The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-25 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

MELANCHOLY CASE.—A Coroner's inquest was held
on Thursday evening, at the Gun Tavern, Woolirich,
before C. J. Carttar, Esq., and a respectable jury, oq
view of the body of William Terence Maden, a child
aged two years and six weeks, alleged to have died from
starvation.
The jury having viewed the body expressed their sur-
prise at the miserable under-ground room in which the
family resided.
Elizabeth Maden, a young Irish woman of decent ap-
parance, with an, infant at her breast, deposed that she
was the wife of William Maslen, a gunner of the Royal
Artillery, who had left on foreign service about five
weeks since. Deceased was her child, he was two years
and six weeks old, and had been ill for about a month.
Witness had taken him twice to the Ordnance Hospital,
on the Ist and 18th of the present month. The medical
gentleman told her the child was very ill, and gave her
four powders, and told her to give him some castor oil
occasionally. "He did not tell her to call again, and she
did not go between these days, because she did not
think the child was so near death. Witness received
2s. 6d. a week from the regimental fund, and ls. 6d. and
two loaves from the parish. This was all she had for
!'ne tupport of herself, the infant, and t.l)e deceased.
She could do no work on account of the Hitless of de-
ceased and the child at the breast. Out of the 4s. she
received weekly, she paid ls. 9d. (and latterly ls. 7d.)
for rent. Her firing cost her sd. a week, candles ls.,
soap 31. This left about 9d. a week for their support, -
which witness spent in potatoes and broad. She might
say that she was in distress indeed. She applied to some
of the "quality " about the neighbourhood, but none of
them gave her anything. One lady referred her to the
lady of the district, but witness could not find her out
till the child died, when the lady gave her one shilling,
and an order for some tea and coffee. The child died at
about half-past nine on Tuesday morning. On Monday
it had some beef tea, which Mr. Bayly kindly gave her.
It had nothing on Sundoy, except a little coffee and
bread, and during the week it had nothing but a potatoe
and a little bacon occasionally. Witness had no meet or
milk to give it, only a littl tea. No person in the house
gave her any money, but the landlady gave her some
bacon, and two or three times a basin of soup. The child's
feet and stomach were swollen. It often cried for food.
Witness would have fed it very differently, if she could
have done so, but she could not. On Saturday night
some person, whom she did not know, sent her a shilling.
When her husband left her she had three or four
shillings.

SarA Ann Wilks, landlady of the house in which
the last witness resides, said the family was i❑ the
greatest distress. Since the father left Woolwich, the
child had never lifted up its head. Witness had never
seen the mother and child have anything but dry
bread, potatoes, and coffee. She used to carry the child
in her arms wherever she went, and a kinder mother
witness never saw. On the day the child died, there
was not a bit of fire in the raom, and witness begged a
pound of meat from Mrs. Bayly for it.
Verdict—" That the deceased died from natural
causes, but accelerated from the want of proper nourish-
ment, owing to the ignorance and inability of the parent
to afford it."

Some benevolent persons in the town are anxious to
obtain subscriptions to enable the poor woman to join
her husband in Malta, and Mr. J. Watts, high constable,
has offered to receive subscriptions.
SUSPICIOUS DEATH ON EPPING FOREST.—Yesterday
afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. C. C. Lewis,
one of the coroners for the county of Essex, at the
King's Oak Inn, High Beech, on the remains of John
Harris, seventy years of age, whose body was recently
discovered hanging in the forest. There being some
suspicions of the vaguest character that he had not
died by his own hand, the jury returned a verdict to the
effect that the deceased was found dead, but by what
means his death had been caused there was no evidence
before them to show.

