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The Sun. — 1836-06-07 (London, England)

ANN STACEY, IN YORK CASTLE.— On Wednesday morning, at nine o'clock, an inquest was held in the 'Council-room, York Castle, before John Wool, Esq., the Coroner, and a respectable jury, on the boly of Mary Ann Stacey, an unconvicted prisons, who hanged herself on the afternoon of the previous day.  Mr. Shepherd stated, the deceased was received on the 13th of May, under a warrant from Mr. Badger, Coroner, charging her with the wilful murder of Elizabeth Marsden. She was placed in the unconvicted ward with two females, • with particular directions that they were to take care she did no harm to herself. For the first few days, a female named Bridget slept with her. They were afterwards placed in two beds in the same room. They had reason to believe that she meditated self-destruction. About twenty minutes past five he was informed the deceased had terminated her existence—he immediately went, and found her laid on tl:e wath-house floor. She felt warm. He sent for the surgeon, and Mr. Brown immediately came. He received rtle Otte produced from Mary Bridget. Undpr Mt;, Brown's directions she was removed to lI ha Tho fallowing was written on the .1401 in 4 legible hand, many of the words being wrong spoiled t Mv husband is deceived—he thought I was insane when I killed Elizabeth, but I was not. She stole my combs, so I thought she should steal no more, for I had a very deal of trouble about them ; but I have repented ever since. I have acted insane at home a long time to them ; they did not know what insane people were at all ; but doctors I cannot deceive no longer ; and when my husband asked when he came to see me, he said you would not have done it if you had been right in your mind ? I said, no. But why was I the deceiver to him that had been so kind to me over since he knew me ? He would have done anything for me, and my father and mother, and all of them. nivi•A I have deceived Miss Salt and all my friends ; thy,n at last to deceive my husband ; when I tqld 14 thought I was not right, but was I not siAl tkhoet it, and desperately wicked ? Pity my htisharo, for he is deceived, I thought I shuuld get off, and go to my husband again, but I seo I canoot, and so plunge myself into ruin, might have been as happy as anybody living, but I would not, for he was steady and honest, and industrious, and always gave me plenty of money, and- I had anything I wanted, but was never content ; but if I had got home again I shouldbeen different, but I cannot—so adieu,Talia wAv4l-1g from me—do give my huslmd iai %cow haeh again, for I deceived himi avid (The money referred to was thrco sAvereigns, left by the huibaad with Mr.. Holgate, the ternksv, for her. ttr.t), George Ohampney, Esq., surgeon, had seen the deceased many times sine° sho came to the Castle, He considered her quite insane, Yesterday morning he saw her, and she was in the same state.  The Jury found a verdict—" That the deceased btlO4 herself; being at the time in a state of insanity," a ATTEMPTED MURDER oF A AviwNti amt. AND SUICIDE Or 11144 -
The Sun. — 1836-06-07 (London, England)

WILLIS'S LAST POPULAR WORK.--.TIM Inklings of Adventure contain some of the most beautiful sk-Aches that ever appeared in the English language. • " From ~-rave to gay" the au:ll°r passes -s•ith the facility and the magic of an enchanter, and is equally successful in exciting the sre.e. or in calling forth the tear of these who arc not ashamed t.l weep. We must no lolger regard him merely as an Arneri•zari author, but receive him among tlye small aid select few whose reputations are European, and wnase writings will lieu after them. A correspondent says gooseberries and currants have not been so plentiful for many years past as they are at the present season, more particularly the fernier (which are selling at a very moderate value), notwithstanding the extraordinary and unfavourable weather with which we were continually visited during the early part of the spring.  A shocking accident occurred last week in a lane near Towcester. A family, who travelled in a cut, consisting of a man, his wife, and two children, were resting for flit.: night ; the woman was gone to ,the town for some neces,aries, leaving the man and children with the cart ; the thinking her long, went after her, :caving the children, one a boy about ten years of nge,- and the other a girt about Sixteen months old. Meanwhile the boy had put the little girl to bed, and feeling cold, he lighted a fire in the stove ; in doing which he set fire to the cart, and there being no one near, it was burnt to the ground. The boy managed to get out, but the infant perished in the flames.Buc;sWerald. It is a well ascertained, but rattier unaccountable fact, that notwithstanding the amazing increase of late years in. the manuracture of steel pens, there lots not been the slightes4 falling oil in the extent of the quill trade. —.Mechanic's 2lfo. gazine. _ _  ✓ A man, on Inv cJ. • m I night, committed suicide ay Ric, extraordinary circumstances in Charlotte Street, Fazrovsquare. He had some time since become er.amoured of a female residing in Oxford-market ; subseqw,n..ty went to New York to ameliorate his circumstances, "stroceeded, returned to England, and again went to-rence'nia addresses; but finding that the object of his love ha'', the mean time married another, he became gulte despe.raf_e, and conducted himself in so violent a mane's that a police officer was sent for. As soon as he loyal a policer-.an was coming after him he pulled a pistol fro-at his pocket, shot himself through the head, and fell dead to the group',,
The Sun. — 1836-05-24 (London, England)

