The Sun.
London, England, 1832-10-27 00:00:00

COMMON COUNCIL.

A Court of Common Council was held yesterday for the
de.patch of public business.
The London Bridge Committee presented a Report for
sealing a bond for 50,0001. to the Bank; of England, ft-r
further monies advanced for the purposes of the bridge and
approaches, which was agreed to, and the bond sealed.
The Committee of the City Board of Health pre.
sented a highly satisfactory Report, accompanied by a Re-
port of the Medical Board, in which they announced the
entire disappearance of cholera from the city, and that the
Committee were consequently justified in dismantling the
only remaining Hospital under their management, which
was agreed to, and the Committee authorized to draw on
the Chamber for a sum not exceeding 6001. for the ex-
penses they had necessarily incurred.
EDWARD TYRRELL, Esq., was unanimously elected Re-
. wembrancer in the room of his late father.

The finance Committee presented a report on the tne-
morial of the Committee for erecting- almshouses to cele-
brate the passing of the Reform Rills, instead of through
the means of public tllutninations, in which they recom-
mended 1,5001. to be granted in the following propor-
tions :-5001. when the plan and regulations for esta-
blishing not less than fifty shall he approved ; 5001. when
the contract shall be made, and the first stone laid ; and
the remaining 5001. when the almshouseswere completed.
Several Members strongly pressed agreeing with the
report, and after some protracted discussion it was moved
that the Court do adjourn, which was carried, and the
Court adjourned without coming to any decision.

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A FEMALE.

ADJOURNED CORONER'S INQUEST.
On Thursday evening an adjourned inquest was held at
the Cock public house, Grafton-street, Soho, on the body
of an aged female, named Abigail Bentley, who was
found dead in her bed, under very suspicious circumstances.
The deceased lived with a man named Bentley, a tailor, at
16, Lichfield-street. She had an annuity bespeated to her
for life, by a former husband, of 1001. per annum, which
was to be reduced to 501. if she married again. On
Monday morning, between six and seven, Mr. Bentley
called on witness (Mr. Jones), and he had not seen him
since. About ten o'clock witness called at the lodgings of the
deceased. The room door was partly open, and on entering he
saw the deceased lying in bed quite dead.—Another witness
said, on Sunday night, about twelve o'clock, Mr. Bentley
came home very much intoxicated, so much so, that wit-
ness was obliged to assist him up stairs. When Bentley
entered the bed-room of the deceased, witness heard a
noise as if he had fallen down, and be thought he heard
the deceased scolding. She spoke in a very faint tone.
kbout five o'clock next morning Bentley went out, and he
had not heard of him since, except from the first witness
on whom he called.—Susan Inott, sister to the deceased,
was also examined. The deceased was a remarkably sober
woman, was always very healthy, and lived happily with
Bentley.
Mr. George Mart, of Frith-street, surgeon, had made
a post mortem examination of the deceased ; the face and
mouth were much swollen, and there was a contusion on
the back part of the head three inches in diameter. The
liver was pale, and appeared as if the deceased had been
addicted to drinking ardent spirits ; in the opinion of wit-
ness, the death of the deceased was caused from an effusion
of bloody serum in the brain, occasioned by an injury in-
flicted or produced at the hack part of the head ; the in-
jury must have been done from live to ten days previous
to death. The witness wished to remark, that a woman
in the house asked him if he had, in his examination of
the body, discovered any brow on the head ; the question,
he thought, was so very extraordinary, that he considered
it right to mention it to the July.

A Juror had heard that both the deceased and her hus-
band were most respectably connected. The deceased was
related to Sir Charles Wetherell, and Bentley had formerly
been in an extensive way of business ; one of his nephews
resided in Bedford-square in affluent circumstances.
Susan Emu repeated her former evidence, and added,
that the deceased lived with Bentley for 20 years, and they
were always on friendly terms. The witness never heard
of the deceased indulging in spirituous liquors, indeed she
always considered her a very sober woman.
The CORONER here read that part of the evidence to the
witness, in which the surgeon gave it as his opinion the
deceased died from injuries received on the head. The
witness then acknowledged that the deceased toll her she
bad fallen out of bed on Friday, and knocked her head
against something, and had lain on the floor for an hour
and a half unable to get up. The Jury reprimanded the
witness for her prevarication.
Ann Grant, of 67, King-street, Soho, stated that
Bentley called upon her last Sunday morning in a state
of intoxication, and told her that his wife was dead ; he
wished witness to go to her, and on her entering the
room, she found the deceased lying on the bed with her
clothes on ; she was alive, and told witness to proceed
into the other room, and she would come and speak to
her, when the deceased informed her she was in a great deal
of trouble, and begged she would send her husband to her,
as she wished to speak to him ; witness went home and
informed Bentley that his wife was not dead, and that she
wished to speak to him; he, however, persisted that she
was dead, and swore lie would never go near the place
again ; Bentley remained at the house of witness all the day,
and at night her husband was obliged to forcibly eject him.
Sarah Rogers, a resident in the same house as the de-
ceased, stated, that Bentley and deceased lived happily to.
gether, but that the deceased was frequently intoxicated ;
and one appeared to drink as much as the other. Bentley
had been drunk every day for four or five weeks. When
the deceased received her quarter's money, they lived in
great luxury until it was expended, and then they re-
mained in a most deplorable state until the next quarter
became due. The witness had heard the deceased say.
that their regular allowance was two pots of beer and two
half pints of rum per day ; but whether they bad more
than that quantity, when the quarter's money was received,
witness could not say. Thr witness always considered the
deceased to be most respectably connected.
The Jury returned a Verdict—" that the deceased died
from the injuries which she had received on the head ; but
how the violence was produced, there was no evidence
before the Jury."

THE KING'S DAUGHTER AND WINDSOR
CASTLE.—A beautiful Portrait of Lady SOPHIA SIDNEY,
eldest daughter of his MAJESTY (with a Memoir), and a
splendid Engraving of " Windsor Castle," we perceive
are announced to be given on the Ist of November in the
Court Magazine, edited by the Hon. Mrs. NORTON. The
plate of Windsor Castle forms No. 1 of the Landscape
Gallery of the Seats cf. the Nobility and Royal Residences,
from original drawings by W. DANIELL, Esq., R.A* , to
appear monthly, in addition to the Female Portrait Gal-
lery, by the most eminent Painters and Engravers, and
the coloured engravings from original drawings by Mr.
PARRIS, the distinguished painter of the Rridemaid.
On Monday evening a person living at No.
11, Derby-place, heard the faint cry of an infant ; and on
opening the water-closet door, from whence the sound
seemed to come, she found a woman, named TURNER, who
was apparently much agitated. The cries continuing,
asked Mrs. TURNER whence they proceeded; and the latter
replied that it was a child in the street. It subsequently,
however, appeared, on the arrival of an officer who was
forthwith called in, that the unhappy woman had delivered
herself of a fine male infant, and endeavoured to conceal
the birth by throwing it into the soil. The infant was
taken out uninjured ; the unhappy mother remains too ill
to undergo an examination at present.—Brighton Gaz.
TORRINGTON.—TITHE-PAYING.—A per-
son, not 20 miles from Barnstaple, having for many years
paid 2s. per annum, applied for a reduction, which was
complied with to one-fourth of the amount, so that his
half-yearly payment at each feast was ninepence. The
good-natured Rector, aware that the man's appetite was
none of the weakest sort, told him he would frankly forgive
the whole, and save him the trouble of travelling so far to
dinner ; but "Robin" declined the proffered favour, de-
claring that, whilst be had breath, he would render his
just dues to all.—North Devon Journal.