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The Sun. — 1861-04-01 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—This morning an elderly female, named Harriet Meyer, was charged before Mr. witti "ttempth.g to drown hprsplf ; the Lt—Nr Lea. The poor woman said pecuniary embarrassment had driven her to desperation. After a caution the magistrate discharged her on het daughter promising to take care of her.  a d a (11 s d s d Inferior beef .. 2 8 3 2 ' Middlingmutton 4 0 4 4 Middling do. .. 3 4 3 6 Prime do .. 4 6 4 8 Prime large do 3 6 3 8 Veal 4 6 5 4 Do. small do. .. 3 10 4 0 Small pork Large pork .... 3 10 4 4 Lamb Inferior mutton. 3 6 3 10  The Perseveranza publishes the following letter, dated from the banks of the Mincio, 25th March : " A convoy of Croats arrived at Verona last night. It is said a promise has been made to them that they shall not be employed outside the Quadrilateral. The Austrians are taking measures which seemingly indicate an approaching war. The officers speak publicly of soon entering the Duchies and Lombardy. Besides sisters of eharity, guides and field-telegraphs have also arrived. An order was sent yesterday to all officers and workmen employed on the fortification to send home their families. Two large counting offices at Verona have been ordered to be turned into military hospitals. The new works at Peschiera are carried on with the greatest activity, the men working even on holydays."  BURFORD'S PANORAMA ROYAL .--The price of admission to this highly interesting exhibition has, until the present time, precluded the million from witnessing those wonderful senic specimens which have for years been extensively patronised by the higher and middle classes. In order, however, to afford those who have not yet had an opportunity of inspecting Mr. Burford's great Pictgres' the price of admission to the whole exhibition has been reduced from 2s. 6d. to one shilling. Thousands will no doubt avail themselves of the new arrangement of prices, and we as the price of entry to his exhibition in Leicester Square' Herr Molique's oratorio of " Ab raham," eom.eto maristocratic i trust the proprietor will have no cause to regret the change he e hase thead n adopting hI f a ': thee r magicra: in prefern posed expressly for the festival at Norwich, which took place last autumn, will be performed for the first time in. London on the 17th inst. in aid of the funds of the Middlesex Hospital. The oratorio will be .conducted by the
The Sun. — 1861-04-01 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—This morning an elderly female, named Harriet Meyer, was charged before Mr. Woolrych with attempting to drown herself in the river Lea. The poor woman said pecuniary embarrassment had driven her to desperation. After a caution the magistrate discharged her on her daughter promising to take care of her.  The Perseveranza publishes the following letter, dated from the banks of the Mincio, 25th March : " A convoy of Croats arrived at Verona last night. It is said a promise has been made to them that they shall not be employed outside the Quadrilateral. The Austrians are taking measures which seemingly indicate an approaching war. The officers speak publicly of soon entering the Duchies and Lombardy. Besides sisters of charity, guides and field-telegraphs have also arrived. An order was sent yesterday to all officers and workmen employed on the fortification to send home their families. Two large counting offices at Verona have been ordered to* be turned into military hospitals. The new works at Peschiera are carried on with the greatest activity, the men working even on holydays." A letter from Venice, dated 23d of March, says— " The Austrian army is daily receiving reinforceTrents. Battalions of Croats will garrison the foresses of the Quadrilateral and the left bank of the Po. When formerly the Grenzer (border troops) arrived in Italy it was looked upon as a sure sign of approaching war. Various warlike indications have taken place lately. Vicenza by Marshal Archdukes Albert and William,ed 13en Atk a review held at e ,inan p r e seennecrea lo Rf et ihse.. chak and Stadion, the Marshal maddeGuse of very warlike language. The Archduke Leopold has been investigating the fortifications here, which are being greatly strengthened. A strong reserve of artillery is to be placed in the Frioul, so as to he able to send batteries as promptly as possible into Venetia or Istria."
The Sun. — 1861-12-31 (London, England)