POOR LAWS.—The Nottingham Review, founding It§censure on the dietary tables lately issued f,y two of the Commlsbionr re, vehemently denounces the system which subjee:s Pal to so spare- a regimen.--[ Advocates as we were from the first- rs.‘r the principle of the New Poor Laws, and confirmed in our ortb.mnat conviction as ue have since been, by seeing the numeroug • Letefits which have resulted from their operation, we arc still tre:c to admit, that in the administration of them there may yet remat.: much that rceteres revision and amendment. We see no reason, however, fur the Commissioners limiting the supply of food to Pn.i'llproper degree. There can exist no motive fur such erinn.lality, They would be obnoxious to a most serious charge in, deed it, unmindful of their responsibility as men, as Christians, and CmPalissi§nerA, they were to fix such a maximum rate of for el as is insufficient for the physical necessities and reasonapbl;ea irrtagnot ss strongly nt hgelyptooo rb.o soTirtaor rights of humancn,kiyeddleysioruedtty must ever raged, Whilst 'the promotors fo'ofrgtobteternewolawso to prevent paupers' from eating the produce of othtS men's labour, they never oentemplated the introdnetion of a system of starvation. A pauper's allowance of food certainly ought not to be less than n felon's.j--:-En. Some days aeo we inserted an account of the pl'Qo ceedings at a Coroner's inquest, which was held upon the tidy gs before of a young man found in the river, under circumstances which led to a suspicion that the unfortunate youth had been robbed orward grid t.., and murdered. 'The publicity given to the proceedings the Coroner induced several persons to come i.name, it appears, was iv, ry- stable keeper i body has at length been identified. Hi, sttiri eec. ta,nriloi amount t aboutof 1,0t0e0.01. tearsAs sago,,3t.,ibaesqhuee attil(_,l,llgt- letion:t: pie.ago-1 tio:Hdusun. His father, v:ho was a tP°v(i‘ixritf'lliii(e;as about eighteen months ago, lie received the money, and immediately commenced a career of dissipation which soon brought him to his last shilling. For some time past he had been living in coricubiname with a young woman (elm was the first to recognise the body after the inquest), and while with her lie bad been reduced orcl astateofirgistress which had compelled him to pawn everllti teased. It is supposed every dre of irce t! dvaelsupeer‘avthiiocnh lie epooms-mitted suicide, and that he was not murdered, as was first suspected,
The Sun. — 1836-11-05 (London, England)

