The Sun.
London, England, 1853-04-18 00:00:00

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

The Maginn, of Plymouth, from Boston, March 22, lat.
31, long. 66.
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The -Alice, Jamaica to London, March 18, off Cape
Hatteras.

The General Washington, Liverpool to Boston, March
22, lat. 49, long. 40.
The Carib, Liverpool to Shanghai, Jan. 29, in Bombay
Straits.

The Don Ricardo, Liverpool to Amoy, Feb. 5, off the
Pelle w Islands.

EXPERIMENTAL SUICIDE.—A most extraordinary act
of accidental suicide—if the verdict of a jury empan-
nelled by Mr. Bedford, the coroner for Westminster, on
Saturday last, can be relied on—was perpetrated on Fri-
day, at Messrs. Coutts's banking-house, in the Strand.
It appears that a father and son, named Jones, in the
employ of Mr. Rigby, a builder, of Belvedere-road, were
engaged in plastering and whitewashing one of the
rooms at the bank on Friday last. The father left the
room for a short period in the middle of the day,
and, on his return, was horror-struck at discovering
his son a corpse, suspended by the neck from a
line attached to a pane of glass used for ventilating
purposes in the window. The line merely passed
under the chin and at the back of the ears, without
encircling the neck, and as the feet were upon the
ground and the kness within two inches of it, it appears
very remarkable that the deceased, if inclined only to
try the effect of experimental hanging, failed in saving
himself. The fact, however, is certain that animation
was suspended, and, although the body was warm when
removed to Charing-cross Hospital, all attempts at re-
suscitation proved fruitless. The jury returned a ver-
dict of "Accidental death." An improper attempt to
stifle the inquiry, by the offer of bribes to the reporters
present, was made by certain persons, with what view it
is not very easy to divine.
EXTRAORDINARY ARRIVALS OF GAME FROM NORWAY.
—Owing to the long and severe winter, there has just
been received at Leadenhall Market an immense con-
signment of ptarmigan (or white grouse), capercalzies (or
cocks of the wood), and black game— about 25,000 head ;
being a novel and unusual supply at this season of the
year.

- [ADVERTISEMMTP.]—The Royal Exhibition Small
Glass for the waistcoat pocket, at S. and B. Solomons',
opticians, 39, Albemare-street, Piccadilly—observe, oppo.
site the York Hotel.—A valuable, newly-invented, very
small powerful waistcoat pocket glass, the size of a walnut,
by which a person can be seen and known one mile and a
half distant; they answer every purpose on the racecourse, at
the opera-houses, country scenery, and ships are clearly seen
at 12 to 14 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer-
stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers,
and tourists. Telescopes possessing such extraordinary
powers that some, 34 inches, with an extra eye-piece, will
show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the
double stars ; with the same telescope can be seen a per-
son's countenance three miles and a half distant, and an
object from 16 to 20 miles. They supersede every ether
kind for the waistcoat pocket, and are of larger and all
sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. Opera and race-
course glasses with wonderful power; a minute object can
be clearly seen, from 10 to 12 miles distant. Invaluable
newly-invented spectacle. Deafness—New Discovery—
The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinary, powerful, small,
newly-invented instrument, for deafness,, entirely different
from all others, to surpass anything el the kind that has
been, or probably ever can be produced. Being of the
same colour as the skin, it is not perceptible; it enables
deaf persons to hear distinctly at eltirch and at public as-
semblies ; the unpleasant sensaCion of singing noises in
the ears is entirely removed; and it affords all the assist-
ance that possibly could be desired.
---S. and B. Selomons,
A.urists and Opticians 39,
41bgtztarlqtreet, riov4tilly.—
Obstrve, opposite the rei*Hotel, -