The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-07 00:00:00

DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT
SLOUGH.

On Saturday afternoon an inquest was held before
Mr. John Charsley, one of the coroners fur Bucks,
at the tap at the railway station, Slough, on the body
of Miss Jane I3uckstone, a young lady, twenty-nine
years of age, the niece of tae late Mr. John Travers,
who met with her death by falling from one of the
windows of the Royal Hotel, as detailed in the fol-
lowing evidence :

George Boulton, a waiter at the Royal Hotel, was
the first witness examined. He stated that, on that
morning, at a quarter past five o'clock, in conse-
quence of hearing a noise like some one breaking into
the house, he got up and went into the area, where
he heard groans. On opening the shutters of a room
on the ground floor, he saw a woman lying on he
ground, on her stomach, with her head completely
doubled up under her body, and bleeding from the
mouth and head. Her shoes were lying about a yard
distant from the body. He immediately called up
Mr. Dotesio, to whom he handed the body through
the window, who took it in his arms to the room
where it is now lying. The deceased arrived at the
hotel last evening, with two other ladies.
Mr. Charles Dotesio examined—l am the pro-
prietor and landlord of the Royal Hotel, at this
ration. At a little after five o'clock this morning,
the last witrn.ss knocked at my bed-room window,
and told me that some one had fallen out of the
window and was dying. I instantly got up and
went into the parlour, where the window was open,
and received the body from Boulton, and took it to
the apartment where it is now lying. The deceased
was in her night clothes. I placed her on a mattress
brought by Boulton, and fetched the bed-clothes from
off my own bed with the view 'of warming her, and
put my pillow under her head. Having just left my
bed, the bed-clothes were warm. I immediately
sent for Dr. Bryan, who arrived within twenty-five
minutes after the body was discovered. I then had
my housekeeper called up, and got her to call the
aunt and sister of the deceased. During that delay,
while I was alone in the room, I kept rubbing her
hands and feet. She got warm, and I thought began
to breathe. I asked her if she knew where she was,
and who I was ? She made an effort to speak, but
could not articulate. After the aunt and sister came
down, she moved her hands and arms two or three
times, and pulled a loose tooth out of her mouth.
About half-past six o'clock this morning, deceased's
sister gave me a letter for her brother, which I
dispatched by the guard of the luggage train to town.
The brother has since arrived. The deceased, with
her aunt and sister, slept at my house some weeks
ago, on their way to Bath, and they were now on
their road from Bath to London.
Dr. J. B. Bryan stated that the deceased lived for
about an hour and a half after his arrival at the Royal
Hotel. She was not sensible, but retained, to a cer-
tain extent, the power of motion. The injuries she
had sustained, which would have been produced by
falling from a height, consisted of a very severe con-
cussion of the brain, and the lower part of the spine
was also severely injured.
George Powlesland, a waiter at the Royal Hotel,
stated that the deceased and two other ladies upon
their arrival last night, took tea and retired to rest
about ten o'clock.

Ann Meades, housekeeper at the Royal Hotel,
stated that after she had called up the aunt and sister,
she went into deceased's bed-room, the window of
which she found wide open, and the blind drawn up.
The table had been removed from its usual position
under the window. The deceased's watch was lying
in the middle of the bed, which appeared to have been
lain in.

Dr. C. J. Fox, of 13, New Broad-street, London,
stated that he was called in by the brother (who is
also a medical man) of vie deceased to see his sister,
about Christmas last, who, he wa• informed, had been
suddenly seized, while cleaning her teeth, with a diffi-
culty of articulation. When witness saw her he
found her tongue drawn to the left side, and she was
slightly paralysed. She was put under particular
treatment for many weeks. The tongue gradually
returned to its proper place, and paralysis subsided,
but there was no affection of the mind that witness
could discover. She was recommended to go into
the country for change of air and Aeeise. Witness
had seen nothing of her since she left London
Miss Hannah Travers, the aunt of deceased, resid-
ing at Denmark-hill, Camberwell, deposed as follows :
_My two nieces reside with me. The health of the
deceased for many months had been in a very infirm
state. During the last three months we have been
travelling in the south of England for the improve-
ment of her health, and we were now returning
home. Yesterday evening she was more than usually
cheerful. She had no apprehension of consumption
since Midsummer. I believe the unfortunate occur-

rence of this morning to have been purely accidentali
Constantly, while we were at the sea-side, I carrie
her a jug of salt water every morning before sevee
o'clock. I usually found her half dressed, lying °°
the bed, with a book beside her, and the window 01°11.
She required all the air she could obtain from feeling
occasionally a clifficulty in breathing. Neither 01
bed-room door nor that of deceased, was locked, bud
the outer passage-door I locked myself. She //
never known to walk in her sleep.
This being the whole o: the evidence, the Coroner+
in summing up, said there was no doubt her death
was occasioned by the injuries she sustained by the
fall, but that with reference to her state of mind 6t
the time the evidence was only inferential.
The jury returned a verdici that "The deceas
came by her death in consequence of a fall from!
window; but whether that fall was the result of giceP
dent or not does not appear."
The body was removed to London the same night.
The family of the deceased are anxious to state tint
the above accident occurred from no fault in the or
rangements of the hotel. Under the painful circa?
stances they are desirous to acknowledge the etc'
treme kindness and considerate attention they ezi!,
rienced throughout from Mr. Dotesio and WU
member of his household.

