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The Express. — 1849-11-26 (London, England)

WESTMINSTER. AT71311,7 AT SUICIDS.— J. Alifehall, butler in the servico of Dr. Thorp-, No. 13, Upper Bilitave.street, wee charged with eating threatened the lib of Julia Nott, his fellowservant, and also with attempting to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a razor. Polito constable No. 200, B diviaion. stated that cm Satur day night last he waa directed togo to Dr. Thorpo's residence immediately. He wen., and on entering the kitchen he head the prisoner in the act of unfastening his neckerchief, which he pulled off and drew something up to his throat. Witness aught hold of him, and disaevered that he had an open razor in his hand. The prisoner struggled violently, and endeavoured to effect his purpose, but was prevented by the constable, who succeeded in throwing him to the ground. Mitchell held the Yea .r firmly, and appeared determined on de greying his life, bat after a short resistance witness obtained possession of the open mar. Witness took him into custody, and while in the hall the prisoner said "he would do for the servant maid, if it was a twelvemonth to acme." He said love reused hint to attestant his life. Jolla Nott said she was housemaid in the service of Dr. Tempe. Oa Saturday the prisoner came into the kitchen, sad behaved in a very strange manner. He walked up and down the kitchen, and said, " lie did not care what become of him." lie frequently looked at her in a very peculiar manner, and suddenly came up to her and said, "he would do for her." lie left the kitchen, and return, some time afterwards, and behaved in a similar manner. Witness became alarmed, and he again went out. She afterwards left the kitchen, and elle found hiss waiting for her at the door. She ran up stairs, and he followed her, exclaiming " that he would do for her." She ran to the drawing room, and all the ladies ran out, and she did not remember anything more. The prisoner, in defence, said,he was very sorry for what had occurred. His master bad told him on Saturday morning that he must either go into livery again cr leave his service. He said he would sooner leave than go into livery. He was much disappointed, and drank in thee course of the day, and bemuse very much intoxicated. He did not know what he was about. The constable said the prisoner appeared perfectly sober. Mr. Broderip directed the prisoner to find two sureties in 201 each, and himself in 401. The prisoner was unable to obtain the required sureties. and was lotked up in default.  THE ISLINGTON CATTLE MARKET rye • Contemponry 'snow moat decidedly oa the sacra ant. Smithfield is mot only doomed, but the removal of the great metropolitan cattle market to Islington will take place sooner than its warmest friends had ever anticipated.
The Express. — 1849-01-13 (London, England)

COVENT GARDEN. - This Horning.- Pine- 0/1 40a ; Rapeseed, per last,GClm-naudDanish,26l.to'kei. 10s. : apples,though . - n Black Sea. 141. to I6L Imports into Hall during this week: dent for the demand. hot house Grapes matinee to be " -Wheat. 2,619 ; Berkey, 3,D68 ; Brans, 130 ; Peas, 607 ; scarce. Perishes/ ones tolerably well supplied. Pears, chit fly I Tares, 337. consisting of Chaumontelle, Glout Marceau, No Plus Mouris, tl Lim ntiLW, Jas. 12.-A fair show of Wheat, with a very and Old Colmar, are now, es might be expected, not over d dull trades at barely last week's ram Not much dolor in plentiful. Apples the same. Nuts in general are sufficient . Eaele7; doe malting supported laid week's prime; interims for the demand. Gunge, and Lemons are plentiful, -. Is. lower. Oats very dull, at te. decline. Nothing doing is Amorget Vegetables, Carrots and Turnips are abundant al Naas. Wheat, red, 40s. to his ; white, 43,. to 60a. Bar- and ; Cauhtlowen, Broccoli, etc., sufficient for the de- toley, ley., 255. to 325. Oats, 12.. to 241. Beans, 40s. to 42a. . Asparagus, Freacb Beans, Rhubarb, and Suicide tl Luxaroot, Jao. 12.-The lades ou Wheat and Flour are becoming more plentiful. France, Belgium, and Holland a have sow reached dm Menne point under the act about to still contribute consul rably to the stock of Potatoes, T expire, namely, 10s. per qr., and 6d. per barvel. d upon which remain pretty steady in price. Lettuces and other ~ Oats its also advaaced to 31. 61. per qr. During an te las: salading are sufficient for the demand. Mushrooms are ti three days we have been wet aboadantly 'applied with pretty plentiful. Cut Flowers consist of Heaths, Pelargo- fl Wheat, lodise Can, sad Flour fru. abroad; from Ireland Mums, Christo as Rees, Camellias, Gardenias, Fuchsias, also we have a large arrival of Oats sad Oatmeal, with a end Boon. good supply of Phu', and • moderate quantity of Wheat; '
The Express. — 1849-11-16 (London, England)

