The Express. — 1866-03-21 (London, England)

IHTTUL SUICIDE ON THE LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.  INQUEST—(THIS DAY.) MORT#LRE, Wsrunnuni, NOM This forenoon, Mr. . Carter, coroner for the miy of Surrey, held as inquiry at the Qoaaa's Head me's, Mortlake, relative to the suicide of Mr. Joseph Wel neith, aged 26 years. The Pin, baring whichpane proceeded to view the ,of is decease, was found to have been fright', mangled by a railway train having pseud over it, the man having placed hie head upon the metals Sorth-Western Railway at Mortleke. Ram Bawdy, a porter on the Loudon NO Booth Ors Railway, ants the lint wittiest' called. He and be was 'tanned at Mortlake, sad on Monday morang b. 30 he proceeded down she line towards Richmond Ile dietaries signal /Map, which was a quarter of rt mile the Aetna. de be west along he famed the body the diseased lying on the beak, on the outside of the up His heed was off, sad lying within the four-foot. The ms parallel to the sails, and in the watercourse. was a quantity 01,13100 d oaths ballast where the body Vag, bat there was sane where the head was. beck and gave an alarm. gy, awry White, station master at Mortlake, said that the laxly be found 2s. Ad. in money, a pin, sod • an. ints also a letter in an envelops directed to " J. (1, Peq., 9, Rothsey Villas, Richmond." The letter had emeasbee with the suicide ; it wee writtea by a friend the dimmed. Witness found the deceased's hat placed the Found sear the bodge. It had evidently beta of and phased on the grass. The spot where the *wig found was about air yards from a foot musing. lama wee certain this the deceased must have placed f deliberately on the metals. If he had been *oily struck by a train while creaming at the path, Ilia most have been brought op the line by the °Orlin sot downwards ie the direction of Richmond. He as snick by an up-train. Yr. Charles W. DowdetwelL draughtsman, 11, Marlpegmbeeillas, Richmond-hill, identified the body of the imaged as that of Mr. Joseph Charles Smith. Be was of aseneetioe. He lived with his mother and sister, who we boas of independent means. He had acted as clerk •me es two occasion', but he had met with no success tide. Witness understood that he was only gay recently arried. Witness thought that he had lain down upon It line for purpose of destroying his life. Witness Wed that thudsceased had three timed before attempted acids. The wife of the deceased, a very young lady, attired in Mow', weeds, and who appeared to be in • state of Orme grief, was examined iced spoke to his illness and 1111600 hallucinations to whioh he had lately been subject. Whoa be left her be said be was going to his mother's. wet married to him only on the 9th of this mouth. Oa the tight of his marriage he frightened her very much styles that if they did not °enabler Easter as Christmas they would only see one other Christmas. Another Mom; a friend of the demised, said that the latter had no MRS of his own to maintain his wife, and on Saturday 'wicking foamed in a very deapoading state. The jury mimed • verdict, " That the deceased committed amide by hying down on the metals of the London arid South-Wenn Railway, and so among himself to be run over by a railway tram whilst in • state of unsound mind."  Mr.lir. S. MORLEY presented petitions from the CosignWhoa' Union of England and Wan, sad the Committee of Deputies of the three denominations of Presbyteries, Independent. and Baptist, in or near Loudon. Mr. COLERIDGE then moved the second reading of this I NIL He slid it wee ea a churchman and as a university man that he vectored to press it on the attention of the beam It was s bill to enable the lay subjects of she Qeeen to obtain the full benefit of university eduatioe, and to become in the fullest sense members of Orford University. without refetenee te particular religious opinions which they entertained. The University of Orford was a lay nepotistic*. Ito chancellor was always a distinguished laymen ; its vice-elisnallor might be elaymagend a large proportion of the graduates were laymen also. True, the clergy west there, but they went se they went to Eton and Rugby, not as clergy, but as boys and young men. The number of theological Going" sat up of late years were established to afford that denial trebling which could not be provided at a university. It was not want. therefore, to speak of the universities ea clerical institations, and no one would object to such as assertion more then the hoe. baronet the member for Stamford (Sir S. Northison) who was to move the amend. nests As far Mhe could make out, the nee widest the bill rested on the fact that ander the bill of 1854 nonconformists might obtain a university education and the degree of bachelor of arts, sod that there was a certain COIII/611011 between the church of England sad the university. Oa the first point be concurred in the opinion that parliament had no right to subject nonconformists to bumiliatiog distinctions. (Chem.) Refined *dentin, was no doubt a great benefit, bat men should not have to purchase it by a unifies of self-respect, and members of that house ought not to use against nonconformists an argument which they would treat indignantly if it were used against thenuelves. (Cheers.) [Left sitting.]_  N LIVING CHILD AT sr.