ArATUNGTOII.---AWFUL EFFECTS OF THE GAME -
LAWS.—On Tuesday last, about half-past three o'clock,
the inhabitants of Pyrton, a village within a mile of
Watlington, were thrown into 'the greatest consternation
by a melancholy report, which, alas, proved too true,
that a poor boy, about sixteen years of age, of the name
of Henry Pridcheat, had committed suicide by hanging
himself with a pocket handkerchief, from the top of a
gate four feet high. It appeared that the pour boy was
employed by Mr. Dickers, a respectable farmer in the
parish, to shoot sparrows on the new sown wheat. On
Monday afternoon, while performing hidAuties, ho started
a pheasant ; the temptation being great, and feeling a
desire to try his capabilities on a larger scale, he fired
at the bird, and unfortunately killed it. At this
moment William Clark, one of Lord Parker's
gamekeepers, came up, and threatened him with
a prosecution ; the idea of appearing before a
magistrate, and in all probability, of being sent to
prison, filled his mind with the greatest mental agony.
The keeper having taken his master's gun, 11( W9S afraid
to return to his employer, and he is described as having
wandered about in the greatest distress. On the follow-
ing morning it is reported that he applied to a person in
the village for som poison to kill, as he said, his masters'
rats, but was refused, and in the afternoon he was dis-
covered by some children at play suspended from the
top of a gate, on the footpath leading from Pyrton to
Weston, in a kneeling posture, a breathless corpse. The
deceased has been employed by Mr. Dickers nearly five
years, who gives him an excellent character. The
above may be relied on as an authentic I.ict, as onr cor•
respondent has visited the village, and had a melancholy
view of the mortal remains of this new victim to the
atrocious game-laws. So great is the want of agricul-
tural employment in the parish, that no fewer than
thirty-three able-bodied persons are employedy: by our
surveyors repairing the roads, 'withal, good judges say
that the land !ants all the labour..—Oxford Chrenick.

THE CONVGATE, EDINBURGH.—For SOTIIe months
past excavations have been making near the Cowgate for
the foundation of a suite of court-rooms to occommodata
the Lords Ordinary. The buildings are to run south
from the present buildings constituting our courts of lair,
and the south wall will verge upon the spot where manY
of our readers will remember the Back-stairs ascending
of yore. In the space cleared by the workmen, a frog'
meat of the first wall of the city (built about 1460) has
been laid bare. About the end of September, some
much more recherches discoveries were made by the
workmen. South from the fragment of wall, and direotii,
so from the present building for the first and second
divisions of the Court of Session—fourteen feet below
the surface of the earth—was found a range of strong
wooden coffins, lying close beside each other, and non'
taining human remains. In one, the skull contained the
brain, still so far fresh as to show the vermicular form
of surface. These coffins were straight in the sides, but
had lids rising into a ridge in the centre. About the
same time, ten or twelve yards west from that spot, and
also beyond the line of the city wall, the workmen found,
embedded in the ground, eighteen feet below the level of
the present Cowgate, a common-shaped barrel, of largo
size (six feet high) resting on one end, and eighteen inche
deep into a straum of blue clay, with a massive stone
beside it; leading to the presumption that it had been *
barrel kept for the purpose of gathering rain, baring*
stone step to enable any one to get to its top, and takeout
a supply of it contents. The staves of this barrel r?
still, for the most part, fresh and sound. Still further
to the west, near to the barrel, and at about the same
depth, was found a copper dish or basin, about eighteen
inches diameter, and six deep, having the rim slightly
evasated. There can be no doubt that all these thing'
have lain for several centuries undisturbed. The bodies
would be a portion of those interred in St. Giles's church'
yard, which was abandoned in the sixteenth century. The
barrel and dish must have been part of the curia supefitl
of a citizen of still earlier age. The Cowgate existed at
1470, however much earlier, and it was for some ege;
the residence of the great. So large a copper dish Could
only belong to a person of some distinction. But the
most curious inference from these discoveries, is an to
the gradual rise •)f the level of the street in the course
of time. Some years ago a street was found twelve fee C
below the present causeway of the Cowgate, near lts
eastern extremity; here we find household articles seated
still lower. This, however, is common in all ancient
cities, in consequence of the want of police regulations
in the middle ages. Refuse and rubbish were laid upon
the street, and, not being removed, soon became trodden
down, and thus raised the soil. Even pavements were
thus lost sight of. Fresh accumulations continually
taking place, the ground rose of course, and, in time,
the bases of buildings were accommodated to the new
le v el.—Scotsman.

