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The Express. — 1866-10-23 (London, England)

ADDITIONAL.]  SUICIDES OF SOLDIERS.  An extraordinary fatality seems to have possessed the military at Shornchffe and Canterh-ry. On Friday. in the camp at the former place, • sergeant of the let Battalion 18th Royal Irish, shot himself with his rifle in the library attached to thy B lines in the camp. This is the third or fourth suicide within a month. In Canterbury the second suicide within • very brief space of time took place on Friday, the unfortunate man in this case being s private in the 3rd Dragoon Gnarls named John Henry Williams. The deceased, who had been 24 years in the service, came off sentry duty on Saturday morning, and retired to the barrack-room and cut his throat from ear to ear with • razor. At the inquest held on the body the same day by Mr. T. T. Delassaux, coroner, the following evidence was adduced :—Hugh Usher, corporal in the 3rd Dragoon Guards, deposed—l have known the deceased for about three weeks. Since I have known him be has been low and melancholy, and appeared to have lost reason ' • but for what WIN! I do not know. I saw him this morning at about half-peat ti, when he came off guard, and appeared in toe same state as before described. I went into his roam about quarter-past 7 this morning and found him dead. with his I thrust cut and a razor lying on his bed stained with blood. He was lying in the same state when I found hiti as be was when the jury viewed his body. Benjamin Banff ace, troop ' sergeant-major of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, deposed—The last witness reported the death of the deceased to inn this morning. The jury returned a verdict of " T-Anporary insanity," and the proceedings terminated.  In the United States there are 50007 psper-mills in active operation. They produce 270,0,000 ik•unds of paper, which, at an average of 10 cents per pound, would be worth 27,000,000 dole. As it requires about a pound and a half of rap to make one pound of paper, there are consumed by them mills 400,000,000 pounds of rags in single year. Uwe estimate the rap to cost 4 cents per pound, there would be a profit of 11,000,000 dole. in this branch of inanufseteriss.—New York Herald.  (he Ontreoo.  TO CORIUM TfDeITS. 1440deil. for " The Ewe's," London livening ;anmust be at the Office, 10. Botureriouireat. by Two on tbn tlep of publication.  . ,
The Express. — 1866-02-20 (London, England)

CUTTING DOWN TRIM FOR PIIGH-HANDLII3. Recently some young ash trues were cut down in a plantation belonging to a man named Eilbrkle, at Oappeghwhits, is which village, as 'tried in oar last, some freshly manfeetured pUtelaseds bad been discovered. A petite was posted in the plantatioe to the effect that if the owner would not mention anything about the matter, he would ere long be rewarded by the perpetrators of this outrage, who.. there la every Masse to believe, are scaeeeted Is some eray with the Fenian oonspiisey.—Clonewl Chronic/2. SUICIDE 01 • YOUNG MARRIED WomAx.—A young woman who bad arrived at the Guildford Station on Saturday evening committed suicide by drowning herself Is the river Wily the following morning (Sunday). under very patriot and extraor&eery circumstances. The deemed, who is described as beteg about twenty-men years of age and cif prepoe'seeing appearance, booked her luggage i I the name of G. C'halcrah, and proceeded to the Bear an, Prissystreet, where she took apartments for the night, and retired to bed at Lilt-past 11 o'clock. having the previously requested that two little girl., nieces of laedlady. might be allowed to sleep In tee same room. She got up about half-pest 6 o'clock, and left the home before the inmates were stirring, bat one of the children asked her before she want out whether she was not going to do her hair. She replied. " Not now, darling." A. marl who had gone to the howls to get some beer saw her proceed in the direction of Mill-mead, and then lost sight of her. Several persons, however, saw her on the bank of the river, where she deliberately took off her hat sad &Moho' and leaped into the stream, which was much swollen by the recent rains Those who saw bar could render no Resistance as she was swept away with great rapidity. and several persons who were standing en the town bridge saw her me wider it, shortly after which she sank. Attempts were made to recover the body, but without success. Before leaving her bed-roam tie young woman mattered • quantity of moos y and paws about ; and a post-office savings bask book dated from Iteoley-00-Thames, crediting the deemed, in the name of Elisabeth Wesley, with 111., was limed. it has bass meertaineri that the demised, whose maiden name .was Chalcraft, was married • few months ago to a tedor, reeidieg at Motley-tie-Thames, and that she left her hoeband's hoar, owing to domestic differences, • few days slam. She had. previous to her marriage, lived as domestic servant with Mrs. Smallpisee, Shelford, sod at that time was eoesiderid stomp is her maneers, sod ant quite right in her mind. Her parents reside at Shuford. near  Horsham. Sureosen
The Express. — 1866-04-25 (London, England)

