The Sun. — 1847-01-18 (London, England)

JAN. 14.—Yesterday a coroner's inquiry was held at Heaton Norris, a parish a short distance from this town, conce ruing the death of Amy Cokely and her infant daughter, aged eiJit months. As will be seen by the following facts, the untOrtunate parent committed suicide by throwing herself into the river Mersey, with the infant in her arms, which perished with the mother. The unhappy woman cohabited with a man named Barlow, and lived in Sheppard'iebuilding, They were heard frequently to quarrel, and in conseuence of some violent bruises being found on her body quince of some violent bruises being toud on her body h n taken out of the water, it was generally supposed in the neighbourhood that her death had realljm. Such,rted from the ill treatment she had received frofm young girl, however, was set at rest by the evidence estony. The of the name of Garner, and the medical te female stated that she saw the- deceased in the course dad exceedingly of last Saturday afternoon. She God! depressed in her spirits, and remarske:r " 0 my I wish I was out:of this world; for there is nothing she appeared but trouble in it." Late in the day she until more troubled in her mind, and snhze 'she left her home, last seen alive. On Sunday taking with her the child. Jekvefneiw litoosurs afterwards she the river, on the was seen near a precipice leading to to the Cotton Tree Heaton Norris side, and adjacent public-house. On the same night the bodies were dister near the place previously covered in some shallow described. The corpse owfathe mother was considerabl a eurgleon, depos.d that thye bruised. Mr. Clieetham, drowning, or a blow upon eyes of the parent were deep y gorged with blood, which might be produced bye xpesure to the cold might the head, or. by a fall ; or cause those appearaeces. Several witnesses w,re verdict, examined, who spoke to tae r 1,07 tillvinf,orbeeta-brilesti,:),nfiixili, using. the deceased, but I, late date. The jury returned the following w divers the re twing no coeclusive evrildveenre:L of the dt " TI: at'c,jatisied hay ing thrown herself in jethfehe River Meriss'el'wounds the deceased were found drowned injuries upon their bodies, ~ .inc,,,r , .. 1 were occasion. d there was no silos • vic vrice to show." cei•suredßarlow for his conduct The Coroner sever.ly to the deceased. AND THE VENETIANc A LUCILE GRAIIN --."--.. letter from Venice of January 3, ea3s :- -" Nothing is talked of here but the sudden departure of the e-h•brated danseuse, Mdlle. Lucile Gratin, who had been eilgag„d Mt. the three months of the carnival, at the sumof 40,000 lines, and who, on quitting. the Venice Theatre, has given up that amount. Mallet Lucile Grahn wished to overthrow the old system of Italian' Laving panto mimes, in order to introduce the kind of French ballets, the artistes employed in the choregraphic department year the united together to defeat this project. A cabal, similar Lucile Gratin, and v1:111111 to that of which Marie Taglioni was last ft:r the first .1" at Milan, was organised against that charming artiste came on the stage lady in the ballet of the Gipsy, a dozen individuals • time received her with shouts and threat,,. The in the pit Curtaint en with remained a moment as if thunderstruck, tinning a gesture full of calmness, ordered the which couldbetdoonbee dropped, and, in spite of everything to retain her, quitted the city immediately. Venice will long suffer from this event, for what fl•ei celebrity would come and expose herself ;" artiste of 0 a similar cabal ?" According to an account given . a meeting journal the disturbance was partly caused by the prices in a Venice or admission having been unexpectedly rai THE REPRESENTATION OF BAT/L A;e (1. of electors, held on Wednesday, the folkw• knit resolutimi was passed among others:—" Chat Lord of the reprocensente dto be put in nomination as on ,hley having se ntetives of this city, at the nextt,l))adti'llt.tmentary else tion, it is desirable to raise a funo mate expenses of sac election, and a soh: crip tits be defray legtiti be forthwith ta.tZgleueed for that ur o'F' I C.•:r4:::, c,,,,,,"r• , ore, .. 4 • •Z•