DISTRESSING SUICIDE OF A YOUNG LADY.—°n
Friday this neighbourhood was shocked by a report
that Miss Jane Gulliver, daughter of Thomas Gulliver,
Esq., of Bloxham, and sister to Mrs. Fisher, of Grigls-
bury House. with whom she had been staying some time,
had drowned herself. She was about twenty-six yeas
of age, and had for a very long period been in indifferent
health, and latterly her spirits had been greatly affected*
so much so that her medical attendant had suggesw"
the propriety of her not being left alone. On the Friday
morning, she had, with one of her sisters, walked into
Banbury. On their return, she went into the kitchen,
and then, as the family supposed, up stairs to change
her dress. This was about one o'clock. At half-pas!
two Mr. Robert Field, of Grimsbury Mill, saw a shawl
floating at the mill-head, against the bars which are
placed to prevent substances passing to the wheel. De
remarked that a shawl had blown away from somewhere,
and told his boy he had better get it out. The boy
got hold of the shawl, and then found that there was,l
body under it. He gave an alarm, and Mr. Fior
and some of his men came and raised the body, whint'
they found to be that of Miss Jane Gulliver, and too
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it out into the house. It appears she must have
Mrs. Fisher's, instead of going up stairs, immediately
after her sister's back was turned. She then went to
the back of Mr. Field's garden, a few hundred yard!
from Mrs. Fisher's house, and there, having taken on
her pattens, and pinned her clothes tightly round her, 511
threw herself into the stream, which was very rapid and
swollen by the profuse rains that had fallen for a fell
preceding days. It is supposed that she must have been
very quickly carried to the spot where she was found,
which is about forty or fifty yards from where she threw
herself in. Her pattens were found on the bank
man who was wandering by the river some time before
the body was discovered. An inquest was held upon tut
body of the young lady the following day. It m130.4_1,4
its the course of the evidence that a report had prevalt
that deceased was enciente, but it was proved, on medical
testimony, that there was not the slightest foundation
for this aspersion upon the character of the unbar.tal
young lady. But to what cause the depression of spl/e
from which she had been suffering was attributable the!e
was no evidence to show, and the jury returned a verdiet
to the effect " That the deceased drowned herself whtlgt
in a state of temporary insanity," at the same time all
expressing themselves satisfied that there was no foenue.,
tion fur the report alluded to, but which, for the satisr
faction of her friends, the Coroner had thought proper
to investigate.—Abridged from the Banbury Guardran:
We are sorry to learn that, in some parishes 111
Wilts, the current rate of wages has been reduced to 75•
per week.—Somerset County Gazette.

BIRTHS.
On the 19th inst., at the Grammar School, LangP°l4'
Somerset, the lady of the Re'. E. D. Green, of a son.
On the 18th inst„ at Lark Hall-lane, Mrs. Sidney Johnson'
of a daughter.
On the 20th inst., in Nottingham-terrace, Regent's-o°4
the wife of F. Dawson, Esq., of a daughter.
mrs. r•
On the 21st inst., at Hatcham Lodge, Now Cross,
T. Fawcett, of a daughter.
On the 21st inst., the lady of Charles Main WortlurAft°l3'
EN., of a daughter.
On the 21st inst., at Titchfield-terrace, Regent's-park the
wife of Joseph Needham, Esq., of a son.
On the 21st inst., at Park-square, Regent's-park , Mfg'
Francis Cook, of a son.
On the 22d inst., at Clapham, Mrs. William Brown, of 5
daughter.
On the 22d inst., Mrs. Howell, Bernard-street, J.-11--
square, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 15th inst., at Wardle Lodge, tear Edinburgh, ClP-
.fry to
tain James Alexander Duncan Pergusson, Bengal to
Margaret, daughter of the late James Hops, Esq., writer
the Signet, Edinburgh.
concl
On the 16th inst., at St. Mary's, Islington, Naomi, e 6 011
daughter of the late Mr. George Robins, engraver, C't
T n(100,
City of London, to William Martin, of Wells-street, m°—
merchant.
•org°
On the 19th inst. at the Parish Church, Hoye,
Reade, Esq., of Hulton Locras. Cleveland, to Melville itige,
bars, second daughter of John Watson, Esq., of Wick L°
Brighton.

