The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-20 00:00:00

TWO SHOCKING SUICIDES.

Mr. Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, held an
inquiry last evening relative to the suicide of a bricklayer
named James King, aged 44 years, who expired last
Monday in the German Hospital, from the effects of
sever►l wounds in hie throat.

Eliza King, 99, Pownall-road, Dalton, wife of the de-
ceased, said that be was a bricklayer. Re used not to
drink much, or more than bricklayers usually do who are
paid in public-houses ; but he drank a little at times. He
antlered latterly great agony from stricture. On last Mon-
day week he was in excessive pain ; she left the room for
a minute or two, and on her return she found bins covered
with blood and his throat cut.

Ozone Ward said that on the day in question upon his
coming home to dinner the deceased's groans were so loud
and piteous that his fwitucz's) wife tried to make a noise
hustling about the thin7s to drown them. Suddenly he
beard last witness scream, and upon running to the room
found deceased lying on his back holding the razor to his
throat. Witness snatched the razor and flung it away.
Dr. Alexander Burger, medical officer at the German
Hospital, proved that deceased was brought in on Monday
week, with several incisions in the throat. He lingered
in a state of great suffering until last Monday when he
died

The jury returned a verdict "That deceased committed
suicide while in a state of unsound mind from pain and
agony of body."
The sane coroner held an inquest on view of the body
of William Barnett, aged 52 years.
The deoeaaed was a stone mason living at No. 7, Grace-
street, Bromley. Ravin; been left a legacy upon the death
of his father some six months back he rained some money
to go down to Yorkshire to get it, but finding that it
would not be paid before next March he became much
depressed and vety strange in his manner. Last Wednes-
day night he returned home the worse for liquor. On
Thursday morning be hanged himself with a clothes line
to a beam in the kitchen.

Mr. Theed Basal proved that death resulted from
strangulation.
The jury returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound
mind.

The proposed banquet at Liverpool to the chief
people connected with the Atlantic Telegraph
should be supplemented, or preceded by one in
London. A feeling exists that the Lord Mayor
would inaugurate this, and it is stated that several
members of the ministry are ready to aid in doing
honour to the promoters of and actors in this great
enterprise. Though the Gres' Eastern is at Liver-
pool, the men who devised and perfected the cable
are in London, and a demonstration in their favour
would be viewed with general favour.

At the annual visitation of St. Patrick's Cathe-
dral on Tueeday the Archbishop of Dublin delivered a
comprehensive charge, which embraced the following
topics :—The building of new churches, ritualism, and
the disturbances in St. Bride's and Grangegorman churches
last winter and spring, the Eirenicon of Dr. Pusey, the
efforts made to assimilate the church, on the one hand, to
the sects around her, and thus make her nothing more
than a sect among sects, lad, on the other, to re-entangle
her in the errors of the church of Rome, which she bad
forsaken and renounced, and especially existed to protest
against ; Sir John Gray's motion for the abolition of the
church establishment, and the inconveniences as regards
legislation for the Irish branch of the church, resulting
from the fact that none of the Irish bishops sat in parlia-
ment foe two consecutive sessions. The charge concluded
with a general exhortation to the clergy.
The corporation of Waterford has adopted the
following resolution ;—" That as considerable quantities
of old clothes are imported from London and elsewhere
and transmitted to various parts of the country, and as
much danger exists that contagious diseases may thereby
be propagated, a memorial be presented to the government
praying that an Order in Council may be issued prohibiting
the importation of such articles during the revamps of
cholera."

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