Star.
London, England, 1825-08-26 00:00:00

CORONERS' IVQUESTS.

An Inquest was on Wednesday held at the Chalk
Farm Tavern, before T.Stirling, E-q. Coroner, on the
body of Miss Shephard, a young lady of respectability,
who died suddenly on the afternoon of Sunday last.
It appeared by the evidence, that the deceased young
lady was very respectably connected, and on Sunday
afternoon took a walk towards Chalk Farm, and on en-

tering the gardens, she sank to the ground. Some
persons imagining she had fallen to the ground in a faint-
ing-fit, went to her assistance, and tenderest to her lips
some refreshment, but of no avail, she faintly breathed
and expired instantly, and it was the medical opinion
that she died from apoplexy. A verdict to that effect
was returned.

An Inquest was yesterday held at the Brown Bear.
Leman-street, on the body of Mr. Kislington, a shop-
keeper, aged 22, and very recently married. It ap-
peared that, there being a groundless alarm that thieves
were on the roof of the house, the deceased seized a
poker and ran up; when, in falling through a sky-light,
' a piece of glass penetrated the femoral artery, and
caused his death in a few minutes. Verdict, Acci-
dental Death.

An inquiry was held before T. Higgs. Esq. for
the purpose of deciding how and by what means
Mr. 'lhomas Jones. painter, of White Horse-yard,
Drury-lane, came by his death. The Jury assembled
at the house of Mr. Bentley, the sign of the Half Moon
and Seven Stars, Stanhope street, Clare-market. It
appeared that deceased, about ten weeks since, was in
company with several persons, who are in the habit of
using the parlour of a highly-respected victuallei in the
neighbourhood. One of them, named Stuart, had with
him a small brindle terrier, bat which, up to that time,
bad appeared quite harmless. The dog. on that occa-
sion, was playing about the room, and the deceased
putting his hand down at the moment the dog was near
him, the cur snapped at, and bit his band. After the
most Minute inquiry, in the course of which it was
stated, that the dog had up to the present time evinced
no symptoms of disease, the Jury found a verdict—
" That the deceased died by the visitation of God, his
death being accelerated by the strong impression made
on his mind by the bite of a dog:'
Wednesday evening an Inquisition was taken before
T. W. Unwin, Esq. at the Black Horse Tavern, High-
street, Poplar, on view of the body of John Goodfel-
low, aged sixteen years, an apprentice on board the
,country ship Albion. The proceedings created an in-
tense interest in the neighbourhood, as the supposition
was, that the death of the deceased was caused by the
cook of the vessel, which supposition was strengthened
by the appearance of external injuries, and a disloca-
tion of the neck. Immediately after the body was
found, the Coroner was sent for. and a Jury summoned.
After the assemblage of the latter, they proceeded to
view the body, which lay at the bone-house; it pre-
sented several marks of discolouration.
Samuel &KOS stated, that be was a seaman belong-
ing to the ship Albion. Tuesday last, about twelve
o'clock. he and the deceased were in the ship's boat,
intending to go on shore to bring on board another boy;
they were both pulling. Witness let go the boat's
painter, and desired the deceased to pull hard, and
clear some timber that lay in the way; he shortly
looked round, and saw •the deceased overboard i he`
then perceived that the deceased was not in the boat ;
be thinks that the slipping of the oar from the notch,
and the concussion, knocked him overboard ; he did not
see him fall ; neither did he know of it until he saw the
oar floating by the boit's side. The mate came to their
assistance, and endeavouted .to get the boat clear of
the timber ; the grappling irons were not sent for, but
a lug-boat coming alongside, they threw out a net, but
did not pick up the body ; it was picked up thia morn-
ing ; there was no one present at the time of the occur-
rence but himself, and is sure it was purely accidental.
Smith, the parish-beadle, stated, that from the re-
ports which were in circulation as to the cause of the
deceased's death, he considered it to be his duty to call
in a surgeon immediately after the body was taken out
of the water, and desired him to examine if there were
Any marks of violence, or if the neck was dislocated.
After examination, he told him there were no further
(auks of viole .ce on the body than what might be oc,
casioned by its lying so long in the water... Verdict
.4 Accidental Death: •

Dr. Wa Lucx, DiteLciar os use Botanic G tr4en
ralonta, 10.0 is A tiativi or Denntaelt, leas tramnitted a valtnal
tuntction WO:lea:4 'auks to ;Ile I:tat:114 of Copenhagen.

