Star.
London, England, 1830-09-16 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

An investigation was yesterday morning taken before Mr. &nous°,
at the sign of the Pled Bull, Little Russell4treet, Bloomsbury, on the
body of Elisabeth Coombs, who committed suicide by hanging herself.
Elizabeth Ladds deposed, that the deceased lodged with her, at No. 8,
(filbert-stmt. Yesterday morning they breakfasted together, and the
deceased afterwards went up stairs. She said she had a head-ache, and
witness thought she was gone to lie down. She bad been a servant, but
was then out of Ow. A young women souse time after called to see
the deceased, and witness went up stairs with her and opened the door.
The young woman instantly screamed out, and ran down stairs, but wit-
ness went into the room and found the deceased hanging by the side of
the door. She instantly cut her down, and a surgeon was sent for, but
she was quite dead and cold. The deceased had lately complained much
of her troubles, and was very demoted, She was married, but her hus-
band had deserted both her and her child, and had married another
woman
The deceased frequently tried to find her husband, but could not.
She always said, if she found him she would not wish to prosecute
A juror observed that her husband was no doubt a profligate fellow,
and it was to be hoped would hear of the melancholy end to which his
wee (probably through his desertion of her) had been brought--Ver-
-insanity.
Anther inquest was also taken by the same Coroner, at the Royal
George, George-street, Chelsea, on the body of Wm. Rider, who bad
destroyed himself in a similar way.
John Rider, of George-street, carpenter, father of the deceased, said,
II saw him last alive on Sunday night, about ten o'clock, when I end
my wife went to bed, leaving ldm up. In the morning, about seven
o'clock, I came down, and in endeavouring to open the parlour door,
found a resistesos, so that I could only push it a little way open. I
then saw a cord ftom the top of the door-frame. I sent for a neighbour,
who cut the cord, when the body of my son, which I found on entering
I the room was suspooded therefrom, fell to the ground. He was quite
dead and cold. For the last eight or ten weeks lse was very dejected on
account of having no work.
Several other witnesses spoke to having observed a great dejectedness
of manner about the deceased of late.
Verdict—lnsanity,

A Hum TO SeonTsterw.—The following definition of
han-hundng is gives by a writer of the year 1616 Is it not a
valide peace of service for Sue or size men in the countrey (whose
dwellings an four* or Sue miles asunder, to make a mad match) to meet
together on such or such is morning to bunt or course a hare, where if
sass be hunted with hounds shoe will lead them such s dance, that per.
Imps a horse or two are killed, or a man or two spoii'd, or hurt with
leaping hedges or ditches, at the least after four or Sue days preparation,
and some ten pounds charge among them, horses and dogs. besides an
infinite dealt of toyle and trouble, and an innumerable number
of oaths and curses ; after this great deale of don, the main pur-
chase can be no more than a poor silly hare, which is but a dry
mate, and will take more butter in the basting than her carcase is
worth." _ _

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SECURITY OF PROYEATT.—The Law
their Second Report, " on the Law of Real Property," in p. 17, make
the following consolatory communisation as to the securities of real
property :—" The great difficulties which occur in selling estates and
obtaining money on real security, the time which usually elapses before
the compietion of such transactions, and the harassing expenses and
disappointments which attend them, are evils universally acknowledged.
They are by many persons considered the greatest evils belonging to our
law of tell property. We believe it may be confidently asserted that,
of the real property of England, a very considerable portion is in one
of these predicaments ; either the want of security against the reter..ew
of latent deeds renders actually urea e a tide which is yet marketable,
or the want of means of procuring the formal requisites of title renders
unmarketable, a title which is atthslantially seife
Within the last two or three days the Carlton Palo.ee en-
trance into St. James's Park bas been set about In good tamest. The
balustrade of the terrace has been taken down, so as to allow a uos
sufficiently wide fora carriage way, with a footpath on either side of it ;
and a numbs: of labourers are busily at work clearing away that un-
sightly embankment of earth, which, at so much expense, was throws
up here for the purpose of forming this most eselaudee promenade. They
am carting it away, through archways in the wall which supports it, for
which purpose some of the cast iron columns have been removed, sad
some of the original arches broken into each other, and they are deposit.
ing it on the greensward in the enclosure of the Park.