WORSHIP-STREET.— Louisa Duncan, a miserable-looking woman of 26 or 27, was charged with larceny. Between three and four o'clock on Saturday the prisoner walked into the shop of Mr. James Beecher, a tailor in Spitalfields, and, taking up the first thing that came to her hand, which happened in this ease to be a remnant of cotton print, ran out with it. Mr. Beecher followed, caught her, and brought her back, and on the constable being sent for the stolen property was found thrust into her pocket. Under her arm, too, was a dress, which it was then ascertained had likewise been stolen. As she seemed to have a fancy for robbing this particular shop, she having been convicted in August of stealing something from it and sentenced to three months' imprisonment, the prosecutor gave her in charge. As soon as she heard that she was to be charged, she dropped down in a fit, or what looked very much like one. On recovering from this she was taken to Spitalfields station and locked up in a cell, but she had not been long there when Ross of the H division, on going round to look after the prisoners, and opening her cell, was astonished to find her stretched on her back on the floor, nearly black in the face, and almost strangled by her shawl which she had tied firmly round the throat. He removed her from that cell and placed her in another, when the prisoner spitefully kicked him. In a very short time after she had been lodged in the second cell some one called out she was killing herself, and it was then found that she was trying to strangle herself, and it was found necessary to put an off constable near the cell, that he might constantly watch her. The prisoner now pleaded guilty, with an expression of regret, and Mr. Leigh sentenced her to another term of a month in the House of Correction, with an entry on the commitment of her attempted suicide, that she might be reasoned with and properly looked after.
The Sun. — 1861-12-31 (London, England)

WORSHIP-STREET. Louisa Duncan, a miserable-looking woman of 26 or 27, was charged with larceny. Between three and four o'clock on Saturday the prisoner walked into the shop of Mr. James Beecher, a tailor in Spitalfields, and, taking up the first thing that came to her hand, which happened in this case to be a remnant of cotton print, ran oat with it. Mr. Beecher followed, caught her, and brought her back, and on the constable being sent for the stolen property was found thrust into her pocket. Under her arm, too, was a dress, which it was then ascertained had likewise been stolen. As she seemed to have a fancy for robbing this particular shop, she having been convicted in August of stealing something from it and sentenced to three months' imprisonment, the prosecutor gave her in charge. As soon as she heard that she was to be charged, she dropped down in a fit, or what looked very much like one. On recovering from this she was taken to Spitalfields station and locked up in a cell, but she had not been long there when Ross of the H division, on going round to look after the prisoners, and opening her cell, was astonished to find her stretched on her back on the floor, nearly black in the face, and almost strangled by her shawl which she had tied firmly round the throat. He removed her from that cell and placed her in another, when the prisoner spitefully kicked him. In a very short time after she had been lodged in the second cell some one called out she was killing herself, and it was then found that she was trying to strangle herself, and it was found necessary to put an off constable near the cell, that he might constantly watch her. The prisoner now pleaded guilty, with an expression of regret, and Mr. Leigh sentenced her to another term of a month in the House'of Correction, with an entry on the commitment of her attempted suicide, that she might be reasoned with and properly looked after.
The Sun. — 1861-05-09 (London, England)

GHYCZY. We are told that the riouso raised a cry of despair, and that several ladies in the galleries were carried away fainting. M. DEAN, the Venerab!e Minister of Justice in 1848, a man of as much moderation as firmness, "in a voice stifled by emotion," proposed to adjourn the sittings of the House till the following Monday—doubtless to give time for inquiry. It is not to be wondered at that the city of Pesth is much excited, for the Count was held in universal esteem by all parties. What does it mean ? What does it portend ?—is the universal inquiry. People are not only shocked, but alarmed.  There is no denying the fact that not only in Pestb, but -wherever the telegram comes from which we publish this day, the question will be asked,"'Was this an ordinary murder or suicide?" It may be so. The report that it was suicide has been put in circulation, but is not believed. 'Why not ? There is but one answer. The Hapsburgs and their Jesuit advisers of the day may be as innocent as we are of the murder, if murder it be, or it may be suicide; but the Hapsburg character is one which makes suspicion of the Imperial family the most natural. The family, we say, for there is one female member of it as well as male members, and favourite advisers, on whom suspicion would rest as naturally as on any. What a melancholy thing that a House should reign over the country which the old school of English Statesmen are disposed to pet and dandle as a useful ally to England—of whom this horrid suspicion is not out of place. The dynasty which could be guilty of the horrid atrocity of setting the Gallician peasants to murder their nobles and reward them for doing it, is not wronged by being suspected of the murder of Count
The Sun. — 1861-05-09 (London, England)