THE GIRAFFE.—It is remarked as a singularity in the history of this interesting animal, that they have never been known to utter any audible sound, expressive of either fear,. pleasure, affection, hunger, pain, or any other feeling. It appears by the departmental Journals that Oct. weather was extremely severe last week in many parts ,°f France, and the ground was covered with snow several inches deep. At Angers, on the 29th ult., the thermometer at noon marked 7 deg. below Zero, Reaumur, or 16i Fah".  renheit. Some days ago two young men, at Clermont Fer" raud, noted for their dissolute habits, were overheard holding a conversation, in which one of them appeared to be endeavouring to dissuade the other from committing suicide' He did not prevail, for the report of a pistol was irom' diately afterwards heard, and the most resolute of the tsv,e was found with parts of both his jaws and the roof of I's mouth blown away. He was carried to the Hotel Vieth still breathing, but in a hopeless state. His compel had fled, but in a few hours afterwards the police receive information that a similar event had taken pkce at Bughe‘' and on going to the spot found him totally lit:eless. Mc; ther suicide has lately occurred at Marseilles. A Jewlso merchant had been married for several years, an :1 hau„, child two years old. The union was at first perfectly bern; but, from unaccountable surmises, the wife became ,i.°:"-dg, of the husband, and adopted such a line of conduct towe him that he became alarmed for his life, and sued for a e'e; paration. In the meantime he obtained a licence to ar:.o pistols for self-defence. The judgment of separation l'eo. pronounced, and was about to be served upon the wife, wbd she and her child were both found dead, the infatuate f woman having committed murder and suicide by meal's ° the fumes of charcoal. Q The LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, market still remains quiet. The sales which have benet effected to-day amount to about 1,200 bags. At Presietbe there is no indication of change, the prices remaining v!.O, out alteration during the week. Principally Anleric" 7-id. to 11141  S.
The Sun. — 1836-11-05 (London, England)

CLEARED OUTWARDS.  The Golden Fleece, Baker, for Bahia ; Thomas Mellor, Hutchinson, Pernambuco ; Carl Johan, Wilchen, Hamburgb ; Bellerfonte, Genoa; City of London, Martin, Constantinople ; Amicitia, Willis, Copenhagen ; Coral, Leo,ret, St. Michael's,  TELtGRAPHED. Wind at Holyhead, W. S. W.—Off Holyhead, inward-bound, the Clementon, London ; Dorothea, from Berbiee.  Off Point Lynas, inward-hound, the Carroll, of Carrollton from New York ; Clyde, from Quebec.  On Thursday evening the Marquis of Douglas, who has resided for two months at Arran Castle, gave a dinner at Brodie Inn to the members of the Farmers' Society of Arran. Upwards of one hundred attended on the occasion. THE PRINCE OF CANINO'S MEmonts.—Lueien  Bonaparte, in the first volume of this great work, which has just issued from the press, presents so many important facts relative to the political history of France, that we look forward with eagerness to the appearance of its successors; to the speedy publication of which the unprecedented demand for, and the general favourable opinion of, the opening part, certainly gives the most cheering encouragment.  SUlClDE.—Yesterday morning considerable alarm was occasioned in the family of Mr. Robert Thredder, an extensive bat manufacturer, of 26, Blackman-street, Southwark, in consequence of his having committed self-destruction. Mr. Thedder had for some days previously exhibited a depression of spirits, but not of such a nature as to cause any apprehension in the minds of his family that he meditated suicide. On Friday, however, he got up at a much earlier hour than usual, and proceeded from his bedroom down into the counting-house at the rear of his shop ; soon after which a heavy fall was heard, and, on some members of the family going into the counting-house to see what was the matter, Mr. Thredder was discovered stretched along the floor, with his throat cut in a shockinc, manner. The policeman on duty in the street was called in imtnediately, and, as Mr. Thredder showed symptoms of life, Mr. Callaway, the surgeon, and also Mr. Odlin,g, the chemist, were sent for ; but it was found upon examination that the unfortunate man had inflicted such a dreadful wound in his throat, having severed some of the principal vessels, that medical aid was of no avail, although the wound was sewed up, and he expired at half-past eight, having committed the act at a quarter after five o'clock. No cause has as yet been assigned for Mr. Thredder havng committed the rash act.
The Sun. — 1836-09-24 (London, England)