DIED.ad
On the 21st inst., at Sherborne, Dorsetahire, Mr. Wi
Sherring, aged 68.
On the 28th of October, at Malta, Henry ButtansbAlr,Esci-'
of Wrotham, Kent. 11s11
On the sth inst., in Jermyn-street, London, Samuel
Lord,
the Esq., of Long astle, Barbadoes.Mee
On 16th inst., atßodney-terrace, Cheltenhatn, -
David Potts, Esq. ed 82'
On the 16th inst., at Rugby, Miss Martha Ridge',snle Ili 0
On the 20th inst., at Brighton, Caroline, wife 0r
Window, Esq , inst Craig's-court, London. Askew' Esq'
On the 21st ~ in Wimpole-street, Adam As—
of Redheugh, Durham, agedTAirrortlit
On the 21st inst., at Clapham-rise, Frances riC""" ie.
daughter of Holdsworth Hunt, Esq , of the Inner Ters,P,,iet
On the 21st inst., at Hall Place, 'near Canterbury,
Ellen. relict of Colonel Webb, of the Coldstream Guar,,;l6 gest
On the 22d in‘t., at Kensington, Mary Adeline, yo
daughter of W. Rea, Esq. ha d We"
On the 22d inst., Sarah, the wive of Mr. R.; c-- r
(Tapp, Carpenters' Hall, London.

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ARREST OF BURGESS, THE
ESCAPED FOKGER.
The Boston Post, received by the Great Western,
gives the following, relative to the event referred to is
the above heading
Am Burgess, alias Ellis, whose escape from Eng-
land and arrest here have already been fully stated in the
Post, was brought before Mr. G. T. Curtis, commissioner,
for examination.
The COMMISSIONER, after the usual preliminaries had
been gone through, said to Burgess—Have you any
counsel ? Prisoner—No, Sir.
, COMMISSIONER—Do you wish for any counsel ? Pri-
soner—No, Sir. I'm willing the truth should come out.
The 10th article of the treaty of 1842, commonly
called the " Ashburton Treaty," was now read, by
which it appeared that fugitives charged with forgery are
to he given up by the respective Governments upon the
exhibition of competent warrants, and evidence raising
a reasonable probability that the offence has been com-
mitted, and by the party charged.
Mr. Richard Bord was then examined, and identified
Burgess as a late clerk in the Bank, and as the person
who vouched for Elder as being " William Oxenford,''
owner of the stock transferred by means of the forgery.
After partially hearing the evidence, the COMMIS'
SIONER thi ,ught it we,' not nee, ssary to go any further into
it, unless the prisoner desired it; and in reply to a quess
tion as to his wishes, the prisoner replied—l do nut clues"
tion what is stated. I am perfectly satisfied to go home.
COMMISSIONER—Have you anything to say why a eer'
tificate should not be granted that you are a fogith°
from justice, as is charged against you ? Prisoner—S°.
COMMISSIONER—The evidence proves beyond all •
reasonable doubt that the offence has been coat-
' mitred, and also that Burgess aided in its commission.
There is then no question but that it is my duty to issue
a certificate to that effect. I therefore order Burgess to
be committed to the gaol, to await the order of the United
Stai es Govt rnment.
The Commissioner then signed the certificate, upon
which the Secretary of State will issue an order for
the delivery of Burgess into the custody of the English
officer.
As described by himself, Burgess had a hard job in
getting off from Nahan on Thursday night. It took hint
three hours, and frequently the officers were near to
him. At one time he was lying on one side of a large
rock, while the officers were passing by on the other
side. He stumbled into a pig pen, repeatedly fell into
the water, and occasionally sank deep into the sand on
the beach. After he found a boat he was six hours in
reaching the Light- hcuse Island, on which he was taken
on Saturday evening. If convicted iu England, of which
there can be no doubt, he will be transported for life. IS
conversation yesterday, he spoke feelingly of his late ac-
cotnplice Elder, and expressed a wish to see where he is
buried. Elder had been on a visit to the house of the
prisoner's father in the country several months before
the forgery. He was oo!y forty-seven years of age,
the prisoner thought, and was occasionally engaged in
the horse business. His father was an extensive dealer
in lumber.