The Sun.
London, England, 1835-10-30 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

Yesterday afternoon the inquiry concerning the death of
the unfortunate William Ibbott, the . sand bargeman, who
was killed by the falling of the mast in his father's barge,
by coming in contact with the John Bull steamer on the
mcrning of Saturday, the 17th instant, was resumed before
Mr. It. Carter, the Coroner for Surrey, at the WO and
Whale Tavern, Rotherhithe. The greatest interest was
excited.

The case established by the evidence taken last week by
the Coroner was to the effect that the John Bull steam-
ship was going at a rapid rate, amounting to six or eight
miles an hour, and that the people on the steamer-gave
conflicting orders to the men in the barge, which induced
them to alter their course, and the steamer struck the
barge, knocked down the mast, and killed the man.
Mr. Clarkson was now in a condition to disprove both
these statements, and called

John Whitcomb, the chief mate of the John Bull, who
was at the helm on the day the accident happened. The
John Bull started from the Custom House about five
o'clock, A.M., and stopped off 'King and Queen Stairs at
half-past five o'clock to let the Majestic, coming up the
river, pass. They stopped and backed astern-, and witness
felt a shock as if something had struck the vessel. He
looked over the side and saw the barge, and the mast fall.
He shortly afterwards saw the deceased in the boat dead.
The CORONER to the witness—Will you positively swear
the steamer was going astern ? •
Witness—No, I will not ; but the order to stop her was
given about a minute before the barge struck her. Every
person in the steamer was in his proper station. -
By a Juror—The vessel went at the rate of three miles
and a half through the Pool.
The CORONER said, from all the evidence he had heard
on the subject, as long as steam-vessels of such magnitude
were allowed to go up and down a crowded pool, accidents
must happen and lives-be lost, in spite of all the care that
could be exercised.

Hobson Gibbs, the second mate of the John Bull, con-
firmed the evidence of the last witness.
After other evidence had been heard.

The Jury-room was cleared, and after upwards of an
hour's deliberation, during which much animated discussion
was heard to•take place in the Jury-room, the Coroner was
called in. After being there some time, he came out, fol-
lowed by several of the Jurymen, and stated that he had
dismissed the Jury without a verdict, for there was na pro-
bability of their agreeing. This announcement excited a
considerable sensation amongst the solicitors and parties on
both sides. We afterwards understood from several of the
Jurymen, that nine of them had agreed to a verdict of acci-
dental death, with a deodand of from 1.001. to 2eol. on the
steamer, and the rest to a verdict of manslaughter.
Mr. Godthird, the solicitor for the friends of the de-
ceased, intimated that thQ ease should be investigated in
another Court,

SHOCKING „ DEATlL—Yesterday evening, an inquest was
held at the Boot, Cromer-street, Brunswick-square, before
Mr. STIRLING, on view of the body of Thomas Doyle, 26
years of age, whose death occurred under circumstances of
a peculiarly afflicting and shocking nature. Mrs. Elizabeth
Foster, of Lucas-place, St. Pancras, depOsed that the de-
ceased was her brother-in-law. He was a moulderer by
trade. On Monday last, he called to see witness, and
stopped to dine with the family. The dinner consisted of
beefsteaks ; and the deceased, whilst the act of eating,
laughed at one of her (witness's) children, who was present,
and immediately afterwards be jumped from his seat, his
countenance assuming a most distorted appearance, and ran
into the yard. Witness was much alarmed, and, following
him, bad the presence of mind to put her finger into the
Malt of the deceased, in the hope of being able to relieve
Lim, but in thig she was unsuccessful, the unfortunate young
man being black in the face from suffocation. A surgeon
was sent for, and arrived in a few minutes, but the deceased
expired before he reached the house,
A Surgeon proved that the death of the deceased was
caused by suffocation, in consequence of the meat escaping
from the mouth into the throat,
Verdict—Accidental Death,
The deceased was on the eve of marriage.