The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-08 00:00:00

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and in May, 1842, £72

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on Monday, (yes

ants of inquest, held

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of hii office to hold oue; inasmuch
natural death. Mr. Cartwright had

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was found dead in bed.

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have interf

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' nnknow•ingly was quite
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bum intormation, or some persons residing
in the immediate neighbourhood where the death occurred.
He was not prepared to say, the coroner should not interfere
iu any case, as he might perhaps see a death where an inquest
would be called for ; but, it was not his duty generally to go
and search out the cause of death, and where. a violent or

ctdden death occurred, the peace officers of the place would
e most likely to receive information of the fact ; and sup-
osing the coroner did make an ex-officio inquiry, he ought
) act with the greatest discretion, and make every inquiry
rom neighbours, and to be very cautious in thrusting him-
elf into the family of the deceased. The learned gentleman
hen read an extract from Jervis. on the office and duty of

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other

that the cleatl

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right's tie

,so told, that he would no

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After ;some

,letn- an read extracts

.rid Lord Ellenborough's opinion, that

visitation of God,

, where a party dies by the
ow apoplexy and the like; nor in any
I very doubtful one, unnecessarily to obtrude

themselves into priv

families, for the purpose of instituting
in general, wait until they are sent

foi by the r

lace, whe

n inquest

of Kent,-Lord Eilenborough

There were many instances of coroners

having t

in the most vexatious and op-

!Ives into private fami-

,nd discomfort, without any

g dieci otherw

,han a natural

Evidence was then go

deceased died from natural causes, and
that the coroner had notice from the chief constable, supported
by the opinion of the medical man, that there was no neces-
sity to hold an inquest:
Mr. Rogerson (the coroner) then contended that having
made every inquiry about the case, he considered it necessary
to hold an inquest, in compliance with the advice of his legal
friend (Mr. Greenough), who assured him that he would be
acting illegally if he refused to hold the inquest, as an in-
quest was held on his (Mr. Greenough's) father, although he
died in his own arms, and not found dead in bed. Other
instances were adduced of parties dying after a few days' ill-
ness, and in the presence of their families, whilst their

nto to shew that t

the room. Knowing also that he
bight, as late as

enjoyi

vlou
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house,

1 he had been

ger: of Mess

Taylor's factory,

► him for more than two

,nt to bed well, and was found

his duty to issue his precept.
a told that the deceased had

to prove
intrudio!

greatest
.Airs. C. offering to take her de-
e (and when the jury viewed the

family, he had acted with the

body read it to them) to save her the annoyance of going

ire them in the usual v

Witnesses were then calle'd to establish the statements of

The Recorder, having consulted different authorities, and
putting several questions to Mr. James, observed, that such
was the law, bad and unsatisfactory as it was ; and be sitting
to decide according to law, was bound to administer it as he
found it, however much he might disapprove of it and wish it
changed. The coroner could not hereafter, then, bold any

Inquest
upon ti

because the death bad been a sudden one, and

)n of the police, who ought to be more
ant in enquiring into the different cases coming under

r, therefore, was not entitled to the fee for the

:ssor Whewell,
lay elected Vic

EVENING,

—The Rev.
r of Trinity College, was
—calor of the University.

slight reduction was made in the price of butchers' meat
Newcastle-on-Tyne, on Saturday last, the prime joints of
f being sold at and of mutton at sid. per lb.

It is understood that the Proprietors of the Clarence Rail-
way have promptly and readily responded to the call made
upon them for the amount necessary to free the undertaking
from the proceedings of the Exchequer Loan Commissioners ;
and that within a few days possession will be restored to the
Company.

The eight smugglers, David Berry, William Bowles, Fran-
cis Cockerell, John Clark, 'William More, William Francis,
William Bolter, and William Cakebread, captured by her
Majesty's revenue cutter Vigilant, on Sunday, the 3th ult.,
off the North Foreland, in the smack Warwick, of London,

with a valuable cargo of East India cheroots, contained in
09 cases, were, on Thursday, taken before the magistrates at
Dover, and convicted for the breach of the revenue laws, and
sentenced, to hard labour for six months. The smugglers'
gain, and corresponding loss to the Exchequer, if this voyage
►ad been successful, would have been upwards of £1,200.
Txin RECENT SCAN. MAG.—Mapy persons' attention has
been, probably, drawn to certain most malignant aad injuri-
ous aspersions, which have been circulated with more or less
explicitness, upon the character of a lady of high rank and
the conduct of a younger member of the royal family. We
have ourselves scrupulously abstained from mentioning them,
in the full belief that they were—what they have turned out
to be—simply false and scandalous. Nor should we now

have noticed them, except to state that we are authorised, on
the very highest authority, to gives these calumnies the ful-
lest and most peremptory contradiction which language ad-
mits of.—Times.

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—S
Lm, the Lord Chancellor, and Eno:

IL Pccl, Sir J. Gra-
)f the other., cabinet

ministers left town on Wednesday, at a quarter before two
o'clock, in a special train, by the Great Western Railway, to
attend the Privy Council to be held at Windsor at half-past
two o'clock. At the council a proclamation was agreed upon
for further proroguing parliament from the 10th inst., to some
lie of December. There will be a further
t present arranged, the legislature will
despatch of business until the usual
_atter end of January or beginning of
is no intention of meeting before Christ-

, and, as

.0 RESCUE

eRISONERS FROM
WINDSOR GAOL.—On Monday a most daring and bare-
faded attempt was made to release two Prisoners then con-
fined in Windsor gaol, who had been sentenced at the last
quarter sessions for the borough to transportation—the one
for ten the other for seven years. The attempt at rescue by
their confederates had so nearly succeeded that the fellows
outside bad ascended as far as the windows of the cell (on
the first floor) in which they were confined. The gang out-
side, consisting of five, were, however, fortunately seen by a
person passing at the. time (between five and six o'clock in
the evening,) who immediately gave the alarm to Mr. Simms,
the gaoler, by whom the attempt was frustrated, but the
gang managed to get off. It is known that• these fellows
were part of a most determined gang of theises from Ux-
bridge, and who are connected with one of the convicts.
The prisoners, it appears, were fully aware of the intended
attempt to liberate them. They had been heard talking to
themselves by a man in the same cell, who they supposed to
be asleep, observing, " There is but one fellow here, and if
be is not quiet, we'll soon settle him." The two convicts
have been since removed to the hulks at Woolwich