SUICIDE UNDER DERANGEMENT AT LIVERPOOL.—. On Monday an ingu•et was held on view of tee body of Mary M'Millan, widow, aged 40. The deceased was well known se the daughtr of the late Buy Taylor, fruiterer, Jc., in St John's-market, to whose business suceseded some few years ago. About half-put 8 'o'clock en Saturday morning she lett her lowa, in St. Vincent-street, to go to the market, and then appeared in a thinking way, and spoke very. lade. She retuned home in about an hour, and went into the parlour for a bill, for which she searched amongst some papers in a box. She then west into the kitchen with several bills or papers in her hand, and vent her servant girl for a threepenny r, cript stamp. When the girl returned deceased told h. r it would not do, as it was only for 101., and she wanted one for 601., giving her Is. 64. to pay for it. It was brought and given to her. She then sent witness to the markte to ask her (deceased's) father to remain at the standing until she CJInAI down, as she had some particular business to attend to whisk must be settled by eleven o'clock, or it would ruin her for ever. On the girl leaving, dentinal gave her a key, ssyirg, " Take this, as I shall b • gong oat.' The girl thought it was the key of the door, and she returned with it in a gutter of an hour, and tried to open the lock, but the key was to,, large. She knocked twine, and heard deceits d call nut her name. She then looked through the keyhole, and saw a shadow on the kitchen fl sot. She called to her =stress, end saw her feet between the stairs and the frort d -or. She (deceased) was walking ba k arde and forwards in and out of the kitchen. Another female came up, end peeping through, saw her standing at the kitchen door, flapping her arms at her aides, and she then observed blood upon her clothing. The women ran I. the market fur her father, and he got in by the parlour window, the house being otnerwise secured back and tient. She was then found will her throat cut, and quite dead. A bloody razor was found neer her. The girl had observed her for two or three months to be much agitated, and in et ry low spirits, and could not emir her. Geo. Taylor, whose step-daughter she was, end who molded in Chester, said he had seen her on Friday night and Saturday morning, when the appeared to be dejected. On his asking her what was the matter, she replies, " Nothiorr." He did not know or think that she was at all in difficulti. a. Several other parties had also observed her to be low spirited, and not like herself in transacting business. Her br“ther, Geo. Taylor, who bad been her partner for two or three years, had also observed her to be in a melancholy way on Friday, but hod not noticed it before.—The jury returned a verdict to the egret—" that she had destroyed herself during a temporary fit of insanity."
The Express. — 1849-09-15 (London, England)

CORONERS' INQUEST.  ALLEGED SEDUCTION AND SUICIDE.—Before Mr. B. M. Wattle'', at the Old Ring's Heed Tavern, High-street, islingtno, touching the death of kiss Adelaide Bteunmaa, awed 19, who was found drowned in the New River. The deemed was the only daughter of a glut is anufacturer, residing ia North-street, Lliagton-green. The deceased, who was remarkable for her interesting and lady-like appewanee, was beloved by her tsarists and possessed a very somfortabla and happ limns sued some time since, when she without any went to work, with a amber of ether young females, at Mr. Wright., a wholemle cap meastestarer, la Pickering-street, Lower-road, in the same perodt. She soon afterwards became very low and despondkg, and was frequeetly men walking with Mr. Wright. She was eipostelated with on the impropriety of her conduct, sad she said there was a mutual attachment existing between them. A few days dam she discovered that Mr. Wright was a married men, and on Sunday evening, the Zed instant, Mrs. Wright stalled upon the deceased, and had _.ea interview with ker, the impart of which did ..not transpire in widow. After Mrs. Wright had departed the deceased appeared my wash excited, and . about nine o'clock the same etheleg i-Josped out of the padour window, and left the Meth =ease by her = The following Monday Aimee the body of the • was feund doming ia the Mew Ramo, near Northampton Park.—Mr. Austin, sumo, sold be bed mak aped anortess examination of the body of the theme& nod hand a =mil quantity of conserve 'abnegate in the stameek: het witness attributed death to drowning. P. SIM appaloosas of the body wham was of opinion that the demand had Lily given birth to a child or had • mhasigthge.—Mr- Tabs the summontag older, said he called epee Mr. Wright that =Mill', ant found that person at mirk in a roam with a amber of yoga* fereales.—The jay, after expensing their indigaaion at Mr. Wright's eiondast, returned an open vet.diet, "That the imams& destroyed herself, bat is what Mate of mind then was no evidesee to prove."
The Express. — 1849-12-03 (London, England)

