The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-04 00:00:00

THE SUICIDE OF A GENTLEMAN IN
SALISBURY-SQUARE.

INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.)
At 11 o'clock this forenoon, Mr. W. J. Payne,
the Deputy Coroner for the City, held an inquiry at
Watson s Hotel, Salisbury-square, respecting the death of
Mr. William Davenport.
Sophia Paulette said that she was employed at the
Salisbury Hotel, Salisbury-square. The deceased came
to the hotel on Thursday night. She showed him to by
room on the second floor of the hotel. It Waa a back
room, but it overlooked the yard. It was • considerable
height from the ground. The room was lighted by one
window. He brought a considerable quantity of lugger.
with him. He came at 6 o'clock. At 10.30 he edledWi.
ness, and saw her on the landing outside his dour. He
said, " A lady has been confined in the room opp,aite to
mine against her will. The doctor will not let let out.
He has muffled her mouth. I knew the doctor abroad:,
That statement was • pure fiction, but witness
listened to him. He then asked for some 'ceders.
but witness said that it was against the rides of the hotel
to have matches. If be wanted • light the night porter
should let him have one if he called. fie asked for matches
twice. A gentleman slept in the room opposite to the de.
ceased. He was asleep. There was no lady in the moo.
The deceased was quite calm when he made the statement.
He pushed at the gentleman's door and tried to open it.
Witness then called the porter. The deceased then west
into bed again. He did not come down stairs the next
morning. Witness heard at a little after 12 o'clock that
he had leaped from the window.
Richard Sexton said that he was porter at the hotel.
He heard the deceased talking to the last witness, via
was one of the housemaids at the hotel He was pita
calm and collected in his manner. Witness put the gy
out. He did not become exalted. The next day witness
was told that a gentleman was going to commit
suicide. He went out into the yard and saw the
demand sitting outside the window of his roam.
Both of his legs were outside the window, sad
he was seated on the window-ledge. The head pew
brought • mattress and threw it out into the back yard is
break the deceased's fall. Witness then heard a nu.
He knew it was the deceased. He was striking his hyay
►gainst one of the window sills in hit fall. Witness then
saw the deceased falling through the air. When be wss
in the air he was falling on his beck. His legs were
straight out. When be fell his head was struck son*
the stones of the pavement, and his legs tell on the
mattress. He was killed instantly. The police and the
manager, Mr. Lewis, came and had the deceased removed.
A juror asked the witness why he did not tell the ma.
nager of the conversation that the deceased had had with
the chambermaid the previous night.
The first witness, Sophia Paulette, replied, and said that
she had told the chambermaid of it, and when she heard
shout the lady, she said, " Oh, gentlemen my curious
things sometimes." The hotel manager was not aware of it.
Among other witnesses, was
Mr. John Davenport, who said that the deceased ins his
brother. He was 32 years of age. Witness had not sem
him for six years. He had been in Buenas Apes, in tooth
America. He had been ill while he was abroad. He
was a general merchant in South America. He said
that the rivers there had affected his health.
lie was attacked with brain fever while he was out in
South America. He was not an exciteable man- The
revolver found in the room had been sent out to the de-
ceased by witness when he was in America. The state-
ment about the lady was a pure fiction. He returned to
England about a fortnight ago. He was not married.
There was nothing in his letters to show that his weld
was affected. He had not been disappointed in love.
Witness did not know of any other witness who could
throw any further light upon his brother's suicide.
The Coroner having summed up,
The jury returned a verdict of " Suicide whilst is a
state of temporary insanity."

THE NEWLY-ARRIVED JAPANEAE.—OUY South-
ampton correspondent says :—" The fourteen Japanese
officers who arrived here on S►turday are youths of high
social rank, and have come to England to be educated at
our universities. In dress, manners, and appearance they
differ very little from the sons of English noblemen.
' The twelve Japanese jugglers who arrived in the same
ship consist of seven men, two women, two boy■, and a
girl. The children are whirled round in huge hammier
tops, the others walk on the slack rope, and do the famous
butterfly trick. This is a very clever performance ; art.
ficial butterflies are kept up in the air by means of e
and made to alight upon flowers just as butterflies do.
The men are rather under the middle size, but are well
formed and good-looking. They wear a largo cape over
the shoulders. The women are the first who have ever
left Japan; they are not so good-looking as the men;
one of them has a peculiarly broad flat face. The childret
are interesting. The professional costume of the jugglers is
unique in form and colour. The girl was nursing. huge
Japanese doll. The jugglers gave a performance 'xi board
the mail-packet in the Red Sea. The Japanese dices
seemed quite conversant with English manners at the
saloon dinner table. The jugglers used chopsticks."

