Saturday 28 Sep 1844 (p. 3, col. 3-4) INQUESTS. ----- (Before Mr. CARRICK, Coroner.) MANSLAUGHTER. The adjourned inquest on the body of John COULTHARD, was resumed before Mr. CARRICK, at Wigton, on the 20th instant. Several witnesses were examined tending to the implication of Thomas ROBERTSHAW, the old sailor. Mr. NIXON and Mr. EWART, surgeons, made a post mortem examination which disclosed extensive inflammation of the stomach, the result of acrid acid poison. The contents of the stomach were also analyzed, furnishing indisputable evidence of the presence of mercury. The Jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter against Thomas ROBERTSHAW, and a warrant for his apprehension was immediately issued. An inquest was held before the same coroner, at Wigton, on the body of William COULTHARD, aged 67 years. The deceased was formerly an extensive farmer and cattle dealer, but of late years has been much reduced in his circumstances. On Tuesday night he called at several public houses and had ale at each. He was last seen by the police about twelve o'clock. His body was found the next morning in the Wiza, between Wigton and the Railway Station. It is supposed that he had been on his way to visit his sister, who lives a short distance to the south of Wigton, and that owing to the darkness of the night, and the unprotected state of the footpath, he had fallen into the river and been drowned. The Jury returned a verdict of "Found Drowned," and at the same time complained of the dangerous state of the road at the place where the accident happened. It appears that the river runs a distance of one hundred yards and upwards alongside the public road, and that there is neither fence, railing, or anything else to protect passers. The surveyor of the highways being present he was appealed to, but he denied that the parish was responsible, alleging that that part of the road was under the charge of the County Bridge Master, whose attention the coroner was requested to draw to it. At Bridge Bank, on the 20th, on the body of Jane CALVERT, aged 6 years, whose death was occasioned by her clothes catching fire in a neighbour's house. Verdict "Accidental Death." At Arkleby, near Oughterside, on the body of James BLAND, engine man, aged 37, who was found dead in bed. Verdict, "Natural death." (Before Mr. LUMB, Coroner.) ACCIDENTAL DEATH AT DEARHAM NEW COLLIERY.-An inquest was held at Dearham, on Wednesday last, on view of the body of a man named ALLEN, who lost his life in Dearham new colliery, belonging to Messrs. WOOD, STEEL, and Co., in the following manner:-The workmen at the top of the shaft were sending down some planks in a basket, but unfortunately in its descent the basket was capsized and the wood fell to the bottom, where two men were standing, one of whom was hit by the falling planks and much injured, and the other, the unfortunate deceased, was killed upon the spot. The jury, after a patient investigation of the whole affair, returned a verdict of "Accidental Death," with a deodand of 5s. upon the planks.-The deceased was a married man, and has left a widow and young family to deplore his untimely end.