The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-19 00:00:00

Benjamin Bowden, a private of the 14th Light Dra-
goons, who last week accidentally fell off the seat of
a van and broke his leg, when being conveyed with
oth.r soldiers to the invalid depot, essetnate Barracks,
at Brotupton, and whose leg was amputated the same
afternoon at the general hospital, died yesterday. The
deceased come home from India by dn. ship Ellenborough,
on the 11th instant, to be discharg,,d ou a pension after
twenty-tour years' servitude. Ilia age is tor ty. four.

SINGULAR CASE OF SUICIDE AT

INGATESTONE.

An inquest was held yesterday at Ingatestone before
C. C. Lewis, E,q., coroner, on the body of Maria Gutts,
who destroyed herself under the following circumstances
as detailed in evidence:—
John Gotts, of Ingatestone, deposed—Deceased was
my daughter, a single woman, arid twei,ty-seven years of
age- Last evening at six she sat down to tea with me
at my house ;-she had poured the tea out and taken
about half a cup herself, when she said, Mr. Rolfe and
Mr. Tweed would come in to me and tell me she was
drunk- I told her not to mind that, I would not believe
a word about it ; then she took the knife off the table
and cut herself immediately. I did not see her take the
knife off the table; I saw blood running from her throat,
and I went for assistance. I first found John Lilting-
stone, who returned with me to the house. We found
her lying in the passage against the pantry upon her
face, and still bleeding from the throat. I then went
a*a.Y, and she died. about eight the same evening. John
Lillingstone went off directly for medical assistance ;
Mr. Lewis returned with him. Deceased had not been
right in her head for this week past or more ; she was
addicted to drinking at times, which no doubt affected
her mind. Deceased's mother was not right in her
mind, and was once in confinement on that account.
John Lillingstone, of Ingatestone, malster, stated:—
I live next door to where deceased lived, and had known
her about seven years and frequently saw her. I was
called to her last evening between six and seven, by her
father, who came to me with a knife in his hand and
said his daughter bad cut her throat. He asked me to
go to her, and I went directly; I found her lying on the
bricks by the back door leading into the ard. She lay
bleeding from the throat. I did not touch her, but went
Off immediately for the doctor. I left a man of the
rlitnie of Upson and her father with her. I returned to
her in about eight minutes with Mr. Lewis; when I got
back she lay as I had left her ; Mr. Lewis and myself
then lifted her up, and I saw her throat was cut ; both
her hands were all over blood. She always appeared to
me to be right in her mind. I had not seen her since
last Wednesday or Thursday, when I spoke to her, and
she seemed very well in health and spirits. The knife
her father had in his hand when he came was not the
one she had used; but when I first went to her I saw one
lying in the middle of the passage cevered with blood ;
the knife produced is the one I believe I saw, but it was
then covered with fresh blood.
Richard Lewis, of Ingatestone, surgeon, stated—l was
Villed to deceased between six and seven last evening
4 found her lying in the passage on her face near the
,
wick door. I lifted her up, and found her throat was
Cut. There was one wound through the larynx, but there
11,..PPeared to have been two gashes. I bound the;wound
:I)* and she died in about an hour and a half atter I got
to her, from the effects of the would. She was sensible,
but could not speak. I told her there was no chance of
tter recovery. I asked her if she bad done it herself, if
she had to put up her fingers, and it she had not to keep
;rll still; she put up one or two fingers. I then said, I
think You must have done it more than once ; if so, to
nt up one or two fingers; she then put up two fingers and
wards„.!.er three. I found a bible open in her bed-room,
Vtb pin in a certain verse. I asked her if she had
re .a reading it to day, and whether she had put the pin
tlllf.so to hold up her finger. There were several other
eas ~lo different parts of the Bible, and by signs from
anl:l4 found she had put them in. I had attended her
attended her was some time ago, but she was then in a
,2_,excited tate. I should not say she was of unsound
iru, but she was very odd in her manner. When I
got to her I saw both her hands covered with blood.
13ible was open at Isaiah, a pin against the Ist and
,`Jdupleo verses of the last chapter ; other pins in Jeremiah,
ee.t
4th
ve r, 23d and 24th verses ; 31st chapter, 3rd and
Tilt and 34th and 35th verses.
Charlotte,boure wife of James Tweed, of Ingatestone, la-
bourer deposed :—I had known deceased about eight
and frequently saw her. I saw her yesterday
.Tilg about eleven. Her father asked me to go and
8„, to her ;he said she was not well. I went directly
kite' I went up stairs, and she followed me from the
looemell in her night-dress. She told me to go down and
stt the picture of our Saviour hanging over the fire,
„liotwhat her hour was come and she must go. I said,
said it eau You be so wicked as to talk like that ?" She
Raid „was no wickedness at all, it was the truth ; she
the picture, and hear what he says to
I her was at this time standing by the picture with
umo :B_hee°Bl4aie to
d," Don't you hear him call me now?—my
a/titZir.uust Isantecit tthheenly
about i 8 come, and it is of no use your saying anything
awoke me up in the night, and told me
win
aet go, and go I must, and if you go up stairs you
there." I went up, she stood on the
Wks afraid was afraid to go into the room ; she said she
don't You ; she said, " There is something on the bed-
2):ie to le see it?" I said there was nothing, and she told
then seer„ raY hand on the top of the bed, which Idid; she
per to go
tutlaatisfied, and went into the room. I then asked
Tautly forPraYers with me, and so she did; she prayed
tit tweeti,t,quarter of an hour. I remained with her
she said Ah' "'"llutea and then lefeler ; before I did so
was
eleven yete...„ in trouble. This was about half-past
I had seer, i,"l°Y morning, and I did not see her again.
her mina- ..er several times as if she was quite out of
her min-3' Many times I had said she was not right in
wouru, and I had several times heard her say she
cut her throat ; she prayed to God to forgive her,
and that she might not have to go , she said she would
do all she could to be saved.
The coroner having commented upon the evidence, the
Jury (one dissenting) returned a verdict to the effect that
deceased destroyed herself whilst labouring under tem-
porary derangement.—Essex Herald.