CORONERS' INQUESTS.  Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the Boardroom of St. George's Hospital, Hyde Park Corner, before Mr. HIGGS, on the body of Thomas Frowd, aged 68. The deceased was a carpenter, and employed with several others upon the repairs which St. James's Church has been for some time past undergoing, and on the morning of Monday three weeks he went up to the second west gallery to get on the scaffold, where he was in the habit of working, but in place of crossing by a plank like the other men, h attempted to step from the rail of the gallery to the scaffold, but unfortunately he stepped short and fell into one of the pews beneath. Assistance immediately came to him and he exclaimed, " Oh, my God, my leg is broken." He was instantly put into a coach and conveyed to the Hospital. Mr. C. Ridout, the house surgeon of the Hospital, deposed that the deceased was brought there on the sth inst., labouring under a confirmed fracture of the right ankle-joint, with a small portion of bone also broken within the joint. He went on favourably till the 15th, when strong symptoms of lock-jaw set in, and everything that could be done was done for him ; but from want of nourishment, and the shock being too great for a man of his advanced years, he died on the 21st. Verdict—Accidental Death.  Yesterday afternoon a coroner's inquest was taken before Mr. STIRLING, at the North London Hospital, on view of the body of George Constable, aged 24, a servant out of place, who committed suicide by taking laudanum. Mary Jenkins, housemaid to Mr. Elder, solicitor, No. 14, Queen-square, Bloomsbury, deposed that the deceased, who was in the service of her master, left it a few weeks ago. He was always very low spirited, and used to observe that he had something on his mind. She does not know on what account he was discharged. She never saw him in liquor. About half-past five on Tuesday afternoon last she heard that he was at a public house in Gloucester-street. He was in bed and in great agony. A doctor shortly after arrived, when witness left. She found three phials in the room, labelled " laudanum."  Mr. J. Hugh Edwards, clerk to Mr. Elderton, here produced a packet which he found in a cupboard in Mr. Elderton's house, of which the deceased had the key. The packet had not been opened. By directions of the Coroner it was opened,when it was found to contain several letters which he had addressed to a young woman with whom he had formed an attachment. A quantity of duplicates were also exhibited, which Mr. Edwards said were pledges of property belonging to Mr. Elderton, and which had been pledged for 1/. 165., one article of which, namely, a silver fish slice, was worth 41. There were many articles almost of equal value. On opening one of the letters a lock of another female's hair was found enclosed. Verdict—" Temporary insanity."  -
The Sun. — 1836-02-22 (London, England)

TREMENDOUS STORM AT SCARBOROUGH.— ELEVEN LIVES LOST.—An obliging correspondent at -Scarborough, writing under date of Thursday last, has favoured us with the following melancholy particulars of a tremendous storm by which that port has just been visited—a storm more dreadful and de.;tr4ketivntr4iF.Aes,t.,,llini an,y t. e-n. known at chat pldee before- .---neTh'urricane _Commenced cn Tuesday night about eight- o'clock, the wind N. N. W., but during the night it veered round to N. N. E: The night was readered truly awful by the raging of the storm and the roaring of the foaming billows. On Wednesday morning at about eight o'clock- a sloop hove in sight, the sea at the time running mountains high, but, failing in her attempt to gain the harbour, she let go her anchors, and whilst in that situation fifteen men volunteered to endeavour, wit& the life-boat, the rescue of the crew ; but, alas !of the fifteen eleven very soon found a watery grave, owing to the upsetting of the boat. In consequence of the failure of this attempt the sloop was obliged to slip her anchors, and was driven on the beach south of the Spa, but providentially the three men on board were ultimately saved by Captain Marby's valuable apparatus for affording assistance in cases of shipwreck. Before the day closed ait a vestige of the ship was left standing.. It is impossible to give any thing likda description of the scene the beach presented this morning (Thursday). The Spa, dickerman's, and Cooper's lodgings, &c. &c., to the easternmost pier, have suffered severely. Ships were thrown from the stocks, and rolling timbers, from thirty to fifty yards in length, cables, &c., tort in every direction. On Wednesday night a sloop, When about 800 yards from the pier, went down, and all hands on board perished. Not one of the bodies of the unfortunate men has yet been found. The cries of one young man on board are represented 'by the survivors as being truly piercing. He was on the point of marriage. I have just learnt, conclndes our correspondent, that a Dutchman is on shore in. Burlington harbour, Another correspondent, after relating the particulars of the upsetting of the life-boat, adds-" On Wednesday, evening another vessel Was seen off the Castle in distress ; she foundered, end all on board perished. Several other vessels it is feared are lost. The Spa has been much injured, and the damage done to the shipping in the harbouo,- and the property.in the.ship yards, raff yards, and the houses neat the/sands, is' immense. Scarborough is in a greater state of confusion than the oldest inhabitant ever_ before recollects—Leeds intelligencer.  SUICIDE of A
The Sun. — 1836-08-12 (London, England)

