The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-28 00:00:00

SUICIDE OF A MEDICAL STUDENT.

On Wedneeday afternoon an inquiry wax con-
ducted before Mr. John Humphreys, one of the coronenfor
Middlesex, in the drawing-room of Dr. Blotchles., of No.
7, Tabernacle-walk, City-road, into the circumstances
attending the death of Mr. You* Taylor, aged 21 yews, a
medical student.

John Taylor, a gentleman living at Paradise Rouse,
Oxford, the father of the deceased, said be had not seen
the deceased since Christmas last, when be spent a
few days at home. One of his family received a letter
from the deceased on Thursday last. It was written in a
very incoherent manner, one portion being in black•lead
pencil, and the other in ink. He knew nothing as to the
cause of deceased's desth.

Mrs. IdizabethilleTciley said the deceased was a pupil
of her husband, and she last saw him alive on Band
night, about half-past 8 o'clock, when he came home, and
shortly steamer& went into his room and locked him.
pelf in.
Mary Abbott, a domestic servant, was examined, and
said that she knocked at the door two or three times on
Monday morning last, but could not get an answer. She
then called her master. _

."17);. Bletchley saidthat upon finding the door fastened
be cat away the side of the woodwork. and made
a forcible entry into the apartment. He discovered the
deceased lying on the bed in a comsed state, and the bed-
clothes drawn over him. He eaarcW the room, awl found
• bottle in the wash-hand basin, which contained a small
portion of ;Runic acid. The witness then searched the de-
ceased's pockets, and found two letters. One was directed
to Mrs. It: letchley, and the other to • young lady who resided
in the country. The letters were in the decemed's bead.
writing, and bad been written shortly before his death. 020
of the letters ran as follows :—" My dear Mrs. Bletchley,—.
V., hen you receive this I shall be no more. I have poisoned
myself with sir drachms of pruric acid, which I obtained
from the shop. May the have mercy on me. and pm-
don me for my sins . Let my poor girl ' Lotty ' know this
as soon as possible, and send her the letter as directed. Send
to ray friends by the telegraph. lam sorry it should have
occurred in your house, but I could not bear up against my
troubles any longer. "FRANK TAYLOR."
The deceased left a number of trinkets, books, and other
articles to various persons, and gave his gold watch to the
young lady mentioned above, to whom he had addressed •
long and affectionate letter, which filled four folios of fools.

cap ppm.
Mr. Bletelley said, in answer to the Coroner, that the de•
ceased had lately, when he came from the hospital, been in
very lOW spirits, which was attributed to his non-succem at
his late examination.
Mr. Graham Bennett, a medical student, of No. 6, Fins.
bury.circus, was then called, and said that be knew the
deceased intimately. He had beard him express a fear that
be would not pass his examination. He believed that the
dread of failure had affected his mind.

Mr. Taylor, the father, said, in answer to the coroner,
that the deceased did not like his profession, awl had
expressed a desire to go to see.
After some further evidence had been heard, the jury re.
turned a verdict of " Temporary insanity."

FIBS AT NILWINOTON.--(THIS DAY.)—This morn•
ing the workshops belonging to Widow Staples, chair manu-
facturer, No. 3, Cross-street, Newington Butts, were
destroyed by fire. The property was uninsured, and the
men have lost all their tools. The greater portion of Mr.
Wood's premiums was also burnt down. The following
certificate has been sent by Mr. Wood to the Royal
Society :—" The timely arrival of the Conductor Summers
with the escape was the means of our getting wifely from
the fire, which was raging fearfully at the time.—(Signed)
F. WOOD."

HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN.—The annual
dinner in behalf of this charity was held in Willia's-rooms
last evening under the presidency of Lord Elcho. In pro-
posing " Prosperity to the Hospital for Sick Children," the
chairman said he found that when the charity was first
established in 1852, there was no institution of the kind in
London, though there was in the capital of almost every
other country in Europe. There was no city perhaps
where a children's hospital was more needed than in
London, where 35 per cent. of all the deaths were of
children under 10 years of age. One valuable feature of the
histitution was the day nursery, when poor patients mold
fora small charge leave their children during the day, and
have them carefully nursed and tended while they them-
selves were pursuing their daily occupation. He regretted
to find that there had been a falling off in the funds of the
hospital. It depended upon the public whether or not
some of the bade should be closed. Subscriptions amounting
to upwards of 1,0001. were announced during the evening.
Exrinints or PROSECIPTIONS.—The bill brought
in by Sir G. Grey and Mr. ("live, after reciting previous
enactment, on this tabiact, enacts that—Where such
costs, charges, and expenses as are mentioned or referred
to in the said fifth section (14th and 15th Viet., c.. 55) are
chargeable upon the county rate of any county, riding, 00
division of a county, the justices of the peace of such
county, riding, or division of a county, in quarter sessions
assembled, sod where such costs, charges, and expensed
are chargeable on the rates leviable within any borough,
liberty, franchise, town, or place which dose not worn-
bete to the payment of the county rate, the council or
other governing body (including under that term where
there is no other governing body the justices of the poses
having jurisdiction therein) of such borough, liberty, WA'
chime, town, or place, may from time to time submit to one
of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State such scale of
payment. differing from that established by the regulatiet•
of the Secretary of State in respect of such costa, charges,
and expenses as aforesaid as they may think fit ; and such
altered scale, if approved by the said secretary, shall be es
valid as If it had beau made by him in pursuance of the
sad act, subject to this proviso, that no larger payment
shall he made out of the monies to be provided by WHO'
went for the purposes of reimbursing any such local rate es
aforesaid for payments made IS respect of such altered scale
than would have been payable if the scale for the time
being establiahed by the said Secretary of State had been in
force.
OUTBREAK AT THE DARTMOOR PRISON.—The
convicts at Prince Town have for some time past been in •
mutinous and dissatisfied state. On Sunday last they broke
into open revolt, and it required the most strenuous exer-
tions of the warders and civil guardsmen to quell them. A
week or so previously the governor and deputy governor were
attacked by a couple of ruffians, but were saved from any in-
Juliette consequences by the opportune interference of some
warders. The two convicts who committed the assault
were brought before the goverument inspector, Captain
Gambier, and orders were given that three dozen lashes
should be inflicted forthwith upon each of them. It is
rumoured that the governor, W. Korrish, End his sr
plied to the government authorities for a larger surrtY
of troops at Dartmoor. There are now only about 150
guardsmen and warders there ; the number of convicts
hell within the establishmeot being nearly 1.300—
Plymouth Journal. _ _

SHOCKING MINING ACCIDENT. —On Tuesday
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young woman, about 17 yearn of age, named F.licabet
Husband, employed at the South Caredon Mine sea dreamt
of ores, or what is locally known as " hal maiden," being
late at her work, ran into the grinding house to escape the
notice of the timekeeper, when by some means her drew
caught in the machinery, acid she was crushed to death
almost instantaneously. She lived only • few minutes
after she was extricated. The mine surgeon was wilt for,
but life was extinct before he arrived. The inquest will be
held to-day, but as noose seems to blame but herself, no
doubt the verdict will he accidental death.—Plynioutt
Journal.