The Express. — 1862-07-31 (London, England)

SHOT BY HIMSELF.— A melancholy accident occurred at West Wittering no Tuesday week. An old man named Jobs Robinson, by accident, shot himself. The facts of the cue appear to be these : Joseph Mitchell, a travelling tinker, was going to call at the house of the deceased in the morning about 8.30, and was horrified to see the deceased lying down near a wall, with his brains scattered about. He (Mitchell) immediately ran and got assistance. An inquest was held on the following Thursday, by R. Blsgden, F.aq., coroner, when the facts were elicited. The deceased was frequently known to shoot rooks, and, a gun being found pointing upwards, fixed between a wall and a hurdle. it was supposed that in getting the gun from between it might and accidentally went off. The foreman of the jury informed the coroner that the jury had visited the spot, end that some of them had seen it as well as the gun directly after deceased was found, end they were quite satisfied the gun went off accidentally as deceased was trying to take it out from behind the hurdle. A verdict was returned ne..ordingly.—Wed Sawa gazette. ROYAL HUMANE SoIETY. —Within the last three weeks no less than six cases have come under treatment by the officers of the society at the receiving-homes in Hydepark. The first was on the Sth inst., when Catherine Keefe threw herself from the centre arch of the Serpentine-bridge with the intention of commit•iog suicide, but was rescued by the society's boatmen. The second ease was that of Catherine Ryan, who, ou the 6th inst., at 8 a.m., rushed into the water, but was speedily rescued by boatman Green. The third was the discovering the body of John Pool, who had been missed for some days, and is supposed to have committed suicide. The fourth, on the =nd inst., at 5.30, when a person saw a woman in the water trying to drown herself ; RD alarm being given, a policeman procured a drag, and rewire,' her ; she was removed to the receiviog-honse and restored by the society's caws. Fifthly, as two men were paser.,g the lower end of the Serpentine at 10 p.m. on the 28th, they fancied they saw a duck °seethe 'referral grating, but were horrified to see the arms of a I child appear above the water ; they took a drag from a tree tear at hand, and pulled out the poor infant, and at once took it to the receiving.houre, where it was restored by the proper remedies. Just as it had reached the society's house, an alarm was raised on the opposite side of the water, end on Superintendent Williams with two of the society's boatmen proceeding to the spot they found a man naked in the water, holding the dress of a woman, whose head was submerged ; they were immediately rescued and taken to the receiving-house. where, after twelve hours' continuous exertions by Dr. Christian sad the staff she was recovered. It appears that through poverty the poor woman first threw her infant of four months old into the water, and then running some distance jumped in herself with the intention of destroying both her own and the child's life. In five of theme oases, by the promptness of the society's odes n, life was restored, and in the sixth the body bad been Is the water some days. The above ones show how beneficially the treatment adopted by the society acts, which *utmost has been approved by a special committee of the Royal Medical Chimeras! lintinty. The rules may be had of the secretary, on application at 4. Trafaigaraluare, W.C. Tat