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The Sun. — 1850-04-26 (London, England)

RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.—A return relative to rail way accidents has been published, from which it appears that the total number of persons killed on all railways open for public traffic in the half-year ending December 31, 1849, was 106. Of these 73 were killed owing to their own misconduct or want of caution, 11 being passengers and 62 servants of the company; 28 were trespassers, killed by improperly crossing or standing on the railway; 1 was a child killed by 'an engine running off the rails and entering a house, and '2 were suicides. Of fatal accidents, arising from causes beyond the control of the victims, only two have occurred, and those are among the servants of companies or of contractors. Of the persons injured owing to their own misconduct or want of caution, 10 were passengers and 37 servants of companies or contractors, and of those injured from causes beyond their control, 54 were passengers and 3 companies' servants. 7 persons were injured by improperly crossing or standing on the railway, who were neither passengers nor servants of the company, and one child was injured by an engine running into a house. The total number of passengers convej ed during the period referred to in the return was 34,924,469. The number of miles of railway open at the beginning of the half-year was 5,447, and the number open at the end was 5,996, being an increase of 549 miles during the half-year. RUGBY AND STAUFORD RAlLWAY.—Eighteen miles of this railway, from Rugby to Market llarborough, are to be opened on Monday next, 29th inst., in time for the great fair to be held at Harborough on that and following days.. The stations on the line are Stamford, 5 miles ; Werford, 9 miles; Thedingworth, 13 miles; and Market llarbo rough, 18 miles from Rugby. The country passed through is one of the richest pasture districts in England, and it is expected that a considerable local and cattle traffic will be obtained. The remaining portion of the line (17 miles), on to Stamford, will be opened in about two months.
The Sun. — 1850-10-04 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE AT. BATH. On Friday morning, the body of a female, which afterwards proved to be that of the wife of Mr. Alexander, watchmaker, late of Old Bond-street, was discovered in the river Avon. For some considerable time the deceased had not lived with her husband, he having left her for a young woman named Mortimer; and it is said that they have lately left Bath for America. Thus forsaken by her husband, the poor woman gave way, it seems, to the temptations of exciting drinks, and sank into a condition of misery. The last time she was seen she said she was going to Bristol, to ask some assistance of her husband's late partner, Mr. Flaig, and never returned again. The following letter was found in the pocket of the poor woman's dress, apparently ready for post:—  We write under the anxiety and horror which by this time has universally impressed the country. ➢ut an article in a morning contemporary places this murder in a light which, for practical purposes, is invaluable.' For some months a gang of burglars has infested the country in the neighbourhood ofFrimley. We hear now of the acuteness which characterises the local police ; but we hear of it, unfortunately, when too late. A little earlier exertion of this faculty might have spared us the sorrow of adding this new tragedy to the list of those horrors which terrify us, when we consider how near an approach, eveu in this world, it is possible for men of uncontrolled pasions to make to the malignity of demons.—From the Lady's Newspaper.  tinues good, a! d the rates obtained are equal to last we-elr. At auction 111 case:, and 27 bags Cochin r.ali.ed 63s to iiGs for mid to good; 174 cka Jamaica ti e it to 71 2, 6c3, common to good 31 154 to 6/, I t 3 hap African wire taken in at 34s for swan. Export suety are rather more in reques-. a t •s are firmer. At auction 493 Bengal sold at 18s to 18s 6d tut, mid ri ugh. Althcugh-the market has bean much letker supplied Pimento, yet previous rates are ginerally sustained, there having been a good demaud.' At oticii,3o 989 bugs sold; mid and good eid .ro 6td, a few lots low and good ord sid to Gal, 1 lot good 64d. Cloves not cheaper but operations are upon a limited scale private], and at auction a part only of 150 bags 13 cases were sold, Penang at is ld to is 3d, Bourbon and Zanzibar 7-id.  " Miss Mortimer, 31, Kingsmead-street, Bath, (on the envelope). " Miss Mortimer,--When you receive this, I will be in another world. You and my husband have been the whole cause of my misery. You are more to blame than him; I thought less of it at first, before you knew he was a married man. But after you became acquainted with me, and knew how dearly I loved him—loved him better than my life—you done all in your power to injure me, by telling him false things about me. and with success; although I have been his lawful wife upwards of 13 years, you were the cause of us parting. You were not satisfied with that, but you must make him leave the country, without leaving me the least support. You and ho have drivers me mad; but I forgive you both, as I hope God will forgive me.
