The Sun. — 1835-03-31 (London, England)

CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, MARCH 28. Emerald, Murray, for Qubec.  Sunday morning last, about six o'clock, the body of a man named Friday Partridge, keeper of a beer-shop at Market Rasen, was found dead in the Lock-pit, on the Witham, near this city ; and from the fact of his having only a penny and a knife in his pocket when taken out of the water, and from having been seen in the company of a man and woman of suspicious character (who have since absconded) late on the preceding night, and other circumstances, a report gained ground that the deceased had been murdered. On Monday an inquest was held on the body at the Lock Tavern, before Mr. Hayward, Coroner, when it appeared in evidence that, on the Saturday night, at 12 o'clock, the deceased was in company with a man called " Singing Jack," and a woman of the town called" Thick-lip-Poll," both of whom resided near the Lock, and who on Sunday morning, about 10 o'clock, left their lodgings, and proceeded towards Gainsborough. ;Their lodgings were subsequently searched, and in an iron pot was found a handkerchief belonging to the deceased, which was identified by Partridge's wife as his property. We understand that several of the Jury were decidedly of opinion that the man was robbed and killed, or pushed into the Lek ; but having no evidence to that effect, they returned a verdict of, " Found drowned under suspicious circumstances." Whether the man met with his death accidentally, or as is suspected, we cannot too strongly enforce the necessity of having the lock-bridge made more secure for passengers, and we beg to call the attention of the Commissioners to its present dangerous state.—Lincoln Gazette.  The following splendid stag-hunt forms a remarkable feature in the sporting season, which is now drawing to a close. The Duke of Cumberland's pack were laid on last Tuesday, near the Warren Farm, Dorking, Surrey. The deer first led them down the hill into the valley, up the hill again, and away for the country to the eastward of Guildford. Taking through Colonel Delap's park, over the old water, he crossed the meadows to Bower's-mill, which lies West of the road from London to Guildford. From this low country the stag altered his course, and, passing over the London-road, by Gosden (or Godsbill) farm, lead the hounds by Deadshill farm, through Clarendon-park, to East Clandon, up the common fields above West Horsley, thence to Mr. Currie's park at East Horsley, across the Epsom-road, over the bill past Mr. Miles Stringer's, and down the slope into the vale at Mickleham, where the gallant animal was taken, close to Mr. Hudson's. Our readers cannot but acknowledge to have been a tolerably trying performance, and the four individuals who alone saw the finish (so severe was the run), may boast of it without presumption. One of them, we understand, was that ardent horseman, Mr. Thomas Turner, of Croydon, on his chestnut mare. Whoever will trace the line of country described in the foregoing outline, will allow it to be little short cf a 26-mile chase.— Windsor Exp. ess.  Mr. Farraday, on Friday last, delivered a very interesting lecture on Pens, at the Royal Institution, in Albemarle-street. After a brief narration on the production of quills, and their conversion into pens, he proceeded to describe the invention and manufacture of metallic pens. The process of their construction was beautifully illustrated by the exhibition of an ingenious apparatus. The subject is not of sufficient public importance to require a detail of particulars, but some of the facts stated are worthy of notice. Mr. Farraday said that originally the cost price of a gross of steel pens was 70s. ; they have since been made at Birmingham at as low a rate as 4s. per gross. The quantity of steel annually consumed in the manufacture of pen.; amounts to 120 tons, each ton producing 1,900,000 pens. France and America have attempted to produce pens of a similar construction, but have never been able to attain that degree of excellence which our artists have acquired.