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The Sun. — 1847-04-19 (London, England)

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN ROAD.— Owing to the continued severity of the weather, coupled with the prevalence of typhoid fever, the doors of the Royal Free Hospital, in Gray's Inn-road, have been literally thronged with des. itute sick applicants for relief or admission. The number of patients amounted yesterday to 333. The asylums for the houseless in various parts of the metropolis being closed for the season, accounts for this pressure upon the institution. DEATH or LADY GODoLPHIN.—We regret to learn that intelligence of the demise of the above lady, sister of the Earl of Auckland; was received in town yesterday. The melancholy event took place on Saturday morning, at Gogmagog Hall, Lord Godolphin's seat, in Cambridgeshire, after a short illness. Her Ladyship was third daughter of the late Lord Auckland, and was born on the 21st of March, 1780. The deceased married en the 31st of March, 1800, Lord Francis Godolphin Osborn, second son of Francis Godolphin, fifth Duke of Leeds, who was in 1832 created a Peer of the United Kingdom. By her Ladyship's marriage with the Noble Lord she leaves issue three sons. The families of the Earl of Auckland, Lady Brougham, the Hon. Mrs. Vansittart, Lord Bexley, Mr. C. and Hon. Mrs. Drummond, the Countess (Dowager) of 'Buckinghamshire, &c are placed in mourning by her Ladyship's death. • • EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE -DY A BiteracraßLE Fkastatfr..—Yesterday afternoon, between the hours of two and three o'clock, the neigbourhood of Manchester-square was thrown into a state of considerable alarm and excitement in consequence of the following extraordinary attempt at suicide made by a highly respectable female whilst labouring under some temporary mental aberration. It appears that the unfortunate victim, named Fanny Richey, aged fifty-six, had for some months pa,t resided at No. 19, Henrietta-street, Manchester-square, and was somewhat remarkable for her eccentric ways and habits, though it was little suspected that she was of unsound mind. At eleven in the morning she was in conversation with the landlady. after which she retired to her apartments at the upper part of the house, and at the period specified above she deliberately proceeded to the roof of the house by means of a small ladder, and at once precipitated herself into the street. She fell in a diagonal direction, and lodged upon the area rails, her clothes haying caught, and thus the unfortunate creature miraculously escaped an instantaneous death. The occurrence was seen by several persons passing by at the time, and police-constable 109, D division, states that her dress caught on to the spikes of the rails, so as to break the fall, otherwise she must have been killed on the spot. The unfortunate creature was then conveyed in a cab to the Middlesex Hospital, and Mr. Dickson, the house surgeon, ascertained that she had sustained, besides a dreadful wound on the head, some severe internal injuries. so as to leave little hopes ..f her ultimate recovery. She is unmarried, and very respectably connected. LIIIERALITY Or
The Sun. — 1847-03-16 (London, England)

THE DEAD ALIVE.—Our readers will probably recollect that, about eight or ten weeks ago, we gave an account of a suicide committed by a female, in the water above Hutcheiontown Bridge, and of the recovery of the body a few days afterwards somewhere near Govan. The wife of a dyer, residing in llutchesontown, but who was separated from her husband some years ago, on account of her intemperate habits, disappeared about the same time, and the body, when discovered, answered the description of the dyer's wife so well, that he immediately applied to a friendly society of which he is a member, and obtained the allowance (41.) to bury his supposed wife, which he did with every due solemnity. Although a staunch teetotaller. he was so overjoyed at getting rid of one who was a thorn in his side for s.) long a time, that he even broke his pledge, and has been in the habit of taking little drops occasionally since. But, alas! this happy slate of things must come to an end. On Monday last, whilst sitting comfortably at his dinner, who bounced in upon him but his own identical spouse, whom he buried, as he supposed, eight weeks ago. The consternation which so unwelcome a guest caused is easier imagined than described. The housekeeper fainted, and it was with some difficulty she was brought to, and the husband's eyes almost jumped out of their sockets ; however, in a short time, order was restored, and after a little explanation from this visitant from the invisible world they recovered from their panic. It appears, that instead of throwing herself into the Clyde, as was supposed, she repaired to a neighbouring town, where she remained until the date of her re-appearance. The unfoitunate husband sorely laments his loss, as he must now refund the 41. which he obtained to bury her.—Glasgow Post.