THE EDUCATION IVIANITESTO'
The following amusing article we copy from the
Church and State Gazette—a " knife-to-the•cleste
supporter of Sir R. Peel on the fall of the Whigs r.'ref
" Lord IVharncliffe has certainly a great aptitudeoo4 I
surprising people. We have scarcely recovered
breath at the astonishment into which we were thr4l
at his late , xtraordinary exploit in the House of 14°1'0
where of an assembly of judges he made a societi ,
dupes, than we are again the victims of an excited self
sibility, and stand confused with wonder, amuse/et
and indignation at his Lordship's provincial perform
anees at Barnsley.
(10
" This noble and astute Peer is undoubtedly tha°
of diplomatists : he betrays under an affectetiowdoes
exceeding measure of love. He cajoled the aloe s,
Peers into a desertion of their duty, by anxiously 010
ing them that it would be for their own ulisPessd
able benefit, if they permitted the law mice of WhigF.;s
to free the lion of agitation from the healthy toils la
bound him. The noble dup. of this crafty counse e.
obeyed in the very unconsciousness of their ignere64
Without well knowing what they were doing, they se,
that of which they now pretty well know the 0%,
quences ; and Lord Wharncliffe, having been so 000
chievously successful in deluding the Peers, carrie3 ,ho
his vocation of arch deceiver by trying to mystify ecs
people. He has for ever destroyed the etfieteed;
of the House of Lords as a last court of sPlicot,
and so vivacious is he in his evil doing, t'
having bruised the coronets of the peers, „Is
turns restltssly to an assault on the duties 714
privileges of the clergy. He is so well pleased at he!, so
rendered the Lords rit.iculous, that he has attempte"og
strip the clergy of their dignity and usefulness. -IO
stabbed the State he assaults the Church. May be 5,
in the latter an antagonist more powerful than the
titude whom he cheated into a dereliction of duty. `.;si
his assault on the Church be less successful in its Ind
than his attempt on the Peers. The latter was eileco
by a species of petty larceny, and succeeded ie_e es
through the ignorance of those whom he desigueubd
his victims; the former partakes more of the old, Plc 00
spirit, of the old highwayman. We trust the clergy
neither be alarmed by the boldness, nor deceived hi_s;
coolness of their aggressor. Forewarned is forearsT:ii,
and if they are not speedily arrayed in all their pel!surest
after such a note of waret, as that sounded l eo,
Barnsley speech, and reported in
s
r columns of 10:411,
a too tardy arming will not only not
issevent the
forowoo
but that fall itself will fain to win sympatn;
who faltered, when they t.hould have stood firm. del
,
"It is needless for us to point out to our clerical roll 1,0
the portions of that speech which appear to us WWII
pregnant with prospects of danger to the Church.,,ja
confine ourselves to directing attention to it, and lel big
the least suspicious of our readers to form at /eisti`V
own opinions thereon. We are satisfied, howevelsid
with us he will see in this Barnsley manifesto a are
of charge to the clergy, made by one assuaiispost
authority above that of the highest dignitary 0 00
Church. This charge will be seen to be replete 0' of
deceitfully affectionate persuasion to the clergy sea`
confederate to their own wrong. It will be seen 110
there is an already cut and-dry design to deprivedo
ministers of the Church of their right, privilege+, ilk
and office, of being the irresponsible religious tesevierasei
the young. It would have been little had Governs,. Of
declared that the ministers of each sect might ,",,,s0
Mentors of their own peculiar followers ; but it's
that that sane Government should be preparillgcliber
which is to deprive the clergymen of the Church e'sslho4
laid of their right of being the uncontrolled co°ll,-1019
of that Church's children. The new Governll3enZial
is evidently one of those centralising projects „11..nom"tbi
quietly to transfer the education of the people
.s'ss44i„:
clergy, who are their natural instructors, to sh•ssiitis,
vocal superintendence of a General Board in Ify ape"
street. The real design is well enveloped it; Siodieles*
cious colouring, but it is clearly discernible eefotraber!
The very fears,spologies,explanations,and resOisti wee'which, notwithstanding the boldness of the P'",: foro
the speech of him delegated to demonstrate
alone a sufficient ground of suspicion. But, str.:hif)
of all the sophistries which enwreathe it and byo
it is intended to delude and mystify the clerglitir
amounts to simply this, that the latter shall be ileassil
Cher the superintendents of the education of co
flocks, than as they are the deputies of a Mixedijieo
mittee in London. The freedom that is pronsiied=_A to
is nothing more than that granted to a wan confilsol
a room, with the liberty of not leaving it. The he es
our Church are the only true and natural guarkast
her sons. To the former the education of the Post
may be safely entrusted ; but here is a despoiling P:tss
above the Church, and that power is now directed t
effecting of a grievous injury. and striking at thgstiti'
leges of that Church. Lord Wharncliffe talks 01 teSi
ties ; but, granting them as undeniable now, Ow% re' •
be made a means of further assult hereafter.
s".;:e,
test, then, against this new Government plan, wel'i,sei
giving the direction of the entire education of the ;100
of England to the Government Ministry of the daYePose
it in the possible keeping of Arians and Atheists. 'ools
ever we may think of the orthodoxy of the Prioio'
occupants of power, what is to ensure us against to"
fidelity and heresy of future Ministries ? Some ' site
Lord Melbourne might make an educational sued 110
tendent of some hereafter-to-be Mr. Owen ; ens tlif,
Church would in such case protest in vain agaittior,
Socialist doctrines of the teachers whose instrwe
they are bound to obey. The possibility of such %AI
must not be for a moment permitted. In this matte ,1'
Church must be the master—the Government „Te
On this question, the latter must look up to the ti
for instruction, and nut down upon her to traose.3loo
percilious directions that are expected to be e. 14011,
obeyed. Lord Wharncliffe,ol from his speech, pierf
conceives the whole affair to be arranged by the Is 0
announcement of his plans ; and the " hear, beers Os,
a psrtion of his auditory to be the recognition° oost,,
Government's condition as rulers, and the clergy'
tion as slaves. But this is an undue hasteningo,
founded conclusion. The clergy are forewarned'

