The Sun.
London, England, 1835-08-19 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

Last evening an inquest was held at the London Hospital
before Mr. Baker, the Coroner, on view of the body of Martha
Dickson, a girl of five years of age, who came by her death
under the following singular circumstances :--From the evi-
dence it appeared that on that day week the deceased in play
put a small pebble into her right ear, which got into the head
to such a distance that all the efforts of her mother and a
surgeon in the neighbourhood to remove it proved unavailing.
She was then taken to the Hospital, where Mr. Adams, one
of the house surgeons, used every means to dislodge it, but
without success. Every means that surgical skill could devise
was used without the slightest avail ; and the poor child, after
undergoing the greatest suffering, died on Sunday evening.
The medical pupil who was examined not havincr seen the
stone in the head, and the mother of the deceased having re-
quested of the Coroner and Jury that it might be produced
and delivered up to her, the inquest was adjourned until the
following (this) evening.

An inquest was last night held at the George public-house.
East Harding-street, Fetter-lane, before Mr. Payne, on the
i,ody of Nicholas Tilly, aged 41, a respectable tailor, of No.
5; j,-1 the above-named street, who terminated his existence by
shociling himself with a pistol, under the distressing circum-
stance,. detailed in the evidence, which was to the effect that
the deceek•d destroyed himself in a fit of jealousy, believing
his wife and
,a young man had formed an improper intimacy.
The wife and ,the other party strongly asserted the absence of
all real ground; ;:or such a belief. The Jury returned a ver-
dict of Temporary Insanity.

Yesterday an inquestwas held at the White Hart, Church-
lane, Chelsea, before Aft;. Stirling, on view of the body of
Samuel Hawkins, aged 6f.. It appeared from the evidence
that the deceased was coacrlOan to Mr. Chancellor, stage-
coach proprietor of Chelsea. On Saturday the deceased was
taking his dinner at the White Ha-t, when lie suddenly fell on
the floor, and before a surgeon rea.'hed the house he was no
more. The surgeon attributed his ti.`-'ath to a sudden attack
of apoplexy, and the Jury returned a v,2rd:ct of Died by the
visitation of God.

On Monday, at noon, a most respectable Jury met at the
Essex Arms, Watford, before T. Osbaldest.w. Esq., Coro-
ner, to inquire into the cause of the deaths of I..homas Jordan,
Joseph Barker, Thomas Evans, Silvanus Rudinge, John Betts,
William Byard, Thomas Winmell, James Darvell, and Bart-
let Jeans, (nine men) killed by the falling in of a pact of the
tunnell forming in Russell Wood, near Watford, on the line of
the London► and Birmingham railway. The facts, which have
been already published, having been stated in evidence, the
:Pry, after a short consultation, found a verdict, to the effect
of tts cause of death being entirely accidental, and levying a
deodand of 5/. oa the bricks, timbers, &c. They further
stated that is their opinion every possible care and attention
that skill and Science could dictate, had been used on the part
of the Company, their agents, and superintendents, in the
construction of the shafts tr,nd works which had been brought
under their notice. The bodies of the unfortunate men were
buried in Watford church-yard the same evening.

An inquest was yesterday held at the Chequers, Tothill-
street, Westminster, on view cf the body of a boy nine years
of age, named John Hawes. It appeared that the child had
been sent on an errand to his brother, a waiter in a public-
house, who had given him a soda-water battle full of gin to
take back to his parents. On the road deceased drank the
greaten' portion of the liquor, and on his return home was
seized wit: convulsions, which speedily terminated in death.
The medical gentleman who attended stated it as his opinion
that death bad p'
en caused by the immense quantity of gin
which the boy had -diunk. The Jury returned a verdict ac-
cordingly.

THE MONUMENT AT 151sTG'S Citoss.—The on,
ginal intention of erecting a statue pi King George IV., on
'
the summit of King's Cross. at Battle-
:ridge, is now in the
course of completion. Several men are em):loyed in forming
the proportions of-the figure, which is construa'4l of compo,
and when finished will have the appearance of stn. The
height of it will be about 11 feet. Several further emb:llish-
mews are to be added to the Cross, which, when finished, will
form a very splendid ornament to that part of the town.
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