The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-15 00:00:00

MAYOR OF WALSALL.

WALSALL, MONDAY, FOUR O'CLOCK, P.l4,—Thebody of the above
lamented gentleman was found this afternoon, It having floated to
the top of the pool at half.past one o'clock. The remains were
conveyed to the Butts Inn, and from thence removed in a shell to
the house of Mr. Cottrell, Mr. Harvey's partner.
The concourse assembled was immense, and if a general and
unanimous expression of sympathy could in any way alleviate the
feelings of his afflicted family, they possess it in its fullest extent.
Mr. Harvey was one of the leaders of the Conservat;ves here, and
had the good fortune to render himself deservedly popular with all
parties. Mr. Cottrell, his partner, is coroner for the borough, but
the inquest was held before G. J. G. James, Esq., deputy coroner, at
Mr. Cottrell's home.

The inquiry commenced this morning, at nine o'clock.

s.,
Nathaniel Mallam deposed that he was a gardener, in the em.
ployment of Mr. Eyland, residing in the Lichfield-road. ALout
half past one o'clock on Sunday, a person came to his house, and
said he had seen the head of a man in the pool, and he thought it
was that of the late mayor. He immediately left his house,
bringing a sheet with him, and on going to the side of the pool he
saw the body of a person floating on the water, about six yards
from where the clothes were found. He undressed and got into
the water, and with the aid of a stick brought the deceased to the
side, and with the assistance of another man got the body out,
when he immediately recognised it to be that of the late mayor.
They then removed the body to the Butts Inn. It was quite liaked.
Evidence was then given by the witness as to the way in which
deceased's clothes had been found.

Charles Welch said he was a police-constable, and he accom.
panied the last witness to Eyland's Pool, and took charge of de-
ceased's clothes. He saw Thomas Smith, another police-constable,
draw the towel then produced from deceased's pocket. It was
marked " Crocket."

Mr. Jahn Brewer,-a lime.master, stated that he went to the house
of the late Mr. Harvey on Tuesday morning last, and, as usual,
asked him how he was, when he replied, " I am as stiff as an old
horse. I was pitching hay yesterday for half a day, and that has
made me stiff. I shall not be right till I have had a good bathe."
Crocket is the name of geceased's mother-in-law.
Thomas Wilkins deposed that lie was packer in Messrs. Cottrell
and Ilill's warehouse. He was coming home from Oxly on Tuesday
evening, on horseback, when he wet the deceased near the gate
leading to the Lake Pool, about a quarter to seven o'clock. The wit.
ness called out, " Mr. Harvey," when deceased replied, " Well."
He (witness) then told him that a person came to the warehouse
abont seven o'clock, and asked him to take some hay and straw for
his (deceased's) pony, but he was sent to Oxly ; but he would take
some when he put his horse up. Deceased replied, " Aye, that
will do; lam going a little further up, and shall be back directly."
He never saw deceased after.

Mr. Bassett Smith said he was a very intimate friend of de-
ceased's. He had had several conversations respecting bathing in
the pool with deceased, who said he thought it a very proper place
to bathe in.

The jury immediately returned a verdict, "That deceased was
accidentally drowned whilst bathing."

SINGULAR SUICIDE OF A COMPOSITOR.—Yesterday
died in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, a compositor, named Cra.
them, who destroyed his life under the following circumstances :
The deceased had, until the last few days, not been in constant

ork, when he applied at the office of the Iron Times, in Fleet-
street. On Tuesday last he went to work, and having some intri-
cate matter to compose he had not finished his work to his own
satisfaction, when he put his hat on and ran to the upper side of
the River Thames at Blackfriars-bridge. The drags were soon
procured, and the police with much difficulty dragged him ashore,
afterwards he was conveyed to the hospital above-named, but
never rallied, and died yesterday morning. The deceased was a
married man, and much respected in the trade.

They have a trick of constructing steam-boats of
such an amazing light draft of water in the enterprising State of
Arkansas, as we learn from the Little Rock Thtelligencer, that the
Lucy Long, a boat recently built at that place, wilt run anywhere
that the ground is a little damp. We believe she generally comes
to anchor if there is anything like a heavy dew.

Died on the 9th instant, after a short but severe
illness, on his road from Bury St. Edmund's to Faulkbourn, to the
inexpressible grief of his family, beloved and regretted by all
who knew him, Henry Robert, youngest son of T. T. C. Bullock,
Esq., of Faulkbourn Hall, Essex, and late Major in the Ist Life
Guards. He was one of the few surviving officers who fought
at the battle of Waterloo, then in the I lth Light Dragoons, where
his charger received several wounds and fell under him, and he
himself narrowly escaped with his life.

Counsellor Reilly iM shortly to be married to Miss
Sugden, the youngest daughter of the Irish Lord Chancellor.

It is rumoured, in well-informed circles, that a
certain high functionary is about to imitate the example of Ane of
his predecessors in office, by engaging a
"On° `.'me in the bends
of Hymen. Thg NOIQ affections, it appears, are bestowed
on the lovely and accomplished daughter of one of our most dis-
tinguished nisi prius lawyers, and one honoured with the confi-
dence of the Government,—lrish paper.