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, Woolwich,
before C. J. Carttar, Esq., and a respectable Jury, on
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-
pearance, with an infant at her breast, deposed that she
was the wife of William Maden, 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.
Witnesn; 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 Is. 6d. and
two loaves from the parish. This was all she had for
the support of herself, the infant, and the deceased.
She could do no work on account of the illness of de-
ceased and the child at the breast. Out of the 4a. she
received weekly, she paid Is. 91 (and latterly Is. 7d.)
for rent. Her firing cost her sd. a week, candles Is.,
soap 3d. 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 potato()
and a little bacon occasionally. Witness had no meat or
milk to give it, only a lath: 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.
Sarah Ann Wilks, landlady of the house in which
the last witness resides, said the family was in 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 natura
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 lie 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.

WATLINGTOL—AWFUL EFFECTS OF THE GAME-
LAW3.—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 poor boy was
employed by Mr. Dickers, a respectable farmer in the
parish, to shoot sparrows on the new sown wheat. On
Monday afternoon, whileperforming his duties, hestarted
a pheasant ; the temptation being great, and feeling a
desire to try his capabilities on a larger scale, he firtd
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, he was 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 !in authentic fact, as our 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 Lto fbwer than
thirty-three able-bodied persons are employedby our
surveyors repairing the roads, withal, good udgesj say
that tho land wants all the labour.-04:ford Chronicle.

t°in P THE COWGATE, EDINBURGH.—For some --° for
past excavations have been making near the Cowgittoedo
the foundation of a suite of court-rooms to occorn o
the Lords Ordinary. The buildings are to run sou
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from the present buildings constituting our courts of
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and the south wall will verge upon the spot where 0l;4
of our readers will remember the Back-stairs ascend(
of yore. In the space cleared by the workmen, a
ment of the first wall of the city (built about 1460)0
been laid bare. About the end of September, a
oof
much more recherches discoveries were made hiss&
workmen. South from the fragment of wall, and ditni
so from the present building for the first and se`erf
divisions of the Court of Session—fourteen feet h
the surface of the earth—was found a range of st:of
wooden coffins, lying close beside each other, and sty
taming human remains. In one, the skull containet,;lo
brain, still so far fresh as to show the vermicular 1:101
of surface. These coffins were straight in the sides ty I
had lids rising into a ridge in the centre. About 011
same time, ten or twelve yards west from that Vet; tost
also beyond the line of the city wall, the workmen") icl I
embedded in the ground, eighteen feet below the lc
the present Cowgate, a common-shaped barrel; or de
size (six feet high) resting on one end, and eighteen isost
deep into a stratum of blue clay, with a massive s
beside it; leading to the presumption that it had he!oi
barrel kept for the purpose of gathering rain, pavan
stone step to enable any one to get to its top, an-:l Okees
a supply of it contents. The staves of this barrel :yr
still, for the most part, fresh and sound. Still fari
to the west, near to the barrel, and at about the as
too
depth, was found a copper dish or basin, about
inches diameter, and six deep, having tie rim 310
evasated. There can be no doubt that, all these tops
have lain for several centuries undisturbed, The hod'
would be a portion of those interred in St. Giles's uh""01
yard, which was abandoned in the sixteenth century- do
barrel and dish must have been part of the curia
of a citizen of still earlier age. The Cowgate agti
1470, however much earlier, and it was for sone; 411
the residence of the great. So large a copper dish rtbs
only belong to a person of some distinction. 1311.4
most curious inference from these discoveries, is us/
the gradual rise of the level of the street in the coy
of time. Some years ago a street was round twelve ill
below the present causeway of the Cowgate, net,
„til
eastern extremity; here we find household articles nesl
still lower. This, however, is common in all ue:lesi
cities, in consequence of the want of police reguls`'sof
in the middle ages. Refuse and rubbish were 18;419
the street, and, not being removed, soon became trod
down, and thus raised the soil. Even paveusents °ejsdi
thus lost sight of. Fresh accumulations contistkiwe
taking place, the ground rose of course, rid, in 741
the bases of buildings were accommodated to the
level.—Scotsman.
