The Sun.
London, England, 1829-03-05 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

MELANCHOLY CASE.—DEATH OF A FEMALE
PROM STARVATION.—Yesterday afternoon an in-
quisition was taken at the Grange-inn, Carey-street,
Lincoln's-inn-fields, before THOS. Hiocs, Esq., on
the body of Elizabeth jeffkins, aged twenty-five,
who died in the streets from hunger.
Margaret Connell, of No. 3, Wellington-place,
Drury-lane, stated that the deceased was au unfor-
tunate female. She had seen her about the streets
for nearly five years. Last Monday afternoon, about
two o'clock, she saw the deceased in Wellington-
place sitting on the ground. About three o'clock
site again passed her, when she appeared dreadfully
sick and faint. Witness, although very poor, could
not bear to see her in such distress, and made
her a jug of tea and a round of toast, which she ate
voraciously. She could not speak from the effects
of cold and hunger. Witness gave her her hand to
assist her up, which she clasped, and exclaimed,
" May the Almighty God bless and protect you for
this !" She then sunk down again, and those were
the only words she heard her utter. A young man
also brought her some bread and meat, which she
ate. Witness passed her several times afterwards in
the afternoon ; the deceased shook her head, but
never spoke. Wellington-place is not a thorough-
fare.
CORONER—Had you ever seen her helot e in Wel-
lington-place'
Witness—l know she has frequently slept at
night on the pavement in the court. She was found
4,1,2 ad in the court about eight o'clock on Monday
evening, Site had scarcely any clothes on, only an
ojj own whltb was full of holes, and not worth a

penny.
Michael Bov,7"41)
a watchman, knew the de-
ceased by sight, and' not believe she had been
on a bed for a twelvemonth.
Elizabeth Stephens, of No. 4-i, Charles-street,
Drury-lane, knew the deceased, who formerly lived
with a man natnefl James Lane, but who had turned
her off about a year ago ; since which time she had
been in a state of the most dreadful distress, and
quite a cripple from a white swelling in her Ban oc-
casioned by his ill usage towardi her. Witness had
frequently given her shelter in her- lodgings ; she
had neither father nor mother, and completely des-
tittite.
The CORONER observed, in summing up the evi-
dence, that this was one of the most shocking cased
he ever remembered.
The jury, after some deliberation, returned a
verdict, "That the deceased died from the severity
of the weather to which she became expooed in con-
seguence of intoxication."
Note.—There was not the slightest evidence that
the unfortunate woman was intoxicated.

The Revenue of the United States consists,
for nine parts in ten, in duties upon imported goods.
ANATOMICAL FACILITIES.—We tauter-
stand that Mr. Peel has given his sanction to a Bill which
will be introduced early in the course of the sessions by
Mr. Warburton to put the anatomical schools in this
country upon the same footing as to facilities of procuring
aubj,c•s as those of France. Particular care is to be taken
to prevent any violation of those feelings which excite the
mass of mankind when the horrible labours of the resur-
rection men are detected and exposed. The Bill is to pro-
vide that persons who die unclaimed in hospitals and work-
houses are to be disposed of to lecturers for a trifling con-
sideration, and that the fund created by the sale is to be
appropriated to defray the expense of interment after such
subject shall have undergone anatomical investigation as
the surgeons call the work of dissection, Medical in-
spectors are to be appointed by the Act to carry the pro-
visions into effect.—From a Correspondent of the Time:.

Mk; MISCREANT HARE.—The name of
this wretched being, who, like Cain, bears the mark of
murder on his forehead, hal become a kind of bugbear to
frighten unruly cidWren. During the past week, not
merely the children, but erep zrown people, particu-
larly females, who reside at the south end of the town,
were greatly alarmed for their personaler safety, in co „.
,„.
quence of a rumour having got rn, that the
k-rretelt bad taken up his abode somewhere in the vicinity
of St. James's Church, where, it was feared, he might
recommence h horrid tra,!e. Parents were alarmed for
their children, and 4141firen were alarmed for themselves,
the dread of being Burked or 'fared exciting the most
lively fears in the breasts of the timid and the ignorant.
We need scarcely say, that these alarms were " the very
coinage of the brain," for, though Hare may be in Liver,
pool or its suburbs, the miscreant will not have the hardi-
hood to carry ou his old trade of human butchery in this
country again.—Liverpool

SECOND Em-rioN.
UN 01TIC12, Seven o'

M PE RI it, I, PA R lAA NI E

TEIIS EVENING.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

A Commission was formed by the Lord Chancellor,
Lord Slatesburv, and Lord Elle!)borough, to express the
Royal Assent to the Bill for the Suppression of Dangerous
Associations in Ireland.

The Duke of cUNIBERLAND presented a petition
out 11;m:kston, Wilt~, againwt the Catholic,

• The -Earl of ALBEMARLE presented a similar peti-
tion from Yarmouth.
Lord KING presented several similar petitions from
Ireland ; and also several against the Sub-letting and
Vestry Acts.
The Earl of ESSEX present d two petitions in favour
of the Catholic., and another against the Vestry Act.
Lord DARNLEY presented nine petiticns in favour of
the Catholics from the county of Lancaster.
The Earl of RODEN presented a petition from the
county of Meath for the repeal of the Vestry Act.
Lord DE DUNTSANVILLE presented a petition from
a parish in Cornwall, in favour of the Catholics.
Lord LONSDALE presented petitions from parishes in
Westmoreland and Cumberland against the Catholics.
Lord ELDON presented petitions from the city of Glas-
gow and other places against the Catholic. On present-
ing one from Sheffield,
Lord WHARCLIFFE said that the meeting was not
called by any Magistrate, although it purported to he the
petition of the Magistracy. There was certainly a Magi-
strate in the chair, but he should say that it
was a clerical meeting, where all the speakers
where olergymen and Laymen were not permitted- to
speak. A short time afterwards another meeting was
called by a regular requisition, and none but Clergymen
opposed the counter petition.—(Heir, hear.)—He was
sorry to say that very improper language had
been used. The people had been asked if
they would have a Popish King.—(Laughter.) If they
would have their daughters taken from them, and under
the pretense of keeping them in chastity and placing them
in convents. He deprecated the interference of the Clergy
in such cases, as he believed that if the advice of the
Clergy had been followed, the House of Hanover had not
now occupied the Throue.
The Bishop of LONDON wished to say a few words of
defence for a calumniated body of men. Was this to be the
only occasion in which they were described to express their
sentiments to this House, which had always protected the
Protestant Constitution. An awful change was about to
be made, on which he would not offer an opinion, and
were the Clergy to be the only persons who were
to be deqarred from expressing their opinions, he
believed, that if an investigation were mode, he be-
lieved it would be found that the Clergy had not attempted
to promote petitions, but that they had rather attempted
to delay the expression of the public feeling. He had
been told so by several of these gentle, and he hheved
that the word of the poorest Clergyman was entitled to

the same credit as the noblest Peer.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE repliedd that it was evident the
Noble Prelate was not in the House during the former part
of his speech. as he himself acknowledged
Lord ELDON said, that the meeting at which this peti-
tion was got up was merely called together for those who
were adverse to the Roman Catholic Claims ; and

if persons chose to intrude themselves, the Chair-
man was right in preventing their obstructing the
business of the meeting. He thought, however. that the
Clergy of Engiand wonld have eternally disgraced them-
selves,—(Hear, hear)—if they had not firmly and calmly
come forward to support the Protestant Constitution of
this country.