The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-26 00:00:00

BIinIINGHATtf, JAN. 25.

STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Railway Share market was
more animated to-day, and prices a shade firmer. Shrews-
b t
11iury rind Birmingham Preference shares were done
a.

LEEDS, JAN. 25.
STOCK' EXCTIANGE.—We have had another inactive
market this morning, and prices still indicate a downward
tendency. The following are the closing transactions :
North Western, 81 is 3d ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lineolnshires, 101 Prof., 11; South Eastern and Dovers,
; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 781 ; London and North
Western stock, 119 i.

ANOTHER, SUICIDIL IN MILLBANK.—Mr. Bedford, the
coroner for Westminster, yesterday held an inquest at
Millbank Prison, touching the death of Joseph Calla-
chan, aged 20 years, a convict under sentence of trans-
portation for seven years for robbery and assault. The
deceased convict was received into the prison on the
26th of April, 1852, from Glasgow, having been four
months in separate confinement before his arrival. He
first came under the notice of the principal authorities
at Millbank on the 29th of September following, having
been reported for making use of threatening language to
the officers, and disturbing the wards. The governor,
not liking the look of him, sent him to Dr. Ball, by
whom he was ordered into the infirmary, where he stayed
a month; but being believed to be shamming insanity, he
was turned back to separate confinement, when he con-
fessed that he did sham, and that another prisoner told.
him to do so to get to a lunatic asylum. He began his
bad conduct again, and became so violent that it was
necessary to put a strait waistcoat on him, having been
previously punished with three days bread and water.
All the officers who had charge of him said that they
believed he was sane and rational enough, an opinion
which was also
partly shared in by the higher authori-
ties. However, on Sunday last he managed to fasten
the second round of his neckcloth in a hook in the wall
of his cell, not more than 13 inches
he weight of fromhis the ground,
and the first round tightening with t
body inclining from it he soon became strangled. He
had the strait waistcoat on at the time, and from experi-
ments afterwards made by
o
found that he must have hoonkeecolfthe warders it was
it on the .
hammock
hook with his mouth, assisted partly by his hands.
Rendle, the resident surgeon, was instantly on the spot,
and tried to restore animation, but without effect. The
jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased
destr
oyed himself whilst in a state of temporary insanity,
brought on by separate confinement.
JEICITT LI/M.—Mind°. Jenny Lind Coldschmidt has
just presented 2. Considerable sum in money, clothes,
bedding, and provisions to two charitable institutions
recently established at Stockholm—the hospital of St.
Magdalen and the institution of the Deaconesses. The
celebrated cantatrice, who is at present residing at Dres-
deras promised to visit Stockholm in the Holy Week,
to.c ke part in two religious concerts, which are to be
given in the cathedral for the benefit
of the poor. In '
these concerts Mendelssohn's oratorio of St. Paul, and
Handel's oratorio of Messiah., with the instrumentation
have never yet
of Mozart, are to be performed. hey
been executed in public in Stockholm