The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-22 00:00:00

" IN THE MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH.".

An awful instance of the uncertainty of human life occurred
in this city on Wednesday afternoon last. Mr. Newton, a
respectable tallow-chandler, residing in Broad-street, was
sitting in his shop in company with one of his daughters,
when, suddenly hearing an unusual noise, the child looked up,
and observed her father labouring for breath. She spoke to
him, but he appeared insensible, and she then alarmed the
family. Mrs. Newton was from home at the time, but an
elder sister observing Mr. Turley, surgeon, coming up Broad-
street, in his gig. called him in. Mr. Turley found the de-
ceased lying upon the floor, where he had fallen from the
chair. He immediately opened a vein in his left arm, and
about an ounce of blood followed the incision. The pulse,
however, gradually lessened, and soon ceased altogether. He
never spoke after he was attacked with this sudden seizure.
Mr. Turley, on his examination on the inquest, on Friday,
said he had long considered the doceased as subject to
apoplexy, and he had observed that latterly his face had
assumed a darker hue. He had no doubt whatever that the
cause of death was the rupture of a vessel in the brain.
There was a bruise on the left eye, but this was occasioned by
the deceased's fall from his chair. Mr. Hyde held an inquest
on Friday morning before a respectable jury, who, after hear-
ing the evidence of Mr. Turley, returned a verdict that the
deceased died by the visitation of God, from the rupture of a
vessel on the brain. Mr. Newton has left behind him a
large family to deplore his loss.— Worcester Chronicle.
INTERESTING ANECDOTE OF BERNADOTTE, KING
OF SWEDEN.—Among the wounded prisoners, was a young
French sergeant, who so particularly attracted the notice of
Colonel Wangenheim, commandant of the Hanoverian troops
in the English service, by his interesting appearance and
manners, that lie ordered the young man to be conveyed to
his own tent, where he was treated with attention and kindness
until his recovery and release. Many years afterwards, when the
French army, under Bernadotte, entered Hanover, General
Wangenheim, among others, attended the levee of the con-
queror. " You have served a great deal," said Bernadotte
on his being presented, " and, as I understand, in India ?"
" I have served there"—" M. Cudalore ?"—" I was there—
Have you any recollection of a wounded sergeant, whom you
took under your protection in the course of that service ?"
The circumstance was not immediately present to the Gene •
ral's mind ; but on recollection, he resumed. "I do, indeed, re-
member the circumstance, and a very fine young man he was ;
I have entirely lost sight of him ever since, but it would give
me pleasure to hear of his welfare." "That young Sergeant,"
said Bernadotte, " was the person who has now the honour
to address you, and who is happy in the public opportunity
of acknowledging the obligation, and will omit no means
within his power of testifying his gratitude to General Wan-
genheim."— Willis's Sketches of the South of India.
THE MURDER OF MR. SOLOMONS.—At an ad-
journed meeting of the Brighton Commissioners of Poliee,
held on _Wednesday-, the following resolution, moved by Mr.
Folkard, and seconded by Mr, Bradshaw, was unanimously,
carried :—" It is with the most painful feeling the Com-
missioners have heard the awful account of the murder of
Mr. Henry, Solomons, their chief officer of police, and com-
mend their clerk for the steps he has taken in bringing the
murderer to justice. The Commissioners cannot but express
their abhorrence and detestation of the cold-blooded deed
which has deprived the town of an old, faithful, and valuable
servant, the country of a most aealohs and vigilant officer,
and a mother and nine children of the only support on which
they depended for subsistence. The Commissioners, deeply
commiserating the distressing situation into which, by this aw-
ful act, the family of their late chief officer is plunged, resolve,
That a special meeting be convened on Wednesday, the 27th
inst., for the purpose of taking their unhappy circumstances
I into consideration, and to adopt such measure* relating thereto
as the meeting may deem expedient."