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The Sun. — 1838-10-11 (London, England)

STEAM NAVIGATION.—A few days since the et.,rn-chip, belonging to the General Steam Navigation Company, on her way to Antwerp, witlvthe tide. performed the distance from the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, to Gravesend, a distance of 20 miles, in one hour and four minutes. We believe this is the quickest passage on record. The Rainbow has become an object of great curiosity from the extraordinary speed she has displayed, rad ,as proving beyond a doubt the safety and durability of iron-built vessels at sea. The spirited Company to which she belongs, in order .to save the expense and inconvenience of small boats, land and embark their passengers at the Blackwall Wharf. This arrangement has afforded much satisfaction, and the dangerous and circuitous passage of the Pool is avoided. STATE OF TRADE —The yarn market continues so exceedingly depressed that the spinners who reel for exporr tation are generally talking of working short time; and it is understoed that a number of extensive firms in Manchester and the immediate neighbourhood will cease to light up their factories after the present week ; a plan which, if generally adopted, will cause a considerable diminution in the quantity of yarn produced. The demand for goods is also limited, and pricei rather lower than last week.-.-.llfanchester Guardiam YeEterday afternoon an inquiry took place a before highly Mr. Higgs, the Coroner for Westminster, and respectable jury, at the Feathers Tavern, Dean-street, - tr et, W es 2tminster, relative to the death of Mary Shepherd, aged 25, who on Monday evening committed suicideby drowning herself near Westminster-bridge. distressing case have already been fully detailed additional evidence following I press :f Tuesday. The The rtaariltemdulainrs tohfethpisudbliiscG bsetrs'elf into the river, near the that was adduced:—John o lev, a waterman, proved having seen the deceased throwiesex shore, on the lower side of floating pier, on the Middlesex c a watchman in the employ of the bridge. wa,,h.ionghave the contract for repairing discovered the body, which and landing the same at about half-past thel‘ie s 'brrsid bridge, b telt Plibr:te; builder, dCetrrosa, laid in the mud, -It had been in the water about five hours. twelve:s,,ry lastrrnigighlti,t. of Isabella-street, Gibson-street, Lambeth, stated that she knew the deceased, who was a wet nurse, and in easy circumstances. She lodged with witness, The ; deceased had had a child, but it was dead. Within the last tittnight she had been very uneasy, and much depressed in spirits, but maiasined a sullen silence as to the cause. Once -'2,ted to witness that she was married, but subsequently fact, although she wore a wedding•ring. Verdict Temporary Derangement."  31AILS - Arrive S. Due Arrived. Due. A rrirtst. Due. .) 1 1 Frazee. 0 0 tt'' 0 ...... 0 1 Gums. yre... 0 0 &Jersey 0I 0 51,...»......»a ...»......» Hamburg !) carthaceua•.,... 0 tioiland .•....... 1 0 Oiter.Ll•• •...... 0 t 0 Jaraa-ca 0I 0 Swrtiera... .... 0 1 Pander, ..... 0 0 •Leeward Islands 0 1 Wat,rford ... 0
The Sun. — 1838-11-07 (London, England)

ISLINGTON- NESTRY CLERK.—A contest is on going in the parish of Islington for the situation of Vestry Clerk, vacant by the suicide of Mr. Oldershaw. The son of this gentle Man, who has left behind him no honourable remembrances in the parish, is a candidate to fill his father's situation ; and he is taken up, we see, by that clique in the parish with which his father was for many years closely connected, and of whose parish schemes he was the instrument or the author. The young man, therefore, seems to be supported by this party as their agent or instrument. But before it is carried into effect, there is one consideration which we desire to press on the attention i())ef the parishioners. There is a probability that the poor wholly removed from under the trustees, and own, to be body of Guardians, who will have a clerk of their much the placed under a paid out of the parish funds. This will lightenasevery the parish. labour of the vestry clerk, as it will thatincre before a new expense, and it is, therefore, proper andclerkp rboeb aappointed, e al na labours, ianptoporhiiisiperciesseeof cried, by the necessity of buying r orations. The, people of Iscordingly. Municipal and other Raepformasehvaevsetebdeeinntmerueeshtsdeoi officers of the unreformed Crtoupity inquiry and b e institutedthe salary o of guarding against a similington should take andtheoppe whoever may be elected to fill the lar demand on them, the salary which vacancy ought, at leastftotucronmeroudnudoetiroanns eiungagernent to tak the office subject to all u THE NEW HISTORICAL toRK.