The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-18 00:00:00

THAMES.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—John Murray, a young man of
strongly marked and intellectual features, was charged be-
fore Mr. Partridge with threatening and abusing a young
woman named Jane Allen.

The prisoner had been making a temporary stay with
the complainant, and when he visited her last night• she
found he had got no money, and bade him leave her. Ho
then abused her, and threatened her, and made so much
disturbance that the police interfered and took him into
custody. He made two attempts to commit suicide in the
police cell. He was heard making a gurgling noise.
On opening the door he was on the floor, his face livid, and
a stocking round his neck, with three knots in it. He
was nearly strangled. The police revived him, and locked
him up again. He made a second attempt with another
stocking, and the police had to cut the stocking from his
neck. There were two knots in it.

The prisoner said he would not go near the abode of the
complainant again, and hoped the magistrate would release
him, as he was going to sea almost immediately.
He was ordered to find bail to keep the peace.
On the charges of attempted suicide being proved he
was asked why ho had acted in such an extraordinary
manner, he said that ho intended to strangle himself ; and
it pained him to think ho had acted so strangely in Lon-
don.

Mr. Partridge remanded the prisoner for a week, and
hoped he would be in a better state of mind when he had
reflected on the rash and wicked acts he had committed.

New Fenian Projects.

The Fenian Senate, composed of some fifteen
persons, says the New York Herald, has, we under-
stand, been in secret session in this city for the
past few days, cogitating on some initiatory pro-
ject in the new revolutionary movements in the
British Empire—probably to be the seizure of a portion
of the British American colonies in Canada or Nova
Scotia, thence to inaugurate on a substantial basis the in-
surrection, which is not to be merely an Irish affair, but
a British republican revolution, extending throughout the
entire empire until an English republic is established.
When the Fenians have established themselves in one of
the British provinces they can fit out some Irish Alabama
or Shenandoah, or say a dozen or two of them, and com-
mence operations against British commerce on the high
seas. In these matters, of course, our Government is
strictly neutral. It has nothing to say upon the 'question,
and will undoubtedly preserve that rigid system of neu-
trality which the Government of England observed during
our four years' war. Indeed, we might reply to the British
Government, in the words of Lord Russell, that these
British republicans are seeking for their independence,
while the British Government is seeking for empire. We
believe that there has been a large accession of United
States officers of high rank and much experience in the
late war to the ranks of the Fenians—men who will, no
doubt, bring wisdom, caution, and discipline to the move-
ment, which, in the hands of blatant orators and selfish,
inexperienced agitators might have proved a fizzle. How-
ever, whatever new projects the Fenian revolutionists
may have in view in British America or elsewhere'
our Government will not trouble itself about them. We
presume that the precedent set by England during our
rebellion will be a sufficient guide for the actions of the
Fenians.

MARRIAGE OF THE EARL OF DUDLEY.—The mar-
riage of the Earl of Dudley to Miss Moncrieffe takes place
in London on Tuesday next. The event will be celebrated
in Worcestershire by rejoicings on an extensive scale.
There will be a general meeting of his lordship's tenantry
at Witley, the seat of the Ear], where the auspicious event
will be celebrated in a fitting manner. At Dudley, where
his lordship possesses vast mineral property, and at Kid-
derminster, there will be public dinners and a ball, and at
Worcester the corporation have voted an address of con-
gratulation, which is to be presented on the occasion of
his lordship's return from his wedding tour, about the
6th of December.

A REMARKABLE " FALL" OF TIMBER.—On the
sth inst. a lofty elm tree, of extraordinary dimen-
sions, growing in the park called Crix, Hatfield Peverel,
suddenly fell to the ground from its "high estate," its roots
having been gradnally undermined by the water in a ditch
close by. It covers a space of 17 rods of ground with
top and body, and contains 692 feet of measured timber,
the first length, which is very handsome, being 24 feet
long, with a girthing of 40 inches. The park is in the
occupation of Mr. B. Heathley, the owner being the Rev.
0. Townsend. The tree was known as the Raven-tree,
it having been the resort of that ill-omened bird for a
century or more. —Chelnmford Chronicle.