The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-03 00:00:00

DIS7'RESSING SUICIDE.

Mr. Lupert Clarke, one of the coroners for Berkshire,
has held an inquiry at the National School-room, Boyn
Rill, Maidenhead, into the painful circumstances at.
tending the death of Mr. Henry Scott Gresley, a
member of the bar, and son of the Rev. William Gresley,
the well-known Incumbent of All Saints', Boyn Hill. • A
very respectable jury was empanelled, Mr. Durant, a
magistrate for the borough of Maidenhead, being chosen
foreman.

Several witnesses were examined, and it appeared from
their evidence that the deceased gentleman was only
married in the latter part of November last, and went on
a wedding tour, from which he returned about a fort-
night ago. Since his return he and Mrs. Clresley had
resided at the Bev. Mr. Gresley's, at Boyn Hill, and it
was observed that his manners were strange. So much
was this the case that the rev. gentleman requested
Dr. Playne, of Maidenhead, to examine the deceased
with reference to his mental condition. Dr. Playne ac-
cordingly had an interview with deceased, and from what
passed between them he came to the conclusion that it was
desirable that the deceased should be watched. On
Tuesday morning one of the female servants of the es-
tablishment met Mrs. Gresley emerging from the dressing-
room of the d' ceased in a dreadfully excited state,
imploring that a medical man be immediately sent for.
The servant hurried into the dressing-room, and to her
horror found Mr. Gresley lying on the bed with a fear-
ful wound in his throat, from which blood was flowing,
and there was also a quantity of blood on the flojr. A
razor lay upon the dressing-table, and it was too apparent
that with this instrument the unfortunate gentle-
man had committed the violence upon himself.
Medical aid was called in with all promptness, and in the
meantime every attention was paid to the deceased, who,
however, expired from the effects of the wound. The
whole facts were fully investigated, and the jury returned
a verdict that deceased destroyed himself while in a state
of temporary ,jusanity. The deceased was known to a
large circle of country gentry, and the sad case has
created a very painful excitement throughout the neigh-
bourhood.

It is rumoured that Mr. Gladstone, M.P., is
preparing, and has in a forward state for publication, a
work on Greece and Phoenicia.

As many of the other loyal bodies in the country
have done, the Freemmons of Ireland are about to present
a loyal address to the Queen, recording their abhorrence of
Feulanism and all treasonable projects.

Mat. FILDES, M.P., AT GRIMSBY. —ln a speech
recenlTy delivered to his constituents at Grimsby, Mr.
Fild, s a ; ;c•rted that Mr. Disraeli had only yielded the
-orm to the pressing demands of the people for an
e. en on of the suffrage. The conversion of the Conser-
vatives to opinions diametrically opposed to those which
they had previously entertained was the strangest and
most complete political conversion in the record of history.
He considered that the people of Irelaucl had always been
treated as a conquered race, and had had forced upon them
a Church to which nine-tenths of them did not belong.
Finally, Mr. Fildes expressed himself in favour of com-
pulsory education and vote by ballot.—Eastern Morning
News.

A few days since a gardener, in trenching some
meadow land at Highgate, Middlesex, found a vase con-
taining nearly 7,000 silver coins, consisting of silver
pennies (London, York, Middlesex, Bristol, and Canter-
bury), groats and half-groats, halfpennies, &c. (Irish and
Scotch, Venetian aUrt foreign, Teutonic), and two gold
coins of Edward Il K. also an amber rosary. The coins
have been partially arranged by Mr. Vaux, of the British
Museum.

When Lord John Brocvne retires from the representa-
tion of Mayo, Mr. Valentine O'Connor Blake, who has
considerable landed property in the county, will offer
himself for election. Mr. Blake is an advanced Liberal.
A correspondent of the Freeman's Journal states that
the Bishop of Salisbury, Dr. Pusey, and Mr. Mackonochie
(of St. Alban's, Holborn) are the persons to whom the
Weekly Register referred a week ago as about to join the
Church of Rome.

Mr. George Potter has again to correct the Times on a
pow • ton which he has been misrepresented. The leading
journal stated that the action of trades unions in the
limitation of apprentices has been selected as the strongest
and most defensible point in the system of Unionism, and
that Mr. Potter had confidently undertaken to justify the
principle, and show good reasons for the policy of it, at the
forthcoming interview with Mr. Gladstone. He denies that
the limitation of apprentices had been chosen as one of the
questions to be defended by the deputation, although it is
selected as one of the subjects to come under discussion;
and the statement that the writer had undertaken to
justify the limitation is, he says, equally incorrect.
The deputation wish it to be understood that what they
intend to do at the interview with Mr. Gladstone is to
she-, reasons why some trades limit apprentices, and, if
these reasons are not justifiable, to recommend the consider.
ation of the subject and the adoption of such alterations as
may be deemed necessary. Thereby they hope to shew
that they desire to eradicate from the unions everything
that is unjust or indefensible, and make them worthy of
intelligent artisans.

Mr. R. H. Allnatt has published an analysis of his notes
on the weather during January. He speaks of the storms
which prevailed throughout England and part of Conti-
nental Europe, explaining that they were generally equa-
torial. The range of Fahrenheit's thermometer in the
.rst week of the year was from 5 to 12 deg. below the
teezing point. In the second week the mean was from
Bto 44'2 deg.; a difference of 181 deg. From the 16th
) the 31st the nightly range was from 29 to 47 deg., a
ifference of 18 deg. Frost occurred nightly up to the
2,th, and again on the 20th and 21st. The range of Ur
barometer during the month, Mr. Allnatt says, was from.
28.70 to 30.00 inches, the minimum registration being just
previous to the gale of the 22nd. The fall of snow was
about four inches, and it is remarked that on the sth, 6th,
and Bth the snow fell, thawed slightly, and then became
frozen over the top, so that in undisturbed places there
were three impervious layers of ice-bound snow. In the
most inclement portion of the early part of January the
mortality fell considerably below the average.

Mr. Dudley Baxter writes to the Times to defend the
East London Mission Committee from the charge of re-
fusing to co-operate with the Central Executive. The
writer argues that there has been a miscarriage and a mis.
take. The Mission Committee were in favour of one
executive, but, being a religious body, they did not feel
bound to give up their funds, which were larger than those
of all the other committees put together, to a Purely
secular organisation.

Mr. Saunderson, the secretary of the committee, denie
that the religious opinion of anyone in distress in the least
influences the amount of relief given by the association.
He also states that in order to prevent " duplicate relief "
the commi' retired from several districts where local
societies took it upon them to administer to the distress.
To some of these, too, funds were voted. The committee
formed sewing classes, and paid for the work done. Ladies
and gentlemen were asked to come out and speak to those
who attended about the gospel of Christ. The amount of
relief given by the " Mission," Mr. Saunderson says,
amounted to from £l,OOO to £1,500 a week. lie also
explains that wherever house-to-house visitation is insti-
tuted by other local porous, "Mission" always leaves
thQ erir e_ arse,