---We are requestedmay be thought state that Mr. Colb':an, of Great Marlborough.. to . advis,able. will, w "The Protectorate of Oliver isaliP'Series of Letters between the distinguishedPl" of the time, now first published from the "Crreoemt'w Cromwell, illustrated th lthis dalPu•lb:11 original' . ir Edited by Robert Vaughan, D. D., Professo:- of as.istory, in University College, London, &c. Witt( Notes, onfdbiasnTlinmterosd.,u, ctory Essay on the Character of Cromwell arid In 2 vols. bvo., with Portraits. Agents: for Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh ; for Ireland, Mr. John Cumming, Dublin. Orders received by all Booksellers.
The Sun. — 1838-09-20 (London, England)

HREE O'CLOCK.  CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. The " Animals' Friend Society," of Mark-lane, last week caused Mr. William Krisp and -- Watts to be fined for cruelty to their horses. The Society also charged the hackney coachman 393 with having violently whipped a horse over the head and cars while standing quietly in the ranks, which offence the coachman did not deny ; but Alderman Farebrother said he did not consider that there was any cruelty in whipping a horse over the ears and dismissed the charge with costs on the prosecutor ! •  A few days since a young woman of Northfleet attempted to commit suicide by throwing herself into a well. An immediate alarm was given by a man who had witnessed the act from a short distance, and a person having been at once lowered in the bucket, brought her up from the bottom, a distance of 96 feet, in a state of insensibility. On being examined by a medical gentleman, it was found that she had received no further injury than that occasioned by the shock from falling such a distance, having miraculously escaped from touching either side of the well. There being from three to four feet of water at the bottom at the time, it had broken her fall. _ .  Accordin, to Sam Slick there are certain provinces in the United States where Scotchmen in mercantile concerns arc as simple as babes, and Jews starve The cattle are dying off at a shocking rate in sotrie parts of New Hampshire by some unknown disease. The bodies putrify so soon after death, that it is necessary to bury them immediately. Some persons had been poisoned by attempting to skin the dead animals.—Gazette. The sugar manufactured from beetroot in France is stated to amount annually to 55,000 tons, or one-half of the entire consumption of the kingdom. _  r • IRISII MouNTAINB.--Th Ihe highest mountains in Ireland, as ascertained by the Ordnance Survey, now in progress, are (4irrance Tual, (Kerry), 3,404 feet ; Brandon, (ditto), 3,120 ; Lugnaquill, (Wicklow), 3,039 ; Gaultimore, (Tipperary), 3,008. Three poachers were fined 20/. each at Tralee, last week, for killing a hare without license. John Wall of Fermor, was arrested in Drogheda a few days since for tithes, amounting to about 6/., and 3601. costs 1  A beautiful specimen of the rose-coloured starling (turdus rosens, Lihn.) was lately shot at Magilligan. ThiS bird is a very rare visitant in this country. It is found in viirious parts of Europe, Asia, and Africa, and is generally migratory. It seems to prefer the warmer climates, is fond of locusts, and frequf-nts the places where those destructive insects abound ; on which account it is held samed by the inhabitants of those countrit•s infested by them. —.Waterford Chronicle,
The Sun. — 1838-09-22 (London, England)

