Coroners sometimes get into scrapes, and Mr. Wakley, on present
showing, is no exception to the lot of Coroners. He is at issue with an auctioneer about the sale of Lieutenant Munro's furniture ; and yester- day, according to a paragraph in the Morning Herald, being angered at the remarks in the journals about the sale, he talked of " putting down the press"! Meanwhile, his deputy's name is dragged before the public in an awkward way : the Morning Post publishes a statement by two newspaper-reporters, who allege that the gentlemen of their vocation were excluded from the inquest on Colonel Fawcett, on the 13th of July last ; but that Mr. Mills, Mr. Wakley's deputy, afterwards sold them notes of the proceedings : he asked for " half the proceeds " ; and they gave him 21., " more than [a] third of the receipts derivable -from the report." In a letter pointing out the mistake, but waiving further claim on that occasion, Mr. Mills intimates that for future com- munications he must have the "half."
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