The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-03-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE.—On Friday week, as a boy was proceeding through Hornsey-wood, near London, he was exceedingly terrified at beholding the body of 'a respectable-looking young man suspended from a tree. He instantly ran oft; and gave information to a policeman, who proceeded to the spot and cut the body down, and carried it to the stationhouse, where it was 'found to be quite dead. Every inquiry was made for the purpose of tracing his friends, there being nothing on his person to lead to the discovery of who or what he was. His remains were subsequently recognised, when it appeared that be was clerk in the service of Mr. Castles, wine-merchant, of Aldersgate-street, City, and his name Alfred Croley. He did not attend, as was his usual custom, at his employer's house on Friday week, but in the morning of that day he left his wife and four children, in a dejected state of mind bidding them " adieu." On the same day he sent a letter, addressing it' to' Mr. Castles, stating that he had committed himself, and defalcations would be traced in his accounts, and he could never face him again ; and by the time he (Mr. Castles) would receive that letter he should be no more, as he intended to' put an end to his existence, and if they thought proper they would find his corpse in Hornsek-wood. On examining his accounts considerable defalcations were traced. He has left his wife and family in very indigent crcumstances. A letter from Berlin of the 18th ult. announces that the nuptials of the King of Holland with the Countess of Oultremont were celebrated on that day according to the rites of the catholic religion, in the palace of the Princess Albert, his daughter. The witnesses of the ceremony were the Prince and Princess Albert, Count de Perponcher, minister of the Low Countries, in Berlin, and M. de Brauchitsch. a general in the Prussian service. The countess arrived in Berlin on the 14th, accompanied by her brother. She alighted first at the St. Petersburgh Hotel, and afterwards removed to a private dwelling. Our private letters state that the newly married couple were about to proceed to the Hague, to the chagrin of the reigning sovereign. The last case offatal duel which came before the House of Lords was in 1776 or 1777, in the case of Lord Byron, who was tried in Westminster Hall, for the murder of Mr. Wm. Chaworth. Lord Byron had a dispute with Mr. Chaworth about the best method of preserving game. The conversation occurred at a dinner patty at the Star and Garter Tavern in Palace-yard ; and his lordship, two hours after the dispute was erided, and while the company were leaving the house, beckoned Mr. Chaworth into an empty room, and then shutting the door, bade him draw his sword. After one thrust and parry the parties closed, and Lord Byron, shortening his sword, ran it quite through his antagonist's body. This is a case of duelling, and a very bad case of duelling, for the encounter took place without witnesses, yet of all the peers of parliament assembled upo❑ this trial, not one pronounced Lord Byron guilty. Four pronounced him not guilty, generally, and the rest, not guilty of murder, but guilty of manslaughter.