SHY AND SHIRE.—A musical wag at Glouces to festival, remarked, in allusion to the scanty attendance, ;hat there was a shy cathedral in the morning, and a shyer :shire) hall at night. _  _ , . A horrible occurrence took- place the Sunday before last in the parish church of Figeac, in the department of the Lot. A stranger had been observed for soma time walking in silence in front of the church, when a woman, who was also a stranger, entered and approached the sacred vessel containing the holy water. Just at this moment the male stranger rushed into the church, seized the woman, and immediately Cut her throat with a razor which he carried about his person. He then coolly gave himself up to the persons who advanced to arrest him. On being conveyed to prison, ho declarsd that -his victim was his own wife, and in a few minutes after this avowal expired in the most frightful convulsions, occasioned by his having swallowed a strong dose of poison immediately before Om perpetration of the murder. Nothing is known as to the motive for this assassination and suicide. On Thursday last the household goods and effects of, an old man who died in Kendal a few weeks ago were put into the hands of the auctioneer. Among other things offered for sale was an old knapsack which had belonged to the deceased -alien he vi as in the Westmoreland militia. The knight of the hammer, hearing something rattle in the knapsack, put in his hand, and brought out two pieces of white paper, neatly folded up, and a piece of blue paper, which, on being opened, contained twusiaeoni,wnaddstwmhoobevLeneeereigni; this led to the examination of the two pieces of white paper, and they proved to be bank checks for the'sum of 6101—Boston Herald. •
The Sun. — 1838-12-18 (London, England)

THE COMIC AL2IIANACK FOR 1839. Tilt, London, 1838. There is much humourous prose and verse in this Vila' zical little volume, which is a strange jumble of facts an, fam!ies, and is appropriately edited by 't Rigdutn Funnid°,2, Esq."--a descendant, no doubt, of that same Rigdum w"" figures so conspicuously in Carey's mock tragedy of t‘ CV?' nonhotonthologos." The illustrations are all by Cruiksbans,, and never did George exhibit his powers of grotesque ea_ri riot cature in greater variety. He places before us as a collection of flees as ever were made by Liston or Muni' den in their most palmy chi s. Each Month is represent° by some rare pictorial whimsy or other. April "is dins' Crated by a plate entitled the" First Day of Term," in which the Judges are shown breakfasting with the Lord Chali cellar, and demolishing the good things on his table with a the gusto of long-practised Aldermen. One moon-faced oij Judge, in particular, who is busy cutting into a fine cold sirloio _ of beet; displays an array of grinders that might do credit in a shark, and grins from ear to ear with an evident conscious: ness of supreme felicity. March" is exemplified as follows; A patty of friends are dining together on " Easter Snot% off a 'eg of lamb ; and a very young Ignoramus in the noud science of carving is volunteering to cut up the aforesaid leg. The consequences may be anticipated. The rash youngster—as ambitious and as unsuccessful as Pha3tan a capsizes the dish ; sends his knife spinning one wary °a his fork another ; dislodges a neighbourirg decanter, and baptizes a fat man's lap with the contents thereof ; having thus thrown a whole party into the lowest depths of tribulation, looks about him with an expression of wilea sheepishness and remorse exquisitely asinine! " May" is ,; phined by the " Concert Season." An ugly trio, consist of' two men and a woman, are squalling together in a peu"concert-room, apparently much to the horror of the °rebe; tra in attendance, who look just as if the tympanum of ea„ man's ear had sustained a compound fracture. The coon" tenances of the warbling triumvirate are eminently Grin"' shank-ish in their fantastic drollery. But decidedly cleverest engraving in the volume is that wherein tt Novenl: her " is represented by a " Joint Stock Suicide Club." we see a small knot of Inconsolables seated round a table, on which, by way of ornament, is placed a coffin with skull and cross-bones on the top of it ; daggers, razors, bottle' of gin, opium, and prussic acid are placed before each Per: son ; and the room is embellished with two remarkably lively prints—one representing a man hanging, and the other, a man drowning. As for the Club, never did hue' eyes behold such a set of woe-begone visages as they ef‘. hibit ! The skull has the jolliest phiz of thou 8, The various prose and poetic sketches attached to th7f,. prints are written, many of them, with considerable vivan',,, Indeed, we do not know when we have seen a more lath' ing little work.
