The Sun.
London, England, 1835-12-10 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

Yesterday afternoon an Inquest was held in the Board-
room of Middlesex Hospital before Mr. Stirling, on view of
the body of John Robinson, thirty-four years of age, who
committed suicide by throwing himself out of a secend
floor window.

Mr. Ellis, surgeon of Great Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-
square, deposed that the decased laboured under severe
fever, with occasional attacks of delirium, and was in a very
distressed state.

The Jury returned a verdict of " Temporary Derange.
ment."

Yesterday evening an Inquest was held in the Committee-
room of Newgate before Mr. Payne, on view of the body
of Harriet Kncrwles, 24 years of age, a convict in the above
prison, who died of a broken heart.
The deceased was admitted into the Infirmary imme-
diately after her trial and conviction at the Central Crimi-
nal Court, on the sth of November last. The unfortunate
young woman was labouring under violent mental anguish,
caused, no doubt, by her unhappy situation. She wept day
and night, obtaining no rest, and refusing all sustenance.
Notwithstanding all efforts she gradually sank, and died on
Tuesday. On a post-mortem examination there was no
appearance to account for death. The organic powers were
healthy. The deceased was tried at the Central Criminal
Court for robbing her mistress, was found guilty, and sen-
tenced to seven years' transportation. Previous to the
offence for which she was convicted she had borne a good
character, and her friends were creditable hard working
persons.
A verdict was then returned, " That the deceased died a
natural death, accelerated by severe mental affliction."

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. B.—The
Market has been dull to-day. In the morning there was
literally nothing doing. About noon there was some ac-
tivity, but the sales will not exceed 1,500 bags. Scarcely
any thing but American w sold at lid. a 10id.
The Metropolita❑ Publishers announce an unusual
number of new books for the forthcoming season—an evi-
dence, at least, that literature is not at so low an ebb as
has been represented.—Saunders and Ottley have just put
forth Mr. Bulwer's new work, " Rienzi, the last of the
Tribunes ;" " Mr. Grattan's new tale, " Agnes de Mans-
feldt ;" " My Aunt Pontypool," a novel of life and charac-
ter ; " Japhet in Search of a Father," by the Author of
the inimitable " Peter Simple" and " Jacob Faithful."

INCENDIARY FIRES IN KENT.—Saturday night
the parsonage barn, in the occupation of Mr. Stephen Wafter,
at Marden, was discovered to be on fire. The barn con-
tained 140 quarters of corn, and when the alarm was first
given it was burning in two places. The building and the
whole of the corn was entirely consumed. There is no
doubt of this fire having been wilfully occasioned, and cer-
tain persons are suspected. The property was insured in
the Norwich Union.—A fire was also discovered a few
hours after the above in the stackyard of Mr. Adams, of
Nettlestead. The alarm was given by a labouring man,
who said that at the time it broke out he was under a hedge.
Great praise is due to the neighbours, who, by great exer-
tions, succeeded in preventing the fire from communicating
with the adjoining stacks. The man who gave the alarm
was apprehended, taken before Alderman Lucas, and re-
manded for a week for further evidence. The property was
insured in the Kent office.—A stubble-stack, belonging to
Mrs. Elphick, of Horsmonden, who had some property
burnt recently, the insurance on which bad been but a few
days overdue, was discovered to be on fire on Sunday night.
The stack adjoined some farm-buildings, but the fire was
confined to the stack, and got under without doing further
mischief. It is supposed to have been wilfully fired.