The Sun. — 1847-03-16 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF A POLISH NOBLEMAN.—On Saturday an inquest, adjourned from Thursday last, was resumed and concluded before C. C. Lewis, Esq., coroner for Essex, at the Crooked Billet public. house, Woodford, on the body of Mr. Herman Puznanski, aged 37, a native of Poland, and a nobleman of that country, who committed suicide by shooting himself through the head, tinder the following circumstances t—lt appeared from the evidence of the father of the deceased and other witnesses, that for some time past the .deceased had been in a low and desponding state of mind, caused by being reduced from affluence to the most dire state of distress. On Sunday morning he left home, and between twelve and one o'clock on that day the report of a pistol was heard in Epping Forest, between Chigwell and Woodford. On some persons proceeding to the spot, they found the deceased lying upon the ground, with blood flowing from his mouth, and by his side a pistol, recently discharged. He was removed to the Crooked Billet, where a surgeon attended, who found that the deceased had put the pistol into his mouth and fired, the ball passing through the larynx and lodging in the neck. Although so seriously injured, the deceased lingered until Wednesday, when he died. All that was found on his person was two duplicates,' a halfpenny, a pair of gloves, and a letter addressed to Lord Dudley Stuart, thanking the Noble Lord for the part he had taken in trying to obtain the regeneration of Poland, which he (the writer) despaired of seeing ever carried into, effect. On the 4th instant the funeral of the ufortunate victims of the destruction oftnthienense crowd of the inhabitants Grand Ducal Theatre was t solemnized at Carlsrhue. An formed a double line to the cemetery gates. of the victims were =Weed in The ashes in two torah. eight coffins, which were said  INSTITUTION for the
The Sun. — 1847-03-16 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF A POLISH NOBLEMAN.--On Saturday an inquest, adjourned from Thursday last, was resumed and concluded before C. C. Lewis, Esq., coroner for Essex, at the Crooked Billet public house, Woodford, on the bed). of Mr. Herman Poznaiiski, aged 37, a native of Polanl, and a nobleman of that country. who committed suicide by shooting himself through the head, under the following circumstances:—lt appeared from the evidence of the father of the deceased and other witnesses, that for some time past the deceased had been in a low and desponding state of mind, caused by being reduced from affluence to the most dire state of distress. On Sunday morning he lett home, and between twelve and one o'clock on that day the report of a stol was heard in Epping Forest, between Chigwell and Woodford. On some persons proceeding to the spot, they found the deceased lying upon the ground, with blood flowing from his mouth, and by his side a pistol, recently discharged. He was removed to the Crooked Billet, where a surgeon attended, who found that the deceased had put the pistol into his mouth and fired, the ball passing through the larynx and lodging in the neck. Although so seriously injured, the deceased lingered until Wednesday, when he died. All that was found on his person was two duplicates, a halfpenny, a pair of gloves, and a letter addressed to Lord Dudley Stuart, thanking the Noble Lord fur the part he had taken in trying to obtain the regeneration of Poland, which he (the writer) despaired of seeing ever carrie,i into effect On the 4th instant the funeral of the unfortunate Victims of the destruction of the Grand Ducal Theatre was solemnized at Carlsrhue. An immense crowd of the inhabitants formed a dounle line to_ in the cemetery gates. The ashes of the victims were enclosed n eight coffins, ill Om taut* which were laid
The Sun. — 1847-01-18 (London, England)

WORSHIP-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) A man named Dowling was this morning brought before Mr. Broughton, by Sergeant Saunders, of the N division, charged with having iu his possession a large number of duplicate pawn-tickets relating to watches, clothing, linen, and other valuable property, under the following very suspicious circumstances : It appears that the wife of the prisoner was, on Saturday, charged with having stolen several articles of wearing apparel and a ♦aluable gold pin from the house of a gentleman at Homerton, and was committed for trial. Upon searching the prisoner's room Saunders found the duplicates, consisting of in number upwards of sixty. Many of these tickets related to property pledged so lately as December, and, among others, were two watches, one pledged for 11. 