Coroner's Inquest.
A coroner's inquest was yesferday held at St. Bartholomew's Hospi- tal, before T. SHELTO T, Esq., on the body of a man whose namae was unknown, who was in the lhabit of sweeping the crossing oppo. aite Sweeting's-alley, near the Royal Exchange. John Cook, draper, deposed, that he was sitting on the coach-box of Kendall's Clapton coach, and was going down towards Cheap. eide; there was 3 cart4hden with two pipes of wine going in the game direction. Witness wag looking up at the clock of the Royal Ex- change as Ihe coach attempted to pass the cart, and on looking down he saw6 the deceased near the splinter-bar of the coach in the act of falling- lie intmedlately caught at the reins, and the coachman stopped as soon as possible; the man, however, fell immediatelv under the off wheel of the cart which went over the deceased's head'; tbe cannan was on the other side, and witness was convinced he was unconscious of the accident; the cart went on at the usual rate, and the coach was going at a gentle trot. The coachman stopped directly he heard of the accident. Richard Caton, a servant, stated that he was passing by Cornhill at the time the accident happened, and saw the deceased standing in the middle of the Street, with a broom in his hand; the cart and coaD> were going in the same direction. The cart just brushed the doceased, when the off splinter bar of the ceach caught the deceased, and knocked him down, and he believed both the wheels of the coach went over his head, and he expired almost jmmediately. The first witness was recalled, who said, wheni he saw the de- ceaged fall the wheel of the cart went over the head of the unfortu_ n)ate man, and that it was with much difficulty the coach avoided passing over his legs. William Birch, surgeon. said he saw the deceased in the hospital about two o'cIock on Wednesday; he was quite dead; his skull was dreadfully fractured, suifficient to cause his death. The Coroner summed up the evidence, and The Jur, afer a long consultation returned a verdict, that " the deceased was accidentally killed by the wheel of a cart going over his hea which caused his death ;" and a deod4nd of 5s. was levied en Le wbeelt CORONBR'S I_NQUEST.