The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-28 00:00:00

CORONER'S INguEST.—Monday evening Mr. Payne
held an inquest at Guy's Hospital, on the body of James Barny,
aged twenty-eight. • Wm. Thompvin, foreman in the employ
of Sir John Ronnie and Co., iron-founders, of No. 6, Holland-
street, Blackfriars•road, said the deceased was employed by the
same film, and that about five, A.M., on Saturday last, they
were busied, with five others. in founding a diving bell. For
this purpose they were standing around an immense ladle,
containing six tos of molten iron. This ladle is suspended by
a crane, has two handles on each side, siver pivots, and is
steadied by two seven-foot levers whilst the metal is being
poured into the pipe that conveys it to the mould. Two men
stand at each of the handl, s, and three at the levers. It is
the business of the men at the handles to tilt very gently the
immense ladle, whilst the levers are used to steady it, and to
prevent the men at the har.dles from pouring out the liquid metal
too fast. On the day in question deceased was, one of the men at the
handles, and when all was in readiness two keepers were taken
away from the sides of the ladle, and the men pouringout the
liquid did so with a jerk, wheroliy too much of it fell into the
pipe that conducts to the mould, and flying in red hot iron
sparks about, frightened ono of the men at the levers, who let
go the one which he held, and ran away. The other two men
at the levers following his example, the consequence was, the
complete upturning of the ladle, and the spilling of the liquid
metal. The men, in their alarm, ran confusedly to and fro,
whereby six were injured, and deceased lost his life. In fact,
he ran into a round hole under the ladle, which containing a
large quantity of the molten liquid, he was fatally scalded.
Mr. James Rae, a gentleman belonging to the firm, witnessed
the accident, and confirmed the testimony of the foreman. If
ihe men had not been frightened, it would nqt have happened.
Mr. Pearson, house •surgeon, said deceased died of the scalds,
which were excessive, on Sunday evening. The wife of de-
eeased said that he told her that the men thought the ladle
was badly poised, and therefore run away. He said, also.
that it was an accident which, under the cirumstances. five
hundred men could not have prevented. Verdict, " Accidental
death."
On Monday an investigation was gone into before
Mr. Payne. at the City Arms, West-square, St. George's-road, on
the body of Mrs. Eliza Dean, 38, the wife of a portrait.painter,
residing at No. 27 in the above square. It appeared that
the deceased had for several months past been in a very ill
state of health, arising from the death of one of her children by
scarlet fever, and was at times very melancholy. On Friday night,
on one of the children going into the kitchen, she saw her legs and
part of her body hanging over a waterbutt. She screamed
fen assistance, and police.constable L 44 was called in. Her shoes
were off, and before immersing herself she had taken the busk from
her stays. On being taken out of the water she was laid on pillows
in front of the fire in the front kitchen, and Mr. Caley, surgeon, of
the London-road, used all his endeavours to restore animation, but
ineffectually. To reach the top of the waterbutt she had stood en
a nine-gallon cask, and then worked herself up to the top by her
knees. It was stated that she was a most fend and careful mother,
and her extreme care for the welfare of her children had brought on
her illness. Verdict—" Temporary insanity."
On Sunday night, about nine o'clock, John Best,
one of the lockrnen in the employ of the London Dock Company,
went upon the river in a boat at the extreme of the dock at Wap-
ping, to fix the boom across the mouth of the lock outside the
gates, to prevent the entrance of vessels and craft, when he fell
overboard. A man named Henry Haggett heard the lockman
calling out for help and gave the alarm to the men on the pier
head, who proceeded to the place and found the boat near the boom
without any one in her. Boat hooks were put down, but the pier
men did not succeed in finding Best. The drags of the Royal Hu-
mane Society were then procured, and were used till eleven
o'clock, but with no better success. Monday morning the search
was again renewed, and the body of the unfortunate man was taken
out of the water near the lock entrance.

POPULAR FEELING.—Sir Robert Peel was burnt in
effigy on Saturday evening last, at Otley, amidst a large concourse
of people.—York Courant.
M. C., a man of irregular habits, who had sepa-
ratel himself from his wife and family, and taken an apartment
in the Rue Saint Sebastien, told the mistress of the hotel, on
Thursday last, not to be uneasy if she did not see him, as his
affairs frequently kept him away from home, and whenever he
came back he would let himself in with his own key. On
Monday the landlady reflected that she had not seen him since,
and becoming suspicious, sent for the Commissary of Police,
and had his room opened. A cadaverous smell was imme-
diately perceived, and on examining the bed M. C. was found
in it dead, and already putrid. No instrument of death, no
chafing-dish, or other means of self-destruction, could be found.
A medical officer, on examining the body, declared that the
death had been caused by an attack of apoplexy.
A few evenings since, - as a Custom-house officer,
named was returning along the Mers.road to Treport, in
the Seine-Inferieure, he was assaulted by sonic persons hitherto
undiscovered., and thrown into a trench. Nylmi found, next
morning, he was still living, but cruelly mutilated, having b,oth
his wrists broken, several of his ribs beaten in, and a deep
wound in one of his thighs. He was carried to Treport, but
expired shortly after,