Ilzi MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—Her Majesty the
Queen Dowager, attended by the Earl and Countess Howe,
the Viscountess Falkland, the Marchioness of Ormonde, the
Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Ashley, and the Hon. Captain Somerset,
honoured the performances of Her Majesty's Theatre yester-
day evening with her presence. His Royal Highness Prince
George was also amongst the company. In the
Queen's box were Mr. and Lady Mary Stanley and
the_, Honourable Miss Stanley, Honourable Miss Lyt-
.'lton, Lord Charles Fitzroy, an.dHon. Mr. Fortescue. There
W, ere also present—the Prince Louis Napoleon, his Excel-
'enCy the Austrian Ambassador, his Excellency the Hano.
Vnerian Minister, the Baroness Brunnow and Mademoiselle
Madame
de Lechner, the Minister Plenipotentiary from Peru and
, Yturegui, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the
Duchess of Leinster ar,d Lady Jane Fitzgerald, the Duchess
Dowager of Cleveland, the Duke of Cleveland, the Marquis of
b`
tltttley, the Marchioness of Douro, the Marchioness of
"eatrneath, the Marquis of Blandford, the Countess Dew-
e!' of Morley, the Earl and Countess of Morley and Lady
lielen Douglas, the Countess of Powis and Lady Lucy
%nen, the Countess of Blessington and the Misses Power,
l of Falmouth, the Earl of Lonsdale, Viscount Go-
me cleric Viscount and Viscountess Maidstone, Viscount So-
kttasten, Viscount Canterbury, Lord Fitzroy Somerset and
ears Sornerast, Lord and Lady Willoughby D'Eresby, Lord
Lsti,:.,'. Lord Headly, Lord A. G. Lennox, Lady Colborne,
eler‘. Ross, Lord Brougham, Lord Aylmer, Lord A. Fitz-
tou .e2Lord Cranstoun, Lord W. Graham, Lady W. Comp-
NM Gardner, Lady and Miss Dleux, Sir E. Butler. Sir
toton.—Zehby, Sir A. Woodford, M. C. de Koudriaffsky,
Burgh, ere al Lygon, Captain Meynell, R.N., Mr. Hubert de
0. Morgan, M.P., Mr. Parnther, Mr. H. Greville,
L4(13, kris. B. Sheridan, Sir Stratford and Lady Canning,
curgelleY, Hon. F. Levison Hon. General Upton, Hon.
11 ate_ zen, Sir George Wombwell, Captain Martin, Mr.
,tto kp ee e c.
Raj:AL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN.---Her
Shawn 7, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal
the Duchess of Kent, their Royal Highnesses the
Eieren"l'Lef Cambridge and the Princess nd his
)„.15Lighness the Prince of Leiningen nonhred ho
kil.a4altalian Opera last night with their presence. Her
u"sLY Was attended by Viscountess Canning, Lady
eoftists Bruce, the Marquis of Ormonde, the Honourable
Phipps, and the Hon. Captain Gordon. Her Royal
fleas the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary
e attended by Baroness Hammerstein, Baron Knese-
,and Captain Mildmay. There were also present :
The Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Marquis of
Abercorn, the Marquis of Douro, the Marquis of Donegal,
arl and Countess of Wilton, the Earl of Cadogan and the
Cadogan, the Countess of Chesterfield, the Earl of
,alanster, Earl Bruce, Viscount and Viscountess Castlereagh,
~viscount and Viscountess Newport, Viscount Cantalupe,
Zlacount Exmouth, Viscount Dupplin, the Baroness Wil-
