The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-04-25 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ARY TENDENCY TO ,SUICIDE.—There familiesare Zte 010 as instances on record where whole n).....17,4 swept away by suicide. I will only cite one LadFek.i.4 rich merchant, of an impetuous character, was ttoler of six children, to each of whom he gave a conovezelo um of money when they were all fully grown up. ansgest son became melancholy, and at the age of th,oll'ailt or twenty-seven threw himself from the top of "oesm""e• One of his brothers became especially lie,--1,1 at his death, and after frequent attempts at suiLmati ~led a year afterwards from often repeated prolonged 7eicllt'''f* The following year another brother had an at.‘`ao yZaania; a fourth, who was a physician, and who ,lest; -firB Previously remarked to me, with horrible cool-1,1410 oa4he mould not escape his fate, killed himself. -"Nal ..uree Years afterwards, a sister was affected ebr3: teBelf ; disease and made many attempts to destroy _ha Bt tfo:' iltstlY, the sixth brother, who lived in theehe co 14,. d:ee..tefort:eSi)at i et e d d relations ur during g ,maanndy seemed in C 0 I Ims eingillt tee% su i . kbINC' Sm. "'" '4%441 V PsyChologicayleilair esdiaclinoec.o of his trial he was attendedhis byhisrPoat...l76Naa OF THdFa. TRIAL OF THE EARL Of %ide at YteOlig child the last day of frnti ....e bar. Iteren, who were allowed .lootoksstoafnddeebpy af. liil ?a, and . . gc.rding them with 1, oenntif,,,Pointing towards them,. lie t.hu,s, concluded Waive a '''' appeal to the vast audience . My lords, gatl I°W troubled lordships a great deal longer_ tiLes shnoid Lay your . his , Pledg" whilei' done were .it not for the interest of tot eelmgs over h a saint in heaven has left me." Here 1 fo4rffew seeoud", him, and compelled him to pause 1n,,. eir form s.,._ is I should b. e_ loath,p my lords—what but I confess, that my deeprr.etkca sioYult nothing; but it wounds me very 11%, eikih.`,9ll will be -"ute, ''s ' should P said, but I see I shall not .s be forfeit to pardon my infirmity . ter , arid therefore I havewill leave it. And now, tewrtgelf I thank God I have been, mylelsosrini g, are 4 tile. tatted that the afflictions of the present that ot to be ecnii . by his good b life everl soalialt ,be evPeaafee(dl to oltuhs the eternal l weight All d, of glory my lorddso, ,bl/11,13tai'„vith all humility and tranquillity of mind, "4eth -Yself elearl • and freely to your judgments ; land dakth.et that tighteous judgment shall be to life or to '''J e r 0/i :' le Deem laudamus to Denm confitemur." , 4ve Literary and Historical Memorials of Lonaoin. o, 04,A,..,1t ,RERE DISAFFECTED MEN ?—Even in t ie OU0," clan;ue.Q countries' there has always been a numer.-,,,,°,,i Persons who have thrown away all their iti',.ts. ' Th---spsosilt themselves for the existing state of %or away, t:re ' no form of. gm government whatever that ICI,e to a f le stigm ll der a of crime, that will give .common ti„'-'s_aa, of di°B°_' :lid activity to a drohn.e or that wi ren liiutattlLui._ 4g eettble temper anything else than a con,,,,Niae to himself and his friends. The United kto rne".'at with their free institutions and their unlimited li'et ilk til'iPve,a man as many chances as mortal caeneieextyIliteotar tirb;:nerneral existence ; but.even_th tll, 1!11.e backgo_lit, a considerable portion of itesremesmbeis thol'ritisb ii.,..009,!, or into holes and corners, or across a.....e1ty. d‘ too thousands finding first this city, then el% 4 Joe hot for them," roam about under. a suetireett, :times, and either open gin-shops in a new setto: altiresf,,as a last resourse, cut fuel for the steamers on 0 , to s'Y eanks of the Mississippi. In England .h _ 1n.114e. irlell Outlets for branded guilt or disappointed -"r 11 "re exist everywhere amongst us men who have 01 eed ir - rt°Yertl,,... reconcilably with their friends or their nor or ruien who have only half-learnt their trade or tt.4lltltes,sion,--reen of de-sultory and useless abilities, ts'illete bei`tboeeiads full of schemes applicable to every other 41. raee of I.r