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The Sun. — 1844-11-25 (London, England)

WATLINGTOL—AWFUL EFFECTS OF THE GAMELAW3.—On Tuesday last, about half-past three o'clock, the inhabitants of Pyrton, a village within a mile of Watlington, were thrown into the greatest consternation by a melancholy report, which, alas, proved too true, that a poor boy, about sixteen years of age, of the name of Henry Pridcheat, had committed suicide by hanging himself with a pocket handkerchief, from the top of a gate four feet high. It appeared that the poor boy was employed by Mr. Dickers, a respectable farmer in the parish, to shoot sparrows on the new sown wheat. On Monday afternoon, whileperforming his duties, hestarted a pheasant ; the temptation being great, and feeling a desire to try his capabilities on a larger scale, he firtd at the bird, and unfortunately killed it. At this moment William Clark, one of Lord Parker's gamekeepers, came up, and threatened him with a prosecution ; the idea of appearing before a magistrate, and in all probability, of being sent to prison, filled his mind with the greatest mental agony. The keeper having taken his master's gun, he was afraid to return to his employer, and he is described as having wandered about in the greatest distress. On the following morning it is reported that he applied to a person in the village for som poison to kill, as he said, his masters' rats, but was refused, and in the afternoon he was discovered by some children at play suspended from the top of a gate, on the footpath leading. from Pyrton to Weston, in a kneeling posture, a breathless corpse. The deceased has been employed by Mr. Dickers nearly five years, who gives him an excellent character. The above may be relied on as !in authentic fact, as our cor• respondent has visited the village, and had a melancholy view of the mortal remains of this new victim to the atrocious game laws. So great is the want of agricultural employment in the parish, that Lto fbwer than thirty-three able-bodied persons are employedby our surveyors repairing the roads, withal, good udgesj say that tho land wants all the labour.-04:ford Chronicle.  t°in P
The Sun. — 1844-09-24 (London, England)

AND POLXCZ. so° A Frenchman named Jacques Besset, for eet, time carrying on business in Fenchurch'srrier under the firm of Pricener and general vi chants, was yesterday brought before Co.,ie Lord of at the Mansion House, charged with the offeeemw fraudulent bankruptcy. lie was committed Preps ratory to being sent to France. Eliza 'Moore, charged at the Guildhall I`4„, retempting suicide by drinking laudanum, Yfr" mended by Sir Peter Laurie. 610 At Clerkenwell, William Griffiths, who deg, himself as a surgeon, residing in Gerrard-street" r I of lington, was charged with knocking at the at oat the house, 71, St. John's-street, Clerkenwell, wl"Tbs lawful excuse, and making an alarm of ',Fire. wss prisoner, who pleaded drunkenness as an excuse ' fined is. `the Adele Dupierre was fully committed from the 1 borough on a charge of illegally pawning shoes' property of Mr. Van Bever, her employer. _owe' At the same police-court, William Nash, r ri. constable C 100, was fined 31. or one month's Ile sonment, for a wanton and unprovoked assault s, Mrs. O'Connor. As the lady was walking in bcio dilly, she was, without any provocation having given, rudely seized and shaken by the pOlicenlaniore At Union-hall, Michael Sullivan was brought hello Mr. Cottingham, -charged with wounding policeviitb Murphy, L division, by striking him on the healkot. a poker. The Magistrate then inflicted a file °itted on the prisoner, and in default of payment comin him for two months. milli There was a thronged attendance at Hammers aa to hear the examination of five persons, who had' the the previous day, been taken into custody bY'„ea police at Kensington, on a charge of being conce,t':,,ht in causing the death of George Benson in 'a Devii, which took place on Sunday morning near the bas d of the Kensington Canal. The case was rernan de until Thursday. er Mr. Sinclair Blue, a surgeon, of High-street 'aPt the lar, aged 29, was brought before Mr. BroderiP!croales Thames office, on a charge of assaulting in a very brutal manner, with being drunk, it opcreating a disturbance in the public streets' f Gin' peared from the evidence, that at the corner eouleo, lane Mr. Blue had run-a-muck at several w:.s and severely ill-treated three of them. the fence he said that he had been first attacked by ;ck women, who pushed against him, and tried OtPtio his pocket. He was held to. bail to aPPear sessions. threenfa with
The Sun. — 1844-01-26 (London, England)

