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The Sun. — 1841-09-13 (London, England)

SUICIDE AND DREADFUL LOSS  OF LIFE.  On Saturday morning, between the hours of one and two o'clock, a fearful accident, attended with circumstances of an extraordinary nature, occurred on the river near Southwark-bridge, by which four persons lost their lives. It appears that the Orion, a large iron steamer which runs between London and Ipswich, and the Pearl, a Gravesend steamer, were moored near Southwarkbridge yesterday evening, after discharging their passengers, and soon afterwards several persons belonging to both, vessels went ashore to spend the evening at the George public-house, Bankside, and play at skittles. They were accompanied by a person named John Clementson, residing at No. 2, Eagle-street, Ipswich. who possesses an independent income of about 20n/. a year, and was in the habit of voyaging between London and Ipswich for the benefit of his health. Clementson, who was the cause of the loss of life which subsequently took place, appeared in a very low and desponding state, and told his friends to acquaint a female at Ipswich, when they returned, that she would never sec Robert any more. At a later hour he procured some laudanum, and swallowed a small quantity of the drug, which his companions prevented taking effect by giving him emetics, brandy, and other liquids. At half-past one o'clock Clementson and six others, four of whom belonged to the Pearl, and two to the Orion, proceeded to Bankside stairs, oppositee the Welch Trooper public-house, where the Pearl's boat was lying, for the purpose of re.tuhrn,innsfietioi their vessels. Clementson got into the boat whit! pushed off, but they had not proceeded more than liOdoeiihl2er3a-aterdi; before Clementson rose from his seaTtu,anetther men im. jumped overboard into the water. I mediately got up at once, and leantovelr:,etrhee boat, the sudden lurch capsized it, and theythem n into the river. The tide carried towardspianettgrl.is;hoalti'nledt. bridgel Tiiep (;)otih. struggles shore fellows on ure sativ short, themare wn ads tinedicy:o'b'nloat at the could afford no assistance. T • before any aid could be stairs, and Init Isahasontsotilnvee nttiii:niettin afterwardsuntasenesdst Theaen b to od body to ha 9 etf procured. u lowered,red. and the drags Clementson was picked upoawait the public -house_ Coroner's inpbeocrlies of the other unfortunate men have inquest. sl et .h Trooper Their names are John Oxley and and Robert Clarkson of jnii"etsetbl)e'rliti‘n:,lnra.encriie)eill:od,af.tt‘l%l•aesPsenabrtlequently found bottom uptwards off liorselydown
The Sun. — 1841-09-13 (London, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE OF A PAUPER IN A UNION WORKHOUBE.—On Friday Mr. Payne, the City Coroner, and a numerous Jury sat in the Board-room of the West London Union Workhouse, West- street, Smithfield, to determine the cause of the suicide of Ei. Wilkinson, aged 64, an inmate of that workhouse. Several of the guardians of the union were present. Isaac Stephens, a pauper, said he had known deceased for two years, and saw him last alive in the water-closet between three and four o'clock on Thursday morning. Witness spoke to him, and received no answer, and left him in the closet. He saw no more of him until dawn, when deceased was brought up stairs dead. Deceased was a very still, quiet man, and would hardly answer when spoken to. Several other inmates of the work. house were examined. They said that latterly deceased appeared rather queer," and was in the habit of walking to and fro silently in the yard, looking very ill. They alsc proved that, having found the door of the water-closet fastened inside, and hearing within a noise like that made by a person snoring, they burst the door open, and founddeceased sitting on the seat of the closet, with his throa: cut, and a fork sticking in the wound. He was quite dead, and a kitchen knife, stained with blood, lay by weresoldoss of blood as tc his side. Mr. Mott, master of the workhouse, said deceased had been under his care for about twelve years. ini )i d.. e Lynch,eease's throat was an inch workhouse,chd surgeon to tht He was extremely deaf, and on that account was very uncommunicative. There was nothing otherwise particular about him, and witness could not account for the commissionna and da of faa half rashtnh e d depth and three inches in length. None o were,fthe wound clt , but several of the lesser cause death. Witness knew of nothing that could cause which ief vessels produced cleivhid ae deceased to commit suicide, unless from a feeling of de, spondency, the effect of frequent illness. Verdict, " Temporary insanity." A foot race took place on Tuesday afternoon last, on the North Road, near the Town Moor. Newcastle, between a man named Gillie, belonging to Tweedmouth, and a person known in Newcastle by the appellation of " the Doctor." The race was for 40/. a-side, and the distance was about 140 yards. The " Doctor'' won by about three and a half yards. The race was run}, in fourteeu soonds.—Durhant Chronicle.
