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table, as if he had died in the act of undressing. He had 
€ Several letters were lying open before 
him. Dr, Bostock stated that he was called in to see 
been subject to fits. 
deceased, who had apparently been dead about 17 hours. 
Witness attributed his death to natural causes. 
returned a verdict of Natural death by the visitation of 
God.”—On Monday an inquest was held on the body of 
Mr. R. B. Warren, the well-known blacking-manufac- 
turer, of the Strand, who suddenly dropped down dead 
from his chair while sitting in the house of a friend in 
Camden-town, on Saturday evening. 
Up-stairs, when as he got into the hall he fell down sud- 
denly. He breathed once deeply, and then expired. A 
Surgeon was called in, and having attempted ineffectually 
to bleed deceased, stated that death resulted from 
poplexy. Verdict accordingly. —On Wednesday Mr. 
Peake, one of Her Majesty’s messengers attached to the 
Foreign Office, was found dead at the door of his own 
Tesidence in Lambeth. The deceased gentleman had just 
attended to his official duties. 
Mortality of the Metropolis.—The number of deaths 
registered in the week ending Saturday, November 4, was as 
follows :—West. Districts, 155; North Districts 219; 
Central Districts, 211; East Districts, 229; South Dis. 
tricts, 246; ‘Total, 1060 (males, 525 ; females, 535). 
Weekly average for the last five years, 903 (461 males, 442 
females) 3 and for the last five autumns 908, 
Provincial Nets. 
Marriages and deaths and obtaining 
Other information, in order to perfect their pedigree and 
Case previous to their taking a legal claim to the property. 
; Bristol.—On Wednesday, the 8th inst., a meeting was 
held at the Public Rooms, Broadmead, to take into con- 
sideration the educational necessities of the labouring 
Classes of the city and neighbourhood. The Earl of Ducie 
Presided, and resolutions were adopted for the purpose of 
ene the efficiency of the schools already in exist- 
Pee and of establishing others in situations where they 
perceocd on the plan of the British and Foreign School 
a ‘lety. The room was densely crowded by individuals 
nnected with various religious denominations. 
the the ed—An inquest was resumed on Wednesday for 
a hird time on the body of a young woman, at Bromley, 
ate ed Harriet Monkton, aged 23. She bore an exem- 
Tene, character, and was what is called a very religious 
hoa No suspicion was entertained that she had left 
dieses” Clandestinely, and after making inquiries in every 
oe ton at the houses of friends, a diligent search was set 
a ine by the Police, and deceased was discovered seated 
Chay round in a water-closet, at the back of Bromley 
4 ae » quite dead and cold. Information was forwarded 
as ne Coroner, who empanelled a jury of the inhabitants 
inguin, following day, and the identity being proved, the 
nation. Was adjourned, in order that a post mortem exami- 
BR ma the body might be made. The jury again met 
to who ay the 10th, and Mr. J. Jlott, Jun., of Bromley, 
ing th ™m the post mortem examination was entrusted, hay. 
the aie Stated that he had discovered traces of poison in 
order ani the coroner again adjourned the inquest, in 
Proved ae its contents might be analysed. Tt was now 
bottle ogvtt the stomach contained prussic acid, but no 
Althoy “ould be discovered in which such poison had been, 
Water.) one containing smelling-salts was found in the 
nant, Sct It was also found that deceased was preg. 
