The Sun.
London, England, 1830-02-18 00:00:00

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.

On Tuesday last an inquest was held at Driffield,
by Mr. Conyers and a respectable Jury, over the
body of Miss Mary Johnson, a respectable female,
who came to her death by taking arsenic. The de-
ceased had resided with Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, of
Driffield, from her childhood, being an orphan ; and
on Monday morning was left, along with Mrs.
Dodgson, in charge of Mr. Anderson's house, while
he and Mrs. A. went to IC;lham, to attend the funeral
of a relative. About eleven o'clock the deceased
told Mrs. Dodgson that she wanted to go into the
Market-place, upon some business. Mrs. D. endea-
voured to persuade her to stay at home, alleging that
Mr. Anderson would not be pleased at her leaving
home in his absence—but the deceased said that she
must go. She went, and returned in about twenty
minutes,—and upon Mrs. Dodgson saying in a jest
that she believed that she had been seeing Todd, a
young man with whom she was acquainted, the de-
ceased burst into tears, and exclaimed—" 0! Mrs.
Dodgson, don't tease me." A little after twelve
o'clock, a young man,who had paid his addresses to
her, called to see her—she eagerly seized his hand,
and said in a loud tone, " This is the last time this
hand will be shaken by me on this ride eternity."
The deceased began to be very sick, and called out
for water, as she felt a burning heat at her stomach.
From this time the deceased became visibly worse,
but would not allow a doctor to be sent for, and as
Mrs. Dodgson and Mrs. Randall (a person who had
been called in) had not the least idea of her having
taken any poison, medical advice was not sent for
till after three o'clock. Mr. Horwood, surgeon, was
then called in; he found the deceased insensible and
vomiting blood; he gave her medicine, but she
lingered in great agony until Ave o'clock. It ap-
peared in evidence before the jury, that the deceved,
when she left home in the morning, went to the shop
of Mr. E. Creasser, druggist, and asked for half an
ounce of arsenic. The young man in attendance
asked her what she wanted with it, as it was poison,
She said her uncle wanted it to kill mice. He asked
her if site was sure of it, and she said she was. He
then began wrapping it up, and placing a label with
the word " poison," printed in large letters, upon it,
when the deceased said he need not do that, as her
uncle knew well what it was for,—but the young
man put the label upon it, and the deceased took
the parcel away. The deceased had been for several
days in an irritated state, owing, it is supposed, to
an expected disappointment in marriage with a
young man, to whom she was to be united on the
20th instant. She was in the 24th year of her age,
and was the daughter of the late Mr. Johnson, well
known as a schoolmaster is Driffield.—The Jury,
after a patient investigation, returned a verdict—
" Chat the deceased came to her death by taking
poison in a fit of temporary insanity."—Hull
PacAct.

We are sorry to announce another breach of
the Glen-bank, which occurred Billet the termination of
the front, beyond Guthram. The inundation has spread
itself over what is called Digby's Wa'h, and several hun-
dreds of acres are flooded to the depth of three or four feet.
—Boston Gazette.

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The deceased, who was a law student, lodged at 26,
Duke-street, St. James's. For some time past he had
been in a low nervous state of health, frequesstly complain-
ing of his head. On Tuesday, his father came up from
Shrewsbury, to visit him, and in the evening they went
together to Drury-lane Theatre. The deceased, who com-
plained of indisposition, returned home before this per-
formance was over, and immediately went to his room,
where he was found by the servant on his knees, engaged
in prayer. Ile soon after retired to rest, and about five
o'clock in the morning got up, and threw himself out of
the window into the street. He was killed on the spot.—
The deceased's father, who was examined, said his son's
habits were temperate, but he had lately lst•oured ul:tict•
gi eat depression of spirits. lie knew no vasse fur it; A
verdict of "Inasnity" was retursod by the Jury.