MEETING OF CREDITORS TO-MORROW. T. 0. N. Prichard, surgeon, Houndsditch  The Impartial gives the following from Brussels. We know not what credit is to be attached to the account. None of the :Brussels papers that we have seen make any mention of it :—" On Sunday night, about 10 o'clock, at the moment when the two Princes of S ixe Cobourg were passing along the Boulevards, on their return from Laeken, three illlooking men rushed to the head of the two fore-horses, upon which the postillion who rode one of them struck the men with his whip, and two of them fled. The third still keeping hold of the bridle, the postillion set off his horses at full gallop, and knocked the man down. The Princes arrived in safety at their Hotel. What could be the intentions of these men is unknown, nor is it known whether they were drunk or malefactors."  Yesterday afternoon a servant maid in St. James's Park, entrusted with the care of two children, incautiously suffered a little boy to ride upon the back of one of the seats, when a cloud of dust suddenly blowing in the child's face, he loosed his hold to rub his eyes, and falling backwards pitched upon his head, and fractured his skull.  SuicfnE.—Yesterday afternoon an inquisition Was held at the George, Castle-street, Leicester-square, on the body of Thomas Heaty, aged sixty, who destroyed himself by hanging. The deceased had for twenty-five years been employed in the Royal stables, part of the time as a groom, and more recently as a lamp-lighter. It appeared the deceased was found on Wednesday afternoon hanging by his neckerchief from a beam in an out-building in the yard of the house of Mr. Mason, of No. 14, Whitcomb-street. He was instantly cut dovi n, when it was perceived that he was quite dead, and the body cold. He did not live in the house, but bad free access to the premises. He was a man of intemperate habits, and had been lately in a desponding state. The Jury returned a verdict of " Suicide during temporary insanity."
The Sun. — 1836-05-13 (London, England)

QUAKER. WOMAN'S SERMON.--Dear Friends— There are three things I wonder very much at :—The first is, that children should be so foolish as to throw up stones, brickbats, and clubs into fruit trees, to knock down the fruit ; if they would let it alone, it would fall of itself: The second is, that men should be so foolish and even so wicked as to go to war, and kill one another ; if they would only let one another :don-, they would die of themselves. And the third and last thing which I wonder at is, that young men should be so unwise as to go after the young women; if they Would only stay at home, the young women would come after them. MOUNT VE3UVll,3,—Persons have actually gone there for •the purpose of comm::'ing suicide by precipitating themselvei i:ito the yawning gulf. Duels have also taken place on its summit, and ahnoit clone fa crater. Baron Gerambe, of whiskered celebrity, here' "celebood " himself by an-exploit of this kind, when it was stipulated that the survivor in the contest should fling hhnself down into the cni‘c!• ! Perhaps this was' a piece of empty gasconade. It is certwa that the Baron did not bury himself in the " fiery furnace." because he became afterwards an inmate of the Convent of 1,4 Tra,ppe—for such a character an exit from the world q mituite as sing, or even more so than the other would ha,f, This Tory-ridden county will, ere long, be relieved of the odious burden of havingl'or one of its representatives, a Nobleman convicted, as a military officer, of conduct "revo!t.-, ing to every proper and honourable feeling of a gentlem " It is an ill wind that blows nobody good," and auspicious" will that day be for Northamptonshire, which witnesses the Noble Lord's departure for India. Our best wishes attend him on his voyage ; and long may he live in the East to reap golden opinions from the natives, and win laurels that shall hide the dishonotrs heaped upon him in this country.—North Chronicle. e have this week to record a shocking instance of heartlessness. A poor and inoffensive old man in a neighbouring strati' (near Athol), had his little wealth embarked in his horse and cow, which were his only ineans of subsistence the houseThc horsetvher'edi Some individual, the night of the ith ult., actuated, it is supposed, by a motive of pique, enteredtbl animals were kept, and stabbedtheed next morning—the cow is still alive. The horse was struck twice ; the invtrument, in the first it ,•.t • • ant,e! appearing to have ghinced on a. rib The second bl was aimed more fatally ; and, from the appearance of the wound,ow te miscreant appears to have turned..and run the knife l the Every attempt brute's _body, so us to make its destruction in,witalbolneg ibeing male to discover the guilty'person, ''C'r) and,, the meantime, a subscription has been started" thc sufferer's behalf, towards which his proprietor has hantomely contributed.