The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-18 00:00:00

LOCAL SHARE MA:11KBTI

LIVERPOOL, FEB. 17. 0410
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was active i
clesing at its best point. Caledonian, 311 2li 2j9
Eastern Counties, 10—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 60
London and North Western, 107i—Ditto, halves, e!fooldr
3d. dis.—Blackbarn, 91. ls. 31—Manchester, SPaeitiebi
and Lincoln, 351 —Midland, 2/ c. 3i—North 396
101. Bs. 9d.—South Eastern, 22i i—Dutch Rheelsoodof
C 9d. p.—Great Western, 68 i—Great Western of hd,
258—Great Southern and Western, 55I—Birken
Lancashire, and Cheshire, 69.

MANCHESTER, FEB. 17.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—This market was doing A den
moderate business, with prices unchanged. IdiarDitto,
—Leeds, 99k—London and North Western, 1"71 Sq--
Eighths, 5-]6 die.--Blackburn, 9 1-16—Sheffield, 004
District Bank, 11j p.—Caledonian, 321—Rochb
81.

LEEDS, FEB. 17.
teals!'
STOOK EXCHANGE.—An average business cionet 311
Midland, 83—North Eastern, (York capital stock),
Victoria Mine, is. dis.

BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 17. 01
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market continues firrfridosl
Lc, little business doing, at about yesterday's rates. Itol4
and North Western Stock, 1071 I—Great Western ir,
67i—London and North Western, Eighths, _
mingham Guaranteed, 76 I—Birmingham Pref.,
Birmingham Canal, 921 3l—Birmingham and lA°
shire Gas, new, 11 12 pm.

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SHOCKING SUICIDE BY STRYCHNINE.—A pail'1 flat
sation was created in Newport last week by the rerloe,
of the death of Mr. William Gummow from grit% of
administered by his own hands; and the fatal *1144
importance to the world on account of the digtr; 60
symptoms which exhibited themselves for se°l-iieor
hours previously to his death. On proceeding to ogee
the body the coroner's jury found deceased in tiletad 0
position, in bed, in which he died, and be preiltburst
most fearful sight. His eye-balls seemed ready
_Aw. the
from their sockets ; his teeth were tightly ciao' 'opt&
features drawn and contracted, and the whole 10111
nance frightfully distorted; his fists, too,' were, loth
clinched ; his feet forced out beyond the foot oft
and his limbs in a state of fixed rigidity. The poise'ecol,
bought by the servant of the suicide. The druggistAredi
lected the latter coming to his shop and asking for o,—ide.
to kill rats. He gave bins three grains of strY°"nrotO
‘ I have sold the same (said the druggist) for killisgt;orti
for four er five years to many persons. I writel-el.°
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packages,djuryolabel.b s e arTvnheded
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Thetohtook the "tried
three grains. The doctor who attended him first ,a' sr
strong emetics, which produced no effect. He tmei foli
plied the stomach-pump, but his mouth was s° ;:e en
fixed, and the spasms and violent paroxysm° wh;loOf
powerful as to shake the gaslamps in the room:" ofi
and he could not in any way apply it. His b°4 ool)
bent in a curved form as in lock-jaw. They Were.„l, or
such symptoms as would be produced by strynh°l-feeto
hydrophobia. The spasms contracted and bent the of
and the hands were clinched too, and he died in °n
and
those convulsions, quite black in the face. From mit_. el
hour to two hours is the longest time known in such veto
after spasms have commenced. Half a grain is enongli of
destroy life. The right side of the heart was found f°o
blood, and the left empty. It has been a disputed Pooi.
(in the cases lately before the public) as to whether by
side should be full; or empty in cases of poisoning 0,
strychnine, but there have been instances both W.;pe
The lungs were blacker than usual, but the other oil
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