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Northern Times. — 1859-05-14 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE. —On Wednesday evening, a man, ; „, ; abottt forty years of age, either fell or threw himself over t Our iaaepeiadent Liberal contemporary alregady from the Lard Morpeth (ferry boat), as she was crossing tide tfacl very properly reminds the Opposition, " that from the stage to Birkenhead. The body was picked up soon after, and is now at the dead-house for identification. in the'riew Parliament the Whig and Taly parties The deceased appears to be about oft. Bin, stout and will find themselves more equally Tr:milted ,than muscular; dark brown hair, baldness approithing over the they were before, so much so that power will forehead; brownish whiskers, with slight mixture of grey through them ; features not large, but well formed ; thin be impossible exeept to those who may ' be- sharp nose, and high forehead. Dress : A dark, strollg fortunate enough to gain the good will of cloth monkey-jacket; with two pockets on the right side the independent. Liberal members." And such having flaps, one pocket on the left and a large ocket in breast inside, lined with red and-'black woollen pocket in breast inside, lined with red ancl black woollen mixture • members, or we are much mistaken, „will never dark corduroy, trousers, with full falls ; common knitted sacrifice themselves for the mere purpose of lifting suspenders, holland drawers, white cotton stockings, and Blucher boots,with holes over the instep • had a white and either a RUSSELL or a PALMERSTON into lase small-barred 'check shirt, also a white flannel singlet;' again.. It is these influences, these independences, black silk handkerchief on neck, with a Turkey red pocketwhich, as is well remarked, are among: " the gains handkbrchief. This description may lead to his identifieitlon. which a Dissolution of Parliament alone could THE GREAT CONFLICT IN EUROPE AND CASSELL'S' ILhave secured, and they are of so ranch import- LosTaarno
Northern Times. — 1859-09-28 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

VIOLENT ASSAULT. Daniels 'Dawson. .and John M'Carthy, two young men of respectable appearance; were charged with having. committed a violent assault upon Charles Smith; a night watcher for the-Gas Corn-,  On the previous evening theyroseeutor was en sale-street and the  Old Haymarket, ;hen the prisoners came up and without the least provocation, Dawson drew a clasp knife out of his pocket, and attempted to stab him. Not succeeding in his object, he threw the knife to M'Carthy, and jumped upon him (prosecutor), knocked him down, and. (rave him some kicks. M'Carthy all the time was "egging" Dawson on. Both prisoners denied the assault ; but a police-officer, who said he came .up at the time, witnessed a portion of the transactiot.---Mr. Mansfield said that 'the prisoners were two young ruffians; and he should fine Dawsen in 40s. and costs, or; in default, sentence him to two months' imprisonment, and M'Carthy in 54. or one week's imprisonment. DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF A MOTIIER TO HER CHILD  —Ann Chatfield, a woman about thirty years of was charged with the following disgraceful conduct. -n, On the previous evening Mr. Lyons observed' the woman ill-treating her child, a little cri rl about three years old. Mr. Lyons said that he saw' the mother striking and beating the child. He took the girl from her, but the child Cried so much that he was obliged to hand her over again to the prisoner. As soon as this was done, the prisoner seized the child by 'the arms, violently wrenched them, hit her on the side of the head with her cloSed fist, and' kicked her into the middle of the street. This happened in Houghton-street: The prisoner was given into custody.—Mr. Mansfield imposed a fine of £5, or three .months imprisonment, on the unnatural mother, who was removed from the dock, screaming  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE  —William Fosgrove, a trunk  'Maker, residing at 25, Rupert-street, and keeper of a stall in the Pedlar's Market, was charged, with having attenipted to poison himself the previous evening by swallowing a quantity of oxalic-acid. Prisoner said that he used the oxalic-acid in his business, and only put a little of it on his tongue, without any intention of doing any harm to himself.—He was remanded for the purpose of being examined by a medical man.