ac we said before. forewarned i.ibrearmed !"

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BIRTHS. f
n lifi.f
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On the 14th of July, at Cuttach, Calcutta, the if,", ilow
William Barckley, superintendent of Foul Point Light od
of a son and heir. Ales
On the 21st inst., at Roade, the wife of the Rev._ ,4
Annand, of a daughter. '"
On the 2d inst., at Rutland-gate, Hyde-park, Lon
d°f4
Bagle, of Rosemont, Ayrshire, of a son.
• stet, jv
On the 3d inst., at Great George-street, Westrrol
J. F. Lynde, of a son.
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MARRIED. :I,P
On the 3d inst , at St. Alphage, Greenwich, Robe-art:
more, second son of the late Major Clarke, R.M., to giocer'
Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Lieutenant Rouse, 01 CI
wich Hospital. sjellbho
On the 3d inst., at Kensington Church, Mr. John kbPor
Brentford, to Margarette Walker Taylor, of St. lifari'' f
terrace, Kensington. , sef:por
On the 3d inst., at South Stoneham, Hants,' tuneeorgity
M. Calmont, of Highfield, in that parish, to EmilY '-'' 50°'
youngest daughter of Frederick Hill, of the P01)1°' tr
ampton, Esq. sgvoll
On the 3d inst., William Essex, Esq., of Gord°ll jafe,
Gordon-square, to Mary, third daughter of the 15" ik.
Thrupp, Esq. c, orle:piP
On the 3d inst., at Pinner Church, the Rev- it
Fowler, M.A., to Emily Matilda, eldest daughter of - .
Liam Milman, Bart., of Pinner grove. of Stlie
On the 2d inst., the Rev. A. W. Taylor, Rector, 110
RichardNewington, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Rich r
pi.'
field, Esq., of the same place. vs
On the 2d inst., at Broadwater, Sussex, Charlss,idol
ton, Esq., formerly, M.P., for Ashburton, to Juliazi.„"tilsegcl
"
the late Thomas 'feed, Esq., of the Hurst Ho:lse, ir '1 00
On the 2d inst., at St. Bride's, Fleet-street, kir.' rof 0
Kilbinton Brewer, to Susannah, youngest daug't
00
late Captain Grinistone. o; Rotherhithe. rOcfloc°
On the 2d inst., at the Scotch Church, River
Rev. George Craig Sproustou, Kelso, to MargareVa tog
second daughter of the late James Morrison, -'_..:3'_._.,,,,/
Mye, Kelso.
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On the 2d inst., at Bedale Hall, York, Admiril
Wl'
Poo Beresford, Bart. ~l.„ tll9
On the 24th ult . at the Rectors', Dovrnhani, -r,v
William Tilden, aged 45. ' pr 1,171"
On the 28th tilt., Mr. John Fames, of the C/i-e'nati, -1
On the 29th ult., in Smith. street, Chelsea, Mai— '
, filfsl
of the late John Bailey, Esq. /.?.$O, A
On the 2d inst., at Baglau Cott age, near -"` diii"
widow of the late Francis Bramah, civil engineer. _,.abr '
On the 3d inst., at Hurst House, Lancashire, S'"-- d'
Str('S daughter of the late Richard Willis, Esq v. g• 'll
On the 4th inst., in Great Tower street, Mr. -,-- , stuflpoe'
On the 4th inst., William, the youngest an 149;00'
son of the late Mr Joseph Nicholson, of L'w- ,1
Cheapside, and Foot's-era:eKent. -4121-v A
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