The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-02 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

Mr. Payne, the City Coroner, held an inquest at
Guy's Hospital yesterday evening, upon the body of
Elizabeth Thompson, aged 51. It appeared from the
evidence of several witnesses, that the deceased had
been subject to fits for the last seventeen years, and
on Tuesday evening while sitting alone at the
kitchen-fire in her own house, No. 15, Ayliffe-street,
Horsemonger-lane, (her daughter having left the
house for a few minutes), one of these suddenly
attacked her, and she stumbled on to the fire. Her
dress ignited, and although assistance was promptly
rendered by a stranger passing, who • rolled her in
the carpet, tore the remainder of her clothes off, and
conveyed her without loss of time to the above hos-
pital, she died in great agony in a few hours after
her admission. Verdict, " Accidental Death."
Su,„„ DEATuc,___Air Tinker Ma two inpleqs at

the Cape of Good hope, in Commercial-road, on the
bodies of Margaret Cheshire, aged 71, and Julia Ma-
bony, aged 9 years. The first person had been quite
well at 5 o'clock on Wednesday last, and while speak-
ing to her son at the tea-table, she suddenly fell from
her chair to the floor, and though a surgeon was sent
for immediately, his services were of none avail, for
she died soon after. The girl had been ailing for
some time, but was not supposed to be in immediate
danger. She went to bed well upon Tuesday even-
ing, and died in the afternoon of the succeeding day.
The surgeon attributed her death to convulsions. In
both cases verdicts of Natural Death were record d.

THE ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GREVILLB-SREET.

—A deputation, consisting of Mr. Hughes Hughes,
chairman, the Rev. Dr. Knapp, chaplain, Dr. Hume
Wetherhead, physician, Dr. William Marsden, prin-
cipal surgeon, the Rev. R. C. Packman, honorary
secretary, and Mr. Fenn, an active member of the
Committee of this great charity, waited on Wed-
nesday morning upon Alderman Sir John Pixie,
Bart., the late Lord Mayor, to express to him the
deep obligation felt by its authorities for the liberal
and invaluable countenance received from him during
the year o f his occupation of the Civic Chair.
Alderman Pixie received the deputation with his ac-
customed courtesy, but assured them how entirely
uncalled for was the visit with which they had taken
the trouble to honour him. He had done nothing
more while Chief Magistrate than, he was sure, every
succeeding occupier of the Civic Chair would be found
anxious to do to promote the success of an Institu-
tion upon which so much zeal was exerted with such
immense advantage to the most destitute forlorn of
the public of this vast metropolis ; and to which,
moreover, the Lord Mayor, and every Sitting Ma-
gistrate, had the great comfort and privilege of
sending any suitable case, with the confidence that
it would instantly receive every possible attention—
disease and destitution being, as he well knew, the
the only passport necessary to obtain the charitable
aid of the Royal Free Hospital. Mr. Hughes
Hughes took the opportunity of stating to Sir John
Pixie what he was afraid was not sufficiently known
to the public, that the two Rev. Gentlemen present,
both of them Priests in Ordinary to her Majesty, and
Canons of St. Paul's Cathedral, thought it not be-
neath them to labour in their holy calling amongst
the wretched inmates received within the walls of

this hospital ; and, not only on Sundays, but at all
times, to afford them moral and religious instruction,
and that many, he hoped and believed, received
lasting benefit in that most important way, as well
as bodily cure within the Institution. Sir John
Pixie assured the deputation that he had heard those
particulars with great interest, and that the authorities
of the hospital might at all times rely with confidence
upon his best exertions for its welfare and advance-
ment, and particularly since the noble efforts they
had lately made, in reliance upon the public sym-
pathy and liberality, in purchasing and fitting up, at
a cost of nearly 10,0001. on the whole, the extensive
premises of AI essrs. Sedden, in Gray's Inn-lane, for-
merly the barracks of the City Light Horse Volun-
teers, to which the Charity is about to be removed.
THE BRUSSELS TRAGEDY.—M. Caumartin, in-
stead of proceeding from Rotterdam to England and
thence to America, as has been said to have been his
intention, came to Paris, and, having embraced his
mother, immediately went to the Procureur-General,
and offered at once to submit to be imprisoned and
brought to trial. The officer of the Crown informed
him that, as no complaint had been lodged against him,
there was no ground for his being taken into custody.
Upon this he immediately set off for Brussels, with the
determination of surrendering himself to justice in
Belgium. Before he departed, he wrote two letters,
dated Nov. 27. The first is to the Procureur du Roi,

in which, after announcing his resolution, he declares
that he shall be able to prove that he was provoked,
struck, and wounded first, and that the tragical ter-
mination of the deplorable conflict was totally in-
dependent of his own will. The second letter is to
M. Chaix d'Estange, as Batonnier of the order of
Advocates, of which M. Caumartin is a member.
In this the writer expresses his regret at not having
found him at home, on calling with his brother-
in .law, as he wished to convince him that, under the
painful situation in which he was placed, he had done
nothing to forfeit his esteem, and hoping to have in-
sured his powerful aid in conjunction with that of M.
Dupin in defending him, if he could have been brought
to trial in France.— Galignani.
SHOCKING ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, at
twelve, two privates of the Ist Life Guards, now sta-
tioned at llyde-park barracks, Knightsbridge, were
taken to the strong room for being drunk. 0/10 ei.
the prisoners wrenched several strong iron bars frorr.
the window of the room where they were confined,
opened the casement, and, with one hand, laid hold of
the sill of the next window, to endeavour to drop to
' the ground, but he missed his hold, and fell on the
stone pavement. He was carried to the hospital of his
regiment with both his thighs breken, and otherwise
dreadfully bruised.