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The Sun. — 1862-12-11 (London, England)

INCREASE OF' CRIME IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX.  The official reportColdbath-fields, for tof fe tyhe ea rHe Inds en go f eo hr ra ee cl oe ne 1862, has just been issued, and shows that a great increase of crime has as compared withtsh taken vpi leaucee within thato hperiod as compared with the previous year. Upon this subject the report says :—" The exceptional state of things prevailing in the metropolis during the past year has been attended with a considerable increase in the number of commitments. In 1861 the total number of prisoners was 8,065 ; in the present year, 9,261. It is, under these circumstances, a matter of rejoicing that, while the aggregate numbers have thus risen, the number of prisoners under 16 years of age has not only failed to keep pace with the adults, but has materially diminished. Last year the total number of boys under 16 years of age was 774, this year it has fallen to 682. Of the prisoners committed during the year 1,562 had been once before committed ; 567, twice ; 251, three times ; and 422, four times and upwards. In addition to the punishments to which the prisoners were sentenced, the following have been inflicted for offences committed during the year in prison : Whippings, 10 ; put in irons, 6 ; solitary confinement, 267; other punishments, 6,227—making a total of 6,510 additional punishments. The daily average of prisoners was 1,594. The report of the House of Correction at Westminster shows a great increase in the number of female prisoners committed during the year, amounting to 5,099; in the previous year they were 4,802. The number of finales received from this prison into reformatory asylums during the year was 130, namely, into the Refuge for the Destitute, 29; Elizabeth Fry Refuge, 60; Manor-hall Asylum, 6; placed in other asylums, and paid for by the ladies of the Patronage Society, 29. Of the prisoners committed during the year, 993 had been once committed before,times, and 1,841 four punishment for offences comm times;4i andt9t7 edmoretwice,within2t7hle extra prison--solitary re confinement, 83; other punishments, 1,485, making a total of 1,568. The House of Detention, Clerkenwell, as in the previous cases, offers a considerable increase in the number of prisoners for the year. The number committed this year B,BBo—namely, c 14 6,510 males and 2,370 females—while in the previous year they were 8,014, being an increase of 866. The daily average Was 224. Of the number committed there were committed before :—Once, I,CI and four times and or Ext.'s punishments, in irons, 1 ; solitary confinement, 33 ; other punishments, 131. Committed for attempting to commit suicide, 177. m9e8,;2177.ice, 331 ; thrice,  211 E
The Sun. — 1862-08-30 (London, England)

THE INTERNATIONAL EXIIIBITTON.—The number of visitors at the Exhibition yesterday was—by season tickets, 5,561; by payment, 15,623 ; total, 20,981. A furrier, wishing to inform the public that he would make up furs in a fashionable manner out of old ones which ladies have at home, appended the f, Bowing to one of his advertisements :—" N.B. Capes, victorines, &c., made up for ladies in fashionable styles, out of their own skins." To DESTROY ANTS, BLACK BEETLES, &c.—For the iniormation of your readers I beg to state that I have used the following simple remedy for the destruction of ants and black beetles for many years, and I have never known it to fail :—Take some unslaked stone lime (say half a bushel) ; lay in a heap upon a stone or brick floor ; then take about a pound of sulphuric acid, and put into it a pint of water. With this liquor sprinkle the lime gently until the whole drops into a dry powder; throw this powder plentifully down the holes and about the places where the vermin come. If every householder in London were to use this powder, there would not be a black beetle in London. —Correspondent of the Builder.  A man named Servant has just been arrested at Courthezon (Vaucluse) for the murder of his wife. For some years past the conduct of the couple had been a scandal to the neighbourhood, the woman living in a state of extreme depravity, and the husband having already suffered two years' imprisonment for exciting her to acts of debauchery. A first husband of .the wife had committed suicide from grief at her immorality. Servant, meeting a few days back wi h a neighbour who reproached him with his wife's conduct, returned home, and after loading the woman with the foulest abuse, discharged a pistol into her breast, killing her on the spot.  - The command of the stationary ship at Port Royal, Jamaica, has been placed at the disposal of the First Lord of the Admiralty by the resignation of Captain John 13, Marsh, who has been compelled, owing to ill health, to resign the aPpointment. Captain Marsh was at the Admifor the purpose ot repaint; himself.—iirtnY and I‘ovy Gazette. ralty y Captuia O. S. Davis, who was placed on half-PaY fro= of the Carabiniers on the return of the regiment India, has succeeded the late Captain Yates as Adjutant of the Cavalry Depot at Cauterbury.—.eirmy and •Ar" CtOZßtfr, e2tol'd ay,  His Royal Highness the Grand Dulle of Meeklenburg-Strelitz and his Royal Highness Prince Adolphus, IL AT who are residing at Brighton for the benefit of sea bathing, honoured Mr. and Lady Fanny Howard with a visit at Compton-place, Eastbourne, on Thursday last. After partaking of luncheon, their Royal Highnesses returned to Brighton. Their Royal fiighneeses the Duke and Duchess de Montpensier, Princthes Isabella, Amelia, and Chris • tine, attended by Madame de Vallejo and Colonel Velarde, have left the Clarendon Hotel for Claremont.
