The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-01 00:00:00

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EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE TRROUGN
DELUSIONS.

Imat night an inquest was held by 317.
Humphreys, the Middlesex coroner, at the Lod.,
oh
pew, resprtieg the death of Thome Bailey, sod g 4
who committed midi* nadir the following
Soma Bailey, of 39, Charlotte-street. Wit"lllu,
that the deceased was her husband. lie was •
myn fallow, and had eves way to kakis
peruse. He had become embarnisead sad
pecuniary difficulties. He alas lehoneed two-.
&looms and imagined that a number of root
after him to do him some harm. Oa Friday
the deceased did not go to bed, but gloat on th,,
=t the intense heat of the weather. Ahost
in the morning she wee moused by
iftd mom whoa
.abe up sad
adodhe.- Ike thee ffismvsred themedeemed lying 00,
door in a pool of blood. The demised exclai* r
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have cut icy throat.* • sharp knife was toted osh
hia bead. Witness &lad for • lodger, who slat fors.,
goon and the police. The ameneed had bow of yew,
leek for some time past
Dr. William Godfrey ot the Montt, Whittehapd.,*
said that be found the deceased dead, with a deep
tin left elde of theand other breaches see k, which divided the ctrii
&ANon" of the neck.
Polio' constable Morph, 963 H, said that he rd. the 4.
mesa os Friday sight sear his , when &mod WI
to keep so eye on the hoses robe expected soli.
after him. He afterwards heard doomed bad red
throat. . .

fheooroner remarked on the ud nature of the

-71; jury retuned • verdict*/ "Suicide whd/pf 4"141

FIRES LAST NIGHT.
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An exciting scene was witnessed last "irk
through the outbreak of a very destructive fire et "Z
workshops and manufactories, belonging to Yr.
builder. shoat* at No. 12, Graham's-terrace,
road, Kiegalaed, adjacent to one of the
horse depots of the Gemmel Omnibus NWT
where there were at the time more tbai 200 hen
The names burst forth with prodigious force, sad
seen almost from every part of London. When thaw*,
reached the spot the neighbourhood around preseet,
seise of the wildest ounimion, arising from the tacit/0w
the horses in the stables of the Ceneml Ciaign
Company bad been turned into the street kes, eg
were galloping from place to place in a frantic cell.
maddmied state. It appeared there was no fan
alternative than to release them. The long rasp
stabling bad caught fire, and the destruction of the hit
lags weenie( Inevitable, the animals were rot hew ail
dnvsu oat A large somber of the company's wiwaft
which were standing in the stable yard were also 'New
oat into the street to lave them, blocking up all thew,
promises to the fire, sad thereby somewhat
the operations of the brigade. Amid the wit'
meat a saloon omnibus reached the fire het
town crowded with people, and in making as effort inter
the ponderous vehicle capsized, throwing the red joiner
to the pavement. There was a great deal of sommig,
but now of the passenger, sustained mach www
The fire was extinguished about midnight Cuphi
Shaw, in his official report of the damages to he
fire offices furnishes the extant of the mischief as follow
A brick building, 60 fest long by 30 broad, omseirytwk
belongior to Mr. J. Hodges, builder, No. 12, digliTZ'
terrace, Kiogeland, burned down, and contorts dishes,
The property lammed in the Atlas office.
The premises and stables belonging to the Owed O•
mhos Cowplay, damaged to the roof by fire sad brae*
lasers:lee neknown. It is represented that the Caw
Omnibus Company, in the mums of the night, mimed
most of their horses, bat twenty-five, it is said, any
missing. About the MMe time that the above Ronal
another fire broke out on some premises 'that
to the residence of Mr. William Attwood, the bade
situate at Dalwicb•hill. It appears to have wkieww ■
the stables and mach-bouses, 80 feet long by 20 Era{ fa
thew were suddenly found to be to flames from sod I* at
The fire extended to the lausdry, and probably would try
soon Toothed the mansion but for the arrival of the sedan.
Insured in the Phenix Fire-ofleee