The Sun. — 1841-04-29 (London, England)

KENNEL STUD BOOK. Dedicated to John Musters, Esq. ,of Colwiek Hall, Nottinghamshire. By ROBERT THOMAS VYNER, Esok Some tine Master of the North Warwickshire and Holderness  Hounds.  Published for the Author, by Ackermann, Regent. street, London, and sold by all Booksellers.  Just published, price 2s. 6d. ® PRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILITIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Va. rieties, Causes, Treatment, and Cure. By a MEMBER of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS, London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmary. " I am impotent, and not fit to live."—Last's Records of s Suicide.  Sold by Onwhyn, Catherine-street, Strand; Ross and Nightingale, Liverpool ; Barlow, Birmingham ; and all Booksellers in Town and Country, N.B. Persons in the Country may have this work forwarded by post (free), upon addressing either of the above Booksellers, and inclosing a remittance of 3s.  Just published, in royal 18mo., cloth, price 3s. ; and sent in Town or Country free, by post, 3s. 6d., MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PREMATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suffering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence, Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on the TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRHCEA, GLEET, &c. Illustrated with Cases, &c. By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY, Consulting Surgeons, London. Published by the Authors, and sold by Balliere, Medical Bookseller, 219, Regent-street; 59, Pall Mall; Strange, 21, Paternoster-row; Pattie, 4, Brydges_street, Strand; 8, D'Olier-street, Dublin; Duncan ,114, High-street, Edinburgh; and to be had of all Booksellers. The Work which is now presented to the public is the result of very extended experience in a class of diseases and affections, which for some unaccountable reason have been either altogether overlooked, or treated with apathy, and almost indifference, by the of dinary practitioner. To enter into the details of these affections, to point out their causes, and to mark the terrific consequences, social, moral, and physical, which are sure to follow from indulgence, in certain habits, would be entirely out of place in an advertisement. We have no hesitation, however, in saying that there is no member of society, by whom the book will not be found interesting, whether we consider such person to hold the relation of a PARENT, a PRECEPTOR, or a
The Sun. — 1841-09-22 (London, England)

TICEIWRST.—Picking is now in full operation in this and surrounding parishes, but the crop will be nearly a third short. Notwithstanding the hops are now ripe, they require more than the usual quantity of bushels to the cwt., and it is the general opinion that the duty will not reach 150,0001.—Maidstone Gazette of yesterday. The accounts from other parts of Kent are nearly .f the same description, and all concur in the opinion that the duty will be between 150,0001. and 160,0001.  The Gazette da Midi informs us that thirty-two Spanish refugees, who were working in the canal of Arles, have been arrested and sent to prison. It appears, from an article in the Courrier de Lyon, that the Spanish refugees, employed as labourers on the repairs of this canal, had been guilty of insubordination, and, in consequence of some dispute with the French labourers, a severe conflict, in which the Spaniards were the aggressor., took place, and it became necessary to imprison some of the most culpable of the Spaniards.  A New York Paper publishes the following undcr the head of " London versus New York" : In London. In New York. Murdered 1 17 Poisoned 6 Killed by accident - ... 83 Killed in various other ways 9 .... . 28 Drowned 76 - 86 Burnt to death 0 • Suicides _ _  _ ..._ Unknown deaths, probably murdered' l2 179 Still-born 432 •••••• b 92 Intemperance  Total 740 1,130 Why is it that the murders committed in New Yot k are 17 times greater than in London, whilst the populution of the latter city is five times greater than that of the former? and why are the number of d?aths from other causes above-mentioned so disparaging to our metropolis? The answer is, there are in New York five grog-shops where there is none in Londo!