GAMB.WATCHZII.—The adjourned inquest on the bay ci She unfortunate man Davidson took place on Monday laM. Owing to the active exertions of Mr. Sabbage, the sopa' tendent of police, all the suspected parties were tafe in cog; tody soon after the commission of the crime, lad eml the prisoners, Andrew Turnbull, made • confirms it the time which fixed the actual perpetration of tla deed upon his companions, John Nichol and weft Hogg, and since then he has made a further lists' went, in which he unseid a great part of what he Wilson:, to in his first examination ; but he directly implicated b the prisoners in custody and himself; and his mug° seemed to indicate that he spoke the truth. Turn, ever, as well as the murdered man, has rue to WI stvso On Wednesday night he committed suicide in Culls e Osd by hanging himself with a towel. The evidence ohm": the inquest was very voluminous, and on Thursisy the diet was "'Wilful murder against Joseph liege, John N and Andrew Turnbull." An inquest was held on Trior, on Friday, when the jury returned a verdict that the prIlM committed suicide by strangulation, but in what state of still he was in at the time there is no evidence to show. B!k"' himself by his towel, tied to the iron bar of tbs mtam-2 To effect his purpose, he got upon a form and kicked it an! his feet being only three or four inches from the floor; 6 I'oll Bible lying at a short distance. The " writing on 000 was as follows t—Below the window: "The two Hoer, d guilty ; I am innocent; I will not come in the h0',„.4 man." Above the fireplace to that gave it—take my body to my father's burying r?es Above his bed (to his wife): "My dear, you and .1r see lovely, but I am torn from thy breast ; don't weer' I° I Jomimah, my dearest, my heart's delight and treskir!!,.. „Je, innocent—l die with pleasure—we'll meet again vut:,' sure. Beware of bad company. My parents are tot " I commit my Mout blame—they did their duty. Adieu my dear frmlns2n bless you all." All this he wrote with a burnt Meg lime-washed wall. lie had not been in bid, and A' posed that he wars dead before midnight.
The Express. — 1849-05-28 (London, England)

DISTRESSED NEEDLEWOMEN'S SOCIETY.  On Saturday a public meeting of this society took place at the Hanover.equess Rooms, Alderman Farebrother in the chair. The report stated that sine* the constitution of this society then have been only three MCC of distressed needle- , women brought before the police courts for pawning. and under eircumstanoes of distress. By recent returns of the City prison statietice, it appears that there are now no com=MAL of needlewoensn to the walls of Newgate for offences iocidentol to the distressed porition of their calling. And the society hes not observed a single recorded instance of the suicide of a distressed needlewoman from despair at the ill requited price of her labour. The society also took credit to itself for having made the authorities of the different workhouses acquainted with the fatal evils which the system of workhouse contracts for needlework was proiucing, and it was no small gratification to them to find that their endeavours had been attended with a sacawful result. The society, however, discovered that the umeleaneful system of cortracts for needlework was ennead in prisons. They foetid that the prisoners were 'employed in needlework, not to clothe one another, and, by the saving of expense to the state, to acquire a little fund to keep them from the necessity of crime, when they should have completed the period of their imprisonment, but for the use and benefit of the contracting and cheapening t r a il smToe effect of this system was to enable the contractors to reduce the prim paid to those labourers who desired to keep themselves from the Mangle! of crime. Unfortunately the society had not been so suceessfel in putting an end to this evil, which was ever a more glaring interfetynce with the tree-labour market than the system pursued in workhouses. Determined, however, as far as in their power, to remove this crying evil, the society sought to obtain, through parliament, the boon they had pleaded for, on behalf of the distressed needlewomen, end Lord Robert Grosvenor had signified hie intention of bringing the subject bfore the House of Common.. It appeared from the financial statement that the funds received by the society from its commencement to the present time have been for 6I years, 2,5641. 2s. • and the total payments of the society, 2,5171. 2s. Id. • whilst the balance due from the society to the subscriber., lifter the payment of debts, was 171. 3.. The managerill expenses for 6e years (including advertisements, printing, &c.) have only amounted to the stun of 5121. 38. 2d.—not being at the rate of 1001. per annum. The committee, theeslore, cannot but congratulate the society and the public that it has effected so mach good with so small an mount of pecuniary means. Certain routine business having been gene through in furtherance of the objects of the society, the meeting separated.
The Express. — 1849-01-30 (London, England)

