The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-24 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUEST.

An inquest was held yesterday by Mr. W. Carter,
the Coroner for the eastern division of Surrey, at the
Mail Coach public-house, Croydon-common, on the body
of a man unknown, who was tbund lying deal, with his
head shattered by a pistol-ball; upon the common on
Friday morning last.
The CORONEn inquired of Inspector Collins whether
he had been able to discover who the deceased was, or
whether his name had been ascertained ?

Inspector Collier replied that information of the dis-
covery of the body had been published in the Hue and
Cry, and every inquiry had been made, but he could not
find any clue to the deceased's friends or connexions.
Dancer, a policeman, was then examined, and he
proved the finding of the deceased upon the common.
There were no marks of struggling, or any' reason to
suppose that the deceased came by his death otherwise
than by his own hand. A small printed book perforated
in several places by a pistol ball, was found near him.
Brooker, a labouring man, stated that on Thursday
evening he saw the deceased leaning against the fence of
Mr. Newman Smith. He was in the act of writing
something with a pencil in a book which he believed to
be the same produced by the constable, and when he saw
the witness he took a piece of biscuit out of his pocket
and began to eat it.
Collier, the Inspector, was next examined, and stated
that in the pockets of the deceased lie found:about
seven shillings in silver and copper money, and also a
quantity of percussion caps. He likewise stated that lie
had made a minute examination of the place where the
deceased was found, and he could not discover any
trace of a struggle, neither had he the slightest ground
for believing that the deceased met his death otherwise
than by his own act.
The CORONER, having minutely questioned all the wit-
nesses upon this point, and receiving a similar reply, said
that if the Jury thought it necessary, he was quite ready
to adjourn the inquiry, to give the Police an opportu-
nity to adduce additional evidence, both as to the pri-
vious state of mind of the deceased, and also as to his
identity.
The Jury said they considered an adjournment quite
unnecessary, and they returned the following verdict—
" That the deceased destroyed himself by shooting
himself with a pistol, charged with gunpowder and a
leaden bullet, but what state of mind he was in at the
time, there is no evidence to prove."

MONEY MARKET -----
and CITY NEWS.
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149 251 ; E-x.chequer Bills, old, 37 ,
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premium.
The Foreign Securities were—Belgian, 102 3
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 521 53
; the 110' Five v ;
per Cents., 101 101 i ;Danish, 80} 8-2 i i. ; Brazilian, 67
68 ; and Chilian, 88 92.
The quotation of Mexican was 36 for Money, and
36 for the Account. The other Bonds were quoted—
Colombian, 24 27 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 37 37;
and Spanish riv'e per Cents., 22j 23 ; and the Three
per Cents., 22i 23k.
The meeting of the Bondholders of the latter State
took place to-day, and 'Senor ROssles, on behalf of the
Government, proposed that the arrears of interest, now
amounting to SI per cent., should be. converted into a
Three per Cent. Stock, the first payment on which is
to commence in 1847 ; that a sinking fund of nearly
20,0001. per annum should be established, and that the
foreign holders should have the option of changing the
new into local stock, payable at- St. Jago de Chili, re-

ceiving a bonus of 10 per cent. for the difference of ex-
I
change. These propositions, so nearly approaching the
'demands of the creditors, the only difference being one
year as to the_ time of paying, i. e., whether in 1846 or
1847, and the. unsolicited offer of the sinking fund, and
optional conversion, were unanimously adopted by the
Committee, and are to be laid before a General Meeting
of the Bondholders on Friday next for their approval or
rejection.
London and Birmingham. Railway Shares were 180
182 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 52 54 ; Great
Western, 92 93, the .Half Shares, 64 64i ; South
Western, 631 64 ; Gosport. 631 64 ; North Midland, 66
68, the New Shares, 324 331 ; South Eastern and
Dover, 29+ 29:1, the Scrip, -71 71 ; Eastern Counties, 9*
91 ; Blackwall, 11 111, the New Shares, 9 9+ ; and
Brighton, 36t 36-1 per share.
Accounts from the Cape of Good Hope give the official
statement of shipments of produce, for the quarter end-
ing sth January, in the present year :—Wine, 1,311
pipes, of which 560 were to this country ; Flour, 223,676
. pounds ; Wool, 154,872 lbs. ; Tallow and Candles,
142,733 lbs. ; Beef and Pork, 229 casks ; and several
other articles, of the total value of 80,1641. ; and the
value of the imports during the like period was
188,266/.