CIDR AT WATERLOO-BRIDGE.—Mr. Carter -y:proceeded with the inquiry, at the Feathers, Waterloo- the death of Elizabeth Donelley, aged 23, who leaped 'rapet of 'Waterloo-bridge,; on Tuesday afternoon. anon stated that, on the afternoon in jtuestion. past :three, he was driving a cab over Waterloo. I he observed a female in the third recess on the She got upon the seat, and then deliberately Let and shawl. Having done this, the clam. parapet, and threw herself into the river before to prevent the act. The body was taken out of in :about twenty minutes afterwards, and every effort to restore :animation, but without effect. Matilda of 8, Vere-street, Clare-market, deposed that the de• was her sister. Her (deceased's) husband was Mr. Bregan Donelley, of the firm of Noble and Co., of 6, er.square, City. He had separated from her four times consequence of her excessively 'dissipated habits. On the It time, which:was.the 4th of December, she was very tipsy, he kissed her, saying, " Betsey,:if you don't alter, Kshall as away with myself." From that time he has never been _eni or heard of, and it is feared he has committed suicide. The next day he sent her a sovereign, but when that was exNended she came to live with witness, as she was utterly destite. She had pawned everything she had, and on the day she troyed her life sold her stays to purchase spirits. On that ning she had obtained an order from the Strand Union to into the workhouse, while they sought for her husband. the following morning she heard that the body of the de.3(l had been taken out of the river, and she had no doubt did it under great excitement, produced by drink and her ad of the workhouse. After a short deliberation the jury rned a verdict, ,6 That the deceased destroyed herself while state of temporary insanity, produced by excessive drinking."
The Sun. — 1844-12-14 (London, England)

DEC. 10.—The average price of wheat last week was 17f. 04c., and that of rye 10f. 43c. The duties on importation and exportation remain as before. We learn from Vienna that Count de Woyna, who is appointed Envoy Extraordinary from the Emperor of Austria to the Court of Belgium, is to set out from Vienna for Brussels in the course of next week. The Chamber of Representatives, in its sitting to-day, received a project of. law, the purport of which is to grant to the department of Public Works a credit of 12,500,000 f. for, the construction of a double line to the railways, and of the buildings depending on the stations, for the construction of a section of the railway from Ghent to Tervuren and the entrepots, for the construction of a navigable canal to the Meuse, from Liege to Maestrecht, and of a navigable canal to open a communication from Turnhout to the canals of the Campine. The 2d article authorises the Government to accept the subscription of the English Company (Mackenzie and Co.), for the construction of the railway from Tourney to 'rurbise, and from St. 'Frond to Hasselt. The necessary funds for these several undertakings will be provided for by the issue of Treasury bonds. - We are able to state that the King and Queen will .quit the' Palace of Lacken on Thursday next (for his Majesty's seat ,at Ardenne, as has been reported) for 'Paris, in order to be united with the Royal Family of France, to receive the Duke and Duchesa d'Aumale. Their Majesties are expected at the Palace at the Tuileries on Friday next. The voyages of the steamer between Antwerp and Flushing are stopped by the ice. The numerous suicides which have lately occurred in Prussia, in the prisons for debt, have drawn the attention of the Government to the serious question of imprisonment. It has the opinion of the most eminent lawyers. It is now under consideration whether imprisonment for debt shall not be wholly abolished, giving creditors some of the security. •
The Sun. — 1844-04-23 (London, England)

