Star.
London, England, 1826-09-25 00:00:00

CORONER'S INQUESTS.

Thursday an Inquest was held at the Prince Regent,
in the Liverpool road, Islington, on the body of William
Fa lend, Esq. aged sixty-three, who expired suddenly in.
that house on the preceding day. Mrs. Neville, mother
to the landlord, deposed, that on Wednesday the de-
ceased, while in their parlour, was served with a glass
of peppermint. • Shortly afterwards she heard a strange
nrise, and on ping into the parlour found him much
indisposed. She sent for a Doctor ; but before he had
arrived, the Gentleman was dead. William Holloway,
surgeon, deposed, that he opened a vein to satisfy the
spectators, although he considered it useless, as life was
extinct. He had no doubt of apoplexy being•the cause
of his death. Mr. Neville stated that the deceased's
pockets were searched, and in them were found two
half-sovereigns, two half-crowns, a shilling, and some
other articles ; also a letter, and a tradesman's bill,
which apparently had just been paid, and which led to
a discovery that he lived at No. 3, Park-buildings,
Back Road. Islington. He was a widower with eight
children.—Verdict, Died by the visitation of GOD.

An Inquest was held at the Board Room of West-
nrinster Hospital, on Saturday, on the body of Robert
Peace, aged 62, a master hack neyman for the lam 30
years. It appeared he was driving, about nine in the
evening, into Vincent-square, Vauxhall road, when,
from there being a heap of gravel, three feet high,
on the south side (which had remained there twelve
months), and no lamps by which it might be dis-
cerned, the wheels went over it, the coach was upset,
and the deceased received a fracture on the thigh, and
an internal rupture, which caused his death in the
course of the night. Mr. Bath, the landlord of the Re-
gent's Arms, in that neighbourhood, was also on the
box, but escaFed unhurt. Verdict—Accidental Death,
with a deodand of Is. on the coach, and 10s. on the
gravel ; and the Jury expressed their censure on the
Commissioners of Paiement, for suffering the bank of
gravel to remain without a light or fence, to prevent
mischief.

Lord Che terfield (says Lord Orford) thus directed
• letter to the late Lard Pembroke, who was always
swimming : .4 To the Earl of Pembroke. in the Thames,
over aga;nst Whitehall." This direction was sure of
finding him within a certain souther of fathoms.
A rogue once called at an inn. and prevailed on the
landlord to give him a beef-steak and a pint of wine, in
return for a valuable secret he would communicate
afterwards ;which was, as he had just quitted the tread-
mill at Leeds, thit the place next the wall was the easiest.
In consequence of the proptiet,:rs of several factories
in Manchester and Oldham having reduced the rate of
wages, the work people have turned out, and the mas-
ters having employed females to supply their places,
much disturbance has taken place between the new and
the old hands.

BA IIi:STAPLE, S&PTIIIBER 20.—The great :annual
Fair of this town commenced yesterday with bullocks,
almost exclusively of the North Devon breed. Cattle
fit for the butcher sold for ten shillings for every score
or twenty pounds of estimated quantity of beet, sinking
the offal—or, in wher words, giving over the hide,
tallow, and appurtenances to the purchaser, which being
in rough calculation usually estimated as w orth one-
fifth part of the whole bullock, .reduces the price to
about 4.11 per pouid. Lean cattle sold at very low
prices. I saw one lot of cows, which had been turned
off from the dairy about three weeks, srld for seven
pounds a head. Hay is at an extraordinary price here,
from the bad harvest, cad she demand for that article
from the neighbouring watering place of Ilfracombe
where hay has been sold for tea pounds a ton t2O cwt.),
some innholdersfrom that town have giveu eight. pound,
a ton, or eight ibillings per hundred weight for hay
here to draw to Ilfracombe.
The dry .surumer has caused so many horn} to fail
in their. legs.- that it has caused a poeral defitisiiii 4f
good hot ses at most of the provincial races.