The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-28 00:00:00

INFLUENCE OF ATMOSPHERIC CHANGES

OVER THE PASSIONS.

Some years ago, Juan Antonio Garcia, aged between
35 and 40, was executed for murder at Buenos Ayres.
He was a person of some education, rather remark.
able than otherwise for the civility and amenity of
his manners ; his countenance was open and hand-
some, and his disposition frank and generous ;
but when the north wind set in, he ap-
peared to lose all command of himself, and
such was his extreme irritability, that during its continu-
ance he could hardly speak to any one in the street
without quarrelling; before his execution he admitted
that it was the third man he had killed, besides having
been engaged in more than twenty fights with knives, in
which he both gave and received many serious wounds;
hut, he said, it was the north wind, not he, that shed
all this blood. When ho rose from his bed in the
morning., he told my informant he was at once aware
of its accursed influence upon him; a dull headache
first, and then a feeling of impatience at everything
about him, would cause him to take umbrage even
at the members of his own family on the most
trivial occurrence. If he went abroad his headache
generally became worse, a heavy weight seemed to hang
over his temples, he saw objects as it were through a
cloud, and was hardly conscious where he went. Ile
was fond of play, and if in such a mood a gambling
house was in his way, ho seldom resisted the tempta-
tion ; once there, any turn of ill-luck would so
irritate him, that the chances were ho would insult
some of the bystanders. Those who knew him, perhaps,
would bear with his ill-humours; but if unhappily he
chanced to meet with a stranger disposed to resent his
abuse, they seldom parted without bloodshed. The ac-
count the wretched man gave of himself was corrobo-
ratud by his relatives and friends.—Sir Woodbine Pa•
rish's Buenos Ayres.

NATIONAL BANK OF •IRELAND.—The seventeenth
annual meeting of the proprietors of this company was held
at the office of the bank, 13, Old Broad-street, on Wednesday ;
Mr. Octavius Ommanney in the chair. After the usual
preliminaries, the secretary read the report of the directors
detailing the operations of the bank for the year ending
December, 1851. The motion for the adoption of the
report having been seconded, Mr. Dennehey went into a
long statistical comparison, to show that the resources of
the company had never been properly developed, and con-
cluded by. appealing to the directors to use their best exer-
tions to raise the bank to a level with its rivals in Ireland and
in this country. Mr. Cartlan combated Mr. Dennehey's
statements, which he charged with omitting all reference to
the disastrous influence of the potato famine upon the Na-
tional Bank, and from the pressure of which its rivals in the
north of Ireland and in Dublin were comparatively exempt.
The report was then unanimously adopted, and after the
vacancies in ,the direction had been filed up, the meeting
separated.
DEATH OF A WOMAN IN A POLICE-STATION.--011
Tuesday Mr. Payne held 'an inquest at the St. George's
Workhouse, Southwark, on the body of Eunice Kingmoore,
aged 21, who died on Sunday last at the station-house,
S'oneSend. Several policemen of the M division, and a
woman who was locked np with deceased, deposed that the
deceased ;was found drank in the Dover-road about nine
o'clock on Saturday evening, and locked up in a cell in
which three other women were placed. Deceased appeared
very ill all the night, but did not complain till the morn-
ing about ten o'clock, when one of the women, having some
tea brought to her, gave deceased some; and on the police
being made acquainted with her illness, they immediately
sent for the police surgeon of the district, but on his arrival
life was extinct. A juror inquired if the deceased had any
refreshment up to the time the woman gave her the tea?
The superintendent of police, who was in attendance, replied
that persons locked up are allowed to have anything brought
to them, except beer or spirits ; and if they are • destitute,
and locked up all day, they are allowed 3d. worth of tea or
coffee, and bread and water, but nothing more, except in ex-
traordinary cases. Mrs. Squire, sister of deceased, stated
that she did not believe her sister was drunk at the time
she was taken up. She had been ill for some time, and had
been five times ih the hospital with an affection of the
heart and inclination to consumption; and such was the
peculiar nature of her complaint, that she would fall down
in the street in a kind of fit, and for hours after would
appear to be intoxicated. The jury returned a verdict of
taken to "Natural death ;" and they considered that more direct
attention ought to be paid to persons who Were
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