The Sun. — 1862-08-30 (London, England)

THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.—The number of visitors at the Exhibition yesterday was—by season tickets, 5,361; by payment, 15,623; total, 20,984. A furrier, wishing to inform the public that he would make UP furs in a fashionable manner out of old ones which ladies have at home, appended the fallowing to one of his advertisements :—" N.B. Capes, victorines, &c., made up for ladies in fashionable styles, out of their own skins." To DESTROY ANTS, BLACK BEETLES, &c.—For the information of your readers I beg to state that I have I used the following simplo remedy for the destruction of ants and black beetles for many years, and 1 have never known it to fail :—Take some unslaked stone lime (say half a bushel) ; lay in a heap upon a stone or brick floor ; then take about it pound of sulphuric acid, and put into it a pint of water. With this liquor sprinkle the limo gently until the whole drops into a dry powder; throw this powder plentifully down the holes and about the places where the vermin come. If every householder in London were to use this powder, there would not be a black beetle in London. —Correspondent ty the Baader. A man named Servant has just been arrested at Courthezon (Vaucluse) for the murder of his wife. For some years past the conduct of the couple had been a scandal to the neighbourhood, the woman living in a state of extreme depravity, and the husband having already suffered two years' imprisonment for exciting her to acts of debauchery. A first husband of the wife had committed suicide from grief at her immorality. Servant, meeting a few days back wil a neighbour who reproached him with his wife's conduct, returned home, and after loading the woman with the foulest abuse, discharged a pistol into her breast, killing her on the spot. The command of the stationary ship at Port Royal, Jamaica, has been placed at the disposal of the First Lord of the Admiralty by the resignation of Captain John B. Marsh, who has been compelled, owing to ill health, to resign the appointment. Captain Marsh was at the Admiralty yesterday, for the purpose of reporting himself.—.Army and IVavy Gazette. Captain G. S. Davis, who was placed on half-pay of the Carabiniers on the return of the regiment front India, has succeeded the late Captain Yates as Adjutant of the Cavalry Depot at Canterbury. —Army and. ZfarY Onotto.
