The Press.
London, England, 1854-09-16 00:00:00

glttitants anti Ofinuts.

AN INQUEST was held on Saturday touching the
death of Mr. William Nittle, aged fifty-four, a gentle-
man residing at 13, Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square,
who committed suicide by cutting his throat with a
razor. The deceased was a native of Liskeard, and
had formerly been in very affluent circumstances,
but had become connected with mining speculations,
which turned out unfortunate, and involved him in
considerable pecuniary difficulties. Mrs. Stimpson,
the landlady of the house, stated that the deceased
had lodged with her about two months, and was at
times very cheerful. For some time past there had
been two men waiting about the house to serve him
with writs, and that fact preyed heavily upon his
mind. On the previous morning Mrs. Stimpson
went up, as usual, to his room•door, but upon knock-
ing obtained no answer, and on entering saw the
floor coveted with blood. Medical assistance was
immediately procured, but life was found to be en-
tirely gone. The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide
during a state of temporary insanity."
A MARRIED FBMALE COMMITTED SUICIDE On
Saturday last by taking sulphuric acid. She appears
to have been a confirmed drunkard. There was no
appearance of delirium tremens ; and on the corn
ner's inquest the jury differed about the verdict.
After holding out for some time, the minority gave
way, and a verdict of "Febo de se" was returned by
twelve of the jury.

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AN ATTORNEY'S CLER.K, Thomas French, committed
suicide in the Borough some days since. The
inquest was held on Tuesday. He was in the em-
ploy of an attorney, who had entrusted him with
money to pay for summonses, which he spent. He
went to Long's coffee-shop, at 88, Friar-street,
Blackfriars, and asked for a bed, for which he paid
Is. On going into the bedroom he raked for a
tumbler, and the servant took hi,m a coffee-jug,
which was found the next morning to have contained
laudanum. On being called at ten o'clock next
morning he was found lying across the bed quite
dead. Some evidence was given So show that family
quarrels had preyed on his mind, and the verdict,
in consequence, was " Temporary insanity."
A Onti. WAS KILLED BY HER FATHER at Preston, in
Lancashire, on Saturday night. The men, Owen
M'Culloch, a tailor, went home about ten o'clock on
the above night, when, provoked because a man had
taken away a ferret during his absence, he rose, with
a stick in his hand, to strike his daughter, who sat
on a chair nursing an infant. The mother stepped
between them and received a blow on the eye. In
the affray' however, both the child and the chair she
sat on fell. When taken up the child was found to
be insensible, and death ensued immediately. A
coroner's jury returned a verdict of "Manslaughter,"
and the prisoner (who absconded early on Sunday
morning, but surrendered himself on Monday) was
committed for trial.

AN ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN on the
night of Friday week disabled one of the porters of
the company. He slipped off the engine at the
Holloway station, and the wheels passed over his
foot.
THE premises of the North-Western Railway at
Wolverton were seriously damaged by fire on
Sunday morning, The offices of the locomotive
superintendent (Mr. *Connell), together with
various books and papers, the property of the com-
pany, were destroyed. The fire originated in the
coffee-room appropriated to the engine-drivers and
firemen immediately under the offices in question.
In consequence of there being no water, the flaws
continued until the entire building was completely
gutted. The wind, fortunately, was blowing at the
time in a north-westerly direction. The cause of
the tire is at present unknown.

ON WEDNESDAY MORNING a fire broke Old in St.
Paul's-churchyard on the premises of Messrs. Hitch-
cock and Co., dealers in silks, shawls, and other
valuable property. The flames were discovered
raging in one of the middle rooms of the warehouse
in the rear of the premises. The London Fire Bri-
gade engines, followed by the West of England, with
a powerful body of men, quickly arrived, and, after
great exertion on the part of those preset*, the are
was subdued, but not until property to a large saneant
was destroyed. The cause is unknoitn. The pro-
perty is insured in several of the fire-offices.
A Fier of a very destructive character happened
the same day on the premises of Mr. Mott, a tailor,
carrying on business in Prospect row, near the canal-
bridge, Old Kent-road. The flames when first dis-
covered were raging with great fury in the lower part
of the premises, but fortunately the inmates wore out
at the time, or they doubtless would have been suffo-
cated, for the flames had seized upon the stairs, and
ascended almost to the top of the house, before their
existence became known. The fire was not extin-
guished till the property was almost entirely con-
sumed.
AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN AND MS Wrri, who bad
adopted the island of Eulsea (Negropont) for their
residence, paid the penalty of their choice by the
sacrifice of their lives. They were a Mr. and Mrs.
Leeves. It seems probable that the murder was not
wholly for plunder, but in part originated in the
revengeful feeling entertained towards Englishmen
and Frenchmen generally on account of their inter..
fering to put down tho buccaneering Greek incur-
sions into the Turkish provinces. It is very well
known that many of the invaders were either profes-
sional brigands or palicari—irregular Greek soldiers,
who are little, if any, better. When driven out of
Thessaly by the Turkish troops, many of these are
known to have taken refuge in the island of Negro-
pont ; and it is understood that Mr. Leeves, in a let-
ter written only a few days before his death, had ex-
pressed some uneasiness on account of the number
of these desperate ruffians who were known :o be in
his neighbourhood. An infant child, with a nurse
and domestic, was spared. The crime was perpe-
trated on the 27th of August.
A NORWEGIAN GENTLEMAN, named C. F. flawald,
committed suicide in the Blackfriars-road on Tues-
day evening by shooting himself with a double-
barrelled pistol. His friends are said to be persons
of affluence in Norway, and a few days since he sent
to his mother for a remittance of money to pay for
his lodgings, which he stated was sure to reach him
on Monday last. Not receiving any answer to his
application, he was apprehensive that she bad died,
and that event had doubtless preyed on Lis mind,
and induced him to commit the rash act.