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London, England, 1825-12-14 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

INQUEST AT ST. LUNE'S LUNATIC ASYLUM—WEL-4,
evening an inquisition was taken at the above institution, 0:i. street-road, before J. IV. Unwin, Esq, the Coroner for Me dime,.
and a respectable Jury, on view of the remains of Mr. Smut..
Russell, late a patient in that establishment, who had committal
suicide on Monday last. The evidence adduced on the om.
slim was as follows :
IVm. Windmill examined.--. 1 am a keeper in the hospitaf.
Saturday last, on my going into the room of the deceased, 1 youcd
him with his throat cut ; immediate assistance was sent fur. and Mr. Dunstan attended and bound up the wound ; he heed until
Monday : on the morning of that day I left him in his apartmert
about half-past flee o'clock; he was then in bed, and the hand"
were secure around his neck. I then went about my usual bug.
nest, and was absent for a quarter of an hour ; on my reaan I
missed him, and in consequence ran to my own room, and net.
tinned the circumstance to another young man who deers with e,
and In whole care the deceased equally was. Acromparded by him,
I proceeded up the stud, and at its extremity we fotrnd him it..
vended by a small cord, fastened round his neck, and attached to
the iron bar which crosses over the ward gate ; his feet were mute off the ground. 1 immediately broke the string, and had him to.
moved to his own room, where he was placed on the bed. 31%
Thomas. one of the medical attendants at the hospital, was at rr::
in attendance. I have no doubt but that the deceased rJnaciitett
suicide. lie came here as an in-door patient, and attempted t,
kill himself twice before. He was in the hospital about En
months. After he made an attempt on his life on a former oar.
sion, he expressed the greatest regret at having done so, and lAA
that if he was so sensible at the time he attempted the act as h:
then was, he would not have done so for a thousand pounds.
The Coroner here remarked that, to call it by its very lighten
appellation, it was die extreme of negligence in the keeper, Inviv
an insane person, such as the deceased, for an time alone; ht
the more particularly so as it was a fact of which 'he was aware, tin
he had made several attempts at suicide,
Mr. John Thomas, the house apothecary, examined—l have
seen the deceased, and think that the wounds inflicted on his them
would not have caused his death, and that he would have recovered
from their effects ; the immediate cause of his death was strarga.
lation. I conceived that he committed suicide, and his insanity
was of a decided character.
The ceritlicate, signed Benjamin Hall Symons, was here put in
and read.
The Coroner having briefly summed up, the Jury returned a ye.
diet of " Suicide, committees while in a state of insanity."
An Inquest was held yesterday afternoon, at three o'clock, at
20, Foley-place, before Thomas Stirling, Esq. Coroner, to kuire
into the death of Mr. Charles Smith, who terminated his existence
' by hanging himself.
The deceased, it appeared, about two months ago, lost his wife,
and has since much declined in health, and become so excessively
unsettled in mind, that a person named Dunning was appointed ta
watch him. He was attended by Mr. Noble. a surgeon, but here.
jeered that gentleman's medical care, and refused to allow the ope.
ration of bleeding. He latterly became exceedingly irritab:e. and
at times conducted himself very violently, and frequently drank to
excess. It was found necessary to conceal his razors, sod hee+
without his reach of I every description knife, or edged tool, este
more than once attempted selkfestruction. On Monday morning,
during the temporary absence of the person who had the cued
him, he ran down stairs, and Imaged himself in meet the kitchens,
and was found quite dead, his knees nearly tonchiag the cmcod.
The Jury, being satisfied, returned a verdict of `• Temporary
derangement.

MARKETS.

