SUDDEN DEATH AT SPEENHAMLAND, NEWBURY.

On Sunday morning last Frederick Tombs, son of Mr. E. Tombs, grocer, Speenhamland, was found dead his bed. The deceased was sixteen years of age, and assisted his father in the shop. He complained slightly of a cold and its consequences on the previous night, and went to bed. His father visited him before going to bed himself, and the deceased said that be had slept and felt no worse. No fatal results were anticipated. A post mortem examination was ordered.

The only evidence of importance adduced the inquest was that of Mr. M. H. C. Palmer surgeon, who helped to make the examination. Mr. Palmer said that the previous Friday evening the deceased came to his house to consult him for a rash the face. Deceased was tall and stout. He examined him carefully.  He found the heart slightly enlarged; the pulse was feeble but not quick. There were a few spots on the face and the gland of the ear was enlarged. He prescribed for the deceased, advised him to stay at homo the next day and keep warm. On Sunday he was called to see the deceased, who was supposed dying. He went immediately and found him dead. Tho body was still warm, and he thought that death had taken place about an hour and a half previously. By order be made a post mortem examination in the presence of Drs. Douglas and Wylie. The heart weighed sixteen onnees (the normal size was from nine to ten ounces). A clot of blood was found in one of the arteries near the heart. The clot had probably been formed from two to twelve hoars before death. The liver was healthy; the kidneys were enlarged and congested, and weighed nearly double the normal weight. The cause of death was doubtless from the clot of blood on the right side tne heart. A verdict was returned in accordance with the above medical testimony.