A FRENCH REPROACH AND AN

ENGLISH APOLOGY.

There was one purpose of the Queen's grand fete
last week discovered only by our sensitive neighbour
over the water : ever pricked to the quick by their
point of honour, they were sorely alive to the fact that
the whole affair was no more than a splendid insult
to France ! In the days of the July and the Quin-
tuple Slave-trade Treaties, the days of Crecy and
Poictiers should be forgotten; whereas France, in
her own imagination,' again graced the triumph of
England, because in the age of Waterloo were re-
vived the pageants of the age of the earlier victories.
But our worthy neighbours overlook the difficulty of
choice. If the young Queen of England and her
chosen spouse desired to personate a couple on
England's ancient throne, what scope had they for
selection, without disastrous associations of some kind?
To begin with the latest reign of a picturesque CO3-•
tume, the last before the Dutch Prince intro-
duced dulness and ugly dresses, that of James
the Second—should Albert play the sneaking fu-
gitive, the patron of Jeffries, and Victoria enact
Anne Hyde, or the Queen that fled into exile ?
Should they have personated the abandoned
Charles and his plain neglected wife ? Cromwell
may be passed over, as unsuitable for Royal sport.
Then comes Charles the First, the man that defied
the law and corrupted the Judges, to perish on the
scaffold, and Henrietta, who henpecked her husband
and fled by night with her babe. Next is James the
First and his Danish wife—the misshapen pedant and
bungling state-craftsman, stained with Raleigh's
blood. Would our French friends have had Victoria
appear as • Elizabeth—and Prince Albert as
Leicester ?—oh, fie ! Should they have been Mary
and Philip, a Queen Regnant and her husband, with
Smithfield fires and conjugal misery? Henry the
Eighth and one of his murdered wives Henry the
Seventh, who married the neice of the man that he
had caused to be slain before his eyes ? The crookback
Richard and his bride, his victims widow ? Edward
the Fourth and Elizabeth Woodville, a rake and the
adventurer that trapped him ? Idiotical Henry the
Sixth and the virago Margaret ? Henry the Fifth
and 'Katherine ?—France forbid that ! Should
Prince Albert have been the audacious Bo-
lingbroke, the usurping Henry the Fourth ?
or Richard. the Second, perishing by violence ?
Edward the Second, shrieking in Berkeley Castle ?
Edward the First, who swindled Wales, be-
trayed the Scots, and was the father of the minion
just named? Henry the Third, called in the Paston
Letters " a squinting fool," whose reign was one at-
tempt to cheat his people out of the Charter ? John,
the name for all that is base, mean, and cruel, whose
vices were the strength of the Chartists of those
days ? Cceur de Lion, who roved from Berengaria
and his usurped throne, to spend his people's
money in Syrian wars ? Henry the Second,
the sport of bigotry, and of filial impieties ?
Stephen, who scarcely sat upon the throne ?
Henry the First, the usurper of a crown, the husband
of a nun, and the father of children drowned at sea?
Rufus, the hard sportsman, wifeless and childless, may
be passed. Could the Saxon Prince of Saxe-Gotha
have played the part of the Norman bastard, that
wrenched the kingdom from the Saxons, and lived a
life of tyranny, to die abandoned by his menials and
be buried by charity ? Or should the royal mummers
have gone back to the Saxon days for the beautiful
lovers, Edwy and Elgiva—separated, seared, and wor-
ried to death by Dunstan. What couple could they have
chosen for prototype, in the picturesque ages, not tor-
mented by violence against their own persons, dis-
graced by profligacy or cruelty, or both, the victims
of political intrigue or religious bigotry, wretched in
their progeny, or associated with some national Mis-
fortune ? In truth, Edward the Third and Philippa
made about as good and safe a choice as any, although
romance would fain arrest the progress even of their
history, and avert the sight from the monarch's de-
clining age. France may put up with the rub on an
old forgotten wound, in thinking that England has
escaped yet harsher reminiscences.