GHYCZY. We are told that the ?Louse raised a cry of despair, and that several ladies in the galleries were carried away fainting. M. DEAK, the Venerable Minister of Justice in 1848, a man of as much moderation as firmness, " in a voice stifled by emotion," proposed to adjourn the sittings of the House till the following Monday—doubtless to give time for inquiry. It is not to be wondered at that the city of Pesth is much excited, for t..e Count was held in universal esteem by all parties. What does it mean ? What does it portend ?—is the universal inquiry. People are not only shocked, but alarmed. There is no denying the fact that not only in Pestb, but wherever the telegram comes from which we publish this day, the question will be asked, "Was this an ordinary murder or suicide?" It may be so. The report that it was suicide has been put in circulation, but is not believed. Why not ? There is but one answer. The Hapsburgs and their Jesuit advisers of the day may be as innocent as we are of the murder, if murder it be, or it may be suicide; but the Hapsburg character is one which makes suspicion of the Imperial family the most natural. The family, we say, for there is one female member of it as well as male members, and favourite advisers, on whom suspicion would rest as naturally as on any. What a melancholy thing that a House should reign over the country which the old school of English Statesmen are disposed to pet and dandle as a useful ally to England—of whom this horrid suspicion is not out of place. The dynasty which could be guilty of the horrid atrccity of setting the Gailician peasants to murder their nobles and reward them for doing it, is not wronged by being suspected of the murder of Count
The Sun. — 1861-01-25 (London, England)

THE WALBROOK MI7.I2DER.  Yesterday Mr. W. H. Phillips, deputy coroner for the Wolverhampton district, held an inquest at the Wallbrook Tavern, Wallbrook, near to the Princess End station of the West Midland Railway, on the body of Elizabeth Lewis, a married woman, aged 30, whose throat was cut on the 21st of November last by John Stephenson, a lodger. Stephenson made improper advances to the deceased, who resented them, and he cut her throat with a razor. Having left her for dead, be drew the razor across his own throat, and almost immediately fell a corpse by the side of the unoffending woman. In his case the jury returned a verdict offelo de se, and his body was interred with the customary indignities accompanying the burial of a self-murderer. Not the faintest hope was entertained of the woman's recovery during at least a fortnight after she had received her injuries. BYr, that time, however, she had begun to mend, and. continued to improve till she could talk audibly and with ease, and meat and wine formed part of her diet. On the 16th inst., however, she left her room without the ,knowledge of her surgeon (MrSmith), and taking cold, was compelled to return to her bed. In two days she was suffering front bronchitis, and, on the 21st inst., just two lunar months from the day on which she received her wound, she died of asphyxia produced by an attack of bronchitis supervening on the wound in the windpipe. Her case was a remarkable instance of suceosstul surgical treatment. A post mortent examination of the throat made yesterday by MrSmith showed that the windpipe had been quite divided, excepting the small membranous portion behind, in the position just below the larynx, yet the several parts had been brought into perfect apposition, and the wound had thoroughly healed. Before her relapse, occasioned by the most reprehensible incaution, Mr. Smith had entertained confident expectation of her recovery being complete enough with due caution to enable her to resume her usual duties. It was shown that the deceased and her relatives were prone to cancerous diseases, which, added to the very dangerous`position of the would and the poverty of the patient, caused the progress that she made towards a complete recovery the more remarkable. It being the surgeon's opinion that the wound in the throat was the primary cause of death, and the evidence as adduced on the inquest of her murderer being again related by the several witnesses; the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against John Stephenson.
The Sun. — 1861-11-01 (London, England)

