The Sun.
London, England, 1852-01-14 00:00:00

WHO'S WHO 1N 1852.

This elegant and useful annual is for the present
year edited•by Mr. C. H. Oakes, and dedicated to the
Duchess of Sutherland. The greatest pains have
been taken to secure extent and accuracy of in-
formation, and the manner in which the book is " got
up" reflects the highest credit on Messrs. Bailey, the
publishers. The arrangement is admirable, and full
information respecting " everybody" who is " any-
body" will be found in " Who's Who."

FORSTER'S POCKET PEERAGE AND
BARONETAGE FOR 1852.

The second edition of this most convenient little
volume has just been published. The patronage
which the book obtained on its first issue last year
has enabled the author to announce it, in its second
annual publication, as " revised and corrected by the
nobility. ' In accuracy and completeness of infor-
mation it is unexceptionable, whilst its easy compass
of size and price must contribute to render it indis-
pensable to ovary drawing-room and library in the
empire. As a work of reference it is the best in its
peculiar department which has yet appeared, espe-
cially when its portability and cheapness, as well as
its comprehensiveness, are taken into consideration.

THE BEST WARDS OF A LATCH-KEY.--ffome

wards !—Punch.
DESPERATE SUICIDE DT A RESPECTARLE TRAD E-
max.—The inhabitants of Beak-street, Golden-square, weS
re
thrown into a state of the greatest excitement ar.d alarm on
Tuesday last, in consequence of a report, which afterwards
proved too true, that ltir. Robert Judd. a highly respectable
tradesman, who, for the last ten or twelve years, has carried
on the business of a bootmaker, at No. 9
riinedt_haesescaomned
street, exactly opposite Campbell's Scotch ale stores, had
committed suicide by leaping out of a room window. It
ap-
pears that the unfortunate man having married
-first time,
wife,aho uctotmweo
0 yearsthem
females,a
andgrown
to u
whom
hfoatruhielmy
ib:n hacis.d
icietsatbstlnleinaittosr-miaollitiioin
amongst
enevous altercations
the second marriage was very unacceptable,
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aune
enet.l y arose,rem
ienetttarttiercii
family transactions,
tahreaste,coueltdigfbaeatcofnlizecitned,soonmeeofprtehveiseeas
when the infatuated man rushed upst&irs to the top of the
house, and hastily opeing the window
of abed
hoieifgthhet
third floor, he threw himself out of intoit
of nearly forty-three feet. The dreadful affair was observed
by one of ithe barmaids behind
the
counter in the ale stores
opposite, who screamed out, and, for the moment, was utte ly
g stones, and, assistance being.pro-
paralysed and unable to speak.
until
bounded on the pavin
cured, he was lifted u After he fell, his bothr a-
bounded
and taken into Mr. Key's, surgeon,
r-steet, Regent. street, who did what
he could for him,
at the corner of Leicester-street,
stretcher, from Vine-street the arrival of the police with a
im-
mediately to St. George's et station, when he was carried im-
could be employed to gel 9 Hospital, but before any means
ble state, soon afterre relieve ham, he expired, in an insensi-
ble
that he had admission. On examination it was
presented such .nearly broken his body in pieces, he
forwarded to a frightful spectacle. Information has been
. Mr. Bedford, the coroner, who has ordered an
inquest to be h
to deplore his loss.
eld. Deceased has left a wife and infant child

EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY.—On Saturday lest,
as some persons were employed near the works of the new
bridge at Rochester, they discovered the body of a man
floating in the river. Assistance was immediately obtained
and the body taken out. On examination it appeared to be
the body of a sailor, apparently about 50 years of age, and
had the appearance of having been in the water at least two
months; and from the rapid work of decomposition it pre-
sented a revolting sight. The most extraordinary discovery
was, that it seemed to have been fastened down by a stake
into the mud, the stake being still found connected with the
corpse. An inquest was held the same day at the Ship Inn,
but was adjourned till Wednesday for the purpose of identifi-
cation, and that inquiries may be instituted by the police,
which may clear up the mystery attached to this discovery.
—Maidstone Journal.
" JOHN DOE AND RICHARD RoE."—The Common
Law Commissioners recommend that these celebrated legal
characters in actions of ejectment should cease to exist. The
proceedings, they state, ought to be simple and speedy, but
they are neither the one nor the other. They are not
simple, because there are several fictions; "for example, the
existence of Richard Roe, the lease to Jahn Doe, the entrY
of John Doe, the trespass by Richard Roe, and in some case?
the original writ; none of which things really exist's, a"
none of which ought to be stated." •
SOUND ADVlCE.—Master Tom—" 11- • -nye a weed,
gran'pa ?" Gran'pa—" A what ! sir?" Master Tom—t
weed !—A cigar, you know." Gran'pa—"
Cert ainly
I never smoked in my life." Master Tom—" Ah I then I
no? ,
. wouldn't advise you to begin."—Fiad"