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The Sun. — 1845-04-18 (London, England)

SALISBURY, TUESDAY.—An extragOry:lncpsz . r.. .i.. /if-s*l:4held on Monday and Tuesday, at Mil no ;•. - il , appears that, on the previous Weds ads Ota..hudyvt.A..-1:'.1 woman, in an advanced state of decompositSi#4-waiTdundiis4. the river which runs through the hamletpfAiliect4:lllZit--30 yards below a bridge over which the road p1.1301,1.44eept.' ' stock. The body was speedily identified by the keeper of s small inn at Salisbury, as being that of a woman who had been, with a man anu three children, staying for some tint. at his house, the man getting his living by exhibiting in the city and neighbouring villages a "learned pig." The inquest. was commenced on Thursday and adjourned till Monday. In the interim the husband was apprehended at a village near Blandford, and was present during the remainder of the inquiry. He gave his name George Woolford, and aged 67. It appeared from the evidence that, on Palm Sunday, the woman left Newman's house abruptly, the man being then absent. An hour after this time two or three witnesses met a man and a woman, the latter being a few yards in advance, going at a quick pace down the road towards Laverstock bridge. One of them stated that, as she passed She heard the man say, I'll be if I don't." They believed Woolford to be the man. Another witness deposed that he, twenty minutes afterwards, saw Woolford standing on the bridge alone, looking into the water. Woolford, it appeared, returned to the inn at ten o'clock, and then ,everal times afterwards he said he believed the old wOlll3ll had drowned or hung herself. Ile and his family remained in the city for some days afterwards, and it appeared that be had made several inquiries about his wife, stating always that he believed she had committed suicide. The medical evidence went to prove distinctly that there were no external marks of violence on the body, and that the death was occasioned by drowning. The prisoner stated that be was not near the spot on the night in question, and that his wife was out of her mind, and had several times attempted suicide. This latter assertion his daughter, on being examined, denied. The inquiry terminated at midnight on Tuesday, iu 4 verdict of "%Vila!! murder" against Woolford, Who was thereupon committed to the county gaol for trial. Ile iS rather a fine man, and is 67 years of age, but looks much younger. It is believed that lie and his wife were formerly members of an equestrian company.
The Sun. — 1845-04-18 (London, England)

IIIVEOUS. undid Her Majesty the Queen Dowager has presented a st-seif portrait of William IV. to the Royal Naval Sella)" t the Cross. The portrait has been copied by Mr. Lane, the express command of Queen Adelaide, from a painting ?Y1 late Sir Thomas Lawrence. It is a full-length of insuteeti Majesty in the uniform of Lord High Admiral, and is P„,re. in the dining hall of the pupils, by whom, on its blob-firm, it was received with tremendous cheers. Al' A dinner was last night given at the Albion Tavern 'o* derogate street (Alderman Moon in the chair),.to M. the the French artist, by the members of the corporation %toe city of London, who are to form part of the great Ptc which M. Aloux has been directed by his Majesty the.nol of the French to prepare, representing " Ths; Presentarrbi• the Address of the City of London to his Majesty Leulfertf lippe, during his recent visit to this country?' About Grier gentlemen, including Alderman Sir C. Marshall, Sir P. Lit.neet Sir W. Magnay, E. Tennent, M.P., &c., sat down to a 1excellent dinner. 400 Great alterations and improvements are in contetufh.hod at the St. Katherine Docks. The Company have ebtFtlis the sanction of the Treasury to extend the privileges ,0 wharf outside the dock gates facing the river to t_.l. be' ' wharfs, called the Upper and Lower Irongate Wbar'Ziseh tween the Tower Stairs and their present waterside Prera. e•d known as the St. Katherine Steam-packet Wharf. It 17,j0s believe, intended to erect a large warehouse in conDevai with these new premises, and to form a comraunication,s ef them with the warehouse in the docks on the opposite sit'ttes the street, by making an iron bridge run across the slot from warehouse to warehouse, in order that the goods 11,. from the foreign steamers, and intendod to be bonded, 111- eir moved with facility for the purpose of being housed, or amined for delivery. It is expected than a great increatiset take place in the traffic of these convenient waterside pre o( in the course of the ensuing season, an additional nurn°''o4 steam-ships having already been placed on the station;, the that when the arrangements are completed, one half 0' 04 whole waterside premises will be devoted to the foreign' the other half to the coasting trade. lt is stated that the Bishop of London has decided made the case of the Rev. Mr. Monckton upon the report a1%*,,,0t the Commissioners, but the result has not been offica_' publicly made known. lier His Majesty the King of the French has become a 113efa of the Royal Western Yacht Club. The gratifying anti et ment was made at a recent meeting of the members, he' Plymouth.  DETERMINED SUICIDE AT HAMMERshin,-• bi Wednesdty night Mrs. Emma Peasgood, the wife ofql3o landlord of the Britannia public-house at the corner t" ber Fulham-road, near Hammersmith church, was found itlar bed-room quite dead, suspended from the bedstead by ti -eV lace. Various reports are in circulation relative to Luta,* cumstances and the causes which led the unfortunate APO who was not thirty years of age, to destroy herself.
