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The Sun. — 1848-03-28 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A FRENCH ADVOCATE.-On Saturday evening a gentleman, about thirty-two years of age, of fair complexion, and from his accent apparently a Frenchman, went into the King's Arms Inn, London-road, Kingston, and engaging a private room, partook of supper, a half pint of wine, &e., and retired to rest early, stating that he should have occa• sisn for a handsome job carriage to convey himself and a gentleman, who was to meet him at that house, to Richmond. On the following (Sunday) morning the servant was surprised, a little after six o'clock, at hearing the bell of No. 7, the room occupied by the French gentleman, ring violently. She knocked at the door, and a faint voice said, " Come in." She entered and was horror-struck at finding the upper part of the bed deluged with blood. The gentleman cried out, "Me have killed myself." The affrighted girl alarmed the house, and the landlord and others, together with the police, were soon in the room. From the quantity of blood that had flowed, it was at first conjectured that the wretched man had cut his throat, but this wall not the case ; he had inflicted five or six severe wounds on his right temple. No time was lost in sending for Dr. Sudlow Roots, who speedily attended'. In the course of the afternoon the unfortunate gentleman gave his name as Theophile Lecarde, and stated that ho resided at 31, Georgentreet, Portman-square, and was an advocate, but had, since his arrival in this country, which hadonly been a few months, been editing a French publication, and could get no money. Dr. Roots having stated that he might be removed to the infirmary of the prison, he was accordingly taken there in a chair, there to remain until he is in a proper condition to undergo examination. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, Fitt:wt.—Our supplies of grain continue good. The wheat trade is not active, but last week's prices are firmly maintained for all descriptions. Barley of fine quality is fully as dear. Beans are without alteration. Oats are id. per stone, and shelling 6d. per load lower.
The Sun. — 1848-03-28 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A FRENCH ADVOCATE. On Saturday evening a gentleman, about thirty-two years of age, of fair complexion, and from his accent apparently a Frenchman, went into the King's Arms Inn, London-road, Kingston, and engaging a private room, partook of supper, a half pint of wine, ke., and retired to rest early, stating that he should have occa• sisn for a handsome job carriage to convey himself and a gentleman, who was to meet him at that house, to Richmond. On the following (Sunday) morning the servant was surprised, a little after six o'clock, at hearing the bell of No. 7, the room occupied by the French gentleman, ring violently. She knocked at the door, and a faint voice said, " Come in." She entered and was horror-struck at finding the upper part of the bed deluged with blood. The gentleman cried out, "Me have killed myself." The affrighted girl alarmed the house, and the landlord and others, together with the police, were soon in the room. From the quantity of blood that had flowed, it was at first conjectured that the wretched man had cut his throat, but this was not the case ; he had inflicted five or six severe wounds on his right temple. No time was lost in sending for Dr. Sudlow Roots, who speedily attended. In the course of the afternoon the unfortunate gentleman gave his name as Theophile Lecarde, and stated that he resided at 31, George street, Portman-square, and was an advocate, but had, since his arrival in this country, which hadonly been a few months, been editing a French publication, and could get no money. Dr. Roots having stated that he might be removed to the infirmary of the prison, he was accordingly taken there in a chair, there to remain until ho is in a proper condition to undergo examination. WAxEFIELD
The Sun. — 1848-01-12 (London, England)

MADRID BOLSA, JAN. s.—Three per Cents. 27,1 at 50 days, 261 cash; Five per Cents., 15i for the 10th of Feb. ; Passive Debt, cash.  We have received the Paris papers of yQsterday.  The debate on the Address commenced in the Chamber of Peers on Monday. The discussion was commenced by Count D'ALTON SIIEE, who declared, that in the conduct of foreign affairs, the Ministers had so acted as to be unworthy of the confidence of the Chamber ; and with regard to Switzerland, he declared that the conduct of M. GUIZOT was inconsistent with the principles of liberty which the revolution of July had sanctioned. After a short speech from M. VILLIER DU TEIMAGE in favour of the Ministers, M. MuyNaas declared that, although he was a Conservative, be felt bound to protest against the language which bad been applied to the reform meet;igs. Certainly, grave abuses existed in the Administration, and some reform was necessary. This closed the general discussion, and the Chamber proceeded to consider the Address paragraph by paragraph. Having passed the first paragraph, they adjourned.  