JOB AND POSTMASTERB.—We perceive that a dinner is to be given at the Freemasons' Tavern on Tuesday, the 30th instant, to celebrate the formation of the Job and Postmasters, Coach Proprietors, Horse Dealers, and Liverystable Keepers of England Provident Fund. A large number of honest and respectable men of these several callings have been utterly ruined b3' the decline of the posting business, arising from the rapid increase of railways and a variety of circumstances over which they had no control; we have, therefore, much pleasure in calling the attention of the public to this excellent society, which is deserving of every encouragement. The chair is to be taken by the Hon. Mr. P. S. Pierrepont. The President of the Society is the Duke of Richmond; and, amongst the Vice-Presidents, we find the names of the Earl of Chesterfield, the Earl Manners, the Earl of Rosalyn, the Earl of Stradbroke, the Earl of Pembroke, the lion. P. S. Pierrepont, the Right Hon. H. M. Pierrepont, Lord Worsley, Sir John Tyrell, Bart., Sir Bellingham Graham, Bart., H. Handley, )sq., M.P., and several other gentlemen of sporting or agricultural celebrity, Under such distinguished patronage we should hope that the Society cannot but succeed in carrying out the benevolent object to the fullest extent.  An inquest was held on Saturday at the Carlisle Arms, Queen-street, Soho, on the body of Gustave Boudry, aged 46, a native of Switzerland, and who formerly carried en an extensive business as a watchmaker in Frith-street. The deceased for some time had been under pecuniary ernbarra.ssinent, which appeared to prey upon his mind, and which, no doubt, induced•him to terminate his existence by hanging himself. About three years ago the deceased attempted to commit suicide by cutting his throat. A wife and four children are left destitute by the event. The jury returned a verdict of Insanity. An inquest was held on Saturday at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of William Henry Triptee, aged 13 years, the son of a silk-weaver, who was killed by the cab of Mr. Turner, of No. 22, Tree-court, Temple, passing over his head. It did not appear that Mr. Turner was driving rapidly at the time; and that gentleman said he was not aware of the melancholy occurrence until his cab was stopped. The accident occurred near Bow Church. The jury returned a verdict of Accidental death. Mr. Turner promised to do everything for the family that their circumstances demanded. His Majesty the Emperor of Austria will go in the course of this month to the Lettorale, and especially honour Trieste with a visit. This journey has revived the report of intended changes in the present division -and"' administration of that part of the empire.
The Sun. — 1844-11-14 (London, England)

PORDIGN. The Paris Potrie contains the following;—" It " that the Ministry, warned by the unanimous re tions of the press, is disposed to relax its rigour re:rit in.' the seventeen pupils of the Polytechnic Scheel, the Commission has proposed to expel, and thtats,%o amnesty, on the occasion of the Duke d'Aumaleele riage, is to open the doors of the school to thelpw days after the return of their comrades, which rm place towards the 15th or 18th of the month.".lr The Toulonnais mentions a report that Geller moriciere is to act as Governor of Algeria dais% absence of Marshal Bugeaud, who is expected 10 soon in France. A letter from Tangiers of the 30th ult. mentions ,0 port that Abd-el-Kader, after having taken ret Melilla, one of the Spanish presidios on the ore% Morocco, had withdrawn to the south, to avoid the $ cution of the orders communicated to him by the peror. The Comm; re says, the Government, after 11s laid its hands upon 129,000,000 of deposits .1' Savings' Banks, is about to take 100,00,000, and to provide by legislative means against to, s_de by the Treasury in a moment of crisis, when We aitors might call for reimbursement. During the last month, the consumption of °I Paris was 6,070 oxen, 1,495 cows, 6,044 caloe,e'l,o o'l 37,445 sheep ; being 116 oxen, 254 cows, 41 sheep less, and 537 valves more, than in October, Four youths, of from seventeen to twenty-004J of age, were tried on Saturday, by the Tribunal 04i; rectional Police, for having been guilty of gross Poe duet in mocking and insulting a funeral procession' ing a bacchanalian song to the notes of the fundis, and throwing stones at the mourners. 10 trial they expressed great contrition, and one 0!,„), priests who accompanied the procession recomrs;i, them to the indulgence of their judges. They e'er finedeach, without ievrisonment. woe A report has been reeeivetl from M. Petit, / .charged by the French Government with the hottle.ol ral experiments at the Marquesas. He states t.,,h10t the plantations of cabbage, carrots, !urnips, s beans, pease, salads, tobacco, sugar-cane, tee' ace apples, coffee, &c., have succeeded admirably, as many as three crops of tobacco are obtained aro-0 The clerk of a commercial house at Marseilleeni, was arrested a short time ago for the forgery of I Ist dorsement on a bill of exchange for 290/. sterlio_,,g' committed suicide in prison. A sum of 4,50011, 17,10 the proceeds of the fraud, were found upon him 1/he was arrested. The Duke de Leuchtenberg arrived at Munich ciiietl4r,' 4th inst. Until his return to St. Petersburgh Pew side alternately at Munich and Eichstadt. We learn from the German Universal Gazettli3O Mr. Holman, the celebrated blind traveller, is norirpek country of the Lower Danube. after having vis.,indyfo matia, Bosnia, and Wallachia. He is to visit .M°' and Transylvania before he returns to England.
The Sun. — 1844-03-22 (London, England)

