The Sun. — 1837-09-12 (London, England)

THE MAYORALTY.—For some days past a rumour has been afloat in the City that there will be a severe contest as to who shall be the Chief Magistrate of London for the year ensuing. Mr. Alderman Cowan is the next in rotation, and, personally, there can be no objection to his elevation to the civic chair. A great portion of the Livery however, seem inclined to oppose this on another ground, and re-elect the present Lord Mayor. They say that his rigid attention to the public business of the city during a M tyoralty in which many eventful circumstances have arisen, and which have entailed on him great additional trouble and expense, he ought not to be deprived of those honours which it is expected her Majesty Victoria will confer on the chief ruler of her faithful city of London, when she pays her promised visit on the 9th of November. It is also stated that Mr. Alderman M. Wood, M. P., who is called among his brethren of the ermine, " The Queen's Own," will also be put in nomination. Another party name Mr. Alderman Harmer as the most eligible candidate. A few days ago Captain Jones of the Illalgnet, one of the oldest, as well as one of the most respectable captains on the Margate station, while in the city, felt ill in his stomach after eating some oysters, and a gentleman, a friend of his, who was with him at the time, recommended him to a druggist's shop in the neighbourhood, where he would get something to relieve him. He expressed his willingness to do so, and they both went to therdruggist's shop, and the young man prepared a draught which Captain Jones swallowed. He had scarcely done so, however, when he was seized with a violent burning in his stomach, throat, and mouth, and the first impression on the mind of himself and his friend was that- he was poisoned, and that the young man had made a mistake in mixing up the ingredients. He WAS attended by a medical man, and was so far recovered as to be able to prof.eed to his residence at Poplar. Since that time he had also been attended by a medical man, and was supposed to be going on very favourably until Saturday evening, when, while he was sitting in his chair, he suddenly fell hack, and was instantly a corpse. Information of the circumstance has been forwarded to Mr. Baker, the Coroner, so that the unfor: unate circumstance will undergo a thorough investigation. Last evening an inquest was held before Mr. Higgs, at the Coach and Horses public-house, Flood-street, Westminster, upon the body of William Lane Bath, who committed suicide in the following strange manner :—lt appeared that on Monday evening the deceased was passing through Regent-street, Westminster, shortly before ten o'clock, when he stopped before the shop of a respectable butcher, and stretching across the stall reached to a largo knife, with which he inflicted a deep and wide wound in his neck. He was immediately taken to the Westminster Hospital in a state of insensibility. The windpipe and passage to the stomach were cut through ; but the bloodvessels on both sides were uninjured. He was apparently recovering for some days, and food was administered through the opening in his throat. But he died suddenly on Saturday morning. Whilst in the Hospital he wrote down a request that the House Surgeon would write to his father, a bricklayer, at Spalding, in Lincolnshire. In the same way he informed the Surgeon that he was twentyone years of age, and that he owed his misfortune and the state of mind in which he committed the dreadful act, to his bad conduct and disobedience to his parents. He had been but a few days in London, and had no fixed lodging. It was the opinion of the Surgeon that the deceased was decidedly a madman, and it had frequently been necessary to put a strait-waistcoat on him in the Hospital. Verdict —" Temporary Insanity.l  Holyrood House, Edinburgh, where the election of the 1 6 Scotch Peers lately took place, is one of the oldest palaces in the United Kingdom ; it was built in 1128, and thoroughly repaired in 1753,