The Sun.
London, England, 1828-04-16 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

Monday afternoon an Inquest was held in the
Committee-room of the Middlesex Hospital, before
Taos. STIRLING, Esq., Coroner, 011 the body of
Mary Ann Harrison, a fine girl, aged five years.
Elizabeth Truck, of Moruington-gardens, St.
Pancras, stated, that on Thursday afternoon last,
about half-past four o'clock, Lavinia Harrison, the
deceased's sister, came to her house, and informed
her that her sister was burning. She instantly pro-
ceeded to the residence of her parent, close by,
where she found the deceased with her clothes
burnt from her body. She carried her to St. Pan-
cras workhouse, where the porter at the gate re-
fused to admit them, although the child was crying
at the time in the greatest agony.
Lavinia Harrison, the sister of the deceased,
stated, that on Thursday afternoon last, her mother
went out on a visit, leaving her (witness) in the
care of her sister, who went to the fire to take off a
pan, when her clothes caught fire. Witness tried to
put the flames out, and burnt herself dreadfully in
the attempt. Finding it impossible to put them
out, she ran to a Mrs. Camp, a neighbour, who a
short time ago quarrelled with her father, and she
told her that her sister was burning ; to which she
replied, " that she might burn;—she could not cry
as she was doing if she was burning."
Mr. Joseph Franklin Rose, house-surgeon, stated
that the deceased was brought to the hospital on
Thursday night last, severely burnt all over the
body, &c. Every assistance was afforded, but the
deceased died of the injuries the following day.
Mr. STIRLING observed, that the conduct of Mrs.
Camp was brutal in the extreme, and deserved ex-
posure. It was impossible to drive humanity into
same creatures. He a short time ago attended an
inquest at Holloway, on the body of a master dyer,
wl,O hung himself. He was found hanging in the
kitchen by his own son (a boy), who ran up to his
sister to inform her of the circumstance; on which
she fainted away. On recovering herself, she told
her brother to run to the next door neighbour (who
was a master tailor) for assistance ; who, on being
told that his father was hanging in the kitchen, re-
plied, " Let him hang and be cursed; the whole
family may hang themselves if they like, and if they
are fools enough." Tike poor boy ran away, and,
after he plucked up resolution, he cut dos'vn his
father himself, but he was quite dead.
The Jury returned a verdict on Mary Ann Har-
rison, of " Accidentally burned to death."
On Monday afternoon, at three o'clock, an inquest
was held on the body of Joshua Paul Meredith, Esq.
in the King's Bench prison, where he died on Sun-
day morning last. The Jury, as is the custom in
all cases of inquest at this prison, consisted of twelve
persons, all prisoners, one half residing in the rules,
and the other half confined within the walls.

The only witness examined was Mr. Liddell, a
surgeon, who stated that he had known the de-
ceased gentleman for some years, and had attended
him professionally for the four years last past: The
deceased had for a considerable time laboured under
hydrocele, but that disease did not affect his gene-
ral health, or constitution, to a degree that could
have caused his death. Knowing the unfortunate
habits of drinking in which the deceased was accus-
tomed to indulge to an excess of late, Mr. Liddell
had no doubt but the immediate cause of Mr. Me-
redith's death arose from that intemperance.
The .Tury, after a few minutes' consideration, re-
turned a verdict that the deceased died a natural
death.

Mr. Meredith was a very young man, being only
in his 31st year when he-died. He had been about
three years a prisoner for debt in the King's Bench ;
and although his bona fide debts were of small con-
sideration, compared with a large landed estate
which he possessed, he could never arrange his
affairs so as to accomplish his liberation, mainly
arising from an unfortunate association which he
formed in that prison with a gang of knaves (of
whom more by-and-by), who held him in a degree
of intellectual and personal thraldom which is scarcely
to be conceived, while they despoiled him alike of
his property, his reputation. and his wealth. The
deceased was the gentleman whose name and person
were sported with, under the title of Captain Mere-
dith, at that disgraceful scene called "The Mock
Election," in this prison some time ago, anti which
Mr. Haydon, the artist, who was then a prisoner
himself, has made the subject of a profitable exhibi-
tion picture.

