The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-15 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the
King's Arms, George-street, Bethnal-green, before
UNWIN, Esq., on the body of James Estall,
an infant, aged ten months, who came by his death
under the following extraordinary circumstances :
Mr. William Estall, landlord of the King's Arms,
stated that he was uncle to the deceased. Yester-
day evening, about six o'clock, his brother called to
see him, and brought the deceased in his arms; he
began playing with the child, when a man went into
the tap-room with some oysters; he desired him to
open some, and he (witness) cut one up in several
small pieces, which he gave to the deceased, and
which he appeared to swallow, but in less than u
minute he perceived him look black in the face, and
was choking; he immediately sent for a surgeon,
who arrived almost instantly, but too late to render
the deceased any assistance.
"

By the CORONER—The deceased appeared to
have swallowed the piece of oyster, but suddenly
something attracted his (deceased's) attention, and
he turned his head round and laughed, which occa-
sioned the oyster to go the wrong way ; he (wit-
ness):is quite sure it was the cause of the deceased's
death.

Mr. Estall's statement was corroborated by a per-
son who was present when it happened.
Joseph Hodgson, a surgeon, said he was called in
to the deceased last night, and found him dead, he
inflated the lungs, but to no purpose. On opening
the windpipe he found a piece of oyster, which had
occasioned the deceased's death. If he had been on
the spot at the time he could have saved the child's
life.

The piece of oyster that caused the child's death
was produced, it was about the size of a fly.
The Jury returned a verdict of accidental death.

SUPPOSED SUICIDE OF A FEMALE.—Yesterday
evening an inquisition was taken at the Light Horse-
man, Orange, court, Leicester• square, before Tilos.
1116 Gs, Esq., on the body of a female, name un-
known, apparently between 50 and 60 years of age,
who was found drowned on Tuesday night, in the
basin in the Green Park. _

William Ashton, one of the new police constables,
stated that he was on duty in the Green Park on
Tuesday evening, about nine o'clock, when he saw
the body of a female flouting in the basin of the
Park, at the end near Arlington-street, and with the
assistance of Mr. Ward, the keeper of the lodge,
got her out. There was no pulsation, but she was
warm about the brtast. Shortly afterwards he
found a black bonnet, containing a cotton handker-
chief, in a shrub near the place; there was no pro-
perty on the person, nor any thing to lead to a dis-
covery who she was. She was respectably dressed
in mourning. A medical gentleman was brought,
but pronounced her quite dead; a shell was prccured,
and she was conveyed to St. Martin's work-house.
Juror—Don't you consider the basin to be in a
very dangerous state, and that in case a person fell
in by accident, they could not get out again ?
ness—Most decidedly so ; and if I was to fall in,.
not being a smimmer, I am sure I could not extricate
myself without assistance, the water being 10 feet
deep at the edge.
Mr. Ward, the keeper of the lodge, corroborated
this evidence, and said that within the last three
weeks a female who was passing slipped in by „eri_
dent, and would have been drowned but for the
timely assistance of two gentlemen, who rescued
her. He considered the basin to be in a highly
Chelsea
s\to7oadtetrti-11:aisito
dangerous state.
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The Jury expressedeardigd iezideetrthhaeotifr
hce h astonishmentueli
basin should be left in such an unguarded state.
Office of WOOll5 aud. Fo:
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;eats, to enclose the whole of it with an iron railings
but that nothing had been decided on.
The Jury observed that no time ought to be lot
in guarding the basin, as the banks of it were*
area public thoronghfare, and very dangerous, pa'
ticttlarly for children.
The Jury returned a verdict of "
Vrovincd-,'f with the following addition :—" 1"5
tli,l opinion' of the Jun-, that the basin is left ill 11,3
unguarded sfm,:•.; to the danger of his IllajeglYs'
subjects, and that the Coroner be requested to reprr,
Sent the same to the Commissioners of his Majesty 5
Woods and Forests."

The CORONER said, that he would make a repte-
bentation in the proper quarter immediately.

LOSSES BY THE FLOODS.

ileturn3 have been made by several of the GeV
tlerten of Inverness and Moray shires, who sustainei
losf4t2s by the late unprecedented floods, which ma'
ciently evince the extent of that great national vile
mite. We extract the- following :
Earl of &afield—Damage done ix hirer-
m.ss-shire, (5,0001. ; in Afjtarthirei
11,0001. ; lo,s in district roads aisd
Inilges, .,.X20,600 0 g
Duke of Gordon—Estimated damage of
the crops of the tenants on his Grace's
estate, 2,4.941. th, 4d. ; lands perms-

ne,ntly ruined or carried array, 10,5001 ;
lmildinegi destroyed, 1,5004 ; Isulwarks•
end t-mlemliments to restrain and can-
tine the iver Spey and tributary stream,'
2,0001.—(No estimate is made of the
damage done to the lurks in Gordon
Ca%tie, or the loss sustained on loads
and bridges)
Mr. Grant of Ballindalloth—Estate of
ThilindaUocb,B,ooo/. ; Invereshie pro-
pel ty, 5001
Mr. Fraser of Itelig

