The Victoria Theatre was closed on Saturday, in consequence of
an injunction obtained that day in the Court of Exchequer, by a creditor of the proprietors as mortgagee, named Levy, who had advanced them money to carry it on, and who having been a short time in possession of the treasury with a view to repayment of his debt, was unceremoniously ejected from the premises a short time back. A Coroner's inquest was held at Woolwich, on Monday, on the body of William Saundrey, a private in a Marine Corps stationed at Wool- wich. The deceased, a fine young man, had been sentenced by a court- martial to receive 20i) lashes, fur refusing to go through log-drill, to which punishment he bad been sentenced for some military offence. He was flogged on the 8th instant, but bad only received 100 lashes when he was taken down by direction of the Colonel. He was sent to the hospital, and died on Sunday last. From the evidence of Mr. Parkin, surgeon to the regiment, and other medical gentlemen, it would seem that Saundrey died of a fever, not from the effects of the flogging. The Jury wished to see the cat-o'-nine-tails, used in the regiment, as it was said to be different from those commonly used ; but the Coroner would not allow them to be produced, nor would he permit any question to be put on this point, as he said that the evidence proved that the flogging was not the cause of his death. Eight of the Jury declared their belief that the man died from the effects of the flogging ; but, after some hours' delay, a verdict of " Death by the visitation of God" was agreed to, with only four dissentients. This is the second case of death following a flogging which has occurred in the same regiment, at Woolwich, within two months. It is remarkable, that since the public attention has been called to the subject of military flogging, although the number of lashes inflicted is less, the severity of the punishment appears not to have been diminished. We have noticed several in- stances of men being taken down because their hies were endangered, after receiving between one and two hundred lathe fi whereas, formerly, four or five hundred lashes were not more than Most of the victims of this torture could endure. We suspect that, by changing the drummers more frequently, and perhaps by some alteration in the instrument of torture, the humane intentions of those who raised their voices in Par- liament against the punishment have been frustrated.]
On Wednesday, an omnibus came in contact with a cabriolet in Oxford Street, and spun the horse round into an excavation of about nine feet in depth, at present opened at the corner of Berwick Street. Two men were at work at the time in the sewer, and their instant death was anticipated ; but the shafts of the cabriolet and the harness fortu- nately suspended the animal until the workint a were extricated. The horse ultimately fell to the bottom, and Ist'as rt ndered useless.
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