The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-02 00:00:00

SUICIDE AT DERBY.

(From a Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle.)
A young man, whose name was Dixon, and who
formerly resided in the family a clergyman of a
neighbouring county, has committed selt-destruction,
after attempting the life of a girl, named Caroline
Allen, to whom his affections were confided.
The deceased was about twenty-one years of age,
and about five yearA ago absconded from service, in
company with the clergyman's daughter. After
making one or two unsuccessful efforts to get united,
they at length succeeded, and were married at the
parish church of St. Peter's, Derby. The father of
the young lady was naturally indignant, and subse-
quently obtained a divorce. It appears that, some
time pending this, the deceased formed an acquaint-
ance with Caroline Allen (whose father formerly re-
sided at Leicester, hut is now a copperplate printer
at Derby). Caroline, however, at first refused his
proposals, on account of his former marriage ; but
about a year ago her scruples gave way, and she con-
sented to become his.

Caroline seems to have been a frequenter of "sa-
loons" in Derby and Nottingham, and the deceased
procured her an engagement at the latter town as a
vocalist. The deceased's attendance upon her seems
to have been constant, and she complained of his
neglecting his work, stating that she could not main-
tain him unless he assisted by his own industry. He
said if she would consent to marry him, he'vvould attend
to his work, and she gave her consent, and furnished
him with money to get the banns put in, and to pur•
chase certain necessaries for the wedding festivities ;
on one occasion she gave him two sovereigns for this
purpose. The banns ran out, and the deceased (ac-
cording to Caroline's statement) then wished for a
little time, until his friends were more favourable to
the match. In consequence of the delays which took
place, the affair became so much talked of amongst
their circle of acquaintance in Nottingham, that the
girl determined on breaking the engagement. This
was accordingly done about six weeks ago, but a
friendly correspondence seems to have been kept up
between the parties.
On Christmas-day the deceased came over to
Derby, and had an interview with Caroline at the
Talbot public-house. He requested to know whe-
ther she was still of the same mind. She replied that
she was, and reasoned with him on the . propriety of
discontinuing the connexion. He did not seem much
concerned, though he was evidently dissatisfied with
the result of the interview, and exclaimed, "If it must
lee so, it must." On the next day the deceased spent
five or six hours at the house of the girl's father, and
conducted himself in a proper and becoming manner.
At night he saw Caroline at a saloon ; no words of
an angry nature ensued, and they parted in apparent
kindness and friendship. On Friday morning he
called upon her at her father's house in South-street,
and sent a younger sister for a pint of ale. Caroline
was not then down stairs, but she complied with the
deceased's request to " get up," and on de-
wending to the louse place he made very kind
inquiries as to the state of her health, and then pre?
sented her with a glass of ale, saying, " Caroline, this
is to be our parting glass." Not suspecting any
wrong, she drank part of the contents, and immedi-
ately became very ill, being violently purged and
sick. He then told her that he " could not bear to
see the pledge of his affections in the arms of aria* i"
and stated that, as his former wife was about to be
married to her cousin, and as she (Caroline Allen)
refused to have him, he could not, and would not,
bear it. Caroline was assisted to her bed by her
sisters, and the deceased left the hew for a few
minutes. On his return he wallied into the bed-room
in an agitated state, with a glass of ale in his
hand, and, befcre lie could be prevented, drank
the contents. He then rushed to the bedside,
ei.pressepl a hope that she would be saved, and
that she wottlft fetheinhPr bilNi '&P4 Off! sunkupon
the door, exclaiming, " Let me pfie in your 4,rtn§ 4nd
I shall be happy l " His month foamed, his lop and
arms stretched out, and he immediately expired. Qn
his person were found several letters, showing pre-
meditation, and avowing that if she (Caroline) would
not lee hi.t, no one else should have her, and request-
ing that both their bodiea might he buried in the same
coffin (if possible), but at any rate in the'siirne kr4e.
A small phial, containing prussic acid, and 41.5 p 4
razor, were found in his pocket; and an empty
.phials
which had contained prussic acid, was found in the
house.
An inveatigatiop of al! tilts Cirellmstances took place
before Alr. lialguy, Coroner, en Monday 1107 4n4 4
verdict offelo de .se was returned by the jury.

