The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-03-22 00:00:00

INQUESTS.

SUDDEN DE ATH. —Yesterday an adjourned inquisition
was held before P. F. Curry, Esq., coroner, on view of Peter
Wilkinson, a joiner, aged 29, and a ringer of St. Peter's
Church bells. The deceased had, on the night of Wednes-
day, been invited to accompany some musical friends to go
throngh'the Vauxhall-road distillery, with the Excise officer,
and to take with him his hand bells. He complied with the
invitation, and was particularly elated throughout the even-
ing. He was a sober man, but had drank a little when there-
On leaving the distillery, at about three in the morning, his,
friends remarked that he appeared to be ill, and one of them
said, " Peter, you are going to have a fit." lie said that he
felt curious, and he became so ill that his companions car-
ried Mm to within a short distance of his own house, in Mea-
dow-stmt. They then placed him on the ground, and one
of them roused his wife to procure some water. He was
shortly after carried into the house, and medical assistance
.was sent for ; but before a doctor arrived he expired. Mr.
Bradshaw, surgeon, gave it as his opinion that the deceased
died from the suffusion of blood on the spinal sheath, which
he believed to have been caused by disease, and not from
drink or violence. Verdict, " Natural death."
A CHILD BURNED.—Same day, an inquest was held on
view of the body of Edward Jones, about three years old,
son of Edward Jones, Horser-court, Cavendish-street. On
Wednesday three weeks, deceased got upon a three-legged
stool to reach an orange from the chimney piece, and in
getting off, pulled down upon himself a pan of boiling water,
by which he was so much scalded tnat he died on Monday
last. Verdict, " Accidental death."

DEATH BY DRONING.—Same day, an inquest was held
on view of the body of Johnson, gardener to Mrs.
Southern, near the Dingle, whose body was found floating in
the river, near the Potteries. It appeared, probable that the
deceased, on his way home at night, had mistaken the road,
and fallen into the water. Some money was found upon him.
Verdict, " Found drowned."
THE LATE HIJIULICANE.—An inquest was held on the
same day, on view of the body of John Jones, the younger.
The body of the deceased was observed, floating in the river,
by a boatman named Stokes, from on board the ship Edwin,
opposite Egremont, on Wednesday, and was by. him taken
to Scacornbe, and given in charge to a police cfficer. John
Jones, a master mariner, recognised the body as being that
of his son, who was master.of the flat Titus, which sailed
from Liverpool on the 6th January, (th'e day . before the
storm) for the river Dee. The flat, he added, was lost in
the storm. Verdict—`• Found dr0wned.".;,,,,,,„_,,,,,

DEAFNESS.—We beg to refer our readers to an advertise-
ment of Mr Hep Worth, whose successful practice as an
aurist in Leeds has gained for him great celebrity ;‘ and so
satisfactory and respectable are the Credentials- we have seen,
as well as the references he can give to two gentlemen of this
town, that we heSitate not to recommend our deaf friends to
avail themselves of his advice,
MELANCHOLY DISASTER ON BOARD THE ST. DAVID
STEAM VESSEL.-Nuriffiroiierroneous rumours having found
circulation relative to the late disastrous voyage of the St.
David, from Newry to this 'port, we deem it but justice to
the spirited proprietors of that vessel, and also to her com-
mander to supply a succient statement of the facts, as deduced
from the evidence given by the witnesses (including some of
the cabin passengers) at the inquisition held' on view of the
bodies of three unfortunate individuals who lost their lives,
before Mr. Curry, arid a reSpectable jury':—The St. David
left Newry for 'Liverpool at ten o'clock on Saturday night,
with passengers; and a general cargo, including 71 head of
cattle, and about 200 pigs. She had on board three cabin
passengers, and one hundred deck passengers. Shortly after
her departure, it came- on to blow heavily, and about three
o'clock on the following morning, the wind increased to
nearly a perfect hurricane. About one o'clock next after-
noon, (Sunday,) the vessel was found to be about six miles
off the Isle d Man, and at that time about 50 of the cattle
had died of Cold and exprisure to the weather, the sea making
a clear breach over them. The dead bodies of the beasts
were thrown overboard, and the captain finding that the
vessel was making much water, the rest of the cattle, with
the exception of one, were also thrown overboard, as well
as many of the pigs. During all this period of suffering
the captain was unremitting in his exertions to presserve
the passengers from the effects of the gale, and to ad-
minister in every possible way.to their comfort and relief,
both mental and bodily. There were on board about
fifty females, and forty children, all of whom he had stowed
away in the cabin, the forecastle, and other parts of the
vessel where `they could be accommodated ; and the other
passengers (males) who remained on deck were, covered with
a tarpaulin, as a Protection froM the cold and wet. Three of
those so left on deck, one named Charles Murphy, another
Patrick Turley, and another, name unknown; perished in
the course of Sunday from the inclerriency of the weather,
and the action of the sea 'instantly breaking over them. It
further appeared in evidence, that the St. David had not by
,
any means a-full tar go ,or more persons on board than her
usual complement ; that indeed, she had many times taken
a greater number of passengerS with perfect safety. The
casualty was, therefore, to he attributed solely to the severity
of the hurricane, and the intense coldness that accompanied
it; and the verdict of the jury was to the effect "that the
deceased died from the cold, and exposure to the sea breaking
over them on board the St. David ; and that their bodies
were afterwards brought to Liverpool." The last clause of
the verdict confirmed Mr. Curry's jurisdiction as coroner on
the occasion. It is but justice to the captain of the vessel,
to add, that he never himself quitted the deck, except during
the short period when he was humanely engaged in placing
the females and children below decks.