The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-22 00:00:00

Q UEEN-SQUARE.

John Crosby, a strange-looking, middle-aged man,
described as a pensioner from the 4th Regiment of
Foot, was brought before Mr. Bond, charged with
having endeavoured to force his way into the Royal
Mews, and with having made use of threatening lan-
guage towards her Majesty.
On the first witness being called, prisoner, who
looked wildly round him, made some incoherent ob-
servations, and on being requested to keep quiet,
exclaimed, " I shall not hold my tongue ; I should
not if her Majesty herself was present; am I striking
anybody ?"
Police-constable George Bartlett said, that at about
one that day he saw the defendant engaged with the
soldier who was on duty at the Royal Mews, and
heard him say that he wanted to see her Majesty,
and declare, with an oath, that he would see her.
Defendant (with much vehemence)—" And I will
too."

Witness continued his statement—Defendant then
said that he had come there on purpose to see the
Queen, and nobody should prevent him. A gentle-
man then came up and desired witness to take the
man into custody, and assisted him in doing so. De-
fendant frequently exclaimed on his way to the sta-
tion-house, " I will see the Queen, and I'll Queen
her when I do see her."

Mr. BOND —Judging from his conduct and expres-
sions, is it your opinion that he is of sound mind ?
Witness-1 should say that he had the appearatice of
being of unsound mind.
G. Rudder, a private of the Ist battalion of Cold-
stream Guards, said he was on duty at the Royal
Mews at one o'clock that day. Defendant came up,
and asked him which was the entrance to the Palace,
and witness, thinking by his excited manner and ap-
pearance that there was something wrong, directed
him down towards Chelsea. Defendant said that was
not the way, and made an attempt to open the gate.
Witness pulled him away by the collar, and put him
into the road, but he returned again, and said he
wanted to see her Majesty, and would have admittance
to the Palace. A gentleman who was passing imme-
diately requested witness to keep tight hold of the
prisoner while he fetched a police. constable, and the
gentleman then assisted the officer in conveying the
defendant to the station.

Rees Davis, a tradesman residing next door to the
Royal Mews, stated that he sent a boy for the police
on observing defendant's determined manner. De-
fendant inquired whether the Queen came out that
way, alluding to the side entrance to the Palace.
Wm. Cornish, a police-constable of the B division,
stated that he was on duty at the station when defend-
ant was brought in. Defendant said he wanted to
see the Queen, . and she should not be Queen long
after he got a sight of her. He added that he had as
much right to be King as she had to be Queen.
Mr. BOND asked what had been found upon the
defendant? Cornish produced his papers, which
showed that he had a pension of sixpence per day,
and the following certificate :
" John Crosby has been for some timc confined in
the lunatic ward in the workhouse for deranged intel-
lect.—N. M'Pherson, Captain, Staff Officer. Man-
chester, April 6th."
The police-constable, Bartlett, informed the magis-
trate that the prisoner had been very violent that
morning at Chelsea Hospital, and had broken several
windows.

Mr. BOND asked the accused what he had to say ?
Defendant gave a wild look around him, and said,
" What have I done ? I only went to see the Queen:'
Mr. BOND said there could be no doubt of the de-
fendant's insanity, and directed that he should be
taken to the workhouse and placed under restraint.
Mr. Barefoot, an inspector of the B division, sub-
mitted that it would be better to remand the de-
fendant until Monday, and give the parish officers
notice to attend, when they could receive charge of
the man at the hands of the Magistrate. He (the in-
spector) was apprehensive that if the accused got a
little quiter by the morning he might insist upon
being discharged from the workhouse, and might
thus, in his dangerous state, be at large.
Mr. BOND said, that the authorities at the work-
house must be desired to detain him, and he would
then be passed in due form to Hanwell Lunatic
Asylum.
UNION-HALL.
Thomas Harwood, a law student, was charged before Mr.
Cottingham with assaulting the Rev. R. H. A. Paull, and
putting him in bodily fear, by threatening to shoot him.
It appeared that on Thursday last the defendant's mother
was married to the Reverend complainant at Newington
Church without the knowledge of any of her family. On
Friday evening, the Reverend Gentleman and his wife
went home to her house, but on arriving at the
door they were refused admission, the door being
but partly opened. The complainant announced to the
defendant that he was lawfully married to his mother,
but the latter still refused them admission. At length the
aid of the police was called, and when entrance was ultimately
obtained, the defendant got into a violent 'Passion, declaring
his determination not to acknowledge such afather-in• law, and
a younger brother being present he desired him to go up stairs
aid fetch down the 1900 pistol, threatening .to Phoot the

