The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-09 00:00:00

INSOLVENT COURT.-TUESDAY.

Robert Home was opposed by Mr. Cook on the part o:
many creditors ; and was supported by Mr. Nicholls.

The Learned CHIEP Cwi3itssioNiß sentenced the in-
solvent to an imprisonment of eight calendar months from
the date of filing his petition.
The, case occupied nearly the entire day.

SHERIFF'S COURT.-TUESDAY.

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

EXTRAORDINARY SUlClDE.—Yesterday evening an In-
quest was held at the Sun and Horse Shoe, Great Titch-
field-street, Marylebone, before Mr. STIRLING and a Jury
of respectability, on view of the body of Monsieur Francois
Pelissier, aged 45, one of the directors of the French plays
in London, who destroyed himself under circumstances of a
very extraordinary nature.
Doctor A. Beraud, of No. 22, Newman-street, Oxford-
street, knew the deceased intimately, and had attended him
professionally during his lifetime. He was a gentleman pos-
sessed of high literary attainments and of highly-respectable
connections in France. The deceased had, for some time
past, suffered much uneasiness of mind, owing to his affairs
being much embarrassed. On the 22d of November last,
witness was called in to attend his lamented friend, whom
he found labouring under delirium, occasioned by a severe
scalded throat and stomach, produced by the unfortunate
gentleman having swallowed from a tea-kettle a quantity of
boiling water. Witness applied proper remedies to allay
the inflammatory action, leeches and warm baths being re-
sorted to ; the throat at the same time was gargled with
proper applications. Witness attended him up to the three
days before his death, which took place on Saturday morn-
ing last.
By the CORONER—The death of the deceased was caused
by inflammation of the throat and stomach, brought on by
having swallowed the boiling water.
By the Jury—l am of opinion that the mind of the de-
ceased suffered at times from mental aberration. A short
time back whilst confined in the King's Bench prison he at-
tempted to destroy himself by cutting his throat.
Other witnesses, friends of the deceased, spoke to his
state of mind for some time past, after which the Jury re-
turned a, verdict, " That the deceased destroyed himself by
swallowing boiling water, being at the time in a state of
temporary mental derangement."_

Yesterday an inquest was held at the Bell, Friar-street,
Blackfriar's-road, before Mr. PAYNE, on view of the body
of Mary Ann Nichols, aged 39, who was found hanging at
her lodgings under circumstances that led to a strong sus-
picion that a young man, named John Currie, was accessary
to her death.

Mary Cole, of No. 34, Martin-street, Blackfriar's-road,
knew the deceased, who was a widow, but had for several
years past lived with a man named William Boreham, on
the terms of a wife. Witness was in company with the
deceased, John Currie and two young women on Sunday.
They bad some beer and spirits to drink at the Grapes
public-house in the -neighbourhood. Between seven and
eight o'clock in the evening witness left the deceased in
company with Currie and the other females. In twenty
minutes afterwards witness went to the deceased's lodging,
and on entering the room found the deceased hanging to
one of the rails of the bedstead. John Currie was sitting
on a chair near the bedside, holding up the deceased's
legs. He appeared intoxicated, and not able to cut the
unfortunate woman down.

A daughter of the deceased said that her mother, some
years back, attempted to destroy herself by taking poison.
The Jury returned a verdict—" That the deceased de-
stroyed herself whilst in a state of temporary derangement."

At a gin palace in one of the great Northern tho-
roughfares in London is the following appropriate notice :
—" A burial club here ; fees are taken at the bar."

On Saturday, at the Croydon. Petty Sessions, Mr.
Fuller, one of the Addington overseers, applied for advice
under circumstances in which the parish was placed by
the extraordinary profligacy of a man named John Hodges,
who had married three women, all of whom had children
by him, and two of the females and himself were now
chargeable to the parish. He had also imposed on other
parishes, and had deserted his third wife, and had taken
up with a young female, who had likewise become a bur-
then to the parish. The man had repeatedly obtained
money by pretending that he had to bury his wife. He
had already cost the parish of Addington at least 3001.,
and it became absolutely necessary to get rid of him. The
Bench said the only remedy was to pass him to where he
belonged, and Mr. Fuller said that step should be taken.
TITHES AND THE SWOB,D.—The Freeman of
Saturday, at the conclusion of a forcible and well-
reasoned article, having for its object the deprecation of
military force employed in the collection of tithe% main-
tains, that "by the law as it now stands, no magistrate
has a right to go out accompanied by a police force for
the protection of a process-server of any description, or
at all interfere, unless there be informations sworn of a
previous menace positively and overtly made to do him
bodily injury ; or when actual outrage has occurred, to
put the perpetrator in the way of being punished for its
commission. But Lord Morpeth goes far indeed beyond
this, and we dread the consequences to the country. We
can no more forget Carrickshock than Rathcormac. The
massacre at the former arose from serving of process by a
strong police force. The butchery at the other from the
application of the mode by distr;:ss."

STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.—On Friday afternoon,
about half-past four o'clock, a lug-boat, belonging to Mrs.
Susannah Durham, of Kingston, in Surrey, containing
twenty-one tons of coals, and eighteen quarters of barley,
was run down by the Greenwich steamer, Greenwich,
Doust, master, and two persons in the barge narrowly
escaped with their lives. Saturday afternoon H. Jackson,
of Kingston, who had charge of the barge, accompanied
by his son and a host of witnesses, applied at the Thames
Police Office for the purpose of obtaining a warrant against
the Cartiin ; but as it was beyond the office hours they
were directed to call again, and the officers were, in the
mean time, directed to make enquiries into the circum-
stance?. Another complaint was made of damage done
by the navigation of the steamers in the pool. A barge
was taking in wheat from a ship, and forty quarters had
been already discharged into her, when two steam-vessels
came by at a furious rate, apparently racing, and raised
such a heavy swell that the barge shipped two seas, which
spoiled the wheat, and would have swamped the lighter
had she not been made fast to the ship. The swell rolled
in with such tremendous force to one of the plying places in
Rotherhithe, that several boats lying on the causeway were
stove in.

COOPER'S UNRIVALLED TALES OF THE SEA.
—Mr. Bentley is publishing, in one shilling weekly parts,
each no% el to be completed in five parts, the celebrated
novels of Cooper. Five parts have already been published,
containing " The Pilot" complete. Part 6, to appear on
Saturday December 12 will commence the " Red Rover,"
illustrated with notigs And new introductions, written .by
the author express for this edition, which exactly corre-
sponds in printing and embellishments with the novels of
Sir Walter Scott and Miss Edgworth. Need we say
any thing to recommend these capital stories of one of the
greatest masters of fiction that ever lived ? There will
not surely now be a cottage without its little library—a
library abundant in information as well as amusement.
By laying out one shilling a week in this manner (a sum
which will scarcely be felt at the time), a collection of books
will be made which will beguile the tedium of the ap-
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our summer walks. This edition, which will give us, " The
Red Rover," " The Prairie," " The Last of the Mohi-
cans," &c. at five shillings each, must sell by thousands.
POOLE'S COMIC SKETCH BOOK.—The "Sketehes
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already met with the honour they so richly deserve—that
of appearing in a new edition, and, reader, let us add, a
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Mr. Poole deals largely in the witty and the humorous ;
his manner of handling his subject is lively, natural and
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will thank us for recommending to their notice the above
delightful source of intellectual entertainment.

WONDERFUL ESCAPE.—On Saturday last, as the
Red Rover was on its route from Chapel-en-le-Frith to
Manchester, it met with an extraordinary accident, but
which, happily, occasioned comparatively small damage.
On descending High-lane, one of the fore wheels of the
coach came off, but the impetus carried the vehicle for-
ward upwards of twenty yards further, when it upset ; the
passengers, five in number, all escaped injury, with the
exception of one gentleman, who received a slight hurt,
and the coachman, who was a little bruised. The under
part of the coach, one wheel, and the splinter bar sepa-
rated from the remainder, and the horses galloped away
with the fraction. Although thus encumbered they leaped
a quickset hedge into a field next the road, and after gal-
loping round it, leaped into the road again ; they were
then stopped, and no further injury ensued. The Red
Rover was unable to return that night, and indeed has not
yet recommenced running.—Chesterfield Gazette.