The Sun. — 1841-09-11 (London, England)

SUICIDE AND DREADFUL LOSS  OF LIFE.  This morning (Saturday), between the hours of ane and two o'clock, a fearful accident, attended with cireutr:! stances of an extraordinary nature, occurred on the river near Southwark-bridge, by which four persons lost their lives. It appears that the Orion, a large iron steamer which runs between London and Ipswich, and the Pearl, a Gravesend steamer, were moored near Southwarkbridge yesterday evening, after discharging their passengers, and soon afterwards several persons be~ longing to both vessels went ashore to spend the Al evening at the George public-house, Bankside, and play at skittles. They were accompanied by ti person named John Clementson, residing at No. 2, Eagle-street, Ipswich, who possesses an independent income of about 2001. a year, and was in the habitof voyaging between London and Ipswich for the benefit of his health. Clementson, who was the cause of the loss of life which subsequently took place, appeared in 9. very low and desponding state, and told his friends i" acquaint a female at Ipswich, when they returned, t'.lo she would never see_ Robert any morn. At. u. later hour he procured some laudanum, and swallowed s small quantity of the drug, which his compAcioos prevented taking effect by giving him emetics, brandy, and other liquids. At half-past one o'clock Clementson and six others, four of whom belonged to the Pearl' and two to the Orion, proceeded to Bankside stairs; opposite the Welch Trooper public-house, where the Pearl's boat was lying, for the purpose of returning t", their vessels. Clementso.3 got into the boat which pushed off, but they had not proceeded,more than 10 or 12 yardsbefore Clementson rose from his seat and deliberately" jumped overboard into the water. The other men immediately got up at once, and leant over the boat, when the sudden lurch capsized it, and they were all thrown into the river. The tide carried them towards the bridge ; their struggles were short, and they all perished. The poor fellows on shore saw them drowning, and could afford no assistance. There was no boat at the stairs, and it was some time before any aid could be procured. In about twenty minutes afterwards a boat was lowered, and the drags used. The body of Clementson was picked up and taken to the Welch Trooper public house to await the Coroner's inquest. The bodies of the other unfortunate men have, not been recovered. Their names are John Oxley and Joseph Taunton of the Pearl, and Robert Clarkson of the Orion. The boat was subsequently found bottom upwards off Horselydown.
The Sun. — 1841-07-15 (London, England)

SUICIDES.—On Sunday, M. C., a gentleman of property, killed himself by jumping out of the window of his apartment, on the Quai des Augustins. This suicide is attributed to grief for the loss of his son, who was killed in Africa, of which he had received intelligence a few days before. The same day, a man, thirty years of age, was seen to go from the shore at Puteaux to a raft of wood moored near it, and, getting close to the water's edge, discharged a pistol into his mouth. He effectually killed himself , but did not, as was evidently his design, fall into the river. In his pocket was a paper, on which was written, in pencil, " I was anxious to assist my parents ; but, being unable, I have resolved to die far from them."—Montmartre was on Sunday the theatre of two suicides, one by a woman named- Dubois, aged 75, who threw herself into a well, and the other by another woman, who suffocated herself with charcoal, involving her baby, only six months old, in the same act of destruction. When the last census was made, there were in the department of the Seine 72,000 persons having patentes or licenses to trade, but after deducting those of the sixth and seventh classes, arti.ans and journeymen liable to the patent or license duty, the number is reduced to 38,000 tradesmen. A letter from Vienna, sth instant, in the Gazette of Upper Germany, says—" The subscription in favour of the National Bank of Athens is well supported by the Greeks of our city. Baron Sina alone has signed for 200,000 drachmas, about 180,000 f. The crisis in the chases of public companies continues. All the railway shares have fallen. This is explained by the emission of the 5 per cent. loan, and the difficulty of obtaining discounts from the National Bank."
