The Sun.
London, England, 1840-04-17 00:00:00

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DELIBERATE SUICIDE. _On Thursday last a
fourrier in the 39th Regiment of the Line, named Gauthier, in .
the barracks of the Rue de Reuilly, made up his accounts,
striking out a sum of seventeen francs which he had just paid
in. and wrote to the treasurer of the regiment, in which he in-
forma him that he owed twenty-seven francs to his comrades,
which he begged him to pay with the seventeen francs, making
up the remainder by the sale of his effects. At the bottcm of
the page on which the entry was made, and in the place left for
the name, he wrote 'c Died in his room, the 2d of April, 1840,
at eight in the evening," and then signed his name " Gauthier,
fourrier of the company." Having done this he wrote a letter '
to his mother, informing her of the slay and hour of his death,
as he had done on his register, and then charging his musket
with a ball-cartridge, and putting a bit of German tinder in
the pan of the lock, pointed the musket to his heart anal waited
for the explosion. At the report his comrades hastened io his
room and found him a corpse. No cause is assigned for the
act. His accounts were in perfect order, and lie has never
been heard to say anything which could lead to a belief that he
contemplated suicide.--Paris Print.
SUICIDE BY POlSON.—Thursday an inquest
was held at the Two Brewers Inn, Wandsworth, on the body
of Mrs. Clarkson. From the testimony of the witnesses it
appeared that on Wednesday Mr. Fathan, a surgeon of wands-
worth was called in to attend the deceased. He found her in
one of lower rooms of the house, vomiting very much, and
in great pain. She was sensible, and told him she had taken
some stuff a man had given her to cure corns ; she at the same
time handed him a bottle. He thought she had taken corro-
sive sublimate, and gave her milk. He went home to test the
poison, and found it was what he suspected, He gave her
other medicine, and attended her till she died on Saturday. In
the course of Wednesday she told him it was of no use his en-
deavouring to save her, as she would do it oasis. She was
labouring under great depresion of mind, and he had no doubt
it was her own act. Verdict—" That the deceased destroyed
herself in a state of temporary insanity."
On Sunday the gardens belonging to Chelsea
Hospital were thrown open to the public for the first time this
season. During the day there landed at the Swan Pier two
thousand six hundred and forty-one persons from the iron
steamers, independently of those who landed at the Cadogan
l'ier, in Cheyne-walk, from the wood-steamers.
SUICIDE OF A BOY.—An inquest was held on
Thursday, at the Plough, Stockwell, on the body of Charles
Bundle, aged 15. The evidence went to show that the de -
ceased destroyed himself while in a state of insanity produced
by drinking spirits.—Verdict accordingly.
DREADFUL Ft RE.-- Owing to the explosion of
a gas-meter in the kitchen of" the house in Salisbury-street,
Strand, which is occupied by Messrs. Shaw and Maxwell, wine-
merchants, the premises have been wholly destroyed. The fire
broke out shortly after twelve o'clock on Wednesday night. A
Mr. Robertson, who has chambers in the house, at the peril of
his life rescued from the flames a female and two children in a
state of nudity. But for a policeman, he himself would have
died from suffocation,