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CLTIOL'S Cll.4Rar.

• . COltg A3SIZES
Daniel Lesikiivis indicted for concealing arms for
the purpose 6r:spreading false rurnocrs, and raising un-
necessary alaral in. the minds of his Majesty's peace-
ful subjects. •

It was stated that this case was brought forward at
the express desire of the Lord Lieutenant and the law
officers of the Crown.
John Minchan was the first witness called, add was
examined by Mr. Serjeant Goot.to —I am a blacksMith,
and live in the parish of Kilcorney, in the barony of
Duhallow. I know the prisoner, Who came to rue in
the month of April last, and employed me to make
some pikes. tie said he would bury them in the
ground, and then discover them to Mr. Flynn, the M
gistrate, by which he, the prisoner, would get a situa-
tion in the Police. Prisoner procured the iron, and I
made nine or ten pikes. •
His LOltoskir inquired whether those were the first
pikes he had ever manufactured?—Witness said they
were. but that the prisoner asked him to make more,
which he refused.
The Jamie—Then you have done very well, Minchan, for a
first attempt.
Daniel Dennahy—l know the prisoner; he told me
that a friend named Ahern advised him to get some
kind of arms, and that he (the prisoner), by giving
them to a Magistrate, would get a situation in the
police. I gave him a large sword. I don't believe
that be wanted to do harm to any one, but he was fond
of a military life. He made no secret of his intention
or his object, and asked many people for arms.
The prisoner had no Agent or Counsel, and his Lordship hu-
manely concerned bismielf in his defence.
Thomas Pyne Flynn sworn—Examined by Serjeant
GooLD—I know the prisoner; he came to me in March
or April last with a person named Horgan ; be told
me he knew where pikes and other destructive weapons
were concealed, and intimated at the time that he de-
shed a situation in the police, that he was a loyal sub•
ject, and would make an efficient policeman. In con-
sequence of this communication, I went with the pri-
soner to a pit situated at Drumcarrig, within ten miles
of Mallow, where the arms produced were dug up in
my presence, and that of the prisoner.
Cross-examined.—l believe the prisoner's only object
was to get a situation, and that he is a very honest min,
and would be very useful to Government.—The
neighbourhood in which this occurrence took place has
not been disturbed since 182 t
The case having closed, his Lordship briefly addressed
the Jury upon it. He said, nu doubt, persons going
through the country, spreading lalie rumours were
guilty of an offence; but it was necessary to say, that
desiring to procure a situation in the police by a false
pretence, through a shameful fraud, was not the offence
with which the prisoner was charged. The Jury, with-
out retiring from the box, acquitted the phone?. '
The whole Crown Bar was conceived in this prosecution. The
man Is a middle aged man, and of. decent appearance.