The Sun. — 1850-04-13 (London, England)

FRENCH BISHOP AND PRIESTS IN THE ISLANDS OF TIE PACIFIC.—.We extract the following from a highly interesting letter in the Portsmouth Times of Saturday last, written by an officer of her Majesty's ship Havannali, now on the blew Zealand cruise:—We sailed from here on the 19th of September, and early In the morning sighted the island of " Pines," south of New Caledonia ; the island is not inaptly named, numerous large pine trees growing there as well as on the reefs adjacent. A curious circumstance took place here—the Bishop of New Zealand accompanied us thus far, but just as we were about to about to anchor a small schooner was seen ahead, subsequently we learned it conveyed a French bishop and six priests just going to establish near. We remained here till the 22d, the Bishop at the same time got under weigh to return to New Zealand, with about eight natives of various islands. Our destination was again the south part of New Caledonia to search for boats of ships, the men of which had been murdered ; we found them, but in too bad a condition to remove. I really think New Caledonia one of the finest countries we have yet seen. SUICIDE op A MARlNE.—Yesterday morning, about four o'clock, a single report of a musket was heard at the Royal Marine Barracks at Forton, in the direction of the military burial-ground, and about half an hour afterwards Corporal Dodd went to relieve Private George Webb. sentinel near the spot, when a horrible scene presented itself— Webb was extended on the ground, his firelock under him, with his skull, brains, eyes, blown away, and lying in all directions around his corpse. The unfortunate soldier was thirty-four years of age, and bore a high character in the corps. His remains have been moved to the guardhouse and await the coroner's inquest.
The Sun. — 1850-04-02 (London, England)

THE MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE AT HOXTON. Yesterday forenoon a lengthened investigation was entered into before Mr. W. Baker, the coroner, and a highly respectable jury, at the Shaftesbury Arms, Shaftesbury-street, New North-road, Hoxton, con. cerning the death of Matthew Sanderson, aged six weeks, who was murdered by his mother, Emma Sanderson. The culprit was examined before Mr. Hammill, at Worship-street Police-court, on Saturday, and remanded to await the result of the coroner's inquest. The first witness examined was Mary Fuller, servant to the parents of the deceased, whose evidence was to the same effect as that she gape at Worshipstreet.  Mary Ann Potterton, 3, Boundary-row, lloxton, deposed that she had attended the mother of the deceased in her confinement, and that she• had been in a low and desponding state of mind ever since. Her lowness was caused by marks on the deceased's face at its birth, and she was constantly harping upon the disfigurement it caused for the last fo:rtnight. Witness noticed a great change in the m other's appearance, which caused her to tell the servant to keep a watch upon her actions. On Thursday afternoon last she called on witness on her road from' the City. She appeared in a very melancholy state, and asked witness to come to her in the evening; and on her going to the house shortly after five o'clock, she was informed of the attempt Mrs. Sanderson had made on her life, and found the deceased lying on the bed quite dead and cold. On seeing her the mother exclaimed " I have killed my baby, and if Mary (meaning the servant) had not come in, I should have killed myself too, and we should then have been happy together." Afterwards she put her hand into her pocket, and produced a piece of tape (shown to the jury), saying to witness, " Take this, it's what I have done the deed with ; rub it against the marks on the necks of the other children, and it will cure them, as it is now charmed." By a Juror—The other children were born with some marks upon them, but very slight, and they are now scarcely observable.  By the
The Sun. — 1850-06-18 (London, England)