THZ BOIL Zll EXPLOSION AT MILLWALL—Lass
PoartetiLaita.—(Tats Dar.)—This morning the thin a
fortunate men who were so severely injured by the sok
sion of the steam boiler on the premises of the Ong
Steam Shipbuilding Company's Works, Milled, tan
still in • very critical condition from the me*
of their isjuries. A number of workmen were bras m
to work alter the sad ansurrenne, and the boners d th
company is progressing as usual. A searching *AT el
be made to ascertain the cause of the calamity.
THE ODD FIILLOWS' Firs AT THZ CRYSTAL PAWL
—(Tnts Dar.)—Notwithetandieg the lowering of the dal
with occasional showers of rain, the thermometer bag*
dueed from 75 to 64, and the barometer iodinating os
rain, the Odd Fellows were determioei not to be lip
at home by the state of the weather. At as WO
boor this morning pleasure vans and almost OW, at,
sort of vehicle could be seen conveying members I.
Crystal Palace, and the various branch lines of the nine
leading to that destination were crowded with the WWI
and their friends. Upwards of 8,000 had mina lb
Palace by noon, and the company continued to flock le lb
place. The procession was not t, begin until the sham
CZOTDOIf UREAT SKIMP AND CATTLE FAIL-
(TaIe Dar.)—The great August sheep aid cattle hi
annually ►held at Croydon, was °panel this manias. TY
WY a luge attendance of buyers and an exceedingly fie
show in the cattle enclosure. The number of Amen th
peas exceeded the average. Buenos. was extremey dui
and high prices were realised. Choice young sea fa
stock brought 265. to 30,. • head ; ditto South Dolled
mouthed. Ms. to 445. • head ; four-toothed withers kid
condition, 45e. to 52e. a head. There was • geed Owed
rams, which sold at prioce varying from three game
seven godsons. The following were the selling prime bilk
cattle field:—Short horn mulch cows from 181. Ohl;
small dairying full milch cove, 141, to 181. ; Welch int
81. to 121. ; fat boots, 151. to 221. ; oxen accustomed! nib
yoke, MI. to 401. per pair. The show in the horse trir vs
good, but law sales, except for animals fit for sgrisami
puToess, were effected.
OPENING OP A New CILYST/L PALACE &tea
—(Tate DAY.)—Tbil morning the London, Obatham,,
Dover Railway Company's new dation et the Osymi
Pages was opined to the public. The visitors Wale
lag to the palace by this line were set down within 20 twe
of the great centre transept seminal, and upon the Nel
level, so that they alighted on the le eel of the poise*
There is • covered way from the station to the [wheelie.
and prewar, may on wet days enter the building try
out the aid of umbrellas.

he verdicts of coroners' ingest
found that there were 1,337 suicides in England is there
1864, 978 men and 359 waven committing sell murdiai Os
ao average of the six years 1858-63 the proportion of snails
in England was 67 so a million of the population. Eves tit
matter admits of the application of the principle of urn/4
and an order is observed which can be expressed ix het
In none of the Ifil yetis did the number depot from di
average to the extent of more than three to a milliard a
population. 56 persons shot themselves decd in 844841
the year 1863, and if it wen to be assumed that the rem
number did the like in such of the previous five yell tit
assumption would not be far wrong ; the numbers use a
54, 59. 59, and 54, the deviation from the average el 9
extending only to three, or 1-19 h, either way. If, as lit
W. Farr thinks probable, the number of suicide. I par
stated (as in the cue of persons found drowned), 194100
law doubtless extends to errors. It ezteede MIS to tit
manner of stlf•murdwr. In the year 1363 the 66 saki&
a million nt population were by thee. methods-9
hanging. 13 by stabbing or cutting, 12 by drowning, 6 bf
poison, 3 by shooting, 4 by other way.; sad the Mane
for the previous five years show subetutially the-etas

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GOIAMIJNICATION BRTWRRN GUARDS AND PINT'
GIODA—Yr. W. H. Preana's plan for enabling rand et•,_
sew= to communicate with the guard has bees pit •
operstioa as regards the exprese trains on the Bed
Weatera lies. The original proposal was that whes a ess
meager pulled a string it should cause a small gemooo
arm to project from the carriage, producing an &Mho"
rent which would ring • bell is the guard's ma. Til
however has been modidad. A mail clock.like eat bli
is placed in each railway compartment If • pasisil•
within to 001MMUDiMill with the guard he kids 5
plate of glens and moves a small handle blame.
This protium the electric (=remit which AP
the guard's belL The guard thee loots out, sod if qor
, rise is off the line he communicates with the engine him
immediately. and stops the train. He will prohibit •••
Ins attention drawn to the cordage from whence the =a
proceeded by some weenier putting his arm, ....,
umbrella out of the window, arid at the next stns.. ••
guard =quires into the mese of the alarm ; and. wig 01
always led the carriage from whence his bell wee
the broke@ glue. It has been slaked why the 111,1017°4111
not be planed wt ere he coo command a view of all the er
rives. But a guard has to attend to sortie( P••/'
lad °moot always be on the kokemt. If • ,••
were employed on each train merely to look eat. im •••
mom additiood expense would be inourred. No fewerie
1 30Dtrains rue daily on the South Western ties. Disown=
feet that the murderer of a judge on a French Ire!
,re•
tame ago escaped be the very owns which had been deeds'
to enable the guard to inspect the train while in 0.1
' It would be impossible to prevent such a crime sell.
committed by Muller, except by adopting the =
plaa of bowleg a guard's thoroughfare tiaroegh the
and this the narrow/pees of Klaglish railways, endear etel✓
love of seeliteiou while trovellieg, would reader =Med.
his. Mr. Treace's plan cimbioed with the one alreed4
es the Booth Wasters lies, of • small window whiff
Ira. eft •theeerteseet to another, would bowed°
great eseatith for railway travelling.
A Sox FISH. —A large sun fish has jail 11.16
Z tteso dby some fishermen at 'Leahy. The lab Imo Kt'
ea exciting chase, bat they ultimately r selmo
la capturing it with gaffe and boat-hooka, and Al l=
towed on shore to the beach. The weight of the ad
•lir about 12owt, and it was 5 feet in diameter. la _...,
it terns epees itself like a wheal, which rendsee •";
difficult to esteb. The dab, it appears, gees!,toveropi Wdee as 1.20.. in diameter, sad &boat one ton in
is to be feud la nearly all seas.

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