Northern Times. — 1859-12-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ATTBMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDB. - Mary M'Kenna, rather a decent-looking young woman, who resides in Cotter-street, Toxteth-park, was brought up on the charge of attempting to commit suicide. Police-officer 539 stated that he apprehended the prisoner on Saturday, in the act of leaping into the river from the end of the south Landing-stage. In answer to the charge, the prisoner stated that her mother and herself were going over to the other side of the water to work. They had some words on the Stage, and she threatened to leap into the river, but had no intention whatever of doing so. She also said that her husband ill-used her. —Mr. Mansfield advised her to go home, and do her duty to her husband. ROBBERY ON Boanu SHlP.—Alexander Thompson was brought up bn the charge of robbing Richard Hornby of a sum of money on board the ship Vigo, from New York. Mr. Bluck appeared for the defence. The prosecutor stated that the prisoner and himself were both third-class passengers on board the above-named ship. The prisoner came from Canada, and prosecutor came from the city of Providence, Rhode Island. They occupied berths next each other. After the vessel sailed, he was completely overwhelmed with sea-sickness. On the morning of the 7th or Bth instant there was a cry on board of " Ship ahoy !" which was mistaken for "ship on fire." Shortly after the hurry and confusion that was occasioned by this, he discovered that his money, which he carried about his person, was gone, and he recollected feeling the prisoner's hand in his pockets. The money consisted of twenty-two English sovereigns, two Australian sovereigns, twelve half-sovereigns, three twenty-dollar pieces, five one-dollar pieces, two two-dollar bills, and two one-dollar bills. He mentioned the circumstance immediately after to the captain, and the person whom he suspected to be guilty, but the captain would not allow any one to be searched on board. On his arrival in Liverpool he gave the prisoner into custody. [The prosecutor was here shown the money which was found in possession of the prisoner, and swore that a sovereign he saw amongst it was his property.] Police-officer 706 stated that when he apprehended the prisoner, and questioned him respecting the charge, he at first said the money belonged to himself, and afterwards that he was bringing it home for a relation. Mr. Bluck contended that nothing was more probable than that the prisoner and prosecutor, coining as they did from the same country, should be in possession of similar coin ; that as there was no evidence but that of the prosecutor, he did not think there was a case made out against the prisoner. Mr. Mansfield, however, committed him for trial. Imßiaa.i.,
Northern Times. — 1859-06-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE THROUGH DISAPPOINTED LOVE.—OR Monday, Mr. Rutter held an inquest at Blackley on the body of a young woman, named Mary Ellen Shuttleworth, 20 years of age, who is believed to have committed suicide through disappointed love. The deceased had lived as servant with Mrs. Brown, of Crumpsall, and about a fortnight ago, one morning when the family rose, it was found that she had left the house, merely taking with her the clothes in which she was dressed. Mrs. Brown had noticed that for about two months previously she had appeared in a desponding mind; but beyond this there was nothing unusual in her appearance. Every search and inquiry was made to ascertain her whereabouts, but without success, and nothing could- be ascertained respecting her fate 'until Monday  morning, when two men passing a reservoir connected with Mr. Royle's works, at Crumpsall, about three-quarters of a mile from Mrs. Brown's house, obierved her body floating on the surface. Information was given to the police, and the body was at once taken out of the water and removed to the nearest public-house. No evidence was given at the inquest to show any cause for the commission of suicide, but it was currently rumoured in the neighbourhood that the deceased had been engaged to a young man who had discarded her in order to commence payinc, his addresseS to her cousin.—The jury returned- a verdict of Found drowned. Mdlle. Piccolomini made her re-appearance at Drury-lane Theatre on Monday night, after a long absence from London, in her character-of Violetta, in "La Traviata." When she first came upon the stage applause burst from all parts -of the house, and was prolonged for some minutes. , The theatre was: so densely crowded in every. part that the director was compelled to accommodate several applicants for places with seats upon the stage.