DISTRESSING SUICIDE or A. You}; LiPlt"-petl
Friday this neighbourhood was shocked by a I",lfek
that Miss Jane Gulliver, daughter of Thomas Gr-w:of
Esq., of Bloxham, and sister to Mrs. Fisher, of 61100
bury House, with whom she had been staying wise Posi
had drowned herself. She was about twenty-sir I_,ol
of age, and had for a very long period been in indiffe't-e), 1
health, and latterly her spirits had been greatly aftcstsi
so much so that her medical attendant had sulEStrisclei
the propriety of her not being left alone. On the
morning, she had, with one of her casters,
Banbury. On their return, she went into the iti,oss
and then, as the family supposed, up stairs to eft. 00!
her dress. This was about one o'clock. At llauboo
two Mr. Robert Field, of Grimsbury Mill, saw a eh Os
floating at the mill-head, against the bars whir JP
placed to prevent substances passing to the whee'lleth, remarked that a shawl had blown away from sovn„t,vol and told his boy he had better get it out. .-1P- sse
walkestirpoi
got hold of the shawl, and then found that there Wije)i
body under it. He gave an alarm, and Mrs
and some of his men came and raised the body,' rtasit
they found to be that of Miss Jane Gulliver,
$Dd yft
it out into the house. It appears she must. bar
Mrs. Fisher's, instead of going up stairs, *sminew„t tt
after her sister's back was turned. She t:nen
11100'
the back of Mr. Field's garden, a few 'nundred
from Mrs. Fisher's house, and there. ..,aving take'shs,
her pattens, and pinned her clothes titootly round li!r'sse
threw herself into the stream, which was very rain" fed
swollen by the profuse rains that had fallen for sheea
preceding days. It is supposed that she must battl ,ed'
very quickly carried to the spot where she was
which is about forty or fifty yard from where she
herself in. Her pattens were found on the ban* iietA
bl
man who was wandering by the river some time
"0 ttie
the body was discovered. An inquest was held 'lt, us!
body of the young lady the following day. It
is the course of the evidence that a report had prel'ejief
that deceased was enciente, but it was proved, on "
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testimony, that there was not the slightest felon'hr
for this aspersion upon the character of the up'o sii
young lady. But to what cause the depressi, jrt of effete
from which she had been suffering was attr'soutable
tasei
was no evidence to show, and the jury ret.,ureea 01%0
to the effect " That the deceased drow,,ed herself...eW
in a state of temporary insanity," at, the same twoclo'
expressing themselves satisfied that, there was no rooor
tion for the report alluded to, hist which for the pet
faction of her friends, the Coroner had thought PdsolL
to investigate.—Abridged froso the Banbury Guarbe,
We are sorry to learn that, in some ',aril to:*
Wilts, the current rate of wages has been reduce°
per week.—Somerset county Gazette. 4

BIRTHS. —t,
On the 19th inst., at the Grammar School, Lallgi*,or
Somerset, the lady of the Rev. E. D. Green, of a son; visolb
On the 18th inst„ at Lark Hall-lane, Mrs. Sidnof i'c'
of a daughter.
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On the 20th inst., in Nottingham-terrace, Regent'''.
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the wife of F. Dawson, Esq. of a daughter. o'
On the 21st inst., at Hatc'ham Lodge, New Cross, g
T. Fawcett, of a daughter.
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On the 21st inst., the lady of Charles Main Worth
Esq., of a daughter. the
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On the 21st inst,, at Titchfield-terrace, Regent's-P-
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wife of Joseph Needham, Es q., of a son.
On the 21st inst., at Park-square, Regent'e-Par
of '
Francis Cook, of a son.
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On the 22d inst., at Clapham, Mrs. William Pr°
_ail., daughter.
On the 22d inst., Mrs. Howell Bernard-street, Nu"
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square, of a son. ,
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MARRIED. or
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On the 15th inst., at Wardle Lodge, Lear Eclio
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taiii James Alexander Duncan Fergusson, Benpl V i'riter
Margaret, daughter of the late James Hope, -"°...0
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the Signet, Edinburgh. 114
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On the 16th inst., at St. Mary's, Islington,, Naomi, ef 0,
eng.raver,,,iijo
daughter of the late Mr. George Robins ,
City of London, to William Martin, of 'dells-street, Lo ,
merchant. 00°.,„arfr On the 19th inst., at the Paris'', Church, floc,etve 9—,,
Reade, Esq., of Hutton Locraa, 't.;leveland, to Mit
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bara, second daughter of John Watson, Esq., o
Brighton.