of the After a long inquiry the coroner said the evidence 
Batisfagh ctioal gentleman showed the cause of death very 
herseip orily, but then the question arose, did she take it 
a8 al, t was it administered by any other party? Jt 
quanti Impossible that any person could take the 
Strengt} of Prussic acid which deceased had done and have 
Phial’} Suflicient to destroy or put away the bottle. One 
Poigg een found, but it contained no traces of the 
did Alo Assuming that she died from prussic acid—where 
thought tee it, or by the aid of what assistants? He 
Was ines ‘ey ought not to come toa conclusion until this 
with g FOeSS and he would suggest an adjournment, 
reward fonmendation to the parish authorities to offer 
Suggested °F the discovery of whom it was obtained, He 
i ®2 adjournment to afford time to prosecute 
: The jury returned a verdict of 
ied from Apoplexy.”—On Monday an inquest was 
held on the body of Mr. Charles Knight, aged 63, solici- 
tor, Union-court, Old Broad-street, who dropped dead 
Verdict, ‘‘ Natural 
death.’—An inquest was held on Monday, on the body 
of Mr. Joseph Barlow, of the firm of Barlow and Ander- 
Son, soap-manufacturers, of Great Suffolk-street. It 
Appeared that on Saturday morning he was proceeding 
further inquiries. The Jury i i 
iding with 
the coroner, the inquest was again formally adjourned. 
Cambridge.—The local papers contradict, on authority, 
the rumour that the Duke of Northumberland is about to 
resign the Chancellorship of the University and that 
Prince Albert is to be elected to that office. 
Cardif.—A run-away slave, belonging to an American 
vessel lying in the Penarth roads last week, was found 
secreted on board a Waterford brig in the Bute docks, 
which he had entered some weeks previous as an able sea- 
man. A strong party of the American ship’s crew, having 
ascertained his place of retreat, entered the brig and 
forcibly bore off the unfortunate slave. Neither remon- 
strance nor resistance was offered on the occasion, and the 
American trader having conveyed the poor fellow on 
board immediately set sail for his destination. The cap- 
tured slave was an excellent seaman, and bore upon his 
person many severe marks of the brutality of his task- 
masters. In reference to this circumstance the Globe 
observes that “it is a disgrace to the people of Cardiff to 
have allowed this poor fellow to be recaptured and dragged 
back from the sanctuary of the British soil.’’ 
Carmarthen.—Her Majesty’s Commissioners left Car- 
marthen on Saturday for Haverfordwest, where they are 
now pursuing their inquiries. They are understood to 
have expressed an opinion that the generality of the 
grievances complained of are such that they cannot be 
grappled with so as to have any remedy applied. Accord- 
ing to the reporter of the Z'imes the chief root of the 
various complaints is general and increasing poverty—a 
poverty so great that the people can with difficulty subsist 
and pay the demands made upon them 3 and the depres- 
sion in trade, with the recent commercial policy of the 
Government, each tending to lower the prices of agricul- 
police rate and the rate for the payment of the Metropo- 
litan police now in Wales, the farmers very generally 
expressing a determination not to pay either. The 
incendiary who perpetrated the late fires,in Denbighshire is 
supposed to be a man called Ellis, who was apprehended 
near Bala with lucifer matches on his person and com- 
mitted for trial, It appears that at the July quarter ses- 
Sions he was tried for stealing fruit from Maesmor, near 
Conway, and imprisoned two months. Since then he has 
been lurking about these parts, and some of the farmers 
who have suffered were on the jury which found him guilty, 
and others had refused to give him a good character on 
his trial. He is said to have protested that he would 
make them suffer for it. Accounts from Fishguard state 
that one of the leaders of the Rebeccaites who lately 
it lished the turnpike-g toll-h » having been 
tempted by the reward offered in her Majesty’s proclama- 
tions, has turned Queen’s evidence, and has sworn inform- 
tions against 34 of the party, 25 of whom were taken on 
Monday night and put in charge of the military in the 
Market-house, to await the coming of the magistrates to 
adjudicate on the case. The dragoons have been sent to 
assist the other military and civil power at present sta- 
tioned at Fishguard, lest a rescue be attempted by the 
peasantry and inhabitants. 
Gloucester.—The corporation of this city have deter- 
mined to appeal to the House of Lords against the decision 
of Vice-Chancellor Wigram in the case of Mr. Wood’s 
will, given in our Law Report last week. They have also 
ordered that a sum of 1,0002. be paid towards the expenses 
of the appeal. 
