The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-13 00:00:00

DEPLORABLE SUICIDE OP A SPITALFIELDS
WEAVER.

An inquiry waa held at the Duke of York
Tavern, Grove-street, Bethoafgrese. by Mr. H. Raffles
Walthew, the deputy coroner, at a late hour last night,
touching the death of William John Itobioean, aged 68, a
Spitelfields weaver, who committed suicide on 'l'hursday
last, by hanging himself to his loom, under melancholy
cireimmtamees.

Mary S. ktobineau, 26, Camdenrtreet, said that her bus-
baud bad been for a long time out of employment owing to
the market being flooded with French silks, iu essniequeince
of the commercial treaty with France. Their only mode of
existence had been occasional sixpences received from •
friend, and they were in expectation of a distress from their
landlord for sixteen weeks arrears of rent. The previous
week her husband's employer had given him • " " of
silk to weave, but he was so reduced by suffering and ill-
health and anxiety that he was unable to do it. That
preyed upon him in • dreadful manner, and on
the morning of Thursday last at three o'clock
she missed him from bed. Upon searching she
found him hanging by a thick rope from the top of his
loom. The rope wad so firmly knotted that she could not
unfasten it, and when she, by raising au alarm, procured
assistance, he was found to be quite dead. She believed
that his sufferings upset his roma. Most of the weavers
were out of employment and in great distress, in conse-
quence of the competition of the French manufacturers.

Mr. James Appleton said that be noticed a woman run
sing down the street in her nightdress, 'creaming fran-
tically, and upon learning the cause of her distmss, he
went and cut down the &unwed, who wee warm, but quite
dead.

The Coroner said that the distress existiog amongst the
weaver, was most @evens, and he had held more than one
inquest in aloes of suicide resulting from it.
The jury, in returniog a verdict of " Suicide when of un-
sound mind," expressed *hope that the fact of the prevalence
of extreme distress might be made known to the public with
a view to the alleviation of the sufferings of the weavers.

THE WORKLEG MAN'S GAILIEALDLILN PIIND COM-
krrtEL —At a meeting of " The Working Mails Garibaldian
Fuud Committee," bald on Thursday evening, the 11th
September, 1862, at 335, Strand, it was reeilved, "That
the friends of General Garibaldi and of liberty be requested
to meet the members of this committee on Saturday even-
ing next, at eight o'clock, et the discussion-room, 20,
Ludgate-hill, to smogs preliminaries for a popular de-
monstration in Loudon in favour of General Garibsldi."
GREAT SALE or SHEEP. —On Wednesday the
sale of Mr. &today', celebrated flock of Leicester sheep took
place at Holme-horse, Notts. There was • large atteedance
of breeders from all parts of the United Kingdom, u well as
several buyers from Hungary and Prussia. A sumptuous
luncheon wasprovided in a marquee erected in the home-
stead, to which upwards of 130 set down. After dinner the
chairman (Mr. Tore) proposed the usual loyal touts, which
were duly honoured, and afterwards the health of " Lord
Menvers." He next proposed the health of Mr.
Sander, eulogising in very high tams his cha-
racter as a private gentlemen, and his enterpri-
: slog and public spirit as a sheep breeder and agriculturist.
Mr. Turner having returned thanks on Mr. Sanday's
behalf, the company adjourned to the homestead, when
the sale was at once commenced. The auctioteer (Mr.
Strafford), after rome remarks upon the splendid condition
lof the flock, read the conditions, and proceeded to dispose of
the rams. The total produce of twenty sheerlings wee
2871. 14e. • six two shears, 1401. its. • three sheers (five of
Sea DRINKING Fotarranr.—The members and
them), 10;54 ;font shears (five), 73i. 10s. ; five shame
which there were only twos, 43/. Is. The
friends of the Free Drinking Fountain Association bad (of w- . -* aggregate
sum, therefore, at which the rams were sold was 6491. 19a.,
yesterday the pleasure of seeing another addition made to
being an average of 171. 2s. The ewes were sold in
the number of the grateful bee" which they have bestowed of five each, and the fourteen pens of thearling ewes first
upon the metropolis. The free drinking fountain opened at
offered made 5311. Bs. 6d. ;tics thirty-five pens of full
ttoshampton was the gift of a public-spirited gentleman mei•
dent in the neighbourhood. It is built of stone, the design thorough-bred ewes made 1,1111. 12e. The amount made
by the ewes was altogether 1.563/. 10s. ; the av ge of
exceedingly appropriate, and the water which it supplies is each yen.3ll. 17s. HR. ;real the av of each ewe
made available for man and beast, a lower trough being soh
(there being :45 offered), IW. Is. The total sum maim&
filled from the overflow of an upper basin. The design o
by the sale wee 2,212/. 19e. kid. The ewes sold very well,
the work is by Mr. Rolla, the surveyor of the iusometion,
and the sale was considered a good one throughout.-2141-
and was built by Messrs. Adamacm and Son, of Putney. „Roham.ros,iaL
The Free Drinking Fountain Association will, it is expected "
ABB BOMBAY MAIIAL—SOLTHAIIPTON,
THE Orrw
by the opening of pest year be in a position to inaugurate
SM. 12.—The Delta sailed hence this afternoon, at 2 p.m.,
the hundredth fountain which they have 'misted in setting
with the mails for Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, Fgypt,
up. Such success as this could not have been anticipated by
the moat sanguine promoters of the movement. A few
Bombay, gaper Upper Bengal, &e., together with 29 trot and 28
weeks sinus the asenctatios suffered to a considerable extent second-cl She took on freight specie value
in whom the con- 402,619/. 10s., of which amount 2,500/. is in sovereigns for
fide oe by the defalcations of one of its servants,
of the ...gm bed been met unworthily owed ; Alexandria ; and for Bombay. bar silver, 381,87 W. ; bar
bat. notwithstanding this serious lon, the efforts of the as- and jewellery, kc.
gold, 10,00D1. ; sovereigns, 7,5001. ;
aoertion have not been diminished, and a number of 7491. 10•• The Delta also took out • general cargo, chiefly
similar works to those which have already resulted from its British manufactures.
labours are Dow on head. The association stands greatly in THE FALELAND ISLANDIA—The Occette of lark
need of the generous support of the public. The example night states that the Queen has been pleased to appoint
which has been set at Rosharnpton, as in many parts Captain James George Mackenzie, R.N., to be governorand
of the metropolis, is one which may be followed with the commander-in-chief in sod over the Falkland Islands sad
*retain conviction that it will be productive of unmixed their dependencies.
good, and will win the grateful thanks of many thousands The detailed account of the affair of Aapromonte,
of the humbler aliases of the community. as given by fourteen of Garibaldie staff officers, with a letter
CRYSTAL PALAOZ. ONE SHILLINO DAy.— • from himself, his been literally translated from the Italian,
Yinnae, Barr. lt—Admissinos on payment, 4934 ; ditto, , and is this day published by Miss Faitbfull, at Great Ceram.
by seem lido* 787 ; total. 6,721. • treat.