The Sun. — 1851-04-29 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF THE PRINCIPAL COMMISSIONER PROM HOLLAND TO THE GREAT EXHIBITION IN HYDE PARK.— _  Yesterday at noon, a jury was empanelled before Mr. Baker, at No. 24, Finsbury-square, on view of the body of Mr. F. G. Camp, aged 24, a tine young man, and of most wealthy connexions in the Netherlands, who was principal commissioner front Holland, appointed to attend to the arrangement of the contributions from that country to the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, and who committed suicide under the following melancholy circumstances. Mr. John Matthews, solicitor, Arthur-street West, Londonbridge, attended for the Dutch Embassy; with Mr. John William May, the Dutch Consul, to watch the proceedings. John Ramsey, servant to Madame Julia, landlady of the house, said that the deceased, about a month ago, engaged apartments. Last Saturday night deceased returned from Hyde Park at seven o'clock. lie appeared extremely desponding. He dined with Madame Julia and Mr. Mouchet. About ten o'clock the following morning witness went to his bed-room, with a cup of strong tea. He knocked repeatedly, but could obtain no answer. The door was locked. Madame Julia and Mr. Mouchat, upon hearing him call so frequently, came to his assistance. A key was obtained, with which Mr. Mouchat-opened the door. Deceased was then found suspended by a piece of cord from the bed-post, and life was extinct. Witness instantly went for a surgeon. Mr. Mouchat stated that he cut the cord with a pair of scissors. He had heard that a person was about to be appointed as commissioner, to supersede deceased. He thought the duties deceased had to undertake were too much for him. lie appeared to have his mind overburdened with anxiety about the Exhibition. Mr. Geosson, assistant commissioner, stated that on Sunday last he found two letters, written by the deceased, in which he complained of the treatment he had been subjected to by the business he was engaged upon being about to be taken out of his hands. Verdict, " Temporary insanity." Deceased's property was given to the consul. THE ISLE OF WIGHT PERVERT TO THE CHURCH OF Itostu,—Mr. John Simeon is the eldest son of Sir Richard Simeon, Bart., the first representative of the island in the Reformed Parliament—a fine old English gentleman, possessing large estates, and deservingly beloved by his numerous tenantry and domestics ; a Liberal in politics, a steady supporter of the Protestant Church, and a true friend to the farmer, he is what a landlord ought to be. There is no improvement in the breed or feed of stock that he does not try, no new manure or seed introduced that he does not test, no improvement in agricultural instruments and machinery that is not proved at Swanston with a view to their being recommended to lt.;s tenants. His farm buildings are all on the most improved principle; his farm-houses and cottages are all fit for human beings to inhabit (this, unfortunately, is rather a rare thing to say, as there are numbers hardly fit to put swine in). It is, therefore, with great regret we hear of the false step of his son. The Rev. R. Sumner, son of the Bishop of Winchester, married Sir Richard Simeon's second daughter, whose untimely death we last week recorded, and whose funeral takes place to-morrow.