The Sun. — 1862-09-13 (London, England)

MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN HOLBORN.  Yesterday Dr. Lankester, the Central Middlesex coroner, opened an inquest at the Queen's Arms, Red Lion-passage, Holborn, upon the body of Eliza Chandler, aged thirty years, the wife of an assistant at Prosser's oyster shop, in Holborn, and residing at 13, Red Lion-street. _  ~. It appeared from the report of the police and from the evidence adduced that the deceased was discovered last Tuesday night by a Mrs. Perkins lying in the passage of No. 12, Hand-court, Red Lion-street, apparently drunk and incapable. With the assistance of some lodgers in the house, who were friends of the deceased, Mrs. Perkins conveyed her to a room where she was laid on a sofa, and, being supposed to be drunk, she was suffered to remain there unnoticed until the following morning, when, on an attempt being made to arouse her, she was found quite dead. Mr. Sheen, a tailor, living at 12, Hand-court, missedd appearede e easehde rtuoop nbs upstairs, ii ras ohnfeilgrighutoDfrr.eocmeased deposed that on his return home on the night in question he found Mrs. Perkins attempting to get r undereatnu thedr n h he influenceo mases itshteadt Henry Chandler said deceased was his wife. He business. The following morning he received a message from 12, Hand-court stating there ill. His first question she was lying was, has she cut her throat or poisoned :hgerselfir viously attempted suicide He because she had preHand-court, and at one; found her lying dead in Mr. Valpy, surgeon, ofseGutrafor Dr. Valpy. that he attended upon the decetiseianna-uldane, deposed f she had been seriously injured at the baoculirldo of th that head. He performed a post mortena examination of the body, and discovered a severe fracture of the skull over the back of the head and great bruises and depression on the bone. Internally it was ascertained that the occipital bone was fractured nearly under the seat of the bruises extending from the upper part of the back of the head to the base of the skull, with considerable effusion of blood. He examined the brain, and found clots corresponding with the depressed surface of the bone, and considerable - effusion. All the other organs of the body were quite healthy. The cause of death was from fracture of the skull. _  By the Coroner—He could ot conceive that it was caused but by a very severe blow. It teas not, in his opinion, such a fracture as nit he produced from falling downstairs, The Coroner thought it unnecessary to examine further witnesses at present, as the case assumed tooserious p a nicaetruree, o f h to tbee E at once disposed of. Inspector division police, produced a large stone which he said was kept to a fasten back a door at the foot of the stairs where deceased if twashe founddeeea s e d fe fell back insensible, kan ecl ainst that stone he desired to know in a state of drunkenness, whether such injuries would rot be likely to be produced.  Mr. Valpy was quite sure no fall would produce such injuries. nto enable the poilichee tCo omr oaleer anadjiunuvrenset a thetion inquiry, of the affair,
The Sun. — 1862-09-13 (London, England)

MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN HOLBORN.  Yesterday Dr. Lankester, the Central Middlesex coroner, opened an inquest at the Queen's Arms, Red Lion-passage, Holborn, upon the body of Eliza Chandler, aged thirty years, the wife of an assistant at Prosser's oyster shop, in Holborn, and residing at 13, Red Lion-street. It appeared from the report of the police and from the evidence adduced that the deceased was discovered last Tuesday night by a Mrs. Perkins lying in the passage of No. 12, Hand-court, Red Lion-street, apparently drunk and incapable. With the assistance of some lodgers in the house, who were friends of the deceased, Mrs. Perkins conveyed her to a room where she was laid on a sofa, and, being supposed to be drunk, she was suffered to remain there unnoticed until the following morning, whoa, on an attempt being made to arouse her, she was found quite dead. Mr. Shean, a tailor, living at 12, Hand-court, deposed that on his return home on the night in question he found Mrs. Perkins attempting to get amt hp epHs rse eeea dui •eri her dy. e Crt oHhobne nes his Isner srrieestraugitrduhnemedshetoi ioonr omenflnai uene weegtndha influence et ao nightsf hisli q u wof rri .fo em. deceased upstairs, and he assisted her. Deceased ha s_ s receivedhee au tme hersghHuesiness. The following stahgroeatfroormpoli2so, hd -ecrosue lrft sbtae tcianu,gs e she ew had as d lyin previouslyned attempted suicide. He found her lying dead in Hand-court, and at oncesent for Dr. Valpy. Mr. of G Valpy, surgeon, ray's-inn-lane, deposed that he attended upon the deceasedr_at and found that she had been seriously injured head. He performed a posi medortent theex backrn. of the the body, and discovered a severe fractureina examination nthe f skull over the back of the head and great bruises and depression on the bone. Internally it was ascertained that the occipital bone was fractured nearly under the seat of the bruises extending from I the upper part of the back of the head to the base of the skull, with considerable effusion of blood. He examined the brain, and found clots corresponding with the depressed surface of the bone, and considerable effusion. All the other organs of the body were quite healthy. The cause of death was from fracture of the skull. By the Coroner—He could not conceive that _ _  was caused but by a very severe blow. It was not, in his opinion, such a fracture as might be produced from falling downstairs. The Coroner thought it unnecessary to examine further witnesses at present, as the case assumed too serious a nature to be at once disposed of. Inspector Pierce, of the E division of police, produced a large stone which he said was kept to fasten back a door at the foot of the stairs where deceased was found insensible, an know if the deceased fell againstbackd in a state of drunkenness, whether such injuries h e tdheasitre stone ton to e would not be likely to be produced. Mr. Valpy was quite sure no fall would produce such injuries. The Coroner adjourned the inquiry, to enable the police to make an investigation of the affair.
