At an Inquest held a few ...
The Times, 1824-09-10T00:00:00

At an Inquest held a few days singe, before G. GwYiJN, Es%., Corener for the eastern divisjon of the D oInty of Sussex, on the body of Mr. Steer, landlord of the Alarquis of GranbY Inn, at Sompting, it appealed in evidernce that the deceased had taken a party to Brighton the day betbre, in one of his owvn post-chaises and that on his return horim, on that pLrt of the road between New and Old Shorcham, the felloe of one of the fore wheels of the chaise by some means came off, and that the sudden and unexpected shock occasioned thereby dislodged tlhe unfortunate man from the bar of the chnise ( w here he sat to drive, and precipitated hi m to the groind, when it was conjectured arom thecapearanceof the wound in his head, that one o.the spo'kes of the whicel must have actualv gone through his head.. 3y the traces of blood upon the ground, it up- peared also that he had been dragged some distance after hie fall, it was supposed, frot some.of h8 cothes hanging to the broken wheel. The horsea with the chaise reached the tod.gate at Shopharbm. bridge betbre the accident *as discovered to have taken place. The absence of the driver immediately caused a tearch to be made, when not far from the said gate, poor Steer was found prostrate on the ground, and his skull fractured, and convulicd with the agonies of death. Coroner's verdict-' Accidental Death."-Weat Suwsex Advertiser. I - THE HOPPERS lE KEWT.-Extraet of a private letter from Wateringbury, dated Sept 7 :-"In tbis nclghbourhood, as is usual during the month of September, wd are infested with men, onmen and children, of all sorta and complexions, and almost fzrona all countries, atttacted by the employment offered to them by the different hop-pMiters in ihis neighbourhood. I speak within coinpzss when Itfell you, that there are many thousands (composed princially of the low Irish) within a -circuit of five miles aroand us. Wre are actually afraid to retire to rest, as not a night passes withoat sersoas and slarminlg squabbles tuking place between thern. In the parish of Barnjibi, where Ar. Ellis's plantations are princi. p;lly situated, broken heads, bloody noses, and frightfal riots are the order of the night (when tbeir day'swork is over), which does not ceasi until the morning sun sunimonses them to their work. Yesterday there was 3 most'alarming disturbance in ouLr village be- tween the different hopping faternity, which originated in a dispute between the two parties-zithe-" native Irish" aud the " native Eng- lizn," as they zredeslgnated bpy themselves. By the cvening-they became most detperate'; and'after eo,nmitting various breaches of thdepeace, tbey forcibly took possession of the house of the turnpike. gOte,keeper, end they were not expdled witbout several persons be- ing severely wounded., and one nian of the name of Startup, had his eyanearly cut out with a reapinghook Twoor three oftbe ringlcaders '1tr&takeh ito ctstodty with the greatest difflsultv, the riotera res. cuing tEieireon2r4ses sfas #t .s they were secured by the codstables. Wisballt heordlty. plek.sed when the hoPPpiRg is terrninated, whet) thaes niotouslroppam willt Suae e? to another part of the, kipgdonm. We,eipEecto have, uUl around this neighbourhood, more than An 3verig.ccrop: all bur harest has been got in, and, tliank Od, we uev7er iid ua4nre prod7srdtiyeonee