PRINTING FOR THE HOUSE OF COMIONS.--YeAterday the report of the Select Committee on printing for the House was printed. By a resolution of the Committee, the profits of the printers on work performed by order of the House will be reduced 20 per cent. in the course of the present and succeeding year. The Committee in 1849 made an arrangement by which the public Bills should in inture be printed by the Queen's printers, and the expense of resetting the type when a Bill is passed from one House to the other has been avoided ; this change has worked satisfactorily. With regard to abstracting accounts" the. Committee state that they have already made large reductions in the expense of Parliamentary printing so far as it comes under their con. obl fyt suicideappears Colonel sideration. The average saving by abstracting papers whiek would otherwise have been printed, has amounted to 8,000/. per annum. miono vs tFi cratipodrpail_ltemi nrogrvaee.tg EAeE.xo—uester, n cw raaAs givci eor,mt iat Lnt thSt ie a st zocwitDn h that at breakfast-time one of the servants was sent up stairs to call her master; the servant knocked at the door, but Not receiving any answer she returned and informed her mistress. The latter, having also knocked several times and not being answered by her husband, procured the ai • d of the coachman and butler, who forced open the door, when they found the unfortunate Colonel extended on the floor pool of Wood emu and most frightfully mutilated in y in a of the body. s parts His throat was cut completely from ear to ear • there being similar wounds on both I • legs, , _ as well as below the hamstrings. Besides these injuries there were three wounds in his abdomen, which had evidently been inflicted with a knife. A razor and knife, both covered with blood, were found in the room. The unfortunate Colonel was alive, but speechless from the excessive loss of blood. 1:4_•- and several other medical men did all that was possible to save his life, but without avail, and he died in less than an hour after he was discovered. A rumour was in circulation that the deceased had been murdered by some person, but from inquiries made since there is no doubt entertained that he destroyed his own life, but from what cause remains at present a mystery. The unfortunate gentlemartewas a retired Lieut.Colonel in the Bengal army.
The Sun. — 1850-05-20 (London, England)

WESTMINSTER.  Shortly before the closing of the court on Satur• day a decent-looking middle-aged woman hastily entered and entreated the magistrate's immediate attention to the following very distressing case : Applicant stated, that a poor woman named Holdsworth, living in Cooper.street, Westminster, had on the previous day given birth to a child, anal, owing to the want of the common necessaries of life was fast sinking. Applicant had communicated the circumstances to the parish that morning, at half-past eleven o clock, and one of the functionaries had promised to visit the case immediately ; but, finding that he did not make his appearance, and apprehending that the unfortunate woman in whose cause her sympathies were enlisted might fall a victim for the, want of proper sustenance in her present precarious condition, she again went to the parish official, just before her application at this court, and was then informed that the woman's husband must come and make the application. • The husband, who had been out of wcrk fot• a long period, had only just obtained a situation at 9.. per week, and, if he left his employment, 'would of course lose that scanty pittance. Mr. BURRELL immediately directed an officer to go forthwith to the poor woman's abode, and take with him 103., which, if he found the ease as repre-, sented, he was to leave for present necessaries. Mr. W. Taylor, an inspector Of the 13 division, undertook the office, and returned in a few minutes with the assurance that it was really a very distressing. case. The poor woman had been confined, as stated, on the previous clay, and there was not a morsel of food in the place. He learned from inquiries, that the husband had been out of work for nine months, during which time they had parted with all their little things to support themselves, and the husband had only got employment within the last few days at the wages stated.  Kit. BURRELL presumed he had left the 10s., and inquired whether the inspector thought it sufficient for immediate necessities?  Mr. Taylor replied he had I fr 'the money, at:d [hought it sufficient f4r the pre•evt.  Surcipr..—On itl4y th•tween seven and eight o'clock, Mr. Hunter, a highly-respectable man, who had for a great many years carried on business as a poulterer in Leadenhall-rnarket, committed suicide by hanging himself. It appeared that he went to business as usual at 'seven o'clock, his business being very extensive; he went up stairs to change his dress as usual, but not coming down for soine thee one•of his men went up s!aire, discovered him hanging from a beam • Surgical 'assistance was immediately cal!e4.l in. but life was exiinct. Thu lo,s of a brother under p :ins u cif cultist uces, t fining!' sul,posed violoice by a c,bMan, appears to have been the probable cause of the fital'aCt  - - •