The Sun. — 1845-04-21 (London, England)

AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—A hostile YO'd place yesterday morning, between the Hon. DOlninic Daly r 'atte'"c. eisl SecretAry, and the Hon. T. C. Aylwyn ; the forme r. by S. Derbishire, Esq., and the latter by Dr. Tache, M. to fC Dominic Daly w. resolved that the session should 51,issie without his doing something to rescue himself from the cop (e into which he has fallen. He, on Tuesday night, used Mr. Aylwyn publicly in the House, which no duellist e°'l,;osic. notieing in the manner that was desired. We quote the ";porte.i,, report, and would merely add that some of Mr; Dall:_fre su; t01„r cried out very audibly across the floor, "Take that; n": -Mr. Aylwyn-" I have read Mr. Bull's pamphlet, ffie`"„" wThect'' tir-O the Member for Megantic." Mr. Daly-. I have 00 of it." Mr. Aylwyn-" Yes, you did." Mr. Hair believe it." Mr. Aylwyn (rising)-" I say you did." Stiff. te ii " Sir, it is false." Mr. Aylwyn-" What do you say r looditej -" I say that it is false." Mr. Aylwyn sat doWn• steps were taken to arrange a meeting, which fortunatell; or)guo, without bloodshed, after an exchange of shot/. .P 1 sib enough that while in England her Majesty is giving pr ofr,,, daily of her deep anxiety to suppress the barbarous N[0;504 ling, when by the very last mail we have accounts of fo, Defi`o, being dismissed, and an ensign put at the feet of the I 9 40101,40,i. implicated in an affkir of this kind, a member of the Can ilol, vernment should set such an example to the peolde•"-treal paper. $ -4' o,i SUICIDE OF THE VESTRY CLERK or .IW. cp3tr! Mr. William John Clark, jun., the officiatins parish clerk of Mitcham, committed suicide on xrl,-0 oL: it ing by hanging himself 'with a rope to a beameing out-houses belonging to his father. The fielonnf appeared was fifty-one years of age, rose on Friday Ito is 411; between seven and eight o'clock, leaving his wife4:l4o i 11,10,1 more than twenty-two years of age, in bed, with addrso child. Having dressed himself, he wrote a letter ;01034; to his wife, and then left the house. As he did ne' an de appearance at breakfast his wife became alarmed, ~h r, into an office, where she found the letter, in w"„„.(.lone ceased said it was impossible for him to' exist any and by the time she read the letter he would be u. De ie-t, cause of this act is supposed to be certain defalcatios, speot to the office of actuary to the Mitcham Savings which had been held for some time by the deceaPeg torah We hear, as a rumour at Liverpool on °„v• that the blockade of Monte Video has been broken -lel"' Mr. Weekes's plan for lighting towns mtb,z e"; 131 city is about to be carried into effect in America- .ritaen'tes; of the Cincinnati Mechanic states that an e,cl3-,,-001.•40 lately witnessed was perfectly successful ; that tbe •y is by no means costly; and that for lighting Cincillinotetioi towers, it is considered, will be sufficient to ilium in whole city. Mr. Weekes's plan was first pubraw the country as far back as 1831.-Builder. turaill
The Sun. — 1845-07-18 (London, England)

MORT SLITY IN THU METROPOLIS.—The, 4..1 her of rteaths during the week ending July 12, was (P 10; 19.1. tie smallest number we believe that has been returne 0 the establishment of the Registrar-General's office' tweet shows a decrease of 26 as compared with the previous 081 it is less by 127 than the weekly average or five siz‘9th and is little more than one-half of the number Sf destbsorlf occurred during one of the weeks of the last sPiing',ooo,', the exception of bronchitis, measles, and boof-ing tb which are respectively as follows-19, 44: 34, IVA is a considerable decrease under almost ever he Lott cleat ha from small- pox, which amount to 13, t6iff fin to persons under ten years of age. The violent dea,i he been 16, of which 5 were from suicide, 1 murder, an .11 from accidents. ." 