The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-25 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS BY DROWNING.

On Friday afternoon Mr. Richards, deputy coroner of
Surrey, held an inquest at the Ship Tavern, Tottenham,
respecting the death by drowning of Mr. Frederick
Cornelius, aged 20 years. The deceased was the son of
Dr. Cornelius, residing at 21, St. George's-villas, Canon-
bury, and was a student in dentistry. He laboured
under the affliction of being deaf and dumb. On
Wednesday he complained of being somewhat unwell,
and in the afternoon he went out for a walk. At half-
past four o'clock some persons noticed a gentleman's
clothes, gold watch, &c., on the banks of the river Lea,
and they called to a bargeman named Edward Smith that
no doubt some one was under the water. Smith looked
down and saw the deceased extended at the bottom of the
river, lying on his right side. The body was got out
forthwith, and the hands and feet were found to be
slightly cramped or contracted. Death had taken
place an hour before. It was supposed that the deceased,
finding himself on the banks of the river, was
induced by the heat to try and refresh himself by bathing,
and that the cold springs in the stream gave him the
cramp, and he sank, and so was drowned. The jury re-
turned a verdict of accidental death. Mr. Richards held an
inquest at the same house on the body of George Surrell,
aged 17 years, who was also drowned while bathing in
the Lea. The deceased was a cabinet-maker, and
lived at 152, King's-cross road. On Sunday afternoon
he went out with a friend to fish. Noticing several
boys bathing, he, too, went in for a swim. His friend
suddenly missed him, and raised an alarm. Mr. Rudolph
Auberbach, a merchant, stripped and dived after the
deceased, and got him ashore after he had been eight
minutes in the water. All efforts at resuscitation proved
unavailing. The jury found that the deceased was acci-
dentally drowned. The same coroner held an inquest at
the Lamb Tavern, Ratcliff, touching .the death of John
Shea, aged 10 years. On Sunday last the deceased and
two other boys went into the Thames to bathe at St.
George's stairs. He was seized with cramp, and was
drowned. The body was only recovered on Tuesday.
Verdict, accidental death.
On Friday an uncle and nephew were drowned at about
the same time, though in different places—both near to
Wolverhampton. The uncle, a young man named Joseph
Pickering, the son of the landlord of the Green Man Inn,
Wolverhampton, who had also the management of a col-
liery at Willenhall, was se'z id with cramp whilst bathing
in a pool near his father's pits, cried for help, and soon
sank. A brother stripped and tried to rescue him,
hut he too was attacked with cramp, and could hardly
save himself from drowning. A banksman now threw
himself into the pool, and brought Pickering from the
bottom, but he was dead. Whilst the family were carry-
ing home the corpse, tidings were brought to them that a
son of the deceased's married sister, named Clover, living
at Wednesfield, three miles off, had just fallen into the
canal they:, and had been drowned also.

About a quarter to eight o'clock on Thursday night the,
greatest consternation prevailed in Pontypool and neigh
bourhood, by a report that a large number of young ladies
and gentlemen, relatives and friends of two of the princi-
pal residents—Mr. E. B. Edwards, deputy sheriff for the
county, and Mr. James Essex, surgeon—had lost their
lives by the upsetting of a boat. Hundreds hastened to the
sp —the tipper Glyn Pond, which. is sivate about a milt-
and a half from the town, when it was found the report
was but too true. It appeared that the party had gone,
out on the pond in an old, much-worn boat. They had
not been long in it when the bottom began to give
way. The ladies became frightened, and raised loud
cries for help, which were heard by Luke Sanger, a
boatman. He put off to their assistance, and in coming
close, they, in their eagerness to get into his boat,
upset both, and the melancholy result was that nine
(including poor Sanger) were drowned. Deputy Chief-
constable M`lntosh and a posse of police, with the
bystanders, made every exertion to recover the bodies, and
before two o'clock they were all found, and placed side by
side on beds in Sanger's house, after which they were re-
moved to the residences of Mr. Edwards and Mr. Essex.
The names of the parties who lost their lives were—
Miss Eleanor Essex (eldest daughter of Mr. Essex), Miss
Janet Sloper, Miss Fanny lon (daughter of Mr. W. lon,
of A.bersychan), Miss James (daughter of Dr. James,
Panteg), Master Campbell Edwards, 16 ; Miss Kate
Edwards, 15 ; Miss Jessie Edwards, 12; Master Granville
Edwards, 11 ; and Luke Sanger, 56, who has left a wife
and family.

PROPOSED NETV CONVALESCEN7

BOSPI7 AL.

Plans for a Now Convalescent Hospital, which is to be
built at a cost of half-a-million, are said to have been pre-
pared by Mr. Dalc,of Now Inn. The intention of the founder,
whose name is not allowed to transpire, is to provide an hospi-
tal for those who are betwixt tho middloand lower classes—
the respectable mechanic, clerk, and the like, who cannot
usually get fresh air and change during recovery from illness.
It is calculated tLat about 1,000 visitors may be accommo-
dated at one time. The architect has planned out six
separate dining halls, library, reading, billiard, and
smoking rooms, gymnasium, and baths, so that amuse-
ment and recreation of all kinds may be had within
the building; and he has taken care that no violation of
hygienic principles shall be committed in regard to ventila-
tion, water supply, drainage, and tho like. Mr. Dale has
circulated a pamphlet, containing an account of the plans,
amongst many of the hospital physicians and others, for
criticism. It is not settled as yet where the institution is to
be. An endowment of £25,000 a year is mentioned.

P.ANSLAVIST AGITATION IN BOHEMIA.

A. St. Petersburg letter, in the North Eastern Correspon-
dence, refers to the efforts made by Russia to fortify and
extend the action of the agents of the Panslavist propa-
ganda in Austria. "At this moment (it says) an extraordi-
nary activity is being displayed in Bohemia. The numerous
instruments of Russian policy have received instructions
to exert every means to lead the Poles of Austria to
make common cause with the Bohemians. Efforts are to
be made, principally in Gallicia, on the democratic
party, which is looked upon as the most easy to seduce.
When the number of agents paid by Russia is taken into
consideration, with the frequency of the direct and indi-
rect relations between St. Petersburg or Moscow on the
one hand and Prague on the other, and the facts which
transpire relative to the communications sent by that
means to the Russian
.Government, there is reason for
alarm at the progress made by that propagandism."

TIIE DUKE OF EDINBURGH'S Tour..—ln about
six weeks it is stated that his Royal }Ugliness the Duke of
Edinburgh will again take his departure from England in
her Majesty's ship Galatea on a lengthened cruise. The
4riny and .Nary GazeUe believes that the Prince will first
proceed to China, then to Japan, and return home by the
way of New Zealand.

CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPEDIA.—On Thursday last
a dinner was given by Messrs. W. and R. Chambers, the
well-known publishers, in Slaney's Hotel, Edinburgh, in
celebration of the completion of " Chambers's Encyclo-
paedia." The Lord Provost occupied the chair, and about
eighty gentlemen, the majority of whom had been contri-
butors to the work, were present. In the course of the
evening Dr. Findlater, the editor of the "Encyclopedia,"
was presented with a silver claret jug and a cheque for
gQO guineas by the Messrs, Chambers.