The Sun. — 1842-02-17 (London, England)

SUICIDE IN THE REGENT'S PARK. —An inves igation lately 'ook place before Mr. Wakley, M.P. and a rest ectable Jury, at St. Marylebone workhouse, Newroad, on the body of a man, whose attire and general appearance would indicate that he was a gentleman, apparently about 40 years of age. William Knight, watchman, at the North Lodge, Regent's Park, said that about halt-past ten o'c!oelt on the night of Tuesday last, he went over Macelesfield•bridge, which crosses the Regent's Canal, for the purpdee of watchin the deceased, whom he had seen wandering about for upwards of half an hour, fearing he meditated something evil. The policeman on duty also walked with witness, and as they passed deceased on the bridge, witness said to him, " A *et night." Deceased immediately replied, "Yes, its a damp night." Witness and the policeman walked on a few yards, and on turning round saw the deceased standing against the railing of the bridge. They advanced towards him, and had reached him within about. a yard and a half, when he bent his head forward, and pitehe.l himself from the summit of the bridge into the water. The Coroner, having directed that the body should be klst as long as it could, and also the clothes, for the purpose of identity, the Jury ultimately returned a verdict— " That the deceased destroyed himself, being at the time in state of of t; Temporary I lir n:iso t yt. i' A soldier ; of the line, ethstsaart3o-tysiecdtte.hte. .cornll Gazette des Tribunaux, and an old comrade, who had left the army, and become a journeyman, met accidentally on Sitedayi in the Rue de Bercy, and immediately went into a wine-shop, to renew their friendship over a bottle. They remained together till a late hour, and drank so much that they became completely intoxicated, and the journeyman, on going out into the air, was seized by the cold, fell, and shortly afterwardsomplred in the middle of the road. The soldier, insensible to the fate of his companion, staggered on till he came to the bank of the canal ; and, finding that some of the bystanders were laughing at him, stammered out—" Ah ah! you think I am not steady ! you shall sre. I'll bet a wager that I will jump t over this gutter !" He immediately made a spring, fell ledint the canal, a..d was drowned. His body was not discover Monday night. —llNy UtlhließaEcßeideOnFtalToEmEisTsiOonToAfLtLwEoßeiSphelrNs intat::Euen,LbeiA;rePoi given by Mr. O'Connell on Saturday, as this a to be thousands. teetotallers in Ireland, the aggregate anpeare- t,, last ticket he whereas the Lord Mayor of Dublin said thaztvrt MILLIONS, TWO saw signed by Father Mathew was markt,,,i:. At ievt 10,000 TuousaNn, SEVEN tturinarn moreA hfiar‘e. e broket aken thoeuptleidngetshinecw.:AbasuNthnrAteeos!tsaa:ilstltayaonofdcf,etlvrieasMgaivreintlm: but the Library, cen. Prefect .t. l'Orient, to the Library of theesA tahileowax, chives were lAillts a few nights since, and rapidly communicated manuscripts of l nu emareisiwouldall tamingpromptly a basou ct i r9c, valueuo 0 om s t sa:vdoc
The Sun. — 1842-05-02 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF A GENTLEMAN.—Thursdav ft I,le investigation took plaCe before Mr. Baker, at the CiP,-a Tavern, City-read, on the body of Air. John Robertson. 4-1& 49, late Actuary of the Westminster Fire and Life office. of appeared that the deceased occupied apartments in the housed ,Ur. Tracy, No. IS, City-road. Ile was very precise and gtei in his habits and mode of living, but was troubled witll ,s 4 gravel complaint, which caused him to fret very much. and 'co frequently heard to say, that he thought he was not able 1000 justice to the Westminster Fire Assurance Company. k,. Tuesday evening he retired to his chamber about ten o'elt; Next morning the servant went up 10 wake him, and found door locked. The door was burst open, when the tieeeased°-a discovered seated on a chair undressed, with his throat cut 1° dreadful manner. Verdict,—" 'Temporary Insanity." REMARK AIME DlSEASE.