The Sun.
London, England, 1826-02-02 00:00:00

COII,ONEIt'S LNQUgSII%

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YeStertiay eifiling, TIMM A 5 Stirr.Tov,
the Coroner for London, and d jury of merehanti in the cap,;
assembled et the Three Tuns Tavern, in Jorrv-qtreet, Mil gate,
to inquire into the death of 11r. CliAlUts NIHItERT, of the
firm of 'Messrs. Hlbbert, wine. merchants, in the above street.

The jury, being- empanelled and sworn, proceeded to the late j
dressed,rTesh i
The
ennncdeywii the deceased,
nue
panrpclial
01,
topposite,
tilteoatt
„D spectacle,
which
intghhelantac
half
com-
pletely corpse.
iPttLesaentiteesdpearamteostwno
severed the arteries, end bed divided the windpipe.
servant to Hall
otlie tisewcoernasetl ,
vet in.ws iin4ipte T
aletrieae
rtilerp‘liviret
with igar and a
. John u'
Hwiibtbheinrt,
the,ibaztlewre,ekin
I ttoltselvrvitedle-taralilereee, iLtjitleivercroYeltrienett.;
Mariner of the deceased,. which seemed to increase ttn° n biro
fieolinn; e rem:anted" that tie squeseeet .weseetoolte,wnitea"-77
cottrse excited my sitsprite. :A fete minueei,etftere atieurefe
o'clock, Mr. Charles Hibbert,, his son, called me up stairs, and
On my reaching his father's dreseing.roorn, I found trim knock-
ing at the door, and calling ti* admission; avid upon his Te.
ceteing no answer, he broke the door open anti went into the
room, when we discovered the deceaSed lying on the bed with
all his clothes on except hie coat, with his throat cut from
ear tO ear, mid the razor with which' -he committed the
desperate deed wee grasped in his eight hand. He WWI not
quite deridebut totally insensible. I ran immediately for sur.
gical aid, and Mr. F'rett*s assistant came immediately, and
pieced a ligature around the artery that was severed, . but all his
efibrts to prolong ex:ism/lee were tietikss. • . •
Coroner—You say, diet there was t visible ditierence in the
deceased for the last week ;,can you mention any particular act
that caused you to notice that difference
Witness—l cannot dotthat, but he always appeared very lo*
spirited, and used to sigh Blued very frequently.
Juror—What time did your.. master come into town that
morning from his country residence at Tottenhate ?
Wirn ess—A bout threeequarters of an hoar before he destroyed
himself. •
Juror-eDti you know whether or not your master was on
'Change before he tame to the counting-house?
Witness--Ides not. •
Juror-4 understand he Was:
Byethe • Coroner:--The room in wlslch the deceased com-
mitted the melancholy deed -wits a small room directly over the
countinghouse, which was applopriated to his own use es a
dressing-room.
Mr. John Wilkes Hill sworn-1 am a surgeon, and reside in
Cooper's.rew, Cratchederiats. I was sent fur about 12 o'clock
on Tuesday forenoon. to attend at r. /I itibert's, inJevary.*treet.
On my arrival I prticeeded up to his room, and found him lying
on the floor, his heed Supported by a pillow. On examination I
found a wound in his throat, about five inches in length. A:young
man, an ~.assistant to Mr. rrett, was et the time taking up a
branch of the carotid artery,. in a Menner which did him much
credit. The windpipe Was completely veveeeds beeettie quite in. -
sensible, and in a dying state at the time I entered ; n great
quantity of blood had flowed friern the' wound, and deluged
thebeti.elothes. On lboking about the room, 1 found a tum-
bler, • which contained the remains of poisonewhich it would
appear the unfortunate Men had drank previous to aliplying
the razor to his throat. I have since thylnicallY analyzed the •
sediment in the gins% anti discovered that it was of opium and
arsenic. I also found on the drawers a•brace of small packet.
pistol's, quite new, loaded with polished ball; and from their
aPpearinceetehould imagine they had been attempted to be
tired, hut had flashed in the pan. It is therefore apparent that
the deceased had attempted his life both by poison and ehoote
big himself. The' pistols bore the name of " Bond, Corn-
hill," and seemed to have been purchased that morning. The
witness then produced a razor, which was -mach stained with
blood. in coeclueion, he added, that no human assistance
could have been of any avail, from the extent and nature of the
Wound.
Mr: Aldelmen Thorp asked Mr. Hill if he had attended the
deceeeed eitofeseinnally before he perpetrated the sad act ?
etiaiveied m
Mr. Hebei sworn--I am a merchant, and reside in Antes
rica-square, Minories. I have teen acquainted with the
past, which I consitiet was
dcceatied for many years. He. has been in• very de-
between him and his
to dissolve .jpercOtediuce'dtn4 efo9rmesTiTatlll:rs'egte tantaivi;
part-
nership,
brother, which had ended in an agree/tent
great 'pains to soof one
th him, but
together with the unexeccteil return o of his sons
from America.have taken
Could not. The-return of his son, which was attended with
petuliar circumstances, added very much -to his despondency.
Oh Sunday I went to his midi:ate at -Tottenham, when I found
settee yeare'since he. was afflicted
him in the same state of mental affix/ion. 1 saw him again on
Monday and he was then so bad that told, his son Charleseto
take particular Care of him..
in a •tiniikr manure`, but with care anti attention he gm over it.
11, wee a man he very weak nerves. lie has left se family-of
ten 'chiherldren. •
Te beingto further evidence to peodute,
The on read over the wider .snot Observed there could
be eo doeht b lYthe-deeteed tommitted the task act himself;
and !lie qeeetiore for- tinter to detide 'wooeitt 'whet suite a miod
he was in at thestitne. • They h-el heard the evidence that had
been boogie. forwerd;
and Upon which they
The Jery • alter a feetinomente ecinenterateee
returned a
would decide.
verdict" Tiler theeleceaSed tlestreyed -himself in ,a state of
4itn'porary tlerangement,t' • - • .

