On Saturday, an inquest was held on the corpse of
the boy who killed himself by leaping from the .Monument. The name of the boy was Richard Donaldson Hawes. His mother, a widow, stated the following particulars respecting his employment and habit of mind— .1 reside at No. 15, Park Terrace, King's Road, Chelsea. The deceased ris ony son. I have seen his body, and identified it. Ile was fifteen years of age on the 6th of August last. I bad not seen him for five weeks previous to Ills committing the dreadful act, lie had been living for four months in the Service of Mr. AltDonald, a sturgeon residing in Princes Street, Cavendish Square; from whose service I have since learned he was discharged on Friday morning, the day on which be destroyed himself. Ile was educated at the St. Anne's Society Schools. I have never heard him eNpreSS a wish or a threat to destroy himself lie was naturally of a melancholy disposition, even while at school. The last time I saw him alive, he said his master had been Mambmg bim for breaking some things, and he appeared very distressed, at it."
Being further questioned by the Coroner, Mrs. Hawes said that her husband, the boy's father, was insane, and had killed himself. The Bible which was found in the gallery of the Monument was produced. Several passages were underscored; but, with one exception, they had no reference to sudden death, and might have been texts of sermons he bad heard. Mr. Macdonald, the surgeon in whose employ he had been since June last, considered him of " unsound mind, but not of weak intellect." He had often spoken to the servants about Margaret Moyes's suicide, and frequently read about murders. Ile was discharged because he never showed a desire to do any thing. Sometimes he was violent to the servants, and once threatened to murder the housemaid. He would stand recklessly on one leg on the window-sill while cleaning the win- dows ; and just before he left his place on Friday, attempted to throw himself out of the window. Ilearilig this, Mr. Macdonald spoke to him seriously, and discharged him.
Mr. Pewtress, of the Common Council, was present during the in- quiry, and informed the Coroner that no alteration had been made in the railing of the gallery, but that the Monument was closed for the present. [A correspondent of the Times suggests the removal of the gallery ; by which the appearance of the column would be much im- proved.] Front the evidence of Jenkins, the porter at the Monument, it Lip- p:a:A that the iron bar, which was bent by the body of Margaret Move' IL her foIl, hail not been removed, and that many persons had been tu Led: at it. The Coroner said that this was " pandering to a repreliensible curiosity." The J ary returned a verdict, that the deceased " threw himself off the .11...e net it in a state of temporary det-angenient ; " and recom- mended iltat a memorial be presented to the ('ii) non Council. praying that means be taken to prevent the repetitioa of suicide in the saute manner.
A gentleman, residing near Wandsworth, on Sunday night rescued a young woman who had attempted to drown herself in the Thames, near %Vestininster Bridge. The girl, named Eliza Simmons, said she had been seduced and deserted, by a uontleman of fortune.
On Saturday, an inquest was held hefore Mr. Wakley, on the body of Miss E. 1 Lizard, who died in childbirth, in liosoman Street, Clerken- veil. The deceased was only nineteen years of age, and was the daughter of a lady of large fortune in Somersetshire. She was se- duced eland- twelve months since, tinier promise of marriage ; and her mother having In ely found her to be in the family way, removed her to Lomita' ; aml she was taken from the house of her brother-in-law, the Reverend Mr. Dttrrant, of the Adel phi Chapel, to the lodging in which she was confined. The chill died in twenty minutes after its birth, nnil the mother died in convulsions in the course of the night. The Jury returned a verdict of " Natural death."
On the sante day, a married woman, living in Nottingham Street, Bethnal Green, cut her throat, in a lit of intoxication, with her hus- band's razor.
Mr. aVekley, in consequence of injurious attacks upon him in his capacity of Coroner, made by some of the newspapers, has refused to give udbrination to the reporters whim and where inquests in his dis- trict are to be held.
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