The Press. — 1854-09-16 (London, England)

ATTORNEY'S CLER.K, Thomas French, committed suicide in the Borough some days since. The inquest was held on Tuesday. He was in the employ of an attorney, who had entrusted him with money to pay for summonses, which he spent. He went to Long's coffee-shop, at 88, Friar-street, Blackfriars, and asked for a bed, for which he paid Is. On going into the bedroom he raked for a tumbler, and the servant took hi,m a coffee-jug, which was found the next morning to have contained laudanum. On being called at ten o'clock next morning he was found lying across the bed quite dead. Some evidence was given So show that family quarrels had preyed on his mind, and the verdict, in consequence, was " Temporary insanity." A Onti. WAS KILLED BY HER FATHER at Preston, in Lancashire, on Saturday night. The men, Owen M'Culloch, a tailor, went home about ten o'clock on the above night, when, provoked because a man had taken away a ferret during his absence, he rose, with a stick in his hand, to strike his daughter, who sat on a chair nursing an infant. The mother stepped between them and received a blow on the eye. In the affray' however, both the child and the chair she sat on fell. When taken up the child was found to be insensible, and death ensued immediately. A coroner's jury returned a verdict of "Manslaughter," and the prisoner (who absconded early on Sunday morning, but surrendered himself on Monday) was committed for trial.  AN ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT NORTHERN on the night of Friday week disabled one of the porters of the company. He slipped off the engine at the Holloway station, and the wheels passed over his foot. THE premises of the North-Western Railway at Wolverton were seriously damaged by fire on Sunday morning, The offices of the locomotive superintendent (Mr. *Connell), together with various books and papers, the property of the company, were destroyed. The fire originated in the coffee-room appropriated to the engine-drivers and firemen immediately under the offices in question. In consequence of there being no water, the flaws continued until the entire building was completely gutted. The wind, fortunately, was blowing at the time in a north-westerly direction. The cause of the tire is at present unknown.  ON WEDNESDAY MORNING a fire broke Old in St. Paul's-churchyard on the premises of Messrs. Hitchcock and Co., dealers in silks, shawls, and other valuable property. The flames were discovered raging in one of the middle rooms of the warehouse in the rear of the premises. The London Fire Brigade engines, followed by the West of England, with a powerful body of men, quickly arrived, and, after great exertion on the part of those preset*, the are was subdued, but not until property to a large saneant was destroyed. The cause is unknoitn. The property is insured in several of the fire-offices. A Fier of a very destructive character happened the same day on the premises of Mr. Mott, a tailor, carrying on business in Prospect row, near the canalbridge, Old Kent-road. The flames when first discovered were raging with great fury in the lower part of the premises, but fortunately the inmates wore out at the time, or they doubtless would have been suffocated, for the flames had seized upon the stairs, and ascended almost to the top of the house, before their existence became known. The fire was not extinguished till the property was almost entirely consumed. AN ENGLISH GENTLEMAN AND MS Wrri, who bad adopted the island of Eulsea (Negropont) for their residence, paid the penalty of their choice by the sacrifice of their lives. They were a Mr. and Mrs. Leeves. It seems probable that the murder was not wholly for plunder, but in part originated in the revengeful feeling entertained towards Englishmen and Frenchmen generally on account of their inter.. fering to put down tho buccaneering Greek incursions into the Turkish provinces. It is very well known that many of the invaders were either professional brigands or palicari—irregular Greek soldiers, who are little, if any, better. When driven out of Thessaly by the Turkish troops, many of these are known to have taken refuge in the island of Negropont ; and it is understood that Mr. Leeves, in a letter written only a few days before his death, had expressed some uneasiness on account of the number of these desperate ruffians who were known :o be in his neighbourhood. An infant child, with a nurse and domestic, was spared. The crime was perpetrated on the 27th of August. A NORWEGIAN GENTLEMAN, named C. F. flawald, committed suicide in the Blackfriars-road on Tuesday evening by shooting himself with a doublebarrelled pistol. His friends are said to be persons of affluence in Norway, and a few days since he sent to his mother for a remittance of money to pay for his lodgings, which he stated was sure to reach him on Monday last. Not receiving any answer to his application, he was apprehensive that she bad died, and that event had doubtless preyed on Lis mind, and induced him to commit the rash act.