The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-11 00:00:00

LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT.

An inquest was held at Ryde, before Mr. Blake' rho
coroner for the Isle of Wight, on Tuesday, °n a
body of Mr. Cornelius Grinnell, an American yobtsos,
of New York, who had come to England for the Purl3:,°e3
of taking part in the regattas. At Cowes the dece—A Dc
had purchased the steamyacht Hawk, of 142 tons, P'l/7.-eht
was recently elected a member of the Royal Victoria S.
Club. The following evidence was given at the ingnett.
Mr. James Gordon Bennett, the owner of the yacht I)3'llig
less, said he had known the deceased about ten days, since
arrival at Cowes. He had seen him about three Ye3r,s
the
in New York. On the previoas night he dined wit° .01
deceased, who was lodging at 35, Pier-street, at the 1119iDo
Victoria Yacht Club. The witness, Mr. Romans, and Al
deceased left the club together about twelve o'clock: Hog
heybad no rooms, the deceased offered to allow the ccl
llail
nnd Mr. Homans to sleep in his sittirw-room- r-1-11c3r„
three went upstairs together. In a few minutes witness '.erg.
downstairs, leaving Mr. Homans and deceased vi yea
When he got to the front door he saw a body lying r3l" -03
the pavement and partly in the road. Mr-. lIorn313" Ajr.
he witness's servant ran downstairs.
and said that
tell
Grinnell had fallen out of the window. lle invnealDotl9
went to the window and assisted in carrying the f die
upstairs. Blood was streaming-, from the 'Jack u"
head. A medical man was sent'' for immediately'
the
Dr. 011ard came. The deceased was quite sober wbe i, en-;eif
witness left the room.—Mr. Sheppard Romans, 19' IP
York, corroborated the evidence of Mr. Benuett;e
added that after Mr. Bennett went downstairs t° polg
-.eased had an impression that Mr. Bennett was goia aad
for another room rather than intrude on his kindnes,s,g ji
he said, " I will see ; I will get out on the balcony anti
then drew up the Venetian blinds, opened the windugr.iig or
stepped out. He disappeared, and witness not lle3rsleeieg
eeing anything of him, looked out of the window• tiat
no balcony, the thought flashed across his mind t:.; tbefi
had fallen out. He looked cut of the window nn-_ istir
ran downstairs and found the body lying under tliepleo,
dow. He felt the pulse and found it perfectly v 311), 04
In his opinion death had been instantaneous• that
sure he was quite sober, and wished to state bat Ds
strongly as words could convey it.—Dr. 011ard said tood
was sent for shortly after two o'clock, and found de 0f tli°
quite dead, evidently from a fracture in the 10°,00
skull.—The jury returned a verdict of Accidental :00
and appended to it an opinion that the window °epic°
unsafe condition and required protection. At the :01
of Sir J. Burgoyne, their foreman, they "Pre'allY
behalf of the whole British community, and esPeci-d eel t°
the yachtsmen, their sorrow at the untoward acci
one of their visitors.

According to an evening contemporary, rilin-ir
are current that extensive corrupt practices have 1°1; cle‘
covered among the officials in one of the Goveraree; tie
partments. It is stated that an investigation is 21°11r. 2
on, and that the matter will be laid before Parlianleo'
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THE IRISH HORSE tender.sHOW. 1 rfOrSei
Show was opened at Dublin on Tuesday. There ,essfe'
entries, and the show is expected to be the most There
There wasperhaps
arerraield of the leading prize. to large assembly of gentry.
His i'.'‘.
Nabob te Of
THE PUBLIC HEALTH. —Last week Ole r3dtli°
mortality in London and thirteen other large tc'`cfg.,3ll a
United Kingdom was 27per 1,000 coniPare'vv Iglioh
rate of 22 in Paris and 45 n Berlin. as
In eleven "-lib! t°
towns, including London, 741 deaths were attributooo:o
diarrhoea, and most of this mortality took Place 3 iiietto'
children. The births registered in the ~ The
polistter were 2,130, and the deaths were I,63v.inoher.
and.
wewreereleasalighitly below the estimated 11
preed'
03, 16 than those of the wets
ing week. The deaths from zymotic dise3sge:o% plot
733, the corrected average number being 669' ~, scat
let
sons died from smallpox, 25 from measles, 1000 ash'
/root
ugh,
sita's
t fever, 8 from diphtheria, 65 from whoopin'
yPhus fever, 22 from enteric fever, and 10 WO wit',
from continued
fever. The deaths of 31 children alul,:vcerly
m simple cholera were recorded. The Inca° 'e,-. rasel
ture during the week was 59'8 or 2'5 below* the ti'e ore
The entire range of temperature in the week was PI
than 30 degrees.
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The
r i a , Rev.No . , Alexander
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ter ofthe
uni Episcopal Church, and a graduate of Cam.
ttii,
co schooling cannot be exagg(T)cfbrearteeandixsiyetiAlcal
Libeversity, England, in a letter dated at 31i115tive0
for ,says: Crummel, a coloured ibprido
wountry they are asking for schools. If we had thcol'ittifeo
session of the Great Count-.2-i'lL
within could establish a hundred schools among the
a mouth." „ill
IMPROVED ORDER OF RED I\IEN.---1"
, 'lll'l'
the citarris,
burg, the following Great Chiefs were present anal 4-0,
elated :—G.S.S., Charles G. Conley; Acting Great Ti, 31,
J.
Great Junior Sagamore, Adam Schuh ; Great POP joe coat
. Weaver; Great Chief of Records, Andrew J . Bak' 3 I:40p
Keeper of Wampum, Lewis C. Pierce ; Great 7 ow,
olnfitiithroeatic:iniaeotititioboo..,
Thomas A. Winkworth : Great Guard of the Wjghs l.
Charles S. Abel ; Great Guard of the Forest, JosePt were
Clymer. During this session the Great Chie.fs essleocf teat
duly raised to their respective positions. Busine ~eritie.,,
importance to the Order was to come up for consr „arils-
and a parade of the Great Council and the Tribes in P.
burg and vicinity was to take place on the 22d 'lt'll.