The Sun. — 1862-09-13 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A TRADESMAN THROUGH DISTRESS.—A respectably-attired man, who appeared in very great distress of mind, and gave the name of John *Raffell, and described himself as a grocer out of business, was charged with threatening to commit suicide at his residence, Cross-street, Islington. Mr. William Gedge, the landlord of the Old King's Head public house, Upper-street, Islington, said he had known the prisoner for some time, and had noticed lately that he had been very much depressed in spirits in consequence of his not being able to obtain a situation. The prisoner, a few days since, spoke about destroying himself, saying that he was tired of his life. He told him that even to talk of such a matter was very foolish; but the prisoner said he could not stand up against such troubles as his. In consequence of what came to his knowledge, and the finding of two letters, he saw Inspector Judge on the subject, and the present proceedings were taken. Mr. ()ledge then handed to the magistrate the following letters, which were in the prisoner's handwriting :  Sept. 10. Dear friend,—You will oblige by informing Miss Powell, where I have been lodging, that I am no more after this note, as I am quite determined. Yours, truly, The other note was as follows :  J. R.  Dear friend,—You will accept my carpet bag and contents, upon condition that you pay the laundress the amount of 2s. or 3s. Yours, truly, J. R.  In answer to the charge, the prisoner said he sincerely regretted his intention to destroy his life. He was in great distress, because he was in debt at his lodgings. He had had nothing to eat and drink, and he had endeavoured to collect some money due to him, but without avail ; for all he could get was ls. His friends were all in the country, and if he were now discharged he would at once go to them. The magistrate, who said that Mr. Gedge had acted in a very proper manner, remanded the prisoner until Monday next. A
The Sun. — 1862-09-13 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A TRADESMAN THROUGH DISTRESS.—A respectably-attired man, who appeared in very great distress of mind, and gave the name of John Raffell, and described himself as a grocer out of business, was charged with threatening to commit suicide at his residence, Cross-street, Islington. Mr. William Gedge, the landlord of the Old King's Head public-house, Upper-street, Islington, said he had known the prisoner for some time, and had noticed lately that he had been very much depressed in spirits in consequence of his not being able to obtain a situation. The prisoner, a few days since, spoke about destroying himself, saying that he was tired of his life. He told him that even to talk of such a matter was very foolish; but the prisoner said he could not stand up against such troubles as his. In consequence of what came to his knowledge, and the finding of two letters, he saw Inspector Judge on the subject, and the present proceedings were taken. Mr. ()ledge then handed to the magistrate the following letters, which were in the prisoner's handwriting : Sept. 10. Dear friend,—You will oblige by informing Miss Powell, where I have been lodging, that I am no more after this note, as I am quite determined. Yours, truly, J. R.  The other note was as follOws Dear friend,—You will accept my carpet bag and contents, upon condition that you pay the laundress the amount of 2s. or 3s. Yours, truly, J. R. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said he sincerely regretted his intention to destroy his life. He was in great distress, because he was in debt at his lodgings. He had had nothing to eat and drink, and he had endeavoured to collect some money due to him, but without avail ; for all he could get was ls. His friends were all in the country, and if he were now discharged he would at once go to them. The magistrate, who said that Mr. (ledge had acted in a very proper manner, remanded the prisoner until Monday next. A
The Sun. — 1862-10-11 (London, England)