THAMES.  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—Sarah Smith, a married woman, of No. 7, Duff's-fields, Poplar, was brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with attempting to commit suicide. A large number of persons of both sexes have been brought to this court at various times, for many years past, charged with attempting self-destruction, and the custom has been almost invariably to remand offenders for a week, to receive spiritual admonition and consolation from the Rev. Mr. Jephson, the excellent chaplain of the House of Detention, and upon their being brought up a second time, to discharge them with some good advioe. This course of proceeding has not, and probably never will, stay the progress of a crime which the magistrates have so often declared is alike forbidden by divine and human laws. A few days since a boy named Thomas Buckley saw the prisoner at the side of the " Cut," a branch of the River Lea at Bromley. She threw herself into the water, and the boy called out for help. A man threw a leather strap towards the prisoner, retaining hold of one end of it himself. It did not reach her, and another man a blacksmith, jumped into the stream and brought her out, apparently lifeless, and it was some time before she was resuscitated.  Inspector Beare, of the K division, said the prisoner had been in the workhouse under medical treatment for several days, and she was broight from there this morning to answer for her conduct and give some account of herself. He heard that the prisoner was separated from her husband, and was 30 years of age. She would have been drowned if a man had not sprung into the water with his clothes on and saved her. The prisoner said she did not know whether she fell in the water or threw herself in. She was in a good deal of trouble and very ill. The prisoner was remanded to the Clerkenwell House of Detention fora week,
The Sun. — 1861-11-01 (London, England)

THAMES.  ATTEMPTED SIIICIDE.—Sarah Smith, a married woman, of No. 7, Duff's-fields, Poplar, was brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with attempting to commit suicide. A large number of persons of both sexes have been brought to this court at various times, for many years past, charged with attempting self-destruction, and the custom has been almost invariably to remand offenders for a week, to receive spiritual admonition and consolation from the Rev. Mr. Jephson, the excellent chaplain of the House of Detention, and upon their being brought up a second time, to discharge them with some good advice. This course of proceeding has not, and probably never will, stay the progress of a crime which the magistrates have so often declared is alike forbidden by divine and human laws. A few days since a boy named Thomas Buckley saw the prisoner at the side of the " Cut," a branch of the River Lea at Bremley. She threw herself into the water, and the boy called out for help. A man threw a leather strap towards the prisoner, retaining hold of one end of it himself. It did not reach her, and another man a blacksmith, jumped into the stream and brought her out, apparently lifeless, and it was some 'time before she was resuscitated.  Inspector Beare, of the K division, said the prisoner had been in the workhouse under medical treatment for several days, and she was brought from there this morning to answer for her conduct and give some account of herself. He heard that the prisoner was separated from her husband, and was 30 years of age. She would have been drowned if a man had not sprung into the water with his clothes on and saved her.  The prisoner said she did not know whether she fell in the water or threw herself in. She was in a good deal of trouble and very ill.  The prisoner was remanded to the Clerkenwell House of Detention for a week.  T.HIS DAY'S ShIPPINCi.  LONDON, Nov. I.—Wind—this day at noon—NorthWesterly; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather cloudy. KINGROAD, Oct. 31.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Annie Lawrie, from Montreal.  HULL, Oct. 31.—Wind S.W.—Sailed--Martha Whitmore, for Baltimore.  SHIELDS, Oct. 30.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—British Tar, irom Quebec.  (BY
The Sun. — 1861-10-03 (London, England)