The Sun. — 1860-07-11 (London, England)

TION IN FRANCE.-A man named Duclos Do. Preference ... • - 100 Do. ' 115 120 II correct information for the religieu be oth chance of acquiring EXECUTION ago condemned to death by the Court of Lon.,Tilby.& Soutend 100 Lowestoft gu 4 D • Peto & Co. 92 94 Norfolk - t- that he would have had to encounsteerelisus• He had no idea was some time a„ f r the murder of a widow to whom he Do. 6"per denta.: - 'el I°° .„. •• . 100 Do. r. bill, and he gave the Dissenters ereditarh opposition to the Assizes of Paris o . be married, but the condemnation was Manc.,Buxtn. &as atk. all L NW&If 2f ' 3 oppos • ition He believed that thisor sincerity in their was engaged to technical irregularity, and he was sent Mid. Bradford Prefer- i opposition feeling and sentiment, and not on sound was based on quashed for some . of Versailles to be tried anew. once Stock ..... • ... 100 Midland 96 98 97 ever, and r the circumstances, he felt bound to • withdraw The trial ended by his being condemned N guaranteed crasi'n.l) a 1 E.Counts iiP the words in question. (Cheers.) in that town was carried into effectp.c. all Do. Mr. B. OSBORNE contended that there Was time, and the sentence t. A few days ago he peti• Do. do. d per cent .... all Do. - _ s, between France and Prussia and this coup Bno analogy the morning before I,s comminution of punish- Forth xed 5 per cent. all Do. Ld former the Government subsidised the different sefor in the tinned the Emperor for a rejected. The priest - Western the Dissenters in this country repudiated Os, while teen; but the petition 'LtzislV wa.s h vino. employed very Prestos and Wyre. all ,:L.yk. 1 - any lowanco. He considered that the practice State al- who was in attendance on bin! a , mason- Do. 4 Stare of a free co e this the condemned s A. all Do. - _ 1 like America would be a better precedent for - unlrY cautions language to announce 7 commutation had been Roystn.Hitch.,&S•hep 100 Gt. North. 136 139 and the opinion in that country was ver h .England, derstood him, and fancying that the comm shall not have my Shrewsbry& Hereford 100 T.Brassey 103 106 demand for a declaration of religious y fostle to any granted, cried out, ‘, The scoundrels t ears will Do. Do. I 1 defended the returns of Mr. HoraceproAersasion. He head I I will go to Cayenne, and iu twetnimye yinformed Southllts aSotnoordsehisre ..1 all 31`Clean.. it! 11 which, he asserted, that the Bishop of Oxford av nil' •with return to France I " He at the same tit of var- Wimbledon &rnerro 111-.1 100 Gt. West., 91 93_ Y all L.& Brgtn 74 84 d so far as that right reverend prelate's diocese was atisfied the priest that he had collected a ertat! y suicide, itting
The Sun. — 1860-07-26 (London, England)

LONDON DURING TIL?  WEEK.  (From the Registrar-General's Report.)  In the week that ended last Saturday the number of deaths registered in London was 975. For the corresponding weeks of the tea years 1850.59, the average number of deaths is found, with correction for increase of population, to be 1156. The result of the comparison is satisfactory; for the actual number of deaths in last week was less by 181 than the estimated number.  The deaths from small-pox were not more than 11. There were 51 from measles ; 4 of which occurred in the Belgrave subdistrict, 3 in St. Mary (St. George-in-the-East), 4 in the Leather-market, Bermondsey, and,3 in:the East subdistrict of Green: with. There were 32 from scarlatina ;4 of which occurred in Poplar. Diarrhoea exhibits a slight increase, for it was fatal in the two previous weeks in 12 and 21 cases respectively, last week in 32. There were also 2 deaths from cholera, viz,, that of a woman aged 22 years, on the 16th inst., at 42, Wellington place, Mile-eud Old-town; and that of a w•iinan aged 55 years, on the same day, at 22, Tottenham-place, Tottenham-court-road, from cholera (15 hours) convulsions. A boy aged 3 years died from burns received by lucifer matches. A captain, R.N., aged 58 years, died from " coup de soleil (8 years), hemiplegia (1 year), hypertrophy of the heart." A pril ate soldier killed himself by jumping from a window of the Grenadier Guards' Hospital, and a corporal of the Royal Artillery at Woolwich also committed suicide by throwing himself from a window 45 feet from the ground. Last week the births of 809 boys and 827 girls, in all 1636 children, were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 185059 the average number was 1530.
