The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-15 00:00:00

EV 1 NING SUN

THE PHILIPSTOVVN AFFAIR.
It seems that some of the parties—not Captain Duff—
said to have been implicated in the outrage, have moved.
for a conditional order for liberty to file a criminal infor-
mation against the proprietor of the Monitor, for a libel.
This proceeding, we take it for granted, is recurred to—
not in the view of vengeance, but to enable the parties
inculpated, or alleged to have been inculpated by the
Monitor, o justify themselves before the public. Even
so, we do not think the course a judicious one. But
waiving this question for the present, we really do_ not
see the why of withholding the notes taken at the in-
quest. We cannot possibly see
,what effect the publica-
tion of their proceedings 'could have upon the Queen's
Bench—while, on the other hand, the document, even in
thii secondary form, might be used advantageously by
the. Monitor in its defence,—Dublin Evening pow;

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.—At a • 1116bt-
ing of the Senatus Academicus, held in. the University
on Saturday, the Professors, after some discussion,
voted the sum of 130/. towards defraying the expenses
of the concert or concerts of music to be annually given
in remembrance of General Reid. The 13th of February
is the.anniversary of the General's birth-day. Falling
this year on a Sunday, the concert will, we understand,
be deferred till the 19th.—Edinburgh Courant.
, inquiry
took FROM STARVATION.—A iorg
took place last- evening at the One Tim, Perkins's-rents„
Great Peter-street, Westminster, before Mr. Higgs, the
Coroner, concerning the death of Mary Clark, aged
thirty-five; of -No. 10, Perkins's-rents. Mary Bailey,
midwife to the Western Dispensary, said that she first
saw the-deceased on Tuesday morning last. Deceased was
then in labour, and apparently going on favourably. In
the course of the morning a change. took place, and wit-
ness -gave her -a little brandy. She soon became much
worse, and witness sent for Mr. M`Cann, the surgeon to the
Dispensary. He arrived in two hours, by which time de-
ceased was dead. Paralysis appeared to be the cause of
death. Mr. Nicholas M`Cann' surgeon, of Parliament-
street, said that he delivered the deceased after death of a
dead child. He considered death to have been caused by
extreme debility, and the want of strength during labour.
Her debility was from inanition. Mary Burke, of No. 9,
Perkins's-rents, said that on Tuesday last she went to the
workhouse of the united parishes of St. Margaret's and
St. John's, Westminster, to obtain the assistance of the
parish surgeon for the deceased. She waited there about
half an hour before the overseer came, and when wit-
ness was about to deliver her message, Mr. Ristall, the
clerk, came, and, laughing at her, said that her husband
could attend to her. He jeered at her, and made a. joke
of it. Witness represented the dangerous condition of
the deceased, as desired by the midwife, but no notiee was
taken of it, and she then left. The deceased, with her
husband, and two children, were in the greatest distress.
I have no doubt that they all wanted the common neces-
saries of life, and I know that they fasted the whole of
Christmas day. They were all 'ery sober persons. After
some further evidence, the Jury returned a verdict,
" Died from the want of the common necessaries of life."
A subscription, amounting to about 1/. was raised
amongst the Jury for the husband of the deceased.
RAILROAD TO DUBLIN.—The requisition
agreed to at the preliminary meeting held last Wednes-
day, at the office of Messrs. Foist and Fitzsimons on the
South. Mall, we are glad to learn is making progress.
The requisition for calling a general meeting has already
received the names of Lords Bandon, Mountcashel,
Bernard, and Doneraile, of nearly eighty Magistrates,
and of a large body of the gentry of the county and
city. This, however, was but to be expected, for an
object in which all are interested should by all be taken
up. The meeting is intended to be held on the 20th inst.
—Cork Reporter.
COLONEL THOMPSON AT OLDHAM.-011
Monday last, Colonel P. Thompson, the father of the
Anti-Corn-law agitation, delivered a lecture in the large
room of the Town-hall, Oldham, on the evils of the
Corn-laws, to an audience of upwards of 1,000 persons,
comprising most of • the leading manufacturers of the
town and vicinity, and a considerable body of intelligent
working men. George Barlow, Esq., master cotton-
spinner, was appointed Chairman, after which Colonel
Thompson spoke for nearly an hour and a half, on the
unjust nature of the Corn-laws, the prevalence of class
legislation, and the exclusion f the mass of the people
from their due share of representation in Parliament :
the declaration of his views on the latter subject elicited
great applause. A vote of thanks was passed to the
Gallant Lecturer, accompanied by repeated rounds of ap-
plause, on the motion of -Mr. James Greaves, operative,
of Austerlands, seconded by Mr. William Knott, hat-
manufacturer, of Oldham. The services of the Chair-
man were also acknowledged by a vote of thanks.—
Leeds. Mercury.
DIPLOMACY AND TRAD3.—The Corn and
Provision-laws are a tax upon food. We want to abolish
that tax, fir the benefit of the people of this country,
quite irrespective of foreigners. If that tax be abo-
lished, food will be brought to us by our merchants, and
they will find the means to pay for it We do not
ask Government to find us markets. We look with
suspicion at the pretended zeal with which diploma-
tists go to work, and Niger expeditions, or Euphrates
expeditions are set on foot, for extending our mar-
kets. All that we ask is, that Parliament will abolish
the laws which interfere with free trade. We do not
ask it to feed the people, hut to leave us to feed out-
selves. -As for the pretended fears of the inonopoli4s
that foreign nations will not receive our manufactures in
exchange for their corn and provisions, we say, Remove
your own impediments, end then wait till we complain
to von of obstacles a. thousand miles off. Were this
really the motive fur upholding the . Corn-law, where
would be the difficulty of at once abolishing it ? If other
nations would not excbange their food for our production's
there could be no additional trade, and things would re-
main as they are, excepting the important difference, that
we should then have no ground-of complaint against our
own rulers.—Anti• Bread-tax Circular.