EVENDI6.  The famous and mysterious Count Arese, who only returned to Florence from Paris a few days ago, is said to be on his road hither again. This is not the same Count Arose who is with the Italian minister Viscount Venosta at Vienna, where the Pays, echoing the telegrams, says he has a " secret mission."  The Muni/cur did not think fit to take any notice of the marriage of Mdlle. Bouvet, the Empress's reader, which took place at the chapel of the Tuileries, on the day already mentioned— April 22. The witnesses for the bride were ViceAdmiral Juries de la Graviere, aide-de-camp to the Emperor, and M. DupernS, orderly officer ; and for the bridegroom, Baron Marco de l'lsle, Prefect of the Palace, and M. Bonnard, Member of the Council-General of the Aisne. This morning the Moniteur publishes a decree appointing Madame Carette a " lady of the palace," but without informing the public that she was Madlle. Bouvet. The newly-married pair have gone to the Aisne, where M. Carette has a large estate. The France says that the Duke do Choiseul Praslin, the hero of a terrible drama in Louis Philippe's reign, who was officially reported to have committed suicide in prison, pending the accusation for murder against him, was lately met in the streets of London by his former valet de chamber. It is now believed that he escaped to California and that after living there for twenty years under a false name he returned to Europe only a few months ago. It will be remembered that very great doubts were expressed at the time as to the fact of his death, and it is by no means incredible that a government under which occurred the affair of the Baronne de Feuchk-es should have lent itself to the fable of his suicide to avoid scandal. At the Bourse the fall of in Consols, and the weakness of the other markets of Europe, shook the confidence of the public in the telegrams which I report that Austria is satisfied with the Prussian answer. The Bente, after some fluctuations, closed heavily at a shade lower than yesterday. Italian fell 40c.
The Express. — 1866-06-06 (London, England)