DISTRESS."—A respectably attired female handed a letter for Alderman Muenovo's perusal respecting the character of the man Jaques, whose cutlet attem' as suicidea was reported under the above heading iu the Express of the 18th. The letter, which w signed " ttray, 17, Ironmonger-street, St. Luke's," stated that Jaques had lodged in her house the latter part of 1847 and a great part of 1848, eluting which period she found hint in board and lodging. Fur this he ran up a bill to the , amount of 71. 75., promising to pay as soon as he got a shoa-1 tion ; and he liaewise induced her husband to become security to a loan society for 61., and left them to pay it; but being unable to do so, in consequence of her husband, who is a baker, being out of employment and very ill till a short time since, the society was now proceeding against them. Jaques chained two or three situatioes, but never had the honesty to attempt to r pay one farthing. After that he revelled upon a female servant to lend him 201., with which he took an eel-pie house in Barbican, and instead of being turned out by the landlord as he had stated, ho absconded after selling some of the materiels, and with the remaining portion of the money got married,: and, lastly, excited the sympathy et the puldie in his be.halt by what the writer consteered ash im attempt at suicide. OA Saturday night last, being short of money, and not wishing that her husband should go to prison, she called at Jaques' lodgings for the purpos' of asking for a trifle of what was due, when she saw Mrs. Jaques, who refused to do anything and put her at defiance. She (Mrs. Rattray) and her husband had relieved Jaques when they then selves were in want. It was, therefore, that, known; his character, and seeing that he was receiving money from the court, she came there on public grounds, as she con,idered benevolent individuals ought not to be further imposed upon.—Alderman Iduszrove said he did not doubt fin a moment that she had acted most kindly towards hint and had received a most ungrateful return. He was of cpinion that, in all cases of suicide, the culprit cught to be tried by a jury, and let them judge of his character and motives ; and he also much lamented that charitably-disposed persons did not send their contributions for the benefit of the pour-boxes of the different courts, when they would be die peened properly, instead of for the use of ;ndividuels.— Alderman Musgrove coasidered Mrs. Rattray's conduct very creditable. Ile should order her Se. out of the poor-box Mrs. Rsttray thanked the alderman for his kindness and retired.
The Express. — 1849-11-12 (London, England)