[From the LosdottiNetr PrieeSzrreet.l

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UTSDAY, Die. 13.
COTTON.—The demand for Cotton was very languid Irt
week ; the business not amounting to more than 030 bales ; seven
parcels have been pressing on the market. for money, and hen
sold at lower rates. The sales st7C as follows:-260 Egyptian
1 Old. duty paid ; and, is hoed, 350 Surats bid. to titel. ;3W
Beivgals a 51t1. 10 Madras 61.1.
SUGA e wholesale grocers having lately purchased et
for their immediate wants, were entirely out of the stock last weer,
and came forward to purchase ; and a the holders were sexist:,
to effect sales, very considerable purchases were reported ; trd t.
they still kept increasing, towards the closed the week the holder:
obtained an advance of Is. per cat, on Aluscovadea, and at as
improvement very considerable sales are affected. There is ru
business doing in 3luscovades this morning; in addition to 1;,:
panic in the money market, which stops trade, the deliveries fron
the warehouses have an unfavourable effect: the deficiency.
pared with last year, is now only *Witt 2,000 casks; the weel.4
delivery, compared with last year, is again about LlOO (rat la.
The Refined market last week attracted considerable attention:
the wholesale grocers purchased considerably of fine goods for the
home consumption of the country, but the low goods attracted mco
attention, and, as the Refiners refused to sell at the previous yrrtc.
an advance of 2s. per cwt. took plate; searoely any Lumps 0;1-,
Ing under 82s. Molasses last week 32a. fid. The 'Refined glow
is entirely at nominal quotations; this morning there is no hunrdh
doing. Some inconsiderable parcels of East Wits Sugars acid ;
week, but foreign and East India are still at nominal quotatier,..
COPFRE.--The•public sales of Coffee last week went r!! : •
very irregular prices ; parcels of St. Domingo were on si.. '
which 555. was offered and refused : fine ordinary Brasil SE:I .•
545. and good ordinary eoloury high in proportion, 535. and
; the few lots of Jamaica sold very high ; the Demerara and
Berbiee, from hoe ordinary to middling, sold at a reduction of 5.
a 4s. per cwt. ; low middling being sold at 60s. middling at 751.1
775. and good middling 80s. a 846.: the fine quite the reterse
ling at very high prices, fine middling 100 s. and 1011. There sac
no public sales this forenoon, and as to purchases by private of
tract that is out of the question.
FRUIT.—By public sale on Wednesday, II& butts toll;
caroteels Currants were sold, Cephalonia from 084. v It!"
Zante 955. to 98s. ; and 518 barrels New Red Salyer' gar
from 48s. to 50s. New Turkey Figs continue to go JilswAw..,o•
the quality this year being tine, and the price low :
Valen ;la Raisins a further decline has taken place, scculum '!'
very considerable importer pressing sales both in Liwn and err:
in very small quantities; the trade nevertheless Sere WO" cro
of another importer, and are now retelling them, Dais it bd..feti
425. to 445.; Valentia in boxes 511 s. ; the demand conarater w
prune_

r HEM r, FLAX, and TA LLOW.—The new Talks is Icahn
quoted lower. 335. 6d. Hemp 43/. Flax is little
OILS.—The prices of Oil are entirely nominal, es sales It
lately repotted.
RU3I, BRANDY, and HOLLANDS.—The Rum mute.
continues in a nominal state; there are no sales at any censidettllg
reduction, yet purchases can certainly be made lower. Brady
offered on lower terms, but there are few buyers.' Genera noesns
the same as last week.

TOBACCO.—There are no sales of Tobacco worth rerorlq;
offers are made under the present market prices, but the Wien
will not sell at any reduction. A deputation of the trade Wild
neon the Chancellor of the Exchequer, respnting a rercrlc!
they reduction of duty. They received no anrwcr. but the the•
cellor stated the consumption 144 greatly increased. The ace°
this quartet, compared with the corresponding one of last year,
nearly two millions of lbs.
TCA.—The Congous have finished ta.day. Prices hare r
id. per lb. lower at the latter part. Common Congous2i.
2s. Gad., middling 2i. jd. a 2s. lid., good 2s. a 2s. [lid.; t"
Pekoe kinds 3a. Id. a 2.4.6 d. An application was to.dey oisM
the brokers to the Court of Directors, praying that the time tor P°'
jog deposits might he extended from three to five o'clock, ow'rg
the peculiar circumstances of the times ; but it being contrary
to ti
express Act of Parliament, the Court could not comply.

MARRIED.
Yesterday, at St. IS argaret'a, IVesoninster, by the Rey. Chola
LoyleY, Student at Christ Church, Orford, Major Harsco. tit,
Ilro e, the yonngest brother of Sir Philip tones Broke. rfl44`.
hall, Suffolk, Bart. to Frederica Sophia, eldest daughter of Jima
Mure, of Great Georpe.strect, Esq.
On the Rth inst. at Dawlish, Devon. Irenteus Myherr. Eml•
Umberleigh House, near Barnstaple, to 31ra. 3lattertace, "
the late Lieutenant 3latterfaee, R.N.

DIED.
On the 7th inst. aged one year and five months, Maria bowl&
the infant daughter of the Hon. A. A. Hely Hutchinson.
On the 16th inst. at his house at Holloway. Mr. Joierh
optician, of the Royal Exchange, in the 60th year of his ge'
On the Ilth lost in hladdol.otreet, John Stead o
Stately, Egg. 1 Bon'
lihy„ aged
H VA Tgit ATTol46o—giftitta
Morning. 69 min. after

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