The Sun.
London, England, 1842-10-27 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS

THE SUPPOSED MURDER IN THE SURREY CANAL.—
An inquest was taken yesterday before Mr. Carter,
at the Bridge House beer-shop, Old Kent-road, on the
body of Sarah Saunders, aged 17, which, was disco-
vered in the Surrey Canal on Friday, the 21st inst.
It appeared from the evidence that the deceased had
been living in the service of a greengrocer, of the
name of Eden, in the Horseferry-road, Westminster.
That on Sunday, the 9th of this month, she was dis-
charged in consequence of her mistress objecting to
her loose habits. She then proceeded to Mrs. Mar-
riatt's, of the Horseferry-road, where she took tea
with the family. She requested Mrs. Marriatt to
allow her daughter to accompany her to St. Martin's
Church on the same evening, but her request was not
acceded to, and the deceased and a daughter of Mrs.
Marriatt's proceeded to a Sunday school in the
neighbourhood. While there the deceased told Miss
Marriatt that had she accompanied her across St.
James's-park, it was her intention to have drowned
herself in the enclosure. The deceased was left in
the Sunday school on the Sunday evening, and the
last time she was seen alive was on the following
morning, opposite Bethlem Hospital, when she re-
quested a Mrs. Smith to look out for a situation for
her, adding that her mother was dead, that her
father was alive, but she did not know where to find
him. It also transpired that previous to her entering
Mr. Eden's service, she lived with a young man a:
No. 20, Little Peter-street, Westminster, who was in
the habit, according to the statement of Inspector
Walters, of much ill-using her. She had declared
that she would drown herself in the neighbourhood of
her paramour's residence, which was stated to be in
the Kent-road.
Mr. Todd, the surgeon, gave evidence of having
made a post snortenz examination, and stated his most
decided opinion, that the discolouration of the dura
mater was the effect of a blow given or received before
death. That the vessels of the brain were distended
from immersion in the water, but that the substance
of the brain was in a healthy state.
Several of the Jury remarked that there was no
evidence of how the deceased came into the water, and
after a protracted discussion, in which the Coroner
took a part, the following verdict was agreed to
" That the deceased died from suffocation, produced
by drowning, but there was no evidence 3efore the
Jury,to show in what state of mind she was in at the
time. •
The CORONER observed that the finding of the Jury
did not prevent ulterior measures being adopted be
fore the Magistrates, in the event of the police re-
ceiving further evidence.
Yesterday a long inquiry was proceeded with before
Mr. WAKLEY, M.P., at the Hope and Anchor public-
house, Pont-place, near Chelsea New Church, into
the circumstances connected with the death of Charles
Hudson, aged 38 years, whose death, it was alleged,
had been caused by the effects of severe injuries-- he
had received in a fight on the night of Wednesday,
the sth instant.

After the examination of several witnesses, however,
the Jury, at the suggestion of the Coroner, returned a
verdict—" That deceased died from extravasation of

blood on the brain, but whether arising from natural
causes or from the effects of violence there was no
evidence to show."

