The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1843-11-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE.--The village of Calver, in Derbyshire, was on Saturday night, about nine o'clock, thrown into a state of the greatest alarm by the report that a young female, about 20 to 21 years of age, had committed suicide, by cutting her throat with a razor, in the most. determined manner. The parents of the wretched gni are in respectable circumstances, occupying a farm under the Earl of Newburgh, and they also carry on the grocery business in a small way. The subject of this melancholy oceurrence was named Anne Gregory. About 16 months since she had an illegitimate child, which died, by a young man living in the same village. He gained her affections —effected her ruin—then deserted her. The same unfortunate female was, on Tuesday evening week, delivered of another illegitimate child. A woman was sent for to act as midwife, who, when sho came, refused to do her the office until made acquainted with the name of the father of the child ; upon which she said a younger brother of her former swain was the father. The parents were naturally much distressed and angry at their daughter's misconduct. On Saturday morning the child was found dead in bed by its mother, who, it appears, was unconscious of its fate. During the absence of Mr. and Mrs. Gregory at Chesterfield market, the constable of Calver went to their house, and ordered that the child should not be interred without a coroner's inquest being held on the body. The unfortunate girl was much affected on this being made known to her. She said the world would cast reflections on her concerning its death, and her mind was wrought up to the desperate consolation of committing suicide. About half-past eight she was down stairs, and making herself gruel. She then went up stairs, telling a sister to fetch the candle when she knocked at the floor. Her parents soon afterwards heard her scream, and immediately proceeded to her room, and discovered that she had cut her throat. She had thrown a sheet over otire. Fenton) act of sewingt o read, up ther, and the sad act was found out by the blood streaming from the bed on the floor. She lived three hours after the perpetration of the horrid deed, and died while the surgeon was in h hwehwoo‘uvansd.mAuclehttaeffrewcatesdlowuinthd under her pillow, which was given to her medical attendantthe distressing recital. An inquest wt.s held on Monday, and verdicts returned to the effect that the child died from natural causes, and that its mother destroyed herself during a fit of temporary insanity. The coroner severely censured Richard Wilde, the person who the wretched girl stated was the father of her last child, for his heart, less conduct,—Derbyshire Courier,  THREH THOUSAND POUNDS SToLEx.—One of the most daring and extensive robberies whieh has occurred in Yorkshire for many years was on Thursday last committed in the piece-room in Bradford, belonging to Messrs. Birchall and Sons, merchants, of Leeds. It appears that Messrs. Birchall brought with them on Thursday's market upwards of £3OOO, wrapped up in a parcel, which one of the partners locked up in a drawer until he went to his dinner, leaving a young man in the room. The man immediately after went to his own dinner, leaving the key in the door, in the expectation of the cart arriving in the meantime with some pieces. Mr. Birchall himself returned in a short time, and found that the lock of the drawer had been picked, and the money taken away. The warehouseman was taken into custody on suspicion, but no case was made out against him, and he was discharged on bail. He is the son of a poor, but honest labourer at Wibsey. It is a matter of surprise that so large a sum of money should have been left by Mr. Birchall, under such circumstances.  ALARMING FIRE AND Loss OF