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oi6nfBsot , at She)rborline, Dorsetshiret fir' OP°
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at Malta,
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Lord, Esq., of Long Henry Buttalls"B' '
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Yn-street,London, ißnayJerm San' 0.1 es Cast! B b does.
On the 16th inst., at Rod e'
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3 Cheltenhatn,
David Potts, Esq —"Y.-terrace, 82.
On the 16th iti".st , at Rugby, Miss Martha Eidu.g..es'f .10981
On the 20th inst., at Brighton, Caroline, w"" °
Window, Esq ,of Craig's-court, London. Asko(' 's‘l.'
On the 21st inst., in Wimpole-street, Ada —1)
ijoldswort gr'
of Redheugh, Durham, aged 86.
On the 21st inst., at Clapham-rise, Frances Ten' 10. k
daougnhttheer
2olistlloillslst.w, oartthHilaltlmptiaEces,q.n,
eoafrticieunitnenrcb4r giv,raft:l ,(18;
Ellen, relict of Colonel Webb, of the Coldstream ye,,,ing s
On the 22(1 inst., at Kensington, Mary -Adelin.' 1P
daughter of W. Rea, Esq m ' - rcilVt
Jnpp,On tchaerp2e2nctlerinestallS4arie:ohn,dothne wire of r. 1/1'.411
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ARREST OF BURGESS, THE
ESCAPED FORGER.
The Boston Post, received by the Great l'iroste'l3
gives the following, relative to the event referred to
• the above beading : •
William Burgess, alias Ellis, whose escape from Pig;
land and arrest here have already been fully stated in t
Pose was brought before Mr. G. T. Curtis, commissioner
for examination. hsa
The COMMISSIONER, after the usual preliminaries
been gone through, said to Burgess—Have you $9l
counsel ? Prisoner—No, Sir.
Commessroeue—llo you wish for any counsel ? Flit:
soner—No, Sir. I'm willing the truth should come opt
j 10th article of the treaty of 1842, coon° ,e
called the " Ashburton Treaty," was now read, si'rio
which it appeared that fugitives charged with forgery
bo
to be given up by the respective Governments upon
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exhibition of competent warrants, and evidence raja!!
a reasonable probability that the offence has been Ow
'flitted, and by the party charged. aed
Mr. Richard Bord was then examined, and identi
Burgess as a late clerk in the Bank, and as the perf
who vouched for Elder as being " William Oxenford•
owner of the stock transferred by means of the forgerl's,
After partially hearing the evidence, the C°3l! to
sioxaa thought it was not necessary to go any further'n i
it, unless the prisoner desired it; and iu reply to a clue.'tem as to his wishes, the prisoner replied—l do not en
tion what is stated. I am perfectly satisfied to go h°5160.
Yll
COMMISSIONER—Have you anything to say wil;c:fe •
tificate should not be granted that you are a fagliea
from justice, as is charged against you ? Prisoner-- 11
COMMISSIONER—The evidence • proves beyond ois,
reasonable doubt that the offence has been 600,
mated, and also that Burgess aided in its con3lnig"7o
'There is then no question but that it is my duty to Is'.t,
a certificate to that effect. I therefore order Burgtet
be committed to the gaol, to await the order of then'
States Government.
The Commissioner then signed the certificate, 11P
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which the Secretary of State will issue an orders)
the delivery of Burgess into the custody of the English
officer.
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As described by himself, Burgess had a bard job,
gettieg off from Nahan oh Thursday night. It took Into
three hours, and frequently the officers were near_„e
him. At one time he was lying on one side of a 1,.°0
rock, while the officers were passing by on the ono
side. He stumbled into a pig pen, repeatedly fall dijao
the water, and occasionally sank deep into the San is
the beach. After he found a boat he was six holo
reaching the Light-house Island, on which he was o'l4
on tiatarday evening. If convicted in England, of if"
there cau be no doubt, he will be transperted for life-
conversation yesterday, he spoke feelingly of his letel
complice Elder, and expressed a wish to see where ?e
buried. Elder bad been on a visit to the house orh,
prisoner's father in the country several months bta,,'o
,0
the forgery. He was only forty-seven years of
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the prisoner thought, and was occasionally engaglu
the horse business. His father was an extensive deal
in lumber.