TAIN GAOL HAIINTED.—On the night of Friday
last, the much-to-be-envied individual occupants of
those desirable apartments were suddenly aroused
from their slumbers by tremendous and unearthly-
like bawling and screaming in the upper cell of the
old tower, occupied by the younger of the two lads
convicted at the last Inverness Assizes of issuing base
coin. The gaoler, who now always sleeps in the
tower, having entered this cell to ascertain the cause of
so untimely a disturbance, found the culprit seated on
the base of the window, cringed as round as a ball,
and in a most pitiable state of fright. On questioning
him, he said, that being wide awake, and lying iu his
bed, he distinctly saw a very large figure walking to
and fro the length of the cell, at each time
p2ssing his
bed, and the moon at the time shining directly in at
the window (the bed being opposite) caused -him to
see the object, the plainer; for in passing the window
it always darkened the rays of the moon, expressing
itself at intervals thus :—" Do it, do it, do it." His
entreaties and appeals to the gaoler to have him re-
moved, were couched in such heartrending strains,
that he was obliged to put him into another cell where
two others were confined and slept together : but so
frightened was he, that nothing would quiet him until
he got between the two in bed, where his whole body
shook all night like an aspen leaf, nor slept he any.
He always had a voracious appetite, but since the
above scene he has eaten little or nothing. This
sh'iuld act as a warning to all those in Ross-shire who
are inclined to commit such acts as might make them
inmates of the Tain gaol, for they are not only
watched and guarded by natural, but, it would appear,
by supernatural gaolers.—Ross-shire Advertiser.
ON DlT.—That Sir Robert Peel, in a conversation
with the head of a scientific institution connected with
the Government, was asked how,in a case stated,
the return under his own Income-tax ought to be
made ? The Premier confessed his ignorance, and
declared he did not know
how
th
remciatarke
emeoututlls of his own
return, so as to comply with
Act

CHRIST'S HOSPI AL.

SOCIETY OF BENEVOLENT BLUES.

The half-yearly meeting of the subscriberretolu
Institution was held at the London Tavern, Bishops-
gate-street, for the purpose of receivingthehalf-yearly
Report of the Directors, and also a statement of the
accounts, from the Secretary.
The Rev. Dr. RICE took the chair, and briefly
stated the object of the meeting.
The minutes of the last half-yearly meeting were
read and confirmed.

The SECRETARY then read the Report, which stated
that since the last meeting, there had been about 150
applicants for relief, 11 of whom were for the first
time. In almost all the cases the relief sought had
been afforded. The statement of the accounts was
then read, from which it appeared that thereceipts for
the year were 330/. 7s. 11d., and the expenditure
2051. 10s. 11d., leaving a balance in the hands of the
Treasurer of 124/. lis.

The Report was adopted,..several officers were re-
-elected, and thanks having been voted to the Chair-
man, the meeting separated.

THE GREAT LEAGUE FUND.

• The Council of the Anti-Corn-law League have
issued the following address to the people of Great
Britain and Ireland :

FELLOW COUNTRYMEN,—We have again to invite
your assistance in the prosecution of our great work.
your pecuniary support, as well as
Our cause requires
your active co-operation. But we should be ashamed
to solicit your contributions; wire it not that in help-
ing Us you help yourselves, and hasten the time that
shall stay the plunder of your property, arrest the
downfal Of commerce, free the springs of industry,
untax your children's food, and mitigate the sufferings
and privations of the poor.
The League originated in the conviction that re-
striction on the importation of foreign grain is a
policy not less unwise and suicidal than unjust and
oppressive. To this policy they refer the closing
against us, in rapid succession, of the world's mar-
kets, and the consequent, depression of that manufac-
turing system which has furnished the means of sub-
sistence to labouring millions, . more than trebled the
value of their land to the proprietors of the soil, aug-
mented the national resources notwithstanding the
pressure of unprecedented taxation, allied itself in the
past with the most extraordinary progress of a people
that history records, and held. out for the future the
surest, or the only prospect, of providing for the wants
of a rapidly multiplying population, cknd sustaining
the position of our country in a peaceful supremacy
among the nations of the earth. •
The restrictive policy lays the axe to the root of
our national prosperity. It increases not merely tem-
porary embarrassment in commercial relations, but a
continuous depression tending to utter ruin. Hence
the warfare, for life or death, which the. League has
waged against it. We have had to contend with the
ignorance and prejudices of the many, and the sinister
interest of the few. Success was only to be attained
through the formation of a public opinion so clear,
decided, and general, as to be irresistible. And to-
wards that point we have advanced; more slowly, in-
deed, than the inipoverishment of the industrious and
the sufferings of the multitude rendered desirable ;
but st4l with a progress which testifies that we are
in the right path, and stimulates us to redoublel
exertion.

