The Sun. — 1837-05-01 (London, England)

SUICIDES.--7-On Monday afternoon a poor woman, named Shilling, was found floating in the Medway, and taken to the Nelson public-house, Maidstone, where some unsuccessful attempts were made to restore her. A short time before she is supposed to have drowned herself, she gave a halfpenny to each of her two youngest children and sent them home.--A young woman named Esther Elliot, lately residing in Unionstreet, Maidstone, and who had been recently indispose& was seen walking on the towing-path on the bank of the Medway, on Saturday afternoon last. Shortly afterwards her bonnet and shawl were found upon the path, drags were procured, and in about four hours afterwards she was found in the river. No reason has been assigned for her resorting to this dreadful act. —Kent Herald.  Gambling at the principal clubs' is said to have been considerably on the decline ever since the late expose, which has had the effect of producing general suspicion by showing people what sort of company they keep. Considerable excitement has prevailed in WeStMiros!or. since Monday, in consequence of an arm and part of the shoulder of a female having been found in the moat opposite the Penitentiary, Milbank. It appears that a labouring man in the employment of the Commissioners of Woods and Forests was passing at an early hour in the morning along the side of the moat, when he observed a large paper parcel halfburied in the mud. He drew it out, and found it to contain the limb described, which was evidently that of a female, and from external appearances it could not have been deposited there long. Police-constable Sullivan took the arm to the workhouse. A medical examination has since been made upon the limb by Dr. Wright, of Storey's-gate, who gives it as his opinion that it had been placed there by some medical student after it had served the purposes of dissection. Wednesday morning early, as a coasting vessel lying below the Tower was preparing, to leave the river with the tide, two men went ashore in the boat belonging to the ship, in search of a man who had been absent all night, they found him intoxicated, and took him with them ; as they were crossing the river to the vessel the boat came athwart a hawser, in consequence of the two men who were rowing leaving their seats to prevent their drunken companion from falling over, the boat was upset and all three were immersed in the water, the drunken man caught hold of a fellow shipmate named Donaldson, and both were drawn under a tier of vessels and disappeared, the third man, named, Travers was saved by clinging to the boat which got jammed between some barges. CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL s.—Mr. Bell, the merchant and supercargo of the Vixen, has again set out on a visit to his friends the Circassians. He is understood to have taken with him presents to a considerable amount and value for the chiefs ; and so confident does he feel, from what he himself has seen, of their ultimate triumph over their oppressors, that, whatever may be the result of the pending negociations, he is determined to keep up, even at his personal risk, an intercourse with them. Mr. Bell, accompanied by several Circassians, took his departure in the Trebizonda steamer on the Ist. instant. A Cabinet messenger arrived here with dispatches for Lord Ponsonby on Thursday last. All that has transpired as to their contents is, that orders were forthwith dispatched to the Tribune ship of war at Smyrna to repair to Malta. It was also supposed that Sir Chas. Vaughan had by this time reached that island, but that he would not set out for Constantinople till Lord Ponsonby had left us. His Lordship was yesterday to have had an audience with the Sultan in order to present to him the King's letter, but for some reason it was postponed. _