AGRfeULTURAL REPORT FOR JAN.

The open weather, which succeeded to the
frost, tvitit which the last month closed, was of
short continuance. On the night of the 2d of
January it began to freeif,, and. it Continued to
do so until the 18th, when a fine gradual thaw
commenced, which has again been followed by
frost. In the early pert of the month the cold
was intense, and the weather boisterou:, with
piercing winds, attd storms of snow, more or fess
heavy in various part* of the kin4,tom. Of late
it has been serene and still, with occasional fogs
of heavy, hoar frosts.; , yet enlivened et times by
intervening days of clear sunshine. The young
Wheats and Winter Tares in open situatiuns•
have rather suffered, in appearance at least, from
the sharp frosts and winds to which they have been
exposed, unprotected for the most hart
vering of snow. The tender blades and leaves hare,
under these circumstances, assumed something of a
rusty appearance ; but •we epithet observe nor
hear that the root has any a here been damaged,
and we do pot anticipate any eventual injury.
Sheep haVe. generally done well doring the dry
cold weather, although their subsistenee has been
chiefly restricted to hay ; the turnips in upland
districts, which are also sheep districts, being
quite a failure, and even in the better _soils,
turning'out worse in btilk,than the -show of leaves
seemed to promise. Where they have. attained
to any size, they are also rotting us fast as pos.,
sible. This seems to he rather an unexpected
consequence, of the dry summer.) that roots and
fruits of all descriptions have decayed ,prema-
turely, even before they were affected, by the
frosts. The carting of manure,
_and the thrash,.
ing of corn, both by hand and machinel are npe7.
rations that have been actively pursued during.
the ,continuance of frost ; but. the interruption of
most other farming business, cud the entire sus-,
pension of vegetation, leave little Cur a reporter
to notice of a purely agricultural nature. in the
absence of other matter, it may be worth while
to take a review of the supply of. the Corn, and
Meat Markets, In hondOn—cOmparitig it with
that of the preceding year, and of some others at
founer period: Tito following little table will

fora] the

AItRIVALS

!. Wheat.

412 rs.
,523

18121 480,145

)B`4l 394,797
ISM 496,867

i)und o

4' (MAI

Barley.

Qrs.
29,404

our ol►servatiuns t--

&c. 114 THE POitT of LoxppN

Oats.

200,739

235,020
•467,028

51ftlt.

Flour.

U 34928

AILUIVAL3

1812

b 97,028

620,520
:1,142,817

Qrs.
177,090.

1340,9f11 Sacks.
.! 1,700 lirl4.
3,b84 Cwt.
21344,842 Sacks.
I,U" if Britt.

154;334

OF CATTLX AND Sii

242,1)90
206,806

12k,0,4
133,854

1424
)825

406,499 Sacks,
1621,165 Sacks.
9,631 Ms.

,r;IrAT :35111 nregi.n.