OUR CONTEMPORARIES.  (THIS DAY.)  it is different. The Herald continues to represent Peneds and Italy as two pickpockets, who are about to attack a strong man in the streets. No one can deny that Austria has a fairer chance of solving its difficulties in its own favour by an appeal to arms than by relegating them to a conference la which it is probable enough that the majority will be against it. Self-preservation is the instinct of states as of individuals, and those who find fault with Austria are counselling her to suicide. The Tdegraph expects upon the outbreak of war to witness a race between Austria and Prussia to obtain possession of Dresden, for whichever power holds the Saxon capital will probably be able to incorporate the not ineigniileant military contingent of Saxony with its own, and, what is of still greater moment, will be able to monopolies the influence possessed by that State among the lesser members of the Germanic Confederation. Moreover, Dresden is a point which must be occupied by on army advancing either from Berlin towards Vienna or vice versa. The Star remarks that one of the strange peculiarities of the present state of affairs is, that one is compelled to give his sympathy to Austria as against Prussia and to Italy as against Austria. Austria is quite right in withdrawing from the Gastein swindle, quite right in convoking the Holstein estates. But the very course which she herself initiates in regard to Holstein is the condemnation of her obstinate clinging to a shameful bargain ►nd her fierce repudiation of popular right in regard to Venetia.  CLIVEDIIt,  The Queen drove out yesterday afternom, accompanied by Princess Helens., and attended by the Duchees Dowager of Athole and the Equerry in Waiting.  WINDBOB CASTLE, Juers 5.  The Queen, socompanied by the Princess Helms, Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prinoe Leopold, arrived at Windsor Castle at 6 o'clock this evening from Cliveden. In attendance were the Dowager Duchess of Athole, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Lieutenant-General Hon. C. Grey, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Lieutenant Stirling, and Mr.
The Express. — 1866-04-05 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.  An inquiry was held by Mr. Richards, deputycoroner, at the Windsor Castle, Charles-terrace, Victoriapark, last night, relative to the suicide of Frederick Johns, aged 69 years. The deceased had been in business in the West-end, and in Green-street, Bethnal-green, as a tinsmith for many years, but having been latterly unsuccessful, mainly owing to hie intemperate habits, he and his wife, a very respectable woman, had been living for twelve months past principally on a all allowance from a benefit club. On Good Friday his body was found floating in Duckett'. Canal, near Victoria-park, Police-constable Gedley, 409 K, said that be found in the deceased's pockets 10d. in money, six large stones (three in each pocket), and the following extrac.xletter ad drased to his wife :  " March 18, J 8.66.  " Mrs. Johns,—When you receive this I shill be no more. You are the cause of all my misery. I shall never trouble you again. The act I have committed will deprive you of all benefit from either club or ixururanoe. " You being the cause of ►ll, I how God will forgive me. "F. Johns.  "13, Sonthwark•bridge-road. "I have not tasted food sinew Saturday morning, and what I have had has always been begrudged.  "Just a few tears. Th; old —is go-he ; thank God !' " Sarah Johns, 43, Southwark-bridge-mat deposed that on the morning of the 18th of Marsh she last saw the deceased alive. He then went out, witness thinking that he was going to get shaved. There bad been no quarrel ; bat he had and some mimic words about a pin which waff left. in a pillow having ran into his hand. They had been latterly in great straits, as they had only 3a. a weak from a club, and he earned only. or 3s. a week. Witness made shirts at 4ad. each, and could= many make, ewes at that pries. Doesseed was health, but he was too proud to think of the workhouse. He would sooner starve than go near it. At ems tuat he drank heavily, but since he lost his hatineen be had not the means to got intoxicated. Mx. Midi Davey, N.R.C.S., said that deceased had died from drowning, He bad been in the water 10 or 15 days. The Moues in leis pullets must bare caused him to sink immediately on jmnping into the water. The Coroner having summed up, the jury Jets:mod a varditl et suicide while is a liaie of unsound mind."  B. I. Nairn .33.06 38. Aberdeen 30.06 411 Leith3o.o7 Ardroman Oreencaatle I Valenti& ,29.72,43 ^ape Clear , 2895'; Holyhead -79.8542 Penzance 286647 Bred .. 29.571:; Loden. 129.57145 Rochefort._ 29.73, Plymouth _29.71,48 Weymouth ...911.781431 Portsmouth.. 29.78'41 London . .. 29.84 41 Yarmouth...lo.o2 431 Scarborough. 30.00 431 Shields .30.05,441 Helder — 1-1  N.K.  K3.E. P. 9 E.  E.S.E.  N.N.E.  IL 1 to I 81 19.  N.N.E. 3. E. S. L. S.S.W.  S S. &W.  10 3sl 1  10.281 a  K S.W. s,s E. SS.w. S.W.  i 0.241 4  10.011 2
The Express. — 1866-10-22 (London, England)

SUICIDES AT PELSTON.--011 Saturday two very melancholy suicides were reported in Pmeton. The first was that of Mr. Walter Riley, solicitor, is Chapel-street. During the past few days he had been in low spirits, owing. it is supposed, to an expected change in the transaction of the legal business of the county, with which he was connected, and which would have deprived him of a considerable portion of his income. About 11 o'clock on Saturday forenoon he went to his office, and shortly afterwards took a rope from a drawer, and told the office boy he was going into the back yard for a short time. As, however, he was absent for a much longer time than was expected, the office boy and another went and shouted at the back, but received no answer. Suspecting that something had happened to Mr. Riley, they went into an adjoining office and fetched two of the clerks, who went into the cellar and there found Mr. Riley snapended by • rope from the ceiling and quite dead. hir. Riley was about 60 yews of age, was much respected, and until remedy was superintendent of a Sunday schootin the town, a position he bad occupied for many years. The other case was that of Captain Anderton. of liaighton-hall, near Preston. Captain Anderton had not been well daring the past week, and a medical gentleman in Preston had given instructions that be was to be closely watc eard early on Saturday morning the report of a gun was h hi the house, and on some of the servants going to the , from which the sound apparentil proceeded, they ifi4riNthe captain lying there in a dying state with a double-barrelled gun by his side, an he shortly afterwards expired. The deceased gentleman was 30 years of age and captain in the Ist Royal Lancashire Militia.
The Express. — 1866-04-11 (London, England)

