The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-06 00:00:00

SHOCKING SUICIDE.

Yesterday afternoon a suicide of a most terrible description
was committed by a person occupying, we believe, the
position of cashier to Messrs. Soares and Co., wine mer.
chants, No. 4, Mark-lane.

The unhappy man, it was rumoured, had been very
unfortunate in certain racing speculations, and his losses,
which amounted to over £2,000, produced such a terrible
effect upon him that as one of the heavy provision waggons
of the Messrs. Todds, containing about 4 or 5 tons of gond!,
was passing along Fenchurch-street, he rushed from his
office and threw himself under the vehicle, one of the wheels
of which went over his head and completely crushed t
brains out of his skull. The desperate act was seen by a
great number of people, and every effort was
ule to pre.
im
vent the unfortunate man from carrying out his design of
self-destruction, but without effect.
The lifeless body was conveyed home, and when the
shocking circumstance became known to his wifo it had
such an afoot upon her nervous system as to produce in-
sensibility.

ANOTHER ATEEMPAND.TED MURDER 1N
IREL

As. Mr. William Moreland, an English gentleman, pro-
prietor of extensive property in Clare, was riding home on
he was fired at by an
at hßirsirdegseidoefncFe Fort Anne. Scariff,Anne. Slugs penetrated one
Tuesdaya:sassi to
arm and riddled his coat skirts.
Lord Dunboyne has received a threatening letter, order-
ing him to prepare his coffin.
The special commission opens at Limerick on Monday,
the 16th, at three o'clock, for the trial of the persons
charged with the murder of Mr. Fitzgerald, and of certain
persons charged as accessories before the fact to that homi-
cide.

In Tipperary, at Clonmel, on Friday, 20th, at ten o'clock,
for trial of any the parties charged with the murders of M.
Thiebault and of Maguire.
In addition to these cases it is intended to try Thomas
and James Bohane (brothers), charged with shooting at
Colonel Knox; Richard Burke, charged with poisoning
his wife Johanna, with strychnine ; and some lesser but
serious cases of agrarian character, such as sending threat-
ening letters.
The commission will occupy about ten days altogether.

CLEAN CATS.—The roughness of the cat's tongue
is due to a multitude of horny papillae (much stronger, of
course, in lions and tigers), by which it is materially helped
to keep itself clean : a most important point, for cleanness
is a necessity to cats, inasmuch as if they had the slightest
smell about them, their prey would detect their presence,
and never come within their reach. As it is, the cat is so
free from smell, that she may sit close to the holes of mice
without their being aware of it, although they possess a
fine sense of smell. A cat never eats a morsel of anything,
whatever it is, without afterwards sitting down to
i s
clean
and wipe its face and lips. This caution for which t sso
remarkable is likewise evinced in its choice ofie-
cluded spots for bringing up its offspring; very often some
hole or corner very little thought of by the inmates of the
house ; if the young be removed and placed elsewhere, thr
mother will frequently take them again and again to the
place chosen by herself. Dickens's "AU the rear
.Round."