The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-02 00:00:00

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION.

Mr. John MlCeltua, having been duly examined,
was on Thursday inducted into his Ake in the ti„
partment. of the Chief Secretary, Dublin Castle. Ht.
is son of 'the Mr. Thos. Wlienna, Assistant-
Under-Secretary. A clerkship in the Lunatic-office,
Dublin, is vacant by Mr. M'Kenna's appointment.

DARING GAROTTE ROBBERY.—Liverpool, Tuesday
Yesterday afternoon' a lady named Mrs. Crowe, white
walking op the path from Green lane to West Derby,
and bad en ssed the ettle behind Newsham House, be-
longing to Mr. Gardner, was seized by two ruffians.
One of them caught her by the throat and stopped her
breat'i; while the other pulled away from her dress her
boll watch, gold chain, locket, and seals, and then ma 'e
off. When sufficiently recovered, she gave an alarm,
and, being heard by M r Gardner's butler and coachman
(Jones and Young), they, in the most praiseworthy man
mr, pursued the men, and after a run of three mile,
captured them. They were brought up this morning.
before the county magistrates, and fully committed for
trial.

SUICIDE AT HAMPTON-COURT PALACE•—An. inquest
was held (on Tuesday, let of April) before Mr. William
Thos. Manning, coroner £f her Majesty's household and
the very, and a jury of yeomen officers of the Queen's
ffouSerhOld,' at the canteen' Hampton-court Palace bar-
racks, on the body of Mr. James Neil, late superintend-
ent of Hampton-court Palace gardens, which office he
had held about four years, having been appointed by
Lord Seymour, at the time he was Chief Commissioner
of the Woods .and Forests. It appeared from the evi-
(knee of William, Hurst and Hannah Cm that about 10
o'clock on Sunday last the deceased was found lying on
the pavement , a-few feet from the front door of his
apartments in the Palace profusely bleeding at the head,
and a portion of, one of the tiles from the roof by his
side. Deceased was only partially dressed. and imrne-
diatety -he-Was taken up he expired. The evidence
showed that he must have clambered through a_window
oil-tre roof ,:tif his apartments, and then precipitated
himself doWAr a height of upwards or 30 feet onto the
stone pnienient beneath. It appeared that the deceased
was of a very excitable and irritable temperament, and
that he had been in the habit some months since of firing
off guns and pistols in the coart-yard of the Palaee late
at night. On 'being remonstrated with on one occasion
by the %itrress Hurst for his extraordinary conduct, he
replied, "Don't he alarmed, it's only me."• Dr. Jepson,
the medical7attendant of the deceased, deposed that LA
had be-n in the habit of attending him for fits of dyspep.
sia for about nine Months, and that he was under
medical treatment for alNitit a week previous to his death.
On
-the FodAy preceding his decease witness was sent
fortrudd6lY.," when he found deceased in bed with no-
thing apparently the matter with him, but he complained
of great depression. He was of opinion that deceased
des'royed himself while labouring under an attack of
!hypochondria. Wittles did not think that a post mor-
' tea examination would tend to further elucidate tile
cause of death. The coroner and jury having viewed
the spot whire. the catastrophe occurred, a verdict of
." temporary insanity" way returned. The deceased was
38 years of A te,wld has,.left a widow and three children.
! CltrsrAt PAI;scE.--neturn of admissions for six days
Saturilky, March 29.—Niiii,ber admitted, in-
holders, 24.484 ; amount received
efolrwalidn'img.irsi!triic-,0k2e.11. 64. One Shilling Day, Tuesday,
I.—Admiielons on PaYluent, '4,126; ditto, l)y se47
lon tick(49, X 93; total vibitors, 2,689! • • .