The Sun. — 1841-12-18 (London, England)

NTACES.—Perfect security from a large paid-up Capital and accumulations--Equitable Rates—Power to borrow Two-thirds Premium paid, without expcnfe or forfeiture—and Profits annually divided. N B. Policies for Short Periods at LAwer Rates than at any other Office, with option of continuance for Life, at the usual rates.  Children ; and the advancing of Money, on Anntuty, Mort- I age. and other available Securities. .  The annexed It Lt.'s of Premium are as moderate as consistent with perfect security. They are constructed on the principle of affording to the Assured the option of either securing a fixed Sum, or of having it increased by a pa-ticiration in the Profits.  Assurances may al,o he effected b a single payment, by a y payment for a number of years certain, or by any other mode as may meet the views of the Assured : and the Premiums may be paid either yearly, half-yearly, or quarterly, at proportionate Rates.  Attendance be given daily at the Odder, from Ten to Four n'Ulock, where Assurances may be effected, and Lo^.ii granted without delay. No Charge will be made on parties assuring, under the head of entrance-money, admission• fee, or otherwise, beyond the Stamps for the Policy. As the most scrupulous care will be taken at ll.e time of effecting the Assurance, in making all proper inquiries, no Assurance, when once completed, will afterwards be qiiestioned or disputed, except in cases of manifest fraud or misrepresentation. Policies assigned for lyma fide considerations will not become void by death from suicide, duelling, or the hands of justice ; and in cases where Policies shall not have been so assigned, a discretionary power, founded upon the most liberal c.cniideration, is vested in the Directors to return to the Widow or Children of the assured the hole, or any part of the Premiums paid. All Claims on the Company in respect of Assurances will be paid within three calendar months after satisfactory proof of the death of the party, or immediately after such proof on the allowance of discount.  ADOLPHUS COURVOISIER, Smeary.
The Sun. — 1841-11-22 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF AN ENGLISH OFFICER IN PARIS.—This morning, very early (writes our Paris correspondent on Thursday), an English naval officer, named Charteris, residing at an hotel in the Rue de Rivoli, threw himself from the third floor into the street. Both his legs were broken, and his skull was fractured. He survived about two hours, but in a state of insensibility. There can be no doubt that this fatal act was the result of insanity. Before he committed it he had burnt-all his-effects, even to the clothes which he had  worn the preceding day. He was about 45 years of age. [We believe the officer here alluded to is Lieutenant Charles Charterisi  On Friday morning, at half-past eleven o'clock, an inquest was taken before Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the house No. 9, Grove road, St. John's Wood, on view of  the liody of :grow Mitchell, Esq., aged 64, a gentleman ei independent fortune, who committed suicide by shooting himself. Evidence to that effect haying been adduced, the Jury, after a lengthened discussion, returnad a.verdict, "That the deceased was found dead of certain mortal injuries inflicted on himself with a pistol, and at the time of the suicide he was insane."  We have pleasure in mentioning the following circumstance :—lt being found that the 98th Regiment, now on the point of embarkation for China, was short by fifty men of its complement, the provisional battalion at Chatham, composed of the depots of , several regiments, was paraded, and scarcely had the wder permitting them to volunteer into the 98th been mead, when 200 men  stepped forth from the ranks, offering themselves as `•ulunteers for active service.  THE NlS'!r Poo R-L A W.—The Woolwich, Deptford, and Greenwich Union ali911; to PC dissolved, cn the ground of the immense pophlation of 'the tore parishes,'and the delay and inconvenience consequently experienced by the poor in obtaining relief. A great law authority has declared the proceedings of the New Poorlaw Commissioners to be perfectly illegal.—Kent Herald. Within the space of eight or ten days as many as fifteen persons have been committed to prison from the neighbourhood of Bradford, on charges of felony. Early on Tuesday morning the ground was covered with snow between this town and Margate, two or three inches thick, the sun shining as the day advanced it has disappeared. By arrivals we learn the French hills between Calais and Boulogne have also been covered with snow for the first time this season,-the weather having set in cold with frost two, or three days past.—Kent Herald.