—'llllirSday evening Pa)ne held an adjourned inquest at. the Red Cow, Lotisrlay.t. Smithfield, on the body of Susannah Winterbourno, *get., It appeared from the evidence given at the former ;rivet' de., Tuesday last, that on the night of Saturday, the 23d instant, t ceased went to bed in excellent health, having eaten a l'earYi supper of boded beef. With the meat she ate about half a pint„ 'lidded onions which had been given to her by a neighbour 5 Am hours pr. siowly. On the following niorning deceseej was attacked with a violent inflammation of the bowels, aA died in a few licers. Mr. Henry Wells, of Aldergate-sti°e-' surgeon, now stated that he had made the usual post-molt' examination, and found the intestines of deceased in a state great infi, oration. The 'minus which deceased had eaten hi bet n completely digrs'ed, and the stomach presented no ttri pearance of poison. Witness had, however, found in the ga' bladder, one bundled and seventy atones, which he now Pr°duced. They were all of a triangular shape, and one of theV, was nearly as large as a walnut. Verdict—" Natural death.: St iciDE.—Thursday an inquest was held in the George the Fourth Tavern, Ilagnigge-wells-road, before T. Waldey, Esti , M.P., l uroner, on the body young woman, named Margaret Fairfoot, who destroyed het self on Tuesday last. The deceased lived in Easton-place, mington-square, Clerkepwell. She had been for some 15. very much attached to a young man living in the sine neigoo bourhood, and believed the attachment was reciprocated, the hsinday or Mont'ay last, however, she became convinced ;he ieverse. The disappointment reduced her to a state of b, .most abj. et deliondeney. On Tuesday morning, having Lined some poison, in an apothecary's establi-limeut in 611•0. inn-lane, she mixed it with some water and drank it. 'l4°'., her friends saw Ler taking the draught, but had to idea of lo fatal contents. Soon after she told them ; and medical aid obtained, brit it -proved ineffectual. In a few hours she 1,00,e, corpse, after suffering tke most agonizing tortures. 04 ceased was a robust and rather handsome girl ; she was in twenty-first year. The verdict w Died from the erlec• to poison taken whilst in a state of insanity."
The Sun. — 1842-10-28 (London, England)

FOREIGN. The Levant mail has arrived with letters and papers of late dates. The intelligence, which will be found elsewhere, is not important. Barcelona advices of the 18th state that a dreadful storm on the coast of Valencia and Catalonia had caused considerable ravages. The police at Paris have seized on several copies of a pamphlet, published by Laine, the bookseller in the Passage Verot-Dodat, entitled "Lord Guizot, Alinistre de l'Etranger en France." The same work was seized at some other booksellers, where a second pamphlet was on sale, entitled " Les Ministres sur la Sellette,ou les Dix Commandemens," with this motto— " Saint Angleterre adoreras, Guizot l'ordonne expressement." The fourteen horses sent by the Pacha of Egypt as a present to the King of the French, were landed on the 19th at Marseilles. They are remarkably fine animals. We learn by a letter from Copenhagen that a new system of recruitment for the army is under discussion by the Danish Ministry. It is said, that in future, instead of making peasants, as at present, exclusively liable to military service, the obligation will be imposed on all classes. According to the proposed plan, there are to be three branches of the army, viz., the regular troops, whose period of service will be four years, and two classes of militia, one of eight, and the other of four, years' service. The Courrier du Havre says :—" A cabin boy on board the Recherche, the natural son of a Count, has just received information that his father had died, after having acknowledged him, and bequeathed to him a fortune of 20,000 f. a year." The number of suicides is shown to be on the increase in all the capitals of the Continent. The Emperor of Russia left Warsaw on the 14th inst. for St. Petershurgh. On the same evening, the Grand Duke Michael, brother of the Emperor, arrived at Warsaw. It appears that new negotiations are about to be opened between Russia and the Papal Government. A letter from Rome, 13th inst., announces the arrival in that city of Captain Gregorieff from St. Petersburgh, with important despatches. The Senate of Hamburgh has invited M. C. Motz, the Consul of Bremen at Bordeaux, to perorin the functions of Consul ffillamburgh, ad interim, in consequence of M. Meyer having ceased to be ConsulGeneral of the Senate in that city. M. Berryer, who was to have set out for Germany, is detained at Angerville, by the serious indisposition I of his son.