The Sun. — 1861-03-19 (London, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE OF A TRADESMAN IN ST. PANCRAS.—Yesterday morning, about eight o'clock, it was discovered that Mr. Salmon, of Albany-street, Begent's-park, a grocer in a large way of business, bad com police-constable Limburn 333 S, witted suicide. His' servant went about eight o'clock. as was usual, to the stable, to take out the horse, when he ini.t the e rope.con" found the door fastened. He looked through the keyhole and then observed his master suspended by a rope, Seeingh stable got over the fanlight of thehedocaloriedanhd cu A surgeon was sent for, and stated that life was extinct. No cause can be assigned for the rash act. The previous night he went to bed not showing any signthat would lead to a supposition he would commit suicide. The Boulogne Messenger says : " A bureau for the transmission of telegraPhie messages was opened at the railway station on the 10th ult., and will be continued there for the future."  47. V: •O't'' ' ' \.,'T/ -t, l' \s \ A . Y.,_!• .41 `l,,g ',.- '.. .14 1..., :%.,I..r?r ....____ The Levant ilerald of March ti, which has jug'l reached us, contains the following items of news ;---. "Telegraphic news was received in town yesterday evening from Galatz, announcing the occurrence there of extensive inundations, from the breaking up of the ice, which have flooded the whole lower part of the town, invelxing inimetasa loss of property in the magazines and private houses ; several of the inhabitants had alsu perished, and thousands more are houseless through the calamity. H.M. gunboat Recruit had also lost a large quantity of stores. " Since the publication of this we have received the following from our Galatz correspondent : " ' GAL kTT, March I.—l regret having to report the occurrence of a dire calamity during the past week. The inundations, caused by the increased body of water brought down by the breaking up of the ice, having inflicted a serious loss on this town, attended, lam sorry to say, with logs of life. The exact number of victims I have been unable to ascertain. The injury done to the lower part of the town has been very extensive, not only to the dwellers of the poorer portion of our community, but to the stores of grain which wet e situated there. We have had this season a much larger quantity of corn in store than usual, chiefly purchased. ox English account. From the information that has been supplied to me from the best sources, I am enabled to state that the estimated value of the property destroyed is upwards of a Tauter of a million sterling. I have not yet been able to learn particulars from Ibraila and other districts, but all accounts agree in stating that the whole of the banks of the Danube have presented a scene of great desolation, and the aggregate loss will form a very heavy matter. Rapid, however, as has been the destruction which I have now reported, the subsiding of the mass of water which caused so much alarm has been equally so, and we have now little further trace of the inundation than the ruin it has left behind, and which will take some time to repair. In addition to the loss whick the town has thus sustained. her Majesty's steamer Recruit, Capt. Spain, has had her paddlewheels seriously injured, and has also lost a large quantity of stores in one of the magazines on shore. Happily, however, none of her men suffered either in life or limb from the mishap. . «' I mentioned in a former letter that we had a number of Hungarians here waiting the opportunity to pass up the Danube ; the number has since been much increased, and the men have been divided into two battalions, but unfortunately the arms which were seized some time ago, and which have since been given over to the British authorities, are thus rendered of no avail, and further supplies cannot now be introduced. In the uncertainty of the aspect of the political horizon, we are of course unable to offer any idea as to whether our Hungarian friends will be afforded the opportunity of proving their prowees. We have no political news of any importance at the present moment.'  "BI RNIIG or THE SARDINIAN LEGATION,—. About three o'clock on- Sunday morning, a fire broke out in one of the rooms occupied by the Sardinian Minister, in the Rue Tepebashi, and spread,so rapidly, in spite of all efforts to overcome it, that in a few hours the whole mansion was gutted from basement to roof. So quickly, indeed, did the flames engulph room after room that General and Madame Durand() and the personnel of the legation had barely time to effect their individual escape, leaving clothes, furniture, books, documents, and everything a prey to the devouring element. In addition to the usual municipal and other fire engines which arrived speedily on the spot, the powerful engine of the British embassy played with admirable effect from the palace gardens, and contributed by the vast volume of water which it poured into the burning mass to confine the flames to the scene of its outbreak. Happily, the house, which belonged to Mr. Zariti, was of stone, and the mischief was therefore the more easily kept from extending to the neighbouring buildings, some of which, in the rear, are of wood. The calmness of the morning also contributed to the same fortunate results  " The origin of the calamity is said to be unknown, but an investigation will of course be held, which will probably reveal it."