ughby D'Eresby, Lord and Lady Carrington, Lord and
'LCY Petre, Lord W. Beresford, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lady
Zilliam Poulett, Lady Blanche Somerset, Lord George
&Inners, Baroness de Goldsmid, the Hon. Miss Foley, Hon.
'-,P• Willoughby, Hon. Gerald Dillon and the Hon. Miss
ID. Willoughby,
Hon. Mrs. Bathurst, Hon. Colonel Cathcart, Hon.
M. Anson, Hon. Miss Maynard, Hon. Arthur Upton, Sir
mWebb, Sir William and Lady de Bathe, Sir John and
, Campbell, Sir William Abdy, Sir Bellingham and
Ladyo! Graham, Sir Jasper and Lady Atkinson, Lady Scott,
2n
y Arabella Ratnsden, Sir Thomas Hare, Sir Michael
Menaa Stuart, Sir John Fife, Sir Charles Marshall, Sir H.
BH, Mr. Wm. Ewart, M.P., Mr. Joseph Hume, M.P.,
enry Baring, M.P., Miss Burdett Coutts, Mr. H. T.
Bath Dlr. Horseley Palmer, General Wolfe, Captain de
, Lady Jodrell, Lady Whichcote, the Hon. Captain
Milks, Ste.
MAJOR-GENERAL SIB, HARRY SMITH, G.C.8.--
The grand military banquet to this distinguished officer
Wall, as already stated, take place on Thursday next, at
Rooms, when upwards of 150 officers of the Light
„Division are expected to meet the Gallant Hero of Aliwal.
There will be a strong assembly of old officers of the 43d
Zd 62d Regiments of Foot, with which Sir Harry witnessed
2dule cf his early dangers, as also of the Rifle Brigade of the
ra,,l'attalion of which Sir Harry is now the Colonel-Com-
ejnil,,dant• Several of the officers of the 16th Lancers, te-
rral returned from India, will also take part in the /esti-
lant °This
during it will be recollected, served with the Gal-
°me Meer the Sutlej campaign. Among the list of
ar e,rB who have signified their intention of being present
Rea, dle Duke of Richmond, formerly of the 52d Fe, t, the
Genrcir4is Ailsa, late Aide-de-Camp to the Governor-
con:tnaalnl India ; Lieut.-General A. F. Barnard, Colonel-
General ant of the Ist battalion of the Rifle Brigade; Lieut.-
rormerly th
16th Lancers; eS*Rities
Hercules Pakenham, Colonel of the 43d Foot,
al Artillery ;
; Lieut.-Colonel Macdonald, of the
General Sir H ir George Houlton, of the 43d Foot; Ali:jor-
Macdonald, Rovugh Res, Royal Artillery • Major-General
Jocelyn, late " Major- General 'Ewan ; Viscount
I3le . the Rifles; Major-General Brown, Lord
Is7nYgnpeke.
.Leech, Sir Andrew Hay, the Hon. G.
hobrloitkheerh.to Chatham, who Sir Harry is not, perhaps, be generally known, that
Major'Smith, Barrack-Master at
to the Peninsula and is brother, can boast of having served
members of the during the Waterloo campaign; The
grand Junior United Service Club purpcse giving
entertainment to
ensuing,.„ month, the Gallant General early iu the
,hate Robert Williamslatle,of l, Esq., banker, of Birchin -
the Dorchester
alnounting to 80 00 Old Bank, has left personalty
fr"
of duty, toOL, and by his will has bequeathed 1,0001.,
1604 to Mrs. G the Dorset Comity Hospital; an annuity of
ttabghter • erard, a tritud of tut 10,UtJui. to 111 A
hi 3
e, and the residue real. state, of his petsonalty, together with
ve- • his leaves
up to son, Robert Williams, Esq.,.
MAC eZecuto r.