The Express. — 1858-08-19 (London, England)

LICH AWOL—Thar* has been b 0•1•••• to a slight extent, on account of very few bills offering. We quote the rul'ng rates on London, at ids month's sight, Is. 110. for doca. meat hills ; for credits, Is. 111 d. ; end for bank bills, la. On Calcutta, at sixty days' eight, Rs. 10%; on Madras, se thirty days' sight, Be. 190 i ; end on China, at sixty days' eight, Ra. 218.  SUICIDE OF MO OENTLEMSN OS  HJIMPBTI,4I).HEAtIN.  Yesterday afternoon Mr. Wakley, the Coroner for Wait Middles; bold on lammed at Hampstead Workhouse, on the boar of two gentlemen, who died by poison, admintateard by tbeinsalvas, on Hampstead-heath. Both cases were of • very &streaming character. . . .  The first ases was that of Mr. Edward Prior, who has for scene yearn pet tallied oa the business of a harder, in Finn bury-piece North. • Mr. Edward Prior, the father of the deoeseed, said be Ime sew his sort Owed his residence, N 0.22, Meachester-terraes,  Liverpool-road, Islington. He was then poorly, and witnei sent for a medical man. On the Friday previously, the mother of the deceased went to his house, in Finabtry•place, and offered to mind his business, as was her custom on a Fri. dey,when the slummed usually went out. He declined to area himself of his motbees services, and afterwards wrote her a letter stating that he knew his family intended to betray him, sad that he had at last discovered a safe way of patting ma end to his miserable life. Be mentioned the name of a young lady, which the coroner very properly refused to make l'oBosman, 413 8, deposed that he found the demised gentlemen on the Heath, about 2 o'clock on Monday morn. tag, near the Spaniard public-house, in is stag of hunk bilk,. At first be thought he was intoxicated, but he ice mediately afterwards forted that he was at the point d death. He removed hf 01 to the workhouse, but he vu dead kefcee he arrived there. He took from the porno ct the deceased three half-sovereisos, eight shillings, ad  eightpenoe In ulcer, thirteenpenoe halfpenny in ammo smell bottle full of tincture of myrrh, and a testament, the ribbon of which pointed to the 6th chapter of St. Mark and the 9th chapter of St. John. Dr. Winter said that when the deceased was brought he him he at AIM saw that his death bad been OCCSWINd by some aarostio poison. He opened the body, bat there NI le Mai of poison in the stomach. Geo►ge Saunders, assistant to Mr. Allen, &Wet, d Morgan's. place, Liverpool-rod, Islington, proved that 10 sold the deemed sight drops of laudanum on Sudsy sm. tog. He said be wanted an ounce fur the tooth-21U witness would only let him have the eight drops. The jury returned u their verdict that deceased degroyd himself by poison while In an unsound state of mild, .1 pared a aulogium upon the chemist's maistaut for the Pr oration be had exercised in refusing to serve the deceased Oa the large amount of laudanum applied for.  Thesecend CAM wee that of Ir. William Ashman sr gun, of No. 5, King-street, Chsepside. Mr. Needed& Metemtford, of Woodbine Cotter, Valid Heath, Hampstead, said he was a wine merchant, tad rs %doge friend of the deceased, who called upon him • Tuesday evening. Deceased called upon hint at abut WI. peat 7 o'clock last night, and purposed returning by Ike it cernibm for London, which left Hampstead at halflest Witness offered to accompany him as far as the dstthg place of the omnibus, end had proceeded as far aphis gettler gate, when he found that his friend was not following hi. Re want back, and found him sitting in a dying state the may chair. Mr. Richard Gossett Brown, the medical gentleman vie wee sent for, said he found that the demand bad takes lame dose of prude sold, and this was coalirmal by the it that the policemen, on searching the place, found s• woplf bottle, labelled "Acid= hydrocyanum." It appeared from subsequent evidence that the dowsed bed had an mud= put in his house for 511., and ihei Oh probably preyed upon his mind. At Mr. Itotuttked's hoes% however, he wee eswey, end appeared to be very henry. The jury retuned as their verdict "That the deceased IF strayed himself by eating poism, but that them was se et 4 dont* to lead them to a conclusion on to his state of lola*