Our aim has been to have no one individual des-
titute of the means of perceiving how injurious the
taxation on food is to himself and the community.
To the influence by which it is supported, we have
opposed the power of reason and the claims of justice ;
and we have met by facts the sophisms by which it is
palliated. For this end not fewer than two thousand
lectures have been delivered an the subject of the
Corn •laws ; more than five millions of tracts have
been printed and circulated; petitions have been
presented to the Legislature with millions of sig.
natures, praying for the redress of the great wrong
under which the 'country groans ; our Conferenee,
formed by deputations from various parts of the king-
dom, has five times met in the metropolis to remon-
strate with the executive Government and the Legisla-
ture ; the ministers of religion have met in large num-
bers, in Manchester, Edinburgh, and Carnarvon, pro-
testing against the demoralizing influences (which
they had witnessed) of that policy which interferes
betwixt man and the bounties of Providence. In
combination with an extent of personal exertion such
as no merely political agitation could have called
forth, an expenditure has been incurred, and de-
frayed, of no less than one hundred thousand
pounds. And still, though much has been ac-
complished ; though the principles of free trade
are rapidly extending themselves from our cities
and large towns into remote agricultural dis-
tricts ; though we have seen the necessity of change,
from being sturdily and contemptuously denied, be-
come generally admitted ; though the emergency has
made it so obvious, that the defeat of the late Admi-
nistration for its proposition of a fixed duty has been
followed by the Tariff and, modified Corn-law of the
present Administration ; yet still how much remains
to be done before the monster Monopoly sinks under
its death-blow, and before the words of the Minister
selected for its champion, that " the nation's policy
undoubtedly is to sell in the dearest, and buy in the
cheapest market," become a legal reality and a pracs
tical blessing.
Further and increasingly strenuous exertions, then,
are necessary to set the seal of final success upon the
past. The very ground we have gained demands and
inspirits to redoubled effort. The pressure, beneath
which industry sinks is not yet heaved off; but the
force applied has made it move, and perseverance will
accomplish all. There must be more lectures, more
tracts, more conferences, more agitation. Every county
and borough electorin the kingdom mustbe perioually
visited, and a condensed library of evidence and rea-
soning against the Corn-law be placed in his hands.
Monopoly will not yield without such efforts ; and it
shall have them. We are entering on the fifth year
of this struggle for truth, for...justice, for existence.
We ask of you to replenish our pecuniary means for
sustaining it. Our appeal is made confidently, for
the character of the agitation is sanctioned by its pro-
gress • and what is any outlay to the object to be
gained ? We have reported the amount already ex-
pended ; and we now appeal to you to create confi-
dence in our cause, and dismay in its selfish oppo-
nents, by enabling us to commence the ensuing year
of Arfti-Corn-law agitation with a disposable fund of
Fifty Thousand Pounds.
We are confident we shall not ask in vain. It
would be a large sum were the object unimportant;
to repeal the Corn-law it is as nothing. There is not
a town in the kingdom which would not cheaply pur-
chase the repeal of that blasting and iniquitous law
by a contribution equal to the whole sum. It is but
one million shillings—it is but four hundred thousand
half-Crowns—it is but two hundred thousand ciowna
—it is less than a halfpenny per head from the
whole popnlation ! The two millions that pe-
titioned Parliament for repeal can easily raise
this sum.; and since they last signed a petition,
hundreds of thousands have become repealers.
The fifty thousand pounds, then, will be obtained;
but -it ,is desirable that all parts of the king-
dom should contribute. We propose the following
mode of rendering the collection general and in some
degree equal. In every town a committee must be
formed, consisting of ladies and gentlemen, having
a secretary and treasurer, whose names are to
be forwarded to the Chairman of the Council. in
Manchester. A beautifully engraved subscription
card and a duplicate card will be furnished to every
collector, each card to represent a certain sum which
the
the collector undertakes or will endeavour to
ob-
tain ; the duplicate to be forwarded to Man-
chester when the card is filled up,
:An account of
the
the sums collected is to be sent weekly,to sli
Council. In the villages and more retired
the
tricts, where it may not be eonvenien!roeratpearacutsiecawbilsi
to form committees, the friends of l
be provided with cards, and thleiye d
Council. It is i-
rectly with the Chairman a
great aggregate meetinfi of the.
tended that the League Fund shall be closed in Janu-
ary, 1843, when
National Anti-Corn-law League will he held in Man-
cheAter, at w 'licit the amount of subscriptions from
each district, town, or village, will be announced. To
hoatvheervoetmedin fore eminent
this great meeting all the members of the House of
Commons andPeery, who
with a
individuals,repealof
tN.h.iellCb(e'rnii-11:ite"sd' y ,
together with ministers of religion of
all denominations, deputies, and members oftheLeague
from
all parts
isof e
brief kingdom.
The above sketch of the plan which the
League intends to pursue • and •
e are now engaged
in arranging the details dwee
future operations.
Circumstances have placed the League in the van
of this great battle •.and from which P
the post ro-
vidence seems to have •
assigned them they will
neither retire in we • ariness nor be driven by obloquy.
But it is with ,a feeling of deep responsibility that
they apply themselves to their task.. The condition
of honest industry, the food of famishing multitudes,
the well-being of millions, and the future of a great
nation are at stake. In the prolonged delay of re-
dress we can only perceive the symptoms of impending
calamity and of sure destruction. Our cause is that
of humanity itself ; and it is sanctioned by the religion
which teaches mankind to pray for the daily bread
which Heaven has provided, but monopoly withholds.
In a spirit worthy of such a cause would we pursue it
to the end, seeking the success which must eventually
be achieved, from peaceful, legal, and honourable en-
deavour; from enhghtened conviction; from compas-
sion for human suffering and the.recognitiou of eter-
nal justice; from the submission of a sordid class in-
terest to the common good ; from the wisdom of legis-
lation, though slow and late in its reflection of public
opinion ; and from the blessing of Heaven, never
withheld from righteous and beneficent endeavour.
By order of the Council, -
GEORGE WILSON, Clugnligla•
Biliachoter, Oct. i;oi, 1642.

