Northern Times. — 1857-07-25 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

JONAS WEBB'S RAMS.—The annual letting of the celebrated 13 ibraeam rams has just taken place, and attracted a numerous attendance from all parts of the country. At the public letting sixty-five rams were hired, and the total amount realised was £1 812 123., or £27 17s. 7d. per head. This was a high average, although rather below that realised last year. In 1852 sixty-nine rams were let for £22 3s. Id. each ; in 1853 seventy-one for £22 6e.3,1. each; and in 1856 seventy-seven fir £33 Is. 41d. etch, The highest price commanded on the present occasion by any single ram was 197 guineas, and this is the largest sum Mr. Webb has ever realised for the hire of one of his splen lid breed. The hirer was Mr LlAsey, of New York The Earl of Leicester, the Earl of Yarborongli, and other noblemen were hirers of other rams, and seventy, fifty, seventy-one, hundred, and fifty‘two guineas were realised in five instances. The business transacted at the peblic letting does not convey, however, a complete idea of the extent of Mr. Webie's transactiona, as a great deal of business is concluded with him privately. About 300 gentlemen were present at the usual dinner given by Mr. Webb to his viltore. The chair was occupied by the Hon. Riot Yorke, M.P., and the hen, gentleman was supported by Mr. Adeane, M.P. fir Cam• bridzeshire, and Mr. Wynne, M.P. for Merionethshire. Among the foreign gentlemen present were Mr. Stich, from Coblentz, and tie Marquis de Vogue, from France. L'ANGELIER A SUICIDE —The presiding judge, caught, probably, by the advoca•e's sophistry, fell into a similar train of reasoning, in the course of which he showed a very general ignorance of the conduct and motives of suicide. The fact that Li -livelier sent for a doctor, or rather alloered one to be sent for, and that he did not proclaim himself a suicide, argued, as the judge thought, that the man was not a suicide. Our pysehologiata will give us another reading. They will tell us that such proceeding is a marked sign of the mania of suicide ; and what most suicides instinctively do when they have brought on symptoms without death is to send for a doctor, and either to say nothing about, or even to deny, their °ern deeds. Tins is a natural sequence of suicide. The act, however long premeditated, is sudden and determined at last. Let it succeed, and the suicide can do no more; let it succeed in part only, and when the agony of body approaches, the mania for death disappears Tee desire still to live increases with each pang that proclaims remaining life. Then the horror of the act and the shame develops as the impulse for destruction disappears. So, longing for life and shrinking from exposure, what more instinctive than that the suicide should send fir relief, and suppress or deny his crime ? We are not writing theory here ; for if we were we should be speaking as rashly as did those we would criticise. We speak from observation and fact in cases of suicide. Another strong point is, that the amount of arsenic taken by the deceased is in favour of suicide. From the proportion found in the stom ich after death, it is probable that tee real qu entity swal o red woil I have required for its solution nearly two quarts of any ordinary drink. How ceuld L'Angelier have been induced to drink any such quantity ? or, how could it be given in the solid form wirhout his knowledge ? Any way to ceneee' the prisoner and the crime, after the evidence that was adduced, was impossible. It is true she bought poison—arsenic twice and that she tried to buy prussic acid. A.h ! well. What did she want with them, say you, except to poises L'Angelier ? Let us see. She rays that she used the arsenic as a cosmetic, but the. prussic acid she does not account for. Lett these facts pass. Let the scoundrel L'Angelier also move off the scene for a moment. Now chat is the picture in the weeks precedin-, L'Angelier's death? A ruined, hopeless girl, wrong with sorrow, mad with rage at her own folly and site, dying with far at her father's wrath, educated by her seducer to the idea that suicide is morally right, thinking death better than exposure. This is the picture. And now let us ask whether, is such an hour of despair or temporary rnadnros, the poisons might not have been intended ler a much more deeply injured and brokenhearted victim than Emile L'Angelier ?-211edical Times.