A Coroner's inquest was held on Wednesday, at the Charing
Cross Hospital, on the body of Daniel Carrol, who died on Tuesday, in con- sequence of some severe wounds received from Davis, a policeman, in a scuffle at No. 3, Star Court. It appeared that there had been:a " wake " at the house, and a good deal of disturbance. The policemen got upon a ladder, and endeavoured to force his way through a window into an upper room where Carroll was. The deceased armed himself with a quart pewter-pot, and made a desperate resistance, in spite of the severe cuts be received from a sword which Davis bad armed him- self with. He at length knocked Davis down, together with the ladder ; but was afterwards captured himself, and died at the Hospital of his wounds. Another policeman, named Gates, was implicated in the affitir ; but in what way, does not clearly appear from the evidence. The Jury found a verdict of Manslaughter against both Davis and Gates.
On Wednesday morning, a Coroner's Jury assembled at the Hero of Waterloo public-house, Waterloo Bridge Road, to inquire into the circumstances connected with the death of the female who was found murdered on the morning of Sunday last, in a shed at the back of the premises of the Bull-in-the-Pound public•house, Broadwall, Lambeth. The Jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown."
Samuel Holden, the grave-digger of the parish of St. Mary, Alder- manhury, cut his wife's throat on Tuesday, and immediately after his own. The man was seventy years old, his wife forty-two. They were both in the vestry, and their daughter cleaning the pews of the church, when the murder and suicide were committed. A Coroner's Jury found that Holden was insane ; and it appeared that he was in the habit of getting intoxicated. There had been no quarrel between the parties, nor could any reason be found for Holden's sudden fit of rage against his wife.
On Wednesday morning, the second battalion of the Scots Fusileer Guards, at present stationed at the Tower, under the command of Colonel Mercer, was drawn out to witness the punishment of Michael Dobbs, a private in that regiment, who had been tried the same morn- ing for striking Sergeant Bioodsworth, of the second battalion, and sentenced to receive two hundred lashes for the offence. Dobbs, it appeared, had a few days previously been engaged in a dispute with the Sergeant upon some trifling matter, which gave rise to a personal con- flict, and ultimately led to a court-martial upon the offender. By the sentence of the Court, of which Lieutenant-Colonel Hawkins was President, the culprit was awarded two hundred lashes ; but in con- sequence of the dreadfully lacerated state of his back upon his receiving one hundred and fifty, and the opinion of the medical officer of the regiment that further punishment would not be proper, the remaining fifty were remitted ; and the man was taken to the military hospital, in order that he might be cured of the effects of the laceration. [It does somehow happen, that since the number of lashes which a regimental Cana-martial can inflict has been limited, the smaller number has the same effect that the larger used to have. Are the drummers relieved more frequently, and the severity of the punishment thus augmented ? Formerly we never beard of a man being unable to endure two hundred lashes ; now the surgeon is obliged to interfere after one hundred and fifty have been inflicted, lest the sufferer should be tortured to death.)
A lad of fourteen, named Stanhope, was struck dead by lightning, on Friday last week, at the house of Mr. Penn, a schoolmaster at Kennington. He was not standing near a window, but near the school- room-door at the bottom of a staircase. The whole house was shaken by the concussion, and speedily filled with smoke.
Some premises belonging to the Admiral Keppell, an inn near Brompton, on the Fulham Road, were set on fire on Tuesday morning. The damage was not great, but the fire is supposed to have been caused by an incendiary.
The extensive saw-mills of a Mr. Alfred Rosling, of Cambridge Heath, Hackney, was set on fire, it is believed wilfully, on Saturday night. At out 70001. worth of property was destroyed.
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