The Sun.
London, England, 1825-07-12 00:00:00

ROYAL NAT !ONAL INSTITUTION.

The Royal Nat.:onal Institution for the pre-
srrvation of Life from Shipwreck, have just published their
First Annual Report, by which it appears that Gold Medallions
have been voted to the following Officers of the Royal Navy :
Captain MANUT, R.N., as a testimony of the great utility of
the apparatus invented by him for saving lives from shipwreck..
Captain FREEMANTLE, R.N., for swimming on board a
Swedish brig wrecked off Christchurch, through a heavy surf,
with a small line fastened to his body.
Capt BENNETT, R.N., for saving the lives of 4 persons
wrecked in the Unity, between Lyme-Regis and Charmouth.
Capt. PEAKE, R.N., for his exertions in landing the troops
and women from the Admiral Berkeley transport, wrecked at
Spithead.
Lieutenant JOSEPH CLARK, RN., of the Coast Blockade
Service, for his exertions in saving the crew of the Juno brig,
wrecked at Biding Gap, near Beachy Head.
Lieut. GRANDY, R.N., for assisting in landing the troops,
&c., from the wreck of the Admiral Berkeley transport.
Lieut. RANDALL, R.N., for his exertions in saving the crew
of the Devoraa, wrecked near Aberdeen, in Scotland.
And Silver Medallions have been voted to the following
Naval Officers :
Lieutenant Jo SEPH ELWIN, R.N., for his exertions in saving
two persons from the wreck of the Lark, wrecked near Ly-
mington.
Lieutenants FEsTING, R.N., and WALKER, R.N., of hi s
Majesty's ship Brazes, for their active and humane exertions
in making a raft, and assisting in landing the troops, &c. from'
the Admiral Berkeley transport, wrecked at Portsmouth.
In addition to these, the Committee have conferred many
pecuniary rewards to fishermen, boatmen, and others ; and
they are establishing life-boats at each of the following places,
namely, Dungeness, Newhaven, Brighton, Teignmouth, Pen-
zance, Bideford, Boulmer, Bridlington, Boston Deeps, Isle
of Man, and two in each of the sister kingdoms, Ireland and
Scotland. They have also placed life-preserving apparatus at
no less than 16 places upon the coast; We have no hesitation-
Whatever in declaring that this Institution, properly conducted
as at present, bids fair to accomplish more good than any other
-charitable establishment in Great Britain.

MURDER. AT MANCHESTER.