A public meeting, attended by a large number of
Scotch nobility and gentlemen of influence, was held is
Queen-street Hall, Edinburgh, on Saturday, for the pur-
pose of memorialising her Majesty's government and peu•
tioning both houses of parliament in suppwt of increased
endowment to the University of Edinburgh.
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The Sunday Gazette understands that the Adul-
lamites are about to follow the example of the two great
parties in parliament in the matter of the amid courtesies
which precede the session. A dinner is to take place under
the auspices of Lord Grosvenor, and it is understood that
those attending are likely to show by their proceedings
during the session their desire to give men more than a
fair trial to Lord Derby's government. The dinner takes
place at Lord Grovesnor's this evening.
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The report of the Totnes Election Commission
was delivered at the Home-ottioe on Friday. The reports
in the cases of lAneaster and Yarmouth bad previously
been deposited. We believe isays the Sowing It
will be found that in all three cases certain of the candi-
dates are found parties and privy to bribery. In t•o
instances personal bribery is reported.

• - •
THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY AND THE RITUAL
QUEsTIoY.—It was announced last week that a I. °test
had been presented to the Bishop of Salisbury against
what was regarded as his lordship s " ritualistic teats-
cies." The' protest," which was signed by :05-0
trates, clerg7men, yeomen, tradespeople. shd other' of the
dimxise restdent to Dorsetshire, was forwarded to tie
Rev. Carr J. Glyn, brother of Sir R. 1.. Clyn. Bart., and
rector of Wilchaniptoa, near Winiborne, Dorset. TIC
right rev. prelate has sent the following reply to tie
protest :—" I have received to-day your letter and tie
protest, which oontaina, you say, ' about or more than :oil
signatures from magistrates, clergy, yeomen, awl tradce
people from Poole, Lyme, fiheilionie, Wiinborne,
port, and Blandford.' I ant touch concerned to tied tint
Di of my clergy in Dorset do not believe that the poser Is
absolve penitents. in the name of the Lord. has been
entrusted to them. Of course the teaching which such .1
disavowal implies Intuit have had its influence with some
of the laity, bet still I ant surprised to find that so racv
of them protest that this ministration h.e: not le-en mi.,
witted by our Lord to His church, ;iiid so contradict. •.s
seems to me, the plain and historical teachiug d ar
Church of England. The circumstances under which I
wrote the letter to which the protest refers (to "S.
ilia not lead me to make any statement tout the
pions which our church ham iniposeil on the e‘erci-e ..f
power, but I shall, DCv rohate, have at DO distantAt
opportunity so
.of doing publicly and I I possible n,re
think it desirable to avail myse fof it. I renron:. 700 n
faithfully, W. K. SAKUM.—The Rev. Carr .1. Glyn.
MEETING OF ILRC/IBlStiors AND Br-‘llor, --The
annual meeting of Archbishops and Bishops will min.
mence at Lambeth Palace to-morrow (Tue.-day I k..!y
to be continued for sonic days. The meeting wia ern wi"
the celebration of the Holy Communion in the .irchhishoit
of Canterbury's private chapel, in Lambeth Palace•
ous subjects are set down for discusvimi. but
say " ritualism" does not form one of them. nor 1. r
the subject of " education " appear on the list. Net ..nIF
the English and Irish Archbishops ane soHnnwn,
also all the Colonial Bishops now in England. The bids.;
of Illinois (United States) now in England. has also 15.,::
invited to be present. .
THE EMPEROR AXIMI L I A Y The It
Diplomat igrre publishes a lung artieie the
motives which led the Emperor klasimililn to covionpl,te
abdicating and subsequently induced hi.. DI 0.-11
consider Ibis determination. After Lining a summary
ct
the events of the last few months down to the
conference of ministers and members of tin' too"
State hell' at Orizaba, the writer gvc., • "I't.'
conditions on which the E.npemr imilian cons'-art"
maintain the Imperial government in ,%lesico f°
lowing :—The convocation, on a moot liberal 1..0, of &
national committee charged with declaring iii the
empire is to be continued, and of deci.lin.: on `0"
government shall be adopted for the future ; the
of sollic'ent resources to cover the 1,11.1,,t
out having recourse to the exia-thent of Mars. 1.11
in the present circumstances would have in.
success ; the formation of a national army by
military conscription ; the previrition of law- 1..
for realising a vast system of colonisation. •
velop the natural resources with which Men i- sin ,„lily
endowed ; the equitable accomplishment '
menta contracted with Isn‘nce, nnil the se,tlr tt,•' ='.
neighbourly relations with the United Slit,'. Th.' En.i
ttopewuro:h.r.rwalciii:beenoraotf dotefhneythiitaitehecoditficulties oppo..ed t-i the rain.•
execution of that programme. which he consideled as
to the conditions
to employ their influence to obtain the co-nia-rltna
of
propowyfeareofbnytheite:n3),lii,tri,)e..,:t„:.ll.:!!:l:lll.
the country in fulfilling them. The conference rhea
separated on the positive promise that. while awaint.t
the decision of the National Cotlgresv, the Emperor
abstain from all measures of a nature to imply eu
part a preconceived intention to abdicate.