up, and se
curing the murderer, sent the corpse of the child and the
prisoner to the Kutwall ; on further inquiry, they dis-
covered the haunt of this monster, and on searching it
they perceived a trunk, on opening which they found it
full of melted gold and silver, in lumps, the supposed ac-
cumulations of the stolen jewels.—Sumachar (India)
Durpun.

DIGNITY IN WALKING.--A poor Irish
labourer, seeing one of our fashionable dandies strutting
through one of the new streets near Belgrave-square, went
modestly up to him and said, "I beg your honour's pardiu,
sur, but would ye be afther tellin' me the rint of this
house ; I want to know, sur, for a raisan I have ?"
" Get away, fellow," said the dandy, " how should I
know the rent, I know nothing about the house ?" " I
beg your honour's pardin, sur," said the Irishman, "but,
from the manner in which you walked, myself thought
the whole sthreet belonged to ye ; aye fait an' the next
ethreet too for the matter o' that, by my cowl and con-
science I did, sur."