Rev. complainant if he did not immediately leave the house.
At length the matter became so serious that it was found
necessa►y to give the defendant into custody.
The defendant's solicitor said that his client's mother was
a woman possessed of considerable property, and that entii ely
against the wishes of her family she married the
complainant, after only an acquaintance of a single week.
That the defendant was not aware at the time
his mother was married, and under that conviction had re-
sisted the entrance of the Rev. Gentleman into the house. It
was stated that both parties had large families by former
marriage's. The solicitor added that upon the ground of the
defendant being unacquainted with the fact of his mother's
marriage at the time, he trusted the law would not be
pressed. _ _

Tke complainant having expressed his consent to with-
draw the charge, the defendant was then discharged:

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

MORE SOIRT-MAKING MISERY.—Mr. Baker, the
coroner, held 'an inquiry at the Five Bells Tavern,
Three Colt-street, Limehouse, respecting the death of
Sophia Anderson, aged 30, who destroyed herself
through the extreme affects of destitution and want.
Ann Monk, a most distressed-looking object, stated
that she was a widow and resided in the back room
of a house, No. 2, Vincent-street, Commercial-road,
for which she paid Is. 6d. a week rent. The deceased
came to lodge with her about a month since, being
destitute, and was to pay one shilling a week for
logging. She generally supported herself by selling
of portions of her wearing apparel for pennies or two-
pences at a time. For the last fortnight, however,
she wandered about the streets almost starving, and on
Thursday evening went out, saying that she would
see and borrow ls., so as to pay the rent which was
due on the following day, Friday, as she was afraid
that the landlord would turn them out of doors. She
said she would get it from her husband, and at dusk
left, as if for that purpose, but did not return during
the whole night, and witness heard ;nothing of her
till eleven o'clock on Friday morning, when she was
informed that the deceased had been found drowned.
CORONER—Pray, my good woman, how do you
obtain your livelihood ? Do you live with any of
your friends? Witness (with tears in her eyes)—
I have no family, sir; I live by myself and make
shirts, and am fast sinking.
The Foreman (Mr. Tuson)—What do you get
generally for making these shirts—what are you al-
lowed ? Witness—l make them, sir, for five farthings
a piece; but when I have to make them up for the
first-rate show shops in the streets, I am allowed from
twopence to threepence each.
The Foreman—And pray what can you make a
week at this work ? Witness—Why, sir, I can,
with the cheap ones, obtain about two shillings and
sixpence ; but with the best work I can make three
shillings and sixpence.—(Sensation.)
Juror—Yes, my good woman; but for the latter
sum you must nork very hard, must you not ? Wit-
ness—l must indeed, sir, because that is what they
call their best work. Perhaps I get up between four
and five o'clock in the morning, and continue to
work till between eleven and twelve o'clock at night,
and sometimes one.

The CORONER observed that he knew well the ex-
treme miseries which the poor shirt-makers in that
part of the metropolis had undergone, and he was in
hopes that by the late exposures of the cruel system
their condition would have been somewhat bettered.
It was a subject that had occupied much of the public
mind, and he still did trust that something would be
done to relieve their heart-rending distresses.

The CORONER (to the witness)—How did the de-
ceased get her food—could you give her any ? Wit-
neA—What I could spare I used to give her, and
would have done so to the last morsel sooner than she
should have committed such an act, but she so often
said she would destroy herself, I thought she really
would not.