HORRIBLE SUICIDE.  An inquest was held yesterday at the King's Arms Tavern, Roadside, Commercial-road, Ratcliff, on the body of a young woman named Elizabeth Rose, who committed suicide in her dwelling, No. 3, Caroline-street, Rateliff.  It appeared that the deceased, who was not quite 21 years of age, was the wife of a labourer, employed in the establishment of Messrs. Ravenhill and Salkeld, the engineers, in Ratcliff, and was the mother of three young children. She had been suffering from a tertiary fever for a few days only, and had been attended by Mr. F. G. Aubin, a surgeon and apothecary, of No. 18, Arbourterrace, Stepney, under whose treatment she was progressing very favourably until Tuesday afternoon, when she appeared very composed, and requested her nurse to prepare some tea, and anxiously inquired when the milk woman was likely to call with the milk. A few minutes afterwards the nurse observed that the deceased had covered herself over with the bedclothes, and that her head was hanging on one side. The nurse spoke to the deceased, and said "My dear woman, you mist not cover yourself up in that manner, and don't lay your head on one side." No answer was returned, and the nurse turned down the bedclothes, and to her great horror and surprise noticed blood flowing copiously from her mouth, and the handle of a razor projecting from it. The nurse called aloud for help, several persons rushed into the room, and among them a brewer's man from Mr. WeEt's brewery opposite, who endeavoured to remove the razor from the woman's throat, but failed to do so ; and the handle was detached from it, and remailed in his hand. Mr. Aubin was then sent for. On his arrival the unfortunate woman was quite (had. He succeeded in extracting the razor with a pair of forceps. Mr. Aubin, in his evidence, said the razor had been thrust down the deceased's throat with great all bllteheen almostlargery ta vessels were Dfoercaethamnd hustthaatv  The deceased lost a large quantity of blood. She lived on the best of terms with her husband, and was very fond of her children. She bad been in a low and melancholy state since her illness commenced, and talked somewhat incoherently to her husband the night before she committed the dread ful at which deprived her of life. She managed to obain possession of her husband's razor and conceal tin the temporary absence of her nurse.  Th Jury returned a verdict, that the deceased comtitted suicide while labouring under mental deragement.  iIIEJANCHOLY
The Sun. — 1862-10-11 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE OF A COLONIAL BROKER IN MINCING-LANE.  Yesterday afternoon a long inquiry was gone into before Mr. Payne, the City coroner, and a jury of merchants, at the Commercial Coffee-rooms, Mincing-lane, touching the death of Mr. Arthur Stonehouse Griffiths, a colonial broker, having offices at No. 9 in the above lane, who committed suicide under the following painful circumstances. The inquest-room was crowded by merchants and brokers, friends of the deceased. Mr. Smith, solicitor, attended to watch the proceedings for the relatives. •  It appeared from the evidence that on Wednesday morning the deceased came to his business at his usual time, ten o'clock. He went into his private office, and told the clerk to say he wis engaged if any one called to see him. A Mr. Whistler, who had an appointment with the deceased about some money matters, called to see the deceased, and after waiting a short time the housekeeper of the chambers looked through the fanlight of the door of the private room and saw the unfortunate gentleman lying back on a chair in an apparently dying state. The room was entered and he was found insensible, and in a few minutes he expired. There was a strong odour of essential oil of almonds about the place, and there was a glass near the deceased, which contained a few drops of that poison. On the table of the room were several letters which the unhappy man had just written. One addressed to Mr. Whistler was to the following effect :  " Whistler forgive me. I did not intend to rob you. I have been swindled. "A. S. G." Another letter was addressed to Mr. Parrott, who was a large creditor. It was as follows :  " Thanks for all your kindness. May God repay you for it, and forgive me all my sins. I have tried earnestly to pay every one, and were it not for one or two who persecute me should have succeeded. May those who have so cruelly robbed me be forgiven ; but my trouble is greater than I can bear.— Yours, " A. S.