Mr. Payne held last evening an kquest at
Guy's Hospital, on the body of Joseph Bristow, aged
25, a Waggoner, in the employ of Mr. Thomas Tyler,
farmer, of Bexley, Kent. W.. Smith stated, that, on
Saturday afternoon last, whilst standing opposite to the
White Swan, Blackheath-hill, he saw deceased driving a
waggon and team of horses. Deceased was seized with
a fit of coughing, and rested his head on the chain of the
trace next the shaft horse. Punch and Judy were on the
opposite side of the road, and their drum just began to
beat. The horses started at the sound, which made de-
ceased's hand slip from off the chain, and he fell. The
horses went on, and the two near wheels passed over
deceased's left leg and thigh and right arm. Witness
picked him up and carried him to Mr. Smith's, a sur-
geon, residing just by; who dressed his wounds, and or-
dered a fly to bring him to that hospital. Policeman 150
it, said he accompanied deceased to the hospital, who
told him that he fell through dizziness caused by the
coughing, and that he had not heard Punch and Judy'sdrum. .111 r. Holland, house-surgeon, said the deceased's
left leg was fractured, and that all along it there was
extensive extravasation of blood, which afterwards turned
to suppuration, producing weakness of the system, from
which deceased could not recover, and he died on
Thursday evening last. Verdict—" Accidental death."
FIRE AT Bow.—On Friday morning, about
half-past six o'clock, a fire broke out in a range of
stabling at the rear of the Bird-in-Hand public-house,
Bow-road, the property of Mrs. Mary Ann Thompson.
The engine of the Bromley distillery was soon on the spot
after the outbreak, as well as the engines from Wen-
Chi se .;,,ittare and Jeffreys-square, but the flames had•got
such a firm hold of the buildings that it was impossible to
save them.

AMERICAN COURTSHIP.--If a gill has a
lover down at Ann Arbour, of course she marries him
soon as her friends consent; if they object, then she goes
to bed, and remains there until they give their consent,
which generally occurs in less than a fortnight. It is
found by that time to be less expensive, and mure agree-
able, to call in the lover than the doctor.

THE BRANCH RAILWAY TO HALIFAX.—A
new survey for the branch line from the Manchester and
Leeds Railway to Halifax, is now- in the course of com-
pletion.
BURNING OF A LETTER FROM THE SECRE-
TARY or STATE.—A few weeks ago the Beverley Town
Council sent a, memorial to the home Secretary, remon-
strating with him for not consulting them before he no►
initiated several gentlemen of Conservative principles to
be Justices of the borough. Sir James Graham's cour-
teous reply came in due tune informing them, as a mat-
ter of course, that they had nothing whatever to do with
the matter. A meeting of theiTown Council was called
forthwith, and a majority decided that the letter be com-
mitted to the flames, being an insult to the Council. The
beadle.was called in, and did execution in due form by
cramming the letter into the tire.—lialifax Guardian.
THE WEATHER.--Yesterday morning there
was a very general thaw, which dissolved the greater
portion of the snow that fell on the previous day. The
snow-storm appears to have extended for some distance
in the country, as nearly all the .mails were after their
.time in their arrival at the Post-office, in conSuquenCe'of
which there were three General Post deliveries. • The
Wells and Lynn mails did not arrive until eleven o'clock, '
and the I)evonport mail had not arrived at fow o'clock
in the afternoon. Most of the mid-day and afternoon
mails were considerably after their lime. From 'all ac-
counts, there has been a considerable accumulation of
snow in Essex, Cambridgeshire, and Norfolk, as well as
in Wiltshire. No particular delay occurred in any Of
the arrivals of the railway trains.
EXPLOSION AND Loss OF LIFE AT A
FIREWORK MANUFACTORT.—Yest6rday an inquest, was
held at the Coburg Arms, Coburg-street, Lambeth, be-
fore Mr. Carter, Coroner for Surrey, on the body of
William Robert Jones, a fine child, Yfour years of age.
Moses Harris: deposed, that he worked for Mr. Jones,
the father of. the deceased, who was an artist in fire-
works, No. 9, 'Webber-street, Waterloo-road, when about
four o'clock on Tuesday afternoOn an explosion took
place in the composition room. The shock was very..
terrible ; the whole of one side of the room was blown
into the yard. Witness was knocked down by the falling •
bricks, and was rendered insensible for some time. On.
recovering, he was shocked at disedvering the deceased :
under a quantity of bricks ; the poor child was frightfullt, •
mutilated. Mr. Bates, a surgeon, attended, but so drea.4—
ful was the nature of the injuries the unfortunate..child
had received, that after great suffering, he expired about
two o'clock on Wednesday. Mr. William .Jones, the
father of the deceased, said that when the explosion took
place there was about six pounds of composition on the
premises. lie considered that the unfortunate catas-
trophe arose froth spontaneous combustion, owing to the
dampness of the' room, as no fire had been kept there -
since last August twelvemonths. Mr. Jones is son-in•
law to Madame Ilenglel;r,
Verdict, "Accidental
,t,hAecticrisdtenartatilsdetsat .
works in this country.
The Brighton Gazelle magnificently remarks,
American purity would not tolerate Madame Vestris,
although actually. married to Mr. Matthews : what has
caused it to sleep in the case of Dr. Lauber ?"