Juror—Did she make any of the shirts ? Witness
—No, sir ; she did not nor would not. She used to
say that she was brought up in respectability, and the
idea of earning a livelihood at such cheap work almost
drove her mad ; and, although she was so much re-
duced she vowed she would not work at the shirts, and
further said she would not live as I did,

The CORONER here inquired if her husband. or any
of her relatives, were in attendance ? Mr. Cotting-
ham, the beadle, replied that the deceased was not
married, and none of her relatives were present. He
had made inquiries about them, and something of a
very mysterious nature was connected with deceased.
He had been informed that she was the illegitimate
child of some persons of distinction, and at an early
age was sent to a Miss Edey's school at Edmonton,
and mixed in the first families residing in that vil-
lage. She never knew who her father or mother
were, but after she had been at the school some
time she was told that her mother had died almost
heartbroken for the sight of her offspring. When at
the age of fifteen she was seduced by a squire living
in the vicinity of Enfield, who kept her for some time
as his mistress, and ultimately forsook her. She be-
came gradually reduced, and cohabited with several
persons, until, at last, she was rendered so destitute as
to seek the scanty assistance of the first witness.
The CORONER, who appeared rather amazed at the
singularity of the tale just told him, asked if there
were any witnesses who could speak to her more early
mode of life ?

Mrs. E. Brookman, of Somerset-street, Shadwell,
stated that about six years ago the deceased and a
gentleman, whom she took to be her hu,band, took
lodgings at her house, and appeared to live very com-
fortably. The rent was regularly paid, and nothing
was due when she left.
CORONER—What sort of man was he ? Witness—
An elderly man, sir.
CORONER—How do you know that she was not a
married woman ? The witness here handed in a
letter from a Mr. R. Wears, of. Chase-green, Enfield,
*high tended to show she was not.
Constant—Do you know whether this elderly
gentleman filled any situation to support himself and
the deceased ? Witness—ln the London Docks ; a
very important situation she told me.
Juror-I,ow, did you ever hear her say anything
about her pTrents? Witness—Yes, sir, she used to
remark that she would give the world if she could
but find her father and mother.:.

Henry Blythe, police-constable 302 K, deposed to
the finding of the body in the middle of the new-cut
of the river Lea, at Limehouse, on Friday morning,
about five o'clock. She had a bonnet on, and had
been turned up by a barge passing over her.
The CORONER observed that it not only was a dis-
tressing case, but one of very singular character.
Respecting the early life of the deceased they had
nothing to do; the cause of death being the part of
their inquiry. It appeared almost evident that the
deceased had destroyed herself, but still there was no
evidence to that fact, and they had better record an
open verdict.

The jury expressed themselves fully satisfied that
she had committed suicide, but the Coroner pointing
out the safe plan of returning
_a verdict of " Found
Dead," in a case like the present one, they conceded
and recorded one in accordance with the Coroner's
recommendation.

Mr. Higgs held an inquest at the Carlisle Arms,
Queen-street, Soho, on the body of Mr. l3oudry, aged
47, a master watchmaker, of No. 4, Frith street, Soho,
who committed suicide under the following circum-
stances :

Catherine Mills deposed that on Fria), morning
her master did not get up at his usual hour, but took,
his breakfast in bed. Between 10 and 11 the same morn-
ing a gentleman called, and said he wanted to see the
deceased. Witness
,communicated that fact to her
mistress, who immediately repaired up stairs to
inform her husband, but she found the door
fastened. She knocked, but receiving no an-
swer, she procured assistance, and had the door
broken open, when deceased was found lying on the
top of the bed, with a cord tied round his throat,
which w4s fastened $o a nail in the wall. There being
a surgeon in the house at the time, who had called to
sea his brother, he ran up stairs, and endeavoured to
restore animation, hut without success, the vital spark
having for ever own.
Mr. Michael Blood, surgeon, stated that on the
morning in question, whilst talking to his brother-in-
law, Mrs. Boudry -raa into the room in a very excited
state, and said her husband had locked himself in his
room, and she was afraid he had destroyed himself.
Witness ran up stairs, and tried to force open the
door, but being unable he sent for a carpenter, who
broke it open. On entering the room he found the
deceased in the state described by the previous witness.
He immediately cut him down, but he was quite
dead, and appeared to have been so about 20 minutes.
George Williams, of Frith-street, said some time
back deceased used to live with him. He then made
an attempt upon his life by cutting his throat. On
that occasion he lost a deal of blood, but being
attended to, he ultimately recovered. Witness had
not the least doubt but that deceased's mind had
become impaired.