The Sun. — 1841-05-05 (London, England)

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday afternooti; about four o'clock, a man, named James Millward, carman to Mr.. Charles, a fishmonger in Pimlico, was driving a horse and chaise-cat along Piccadilly, when by some means a portion of the harness either broke, or got so loosened, as to prevent the driver having any control of the horse, which ran off at a tremendous speed in the direction of St. Jam( s's Church. In less than two minutes the driver was pi•ched out of the cart and jammed in between the foot and dash-boards. The police stopped the horse with much difficulty, and released deceased from his dangerous position. He was so much cut and bruised, that the police conycjed him immediatily to St. George's Hospital, where, in despite of all ex...0.1(ms made by the house-surgeons to restore him, boexpiredin a few minutes. An inquest will be held upon the body to-day. SUICIDE FROM ENNUI —The C'ourner de Bordeaux mentions the arrest of an Englishman in that city on a charge of attempt at suicide ! It says, that after a rather copious dinner, and a libation of Chateaux Margeau to match, the idea of suicide came into in his head ; whereupon he went to the river side and plunged in. Some men got him out.; but a few minutes after he repeated the attempt, and was again fished up. When, however, he was a third time on the point of " plunging to endless night," the bystanders thought it would be better to give him over to the police, and he was locked up accordingly. The unfortunate Mr. Boat', the Rothbury Registrar and Relieving Officer, whose painful end we recorded, entered his own death in the register before he left his home for the last time.— Tyne Mercury. CALEDONIAN A SYL UNl.—Tne anniversary festival of this National Scottish Charity will take place on Tuesday next, at the Freemason's Tavern, The Chisholm, • of the H ghland Society, willpreside. CoPrem. -icr has signified hi.; intention rn to be present on modore Nap_ it is the occasion, an, s expected that a numerous company gallant veteran. will assemble to weleoi:le th”
The Sun. — 1841-07-20 (London, England)

HOME. WZISCELL.A.NZOUS.  At a great dinner given at Bury, on Friday evening, to Richard Walker, Esq., in honour of his return for that town, Mr. G. W. Wood stated that Lord Spencer told him a few days ago that any Administration, however powerful, would commit an act of felo de se if it interfered with the Corn-laws. The Ministers must have been aware of that opinion, and could, therefore, have brought forward their proposition only from a sense of duty, as Mr. Wood said, and were determined not to shrink from the consequences. We have before stated that it was impossible to listen to Mr. Labouchere, and not believe that he spoke from the most complete and sincere conviction that if something were not done our manufacturers would he ruined.  At the same dinner Mr. Cobden, though he expressed himself dissatisfied with the Whig measures, said the manufacturers were immeasurably indebted to the Queen's Ministers for bringing forward measures at all to improve the Corn-laws. He also told the factoryowners some home truths. The landlords rely, he said, on the discord prevailing between the master manufacturers and their workmen. The tendency of the bread-tax is to diminish the wages of labour, and the factory masters are the agents for levying that tax on the workmen. Thus they are made the instruments of their own ruin, or, as Mr. Cobden said, the cat's-paw of the landlords, by consenting to impoverish and degrade their fellow-labourers. The factory masters must prove to the workmen that they are not to blame, and both must make common cause against the common plunderer. At Manchester they are late in discovering this important truth. The factory masters have preferred imitating the landowners, and have been ridiculously afraid of their workmen. They now have their reward. Twelve months and a severe winter have tested the Oxford-street wood-paving. At a special meeting of the Marylebone Vestry, on Saturday, a memorial was presented signed by 370 rate-payers of Oxford-street, in favour of a wooden pavement for the whole of the street. Richard Lloyd, the person who secured Hatfield, the lunatic, when in the act of firing a pistol at George 111., in Drury Lane Theatre, died last week in the Salop Infirmary.  The preparations for the meeting of the British Association, at Devonport, are nearly complete. It will commence on Thursday, the 20th inst., and continue until the 4th of August.  Richard Russell, a shoemaker, of Hereford, committed suicide on Wednesday last. He had voted for Mr. Burr, and sworn that he retained the same qualification as that for which he registered, though his house had been taken down. The idea of having taken a false oath so preyed on his mind that he could no longer endure life.