On Wednesday last an Inquest was held by
adjournment at the Spread Eagle, in Chapel-street, Salford, on
the body of Martha Standring. The husband of the deceased
was a dyer, and on Wednesday morning John Hardy, a man
who works in the same shop, called him up to go to his business ;
this was a quarter to five o'clock, and on looking over the rails,
Hardy noticed the deceased lying on the flags before the win-
dow. Her head was towards the steps, and her feet towards her
own door. Hardy did not go down to her, but called " Joseph,"
as he had been accustomed to do. Joseph answered him from
the house, that lie would be with him directly, and Hardy went
away, leaving the woman laid down ; he bad seen her before at
the bottom of the steps, but whether drunk or not he could not
say. When he got opposite the Wheat Sheaf, in Salford, he
saw Standring coming after him : when he came up, he
looked a good deal fluttered. He said, " Did you see any
thing of my btossoni younder ?" Hardy told him he did. He
said, " I think she is dead." :lardy said, " Do you think she
is ?" He said he thought she was. They went back to the
place, and stood at the top of the cellar steps: There was no
person about at the tune; the body had not been stirred since
they were there before. Standring said he did not stir her;
strode over her. Hardy said he would have nothing to do
with her, and bade him waken the neighbours or go to the
police. He said he would go to the police-office. In the mean
time, an alarm was given, that the woman was murdered, and
she was found in the state described by Hardy. The body was
quite warm, and every joint was suple ; and it was the opi-
nion of those who found her, that she had not been dead more
than twenty minutes. 4, Standring's door was broken open,
and the body was carried into the House. When they got
her in, Standring returned with a man named Diggles, and
began to abuse the persons for breaking the door open. He
asked no questions about his wife. Hardy further stated : I
have lived near him for about twelve inontlis ; lie and his wife
have quarrelled a great many times ; she has run many a time
to our house to save herself, and I have got up to let her in
two or three dines; he gets a little liquor sometimes on a Sa-
turday night, but lie is not a man that drinks much in the
week days; ?,know he used to make a practice of locking her
out if she was tot in at his bed hours; I dO not think she was
very regular in her hours, he came to our house about half-
past eight on. Tuesday evening ; he was quite sober then ;
saw her on the Monday; she had two black eyes; she said her
husband gave her them.
John niggles stated, about half-past five o'clock on Wed.
nesday morning, Joseph Standring called me up. 4 previously
t.knew both him and his wife very well. When I went to the
window, he said, " I have found my wife dead at the door;
what must I do with her ?" 1 said, " thou hast been doing
something at her again, for I saw her yesterday with a pair of
black eyes ;" he said, " I have not touched her ; I gave her
those black eyes on Sunday morning, and I have never touched
het since ;" I went down stairs, and went along with him ;
when he had gone a few yards, lie said, " I do think she has
choked herself with a handkerchief or something; she often
promised what .he would do, through drink and jealousy ;"
we went on to the cellar ; I examined the body, and from the
marks on the face, I thought I should be justified in taking him
into custody ; I did so ; I did not see the mark upon the neck
until after lie was lodged in the New Bailey; my first opinion
was, that he had caused her death by beating her ; Roger
Brown afterwards searched the house, hut no cord was found.
He found a batting frame, and there appeared to be some cord
gone from it. [The batting frame was then produced; it was
covered with cords rather thicker than a goose-quill ;' some of
which appeared to have been very recently taken away. • One
end had been wound round an iron screw in the frame, and the
rusty marks showed very plainly where the cord had been.]
Mr. Bouttlower, surgeon, stated, that he examined the body
of the deceased. He found the face greatly discoloured, the
eyes very black, and marks and bruises on the lower part of
the left jaw. There was also a scratch over the right collar-
bone; but the principal appearance which attracted his no:
tice was a deep furrow extending across the fore part of the
neck, and coming immediately behind the ear on the right
side of the head, and to the roots of the hair on the left side.
He was of opinion that the deceased had died from strangu-
lation, and from the deep furrow extending nearly round the
neck, he had no doubt that it had been effected by a small cord.
It could not have been done by the hands of any person, for in
that case the marks of the fingerS would have been left on the
skin. Witness conceives it quite impossible that the deceased
could have been strangled by her cap-strings.
After hearing some further unimportant evidence, the Jury
returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Joseph Stand.
ring, the husband.
The prisoner was then brought into the room. He appeared
to be about 45 years of age, and looked very ill.
The CoRONER said to him, "•Jossepli Standring, it is my
duty to inform you; that the Jury have returned a unanimous
verdict of wilful murder against you ; and you must be com-
mitted to Lancaster Gaol, to take your trial."
The wretched man, on hearing this, exclaimed—" Oh dear,
oh dear ! I'm innocent, Gentlemen. I never saw her from the
time she went out until I saw her dead. I'm innocent, so
help me God !"
The prisoner was then taken away. As lie was going-out of
the door, he again exclaimed, " I'm as innocent as the child un-
born. It's murder, and nothing but fair murder."

SUICIDt. FOR LOVE.—On Friday morning, n.
young gentleman, named Sydney Walsh, residing at No. 11,
East-street, Walworth, made an attempt to destroy himself:
Abcut twelve months ago he became acquainted with a young
lady named Keep; residing with her mother in the neighbour.
hood, for whom he formed an attachment. He was constantly
visiting the house of the mother, who sanctioned his addresses
to her daughter, and ultimately he made the proposal of mar-
riage, on which he was treated with a coolness, which seemed
to operate very much on his mind. On Thursday night last, he
went to bed at his usual time. On the following morning the
inmates of the house were alarmed at hearing the report of a
pistol, and on prOceeding to his apartment, from which it came,
the unfortunate gentleman was lying on the bed weltering in.
his blood. A rifle pistol was on the bed, which he had dis-
charged through his chest, the contents passed through the
lungs. Mr. Swift, surgeon, rendered every assistance, but
the position of the ball reteered it impossible for it to be im-
mediately extracted. His friends were sent for, who being
present, he was questioned as to the cause of so rash
a design to deprive himself of life. He endeavoured to
snake them understand that • something was in his pocket
which would explain. On searchim.;, a letter was found ad-
dressed to " Sydney Walsh," and signed " illary Keep,"
which commenced by requesting him to decline hivaddresses in
future, as she had formed a dislike to him suddenly, for
which see could not account, and it would be folly for her to
encoetrage him, as sire could never marry a man she did not
love. She thanked him for trifling obligations bestowed on
herseif and mother, and said she would always feel happy in
meeting him as a friend, but nut as her lover, and begged of
bins not to sillier frivolous .despondency tp operate upon his
mind. The unfortunate gentleman, up. to htst night, was in
• great pain, and net the least hope nil' reCoYdy, the-ball not
being extracted. He is 22 years of age, and is well known in
the medical The cbjcct of hie affection is 19.