SUICIDE.—On Sunday morning last, Mr. George Toynbee' a highly.respectable fanner, occupying between 400 and 600 acres of his own land, in the parish of Howell, near lieekington, committed suicide by taking a quaatity of ansoie. The deceased, who was thirty-three ars of age, had been married only about six years, and has left lour young ebi:dren to bewail their irreparable loss. Aa inquest was held on the body on Tuesday morning, before Mr. Feltner, coroner, and a highly respectable jury. of whom Mr. Wiliam Petchell was foreman, and the members of which had been for years on terms of the most friend) y intimacy with the unfonuoate deceased ; and from the evidence of Mr. W. Gibbs, sullen° area other wenesses, it appeared that Mr. George Tuynbe;, who was of a highly•excitable temperament, had for years been subJect to flu of mental hallucination, during which he imagined himself beset by spectres of the moat frightful description; and that, wile they continued (for three or four days) he was totally unlit to manage the budnose of bin farm. It was stated that many years ego he received a severe injury on the head, which had probably been the origin of his occasional attacks, although they were generally immediately induced by any anxiety resFectinir his fermis, heisiness, or any extra fatigue or indulgence at market or elsewhere. On Saturday ei,:ht the deceased was particularly readies, and attempted to get out of bed, with the expressed determination of dealing hie head against the wail of the room, but he was withheld by the keeper. At seven in the morsing, Mr. To, nbeei being apparently calmer, the man got up and left him ; Mr. T. soon after went down stain end breakfastel with the family, and about tea o'clock, stating that he was unwell and feverish, raid he would no upstairs and take a seidlits powder. At this time he mast have taken the arsenic, from a parcel procured for agricultural purposes, sad which was in a wardrobe in his chamber ; he shortly afterwards returned downstairs, and walked to his fen tam, a distant* of upwards of a mile, where he was seen by the servant of his athuntheeper, moving round and round the stacks, in a strange and wild way. He then went home, and the effects of the_ poison becoming evident, Mr. Gibbs war sent tor, who on his arrival administered every possible remedy, without hope, however, and without avail: Mr. Toynbee gradually sank, and expired about five o'clock. He was much respected and even beloved by the poor, but his eccentric habits had long been a cause of uneasiness to hie relatives and 'fiends. A verdict of "Temporary derangement" was returned by the jury, without hesitation. The melancholy event has cast a deep gloom over an extensive connexion, and indeed throughout the whole neighbourhood. Stamford Morestry.
The Express. — 1849-12-31 (London, England)

ACCIDENT AND SUICIDE.—A frightful accident occurred during the last week at Sobre le Chateau (R 4.1), in the sugar menutactoey of M. Ruttier. A lad, 12 years of age, employed in the factory, approached too clue to a portion of the machinery, when his head was wneht by a cogwheel and the body drawn into the machine. The head was fearfully crushed, and several other limbs fractured. Strange to say, the lad Whenuv end hopes are entertained of his recovery. the lad's father, Philipp Fonteville, an merrier, was told of the accident which his son had met with, he was seized with a kind cf melanchdoly mani on a, and a few days afterwads he coolly sought hisdeath the ep 4 on which his son had been so dangerously wounded lie placed himself in contact with the very same wheel and was instantly seized by it, drawn into the machine, and crushed into a lifeless maw. QUACKERY AND SUPERSTITION IN THE NINETEENTH Cum:me—A correspondent says : " A shockicg ease of death of a child has just occurred on the borders of the Forest of Dean, in Gloucestershire, through Some the pre chyslent* of quackery, superstition, and ignorance. ildren of a shoemaker named Revue, living at East Dean, were at play together, when one of them, 'MOPS, aged 4 years, heated the tong., ;and seized a younger sister with them by the neck, burning her seriotsly A proper application of fiour, linseed oil, , was used, and the wounds were pealing, when two quack doctresses, named Mrs. Milliner and Jane Temen, persuaded the parents to let the child be under their treatment. Milling applied some ointment spread on cabbage leaves for two days, but this caused great inflammation ;and then Tinian took the case in hand, professing to have a miraculous power of cure by the pronouncing of ' a charm.' Accordingly ber sister, Ann Bradley, prepared • salve which Temen applied, at the same time pronouncing the following impious chum' Three owls came out of the what, One cries fire, another Host. To Father, Nen, and Holy Ghost. The poor child gradually got worse, the sloughing and inflammation increased, but the infatuated parents, believing in the supernatural powers of Torten, and puving implicit faith in the charm, suffered their offspring to linger is tomtut e for five day! longer, when the little creature died. At the inquest the jury hesitated whether they should not return a verdict of manslaughter against the three women, Teruo, Bradley and Milling, but returned a special verdict finding all three guilty of rashness, and especially Teman, for persisting in her ' impious and presumptuous charm.' 'l6e ; jury also blamed the parents of the poor child for their eredulity, and 'erased a lupe that this occurrence might lead to j a discontinuance of the system of quackery, which greatly prevails in the Forest."