01,5 ABOLITION OF FEES IN CRIMINAL CA511,.04 introduced by Mr. Bickham Escott, Sir James Graham, .0, Duncan, " for further seeming the rights of accused Per‘orSe„, abolishing certain fees in criminal courts,' is now in the,tioa progress through the House of Commons. The third w"..41 cites " that the plea of not guilty is the free, undoubted, •"; 170 conditional right of every subject of this realm accused of 44 ISr or misdemeanor," and enacts that hereafter "it shall not " for any officer of any court of criminal jurisdiction in the pa oo Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, or for any et,,,y whatsoever, to take or demand from any person accused 0' -fore, or misdemeanor any fee or payment whatsoever, either no or after trial, or before, at, or after any summary proCeedhan 00€ fore one or more justice or justices of the peace, other t; of proper and legal fine as the said court, or justice or justic.,jooo°;of peace, before whom such person shall have been tried or ',7o,eotipi convicted, are or shall be authorised to impose as a Pt,"4-„d fo the offence for which such person shall have been tried an „ guilty, or summarily convicted." -ng irsloo
The Sun. — 1845-01-29 (London, England)

DEATH IN THE REGENT'S CANAL.—A PREDICTION IN JEST FULFILLED.—Yesterday the body of a corpus. lent and rather aged person, named Portington, was found in the Regent's-canal, near the Camden-tows lock. Five-and-twenty years ago deceased was is master tailor, 'in extensive business in Tavistoeke street, Covent-garden. Latterly he held the shuts. tion of collector of rents and general over-looker on the Agar estate, Camden-town. A week since, meeting Lamb, an occasional summoning officer for the. parish of St. Pancres, serving summonses for an inquest on a person who had died suddenly, he remarked that such a way of dying was the pleasantest, and added, jokingly, that some day or other the officer would hare to summon a jury to inquire into the cause of his dealt. The prediction has been verified, and Lamb applied yesterday to 3lr. Wakle, for a warrant to summon a jury. SUICIDE OF A 11 HERMAN AT NORTHUMIIIIRLANE Housu.—Last evening Mr. Higgs held an inquest at thin Prince's Head, Buckingham. street, Strand, on the bodyclit John Henry Rollick, aged fifty-seven, in the employs! Mr. Hughes, upholsterer to the Duke ofNorthumberlantl It appeared that deceased and others were engaged on Sea. turdey forenoon in preparing the furniture and rooms c}! asemal,renhottorebteurmnam Northumberland House for the reception of its noble occus pants. past eleven o'clock he left the dining. after him. In a few minutes afterwards ho was disco, irnoohmalfinaAiwl vered in one of the water-clotets at the basement ht cohhuari,hf-toh he a foremand been working,caused of the mansion, partly suspended (his feet resting oz the floor, and his arms en the seat of the closet' from a service water-pipe by means of a piece r. Briroanws 67. cut to pna, ek takenthre a idn totietdherek,nintedhehni,s a nntel ekth Cooper called in, who said that deceased had been deatt Deceased was a temperate/ of the witnesses considerot aanbdoustteaaqdir mtteur),u:naan shootnu re. that his mind was affected by an attack of lness he had three months since, and others that it was affected by the breaking up of a benefit society, called the. St. James's Union, to which he had7fsoT, years belonged. haft paid, Verdict, different times, insanit. into the above society. " Temporery ..013,41NG A 50CL1.T.41.1.±
The Sun. — 1845-06-28 (London, England)

TER MINED ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—About seven o clock, on Sunday morning, Mr. John Commerie, setter up of lace machines, New Sneinten, Nottingham, was discovered leaning over a pipkin in the cellar underneath his !sense, bleeding from numerous wounds in various parts of his body ; he was in a state of extreme exhaustion, in consequence of the great quantity of •blood which had flowed from his wounds. It appeared that Commerie ha for some time been distressed in mind, arising from family troubles, and his intellect has been so much affect d as to occasionally produce the appearances of insanity. He had in the middle of the night arisen from his bed, gone into the cellar, leaned across the pipkin sn as to let the blood sun into it, and with a razor cut his neck ni ally round, and