The Sun. — 1860-12-20 (London, England)

NCE.—COURT MARTIAL ON BOARD TILE VIC • I°llY--The court re-assembled on board her Majesty's 411iP Victory yesterday morning, and continued the examination of the witnesses for the prosecution. The court then eleared, and after about an hour's deliberation, the deputy Judge advocate read the decision of the court, as regarded .atr. Palmer, boatswain, and the two seamen, which stated that having examined the officers and crew, there apPeered to be no evidence by which blame could be imputed te Ur. Palmer, or to Dither, or to Williams, seamen ; the n,,anort therefore adjudged therm to be severally acquitted. The court then proceeded to try Captain Power, and Mr. 'l`Parlane, master. Evidence was proceeding when our Parcel was despatched. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE AT ItY.—On Tuesday evening the young woman Jane rieoney, who was shot by her sweetheart on Thursday night ,net, was supposed to be rapidly improving, being able to "up in bed and converse. The orifice formed by the slug entering her neck still remains open ; and it has been di.ecsvered that the passage to the throat is complete, for when ilhe receives food, which is generally in a fluid state, a portion of it passes through the aperture to the outside of the n?ek. At the time when she was shot she was suffering from ulcerated sore throat; bat the inflammation has now con;lollerably subsided, and it is probable that she will soon Cover. The slug, which was supposed to be lodged near base of the skull, has not yet been discovered. The prisoner Leather has been removed to the New Bailey, ore he will remain until he has to appear on remand. bo,Tthe launch .of the Government steam adv 1.,L4 Curiesx took place two days ago at Honfleur with per01'L!success. She will shortly be towed to Havre to take e'Lboard her engines, after which she will proceed to .4erbourg to complete her fitting out,
The Sun. — 1860-04-11 (London, England)

GUILDHALL—ANOTHER VICTIM OF THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER..--ARD Ginty, a decentlooking woman, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by swallowing a quantity of laudanum.  Broom, 156, said he was called to a room on the second floor at 3, Charlotte-court, Redcross-street, where he found the Erisener suffering from the effects of poison. He saw an empty bottle labelled laudanum, on the table, and she said she had taken it all, alluding to the previous contents of the bottle. He procured medical assistance, and as soon as the prisoner was in a condition to be removed he took her to the police station. Alderman Hale—ls this the first attempt she has ever made upon her life ?  Officer—o, Sir; she made a similar attempt about six weeks ago. Alderman Hale—And what is the cause of these attempts to destroy herself?  Springate, the gaoler—She tells me, your worship, that it is jealousy of her husband, and she has been on her knees all the morning praying for forgiveness. The husband here came forward, and corroborated the gaoler's statement. Alderman Hale—How long have you been married to the prisoner ? The husband being unable to answer the question, the officer supplied the information, stating that they had been married only eight months. Alderman Hale, addressing the prisoner, said— You must be a very foolish woman to poison yourself because your husband is unfaithful to you; and let me remind you that the offence you contemplated is a most serious one, for the commandment, "Thou shalt do no murder," applies equally to the taking of your own life as that of another. Prisoner—l will never do the same again, sir. I will pray for forgiveness. Alderman Hale—Very well. Upon that promise I will let you go home with your husband; but if you :are :brought here again on such a charge you will most assuredly be tried at the Old Bailey for it.