AITEXPTED SUICIDE.— On Sunday last, o."/,,, o'clock, Miss Henrietta V. Slater, an inmate of 6.00, House at Hackney, in a fit of temporary 11°111200 herself from the window of a third st ory. kitr death was probably averted by her falling uPall_,_ sia laurel Mr. Hall, surgeon, and Mr. Smith, on°,wlto ail man, who were sent for, found her thigh 14'''.,.."tuna, and a deep wound in the same pot ot te• mimed by the penetration of a broken part of the She was removed to an asylum Late in the evening. _lin The mails from Calcutta, China, and Ausw•-_,, Ma Marseilles, are expected to be distributed ia to— cm Thursday meming.  Aso • ern out in go 11 led the witch sisteosa, not I were dirty sal in such a state d to the cawe tkotroYed thoS o make sad dl idle dieg444l , irepriseeed mediae for . that httle yt led with hiall ciretunotaaea: id lest *la Ai Idotation, mg 4, tonal wade( Eit I was Tett a 4 62.. at %it told to _is l% law moot 1160 the drat Prisoner oast ion to the Nag ild that the 41. ,underdhigs4; no of the oak f 1 y • too eil mu loft! it AID Ditnillt 4 bee ea:lZ, the f elder ' air ohcallike. I. Cholla* Wet looked Id an ;he prime vie nee take s Far d rhe elder pnwe load, took tie tM then seat for sae kat whoa he tat rimer hada beg yards of Nail,' Re vont to ge oand thine* brir them in a pin entity laud id other wide that tit is husband, aho allied all knee' lion II took of 30, der, ideetisi do e Omen wain id the melon we 3 the prime deface, Iwo an Sr. broutatizoi 1 NI t oing rkhoese, soid—Sla after heaps 11.4
The Express. — 1866-02-14 (London, England)

WORKHOUSE WINDOW.  INQUEST.—(THIS DAY.) This morning Mr. Richards, the deputy s% held as inquiry relative to the suicide in the Poybr T boom, of Susan Davin, aged 37 year& l3emnel Davies, 11, Claude-streak Poplar, as haled' said that the deceased was his wife. She bad throe% children, the youngest being a baby remedy how. Wei to her coofinement and witness hews ill fora god is mfell ioto difficulties. The deemed h affected, and was in groat dud d 1i brokers bales put into the house for wean el teat said that she would cut the chili:nes threats awl Mb self. Witness said to her, "No ; don't de this ; nail Bible, end it will do you good ;" and he hid hie rasa 1 last Thursday morning she went, unkilown to %k W, 6 *Weak, to his foreman to borrow mow S sib brokers that she thought would be put is. Hogan her about the foolishness of the affair, and seal her Sr home and plied her two elder children. Site laid MI& would do so, but she did not return to the bows, soli never saw her alive after. Ana Oske, paid nurse at the Poplar Unica-issiod that the deceased, with an infant in her arms, esahle% =most workhouse on Thursday *mein for ad rubes ill mad destitute. She wee admitted to the own. She did sot appear Irrational. On the wig Saturday she was found ow the Hags undersea no Armory windows wavered with blood. She bad kWh self out through a small closet wiodow, sad bed Whits self by jumping down into the yard—a dklaase d Mil She had fortunately left the baby in bed. Until dist I had committed suicide the workhouse antharithadel know who bier husband was, and he did not lass Seth bed watered the workhouse. Mr. F. W. Lowndes, surgeon. said that tioloassi skull was frightfully injured by the fall fren Ihe Vali% It was almost difficult to believe that des soda Im forced herself out through the closet whim, bmu small. She must have used great amities sal Semi to get out through it. The Cormier leaving summed up, The jury returned& verdict of " Stadia while id csoll mind.
The Express. — 1866-03-02 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE PROM EXCESSIVE  PAIN.  INQUEST.—(THD3 DAY.) This morning Mr. Richards, the deputy-coroner, held an inquiry at the Wellington Tavern, Csnuoa-strestroad, St. George's-in-the-East, touching the death of James Bircham, aged 65 ream Sarah Bireham, No. 8, South-street, St. Georges-ie. the-East, said that the deceased was her husband. Be had been a carman, but for the last eight years he had been unable to work in coesequenos of a barrel having fallen upon him. He had for several years suffered dreadful pain because the wound had been poisoned and rendered incurable by washing it with a foul sponge. On last Monday afternoon witness, at the request of the deceased, left the house for the purpose of taking a cup of tea with • neighbour. Upon her return in an bour's time witness saw the deceased kneeling on the bed. One end of a silk handkerchief was fastened round his neck and the other end of it was tied to the top of the bedstead. When witness saw that his head was banging down and that he appeared to be quite dead, she gave a scream, " Oh, my poor husband has bagged himaelt ! What shall Ido now!" She could recollect nothing more. Samuel Lelia'', a lodger in the same house, said that on the afternoon in question he beard loud 'creamy, and upon entering the room occupied by the deceased be found him banging, as described by the list witness. Witness cut hint down and sent for a doctor. Dr. Wood said that the cause of death was strangulation. His life, from the excessive pain which be had for several weeks endured, must have been a perfect misery to him. The Coroner bowleg gemmed up, the jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind."  Niuru Aberdeen Leith Antromon. GrammaVaMutts Cape Char Liverpool Holyhead ' Pentanes Brest Rochetort Plymouth Weymouth . Portsmouth . London 1 Yarmouth , Bcarborosil.i Shields .•.I Helder  19.88 U
The Express. — 1866-05-08 (London, England)