inflicted several gashes on his head, temples, face, and small of his arms. Mr. Burrows, of West-street, surgeon, having been ca;led in, found that between thirty arid torty wounds had been made by the hand of the unhappy man himself. Having taken up the arteries which had been severest, and dressed the wounds, Mr. Burroves left the unhappy man with but faint hopes of recovery, although every attention has been paid to him. SfsoNTA.N sults I.2omEsesTioN Wednesday morning, bet wren two and three o'clock, a fire, which at first threatened great destruction of property, broke out in the premises belonging to Mr. W. Fetcher. cab master and stablekeeper, 14, John-street, Bentonville. The discovery was made by the proprietor, who was suddenly awoke from his sleep by a loud crackling of wood undesgmne the process of combustion. Upon getting up and opening his bedroom door, he found the end of the workshops near his own chamber in flames. Hiving r i,sed a,• alarm the police and neighbours ha-timed to his assistense, inn( by discharging a number of buckets of water upon the flames, their further progress was arrested. Engines of the parish, with two from the London establi-hment and the one belonging to the West of England Company, promptly attended, but fortunately their services were not required, the neighbours and police having extinguished the fire in the ietesine The damage is confined to the destruction of nart of :he r,,:f of the wo.kslisee, aed vessels, and the scorching of a cabriolet. The overheating of a cask of lamp-black was the cause of the outbreak.  S y co 31311 I •  (I'
The Sun. — 1845-03-28 (London, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE OF A DUTCH JEW.—On Wednem lay morning considerable excitement was must(' in the neighbourhood of IsliLgton by the discovery, at an early hour, that a middle-aged man, most respectably attired, u as weltering in his blood in Bridle-lane, a cumparlitit Fly secluded spot on the north side of the Britannia fit Ids, close by the Shepherdess public-house, and near a small brook which flows into the adjacent Regent's Canal basin. The party 117 d evidently met with his death from a wound produced by firearms, by which tho into rior of the head was frightfully shattered. The  body was then warm, but life— appe-ared quite extinct. It appeared that the ease was one of determined suicide, although fur several hours it was apprehended that the de•►th of the decess«l had becn caused by violence from the hands of another party. Upon searching the body, however► several documents were found, at.d thew  genuineness having Neu tested in the course of the day, the following facts mly be relied upon:—From a billhead it appeared that the name of d•crased is Meyer de Gouge, and that he resided at 80, Church-lane, White. .  ehatiit Formerly he had been in the employ of Messrs. Joseph and Percy Procktcr, tobacco manufacturers, Bishops:Ante•street. A note from the firm was also in the pocket of deceased, calling upon him without delay to hand over a balance of about 121. due to them. There w•as also a letter written in the German language, of which the following is a literal tran%lation:—" Unhappy Wife-11mile° this, my last letter, as a thank for you, my partner in my misl'ortuns. Farewell to the world!  no longer remain hero without making you and my dear sweet children still wore unhappy. I ate now resolved to make un end to my miserable life, but for the sake of our children do nut follow toy example, and be aware that there is a God Almighty. One more farewell in this and world! Yonder we each other t hall see again no doubt. There is a God, and here once more be confident in him who has created us; and bring our children up us Jews—that is, as Israelites; for our belief—and specially the Jewish belief—is the true one. There is a God, and that is the God of the Jews. Dear wife, as a mother, do impress truth on the minds of my dear children, that tilt y may persevere in the Jewish belief. You may tell them that their father died before the time; he wus a Jew, and wanted to see them live and die as Jews. Farewell for ever!—