Liverpool.—The leading topic of conversation in Liver. 
pool during the past week has been the intention of the 
commissioners of Birkenhead to construct a dock on the 
Cheshire side of the Mersey. At their meeting on Friday 
they announced that they had obtained the consent of the 
Admiralty to their inclosing ‘Wallasey Pool, from the bot- 
tom of the Woodside Ferry to Seacombe, an area of not less 
than 340 acres, with tunnel communication withthe Birken- 
head and Chester Railway, and that all the arrangements 
would be carried out on the most magnificent scale. The 
cost of the work was estimated at near 300,000/. All the 
pecuniary advantages to be derived from the dock are to be 
appropriated to the measure itself, until the dock could be 
opened free of charge. The requisite notices preparatory 
to going to Parliament are to be immediately given.—At 
the election of a Mayor of Liverpool last week, Mr. Sands, 
of the firm of Sands, Turner, and Co., the only candidate 
for the office, requested an investigation into certain 
charges brought against his house by the receiver of the 
town dues, for having for a period of years called bales 
tually the council adjourned to Monday next, to take 
the motion into consideration. 
Luton.—The magnificent mansion of Luton Hoo, the 
seat of the Marquess of Bute, was almost totally destroyed 
by fire on Friday morning. About 2 a.at. the inmates 
were aroused by the cry of fire from the porter. It was 
then discovered that the roof immediately over the grand 
hall was on fire, Exertions were immediately made to 
quell the flames, and a messenger was sent to Luton for 
the town engines, which shortly arrived; but in conse- 
quence of the smallness of the engines, and the difficulty 
of obtaining water, which was about a quarter of a mile 
distant from the house, they were of little use, and the 
flames continued to extend in every direction, spreading 
rapidly through the grand hall and the right wing. At 
7 o’clock the Hitchin engines arrived ; but in spite of all 
exertions the fire continued to rage with extraordinary 
fury, and was only prevented from extending to the left 
wing by pulling down the wall between that wing and the 
centre of the building. From the roof the fire extended 
to the grand hall, and thence to the library and the right 
wing, including the chapel, and by 10 o'clock all these 
parts of the building had fallen a prey to the flames, 
During the progress of the conflagration, the domestics, 
assisted-by the townspeople of Luton, were actively en- 
gaged in removing the furniture, books, paintings, &c., 
from the buildings ; and so great were their efforts, that 
nearly everything was saved. The paintings, of which 
the house contained a large collection, were all saved. 
These are extremely valuable, and their loss would have 
been irreparable, They comprise several master-pieces 
by Raphael, Titian, Rubens, the Caracci, Correggio, 
and a fine collection of historical portraits. The 
books, too, have been saved, and a number of wag- 
gons have been employed in carrying them from the scene 
of destruction to the residence of one of Lord Bute’s 
friends in the neighbourhood. The stock of the great 
botanical work of the first Earl of Bute was in jeopardy, 
but has fortunately been saved. Some valuable manu- 
scripts, rescued in haste from the fire, were blown about 
by the wind, but they have all been collected and pre- 
served. The furniture has been all saved, with the excep- 
tion of the bedsteads, some of which were very costly. 
There was not time to take these down, and they have 
consequently been lost. ‘The valuable plate has been also 
saved. The amount of property saved under the peculiar 
circumstances of the fire, extending as it did through the 
corridors of the mansion with frightful rapidity, is per- 
fectly extraordinary. Mr, Collindon, the steward who 
resides upon the estate, was absent in London when the 
fire occurred. To the intrepidity and presence of mind 
of Mrs, Partridge, the housekeeper, who, with only four 
other domestics, slept in the mansion, must be attributed 
the salvage of nearly the whole collection of pictures, 
amounting in number to about three hundred subjects. 