EXPLOSION OF GUNPOWDER.—A serious acci-
dent occurred at Law Colliery on Wednesday evening last.
About eight o'Clock Mrs. Russell had occasion to go to the
garret abase, to put sonic bed clothes in a chest there, in
which ten pounds of blast powder had been deposited. The
light she held in her hand fell into the powder, and in a mo-
ment the house was a roogess ruin—doors, windows, loft,
and various articles of household furniture, were completely
blown to atoms. It is remarked that no part of the loft
remained entire but that on which Mrs. Russell lay. No
lives have been lost, but Mrs. Russell lies in a very dan-
gerous state, one of her legs being broken and the other dis-
located ; some of her ribs are broken and otherwise injured.
In the ktchen below where some girls were sowing, the table
at which they were was blown to fragments, yet they suf-
fered little or no injury ; a boy had his bonnet blown off,
but escaped unhurt.—Edinburgh courant.
HOME-MADE WINES —Home-made wine is a much
less perfect liquor than the wines of the Continent. They
contain more sugar, more mucilage, and often a proportion
of uncombined spirit. For although ale and porter, and
foreign wines, in a state of purity, contain spirit, and de-
pend on the spirit for their stimulating and intoxicating
qualities, yet the spirit is in a state of combination, and
not in a state of simple mixture, with the other ingre-
dients. The consequence of this is, that a given quantity
of stronger foreign wine, a wine, in fact, which contains
more spirit, may be taken without intoxication, than a
similar quantity of some British wines, that are weaker,
could be taken without such a result.—Magazine of Do-
mestic Economy.
. INDIAN HORSEMANSHIP.--There is nothing upon
which Indians pride themselves more than their horseman-
ship. Almost living in the saddle, they are as much at
ease when mounted as when sitting upon the floor of their
own lodge. Many a time I have seen two or three
urchins beset some unfortunate horse while quietly dozing
and ruminating upon -the prairie. After sundry coaxings
and efforts, they would succeed in mounting upon its back,
and then, without saddle or bridle„ and with a whoop and
yell that terrified the startling steed into a full gallop, they
would scamper madly along, clinging to his mane and to
each other with a tenacity which would have astonished any
one but an Indian.—The Junior Irving's Indian Sketches.

BOTTLES.—It is somewhat extraordinary that the
Legislature in enacting laws relative to weights and mea-
sures, should have excluded any particular size for bot-
tles. The public are daily defrauded, and that to a consi-
derable extent, by wine and other liquors being sold in
picked bottles, six to the gallon imperial measure. A re-
spectable housekeeper, the other day, purchased a gallon
of spirits, which was sent home to him in six bottles. The
bottles were emptied in one gallon, imperial measure, and a
deficiency of one pint was discovered. This species of fraud
and loss will be practised until a legislative enactment be
passed, enforcing bottles of every description to be in uni-
formity with other standard measures.
B RIB ERY.—The approaching municipal elections
are exciting intense interest in all classes of our •fellow-
citizens. The true friends of Bristol are labouring with an
ardour every way worthy of the noble cause in which they
have embarked, and its worst enemies—those whose mise-
rable policy is visible in its decayed commerce, and in a
thousand other effects consequent on their selfish, narrow
policy, are also labouring, in their vocation, that they might
succeed in perpetuating their baneful, noxious influence.
The fact has just now come to our knowledge of their
having actually bargained with a family, in which there are
some votes to be gained, to bestow on a member of that
family a situation in the New Police as the price of their
submitting to vote for the Tory candidates in a certain
Ward ; and this, we doubt not, is but one of many similar
instances in which they have not scrupled to resort to the
most unjustifiable means in order to accomplish their ends.
—Bristol Mercury.
SUPPLY OF WATER TO THE METROPOLIS.—
Yesterday the Committee of City Lands assembled in
Guildhall, pursuant to adjournment, to receive evidence re-
lating to the supply of water in the metropolis, with the
view of founding upon it a report, to be delivered to the
Court of Common Council, upon this important subject.
Returns were made to the Committee from the different
wards relative to the supply, the quality, and the charges
imposed by the New River Company for water to the in-
habitants. A number of returns were read, and all the
questions propounded answered by some, and others par-
tially, by the precinct officers. In some districts there ap-
peared to be no cause of complaint"; in others, they were
very trifling, while some loudly complained of the supply
and quality. After a desultory conversation, and the hear-
ing of some evidence on the subject, the further proceed-
ings were adjourned to Tuesday next.
ANCESTORIAL PRIDE.—In the castles and palaces
of the ancient nobility of France, the tapestry frequently
presents memorials of their pride of ancestry. On the
tapestry of an apartment in the palace of the Duke de
C—, is a representation of the Deluge, in which a man
is seen running after Noab, and calling out, " My good
friend, save the archives of the C. family !" Another piece
of tapestry in the palace of the Duke de L displays.
the Virgin Mary, with an ancestor of the L.'s standing
bareheaded before her : " Dear, cousin," says she, " pray
be covered!" He replies, " Cousin, I would rather remain
as I am."—Paris Advertiser,