Northern Times. — 1859-04-04 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

RESTORATION OF HEREFORD CATHEDRAL.—The restofoster feelings of hostility and estrangement. rations which have been old on during the last six or 2. We think it is time to introduce a system of gradual seven months in this fine old building are beginning to show sewerage. The gentlemen in Clifton-park and St. Paul's- satisfactory progress. The Dean and chapter have conroad may have some of theirs already, but that is no reason tracted for the execution of repairs which will entail an why the ' vulgar masses " should be allowed to welter in expenditure of nearly £14,000. ,i miasma,m rr comes,and wherepesh willthrough the fevergent l eamn ednof disease.theSouth-end If a h of a hot SUICIDEboy wasll fYoAunßd ovs u.—spOennaTeduebsy a dayrfoopreen from oonmt the ed dead fbnofd ay s be, with the scores of cesspools and open drains that pollute loft belonging to his father, who resided at Leith. Deits atmosphere and vitiate its air ? ceased, who was scarcely 14 yearsof age, had d been found a,,e, a 3. We beiieve that this act is preferable to the " Health fault with by his father on Monday of Towns Act," because of its optional character and its and soon after this he was seen afternoonite direction misconduct, great principle of local self-government. By the one you loft where his body was discovered.mg This wasi theectiL last toftitmhee can and may sewer when and as you are able, by the other he was seen alive, and the presumption is that he then you must, with the additional benefit of government iuspec- terminated his existence. 1 torship and dictation. Is Sir Henry Rawlinson to come At an inquest held on the remains of the late Marquis of down ? There are hundreds of people who will sign for Waterford, a verdict in accordance with the facts of his that, if you finally reject the local act. We pray you to melancholy death was returned. The writer of an obituary remember this. It is no fallacy, but a sure bone fide truth, notice in the Press remarks that in personal appearance the and has been done in scores of cases to the wretchedness late marquis was "a genuine Beresford, with the clear, the of nearly all. The Health of Towns Act searching eye, and regularity of features, hereditary for forced upon a community is a species of generations in that noble race. In bodily form he was imperial coercion' without any redeeming principle. Are conspicuous for a chest and shoulders of rare development. you prepared for its martial law ? Mr. Ross talks about At thirty years of age Lord Waterford was probably the preparing his notice to quit." He may well do so if this strongest-man in the kingdom, and his activity was equal to is to be the fate of the township " he loves so well." his vigour." 4. We dread incorporation with Birkenhead, with its
Northern Times. — 1859-01-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.  THE BOMBAY MAILS. MARSEILLES, Wednesday. The Euxine, with the mails from Bombay, arrived here at six o'clock this morning. The mails left for London at ten o'clock. Passengers are in quarantine for 33 hours.  THE WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MAILS  SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday. The Royal Mail steamer Magdalena, Captain Baynton, has arrived with the West India and Pacific mails. Her dates are—Nassau, December 15th ; Greyt(rwu, 17th ; Colon, 24th ; Jamaica, 26th ; Demerara, 25th ; Trinidad, 25th ; Barbadoes, 27th; Grenada, 26th ; St. Thomas, January 1. She brings 35 passengers, 669,295 dollars in Specie, 894 serons indigo, 155 serons cochineal, four casks coffee, 118 bags cocoa. Prom the latest accounts from the islands, the weather was remarkably fine for the season, and the sugar crops of Barbadoes, Trinidad, and Demerara most promising. The islands had been Unusually healthy. L. Business at Jamaica rather active, but no particular advance reported. Produce quiet, and very attic of any kind brought to market, on account of the bad state of the roads in the interior. By a special Act of the Legislature the following additional duties were imposed from the 22nd of December :—Flour, 2s per barrel additional ' • codfish, 6d per cwt ditto ; wheat, 3d per bushel ditto. Coffee was rather lower in price, 37s 6d to 38s per 3.001 b being the ruling figure. Freights dull, and nothing offering. 1 Exchanges on London,l per cent. prem. 90 days ; per cent. 60 days ; 11--- per cent. 30 days ; merchants' bills, par ; commissariat, 2 per cent, prem. L, The Roman Emperor had arrived at Trinidad. 11.°D1 -Madras in eighty-two days, with 380 emirants, including women and children. Only two deaths from sickness during the voyage, and not a single case sent to hospital. One female cornMated suicide.  The.W:Wrili—American Republics were generally quiet. _  The losses by the late fire at Valparaiso amounted to $3,000,000. The burnt district was soon to be rebuilt. Two more fires had subsequently occurred, tut not much damage was done.. Imports small and exports dull at Valparaiso. Owing to unsatisfactory accounts from Europe of the price of copper, silver mines rather improving. No English man-of-war at Callao on the 12th of December. _ _  Lima healthy, and crops flourishing. Great hopes were entertained of the war between the Ecuatorians and Peruvians being amicably *3ettled.  Her Majesty's ship Ganges, Admiral Baynes' flag, was at Vancouver's Island on the 17th Nov. ; also the Satellite and surveying ship Plumper. Latest accounts from San Francisco, California, report a severe earthquake shock. No lives lost ; trifling damage done.  The -small cutter Royal Charlie had arrived at Grenada, 42 days from Southampton. She had a very tempestuous passage.
