The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-17 00:00:00

SUICIDE OF LORD DE BLAQUIERE,

The lamentable circumstances attending the death o,
Lord William de Bhiquiere, of Beulah Villa, Norwood,
Surrey, aged 74, were on Friday investigated before
W. Carter, Esq., coroner for West Surrey, and fourteen
highly respectable jurors.
From the evidence of Caroline Brown, Mary Ann
Shaw, Mr. Street (surgeon), and other witnesses, it ap-
peared that the deceased nobleman had taken up his re-
sidence i❑ the locality of Norwood for about ten months
past. During this period his charities and good offices
to the poor of the district had been in accordance with
the course be has invariably pursued. His health had
for some time been very indifferent, arising from a
lithotriptie disease, but latterly he had been seized with
an attack of small-pox—which had evidently affected
his Lordship's intellects; but this did not appear to be of
a suicidal character, and consequently he was not
watched so strictly as might have been deemed neces-
sary. On Tuesday night last his Lordship retired to rest
at an early hour; he awc ke at about four o'clock on the
following morning, and asked one of his female
servants to bring him one of his pistols, which
was accordingly done. It was then not charged,
but his Lordship desired that his valet, Fran-
cis Johnson, should be called, and during the
absence of the female servant it would seem that his
Lordship loaded the pistol with a heavy charge of
powder and a large quantity of swan shot, and before
the valet could be aroused the report of fire arms created
the utmost alarm in the mansion, and on several of the
domestics rushing to his Lordship's chamber they found
him lying on the ground weltering in his blood. Im-
mediately the services of Mr. Street, of Norwood, sur-
geon, were called into r( quisition, but before the arrival
that gentleman his Lordship had ceased to exist. From
a post mortem examination the Noble Lord, it would
seem, had discharged the pistol into his mouth, through
the roof of which the charge had passed, and several
of the shots were found lodged in various cavities of the
brain, quite sufficient to cause death. His Lordship
must have been a great sufferer from disease, for a cal-
culus of unusually large dimensions was discovered in
the bladder; and this circumstance, combined with the
effects of the disease of small-pox, had doubtless pro-
duced that nervous debility which had so impaired
his Lordship's mind as to urge him to commit self-
destruction.