Other evidence was given, which proved that the
father of deceased also destroyed himself, and that the
son was not of sound mind when he committed the
act. The jury then returned a verdict of " Tem-
porary Insanity."
On Friday Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest at
the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's Inn-road, on the
body of William Horrod, aged sixty, a weather-glass
maker, of Yardley-street, Hatton-garden. It ap-
peared in evidence that, on Fi iday week last, de-
ceased, being somewhat intoxicated, entered the
Percy Arms, Percy-street, Clerkenwell, and told the
landlord that he wanted to go into the yard, to which
he knew, he said, the way. Near the yard door in
the passage was a door that opened inwards from the
cellar stairs, and it being partly open the deceased
pushed against it and fell down the steps into the
cellar. The barinan, who was at work below, picked
him up and brought him to the parlour, and a
surgeon was sent for, pending whose arrival deceased
rallied and walked home. The next day he became
so bad that his medical adviser recommended his re-
moval , to the above hospital, in which he died on
Wednesday last, Mr. Thomas Hill, the eminent sur-
geon gad, of concussion of the Wain, caused by the fall.

The CORONER said this made the fourth inquest 1113°
had held on persons coming by their deaths thr°4o
having fallen into public-house cellars in consEques
of doors opening inwards. If any persons were bOl/nd
to use precautions fbr the security of persons math
',cited publicans were, before whose bars and in Iv; it,
tap-rooms and parlours people became confused
of
their sight and mind. Landlords had the 10'3°4 r,
guarding against this calamity by causing their eel aci,,
doors to be so hung that they would open outvorb;ci
and not be liable to open when a drunken man push
us
against them. He hc.ped the landlord of the
Arms would have his cellar-door altered, and pre`ent

a recurrence of a misfortune of this kind.•
The landlord, who was present, said he had anitifbie
pated the suggestions of the Coroner, and cause° "
door to open outwards on the passage.
Verdict; "Accidental death."
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Middlesex,Friday Al
heldr.G.la.nMinq
illsu,eB Deputy epauttytheComroindedrAinesfel
WesttHospital on the body of Wm. Williams, aged, 'leg
gentleman's servant. It appeared that deceased
out of place, lodged at the Sun public-house, bof
don-street, Regent-street, and that being at elubot
Odd Fellows on Tuesday evening, he returned a
ob,
midnight to the Sun slightly intoxicated. iietstwo
sequently drank some gin and porter, and shell" 00
o'clock on the following morning he left-the tairtne„4,
to retire, he said, to hii bed on the secondingno
Five minutes afterwards a fellow-lodger, wan the
go into the street found him lying on his face 101 l
pavement insensible, and bleeding freely from 'too
on the head. He was brought into the ""tifo
and a surgeon sent for, who finding that after re.
hours' attention he did not rally, ordered lila to
moval to that hospital. Evidence was addileindoar
show that deceased accidentally fell from a wore of
on the second floor landing whilst discharging e'ese
the wants of nature from it. Mr. Bishop, the horse
Qo
surgeon, said deceased was admitted at five o'cloorer
Wednesday morning, insensible to external imPter,
sions, and he died three' quarters of an hour of aro
wards. The causes of death were extensive freetol
of the skull and of eight ribs, broken clavicle, 6.
ilium, and rupture of the liver.—Verdict,
dental death." fir
SUICIDE IN A WORKHOUSE.—Yesterua,M, be,
Baker held an inquest at the Horn of Plenty, tlifeeJ
road, Mile-end, on the body of Thomas Moore, 700
forty-six, a coal-whipper, and for the last few &Pd.
inmate of the Stepney union workhouse, Mi.retol
lane. It appeared from the evidence of his w"eloric-
for three weeks previous to his admission to theW 00
house he had been light-headed, and one day te°,, o,ia
kettle off the fire, and seated himself in its Plaeltila
had it not been for her interference, ho led
have been burned to death. He Was , amber,
sober man, and an excellent husband and bit
and she attributed the derangement
mind to over study, but she did not Valet
what. By the advice of his confessor, fey
Arabin, he was removed to the workhouse un
day week. Parker proved finding the body after
ceased dead, and suspended by the neck from hlefJ,
in the water-closet, by means of two handkere tee 0
at noon on Thursday. half an hour before Wre-
gave him some tobacco, when he answered that rey
bably it was the last he sLould smoke. Witril
deavoured, he said, to cheer him, and added thil ree,
ceased since his Admission always appeared very
laneholy. Mr. Story, parish surgeon, said ',hest be
called to deceased, and attended, and found
had been promptly cut down, and was quite h he
He had been an infirmary patient, and althnegthiog
laboured under depression of spirits there was 0,..°
in his words or. deeds to create a suspicion nw.iir
would destroy himself.—Verdict, " Tetnpurgul
sanity."