The Sun. — 1860-04-21 (London, England)

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. - WWI Trelawney (List - 54 30 31 tial for mutilating himself. It is stated that Hurley on Su Business FOREIGN MINES • a previous occasion attempted to commit suicide by drown- Railways. raid. Leasing Closing eblic- : ing himself, and it would seem that he is a man of rather Co.'s. Price. Done. 20 f, Australian 1 IBonAceordCopeer,Lim. 15e * d par 11 1 Weak intellect. Bedford and Bletchley all lan & Neer .. .. 1 35 . razil. Imp. (is. at £5 pa 271 - lone The French army has just lost another of its Buckinghamshire N.W 46 98 1 20 Do.StJohndelßey,Lira. lel 23 24 234 )I•Ceti, 'veterans of the first Empire, Col. Menai(' de Loisne. The Chester & Holyhead.. 100 De . Do. do. 54 p. et 100 Do.' 515 511 511 4 114 120 125 6 5 Do. Land and Mining Co. all - 1 Clarendon Cons.Miu Co. # - - d of mleceated, born in 1768, was appointed a cadet in the WalIse -Do. do. 5• '• '" 100 p. ct. Do. 'ken Guard, in the service of the King of in 1783, OlydesdaleJunction..l 100 Caledonin 103 105 - Copiapo l6 11 13 sand was present at the blockade of Gibraltar. Spain,He come Colchester, Stour Val .I all E.U.&E Cl 6 17 1 DunMoun.Cop.Ming.Co all 4 ,f the . madded a company of the Walloon Guards with the rank E.Lincobashire,g.6sp.o 100 Gt. North. 139 142 2 Fortuna. io I.°l. •of colonel. When Napoleon entered Spain in 1808, he im- E Union,Harwich hs all E.Counts. 4} 44 20 General all 2.3 25 234 • Do. Woodbridge ... 100 mediately joined the banner of his own country, and was - - 2 Gt. N. Cop. of S. Austr 1 1 d a p Gle.Barn&Neils,Dret. 100 ,Caledonin - - 11 Kapunda (Limited)..... 1 1 11 tto -charged by Napoleon with organising a regiment of Do. New 1100 Do. 3 Livares all 101 111 an * Spaniards. He took part in most of the battles in Spain Gloster& Dean Forest I all , Gt. West. - - 5 Lusitanian between 1808 and 1814. During the Hundred Days, he Hartlpool.Dck.&Rail.! en Yk.N.&Br -- 1 1 Mariquita all 1 1 was entrusted with the command of Calais, and finally re- Hull and Selby the tired from the service after the. Emperor's departure for St. Do. 1 Shares ..... - ..- 20 Pontgiband Silver, Lead in the' Xelena. Do. e Sheres ....- all Do. LancetCaragua.s p.o. 100 LneeNlW 207 210 Mining and Smelt.... all 5 6 5 Port Philip 1 4 I ArtYf STEAMSHIP BUILDING ON THE CLYDE,London&Greenevich . 100 S. East .. 63 65 1 Scottish Australn. (L.)... 106 1 4 par To. :Messrs. Todd and Macgregor have just completed a paddle Do. Preference ea to =steamer 200 feet long, 22 feet in breadth of beam, and 11 Lon.,Tilby.&Sontend , 100 IPeto &Co. 96 48 1 Worthing (Limited).... all 1 , the'. feet depth of hold. The boilers are tubular surface con- Leweetoft, gua. tp. cti 100 INortolk .. - - 1 Do. boa' 'dossers, and the diameter of the paddles is 171- feet. The Do. 6 per cent ' 100 Do. Manc.,Bnxtn.&Matk all 'LN W&M -2 -3 1