5i., and the other for 11. Is. The officer said he had not had time to make the necessary inquiries, but he had no doubt whatever that the whole of the property which the tickets related to had been stolen. The prisoner, who said that the watches and the other property were his own, was then held to bail, in order to give time for the necessary inquiries to be made.  A double suicide, under the most extraordinary circumstances, took place at Gondreville, in the Loirot, last week, Some- time ago, the daughter of a farmer of that place, only seventeen years of age, and of great beauty, tell in love with a journeyman gardener, fifty-three years old, and of rather disagreeable person. On the sth instant, this man not having joined his comrades at breakfast, they went into his room, and there found him and the girl dead in the bed, having suffocated themselves with the fumes of a quantity of charcoal, which they put into a flower-pot, which was in the middle of the room. In different parts of the room were the love-letters which had passed between the parties. amounting in number to 183, and which gave convincing proof that their love had constantly been pure There were also found a letter from the man, and one from the girl, both addressed to the parents of the latter. In the man's letter he reproaches the parents with having, by chonfining her; too closely to the house, prevented c ony fining from forming any acquaintance, and an engagement of the heart with some young man. He had, he said, resisted her attachment for a long time, and reasoned with her on its unfitness, but at length, his amour propre being excited, he began to love her for the preference she had shown him, and, by degrees, his love had become as violent as her own. Knowing that there was not the remotest chance of obtaining the consent of Bea arents to their marriage, and resolving that they d not be separated, they had agreed to commit suicide ; and ave. he i entreated that their bodies might lie in the same gr In the girl's ,letter she makes no reproaches to her resses parents, bids them an affectionate farewell, and exp the happiness she felt in dying with her lover. stormy
The Sun. — 1847-01-18 (London, England)

SPHYNX.  This fine ship, on her passage from Plymouth to Portsmouth with seamen, run on the Back of the Wight, near Brook, in a thick fog, on Saturday morning. Her bottom was stove in on the rocks, as was her stern, and there is every reason to believe that she will become a complete wreck. The crew sad passengers landed in safety, excepting the commander's-lady, who received a serious injury in the boat, being struck on the head by a plank which fell from the steamer ; she was conveyed to the parsonage at Brook, and medical assistance sent for from Newport. The Sphynx was commanded by J. B. Cragg, was 1,050 tuns, 500-horse power, and had a crew of 160 men, besides part of the crew of the Tyne. She had been in commission only six months. The wind is off the shore, but there is always a heavy swell on in foggy weather with the flood tide, and a worse berth could not have been found for her, nor a situation but to which assistance could be better given.  A double suicide, under the most extraordinary circumstances, took place at Gondreville, in the Loiret, last week, Some time ago, the daughter of a farmer of that place, only seventeen years of age, and of great beauty, tell in love with a journeyman gardener, fifty-three years old, and of rather disagreeable person. On the sth instant, this man not having joined his comrades at breakfast, they went into his room, and there found him and the girl dead in the bed, having suffocated themselves with the fumes of a quantity of charcoal, which they put into a flower-pot, which was in the middle of the room. In different parts of the room were the love-letters which had passed between the parties, amounting in number to 183, and which gave convincing proof that their love had constantly been pure There were also found a letter from the man, and one from the girl, both addressed to the parents of the latter. In the man's letter he reproaches the parents with baying, by confining her, too closely to the house, prevented her from forming any acquaintance, and an engagement of the heart with some young man. He bad, he said, resisted her attachment for a long time, and reasoned with her on its unfitness, but at length, his amour proprc being excited, he began to love her for the preference she had shown him, and, by degrees, his love had become as violent as her 3VIII. Knowing that there was not the remotest chance of obtaining the consent of the parents to their marriage. and resolving that they would not be separated, they had agreed to commit suicide ; and he entreated that their bodies might lie in the same grave. In the girl's letter she makes no reproaches to her parents, bids them an affectionate farewell, and expresses the happiness she felt in dying with her lover.