LAMENTABLE SUICIDE.

Yesterday afternoon an Inquisition was held
at the Hero of Waterloo public-house, Waterloo-road, Lam-
beth, before Mr. CARTER, the Coroner, and a very respect-
of Mr. Samuel Price, a linen-draper in
atlbtelelji.ur aryt •e,fioono
rhoeaa)od
,wyho cut his throat at his own house on Fri,
day night. •
Mr. Cooke, a surgeon, stated that on Friday night last, about
eleven o'clock, he was sent for to the house of the deceased,
whom he found in his own room, lying on his bed with his
throat cat in two places, and blood flowing in great quanti-
ties from the wounds. He sewed up the wounds, but his aid
was perfectly useless. One of the two cuts, which wete on the
sight side of the throat,- was sufficient to cause almost instant
death.
Mr. Greaves, a gentleman residing in the Waterloo-road,
who had had dealings with the deceased in business, stated that
the latter was the senior partner in the firm of Price and Davies,
and carried on a very respectable business on what was called
the " tally" system, of letting persons of good character but
slender income have goods, anti taking payment by weekly in-
stalments. The witness, after relating the nature of some
transactions in which he was concerned with the deceased,
stated that on Friday last he was in the shop with him and
his partner, Mr. Davies, and he saw the latter count out
a quantity of silver in 20s. parcels and put it on the
counter, and the deceased, as he counted it, put it into his
pocket, and he also took some gold from Mr. Davies. When he
had put the money into his pocket he asked his partner if heknew
what money he had given him, and when the latter told him, he
contradicted him angrily, and took the cash out again, and
counted it over. There was something very hasty and rather
wild in his manner upon that occasion. About a fortnight
since he observed to the witness that he had such an immense
pressure of business on his mind that it was almost too much
for him. • Ile said he had been up all the night before, en-
gaged in writing, and he must be up also all that night ; and
added, " If it goes on so, it must soon come to an end one
way or the other." SHe told the witness that he bad 9,000 cus-
[tot-tiers, which, if t.tSe, was Tcertainly. almost enough to turn a
man's brain. Witness had' never observed anything particu-
lar in his manner more than he had described.
The Coroner asked if there were any other witnesses present,
and was told that Mr. Price, sen., was in attendance. The Co-
roner asked the Jury whether they thought it necessary to call
any more witnesses., One would imagine that nothing but in-
sanity could have caused the deceased to commit the dreadful
act, considering that he was young, and in the full possession
of health, and with the almost certain prospect of flourishing in
the world.
One of the Jury said, he believed Mr. Price, sen., was very
willing to be examined, but that he feared that some family
matters which it might be necessary to discloke, would be re-
ported by the public press, " and," said the Juror, " he wishes
you, Mr. Coroner, to prevent the publication of any such
matters." .
The Coroner.-1 have no power to prevent the publication
of any part of proceedings that may take place before me. It
is an open Court, and I always wish it to be so. I have the
strongest desire that every proceeding over which I preside
should be as public as possible; and I think the gentlemen of
the Jury and every properly thinking man must be of opinion
that the utmost publicity should be given to all inquiries of
this nature.
A gentleman connected with the press said an application
had already been made to him by the friends of the deceased,
and he hail given an answer. It could not be the wish of the
press unnecessarily to wound the feelings of parties in such a
case as the present ; but he must be left to the exercise of his
own discretion. The application to the Coroner was useless as
well as unnecessary, that officer having no controul over the
Press.
Mr. Price, sen., was then sworn, and stated, that he boarded
at his son's, hut did not sleep there. On Friday evening last,
his son came home at nine o'clock, and witness told him he was
a good lad to come home so early, and quite sober. The de-
ceased complained of a dreadful heat in his inside, accompanied
with pain, and the witness advised him to abstain from any
spirits, and take nothing but what was cooling. He went to
bed about ten o'clock. At 11, the witness was informed that
his son had cut his throat. He went up stairs, but did not go
into the room, as the surgeon told him that the blood was stop-
ped, and if witness went in, it might agitate him, and re-open
the wound. Witness had never known any particular acts of
wildness or insanity on the part of the deceased, but he should
state, that the malady might he said to be hereditary in the
family of his mother; she died in a private asylum at Beth-
nal-green; and witness had another son who had once been
deranged, but got better, and died subsequently in a decline.
His derangement, however, was attributed to a_ religious
mania that was prevalent at that time at Hereford; where
he then lived, and which affected the heads of several others
so as to produce insanity. The deceased was not given to
drinking.
The Jury then went to the house to view the body, and on
their return it was announced that the servant, who attended
upon the deceased on the fatal night, was in attendance, but the
foreman of the jury said that he and his fellows were perfectly
satisfied, and desired to hear no more evidence. A verdict was
then -given " that the deceased destroyed himself in a fit of tem-
porary insanity."
It was stated by, one of the Jury that it was the custom of
the deceased to have a basin of boiled milk every night taken up
to his room ; and on the night in question, when the servant,
after he had retired to his room, was taking it up, she heard him
groan, and ran down to Mr. Davies, who on ascending to his
partner's room, found hint weltering in his blood. The deceas-
ed was 25 years of age.