While the flames were raging fiercely in the northern and 
eastern wings, and before any attempt had been made to 
stay the progress of the flames, the engines not having at 
that time arrived, Mrs. Partridge and the gardener, assisted 
by the othér domestics, at imminent risk, passed into the 
Picture gallery, and while one cut the strings by which 
the paintings were suspended, the others hastily conveyed 
them through the southern portico to the lawn, ; 
way it may be readily supposed many of the subjects 
Sustained injury, but the majority were safely preserved. 
The chapel which was destroyed was rebuilt by Sir R. 
Smirke. 
enriched with carving, intermingled with Latin sentences 
of Scripture, in ancient characters, which was first put up 
at Tyttenhanger, by Sir Thomas Pope, the founder of 
Trinity College, Oxon, and was removed to Luton in 
Perfect preservation by the family of Napier, to whom 
this estate formerly belonged. 
which had been drawn and engraved by Mr. 
example to modern architects—is, we regret to say, 
utterly destroyed, with the rest of the right wing. The 
Origin of the fire has been attributed to some plum- 
bers, who were at work on the roof over the entrance- 
hall on Wednesday. These men, however, assert that it 
was impossible any spark could have communicated with 
the rafters from the fire they employed. It does not 
appear that any of the stoves communicating with the 
flues had been lighted for some days, so that this froitful 
Source of similar disasters was not the cause in the 
present instance. eve 
allowed a fire in any of the upper apartments, and as it is 
quite clear that the flames burnt downwards, the presump. 
tion is, that a spark from the plumbers’ fire fell through 
the copper roof among the rafters, and after smouldering 
from Wednesday until Friday morning, at length burst 
In this 
Tt contained an exceedingly fine Gothic wainscot, 
This beautiful carving— 
Shaw as an 
The housekeeper says that she never 
“« trusses” and cases “ boxes,’’ in order to evade the higher | out, According to the report of the Fire offices, the bulk 
duty. Mr. Sands denied the imputation, and demanded | of the loss will fall on the Sun, Phoenix, and Royal 
an inquiry before he was elected. A ittee of the | Exch ge Offices. The insurance effected is—House and 
most eminent merchants in the town was accordingly 
appointed, and on Saturday they agreed to the following 
resolution :—‘‘ After the most careful and minute exami. 
nation into the charge preferred against Messrs. Sands, 
Turner, and Co., in the letter addressed to the Mayor on 
the 6th inst. by Mr. Corrie, receiver of the town dues, it 
was resolved unanimously,—That in the opinion of this 
meeting, there is not the slighest ground to justify the 
imputation which is attempted to be cast upon those 
gentlemen.” The election of Mayor took place on Mon- 
day, when Mr. Sands was elected by a majority of 16 over 
Mr. Lawrence, who had been brought forward to oppose 
him. Mr. Sands was accordingly declared duly elected, 
and took the oaths and his seat as Mayor for the ensuing 
year. Mr. Bushell gave notice of a motion for a special 
committee of the town-council to inquire into the charge 
made against the house of Sands, Turner, and Co. ; and 
Offices j n for 10,0002. 
Sun for Toeabe. and in the Phoenix for 10,0002. Pictures 
and prints in the Sun for 16,500%, and in the Royal 
Exchange for 9,450/. Stables in the Sun for 2,000/, 
China and glass in the Royal Exchange for 1,000/. Entire 
insurance in the Sun, 38,500/.; Phoenix, 10,0002; ond 
Royal Exchange, 10,480/.; making the total insurance 
amount to 58,9502. Since the destruction of the Armoury 
by the late fire in the Tower of London, no building of 
equal extent has met a similar fate. 
magnificence to John, third Earl of Bute, who in 1762 
purchased the unfinished mansion of Sir Robert Napier, 
and soon, after resolved upon making a grand addition, in 
Which the genius of Adam should have full scope, regard- 
less of expense. The model adopted by the architect was 
the Palace of Dioclesian, at Spalatro, and it is admitted 
that his design was worked out in a very masterly manner. 
Household goods in the 
Luton Hoo owed its 