The Sun. — 1847-03-17 (London, England)

THE DEAD ALIVE.—Our readers will probably recollect that, about eight or ten weeks ago, we gave an account of a suicide committed by a female, in the water above Hutchesontown Bridge, and of the recovery of the body a few d.ys afterwards somewhere near Govan. The wife of a dyer, residing in Hutchesontown, but who was separated from her husband some years ago, on account of her intemperate habits, disappeared about the same time, and the body, when discovered, answered the description of the dyer's wife so well, that he immediately applied to a friendly society of which he is a member, and obtained the allowance (41.) to bury his supposed wife, which he did with every due solemnity. Although a staunch teetotaller, he was so overjoyed at getting rid of one who was a thorn in his side fbr so longs time, that he even broke his pledge, and has been in the habit of taking little drops occasionally since. But, alas! this happy state of things must come to an end. On Monday last, whilst sitting comfortably at his dinner. who bounced in upon him but his own identical spouse. whom he buried, as he supposed, eight weeks ago. The consternation which so unwelcome a guest caused is easier imagined than described. The housekeeper fainted, and it was with some difficulty she was brought to, and the hus'iand's eyes almost jumped out of their so kets ; however, in a short time. order was restored, and after a little explanation from this visitant from the invis.ble world they recovered from their paiiic. It appears, that instead of throwing herself into the Clyde. as was supposed, she repaired to a neighbouring town, where she r,m tined until the date of her re-appearance. The unfoitunate husband sorely laments his loss, as lie must now refund the 41. which he obtained to bury her.—G Vsgoie Post.
The Sun. — 1847-03-17 (London, England)

LUNATIC.—Joseph Large, one of the attendants at the Nottitigham County Lunatic Asylum, was found guilty of having left an insane person, named Doubleday, by himself for a short time, contrary to orders, and who, during the prisoner's absence, committed suicide by strangling himself with his shirt. The prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned six weeks. Cuntous Ctr Anon OF POlSONLNG.—Erizabeth Smith, aged 29, and Sarah Taylor, aged 68, were indicted for the murder cf George Taylor, aged :36, by having kiven him arsenic at various times. Smith was the deceased's housekeeper, and the other prisoner was his step-mother; and it appeared from their own admissions that Smith had given him arsenic for the purpose of making him unwell, and thereby keeping him at home, as Smith, who was attached to him, greatly disliked his rambling from home and his habits of dissipation, in which scheme of reformation the step-mother joined. The case was noticed at length in our paper at the time of the occurrence, and no new facts came out on the trial. One peculiarity of the case was, that no trace of arsenic had been detected in the stomach ; but the surgeon thought the poison might have passed away by vomiting. The prisoners received excellent characters, and The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.  WESTERN ClRCUlT—Dorchester, Mardi 15. The only case of any public interest tried this day was the indictment against Jfarg Beanis, for the concealment of the birth of an illegitimate child. The peculiarity of the ease consisted in the marriage of the prisoner the day before the birth of the child, and though she was accused by all her neighbours with then being in the family-way, she denied it stoutly. The man to whom she was about to be married also taxed her with it before they went to church, but on her assertion that the rumour was false he married her. The jury Acquitted the prisoner.