FEROCITY OF A Fox.—A few days since a fox
entered the house of a man named Murphy, near Dangan,
where an infant was asleep in a cradle, both parents being
oat at the time, and, seizing the infant by the throat, carried
it away. An instant pursuit was made, and reynard was
compelled to abandon his seizure, but when found the child
was dead ; the throat was greatly mangled.—Clare Paper.
GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.—THE RECTORIAL CHAIR.
—lt is understood that Mr. Sheriff Alison is to be re-elected
without opposition.—Reforiner's Gazette.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following
gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations
for the diploma, were admitted members of the College at
the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 14th inst.:—
Messrs. Edward Ross Prance, East Stonehouse, Devon ;
James Edward Tuxford, Boston, Lincolnshire; James Collie,
Aberdeen ; Joseph William Eastwood, Chesterfield, Derby-
shire; William Edward Day, Bristol; James Martin Roche,
Farmoy, county of Cork; and Charles Chibnell, Tothill-
street, Westminster. At the same meeting of the Court, Mr.
James Wilkicson Elliott passed his examination for naval
surgeon : this gentleman had previously been admitted a
member of the College, his diploma bearing date November
Is, 1847. Erratum.—ln our list of successful candidates
published on Thursday last the name of John Black Pater-
son, of Edinburgh, was omitted.
LIFE IN THE WEST.—Our Yankee traveller, who
saw the live hoosier, has again written to his mother:—
" Western people go their death on etiquette. You can't
tell a man hero that he lies, as you can down east, without
fighting. A few days ago a man was telling two of his
neighbours in my hearing a pretty long story. Says I,
' Stranger, that's a whapperl' Says he, 'Lay there stranger I'
and in a twinkling of an eye, I found myself in the ditch, a
perfect quadruped, the worse for wear and tear. Upon ano-
ther occasion, says I to a man I never saw before, as a woman
passed, 'That isn't a specimen of your western women, is it?'
Says he, • You are afraid of the fever and ague, stranger,
an't you?' Very much,' says I. ' Well,' replied he, ' that
lady is my wife, and if you don't apologise in two minutes,
by the honour of a gentleman I swear that these two pistols,
(which he held cocked in his hand,) shall cure you of that
disorder entirely— so don't fear, stranger.' So I knelt down
and politely apologised. I admire this western country
much ; but curse me if I can stand so much etiquette; it
always takes me so unawares."—Chicago Democrat.
CONSUMPTION OF WINE.—The quantities of wine
entered for home consumption in the nine months ending
the 10th ult. was less by 52,701 gallons, as appears by the
trade and navigation accounts, than the quantities entered
in the corresponding period of the preceding year. In 1850 1
the quantity was in the nine months 5,063,818 gallons, and
L.
.COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—We are sorry (says
in the present year 5,011,117 gallons. The decrease in wine
the B.
a tNo. 5, White Stone Pit, Hi
.mmgnam Journal of Saturday) to have to record a
FA,TrA
and spirits in the nine months of the present year, eons.
Blackwell and Co., at Russelgran
articlepareel
thatwith i lastn o r
e a
aSear,
in waseo
consumption
ngda gallons. The
the
Exhibition principal
sad accident, which occurred yesterday (Friday) morning,
was tobacco.
In the musical circles of Berlin it is reported that and which has resulted in HallLa es , belonging
Colliery,
nearto
DMaeds
ls
er
they s .
_ the death of one man and
Meyerbeer is engaged I'n composing a comic opera, his first serious injury of two others. It appears that a " band" of
. wbrk of the kind. men, consisting of six, had descended the shaft by skip, and
In December last an Englishman named Howard, having reached the bottom, were preparing to alight upon
with a multitude of aliases, was tried before the Tribunal of the scaffold which covers the "sump," when it is sup-
Correctional Police for cheating at play, by using prepared Posed that one of the men must have snuffed one of the
cards. He was acquitted. As, however, frequent complaints lighted candles which they had with them, and the
had been made of him to the police, he was ordered to leave snuff falling through the joints of the planking which
France. A few months after it became known that he had covered the sump (and it containing a quantity of gas at the
carried off to England a youg girl, daughter of a lady of time), thus caused the explosion. The scaffolding of the
some property, and that he had offered to restore her to her sump, which was of considerable thickness and weight, mo-
mother in return for a sum of money. Directions were given mentarily burst asunder, and two of the men are said to have
that he should not be allowed to -return to France; but a .been driven into the roadway of the workings, but luckily
short time ago the police heard that he had come back to escaped without any serious injury. The other four men,
Paris. A warrant was issued against him, and a few days however, must either have been driven up the shaft and have
ago ho was arrested in an isolated house in the Isle des fallen, or must have dropped through into the sump, in which
C ' nes, at Neuilly. Yesterday he was tried by the Tribu- five or six feet of water having collected, one of the men,
na3lgof Correctional Police for violation of the law of the 3d of probably the first, having been covered by the others or by
December, 1849, relative to foreigners, and was condemned portions of the scaffolding, was found drowned. Two others
were taken out of the water alive, but very sadly mutilated.
to three mouths' imprisonment.—Galignani.
, The fourth was hurt, but not severely. The pit itself is well
On Saturday evening last a countryman visited ventilated, and the accumulation of gas was necessarily un-