Sir THOMAS LAWRSNCE is gone to Paris, for the pur-
pose of painting a whole length portrait of the King of Fiume.
Some of the most respectable cotton-spinners have
resolved to lower the price of their yarns. The first
quality of Manchester cop twist held last week at
7s. 93. for No. 120, is now reduced to 51. 6d. and in
high numbers a reduction has taken place of from Ss.
to 7s. a pound.
Last Sunday, a widow Lady of the name of
of Bradford, one of the Society of Friends, addressed
an overflowing congregation, in the Providence Chapel,
Keighiey. This is the first public meeting which has
been held by that body for many years in that place.
Owing to the intensity of drought, water is still so
very scarce at Newport, in the Isle of Wight, that the
Magistrates deem it necessary to continue the public
pump locked op during the day.
Yesterday, between Alderman and St. Catherine's
Stairs, a skiff, containing a waterman, woman, and
three children, was run down by the City of London
steam-packet, on her return from Ramsgate; the boat
was swamped, and all on board precipitated into the
River. Fortunately no lives were lost ; boats being im-
mediately manned, and the whole party rescued from
their perilous situation. •
Yesterday an accident, attended with melancholy
consequences, occurred in the Maze, Southwark. Mr.
Shoults, an eminent builder, and most respected man,
who bad served the office of Churchwarden. fair the
parish of St. Olave, passed up a ladder to the attic stoiy
nfa house he was building, and owing to die' board be
'stepped upon not being secured, fell thrim'the well-of'
the staircase into the cellar, and was taken up seine•
less, and conveyed to his house, where four medical
Gentlemen attend bhn, who entertain very slender hopes
of his recovery.
Thursday, eight joiners were convicted in the Police
Court, Edinburgh, of a rather singular assault upon
another who wrought in the same shop with themselves.
He having incurred their displeasure by disregarding'
some of their bye-laws, they tied him to a post, and
continued to pour water upon him till their resentment
and his breath were both nearly exhausted. The Ma-
gistrates fined the defendants 51. and further ordered
,them to be confined 14 days in the lockup house.
Yesterday afternoon, as Mr. Elphinstone, of the City-
road, accompanied by a friend, was returning from
Egham Races, and driving his tilbury tandem fashion,
just as he passed through the Broadway, Hammer-
smith, the leader suddenly gibed, and brought *the
vehicle in contact with the wheel of a waggon, by
which accident the carriage was upset and the parties
thrown out; but fortunately the injuries sustained were
of a trifling nature. The near shaft of the tilbury was
broken by the violence of the shock.
M. LISFRANC.• Surgeon-in-Chief of the Hospital of
La Pitie, at Paris, has successfully employed the
chlorate of lime in preventing infection from bodies in
a putrid state, and also in curing simple ulcers. He
succeeded, by-this method, in restoring patients upon
whom, during several months, the usual remedies had
no effect ; and has also tried it upon recent burns, with
eery good results: . •
Two beautiful old-trees- in Nottingham Park, during
the hot weather, shed all their leaves, a4d were as
completely stripped as they usually vie in. November ;
but what appears remarkably" Orprhing, these trees
Live; since the wet weather.* in, ppe dut• new leaves,
and • are now as fully clothed as they erste tiotore the
long season of, she dry hot 4,eiffler: "..,
MILITARY Pots —A General Officer, who was very
observant of his military duties, having retired from
the service, and destrinfitd to less expensive aparttartuits,
was found by a' triendlaisfixtla servant in sewing two
.beds tegett:er. :sad
Ose..friends," turaise.Allw
holsterer•Generalr " Not at att," rpOied the General,
4 I am follovring my old profession—i-lackikke

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NArAt INTF, LLIGENCE.
Num.'s', Auc. 24.—ailVVrlArtived the Henrietta W2e
heimins, Timm, from Stettin.
Potrutolims Ana R.S.R.—Arrived. the Thslinat
Wallace, Moostas, from Qmetiee, in 37 A -alp. Sailed the Atavism,
Jaaresot, for Miransichi ; Alfred, Mean, for Gssetnterl Janet
Maims, for Madeira ; and the St. Croix, Dania mad of war, fur
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Copenhagen.
Dear., Auo. 25.—Wind R.N.E.—Passed through, the Liberty,
of Hull, front Cephflonta for Hull. Alen froth the River, the
phrosyue, Hurcuromst. fur St. John's (N. 8.); Blues, &NM, for •
Carthastna; Bowes, Coma's, for Quebec; and the • Weihnrotre
Muss, for Madras—the latter remains: The Dutch frate Algiers,
from Gibraltar for Flushing, passed at the back of the Goudwin
last evening.
Lrirearooz, Auo. 24.—Whul •S.R.—Arrigred the Marmion,
Gaacr. from New Orleans—sailed from Belize Sth of July. "l'he
Jupiter, from Campeachy, sailed from Baize the day before, fur
this- port.
Coat, Ace. 21.—Arrived the Cato transport, to take on bpard
troops for Quebec. Abe, his Majesty's ship liossuat, Twin
Portsmouth.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, AUGUST 25.

Sacra ENTERED INSVA ILDS—The Vriendschrp, from Arneerlarn;
Margaret& and Charles, from Antwerp ; Union, Walter 'AlJthews,
and Hope, from Harlingen; Catherine, from eer ; Kkine Lidia,
from Embden ; Margaret, from Rotterdam; Astrea anti Argos,
from Hamburgh; Neptune, front (?wend; Asaph, from 1.-!Fhartt
Fortitude, from Calais; and Betsey, from Genoa.
CLCA IMO OUTIWA IRDS.—The Klizabeth, for Jamaica ; Henry, fur
Lisbon; Britannia, for Whoa: Lark, fur Gibraltar; Liverpool
packet, for Smyrna ' • Ceres, fur Cadiz ; Nancy, fur Dantzil ;
Limerick packet, for Tarragona; and Charles. for the Souttmau
Whale Fishery. •