SUDDEN DEATlL—Yesterday afternoon, at one
o'clock, an Inquest was held before Mr. Uswtsr, the Coroner,
at the Duke of Marlborough public-house, in St. Cathernte's,
on view of the body of John M'Uraken, aged 60, formerly.
beadle of the parish, for the last thirty. years. It appeared from
the evidence of Thorp. a watchman, and others, that the de-
ceased, who had been latterly much addicted to liquor, came
to the watch-house about 10 o'clock on Friday night last, to
remain there as constable for the remainder of the night, and
not being sober, he fell asleep in the chair: About eleven, a
noisy subject was brought in before hint ; it was found neces-
sary to call the deceased to book the charge, when it was for
the first time discovered that the vital spark had fled, and all
Imeans to restore him proved unavailing.—The Jury, after a
ifew minutes' consultation, returned a verdict, that the deceased
died of " Apoplexy."

EXTRAORDINARY CIIICUMSTANCE.-01) SatUr-
day evening a very gentlemanly-looking man, about 32' years
of age, went into the shop of Mr. Ramsay, pawnbroker, in
Liquorpond-street, in a state of considerable agitatation, and,
with some symptoms of having too freely indulged in the bottle,
asked for a pistol. Mr. Clunis (Mr. Ramsay's assistant) asked
what particular kind he wished to purchase ? He replied " one
that will do execution." This being rather a vague reply, a
number of pistols were presented to him, when he selected one,
the price of which was ten shillings. He then inquired if they
were furnished with bullets, and expressed a with to have one
that would fit the barrel of the pistol he had bought. Mr.
R., surprised at such questions, stepped forward, and told the
Gentleman that pawnbrokers did not deal in such articles ;
he also was induced to ask, from the strange manner of the
prisoner, forwhat purpose he was about to purchase the pistol?
" I'll tell you at once,", said the gentleman, " I want to blow
~nty brains.oat;.l haveelPat ten thousands by gambling within
a year and a half; I have -a wife and two children, who will be
the better of being rid of me can't you get me a bullet cast
that will suit this pistol ? I'll pay for the pistol, give you a so.
vereign for casting the bullet in any mould you may have, and
I'll give 'you, in your own shop, a sight such as which you have
never seen, a.rnan blow his brains out, Mr. Ramsey, not over
anxious for such a spectacle, as also conceiving that humanity
dictated that he should not permit any person to go at large in
such a state of mind, pretended to order an apprentice to cast a
bullet in one of his moulds, while he secretly dispatched a mes-
senger (while the gentleman was waiting for the termination
of the apprentice's labours) for a Hatton-garden officer. him-
brick was soon in attendance, and on examining the gentle-
man, he found on his person nearly two hundred pounds, in
paper and specie, but nothing to give a clue to his name or
residence. He was immediately taken to Hatton-garden Office,
before the Sitting Magistrate, whete his conduct was at first
rather violent. " Why should Ibe brought here ?" said he,
any mati has a right, if he likes, to blow out 'his own brains ;
it is not a capital offence; why drag me here as a felon ?"
The worthy Magistrate observed to Mr. Ramsay that his con-
duct was highly commendable, and in the kindest manner re-
monstrated with the gentleman on the rashness of the act which
he had contemplated. After some. correctives, such as soda-
water, • 4a, &c., which were procured for the gentleman, in the
course of half an hour he became so rational, that he was dis-
charged, and we have not since heard of his discharging the
contents of any pistol.

CARRYING LETTERS IN THE MAIL COACIIES.-We
think it right to state, that great vigilance has been within these
few days used to detect individuals in the unlawful practice of
carrying letters, when they travel in mail coaches. A gentleman
was arrested in Monaghan laSt week, for a fine of 101. which he
incurred in this way.—(Dublin Morning Regis:er.)
An, infant school was opened last week in
•Newington-butts. The application for admission were so nu-
merotis tha't inless. than an hour as many children were ad-
mitted as it was deemed prudent to take. None are received
under two years of age. •