Northern Times. — 1859-04-18 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CHANGING 1119 MIND.---In'Oregon, lately, one Mr. Elijah udson,of Yandhill county, petitioned the legislature for a  passed one hou  ;sed a memorial to t  ings after the following fashion : _ ny best respects, I wish to inform you that my old  a stay o  t  proceed  ,or petition has not been taken up, be so good-as not to ake it up. and not proceed any further without my order." --New York Times.  A FRIENDLY Tow Lth tizhtiv naeked it  6. s.."'• ) right, all of a sudden the wind failed—a common and annoying circumstance in these regions. ie same time he saw the bergs in motion, bearing down r. the field of ice on his left. He could not move an inch, td destruction seemed inevitable, when, to his delight, he rdeived a friendly berg rapidly ploughing its way up the tannel. An ice anchor was happily attached, and a stop iwser (how they must have looked to the haws on at full stretch towing them alone. It was a  —While sailing up Smith's Sound,  s - ft  but the v  ,e 1 won it, having cic-ared the channel b.  the threat  with the fi  SUICIDE  d bod  WIFE MURDER AND A e Faubourg St. Martin, who. kept the d fe in his bed for, it appears, nearly four mend's, so, when his room was entered, was attempting to cut throat with a razor, is a little better, but his mind seem ected. . In a lucid moment he stated that he at  'greed to commit  and having sold off all th  le, and both  of laudanum  ife, lest  with ti he left the  Id haiT  walloN'v
Northern Times. — 1859-12-12 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

BIBK.ENUEO ',POL/CE COTIRT, SATURDAY,—(Before, 1. S. Jackson, roimOithband, and 1. B. Case,, Esqrs.)" —Thomas Herley, a sailor, was,brought up by a county police-officer charged ;with hairing feloniously cut and wounded Thomas Hinds, mate of the schooner Flora, lying in the river off Egremont. It appeared_ that onFriday there ivi.s a dispute onboard the schooner about the provisions, and that the 'prisoner struck the: mate, whereupon a scuffle ensued, 'and resulted in Herley cutting Hinds with a knife, which, inflicted serione Wounds across the fingers, .t.nder all the pirsnmstanceS of the case the bench Only: sentenced the delinquent to tWelve weeks' imprisonment; with hard lahour.—Charl es Tohn 'son,-a 'gardener,' who had been employed by Mr. I. 0. Hanson; of Oxton, was, charged with having robbed his master of a large quantity of hay and Manure. This case was remanded until Monday, and the accused released onsUbstantial bail.—jane Schofield„a handsome looking young, woman, who only gaVe her address . " Liverpool," was brought up .by Inspector Caitles, charged with having attempted to commit suicide shortly before nine o'clOck on Saturday morning. kappeared that the' prisoner and a man came on board ' the Wirral, as she was laying at the Woodside slip, and having sat doWn, were talking together, When the woman was overheard to say " I won't go with you:" The man used a 'foul epithet to her, and she at once went to the side 'Of the vessel and plunged overboard. A man on the slip aeized a boat-hook, held the Unfortirnate creature up, and a boat having been brought round, she:was rescued, but still expressed a desire to be left to herself, that she might be drowned. At present, the reason for this rash attempt at suicide has not been explained. The case was -remanded until te-day.--7 Mary Malone, a needlewoman, residing in Liverpool, was charged On suipicion with stealing a roll of 'alpaca , from the- shop of Mr., Cook; draper, Chester-street. It appeared that on Thursday the prisoner went into Mr. Cook'fi shop, where she made a trifling .purchase; from her movements; she was suspected of dishonesty, and 'an assistant sent out to inform the police. Policeofficer Clarke sauntered towards the shop door,, but the prisoner saw him as she was leaving, and immediately returned to the counter, sat down upon , a chair, and Made an inquiry about some small articles. When she rose to depart, the roll of alpaca in question was found under the chair, and she was given into custody.. Inquiries had been made at Liverpool, ~and it appeared that the prisoner was known to the police as a suspicious character. The magistrates gave her the benefit of the doubt ; and having reprimanded and cautioned her, set her at liberty. •
Northern Times. — 1859-04-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