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.
THIS EVENING, OCT. 27,

Will be presented THE MISER'S DAUGHTER, which
has been for some time in preparation. and will be produced
with New Scenery, Dresses, and Novel Effects, combining all
the resources of the Theatre. The Piece dramatised from the
popular Work of the same name, by Mr. Edward Stirling, byper -
mission of the Author, W. Harrison Ainsworth, Esq., who, in'
conjunction with George Cruikshank, Esq., will personally
superintend the numerous Tableaux, &c., as illustrated in
" Ainsworth's Magazine."
After which, THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE.
The Imp, Mr. Wieland ; Fleur-des-Champs, Mdme. Proche
•Giubilei ; •' The Frightful, Spiteful, Oki Bachelor, Mrs.
H. P. Grattan.

•
To conclude with NORMA. Pollio, Mrs. IL P. Grattan.,;
Norma, Mr. Paid Bedford; Adalgisa, Mr. Wright.
Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Doors open at half-pan
six, commence at seven o'elock.

DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, OCTOBER 27,
M ill be acted a New Drama, entitled ESTELLE DUMAS,
supported by the entire Company.
After which, the Nautical Drama of POOR JACK; or;
THE WIFE OF A SAILOR. Poor Jack, Mr. T. P. Cooke,
whose performance attracts nightly overflows. Eleanor Mrs.
H. Vining.
To conalude with Mr. Albert Smith's new Drama, called
BLANCHE HERIOT, which has met with most decided
success. Neville Audely, Mr. H. Hughes ; Hugh Laneret,
Ai r. N. T. Hicks; Herrick Evenden, Mr. J. Webster; Blanche
rleriot, Mrs. R. Honner.
Places and private Boxes to be had of Mr. J. Kerschner, at
the Box-office, from eleven to four.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY.
Morning 44 minutes after 6I Evening ..... 20 minutes after 7.