The Sun.
London, England, 1832-12-12 00:00:00

THE MANSION

Consists of spacious dining, drawing, and breakfast-rooms,
12 feet pitch ; a good billiard-room and library, and nu-
merous convenient bedchambers; a good kitchen, with
attached offices of every description.
The Out Premises comprise capital Stables, Coach-
houses, Granary, Lofts, Harness-room, Poultry-yard, &c.
For particulars, apply (if by letter, post paid), to Messrs.
Adlington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Solicitors, Bedford-
row, London ; or to Messrs. Bachellor, Harford, and
Staunton, Solicitors, Bath.

CORONER'S INQUEST ON JOHN HAN,

BURY, ESQ.

Yesterday evening an inquest was held before Mr.
STIRLING, at the Weaver's Arms, Newington-green, on
the body of the above unfortunate gentleman, who was
found drowned in the New River on Friday last. He was
the nephew of William Allen, Esq., of Plough-court,
Lombard-street, and highly connected with the Society of
Fr iends.

Francis Denyer, servant to Mr. Allen, of Stoke New-
ington, the uncle of the deceased, saw Mr. H inbury alive
on Thursday evening I.st, about half-past 6 o'clock, at
which time he rang at the door of h►s master's house,
when he asked if Mr. Allen was at home. The witness
opened the gate, but he said, " I am not coming in—not
coming in." He then said something about the nephew of
Mr. Allen's throwing himself into the river. Witness
said " Who?" " William Allen's nephew, but you need
not take any notice, you will hear all about it in the morn-
ing." He went away immediately.
By a Juror—Did Mr. Allen desire you to deny him,
and did you ever take any letter from him ?—Yes ; but
he would not receive it; he said lie was a madman.
Mr. Michael Hooke, of No. 2, Alpha-road, Regent's
Park, said the deceased had lodged at his house for the last
12 months. He was decidedly insane.
Bythe CORONER—What was he, a military man ?—Yes.
He wrote to me some months since, and sent some
keys, when he said he intended to shoot himself. The
witness went on to state, among other inc.insistencies,
that he caused his own death to he inserted in the news-
papers. He left his home with only his slippers on about
a week since and he had not heard of him until lie found
he was drowned.

By a Juror—Did the deceased ever go into St. Giles's
and change his clothes with a poor man whom he met
with at that place ? No ; that was another branch of the
family, a nephew.
George Tait, of the Sluice-house, deposed4o finding the
body of the deceased on Friday last, about 100 yards from
the bridge, near the Green•lane. There was a rope round
his neck, but no marks of violence on his body.
A gentleman here observed that a few years since the
deceased was spending 14,0001. or 15,000/. a year, and
that he had been separated from his wife, with whom he
had had differences, which had led to this fatal catastrophe.
Verdict—" Insanity."

THE HAND-LOOM WEAVERS.—We an-
nounced a meeting of this body in our last, for the purpose
of resisting a charge of 6d. per week per loom, made by
the masters. The meeting took place on Tuesday evening,
when a series sf resolutions were adopted expressive of de-
termined opposition to the demand, and declaring that any
weaver acceding to it will be considered an enemy to the
trade.—Manchester .Advertiser.

INGENIOUS CONTRIVANCE.—Mr. COUL-
SON, decorative painter, No. 5, James's-square, has
managed to convert his house into a town and country
residence, by an ingenious and tasteful contrivance, in
which art and nature are set to work, as it were, for the
mere purpose of mutually adorning each other. A small
plot of earth behind the house, which was formerly a
place of deposit for coals and lumber, has been converted
into a beautiful little parterre, full of trees, shrubs, flowers,
and singing birds, and enriched with the busts and sta-
tues of nearly all the great men who have lived, and not
a few of the deities of the Pantheon. There is also a
hot-house filled with rare plants—a large wired dove-
house, with some lovely specimens of the common and
turtle-dove—also pheasants, and other feathered bipeds,
with a jolly old eagle overlooking the whole, whose
eyerie is surmounted by a fine bead of Jupiter. The
latest ornament added to this fairy spot, is a large mo•
nument, eighteen feet six inches high, to the memory
of the late Sir WALTER SCOTT, Bart., with a
full-length figure of that illustrious man in a niche, on the
upper part of a pyramid, supported by the Muses.
SHAKSPEARE, BYRON, BONAPARTE, &c., stand in front
of Sir WALTER, on pedestals of COADE'S patent rich or-
namental composition stone, which has a fine effect, si-
milar to those monuments in Westminster Abbey. The
garden is surrounded by walls built in the form of an
ancient time-worn cathedral, with ruined carvings and di-
lapidated windows, and covered at intervals with fog and
ivy, which give it the appearance of a venerable old ruin,
in the area of which the garden with its busts and monu-
ments are placed. The space containing all these curiosi-
ties does not exceed 20 yards square, and shows how much
improvement can be made upon small spots of ground in
crowded cities, by those who prefer the beauties of nature
before their parlour windows, to the ungainly sight of
parched mould, or weeds and lurnber,..Scolsman.