PRIID.EIOB presented similar: petitions: from Shillbottle, in Northumberland.  The Earl of RADNOIi, took that opportunity to explain .that on a former occasion, when he referred to a meeting Which had been held in Yorkshire, respecti4 -the eorn-Jaws,..he had• not alluded to LortlYevershita, but Lord Harewood.  • After a few words from.the Duke of RICHMOND and the Duke of BuceLitren, the' matter dropped. The Bishop of EXETER gave notice that he would move for copies of any communicatious- which had been made between the Government and the Poorlaw authorities, respecting the case of Mary Miller, the unfortunate female who committed suicide,in a work house a short time ago. The MarquiS of NG/MAIO3Y presented a petition complaining of the operation of the •Act under which the Lanabeth Water-works was established. •  . The Earl of RADNOR said, the Noble Earl to 13,;h0m ,he had alluded on a fanner 9ceßsion (the Earl of Harewood) had -Stated a fact at the meeting in Yorkshire, and from that fact he drew an inference, which was that the, A nti-Corn-law League incited to, ineendiarism.- -He (the Earl of Radnor) had called the attention of the Noble Earl to the.paragraph in the newspaper in which the meeting was reported, and the. Noble Earl admitted, that it was correct. - 7 The Dnke of BUCCLEUCH said, that within the list four days he had seen Lard Harwood, and the conversation turned on this, very. subject, - -The Noble Earl Admitted that the report in the newspapers of what be had stated was .corrects but be did not admit that the inference which was drawn in the leading article of that paPer was Correct. The Noble Earl never-iniputd to the Anti-Gorn-lair League any attempt- .to incite to insurrection.  The Earl. of RADNOR said, the fact the Noble Eail (Barewood) had stated was, that a fanner had attended a pro Corn-law meeting in Norfolk; and the same night his sticks were burnt. The inference 'the Noble. Earl meant to draw from that. was,-that tha stack hid been ,burnt through the agency of the Anti-Corn-law League. Lord WHARNCLIFFE denied that -such- an inference could be drawn from the words Of the: Noble. Earl. Lord BEAUMONT said* he, was. at • thi elbow of the Neble Earl (Ilarewood) wheir-- :made. the speech to which the. noble . Earl . (Earl Radnor) had alliuled, and he was : sure that no person at • the meeting supposed. for, a moment that the Noble Earl intended to impute -to the Anti-COrn'law League any intention to incite' to incendiarisin. The Marquis of NORMANBY said he was neither a .pro-Corn-law man nor an " anti-corn-law man," but he thought it was to be regretted that Noble, Lords would make speeches from which objectionable-- inferences might be-drawn. -- -; - . •
The Sun. — 1844-04-25 (London, England)