16,494 6

8,500 0 °
500 0 °

£46,094, 6 4

THUNDER STORMS IN INDIA,

(From the Rembuy Courier, June 6.)
ire informed that the annual Dukhan thunder
storms have this year been unusually numerous?
violent, and continued, and attended with mure•fatel
accidents from lightning, than at any former perindi
Oa the 21st May, two gentlemen on a shooting es°
cur-ion, some miles from Poona, were driven VI
seek shelter from an approaching storrnortrkr sow
lofty and stout trees: the lightning struck a 00
adjoining to them, and it, together with anotb'
were subsequently blown down, the violence of the
wind being. so great, that the gentlemen could net
keep to their feet without assistance from a fixe°
object.—On the same day a house was struck 0,
the village of Boosreegaon, ten miles north 0'
Poona, and burnt.—On the next day the sleeping
tent of Major Sykes, pitched under trees at the
Hubhus Baugh, Joonur, was struck. There were
six persons in the tent, three fell lifeless, and the
other three were struck but not injured. Two of the
vie: inns were old and valuable hamalls. The accident.
on which the fate of individuals depends afford cause
for deep reflection : had the poor people, when the
tents were pitched in the morning, completed a small
winch, round the walls, as was their custom in
unsettled weather, and which would not have occu-
pied them live minutes, they would not have been
in the tent for the rest of the day. The oversight
was remarked, but the people were worn out with
a long march, and a preceding wet night, and thel
were not reealhal from their dinners to complete
their labours. In consequence, the first head
shower flooded the tent. Mrs. S}kea was provi'
dentially driven from it to the sitting tent. The
people were re-assembled to take down the wane
with a view to dry the floor; but ere this object
could be effected, the storm returned from the north'
east, and while they were occupied in hastily eat'
ing the walls again, the electric fluid fell on the
eastern tent-pole, which had a long iron spike at
the end of it, shivered the top and bottom of the
pole into capillary fibres, leaving the centre unhurt,
and struck down the unfortunate men, who were la
different parts of the tent, and not so near to each
other as Mrs. Sykes was to the man in the eastern
part of the tent, but whose fall was unseen from
the intensity of the light having obscured her
Two of the men who were killed were
severely burnt, and each had a patch of skin
taken from his left breast. The third man
had not the slightest mark of injury. The tent
was not burnt nor was there any other mark of
fire, than a hole of the size of the little finger, in the
white mosquito curtains, as if a red hot iron had sud.-
den!), passed through them. The tree was struck
in three places; a piece of the bark stript off 30 or
40 feet up the stem, carried underneath the fly and
shelf of the tent (the walls being down) and lodged
upon the bed ; a branch over the tent was snapt to
two, the broken ends presenting a multitude of fibren
like paint-brushes; finally, the tree was struck on the
opposite side from the tent, a circular hole to the
depth of the bark being made of the diameter of a
two-ounce ball, the edge of the hole having the same
capillary character as the ends of the broken branch.
On the 26th May Lieutenant Boyd's house, a
Poona, was burnt down by lightning, and reporP
states that during the period of the storms, a mall
and two bullocks were killed at a well in the Pool"
Cantonments ; the porch to a gentleman's house
was injured ; five or six horses struck down 01
Kirkee, and one of them killed; two grass-cutteee
killed. Accounts from Nassuck state that a horse
was killed in a stable in the town.

*lOO.

A fraud has lately been discovered, the cif..
cumstances of which are of a very extraordinary nature.
The butler of a nobleman, during the absence of hi°
master in Ireland, being left in the care of the town Tali--
dence, availed himself of the circumstance to assume the
character of a man of fashion, attended various publio
places, and had the address to impose upon several per,
so•as, as being the person whose appearance he assumed.,
He was, however, observed by a friend of his master's in
this new character, and suspicions being entett mined - of
the means he employed to support it, he was apprehended,
and remains in confinement t:11 the arrival of his Lord-
ship from Ireland.—Morning Paper.
LAUNCH OF AN IRON VESSEL.—Wa are
mu:th gratified to learn, that the extensive arrangements
m iking by the Irish Inland Steam Navigation Company,
under the spirited management of C. 'W. WILLIAMS, Esq.
are getting forward satisfactorily. This day one of the
Company's double iron boats, built by Mews. FAwcerr
and Co. with the engine and paddles in the middle, will
be tried on the river. She is intended to carry passengers,
and tow other vessels built for the purpose of carrying live
stock, &c. on the Shannon. And, to-morrow, an iron
boat 60 tons burthen, belonging to the Company, will he
launched from Messrs. W. LAIRD's boiler-yard, on the
banks of Wallassey Pool. She is admirably constructed
for conveyance of cattle, being ventilated in a superior
manner. We sincerely wish the Company success, and
feel confident great advantages will result from the naviga-
tion of the rivers and canals of Ireland by steam.—Liver-
pool Albion of Monday.