LITERATURE.  ___4-_________  The Journal of Agriculture, and the Transactions of the _Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland.  This quarterly serial affords its usual quota of information on agricultural topics. There is a long discourse on poultry, which imparts some useful hints. It states that " poultry have never received that degree of attention nor had that importance attached to them in this country which they unquestionably deserve. The consequences of this too general neglect are, that we have to import an immense quantity both of fowls and eggs; that the latter are at all times higher priced than they ought to be; and that fowls are much less used as articles of food than the nutritious and palatable qualities of their flesh render desirable." With respect to M. Lavergne's opinion, however, it must be said that he is wrong in his statement that the fowls of France are superior to those of England. No ono who has visited the Continent will believe what he says of their precocious fattening. In a numerical point they may have the advantage, but certainly not in appearance. Various other papers connected with agriculture are discussed in this interesting number.  The Medical Critic and Psychological Tournal. Edited by Forbes Winslow, M.D. Davies, Princes-street.  This able serial contains some important articles on medical and psychological subjects. It is less exclusively devoted to the consideration of mental disease than of old, although that important branch of medical science still occupies a prominent place in its pages. The Esthetics of Suicide and Unrecognised Insanity are two valuable papers. The latter is founded on a recent French work by the physician to the Hospice de la Salpetriere, and treats of those melancholy cases, "whose disease," it is justly observed, " spreads greater misery and misfortune over a wider sphere than less subtle infirmities." To this unhappy class belong the thieves, shoplifters, and other criminals who occasionally disgrace respectable connections. A paper on " Female Physicians" has much to say in their favour, and those who ridicule such a field for feminine talents should learn moderation from so eminent an authority in medical science. There are several articles referring to the study of medicine, and the usual accounts of "English and Foreign Literature." A paper on the case of the "Egyptian Frigate at Liverpool and the Causation of Fevers" deserves consideration on the` part of the owners of our merchant vessels. Many other articles of value are to be found in the number.
The Sun. — 1861-12-11 (London, England)

TURIN, DEC. 10.  In to.day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, Signor Dondes Reggio stated his opinion that it was necessary to maintain the Lieutenancy of Sicily, and censured the suppression of that of Naples. He spoke in favour of the privileges of the Sicilian ecclesiastics, and said that he wished that the principle of the liberty of the Church should not endanger those privileges. The Minister of Agriculture and Commerce defended the abolition of the lieutenancies, and said that dangerous political circles were formed around the lieutenancies, whose power presented obstacles to the authority of Parliament and the responsibility of the Ministers. The Minister also alluded to the brigandage in the Neapolitan provinces, and to the projected economic reforms, which, he stated, would entirely destroy it. This statement was received with general applause.  A letter from Rome says :—" The paternal Government of the Vatican has just issued two edicts of rather a peculiar description. One, which forbids tailors, tailoresses, and milliners to work on fete-days, and the keepers of ristoranti and eating-houses to serve any food except that of the most maigre' kind on those holy days. To appreciate the inconvenience of this despotic order, it must be rem3mbered that for the next six months there will be on an average two of these fasts ott of each week, besides the muckle fast they ca' Sunday.' The second order relates to the art of photography, and so great are the pains to suppress this useful science, and so lengthy the clauses of the police regulations on the subject, that the New Zeelender' (supposing him to have come to Rome to try his prentice hand on the Coliseum) might well suppose it to be the black art' itself."  Signori Miceli, Sandonato, and Crispi spoke against the Ministry. To-day the Senate approved the bill for the ternporary occupation of the religious houses for the service of the State.  The official Gazette of this evening announces that 29 brigands, among whom was Jose Borges, have been shot or killed near Tagliacozzo. A box was seized containing the correspondence of an agent of 'Monsignors Sentucci with Cardinal Antonelli and the Bourbon authorities.  SUlClDE.—Stephen Agate, a draper at Cuckfield in Sussex, a cousin of John Agate, whose wife killed one of her own children and afterwards cut her own throat on Thursday last, committed suicide yesterday morning. At about 8 o'clock the report of a gun was heard proceeding from a shed adjoining his dwelling house. Several neighbours ran to the spot, and, upon entering the place, found the unfortunate man lying quite dead, the upper portion of his head being completely blown away. Near him,lay a gun which had recently been discharged. He had evi • dently put the muzzle of the loaded gun in his mouth, and