The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-23 00:00:00

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I cannot take it down. When you found her in the
state you describe what took place ? Witness-4 did
clothing medically then. I waited for Mr. Sanders,
her medical attendant, and we treated her conjointly
fi)r concussion of the brain and injury to the spinal
Marrow. These two diseases arose from two causes,
aiill if she.lia&not been my daughter, I could very
cosily explain to you the cause of one of them. Ido
riot believe the lock jaw was connected with the con-
cussion of the brain. I saw her twice a day from the
4th instant until Saturday last, the day of her death.
Prom time to time she became partly sensible, and
about four days 'previous to her death she became
ctonseicus enough to answer questions. •
• ,1 ConoNcit,--Do you believe she had a knoWledge of
*hat she was speaking about ? Witness—She had;
Iccidedly so. Seeing her dying, I threw myself upon
her, crying, " Oh, my dear Mary !" She replied,
`loh, papa, papa, it was Henry that did it ; he beat
rue about the back." There were three other. wit.
rlesaes present at the time, the nurse, Mrs. Fisher,
and Mrs. Barber, the landlady.
This witness was exceedingly excited whilst giving
is evidence, and afterwards became so much so that
le-Coroner ordered him to be removed from the room.
Elizabeth* Lee, the nurse, said deceased was con-

fined cm the 20th of August, and attended by Mr.
aver; of Samford-street. On the 4th instant de-
4deased was weakly, having been up only four or five :
ays. ',Deceased and her husband slept together that
night in_the hack parlour, and witness slept in tl 0
front one. About eleven o'clock she heard them
4cuffling: Deceased said, " You shall not, I'll die
1
efore I give into you." They scuffled for an hour,
nd then ceased, and recommenced, and continued
uffling until one o'clock in the morning. She heard
no blows struck, and in the znorbing found dec.:used
in a state of insensibility, in which she continued
until the time of her death, so far as she knew ; and -
Was never able to answer questions rationally.
By a juror—Besides the words above-menti .n( d,
I heard deceased also say, whilst in bed with her hus-
band, " If I had married Cobbey, he would not, have
nerved me so." She used often to tell him the same
filling. •

Air. H. W. Laver, surgeon, of 38, Stamfordstreet,
roved delivering the deceased, on the 20th of August,
of a healthy female child, still alive. Ile attended her
imtil she became convalescent. She afterwards bad
rheumatism, and witness going out of town left ler
Go the care of Mr. Sanders, and d:d not see her again
Until the 10th inst.
Mr. :Sanders proved finding marks of pinehir g
Under each ham, and also the marks of an injury at
Ihe bottom of the spine. If the latter were the effects
1 violence, as deceased was a - weakly person, it
light affect the spinal marrow and brain. She made -<
o statement about her husband in his presence,
tough she was partially conscious up to the time of
liner death.
t Mr. - Laver -re-examined--410 opened the body,
the head, chest, abdomen, and spine, and found the
whole of the former congested. On examining the
Apine, he found the sacrum, the last bone of the spinal
colutnn, in a sAtened state, which might be caused
y a blow. The lowest part of the spinal cord was in
state- of congestion, and there were small. coagula
In
11 along from the dorsal to the cervical ve:tebrw, and
flantinatlity action all along the spinal canal. Tha
iscera of the chest and abdomen were healthy.
iCORONER-To what cause do you attribute death ? ,-•
Vitness—To paralysis of the phrenic nerve, cgustil...:
.111y-di.s.ease-orthe spine,• attributable probably tdsorrier" '-
tudden external jar. He could not, however, trace
the Origin of the- injur-y. Ile did not think death re-
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aulted from natural causes, but was the effect of some
Species ofviolence• to the saern-n.
i' 11.1:the CORONER—nr. Bienton told . me, as lies
vife'zt mediCal adviser, how the affair cceurred. . .
I (The di,closure in detail is not fit for publication;
tut it was the result,-the husband said, of struggling
to resist the fruition of marital rights.)
! The inquiry was then adjourned for further

with nce.

COURSE OF EXCIIA]
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t to, at .sight l2 -4
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Vtona
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Pit to, 3 mollths 2.1 85

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Gibraltar
Leghorn .
.30 50
Genoa 25 85
Milan
Venice .......
Naples • 31-:1
Pi.lormo, per oz llB
Lisbon s'i
Oporto 55
Ilio Janeiro 23 .
23
Buenos Ayres
NewYork,2ldys sight
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, ma 07.
Foreign Gold, bars. .C 3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 347 5
New Doubloons..... 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4- -91,
Silver in Ears 0 4 Ilj

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tetersburgil, 3Us 3?
Berlin 7