Burnley, and was complaining of the trouble a drunken man foreseen in consequende of the sump itself being covered by
had given him. " How do you know he was drunk? " said the scaffolding usual in such cases. The surname of the de-
e bystander. The countryman indignantly replied, " What ceased was Brooks, and the injured men are Benjamin Brad-
could he be else, when he asked for the shoe-horn to put ley and Crispin. They were promptly attended by the
his hat on with? " colliery surgeon. Bradley, we are sorry to add, is not ex-
SCANDAL.—We are desired to contradict the report petted to recover.
that the Nova Scotia giant, on exhibition in Boston, carries WESTMINSTER HALL.—The improvements which
a ton of coal ander earch arm daily. The proprietor of the have been going on for some time at the south-western end
exhibition says he can do it, but it might impede his growth! of Westminster-hall are nearly completed. The flight of
—American Paper. steps leading up to the great corridor of the two Houses of
EXTRAORDINARY DAY'S SPORT AT ENYILLE, Parliament have been perfected, and a number of men are
STAFFORDSHIRE.—The Earl of Stamford and Warrington, engaged in chiselling shields and other devices under the
H. C. Taylor, Esq., Thomas Hollyoake, Esq., Rev. C. Jos- large window. The window at the extreme end of the Hall,
son, and H. W. Foley, Esq., killed on the 6th instant, on in its improved form, presents a magnificent appearance, and
Lord Stamford's estate, 262 partridges, 24 hares, and 10 attracts the admiration of those who go into the hall. On
rabbits. the left hand side of the hall an entrance, corresponding in
Several serious shocks of earthquake have been style right hand side,
with those leading to the courts on the ri
has been completed, and is intended to admit the public to
experienced of late in Albania. The town and castle of
Vallona, according to a letter from
the cloisters, and by that passage to the new House of
Zara of the sth, have
bean utterly destroyed, and 2,009 persons have perished.— Commons.
Qalignani. ANALYSIS OF THE BREVET.—The United Service
CHARLES DICKENS.—It is pleasant to communicate Gazette gives the following analysis of the numbers in the
pleasant news, (says the Leader), and our pen glides over recent Brevet:—Promoted to be Generals-21 line and 1
engineer lieutenant-generals; Lieutenant-Generals-46 line,
the paper with unusual animation as it hastens to announce
6 artillery, 6 engineer, and 1 marine. major-generals; Major-
whatthat Charles Dickens is about to issue a new work. Upon
Generals-57 line, 2 artillery, 3 eingineer, and 3 marine,
delighted ears that sound will fall! To how many
colonels; Colonels-97 line (2 cave ry, 10 guards, 19 infan-
thousands it will make the first of every month a day of
expectation!
rine, lieutenant-colonels; Lieutenant-Colonels-81 line (3
THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—We believe
that when cavalry and 81 infantry), and 2 engineer, majors; Majors—
the Glass Palace is entirely free
of
its present lagging oc- 79 line (6 cavalry, 2 guards, 71 infantry), 21 pensioners, 17
its artillery, 17 engineer, and marine,
cupants, the public will be freely admitted within • l3captains.
portals.
in the City on Saturday
Advices were received
IMPERIAL SALT AND ALKALI COMPANY. --A meet-August 9, announcing two deplo-
from Sydney, bearingoffdatthe
ing in this matter was held on Saturday before Master in e South Sea Islands. A large
Chancery catastrophes
Chancery Tinney, when the list of contributories was furthercalled the Mary, said to have belonged
whaling barque, to
settled, and instructions taken for the realization of use ts hore on the Lachlan where
from the sale of the company's property. It is " Bermuda, was driven as _
_d Islands ,
und erstooa the natives came upon her, and not only destroyed the yes-
that the arrangements making are such that there will be • soul belonging to her. The Lucy
sel, but murdered every . .
it .
return of money instead of a call on the unfortunate share-a
to bring up is
Ann, from Sydney, had occasion. thought
holders, who were led to believe that " soap" could be made off the Murray Island, when the natives seized her, and hay-
out of " flint."
ing possessed themselves of her wreck, they put the whole of
VINES IN POTS.—I am surprised that grape vines the unhappy crew to death.
are not more extensively grown in pots than they are, for CAUTION TO UNQUALIFIED PRACTITIONERS.—OH
they are easily managed, and bear abundantly; they can be St d. • t was held by Mr. Baker, at the Victory
a ur ay an inquest
trained round sticks or hoops, sn as to occupy a very small Friar's-mount Betbnal-green, relative to the death of
space; and they could be grown by the cottager as well as Elizabeth Woo' claged 39, the wife of a shoemaker, living in
by the gentleman's gardener. They would present a very Mount School, was alleged to have died from the ina-
ornamental appearance set about a garden or lawn. Some
' proper administration of medicine by a female herbalist
might be removed early into the house, to accelerate! their • " Scutt. Mr. West, the surgeon who was
ripening, and others left out till the last moment; . _ practit.ioner named Sco
_. . , .
in this called in, said that the medicine, on analysis, had been found
way successional crops of this very beautiful and useful fruit to be composed of a mixture of herbs. He could not say that
might be obtained during a great part 9f the year.—Gar- iit had causd death, had he been applied to earlier she 1
but
doers' Chronicle. might have recovered. Verdict, "Visitation of God:,
i •

the army in 1791, in which he was actively
The Noble Lord was a Peer of Ireland, and entered
engaged for
several years, attaining the rank of full general in 1841.
His son, and successor, Lord John, a captain of the 3d
West India Regiment,
yacht America. is the possessor of the celebrated

On the conclusion of the evidence, the Coroner
Rummed up, and the jury returned a verdict of Tempo-
rary Insanity.