So far as can be judged from a first Number, we
think that this cheap and conveniently-sized periodi-
cal is likely to obtain a fair share of popularity. It
opens with a tale entitled " St. Giles and St. James,"
which is avowedly from the pen of the editor, and is
written with all that pungency and earnestness so
charapteristic of his better prose compositions, The
spirit, too, that animate it, is excellent, and as anti-
conversational in its tone as can be desired. We
hope it will be continued without interruption. The
" Recollections of Hazlitt" are, no doubt, true in the
main, but they are not penned in the most amiable
spifitt and they involve pne or two contradietions, for
in one place the writer asserts that Hazlitt was selfish,
and in the very next sentence leads us to infer that
he was not at all so. We quote Mr. Jerrold's epi-
grammatic introduction to his new story :
«94r first paragraph shall be a cenfpssii.)n of igno-
ranee, We khow rot' the geanealogy of St. Giles. All
we knoW is this. One St. Giles was born--we can hardly
say first saw the light—in Hampshire Hog-lane. We
b, lieve that we are pretty sure of his father, but at once
lose ourselves seeking his grandsire. We are imme-
diately in a genealogieal fog, withcat even a link's end
from the HeralP-office to guide is. Tree it is, we
might; if wp would; sit contentedly &tem- in the dark-
ness, -tuid our imagination, aided by obscnrity—as men
are apt to close their eyes when they would take a bright
internal look—might in a trice discover the family tree ;
now complacently following its branches as they waved
towards the Court-end of the town, and now avoiding
them as they struck towards Tyburn. •We might do this,
_
for ip 44s lifien One many a tittle, and for only sq much
hard gash. But can he fatnily of qileafee us for
the labour ? No. Then we trust we are not so wholly
lost to the decencies of life as to lie gratis.
"Nevertheless, we owe some explanation to the polite
reader, for that we have given typographical precedence
to St 9iles to the apparent injury of St. James. We
think we have a just reason for Ibis. There appears to
ps7.--and sure weare the like o inion .burns in the
4reptl of many innit respeEL4ble ptiple=pere of the
We are informed that, in commemowtion of the- original animal man in Si. Goes the hi St. James. He
honour conferred on the mercantile community of the seems to vindicate, and that brazenly, unblushingly, the
City of Jondon by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, in baseness of his origin. He stands before us a creature
laying e 'first stone f the kTew Royal Exchange, iof the earth ;or rather, of the mud of the earth. If it be
opened for business yesterday a&rhooti:tind. in ti4Stlitioi-ii c!iherN.iszt then 119 qifrs and rgein beenß mach
of their loyalty and devoted attachment to her Majesty and abused, mistaken.
her illustrious Consort, who honoured with their pre- "The very nakedness of St. Giles—according to our
sence the ceremonial of its inauguration, the merchants, heraldry—makes him elder brother of St. James. As
bankers, shipowners, underwriters, and others interested we consider him, he is as much the elder, as the bare
to i•LP.o44=pppp of the city of London, propose (if the skin of man is ()Her than the silks and, velvets that have
royal permission by pined) to greet, sii4eriptipo, enteyrapt it. He may be a marked and branded vagabond ;
a full-length statue in marble of. Royal Eigkipes,i; 41'; nei4fthelpsS,•t)he. is 'The' el* briAlhei.• peiiteme
Prince Albert, to be placed in the vestibule at tloyeNi plating %. 1004' in his Wint§—in 4erpengs,
or in such other situation in the Royal Exchange as May, begotten of these wants—the proscribed from the con-
with the approbation of the Gresham Committee, be fines of this world's Paradise. Consider the history of
hereafter determined upon. A Committee of sonic of man. Your vagabond is lost in the shadows of anti-
tile &sot. rillucntial merchants of the City is in coarse of quarian night—now, your gentleman is a common-phicg
formation to 6aier njit •,?v,l;ernst. Upon this rbliotophieo 'prineiple'ddlve
TURN-OUT or COAL MINERS.-:00 lAst,`the Si6iiest Wore ' and belieie its, dear
coal miners in the employment of Mr. William readerJor, nn catchpenny reason whatever. We do 'not
of Lowe Side, and Mr. Jesse Ainsworth, of Pit, Bmnit, say that a three-legg-ed oaken stool Is a finer, more com-
who have lately been on the strike, resumed work, the niodious chattel, than a gilded chair ; but, in the genea=
Every sad S t
p.
aJratmi c
lees
of!
theirt pfaocsessi 1:v they
ery
niiistet.4 having, stoted areed to their ' logy of household moveables, sure we are it ranks as the
The turn-outs have, theititdre,,'•hovi tesnilueil work' ,Oder protnq,
Ire"thSrte.i.??l'll's
seven of the collieries ; but the miners empalnorcd by the
two principal firms, Messrs. Lees, Jones, atom of
41,,sRi. Barker, Evans, and Co., and a tew smaller cots- their covering, cries no ; externally, as different as the
corns, wee stOi the strike, without any immediate aforesaid threedegged stool gild glittetleg
pre.spect ef'4..settleinent'prilie f.r,4e preset yet, in riga), of the s4tee:frajne-vin*-44 tiers iaine;
nß94*.r of turn-outs, men and boys, is probahl7 seven linCossible Let e. '
or tight laundredr.--Akanelioter Guardian.c4ir ; and.
• I What "
clumsy thing is this" three-legged stool.

What heavy joinery work ! Surely, it was shaped by
an adze, and put together by some bungler, ignorant of
the craft. What a piece of stark vulgarity !
" How very handsome the chair of ceremony ! How
soft to the touch—how pleasant to the eye ! All damask,
carving, and gilding. Well, we have stript away the
covering ; we have scratched a little of the gilding off,
and what is there beneath ?—why oak, mere oak ; a
younger branch of the tree—a piece of kindred wood to
the three-legged stool. The same material makes stool
and chair—but then the magical delusion worked by
damask, gold, and dainty carving !
" In this way it is our hope to show S. Giles and St.
James—to prove their brotherhood—their identity of
material. We may, here and there, scratch a little of the
gilding off one, but only to display the kindred nature of
both. Thus, St. James may sometimes appear to be only
St. Giles better stuffed, and with a brighter covering."