9113,630
1,394,467
1,944,300

170,4207
1 69,01311

, ,
r rom 'tne above statement, it appears tharthe
arrivals of Grain, &c: in the :Port of , LontiOn,
have been very large during the year 182, par-
ticularly as compared with those of 18'24 ; .ind
that the excess of the arrivals of the former year.
over those of the latter, is as follows, viz, :
Wheat, 102,070 qrs., Barley 231,3013 qrs., Oat's
522497 qrs., Malt 23,802 qrs., and. Flour about
2,2C)0 sacks. On comparing the average of the
arrivals in 1811 and 1812, with that of 1824 and
1125, the 'following results appear. The average
of the arrivals of Wheat in the former period,
exceeds that of the latter by 850942 qrs. in each.
year. This is certainly remarkable, considering
the great increase of population that has taken
place since that time ira the Metropolis ; more
Oracularly, as the arrivals of 141 I and 181'2'
I consisted, for the most part, of BritiAt Wheat,
being for the first year, 364,714 qrs., ,and for the
Isecond, :191;973 qrs. out of the total tsrrivalS :
while in 1825, the British Wheat that arrivedis
sittlT 350,705 gra'. f f the arrivals of British
1 ,:Wheat in the port' of London could be considered
.o's tiny eriterion of the growth of the .kingdom, it
'would appear that we had not incremad our pro-
duce of NV heat 'since 1811.12. It is Probable
that the arrivals of Wheat and Flour in the putt
of Loudon, du not exceed the half of RS'
consumption; and therefore, cantrot. be .assumed
as a correct index of- price. This will. farther
be evident, , if we revert to what haS ' al»
ready been stated, that the. arrivals of 1811
and Isl 2, exceeded those- of 1824 arid 1825 ;
while the prices 'al the former. years were
respectively 94s:' 6d and.4255...1id.;. while those
of the latter cannot be above 645. or 655. A.n.
other circumstance worthy or remark is, thafout
of the abundant arrivals of Wheat in the port of
Lontion,, a very 'small proportion has crone from
keland.in iit2s, only 8128 quarters. The cir!
Cuitous voyage, asid greater contiguity of Liver-
pool, and other Oorttl might have account" 'fOr
this; had not the arrivals of Irish, Oats amounted
to 391",195 qu:,rters. Irish Wheat , is of an in,
ferier quality, and perhaps ill suited to the r.,,,,,;.
don market. The increase ef "0 "6"ls of
;rain, in OW [-Mt milactorecl st9re, if it may he- s 6
termed, since ltii I, arid If 2 is also deserving jig('
notiee. The excess of 1824.5 over the fottner
Years in thße article of Malt is 187,664 qrs. and. in
}'lour about, 380,000 amhs., in Stnitheltl the
upqp-lv of Cattle ',net ,Sheep in the last year has
been le,, titan 14,T1 tvY .1109 liOnsts) and 150,167
She,n. , This-d,li,lcatiort-iimay perhaps be :ac.
Counted- forby,lhe 'mortality which prevailed last
i,ar.; part:looo6y itr St!rep,. On a .otripatisonvf
the average .op ply of the years 18.11-12,,with
-0,0-:4(024-5, it ' will be seen thitt' the yearly
1 'VAC ass of the latter aver ..the,- former. is ,49x1,85

Beasts and 359,368 Sheep. From these surnai
however, Some deduction must be made, as the
account for the former years tont.titis the twat-
ber actually sold in SmitidiAd, the
latter year§ we Lave at pre t
Me-971S of ascer•
-
taining, and have therefore only given the num-
bers brought to Market.' If this deduction sboldl
amount to -1-9th or 1-10th, which, may
blyH be not far from the truth, the exee'ss of
18244 on the average Will be about thirty-six
thousand Beasts' and 320,0;;1() Sheep. The de-
?nano ofan 'HO-eased and increasing population
way well be supposed. to be about tbeSe addi-
tional numbers.--Since our laSt report the 'mar-
kets for grain anti live sCock, bolli fat tindlenit,
have experienced a depression, 4.114'11 cawaot he
matter of
,surprise ethicist the convulsions and
embarrassments of the commercial and moneyed
interests— Wool, ; fully vat takirs of 00
.geberat
dulness and Sta'gnatiUn. We Love beard of a
,few
sales in the midland counties at 285., but these
have probably been forced transactions. The
Imperial nwtisUreS do not seem to he'generally or -
readily adopted, and prejtidice atplur,tcs to
be excited against them.-An opittiOn prevails that
Parliament will repeal their enactments. bra tfsiv
subject, or postpone their enforcement. Itatty ion
'provement can be introduced into the syste.ii),4 will
certainly be welt to adopt it, but if,- us it
seems impossible to doily, it is of importance
to .establish un unifottn standard of oeight
and measure in, a commercial nation like this,
it would surely be a weak and vacillating
conduct in our legislators to recede front tin,
vances they have made tOwardi the attainment of
so desirable an object ; and 'it may be Worth
while for the farmers to consider how difficult
the introduction of agricultural improvement is,
through the attachment of set and labourers
to old but exploded habits; let them in the pre-~
sent instance imitate the conduct they candetn.o
in others„ and 'let them leCollet, that if they are
subjected to some temporary inconveniences, it
is impossible.to introduc•:a 'new system, shoiie ver
excellent, without interfering in Sorne!degree
with the habits and customs which have `arisen
under the. old One, huWeier faulty and iniperfect.

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