SPIRIT OF TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

We publish a letter, bemuse it is a short one—
though we do not charge the author with any other
merit—ett that everiatting Pons Asinorum, the
question of substituting a paper terrency for a gold
one. This letter-writer calls the Tinges a " very
decided advocate for the return to cash paymente:"
Why, that is an old story ; for it is assuredly too
late at this moment to talk about our being advo-
rates for a measure which took place ten years ago.
It is true, however, that we were then very strenu-
saes in our demand few the return to cash-payments,
and if the return were still to be accomplished, we
should be as clamorous for it as ever. But the quee-
tion is now, shall we retmrst to a paper currency,
haying already got possession of a golA end silver
one ? That, we beg leave to obeette to our paper-
advocate, is a different mitt:talon of things from
the existence of an exclusive currency of patret
and a prospective return to gold. Tt 'change
the standards of the currency egain, or rather
to abolish 'the only fixed nod wholesome standard,
replacing it by a sOCt of medium which had
no. standard at alt but the cupidity, the diu-
rretion, or desperation, of any and easry Matt
chose to take up the office which the Sovereitn had
abandoned, and to coin to infinity bits bf paper into
poußeds,—that, we says would be once more to
plunge the whole kingdote: into confusion, to incur
another wholesome revolution in property, and to
lay the nation at the feet of that odious and nnpriw-
cipled aristseracy, from which, by the favour of
Providente, it has just effected its escape—we mean
the dealers in base money. It is said, as if the &es
revery were a new one, that 30 millicne of gold
Sovereigns must cost the nation as many millions of
capital, while a paper currency would cost nothing,
True and obvious; hot the answer is, that the
man who buys a sovereign in gold by 'selling goods
or labour for it, gets solid value for his labour or
his goods, and can per hale with the thing
which he gets in exchange for them, such other
labour, or fruit IA labour, as he may want t
'whereas, if he gets paper only for his ptoothicte,
who or what caa guarantee to himthet `SoIV-ency of
the henk-note manufacturer, by whom that paper
was issued ? Wren we bap the precious metals,
we pay for security and convenience combined. All
nations do it : no tnanntry but Great Britain ever
laid aside irs gidd and silver currency, and for having
alone so, *f to now mourns in enekcloth and ashes.
Getting paper to what amount he pleased, every
tradearnan, and farmer, and merchant, and landlord,
and, most mischievous of nll, the Government its
self, plunged into undertakings more reckless and
hazardous, and enlarged their expencea to a scale
mnre enormous, than ever had I.reah heard of in any
former age. A certain bold improvidence became
the tharacteristic of all classes of Englishmen and
for their rulers ;,journeymen manufacturers thought it
hard to weave four days in every week, and spent
the other three in drinking; small tradesmen
in teams aped the luxuries of merchants ; grey-
sawed farmers drank foreign wine, and bought
pianofortes and petticoats with flounces for their
daughters ; merchants all dabbled in stocks and
country-houses ; country gentlemen, on trebled
rents, began to flock with their aspiring families to
tows; Ministers borrowed, and made war liks
giants ; the taxes from 12,000,0001. rose to
80,000,0001.; and here we stand, bright examples
of the perfectien of that sort of prosperity which is
attainable through a cheap currency of the most
complete and flourishing Orden...ea mob of profligate
end audacious debtors, crying out for a return to
that same base money which is regarded as tante,
mount to a universal insolvent act, and a perennial
" Saturnalia" for the slaves of prodigality, rapa-
city, and fraud. But there is no sense nor use in
theta' manoeuvrings. The game is up; the Govern-
ment has declared that it will not imitate the barba-
rous expedients of Constantinople, and, with less
apology than the Turk himself, debase the coin for
the benefit of individuals who have been roused
from the dream of borrowing without paying. The
Government, we repeat, will have no more incon-
vertible paper. liven if they were inclined to it, such
a measure it one which they durst not try. What-
ever sense and integrity exist in England would be up
in arms against so ruinous an experiment.—Tinges.