The Sun. — 1836-12-19 (London, England)

CORONER'S INQUEST.--SUICIDE.—On Saturday evening; an inquest was held at the Portman Arms tavern„ Great Portland-street, Portland-place, on the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Hoskin, aged 39, a married lady, who committed suicide by drowning herself in a water cistern. Louisa Hoskin, one of' the deceased's daughters, who was much affeCted whilst giving her deposition, stated that her late lathented mother had been in very bad health since the death of her last infant, six months back, and was subject to fits of great despondency, which increased upon her of late, notwithstanding the soothing attention of witness's.father and the whole of the family. On Wednesday morning last, at the breakfast table, the deceased was unusually low and dejected. Shortly afterwards the family were thrown into a state of most painful anxiety and alarm in consequence of the deceased being !pissed. At length her unfortunate parent was discovered in the water cistern. Several witnesses (friends of the deceased) spoke to her low nervous state for some months before the commission of the rash act. She was the mother, of a large family, and an excellent woman. Verdict, Temporary derangement." The following singular handbill has been issued by a Dorchester labourer, and it is hoped that it will prove successful :—" A bill for a wife. Matrimony.—Charles Warren, Mamba, Dorset. My family is a follows :—The eldest boy is thirteen years old, and a girl eight years old. My .house is my own, and I have no rent to pay. "have an acre of potatoes, half blues and. half whites, this year. My wife has been dead this twelvemonths ago last Shroten fair. The children live by themselves in the daytime, but lam always at home with them_at night. I do think it would be better if there was a woman to look after. Ahem, both for the children and myself. I have got eight shillings a week for my work, and the; boy two shillings a week, and have constant employ. I, want a good steady woman, between thirty and forty years old, for a wife. Ido not want a second family. I want a woman to -look after the pigs while I am out at work."  In consequence of the present condition of the crops, Mr. M'Leod, of Cadbol, has kindly postponed his collection of rents due on his estate at Martinmas, to the month of February next, which consideration is truly seasonable, and worthy of example.--Edinburgh Weekly Journal.  A most singular superstition exists in the department of .the Indre, in France, that after death-the soul of the defunct flits about the apartment in which .it took its departure from the body like a butterfly, seeking an aperture to escape to Heaven ; and, therefore, when any one is considered to be in the last agonies, every vessel containing water, milk, or any other liquid, is removed carefully away for fear the passing spirit should fall into it, and thus be prevented from reaching its eternal place of rest.--Galignani. The Messager de Grind says—" A turnip, weighin has lately been much talked of as a prodigy ; hut there is at present to be seen at the public-house called the Cerf, at Melle, near Mont, one weighing 251b5., four ells in circumference, and about two ells and a third in diameter,"