THE WEATHER.—It is curious that while the
weather continues so mild, perhaps unseasonably mild here,
great complaints are made of its severity in those places
abroad which have acquired a celebrity for their bland
temperature. In Italy so severe is the cold that the people
say their climate must have been changed ; in Paris the
cpld has been intense ; and upon the Rhine, where, during
the " season," an unclouded sky is generally observed, no
inconsiderable degree of inconvenience appears to be felt
from the weather. Its extraordinary severity is noticed in
accounts from Darmstadt ' - and at Coblentz the number of
wolves is complained of. They are said to perambulate the
fields unmolested in broad daylight, and it is very lucky
that the city has walls, otherwise they would certainly
ravage it. No doubt it will come to us in our turn.

SUN LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECD MBE 9, 1835,

PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS,

ASSURANCE COMPANIES, &c. &c. &c.

LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8.
Number Dividend Price
of per CANALS. per
hares. Annum. Paid. Share.
1.700 61 pet cent. Ashton and Oldham ...Average 975. IBs. sh.
1.4;42 6/. Ashby•cle-le-Zoueli . ...... .. Average 1121. sh. 65
1,260 Basingstoke lOOl. sh. 51
1,005 51. Brecknock end Abergavenny 1550. sh. P 5
4,000(5h. 121. 10s. Birmingham, share
4,00,) Ditto and Liverpool Junct....lool. sh. all pd 301
600 Bridgewater and Taunton ....1001. sh. all pd 64
...... •••
400 5/. Chelmer and Blackwater 100/. sh. 102
500 421. Coventry 100/. sh.
4,516 Croydon Average 311. 2s. 10d. sh.
2,0601 31. 10s. Dudley lOOl. sh. '761
(11)04 6/. Derby 1001. sh. 120
:20,000
' 3,575 f
231- 43'. Erewash 100/. sh. 4'lo
1,2.;7 2S/. Forth and Clyde Average 4091. ''.s. sh. 600
11,560 12!. Grand Jtinc."r- 100/. sh. 230
?,8491 Grand Union 1001. sh. 241
151 Grand Surrey lOO/. sh.
20,9004 4!. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOOl.
3,096 ... .. .. .. Grand Western
' 600 13/. 12s. Bd. Glamorganshire, Average cost 172/. 13s. 4d. 280
1,960 Gloucester and Berkley 109/. sh. 15
749 10s. Grantham 150/. sh. 202
6,238 1/. 10s. Huddersfield Average 57/. 6s. 6d. sh. 341
100
25,328 1/. Kennet and Avon, Average 39/. es. 1011. sh. 191
2,8971 VI. Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 530
515 12/. Leicester l4O/. sh.
907 4/. Leicester and Northampton... Aver W. !Os. 79
550 5!. per cent. Liskeard and Looe Union 251. sh. all pd.
• 70 1441. Loughborough Average 1421. 17s. sh.
2,409 fd. Monmouthshire 100/. sh. 120
250 9/, Melton Mowbray 1001 sh. 190
500 25/. Mersey and Irwell lOOl. sh. 581
3,000
247 15/. Neath Wall pd
360
100
4,766 32/. Oxford 100/. sh. 409
522 2/. Oakham 1301. sh. 38
2,400 44 Peak Forest Average about 781. sh. 106
21,418 14s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 16s. ed. sh. ;5:
5.669 5/. per cent. Rochdale Average 851. sh. 141
500 8/, Shropshire 1251. sh. 140
800 104 Somerset Coal 1501. sh. 160
45,0001. 61 percent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock 12/. 10s. sh. 12
700 36/. Stafford and Worcester l4O/. sh. 690
500 111. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 245
300 84 Stourbridge
3,647 1/. 10s. Stratford-on-Ay:at ...Average 791. 9s. Bd. sh. 59
533 13/. Swansea 100/. sh. 215
3,702 I/. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av 35/. sh. 171
2,6001 sn. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 1 share 1001. sh. 620. -
8,149 .... ..... Thames and Medway...Aver. 19/. ss. Sd. sh. 2
1,0005 h./ 15/. Warwick and Birmingham 100/. sh. 280
I'° 9`4()
940 PS. Warwick and Napton lOOl. sh. 220
6,000 3/. 103 Worcester and Birmingham... Av. 78/. Bs. sh: 85
5,000 255. Wilts and Berks .. Average 67/. 10s.8d. sh. 24
800 61. Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh 75
106
905 1/. Wey and Arun llOl. sh. 224