MARKET NE WS.—(SAT UR—
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COVENT-GARDEN. sPes'
The display of choice luxuries--such as hot-housegs.cee,,
strawberries, peaches, cherries, cucumbers, &c., NA*35,-d ve),
ingly good for the time of year, yet their prices rat is
high. All other articles were abundant, and the deroa"
steady. tle
NEWGATE AND LEAD EN11..--..ruet
One of the principal features in the Poultry I'l',olo.l:fit
the arrival of a large supply of Fowls and Turkeys "- obv
land, in excellent condition, and by far superior to thos!.4 its
have come to hand from abroad. The general deralwtidioes;
heavy, but we have no variation to notice in the quo e, ;13,3
Although the supplies of meat were seasonably extefio 01%,
general demand was firm, at prices about equalgutt,°;
quoted in our last report.—Beef, from 2s 2d to.3s 4"; v
2s 8d to 3s 6d ; Lamb, 5s to 6s 4d ; Veal, 3s 4d t°
and Pork, 2s 4d to 4s 2d per 81bs, by the carcase. tqe
ViTHITECHAPEI4. argeu' tO
Although the supplies of meat on sale were not 123 3,1;
trade was heavy, at barely late rates :—Beef, fro
3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 8d ; Lamb, 55 t°
Veal, 3s 4d to 4s Gd ; and Pork, 2s 4d to 4s per 81bs.
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Prime Beef and Lamb WPOIZ
sold freely ; other kia—
slowly, on the following terms :—Beef from 2s 4d 14""
Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 8d ; Lamb, 4s 10d to 6s
3s 8d to 4s 6d; and Pork 2s 8d to 4s 2d per albs.
BILLINGSGATE.
The supply of Salmon was tolerably good forth ib„
year, and met n steady sale, at from is to is 6d period
other kinds of fish moved off slowly at last week's?'"
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HITNGER.rORD. ust 074.
Prime meat was in steady demand, at fully
quotations. In all other articles, the supplies of ic"'
small, exceedingly little business was transacted.
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BREAD.
The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis I.°
lid to 84d; of Household ditto, 6d to 7d per 41b 10"
.40,
HIDE IVIAHILET. d
Raw Hides, at per stone of 141bs—Best steers $l3,
error (11
5s 6d to 5810 d; middling hides, 4s 8d to 5s 4d; PLO
4s 4d to 4s Bd. Sheep and Calf Skins, at per ski°6-d;
calf, 6s 6d to 8s ; long woolled sheep, 4s to 55 hoary
ditto, 3s to 4s 6d; lamb skins, is to 2s 3d; and ° •
4d to 8d each. stri
HAT MARKETS. 3153' 07
SmiTHFLELD.:—Coarse Meadow Hay, 2115 s te , 0
ful ditto, 3/ Gs to 3/10s ; fine Upland ditto, -to 110$
Ins ; Clover Hay, 3/ 5s to Si 5s ; Oat Straw, 1163 ,4
Wheat Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ lOs per load. Trade
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heavy, at about stationary prices. 710 s; °4l;
CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ to to
eyt
ditto, 3/ 12s to 31 15s ; fine Upland ditto, 3/ ,1"-. Vi",(ls
Clover Hay,3/ 5s to 4116 s ; Oat Straw, 118 s to 111 r,
Straw, 1/ 9s to 1/ 12s per load. A moderate saPP a;
steady demand.
716 s t° 51135il
WHlTEcHarm.—Coarse Meadow Hay, Pts
useful ditto, 3/ 6s to 3l 12s ; fine Upland cuti'°l/65:46,
3/ 18s; Clover Hay, 3/ lOs to 5/ 5s ; Oat Strai*,
ly
8s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ Ss to 1/ lOs per load. Sql
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