The Sun. — 1847-06-09 (London, England)

MODEL LODGING-HOBSE.—The society for improving the condition of the labouring classes have opened a model lodging-house in Charles-street, Drury-lane. It provides for the accommodation of single labouring men in a way that must be an immense improvement upon the dens in which so many congregate nightly about St. Giles's and elsewhere. Each inmate here by paying 4d. per night, or 2s. a week, is provided with a separate bed, the means of washing (including a bath, towels, soap, &c.), a fire to cook his food at, and a room to sit in during the evening or any unemployed hours. He will also, we believe, as soon as one can be established, have the use of a small library. The rooms are clean and apparently well ventilated, and very considerable in size, and also in the number of beds they contain. The latter are placed about two feet apart, and are to be supplied with clean sheets once a month, we believe. The establishment is under the superintendence of the same person who established and conducted the somewhat similar lodging-house in King-street, which, besides being of great use to the class for whose benefit it was established, yields some profit, a fact which justifies the opinion entertained by the promoters of this institution that it will be a self-paying, if not a positively profitable speculation—an opinion that w'e sincerely trust will be eventually borne out. There is erne other aspect in which this institution is somewhat remarkable, and which is involved in the fact that the mere possession of a separate bed, with means of cleanliness and decency, and a fireplace at which to cook food, should effect so great an improvement as it unquestionably will do in the condition of any class of industrious labouring men. DEPLORABLE SUlClDE.—Yesterday Mr. W. Payne held an inquest, at Bridewell Hospital, on view of the body of Captain James John Green, aged 26, late captain of the Era steamer, of Richmond, who committed suicide on the night of Friday last, off the above vessel, at the end of Arundel-stairs, Strand. At the end of a very lengthened inquiry, in which a number of witnesses were examined, it was clearly established that the deceased had contemplated the act of self-destruction, inasmuch as two letters were ifhotuennd otioi: board with his clothes, addressed to his friends, in his handwriting, taking leave of them, and stating his to commit suicide. He also spoke of a person by whom he had been illtreated, and which circumstance is said by hi, (deceased's) brother to have weighed so heavily on his mind as to bring on a morbid depression of spirits, and thus the inducement to so rash an act. The body was discovered at three o'clock on Monday morning, lying on the shore near lilackfriars-bridge, and so determined was the deceased to accomplish the violent deed that he had tied a large stone to his neck, by means of a rope, and bad on his shirt and stockings at the time he plunged into the water. Verdict-"Temporary . InsanitN " The decline in Insanity." The in the markets of the French departments continues uninterruptedly. From 2f. to sf. per . hectolitre is about an average of the further tall announced by the reports received from several of the districts.  CHILD MURDER, near