DARING STREET ROBBERY.,  Williams Robe*,Lors:2B, Stet Green, 21, and Charlotte Green, 14, were charged with stealing a watch, the property of Charles Bluntly. The prosecutor was a country gentleman, and on the 23rd inst., about 12 o'clock in the day, he was looking into a shop in the Poultry, when the prisoners placed themselves near him, and the two women covered the man while he put his hand into the prosecutor's pocket and took out his watch. A constable belonging to the City police saw what wee going on, and seized all the prisoners, and it was then found that the swivel of the watch had been broken and the chain was hanging down. The male prisoner then handed the watch to the constable, and said that some one had put it into his hand. The jury found the prisoner Robinson guilty, and acquitted the two girls ; and evidence was then given that Robinson had been several times convicted, and had been sentenced to penal servitude. The prisoner, who li a cripple and walks with a crutch, said it was true that he had been before indicted, and he had passed seventeen years and a half in prison. The police were always after him, and he could not get any honest employment, and he had several times thought of committing suicide. The Recorder sentenced him to seven years' penal servitude. .  ----George Murphy, 19, was charged with a robbery with violence, in company with two other persons, upon Liuie Magee. Th.; prosecutrix in this ease was a respectable lady, the wife of a clerk in the city, and in the evening of the 19th of April she was about to go into the Commercial Hotel in Skinner-street, Spitalfields, when she was attacked by two men, one of whom struck her a violent blow in the eye, which made it bleed, and the others kicked her, and she was robbed of a brooch, and some saver. The prisoner and his companions got away, but the prisoner was taken into custody on the same night, after a violent resistance, and he was positively identified as having been concerned in the outrage. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was ordered to receive twenty lashes with a cat o' nine tails, and to be kept in penal servitude for five years. (Before the Common Serjesnt.) AN
The Express. — 1866-09-06 (London, England)

LUNACY IN IRELAND.—The number of the innO in Ireland increased considerably during theist lii The inspectors-general, in their report just ion motes that, whereas at the end of 1864 the insane a(demi nations, whether in peblic or private inatitabom tem bered 8,272, in December last the number bed Ma is 8,845, an increase of 573 within twelve months; 4,0510 in public asylums, and 2,733 in poorhouses; Ovate lums held 583, and the remainder were in poL or omen criminal asylums. During the year 596 were dloheeti cured, and 128 rimproved. The number of thou Maid as incurable is 3,623. The average mortality of Maid asylums is as low as 8 per mut. The inspectors eilno astonishment at the small amount of coegonta Id= or helpless imbecility, which presents itself. Tics idiots number altogether only 1,175. The mod prenined causes of insanity, according to their observation, ho ditary predisposition, dissipation, and irresuboity d eh Moral causes are more prevalent among females, POII among men, and the former sex exceed In the amp& recoveries. There were but two cams of suicide sad to yd"reacaPced ito"inthThEnge lerilansnh7ub.restrsinyylumsthe lzbtyte"aplire:nvionC:ll:lllinspotni7anti 1117 James White, is generally adopted, and 2,632 palmitin mimed in employments of one sort or anothera acres of tillage are cultivated by their labour, and s of 2,4001. was realised upon it last year. It bastes% by Drs. Nugent and Ilatchell that out-door snd Woo l jments have a most important curative effect Advertisement.]-111oLLowAy's Ounitus.-11 legs, scrofulous sores, glandular swellings, thi operates vermyartiy but Tay snrea,and with resembles It should be rn tato the 0;14-dille. pnaltrtyliiigg.hadyclirwbeenve powers nteodf thwitathmsnlukediwessous —' i never been disputed by any one who has given it contains not a particle of any substance of a notices astian_f is there a case on record In which it has done the .2i while there are authentic reports of innumerable 02!IMed— bY It in all countries. It is as mild in its action as It and beneficial in Its effects.