The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-22 00:00:00

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY,

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UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.)
Elizabeth Hart, a girl of 17, was charged with attempting
,to commit suicide by suspending herself to the iron hand-rail
of Westminster Bridge.
Policeman 32 L, stated that between four and five o'clock
that morning, while on duty on the Surrey side of West-
.tninster Bridge, he went to the steps leading to the river, and
saw the defendant with a strap buckled round her neck,
and the other end of it made fast to the iron hand-rail,
lie immediately ran down the steps, and holding up the
girl's body, unbuckled the strap from her neck, and finding
she was in a state of insensibility, .he conveyed her to the
station-house, and some restoratives having been adminis-
tered, she recovered sufficiently to be enabled to be brought
up to this Court.
In reply to Mr. CorrnmiLtar, the unfortunate girl said she
was a flower maker, but that being out of employ, she was
reduced to great distress, and had not tasted food for the last
two days, and had not slept in a bed for five nights ; that she
had no relations in London, and that it was the dreadful
state of destitution she was in that instigated her to commit
suicide.

The policeman said that since she had recovered from her
insensibility, she had expressed a determination to put her
threat into execution.
The MAGISTRATE directed the unfortunate girl to be pro-
vided with food, and said that he should remand her until
Wednesday; in the meantime inquiry should be made re-
specting her.

TOTAL LOSS of the MANCHESTER
(STEAMER).
The following letter was received this morning by the
secretary at Lloyd's, frc.ni the agent at Hull, dated June 21,
3 30 P.M. :-
" The Leeds (steamer), Mowle' from Hamburgh, has just
arrived, bringing accounts, dated 18th inst., from Mr. Dutton,of Cuxhaven, stating that the Manchester (steamer), Capt.
Dudley,
which sailedhence 14th inst., appears to have been
totally wrecked at the entrance of the Elbe, during a heavy
gale on the 16th and 17th inst. from the northward.
" The boats broken, also considerable quantities of broken
bales of cotton, twist, and other goods and wreck, have been
washed ashore at Cuxhaven. As there is no account of the
crew and passengers, it is feared that the whole have pe-
rished. The ship had a very valuable cargo on board.
(Signed) " EDW. MOOS.
" P.S., 4 20 P.m.—Captain Mowle has no doubt that the
whole of the crew and passengers are drowned."

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JUNE 22.—Wind, S.W., light breeze, and fine.
DEAL, JUNE 21.—A31.—Wind, S.W., fresh.— P.M. S. by
W.W.S.. moderate.—Arrd. Great Britain, Swinham, Mon •
treal. Sld. Favourite, Madeira and Madras ; Psyche, Oporto
and Calcutta ; St. James, New York,- Tagus, steamer.
PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 21.—Wind W. to S.S.E.—Arrd. Her
Majesty's ship Resistance, Halifax in 15 days.
COWES, JUNE 21.—Arrd. Burnaby, Ford, Matanzas.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 21.—Wind S.S.W. moderate.—Arrd.
her Majesty's ship Skylark, and sailed for Isle of Man.
BRISTOL, JUNE 21.—Arrd. Magnet, Parker, Newfoundland.
Sld. Adelaide, St. Vincent, and Tobago.
SHEERNESS, JUNE 21.—Her Majesty's ship Apollo, has
been got off the Grain Spit, and has proceeded for Chatham.
LIVERPOOL, JUNE 21.—Wind W.S.W. moderate.—Arrd.
Parker, Redseur, Demerara ; Pacific, and Robert Parker, New
Orleans; Providence, Mobile; Meines, Apalachiola ; Ganges,
Charleston. Sld. Betsy Hall, Port. Republicain ; Sarah
Stewart, Quebec. 011;
,Chebar, Nicholas Biddle, and ship
Cambridge. The Charlotte for China, has put 'back with
damage, having struck on the Spit of North Burbo Bank.
CORK, JUNE 19.—S1d. Glanintre, Barbadoes.
CLYDE, JUNE 19.—S1d. John Crew, Calcutta; Martin
Ogilvie, Ichaboe ; Perthshire, New York.
ST. AGNES, JUNE 19.—The Jeune Cupidon (French lugger)
from Cardiff to Nantes, coal laden, bus been run ashore at
Ponan Porth; leaky, and is expected to become a total
wreck; crew saved.

We are glad to learn that the receipts of the Polish
ball will amount to about 900/.
A WOMAN KILLED BY HER HUSBAND.—On Wed-
nesday afternoon, at four o'clock, an inquest was held at the
Rose Inn, Cannon-street, Dover, before the Borough Coroner,
on the view of the body of Julia or Mary Macarthy, who died
at the Horse and Jockey the same morning. It having been
alleged that deceased had been murdered by her husband,
the inquest room, as well as the street in front of the Rose,
was considerably crowded. The inquest was continued by
adjournment on Thursday, when a verdict of" Manslaughter
against the husband" was returned.—Dover Chronicle.
THIRD-CLASS RAILWAY LINES.—It seems, from
statement by Mr. Laing in one of the Appendices to the
Committee's Report, that the charge per mile for third-class
passengers upon several railways is as follows :—Eastern
Counties' and Lancaster and Preston, 1.46 d.; Birmingham
and Derby, 1.44 d.; Great North of England, 1.33 d.; Man-
chester and Birmingham, Sheffield aed Manchester, and
Chester and Birkenhead, 1.25 d. ; North Midland, 1.5 d.;
York and North Midland, 1.24 d. ; Midland Counties', ld., and
South Eastern, 0.86 d. The Great Western Company carge
about I.lBd. per mile; the London and South-Western Com-
pany; I•2d. ; the Birmingham, I•sd. ; and the Grand Junc-
tion, 1.6 d. In the four cases last named, the third-class
passengers are not taken by ordinary trains.—Railway Record.
The visitors to Windsor will be gratified to learn
that orders have been received at the Castle from the
Lord Chamberlain to admit the public to view the
State apartments as heretofore, viz., every day in the week
excepting Fridays, when the Sovereign is absent, and ex-
eepting '1 neulays and Fridays when the Court is resi‘ing at
the Castle.
RAILWAY TRAVELLING.—Mr. Robert Weale, •an
Assistant Poor-law Commissioner, states incidentally, in one
of the Appendices to the Report of the Select Committee on
Railways, that, from the Ist of January, 1839, to the Ist of
January, - 1842, he had travelled" over nearly 9,0Q0 milef3 of.
railway, " without meeting with a single accident," and that
on no occasion had he "experienced any other than the most
civil and obliging treatment from the officers employed by the
different Companies."—.Raiheay Record.

FRV. .
In this cz...se, which is an action against " The Times" for
libel, and a full report of which appeared in our early edition
of the last night, the jury were locked up all night, not
having agreed upon a verdict.
At the sitting of the Court this morning, the jury came
into Court, and the foreman addressing the Chief Justice
stated there was no probabilily of their agreeing to a verdict.
The CHIEF JUSTICE said, in that case he should discharga
them, having done all he considered he was bound to do in
locking them up all night without food.
The jury were then discharged, the effect of which will be
that the cause will again haVe to be tried by another jury,
if the plaintiff intends to proceed.

• MAYOR V. FARQUIIAR.-GRIM. CON.
At the meeting of the Court this morning a number of
witnesses were called to prove the statements made by Ser-
geant Talfiird; and after counsel had been heard for the de-
fence, the Judge summed up, and the jury returned a verdict
for the plaintiff—Damages 7501.