A Coroner's Jury sat, on Thursday, upon the body of
William Thbott, who, as we mentioned last week, was killed by the falling of the mast of his father's barge, which came in contact with the John Bull steamer, in the Thames. After a good deal of violent disputation, the Jury were dismissed by the Coroner, as there was no likelihood of their agreeing upon a verdict. Nine of the Jury were in favour of a verdiet of "Accidental Death," with a deodand of from 200/. to 300/. on the steamer ; the rest wished to give a verdict of " Manslaughter." The Coroner refused to summon another Jury ; and the solicitor for the friends of the demised, said that the affair should be brought before another tribunal.
On Monday night, as Captain Whewitt, of St. John's Wood, was retiring to rest, he fancied that he heard some persons talking in a low tone in his garden ; he threw up his bed-room window, and culled out ; but, receiving no answer, and feeling convinced that thieves were about the premises, he took up a pistol from his dressing-table, blew out his light, and stationed himself near the window to watch their proceed- ings. He had not been there long before he perceived two persons cross the foot-path at the lower end of the garden. Upon this Cap- tain Whewitt again called out ; and, receiving no answer to the second call, he fired; a dreadful scream, as if from a female, now issued from the direction in which he had fired ; and the captain plainly perceived a man, in soldier's uniform, scale the garden-wall, and escape across a field at the back of the premises. Captain Whewitt, accompanied by his man-servant, proceeded to search the garden ; and at the lower end, crouched up in a corner, he discovered his servant-girl. The girl had contracted an intimacy with a soldier; and, visiters not being allowed by Captain Whewitt, the garden was the only place where the gallant son of Mare could enjoy the society of his beloved. The woman was not hurt : the pistol-ball went through her bonnet.
The parapets of three houses adjoining the York Road, Lambeth, were blown down during the storm on Sunday night. Each house was occupied, and the inmates were with difficulty got out from their rooms, though fortunately none of them sustained any serious injury.
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