The Sun. — 1847-10-07 (London, England)

COURT CIRCULAR.  WINDSOR, WEDNESDAT.—Her Majesty and Prince Albert took their usual early morning walk in the Slopes. The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, enjoyed walking and pony exercise, this morning, in the grounds adjacent to the Castle. The Princess Helena was also taken for an airing. Prince Albert rode out on horseback, attended by Colonel Seymour, Equerry in waiting to his Royal Highness. In the afternoon the Queen and Prince Albert rode out in a pony phaeton and pair, his Royal Highness driving. The Equerries in waiting attended on horseback.  The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in waiting of the Duchess of Kent, and the Baroness de Speth.  The band Of the Grenadier Guards will attend during dinner. Her Majesty's private band will afterwards attend in the Castle.  Her Serene Highness the Duchess Ida of Saxe Weimar, accompanied by the Princesses of Saxe Weimar, took an airing yesterday, in an open barouche and four.  Mr. Bancroft, the American Minister, had an interview with the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. The Right Hon. F. T. Baring has arrived in town.  His Excellency the Duke de Broglie, accompanied by Count and Countess d'Haussonville, left the French embassy yesterday to visit Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston, at Broadlands, near Romsey, -Hants. His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge left St James's Palace on Tuesday, to resume his duties as Major-General commanding the Dublin district. The Prince will pay a few visits en route to the Irish capital. The Duke of Wellington is expected to return to Apsley House the week after next from Walmer Castle. The Earl and Countess of Wilton arrived in Grosvenorsquare on Tuesday, from a visit to the Noble and Gallant Duke. The Marquis of Douro left town on Wednesday for Walmer Castle. The newly-appointed Governor-General of India, the Earl of Dalhousie, has arrived in town from Dalhousie Castle, en route to Calcutta. The customary banquet to the Noble Earl by the Directors of the East India Company, will be shortly given to his Lordship, Tho Countess of Dalhousie has arrived at Ellis's Hotel from Deal Castle.  The Duke of Victory (General Espartero) leaves Abbey•lodge, Regent's-park, to visit Manchester and Liverpool, whence the Duchess and Madlle. Espartero have returned to town.  A letter from Vienna states that a crime, having great analogy to the murder of the Duchess de Praslin, has been committed in the environs of Agram. In an excess of rage, caused by the jealousy of his wife, a Hungarian baron murdered, under circumstances of great atrocity, his wife and his young son, and then committed suicide.  THE REPORTED MARRIAGE OP THE DUBS Or
The Sun. — 1847-05-25 (London, England)

MADAME CELESTE'S BENEFIT. ..—.- The talented directress of the admirably-managed Adelphi Theatre takes her benefit to-morrow evening, when the beautiful new drama of the Flowers oftile Forest will beperformed, in which Madame Celeste will sustain her original character of Cynthia, a character which she has herself created, and in which the enthusiasm which she excites is beyond description. The drama will be followed by a new comedy, in which, in addition to the strength of the Adelohi • company, Mr. Webster will appear ; and the comedy will be followed by other entertainments. We expect that the house will be crammed to overflowing within a few minutes after the doors are opened, and that those who do not secure places beforehand will find some difficulty in getting them. The Royal Polytechnic Institution was visited yesterday by the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, attended by Admiral Liltru Baron Frederiks, Dr. Howre it- II rowitcb, Ron. Colonel G v' M. De Berg, and Captain Schwabe. His Royal highly gratified with the scighness expressed himself entific arrangements, more particularly with the diver and electric eels. SUICIDE FROM LOSSES ON THE DERBlr.—Yesterday morning the domestic peace of a respectable family was disturbed by a painful event arising out of the late Epsom races. Mr. Frederick Cruso, landlord of the Crown and Sceptre, Great Titchfield-street, Marylebone, poisoned himself with prussic acid. He had latterly attended much more to sporting matters, races in particular, than to his business, and from his irregularity of living it was suspected that his mind was d sordered. Not long ago, after some heavy losses on the turf, he hiund his affairs in an embarrassed condition, and, in a manner that indicated he had a wish to die, desired his wife to get some charcoal, that they might, children and all, suffocate themselves. He was a loser to a considerable amount on the last Derby, and was to have settled his bets on Tuesday evening, but it is supposed he was unable to meet them. Yesterday morning he left home in a cheerful state, and returning at eleven o'clock, went to his bedroom. Not long afterwards his wile entered the room and round him lying on the floor insensible. Mr. Webb, a surgeon, was called in immediately, and foend that he had taken a large quantity of prussic acid. The unfortunate man died in tea minutes. After his death a .azor was found in his pocket.