The Sun. — 1845-04-22 (London, England)

QUE:TION.—A meeting was held rkibilitt at k4,l4lttnent LYOo-strcet Chapel, New Kent-road, to consider .the cetera. lh th proposal with respect to Masnooth, D. W. Wir.e, 41, et,e,ta. so: Chair. The meeting was composed chiefly of Dui.. the following resolution was adopted :—" That this ''f elanti4 °l'Pesing the endowment of the Roman Catholic Church in „.. .8 not actuated by any wish to deprive fellow-subjects ~,josteVsuasion of any equitable privilege, civil and religious: ti,noloht4lhß for the dependence of the Roman Catholic teachers tiou WhitilrY auPport, it is desirous of placing them in the posi. ° co,' 41 its judgment, ought to be occupied by every reli. ttCothUnity." Mr. Greene, Mr. Mains, and John Brooke, test:44l4, addressed the meeting. Resolutions that petitions in 444sti to t With the above resolution should be forthwith pieta„ ell) Idolises of Parliament, praying that the Bill may not 4, °L. 4150 carried. 1 IV:1/4;r 1' ' (418.1011 Stanfield, Leslie, Christall, Stump, Ihe'dersthave lett in th packet-ship Victoria, for New York, it ss—°°,l e , to the oett Lit Paint the hall of Congress of the United States. .oth Se number of people to see them off: They left °eitll4ll`l44o,„ /eY, tr.,,1t41,10111/t3 OF SOIDISANT Rs PoRTERS.—AIr. at an inquest yesterday, having been shown a tilltoet the ~4t which appeared a report of proceedings on Saturday Police.court, stating a charge made by the thl;tqtthter. e Morning Advertiser against a person calling himself a Lick of an having imposed upon that paper by sending to it a t% held 711 read in the papers 08 reports of inquests said to have tltiels4Y hien in Paddington, not one of which he bad ever Ltett I.,trall headed " Seduction and Suicide," and contained ;*tll4"at ',tera from the supposed seducer to his victim, and litibo"uts all written in a very affecting strain. The name ts ist,s *.c.hou ih, se and street in which the alleged inquest was 4isit en, but no such public-house or street ever existed in h' Theeditor of the Morniny Advertiser was to bes:cord,11164elPle etePs he had taken, and if other editors followed' , °'otthi‘lisoi 'the character of the press would be raised in public 411),,be the fabricators of false and injurious intelligence %eatfo-4.teds ?Mashed' , and their infamous calling be even.
The Sun. — 1845-01-22 (London, England)

TUESDAY EVENING.—The prolikely to recover, after the heavy expenses they have mice c.f tine weather afforded by the close of yesterday Was quite fulfilled to-day. The morning opened tv!iA been at in talk_in,4 out writs. At the Secondaries' Court a fine frost, and the rest of the day IYat 'Seen remarkthere are se com more than two or three rases ; at the ably fine, even warm, slias,trsiifft,t!nj there was not one case fur trial, and at the In addition to die iitt of guests given in our paper Yesterda"ortnethoefmost of the caws are now undefended. yesterday, +eft, were at the dinner on Monday Mr. the patienos in St. George's Hospital, and Mrs. Shaw Lefevre, Mr. and Mrs. Hunter, Mr, Zyde Parlcortier,. committed suicide by inflicting a dreadful wound on his throat with a knife. Portal, the Hon. B. Baring, and the Hon. and neV. The giraffe of the Garden of Plants, Paris,presented Gerald Wellesley, rector of the parish and the Duke's in 1827 by Mehemet Ali to and come has lived in this climates domestic chaplain. There were also some visitors in Charles . ev hase n t juste n 3. ears, died, the evening—Mr. and Mrs. Pigott, Captain and Mrs. ..„el!onorary medals w'ere on Monday presented, at Wool- Brown, Miss Wttltnisley, Dr. Keate (Dean of Wind.. gl a, to the under- uientioned men of the Royal Alarine ‘..orps, for long sor), and Mr. and Mrs. Keate. sf,rvice and good conduct, in presence of the The band of the Grenadier Guards played during priute Woolwich ser division, viz. :—Edward Sutton, colour the evening. They were stationed in the conservatory. geant, t"' -dal and gratuity of 15/. ; Andrew Doukin, , nactial and gratuity of 5/. The royal party sat in the library after dinner, and her Majesty was much interested in the house, parts -