The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-12 00:00:00

SUICIDE AND INQUEST.

On Monday a lengthened investigation was gone
into before Mr. Payne, City Coroner, and a very re-
spectable Jury, at the Horse and Cart, Ashantee-
court, Bouverie•street, Fleet street, on the body of
Mr. James Young, aged 22.
James Shome, porter at the Sussex Hotel, Bouverie
street, deposed—About half-past ten on Saturday morn.-
ing the sevont at Mrs. Stoll's, N 0.26, Bouverie-street,
where the degetli!'d lodged, came for me to go into de-
ceased's room. 01 offing to the room-door I found it
fastened on the inside. it was broken open, And de-
ceased was found lying on the floor on his right side,
in a nool of blood, with a pistol firmly grasped in' his
left hand.

Mr. Charles Day, of Salisbury-square, surgeon,
stated—On Saturday morning I was called to see the
deceased, and found him as described by the last
witness. There was a wound on the forehead, bat
whether caused by a bullet or shot I cannot tell,
as I could not find any hard substance in the
brain. I should say he had been dead four or five
hours. I have no doubt deceased put the mouth of the
pistol close to his head, and this, in a great measutee,
prevented the inmates from hearing the report.
Mr. Charles Pearson, solicitor to the City of Lon-
don, deposed—The deceased was a clerk in his office.,
where he bad brea about two years, and acted as Se-
cretary to the present Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-
house. He was admitted a Solicitor in July last, and
was a very talented young man, and his knowledge
was far beyond his years. The last time I saw him alive
was on Friday last, when he appeared much confused
in his head. Sinca death I have examined his papers,
but find none to throw any light on this affair. He was
of a morose stubborn disposition, but attended with the
greatest attention to his office duties. About three
months back, he told me that the Lord Mayor in-
tended to make him clerk to the Magistrates at the
Mansion-house, but he should not take office unless
it conferred rank. Again, he said Mr. Clarke (the
clerk of the Assizes at the Old Bailey) was to be
turned away, and he was to have his place. This evi-
dently showed that he was labouring under a delusion.
About a month back, he told me that he war going to
be taken into partnership with one of the most respect-
able firms in the City. Knowing that a dissolution was
about to take place in that firm, I thought it true, but
on making inquiries at the Mansion-house, I found it
I 'RA to be true. Ile frequently dined at the Mansion-
houie, and was a young man of temperate habits. He
had asceit-tined that he left the Mansion•house on Fri-
dry in a confused stale, awl had no doubt he wan-
dered about the street until that late hour in the morn-
ing. His mother was in en insane state, and his ruetber's
father alto laboured under that affliction.
The CORONER said, the Lord Mayor called on biro
that morning with reference to the case, and his Lord-
ship told him that deceased was asked to stop to dinner
at the Mansion-house on Friday, but he declined, say-
ing he was not comfortable in his head. After some
further remarks, the Jury returned a verdict of" Tem-
porary Insanity."

SUNDAY 1 RA YELLING; MEETING

IN THE RELIEF CHURCH, AYR.
Now that the excitement in the public mind caused
by the meeting reported in our last, held in the Relief
Church yesterday se'nnight, has in a great degree sub-
sided, and that tirne and space afford us opportunity,
we feel it our duty temperately and fairly to refer, tnore
particularly than was in our power last week, t the
conduct of those who took part in the proceedings.
Premising that in regard to the question at issue—
the travelling on Railways
on Sunday—we were dis-
posed to agree with those who called the meeting, that
the quieter the S ,bbath the more moral the people, and
that Sunday Mail Trains, with single carriages for cases
of neei.s,ity, if practicable, might have been an unob-
jectionable middle course betwixt fanaticism on the•one
hand and Sabbath desecration on the other,—we say,
with these feeling.; we hope our estimate of the conduct
of parties will be admitted to be drawn from no preju-
diced or partial considerations whatever.
We are, therefore, naturally led to speak first of
those who called the meeting ; and, in doing so, we shall
surely be acquitted of any inclination to take advantage
of what in their proceedings gives ground for question
when we merely :allude to—let, their right to refuse to
allow the meeting to elect a Chairman, on the ground
that it had been previously announced that Sir C.
D. Fergusson was to preside, an arrangement which
may be a convenient one when unanimity prevails,
but which unquestionably, under other circumstances,
must fall to the ground : 2dly, the right of the Chair-
man to promulgate any such law to a public meeting,
as that only certain previously selected persons should
be allowed to speak : 3dly, their inconsistency
in refusing to hear parties who at least professed
to be more rigid than themselves as to Sab-
bath Observance, on the ground that the Meeting ass
one specially called of those holding their own parti-
cular views, while the resolutions were announced to
the world as adopted not by parties holding particular
views, but by " a numerous and influential meeting of
the inhabitants of Ayr and its vicinity ;" 4thly, the inac-
curacy in the statement on the face of the Memorial
that it was adopted by about 1,200 of the inhabitants of
Ayr and its vicinity," while we learn from parties whose
evidence will not be questioned, that the Church
can only be let for little more than 1,000 sittings,
while all who were present must admit
.that there was
at least one-fourth of the church unoccupied. We re-
rest that we refrain from dwelling on these points, quite
aware, however, that had we, either in an editorial or
Magisterial capacity, exposed ourselves so unguardedly,
so rich a test would have been well expounded, and
would not have been allowed to close without a pretty
warm exhortation.—Ayr Advertiser.