The Express.
London, England, 1848-11-10 00:00:00

cheek. It Is well that a amber of National Guards, wke,
it wee rumoured, were to have been present, did not appear
to middies our Lord Mayor's Show.—C.
ROBBIRT IN TUB STRAND.—EarIy on Thursday
swain, some thieves effected an ORDSSES to the Weekly
Chronicle OMee, Strand, through the ha* pert of the pre-
mime, by availing themselves of a essibil and ladder—ln 1
the covet Giese by. They were, however, elleggisinted in
their ezpeetatioas of plunder, for, after 'hong open the
desks, cupboards, sad till, they decamped, their ouly booty I
being a few postage stamps. Similar attempts were made
the same nterning eh the three adjoining houses, but fortu
nearly the thieves were foiled in each Instance.
INQUZSTe, YESTERDAY.-807CIDE OF MR. M'Do-
woost.—By Mr. Bed!ord, at Green's Shooting Gallery,
Lacierter-equare, on William M'Donogh, aged
41, the
steeple-chase rider, who at the above gallery, on Tuesday
lest, shot himself with a pistol.—The first witness Mr.
Holmes, of 22, Craven-street, said that deceased was a native '
of Forenoons, in the county of Galway, where he at one
period of his life farmed a large quantity of land, but hay-
ing had property bequeathed him by a relative in England,
he Dame over to this country, where he kept fur some time
a toxin stud at Melton. He was well known in sporting
eireles as "a gentleman rider." He won the Leamington
steeple-chase in 1839, on Lord Macdonald's celebrated mare
the Nan. During the last twelve months deemed had
been in a very desponding state, the result of serious losses
in betting, which it was supposed preyed so heavily upon
his mind as to induce the commission of the rash act.—Miss
A. Hattie of Lasabeth•terrsee where deceased lodged gave
similar tiatistoay as to the desponding state of mind in
which he bad been of Isle, and said that he would frequently
cry when he taw his wife and children, to whom he was
exceedingly attached. He was a man of *ober and regular
habits, and erne very much of his time at home.—Other evi-
dence having been given as to the actual commission of the
act, the jury found that deceased had died by hie own hand,
but the deed on the ground of temporary insanity.—
, SUICIDS AT THIS INVENTOR or THE DIVING APPARATUS.
—By Mr. Baker, at the Lord Heel, flick-street, Limehouse,
on the body of Mr. C. A. Dean, aged 63, who committed
suiclie at 5, Providence-place, Commercial-toad. east. De-
ceased was by trade a caulker, but did not follow his business,
sad applied himself entirely to study. Fosse years since he
invented the diving apparatus, which was used in examining
the wreck of the Royal George. fit had aiso invented a
' new propellieg mease-boat, the principle of which is described
' as an hydraulie squirt, and he took out a patent for the same.
Constant study had so affected his mind that he was for
some time counted in a lunatic asylum at Peckham. For
several nays past he had appeared very low•spirited, and had
a dread that some person was coming to take him away. On
Monday evening last he went to bed, and was in bit usual
health. Next morning he requested his wife to get him
, some water. The moment she left the bed, he opened a
r rem and inflicted the fatal wound on his throat. He was
. engaged in perfecting an improvement for paddle-wheels up
to the time ef his death. Verdict. " Temporary insanity."