TIIE SUICIDE OR MURDER AT RAMEGATE.—SOMe very important additional particulars connecting the presence of the deceased with the spot where the hatchet and boots were found, and where, it is believed, his hand was mutilated and chopped off, have just been brought to light. This statement assists materially in accounting for the time of the deceased up to within a very short period of his death. Sarah Packer, of 2, Zion's-row, Ramsgate, . states that on Sunday evening, the 10th inst., between eight and half-past, she was in company with a young man near the shoot in the cliff, on the sands, when she saw a man sitting alone on the rock at the water's edge. It was between Augusta Stairs and the East Cliff Lodge. She remarked to the young man with whom she was walking, " Perhaps he wants assistance, you had better go across to him." The young man answered, " Oh, perhaps he is only washing his feet." Shortly after this the man moved, but she cannot say positively in which direction. The statement of the girl Packer proves that a man like the deceased was at that spot, and alone, shortly before the time it is supposed the deed was perpetrated. The time also corresponds with information furnished by a young woman named Matted, who speaks positively to seeing the deceased on the East Parade at a quarter-past eight o'clock. From this place he must have gone down the Augusta Stairs and along the rocks to the place pointed out by Packer, and here, no doubt, the hand was severed, if not the fatal stab inflicted. On Monday a German Bible was picked up, which it was believed the deceased had thrown from the omnibus whilst travelling between Dover and Deal on Friday. A bundle of pieces of cloth has been also fund near the same spot, and they correspond exactly with the cloth of the coat and trowsers worn by the deceased, and would appear to have been kept by him for the purpose of repairing his clothing as occasion might require. The coroner, Mr. R. J. Emmerson, has inspected the spot on the sands where the body was discovered, and it was elicited from a number of seafaring men present that it might have floated to the place where it was found, although deprived of life, some 50 or 60 yards further out, towards the edge of the rocks The public mind is still unsettled as to whether it is a case of murder or suicide, and demands further investigation. Accordingly Police-constable Hogben, of the Harbour force, is prosecuting further inquiries at Margate with reference to this man's movements, and also as to what transpired while the deceased was at Brazer's house with the girl Nines. These parties were to be produced at the adjourned inquiry before the coroner. Rumours have been afloat that the deceased had been dogged about and murdered. The result of the inquiry is looked forward to with a good deal of interest.
Northern Times. — 1859-03-28 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE. —Au inquest was held at Norwich on Thursday evening, by Mr. Wilde, coroner, on the body of a young woman, named Harriet Hostler, who had committed suicide under very melancholy and extraordinary circumstances. It appeared from the evidence, that a tender correspondence had passed between the deceased and a man named Nicholas Kaven, her uncle ! A bundle of letters was handed to this person, when he was under examination, and the coroner read the concluding words of one of them as follows :—" So no more at present from your affectionate lover, Nicholas Kaven." The witness said he had got them written for him, and did not know what was in them. The coroner read other passages as follows " You are first in my thoughts in the morning and the last at night. My dearest girl, you must not keep me long waiting ; I think you are very long. You shall not be long before you hear from me again, and if you will favour me with one of your kind letters, you will oblige your affectionate lover," &c. " I hope you will meet me at the station at six o'clock on Monday night. I shall be sure to come then. The greatest pleasure I have now is to hope to see your sweet face, my dearest ; so no more at present from your affectionate lover, Nicholas Kaven." The witness declared that he did not write the letters produced himself, and that he had not promised marriage to the girl, although he admitted that he had told her she could come and stop with him a week or two if she thought proper. The medical evidence showed that the death of the deceased had resulted from an over- , dose of laudanum. The Coroner remarked that if Kaven had really promised to marry his niece, and then had refused to do so, she would naturally have fallen into great mental distress. The Jury returned the following verdict : " That the deceased's death was caused by an overdose of laudanum, which was taken in an unsound state Of mind produced by the villianotu§ conduct of her uncle, Nicholas Kaven."