The Sun. — 1837-09-04 (London, England)

SUICIDE IN HYDE-PARK.—Saturday an inquest was held at the Barley Mow, Mount-street, Grosvenorsquare, on the body of Mr. H. Crossley, hat-manufacturer, I, Falcon-court, Red-cross-street, Borough, who shot himself on Friday. Thomas Goodwin, A 55, about eleven o'clock on the previous day, was alarmed by the report of a pistol in Kensington-gardens, and looking over the wall saw the deceased lying in the ditch, in the agonies of death. Deceased was lying about one hundred yards from the Magazine, on the side nearest Bayswater. Witness immediately jumped over the wall and endeavoured to lift the deceased up, when deceased looked into his face, and putting his right hind on the ground, half-raised himself up. Deceased did not speak, his tongue having been blown a distance of about three yards. Deceased then fell down on his side, and, after struggling in apparently the greatest agony for nine or ten minutes, he expired. From an order for hats found on the deceased his name and residence were ascertained. The only money found on him was 3s. 6d. Mr. John Cropper, of Martin's-street, Blackfriars, had known the deceased about twenty years, who was usually a man of high spirits, but had latterly become greatly depressed in consequence of some acceptances coming due. Oa Thursday he called on witness, when he appeared much depressed. Verdict—" Temporary insanity." A few wppitN ago a §erious disturbance arose at the Christiania TheattP from a ludieron3 misapprehension. One of the spectators fainted, and anotbe- immediately called out for some water (in Danish, vand). Others believed they heard brand (fire), and immediately the greater part of the audience rushed out of the house in the utmost confesice It does not, however, appear that any one was seriously 'hurt,  On Saturday, a Jew applied to the LORD MAYOR for an order to the Governor of Giltapur-street Compter, to prevent that officer from obliging a member of that religious ommuuity to attend divine service according to the form of the Established Church. The person upon whose behalf the application was made had been convicted, under the Excise Act, for having in his possession a quantity of glass upon which ditty had not been paid, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the Compter. The moment he became a prisoner it was expected that he was to become a Christian, for he was obliged to attend the chapel when Mr. Boddington, the chaplain officiated, under the severe penalty of a refusal to ho allowed to receive visits, and in withholding of the occasional little indulgences in food to which the persons confineethere laid claim, according to ancient custom in the City prisons. The prisoner happened to have a conscience which revolted from Christian worship, but the Governor, in answer to the appeal made to him on this subject, stated that, if he listened to an excuse of the kind, the chapel would be very irregularly attended, and Jew and Gentile were therefore obliged to be present while the Clergyman of the establishment of the Church of England performed the duties of his situation. Tue LORD Mayon had never heard that Jews were obliged to go to a place of worship in which the service was not sanctioned by their spiritual directors, and regretted that any practice of the description specified prevailed. Gooch, the principal gaoler, said that the order had been general, because, to excuse themselves from attending divine worship, almost all the prisoners confined in the Compter we u'd pretei.d to be Jews.—(Laughter.) It the Jews were excepted, the Irish labourers would be ready to plead the same excuse, and say they were all Jews. The LORD Mavon—ls there no course of interrogatory by means of which it can be known whether a man is or is not a Jew? The applicant—A real Jew has in his posscss.on the articles of prayer, and is punctual in performing the duty of grayer in the morning and the efterrroa. It is easily meartained whether a man is or is not a Jew by other means than those by which they are designated in their infancy. I submit that it is exceedingly intolerant to insist upon the obnoxious regulation, and to prohibit it by such a severe penalty as the total prohibition of personal comfort.  The