The Sun. — 1834-07-11 (London, England)

ROTCH, M. P. The Report of Hanwell Lunatic Asylum declared there were 556 pauper inmates, of whom 326 were capable of employment. The House of Correction was stated to contain 1,080 prisoners, and the New Prison 217, generally healthy, orderly, and quiet. A penny rate, to produce 21,907/. 17s. 4d., for the next quarter, was unanimously agreed to. Some routine business having been disposed of, the Court adjourned.  TILE ARllY.—Yesterday afternoon Lord Hill, as Commanding-in-Chief, held a Levee at the Horse Guards, attended by General Sir George Nugent, Commissary General Pipon, Major General Le Mos, Sir Robert Kennedy, Earl of Moray, Colonel Westburton, Colonel Young, Colonel Cooke, Colonel Anderson, Major General Sir Thomas Reynolds, and about thirty other distinguished officers.  The Berlin State Gazette gives the following details upon the monument about to be raised to the memory of Guttenberg :--One of the bas-reliefs of the pedestal will represent Guttenberg showing to Faust the moveable types he had invented, with an inscription underneath in Latin and in primitive-shaped letters, of the sublime sentence from Genesis —" God said let there be light and there was light." Another bas-relief will have engraved on it a representation of the first printing press established by Guttenberg and his two partners. On a third bas-relief will be represented the distribution of the Holy Scriptures to the people.  The steam-coaches are about to begin running regularly between Glasgow and Paisley. Preparatory to their commencing upon Wednesday, the three coaches which the company have here at present, were this afternoon, by way of trying their speed, taken half-way out upon the Paisley road. In going out they were not put at their full speed, but ran at the rate of one mile in about eight minutes. In returning, however, a part of the road, to the extent of two miles, was selected, upon which the whole three coaches started at one time ; one of them performed the distance in ten minutes and a half at full speed. The two which were last made, and upon which the greatest number of experiments were tried, were slightly beat by the one first built, and upon which the least alterations have been made. As the roads were in the finest possible condition, it yet remains to be tried hew fast they can go when the roads are wet or undergoing repair. When the first coach in returning arrived at the bridge-toll, the Barhead coach, which was passing at the time, ran against the toll-gate, and broke the pole; but no person present ascribed the accident to the appearance of the steamer.  A suicide, extraordinary from its cause and the perseverance with which it was persisted in, took place, last week, at Valenciennes. A young man, named Hector G-, apprentice to an apothecary, took it into his head that he never should succeed in learning his business, though, in the opinion of others, he showed no common talent, having written a treatise upon lodine, approved of by Caventon. This sinister idea had so fatal an influence on his mind, that on the 28th of June, 1833, he took a large dose of arsenic, from the effects of which he was saved by powerful antidotes. On the anniversary of this attempt, the 28th of June, 1834, he took a quantity of prussic acid, which deprived him of all appearance of life for some time, and from the results of which lie with great difficulty recovered. However, still determined on putting an end to his existence, he, on the 2d of this month, quitted Valenciennes towards nightfall, and at a little distance from the gates shot himself through the heart. Two letters were found on his person, addressed to his parents and his employer, in which he stated that his sole reason for committing suicide was his conviction that he could never become a good apothecary.