The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1844-07-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DREADFUL SUICIDE IN THE RIVER.—About nine o'olock on Tuesday morning, a respectable man named Felix Em, alias Felix Martin, who had just arrived from Genoa, represented himself to be a native of France, and had paid £l5 for his passage from Liverpool to Quebec, in the barque China, shot himself through the head with a loaded pistol, while in the state room of that vessel. Very little is known of the deceased arid that little has been gleaned from the evidence of a person named Wagstaffe, who had been interpreting for him since he arrived in Liverpool, Wagstaffe stales that there w.is an evident anxiety upon his part to conceal himself from public observation, and that with this view he changed his lodgings four times in the short suttee of ten days. He had a considerable amount of property on his person ; for instanee, a gold watch, a diamond ring, a silver snuff-box, a gold pair of spectacles, and two small bags containing doubloons to the amount of £lOOO. The whole of this property together with three large trunks of wearing apparel. were found in his state room on board the China. A letter written in French, found in one of his pockets. and addressed to Monsieur Felix, of Genoa, was translated by Wagstsffe; but it turned out to be one of a private and fam Nasserilynatu,rea,nwdreirtiteelnnstionathheitcaeasinedekhyofhihsersishraerr,. Paulineproofasa boodlyon her sincere Tuesday, affection.a nd. by An adjournment,inouest w was held opon the yesterday, and a verdict ()Veto de se was return-d. The whole of the property will now revel tto the crown. The deceased was interred at ten o'clock last night in the parish ground, but, of course, witiumt the rights of Christian burial. The cr aept iirose nsie vdt eoernhytaiovefeaoi:oni nem otiotn heerelri eJe dve ew initshl ttahtsocietiessi amia suariainde tpa n from the fact of his having been circumcised ; but the coroner refused the application, and said he was bound to adhere strictly to the provisions of the act of parliament in such cases.  DOCK CommtiTVE.—Present, Messrs, Nichol, (in the chair,) Barclay, Holt, Holmes, Smi h, Trutrriari, 13u,ley, Evans, Kendall, Shand, Tobin, Chilton, Boyden, Bi 11, Middleton, Moore, and Aiken.—Letters were read from the water companies as to the over flow of water from the plugs on the dock quays. Mr. Holmes said it would take £lOOO to put down grating., which were spoken of lat week, to remedy the evil. The Chairman said Mr. Hartley considered the expense of such elating should he borne be the companies, arid not by the Estate. After some little conversation, during which it was stated that If damage were done to goods the companies would be Fable. it was determined to submit the matter to the Harbour Master,' Sub-conan'ttee, to instruct their people to observe in all rases where damage was done to packages, with the view of having it reported in the proper quarter. Certain alterations, on the applica!ion of Archer, Dale, and Co., were ordered to be made in the shed, east side of Clarence Dock. The bittorn of No. 2, Queen's Graving Dock was ordered to be lowered 3 feet 6 inches, the estimate cost of which was stated to be £1750, and the time occupied in doing the work two months. The The Chaidman said that he, Mr. Ripl, y, and Mr. Bold, had had an interview with the Officers of Customs, and they had given orders that wculit, he bolieved, remedy the evil of people keeping their goods in the transit sheds too long a time before passing the scale. They could compel persons to take away their goods within fourteen days after the shipwas reported,and they coud take them to their own warehouses. lhere seemed to be a desire on the part of the Customs to assist them in this matter. The South Harbour-master presented the following report as to the number of days the flags had been hoisted at. the south docks during the last quarter; Queen's 37, King's 36, Brunswick 22, Union 37, Coburg 36, Toxteth 17. Mr. Hartley, the dock surveyor, said allusion had been made to him last week in reference to the flags ; he begged to sty that he never interfered with the flags at all, and that what he had done had always been done in an thesvtti hadAeteedinmdi docks, openmast rmpa ini on tesnlre knt Egi soi given aaoe nonnn dfsd b Aoyernieferot mt. rfheTtaa, rrottkt bhylei eednv e,hLstash:edearcldtosksnnocdoaanenwmeddnebo Cytfi hnoAot mihisrnee: f loßna oge ys tideci le pn a the hOael mons on the Liverpool Dock Bill was ordered to be printed. The estimated cost was stated to be about £l5O.