The Express. — 1866-09-20 (London, England)

TWO SHOCKING SUICIDES.  Mr. Humphreys, Middlesex coroner, held an inquiry last evening relative to the suicide of a bricklayer named James King, aged 44 years, who expired last Monday in the German Hospital, from the effects of sever►l wounds in hie throat.  Eliza King, 99, Pownall-road, Dalton, wife of the deceased, said that be was a bricklayer. Re used not to drink much, or more than bricklayers usually do who are paid in public-houses ; but he drank a little at times. He antlered latterly great agony from stricture. On last Monday week he was in excessive pain ; she left the room for a minute or two, and on her return she found bins covered with blood and his throat cut.  Ozone Ward said that on the day in question upon his coming home to dinner the deceased's groans were so loud and piteous that his fwitucz's) wife tried to make a noise hustling about the thin7s to drown them. Suddenly he beard last witness scream, and upon running to the room found deceased lying on his back holding the razor to his throat. Witness snatched the razor and flung it away. Dr. Alexander Burger, medical officer at the German Hospital, proved that deceased was brought in on Monday week, with several incisions in the throat. He lingered in a state of great suffering until last Monday when he died  The jury returned a verdict "That deceased committed suicide while in a state of unsound mind from pain and agony of body." The sane coroner held an inquest on view of the body of William Barnett, aged 52 years. The deoeaaed was a stone mason living at No. 7, Gracestreet, Bromley. Ravin; been left a legacy upon the death of his father some six months back he rained some money to go down to Yorkshire to get it, but finding that it would not be paid before next March he became much depressed and vety strange in his manner. Last Wednesday night he returned home the worse for liquor. On Thursday morning be hanged himself with a clothes line to a beam in the kitchen.  Mr. Theed Basal proved that death resulted from strangulation. The jury returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind.  The proposed banquet at Liverpool to the chief people connected with the Atlantic Telegraph should be supplemented, or preceded by one in London. A feeling exists that the Lord Mayor would inaugurate this, and it is stated that several members of the ministry are ready to aid in doing honour to the promoters of and actors in this great enterprise. Though the Gres' Eastern is at Liverpool, the men who devised and perfected the cable are in London, and a demonstration in their favour would be viewed with general favour.  At the annual visitation of St. Patrick's Cathedral on Tueeday the Archbishop of Dublin delivered a comprehensive charge, which embraced the following topics :—The building of new churches, ritualism, and the disturbances in St. Bride's and Grangegorman churches last winter and spring, the Eirenicon of Dr. Pusey, the efforts made to assimilate the church, on the one hand, to the sects around her, and thus make her nothing more than a sect among sects, lad, on the other, to re-entangle her in the errors of the church of Rome, which she bad forsaken and renounced, and especially existed to protest against ; Sir John Gray's motion for the abolition of the church establishment, and the inconveniences as regards legislation for the Irish branch of the church, resulting from the fact that none of the Irish bishops sat in parliament foe two consecutive sessions. The charge concluded with a general exhortation to the clergy. The corporation of Waterford has adopted the following resolution ;—" That as considerable quantities of old clothes are imported from London and elsewhere and transmitted to various parts of the country, and as much danger exists that contagious diseases may thereby be propagated, a memorial be presented to the government praying that an Order in Council may be issued prohibiting the importation of such articles during the revamps of cholera."  The Prince and Princess Windischgrsts (Mule Taghoni) an apendivi their haws:tom in Paaia.