SUICIDE. Between one and two in the afternoon of Monday last, the inhabitants of Belper, Derbyshire, were thrown into a state of great excitement by the announcement that a mechanic named Yeomans, for some time past employed at Messrs. Shutt's mills, had murdered his wife and afterwards cut his own throat. Yeomans was a married man, somewhere turned fifty, and had a family, the eldest son being married. It appears that for some time past he and his wife have not lived happily together, the cause being a suspicion by the husband of his wife's infidelity. On Monday morning, however, Yeomans was observed tc pace about the street in a distracted mood. He went into the Red Lica tap and asked for some gin, declaring that he would murder his wife.  In the course of the morning he called at a joiner's shop, and requested permission to sharpen a pocket-knife and a common table-knife, and, having done so, went away. About half-past one o'clock the next-door neighbour heard a knocking against the wall, and a terrific scream, and ors proceeding to the door found that it was locked. An alarm was given, and a blacksmith opened the door, when a most revolting spectacle rresented itself. In one part of the lower room, her head resting upon a chair, lay the body of Mrs. Yeomans, apparently. lifeless. About a yard from her lay her husband, weltering in blood, his throat dreadfully cut. On further investigation, it was found that neither party was dead, and two surgeons were immediately called in ; but Yeomans gasped his last immediately afterwards. The skull of the unfortunate woman was shockingly beaten with the poker, and she died the following day, having remained senseless during the interval. .  On the —floor near to where the body of Yeomans lay, a pocket-knife and a common table-knife, both covered with blood, were found. The supposition is, that after, as ho thought, killing his wife, he cut his throat with the pen-knife blade, but not succeeding, he then used the table-knife. The members of the family were all absent at the time the deed was committed. A poor crippled boy had been sent out of the way by the frenzied father. During the afternoon and evening thousands of people con. gregatel about the house, and the greatest excitement still prevails in the town.
The Sun. — 1844-06-25 (London, England)

GREENWOOD—How many times have you been convicted at the Old Bailey? Prisoner—Exactly three. Police-constable 275 N heard screams of " murder " proceed from the prisoner's dwelling, Greenman's-lane, No. 10, and on reaching it was informed that he had murdered his child. It turned out that, whilst beating his wife, who had the infant in her arms, he struck the latter a violent blow on the head, and to all appearances the child was dead. Medical aid was obtained The doctor said the injury was of a dangerous character, and the infant had been thrown into a fit by the blow. Mary Lee, the prisoner's wife confirmed the above statement. She held the poor little babe in arms. In answer to questions from the Magistrate, she stated that the prisoner had been courting her for twentyseven months previous to their marriage, twenty-three of which he had been in prison. Mr. GREENWOOD (to the prisoner)—What punishment were you sentenced to at the Old Bailey ? Prisoner—One three and two sixes (months).—(Latighter.) He was remanded for a fortnight. A young man of delicate and melancholy look, named James Davis, was charged with attempting to commit suicide. It appeared from the evidence, that the prisoner, who is an artisan, living in Greenhill's-rents, Clerkenwell, has been married lately to a female to whom he was greatly attached. On the:loth inst. he became jealous, and the green-eyed monster so completely possessed him that he drank a large quantity of laudanum in order to terminate his existence. He was taken to the North London Hospital by police-constable 92 E, who found him in Chichaster-place, soon after he had taken the poison, writhing with pain. He has been since then lying in the hospital. The prisoner said he was very sorry for what he had done, and that he believed his jealousy was unfounded. Mr. GREENWOOD said the offence had become so common that the judges had come to a determination to punish with rigour all such rash offenders. The magistrate sent the foolish fellow home to his wife, who, it appeared, had been almost as ill from fright as he had been from poison. Four agricultural labourers, named Beadle, Marshall, Mayor, and Gibson, were charged with begging. They were ragged, half-starved-looking, poor creatures. Bostock,-, a Mendicity constable, saw them, with six others of the same class, begging in Woburn-square on that morning • he offered them employment at the Mendicity, but they declined. At a later period of the day he saw the whole ten walk abreast down Liquorpondstreet, singing " The Farmer's Boy," with a voice of dolorous pitch—he took them into custody. Gibson had no money ; Mayor, lid. ; Marshall, 10d., but Beadle had 128. lid. npon him. The prisoners declared they could find no employment in their native places, and had resorted to begging to save themselves from starving. They were dis charged, with a caution. Timothy Reddy was charged with assaulting police-consta. ble, E 24.  II go/