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Barcelona 36
Sevilla —

'RENCII NAVAL EXPERIMENTS.—Some experi-
ments. of a highly interesting nature (observes. the Con-
stitutionnel) took place some days ago in the port of ,
Brest. Some percussion balls were tried after tutting
been laid by for several years, in order to ascertain whe-
ther, after a prolonged exposure to the marine taws-
phere, the permanent humidity of the shores was not
capable ofinjuring them, inasmuch as it generally hap-
pens that the fuseez of ordinary shells are completely use=
less for service after the expiration of one year. The
results were highly satisfactory, and left no doubt as to
the perfect conservation of the new projectiles. Thus
M. le Commandant Billette will have conferred upon the
navy the advantage of a new and terrible instrument of
warfare. That officer has just adapted his system of
percussion to hollow balls or shells destined for carro-
nades of 30, 24, and 18 ; and thus all our cinnons will
henceforth be capable of expelling explosiie 'projectiles,
With the powerful destructive agents now in--our power,
battlos will be of a very short duration, and
,victory will ;
be obtained by the ship which shell first succeed in send- ,
ing on board her adversary a small number of that, ex-
plosive shells. But victory or defeat will be greatly 'de-
cided by the accuracy of aim,' to which every attention
should be paid. M. Billet!. has also proposed a new
mode of firing pieces, more instantaneous than that now ,
in use,'and capable of affording the most accurate aim.
New experiments are about to be 'made- on board the
different frigates now in port. If the hopes of the in-
ventor are realised, a great step will have been gained in
the science of naval gunnery ; in fine, the problem of in-
stantaneous ignition will be solved, and cannon balls will
fly with the velocity ef thought.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE NEAR PRESTONPANS. Ott
Thursday morning, shortly after twelve o'clock, a fire
broke out in the linseed oil and bone dust manufactory
of Mr. David Miller, at Port Seton. It began in the
upper flat of the premises (the building consists of three
flats), while the men in charge of the work were neees.
sarily engaged on the ground floor. An alarm was
mediately raised, and messengers dispatched to Mussel-,,
burgh, and to the Edinlyirgh Police-office for
rthiahlriTe-,
engines. As soon as horses were procured,
dispatched an engine from the main .office,
to the scene of
'four horses, along with eleven fi.rteumated
e-lIP close to the sea,*
drawn by -
action. As the manufactory istosi
run' the engine at once
it was judged most expedient
inexhaustible
dt be loenSt
continued,
Of course, from the length of
of the stock, the flames had
and the combustible nature
into deep water, ensuringhthefretibmy
made 'considerable progress - , but the copious and well '
eanthibe
i fury of the conflagration, and ultimately: .
d
hours continuous and laborious .exertion, -
after two
in directed
stating supply,the
Of salt water from the engine succeeded'
entirely subdued the flames, which were thus luckily ,
ted from spreading to the neighbouring premises,
prevented
by which a much larger amount Of valuable property
would have been destroyed. As it is, however, the -
i‘iili tro
hamadouhnist
ptoroapbe,orutyt,
damage is very considerable—there being 750 quarters
of linseed, and six quarters of oilcake completely con-
sinned.
estimatedWwlietlhueltll‘‘d:eeh:.3NslteoarnlotdlsistolilfsaStei\oltrl.and Insurance Company.. .
The glare of the conflagration was distinctl
obserVed
on Prince's-street, a distance of ten or twelvye
miles CaT/ehdeoni‘ila
onnittrie"a'clury. papers contain accounts of a horrible •
crime committed by the captain of a ship, just arrived 1.-t
that port from Glasgow. A young lady of sixteen, wto
was put under his charge by her friends in Glasgow was
seduced and dishonoured by the captain during the
passage, and when the ship reached Montreal the poor
girl had become an idiot, and the crew state that the ,
captain used to beat her with a rope's end, the marks of
which were deep and frequent on her shoulders! The
wretch was committed.--(We hope the above story,
'hich we-copy from the Boston (American Post of the.
28th of September, may turn out to be unfounded. We,-
have for the present suppressed tho name of the Captain 1 and the vessel.]
.D —Glasgow Argus. ..O 1,1. .

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,XTRAORDINARY CHANGE
AGAINST A MEDICAL AT <
Yesterday--afternoon Mr. Carter, coroner for Surrey,
heldran inquest at the George, Lambeth-walk,
bed j or-Mrs. Mary Pullet Turner B enton, aged4s;
the wife of Mr. Brenton, an apothecary, residing at
No. 14, j'revvport-street, Lambeth. The jury was
highly respectable, and the inquiry excited unusual
interest, from a prevalent rumour that deceased met
her death from violence on the part of her husband, -
under peculiar circumstances.
The case was partly investigated on Atonday at
Union-hall, and 111 r. Brenton was remanded by the
magistrates to await the result of the present inquiry.
Mr. John Houston, surgeon, of No. 5, Thavies..
inn, Holborn, examined—Deceased was my daughter,
and I believe it was an unfortunate marriage. Mr.
Brenton, an apothecary, residing at No. 14, Newport..
street, was her husband. On the 4th instant I was
cal'ed to see her,. and told she was dying. I found •
her in -bed insensible, and Elizabeth Lee, a nurse,
with her. •
ConoszEß—From what cause did the state yon
found her in arise? Witness—Why, from personal
violence.

COIRMII—IIow do you know that ? Witness—l •
understand from—
. CORONER—I cannot take anything you have heird •
in evidence. Witness—l did not examine ,her person
at the time. I was told she had taken opium, but
her di-ease had no characteristic of her having done
so. -1-found ifie had concussion of the brain, lock-
Dm, and paralysis of the right arm, which I attribute
acts of violence and to nothing else.
Coaokrn—l cannot take your opinion in evidence.

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