At the petty Sessions held at the Green Dra-
gon, Cheshunt Church-gate, on Monday, the SI st March,
the accounts of the Overseers of the parish of Broxbourne
were opposed by a parishioner, until two items were ab-
stracted, purporting to be the weekly allowance to the smo-
thers of two illegitimate children, who had been com-
pounded for (by the payment of 401. each), one of which
40/. bad been. accepted by the parish for an individual re-
siding therein ; the other, from an individual not residing
in the parish, and who, from motives of delicacy or se-
crecy, was only known to a select few of the parishioners,
and who had carried the money to the parish account, and
would give no more information respecting it : upon which
it was intimated by a parishioner at the audit of the ac-
counts, that he objected to the above two items, and would
oppose their being passed before the Magistrates, unless
they were either affiliated or the parish indemnified; and
upon the case being heard before the Magistrates, they
were ordered to be struck out : one of the gentlemen ob-
serving, it was impossible to pass the account, as the
children had never been affiliated ; and passed a compli-
ment on the person for coming forward on such an occa-
sion. It therefore appears illegal to accept compromises
in cases of bastardy, whether the child is affiliated or not ;
and that no weekly allowance can legally be paid by the
overseers until the child is affiliated.—Essex Herald.
Immediately after the execution of IRONS,
who some time ago murdered his fellow-servant, the body
was given up to the surgeons of St. Thomas's Hospital for
dissection. As soon as the body was stripped, the sur-
geons who surrounded it pronounced it to be the finest
shaped one they ever iseheld, and it was determined that a
cast should be taken of the whole frame, on account of the
prodigious sinews and the exquisite symmetry of the limbs
and chest. For the perpnse of rendering the cast more
perfect by exhibiting the sinews in their utmost fulness, the
surgeons resolved to take the skin off the body, and they
soon accomplished the task. It was, we understand, sug-
gested to inject the blood-vessels and preserve the body, on
account of the surpassing beauty of the frame; but the
enormous expense deterred the operators from that process.
The skin was buried the moment it was taken off, and the
casts will be immediately taken and supplied to the various
academies in which exhibitions of the kind are considered
desirable. Dr. Sorra was, we were told, the principal
operator.
REPRIEVE.—CLONMEL, APRIL 11.—An
express has arrived in town to stay the execution of \Arm.
GRACE, T. Manna, M. TRACY, M. LOOM-, J. DANIEL,
and Tilos. KEGII, jun. - They were sent off for trans-
portation for life under an escort.—The Hon. Justice
MOORE, accompanied by the lion. Mr. PLUNKETT, set oft'
this morning from Clonmel. The learned and humane
Judge has gone through a demoralized population—unac-
companied by the Scotch Greys—unaccompanied by the
Police—as a plain country Gentleman—acting upon his
own experience of the people, that this frantic and con-
federated spirit is only confined to a banditti, which is•
now broken up ; but that the physical force of the pea-
santry are untainted by the lawless and infuriate mania, if
they were only countenanced by their legitimate protectors
—the great landed proprietary and gentry of the county.--
Wateybrd Chronicle.
About six o'clock on Friday evening a fire
was discovered in the stable of Mr. LAMB,
of Newcastle,
by the boy, who had done the horses all up that day with
new straw, and had left them about half an hour : he had
then used a candle, instead of the guarded lamp kept for
the purpose ; and it seems that something had fallen from
it which had ignited the straw after Isis leaving the stable.
The alarm being given, he opened the door of the stable,
and his attention was directed to a mare (Maria, by North
m:
Star, dam by Guhanna, which was entered fur the great
handicap gold cup at Liverpool, and for which a large price
had been offered by that
plunging
ver
very lays
in a dreadful
Yspo't):i'
manner
this, found herr
enveloped in itohefl(o almoers, and
closingupon him, prevented him from
extricating her. He ran for assistance, but in the mean
time she was literally roasted alive. Two hacks were also
dreadfully scorched. By the prompt exertions of the
neighbours, with buckets, &c., the fire, which was prin-
cipally confined to the mare's box, where it had originated,
and the bedding of the true hacks, was quickly got under ;
and by the time the engines got to work, all further den-
ger had disappeared,