Star.
London, England, 1821-03-19 00:00:00

CORONEICS L\-QUEST.

A Coroner's Inquest was held on Friday night a
the Middlesex Hospital, on the body of William
Macdonald, the poor little chimney-sweeper, who
was suffocated on Wednesday, in the chimney of the
house, No. 46, 3largaret-sweet, Cavendish-square.
It appeared in evidence, that a bricklayer who was
present with his men, was requested by a fent:y ap-
prentice of the deceased, who distinctly heard him
moaning, to cut a hole in the wall, and extricate him
from the rubbish, in which he was enveloped, but
that he unfeelingly refused, observing„ that 'the wall
had been lately repaired, and could not be spoiled to
save the life of a sweep."
Several of the Jurors were for returning tome ver-
dict by which the matter might be brought before
another tribunal ; but at the stiggastion of Mr. STIlt
Lugo, the Coroner, they ultimately returned the fol-
lowing :—" Suffocated in a chimney;" and they
added; by way of censure, that the deceased's death
was accelerated by the unfeeling and criminal con-
duct of the bricklayer.

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On the evening of Suisday seinnight a fire broke
out in a house occupied by a locksmith, in Bull-lane,
Dublin, which was completely destroyed : two chil-*
dren unfortunately perished in the flames: A house
in Edger's-Court, was completely deitroyed the same
night by a similar calamity.
Bow-STREET.—Friday Air. Ernest GotheY Kopf
was released from the cu,tody of Lavender, the offi-
cer, he having assigned and given up to his pursuers
from Leipsic, the immense treasure, consisting of
German and Dutch ducats and Napoleon; to the
amount of £32,000, and gold bars of the value of
£B,OOO, making in the whole value £40,000, which
he had got in two portmanteaus, and the whole
weighing 600 lbs,. In the evening of Friday he left
London on his return to Leipsic, accompanied by.
his mother.
, Ludiriary or Payson so iiii.COMPXULD ro PIIOSICUTZ Or-
!riving as.—At the Late Cumberland Assizes, Mr. Justice Bisa
said he wished-to stake a few•observations, which perhaps were
Very much called kr. A. member of the Grand Jury (Mr.
CillISTIA11) had represented to him, since his charge was deli-
vered, that the Magistrates in this county (and the same was the
case, his Lordship understood, in many parts of the kingdom)
had met with considerable difficulty in the discharge of their
duty, in consequence of a notion that bad gone abroad, that a
person could not be bound over to prosecute, but only to give
evidence. This arose in consequence of an objection made at
one of the Metropolitan Police-offices, by a Gentleman, who at
the same time referred to an Act of Parliament, to bear oat his
assertions It was certainly true that the Act Of Pattie and
Maar, here alluded to, gave the Magistrates no such power; bat
that Act bad little to do with the subject. By the common law
of the land, Magistrates have a right. to require persons to be
bound over to prosecute t, and persons refusing should be
told that the Magistrate is invested with power to compel them.
Ills Lordship knew nothing of thl%ndsconception but *bat be
had seen in the Newspapers; yet it was necessary that its entire
fallacy should be known to every one.
IAWDON Dames.—The Report from Messrs. Ram's, Czar-
&lAN, and MONTAG ur, the Engineers, has been delivered, to whom
it was referred last autumn, by the Corporation of London, to
consider whether it would be advantageous and practicable to
widen the arches of London Bridge. Those Gentlemen have
reported in the negative, and decidedly recommend the erection
of a new bridge, which they state will cost only about 450,090 i.
exclusive of the approaches. This Report, together with the
opinions of I)r. Ile:pro% and the four City Harbour- tasters, as
to the benefits which will. attend the navigation,-both above and
below the present bridge, in the event of its removal, will in a
few days he laid before the Committee of the House of Com.,
mons, who, it is expetted, will immediately report, and the new
bridge be begun as soon as the necessary buitamelitary forms
wiltptrnik-t, . •