The Sun. — 1844-11-28 (London, England)

LATE DOUBLE SUICIDE AT  INQUEST ON THE BODIES. l'e,terday, at half-past eleven o'clock, Mr. Baker the Coroner f,r East Middlesex, commenced an inquiry at the Fox Tavern, Repel-street, Mile-end, respecting the melancholy deaths of Charles William Duckett, %Red 21, and Elizabeth Williams, aged 27, who comic itted self-destruction on the night of Sunday last, in tho arms of each other, from the effects of prussic acid. l'he jury having been duly sworn in, they proceeded '" view the remains of the unfortunate couple, which laid ie about the same state as when the shocking occurrence *.'is discovered, both bodies being stretched on the end tif the bed. That of the female was rather pleasingly ate red, havin,e; on a black silk dress, dark rich skawl, Ler hair done up in ringlets, and otherwise neatly clad ; her bonnet was (AT, lying behind her head on the bed, as if it had fallen there. at the moment of her taking the tleedly draught. The body of the young man was also very w ‘ll dressed, having on a black frock coat, light Vaisteee a, with a black satin stock, fastened by a pin, and a pair of dark trousers. Both countenances appeared quiteplaei 'l. On the return of the jury the evidence wits gone into. The prlncip,V facts conrected with the sad affair ad, "Q ecl before the Coroner, were almost the same as those "at have already at ppeared in this journal. The de;eased, Duckett, 'lees, as has been before stated, most rlently attached to. 'the young woman. On Sunday seen; 'ng, at half-past re o'clock, he proceeded to her tnOther'e residence, and Fosok her out for the purpose of going to church. At this period almost certain it is ttllat they had determined Von committing suicide, for "eY must have returned to ;Us own home, and having ”t°red unknown to his famii tr, and secured themselves 112 his be.d-roote, took the deadly' draught, and were dis;?vered, as has already been described. Dr. Letheby, tufte surgt 0 i at the London Hospitol, proved that they d died from the effects of the acid. As regard ti etr state of mind, it appeared that the deceased for some meit), Past had been out of employment, ,N nd been rather 4,,e deaponding state of mind, and thinking' his prospects apeeting his union with the deceased were blighted, it ;%"tcl effected him so much as to induce him, who no doubt t rsu"ecl the unfortunate girl, to commit self-desrt action, f:tUvhe letters spoken of in another part of this journal t• read by the constable, and both from their execute and the cid extraordinary nature of the language, exeqnsiderable interest.  RON'AI, GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, Nov. 25. Ise -lir. March; son, President, in the Chair. "le new members were elected into the Society. /.liThe pk,,nr read was " An Account, by Lieut. Selby, tihf hit; .Ascent of the s.uvaii in the Assyria steamer." 0h,,,-.,e.Seeetary prefaced ;he reading.of this piper by in, ~.",416' tl ust it was one of varticular spirit shone: jtIZ "."at naitAt be done by an enterprisingin co. th etl with professional ability. The Kuvan rises in I,e ?iOerd !kelt Mountain near IsPahan' and, after trafe',r,i'njug: lilte N.:J.11,1-s of the Bochtyari mountains, emergese it fi" tre hills tlzrue miles north-east of Shuster, whence and ill a south•-west direction to the sea by a direct tiornanedir.et channel. At about two...thirds of the way the sea 1 Shuster the river is traversed by a tuol towels. s Phi s4t 4 Place ealle•Cl Ahwaz. Up to this spot the Eu sio,''" steamer had ascended in 1836, when it wasd hs;„1-ue's1 iluprzeticable to proceed further. 'Phis March,buri 44,)evee, Lieut. beiby succeeded in passing in. ,the who: 1-12.ving pushed tor the build," says this officer, . .e was - Pit.'-'w"' of strain was unavailing, and twit, Co/ "de ves3el driven back. Finding steam ZP 'e unl,"ailin I sent a large hawser to the rPeci'ite -ailic, ailing, by the application of tackle offered the p„sa ,4e, Which till then had been supposed to wasias'lrLtsurrneutitable obstacle to the perfect navigation reached Proceedin ► onwards the town of Bend Ikii gar, ett;ried, where an artificial canal, the Aub I Garvild h +Blthe stresae spot is 35 miles from Ahwaz, ere the D-, . —; this int;* the e lzlul river falls into the Kuvan. Ascendhtis 'ter, Ulil, the steamer cane to within a mile of Ik‘"ll)%ige‘` ibwoslitere a bend prevented further progress, down a Imi--.1 go up into the town. Having dropped. use --cn to the confluence, the Kuvan itself .wes ,vaended to wn five miles. After which, the Dizful 1331u,iviga;cel to beyond .Kalah Bander, which is about t awinites fr°u3 I'L'Et town of Dizful. The waters getting ti -uien°rlVelled the' traveller to return, but not until he st, 1 .`liulpleted his s,"rvey of these rivers, N%ti.l to the which, easily as they are ti9vv proved to be, and penetrating e verY heart of the southern province of Persia, ihi, -I.' the climate is admirable, the soil fertile, and the ~, abitants particularly well disposed, cannot fail to offer 11, 1e 60(1 for the extension of our Commerce in the east. take tohod fur the steamers is everywhee`e abundant, and t i,,-. hurt er with provisions remarkably cheap. Theiascen ,z 1 er, from Mohammera, by the .1.1.11) I Gargar, 4445.! e effected in three days, by such a vess." as the _ 1,0 •Y-- la, and in two and a half by such steamers a,: are W s 1 uilt. „111 - t paper was a long one, and could only be read in qt:•", Shuster, which contains a population of 8,0 i 0 0, 4 ii,„, ,U serebed in detail, and the good feeling of the n-2?ta nts highly extolled. e o._"en oral Monteith, who had himself surveyed that ,otile u "tl.' r, and k iterestingdnewetails. it well, favoured the meeting with AN  v .N. IVRItStitY DINNER, OF THE FOXONIAN 1311N13,. th,..EN., T