The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-02-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—A. most painful suicide took place in this town on Tuesday, which has created great sympathy and regret for the untimely fate of a gentleman extensively known and universally respected. The unfortunate person is Mr. Benjamin John Wetherell, a clerk in the office of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Company, and it would appear that he had occasionally fallen into habits of intemperance, which generally continued two or three days. At other times he was remarkably temperate, gentlemanlY, and strongly impressed with sound religious feelings. Unfortunately, on Wednesday or Thursday week, be absented himself from his duties, at a time when he had to prepare a very complicated account for the Directors of the Railwal, which had to be finished against Tuesday last, and he neeLr returned to complete this document. During this time Several letters reached the office for him, amongst which we were some acquainting him with the death of his sister:lllj hwiB, and these letters he did not receive in consequence to his o were that day lie absence, till Monday evening, when they. S a : lodgings on Westgate Hill. On the evening appeared more than usually depressed, and remained in the house during the night. On Tuesday morning he went out r a bottle of under_ the impression and repaired to a chemist's shop and p prussic acid, which was sold to him ocured that he was a surgeon. He then went into the Crowe and Thistle inn and took some brandy, but whether he took any tdoubtful,ogersoo,thtoiliergllialoiedlord-: The suspicions of the of the deadly poison there seea.s• me he ewtiothokMthr.e phial ihierroellil found in a state of stupor by iNnd. from which he quickly recowveenwrtehheor landlord being roused, he in charge o his landlady and followed him to his room, man in Mr. Wetherell again y procuinretod him and went out to ascertain the naturef of its contents,' agai left hislDe auvriinngg lodgings, theMr unfortunate an.s u n fo.r tpu n a.teeel d was watched by the servant • e through Marketsn.pds rhon! t into aan ds roomitting roe ud pdstairs and ordered the Swine ,owfhere the servant lost sight of him, to the Exchange chemist'sbs tortetel bottle and soda water. This was supplied to him and he elboww chair as if he were asleep, but on lookingH bin more closely he perceived that he was dead.—Newcastle Journal. yearsm'oPrEe; —tchaThe4hol life of ve and,occurred horsesciour reoe extends,du countries D individualsu ATnaturallyattaining from ° FA 2 HORSE'SthS taog3o" 0 f tries where they are not tasked • by constant over-exertion, the period of existence is usually between 19 tend 21. But,' in England, the destruction oftheseanimals • with noble is excessive : the value of time, commercial people, incessantly, a urged into t" ac ivity both mental and corporeal, has demanded rapidity of communication, and spread an universal taste for going fast : the fine roads have permitted horses to be subjected to more than they can draw : betting,`racing, and hunting are pursued by persons whose animals are not constructed for such exertions, and violent usage in grooms, stable-boys, and farm-servants is so common that few reach the age of fifteen years, and all are truly old at ten.—Smitles Horses.