On Tuesday the discussion on the Address VirPS resumed. The first four paragraphs were agreed to. In the discussion on the fifth, the Marquis DE Bois stigmatised M. Guizor As a broker of corruption.  M. GUIZOT said that he should not reply to the per sonaiities of M. DE BOISSY, but denied that the Ministry had anything to do with the acts of corruption of which the Noble Peer complained. Count 141oLE began to address the Chamber, and was left speaking  at post h0u7... The Deputy for the Gironde, M. llErtvE, committed suicide on Tuesday.  The Covrrier Francais has the following  "We are informed as a fact that the Council of Ministers has ratified the convention made between Abd-el-Kader and the Duke d'Aumale. This news is said to have arrived at Toulon, and has been announced to A bd-el-Kader, who has signified his option in favour of St. Jean d'Acre. Immediately thereupon a steamer is said to have been sent off to Constantinople, with dispatches from the French Government to our Ambassador. It is stated that these dispatches enjoin M. de Bourqueney to come to an arrangement with the Porte for keeping a strict watch over Abd-el-Kader."  On the other hand, it is said that the KING has invited
The Sun. — 1848-11-17 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE AT LIVERPOOL.  Yesterday morning a suicide, occurring under circumstances of a singular nature, was discovered in this town. The deceased was a person of gentlemanly exterior, named Raymond, and he is supposed to be reepectably connected in London. He had been for some time in the habit of staying at the Waterloo Hotel. On the 3d of this month several articles of wearing apparel were missing from the hotel, and suspicions having rested by some means or other upon the deceased, the attention of the police was directed towards him. He was traced to a house in Pleasant-street, kept by Miss Harris, to one of whose lodgers, Miss Mary Ann Byrom, he paid particular attention. From inquiries made at the house, it was believed the deceased had gone to Londen, and the police did not further trouble themselves about him. It appears, however, that on Wednesday evening last he went to the George Hotel, in Dalestreet, about twelve o'clock, and asked for a bed, stating that Ise had been locked out of his lodgings. His peculiar manner excited the attention of those in the hotel, but the required accommodation was afforded to him, and he, as was snpposed, retired to bed. Not making his appearance in a reasonable time yesterday morning, information was conveyed to the Police-office. Two officers were immediately sent to the hotel, and on the door of the stranger's room being forced open, he was found hanging by the neck by means of his scarf to a small hook in the wall. It was evident he had stood upon the dressing table, and having adjusted the scarf about his neck, kicked the table from under him, and remained suspended about two feet from the floor. He was immediately cut down, but life was found to be extinct.  The deceased, before committing the rash act, wrote to Miss Byrom, on a scrap of paper, in an indifferent hand, as follows :  " Grieved am I that I should not see you once more before dying. When you receive this lam no more, but my remains will be found at the George Hotel. Do not ask me why. Fortune, friends, and mistress—all are gone, yet I bless thee while dying. —
The Sun. — 1848-10-26 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.—LINCOLN, OCT. 24.—A young man named Charles Hastings was yesterday charged, before Messrs. Whitton and Fowler, magistrates of this district, with having cut the throat of Lydia Gresham, and also with having subsequently attempted to destroy his own life in a similar manner. The young woman stated that she had lived with the prisoner from February until the beginning of the present month. On the sth instant she left her home at eight o'clock in the evening, leaving a woman named Mary Bennett there, and also one or two other persons, and upon her returning to the house she met the prisoner, who gave her a blow in the face, which knocked her down. He was of a very jealous disposition. When the prisoner knocked her down she fainted, and on recovering her senses she found her throat cut. Mr. Low, surgeon, said that on the sth instant he was called to a house in St. Michael's-gate, when he found the prisoner with his throat cut. He said he had done for her, and would do Sor himself;; hat he had been witkin two inches of the jugular, and the next time he would be nearer. There were two wounds in the throat, one running into the other. A blood-stained knife was produced in court, with which the prisoner had cut his own throat, and no doubt that of the complainant. After other evidence had been given, which showed that the house was a notoriously bad one, and that the prisoner suspected the female had been corresponding with another man, he was remanded for a week. Tuesday forenoon, at ten o'clock, Mr. Wakley, M.P., Coroner for West Middlesex, and a jury of the inhabitants of St. Pancras, assembled at the Elephant and Castle, King's-road, Camden-town, to investigate the death of Harriet May, aged two years and seven months, alleged to have died from violence inflicted on her by her mother, Ann May, and her aunt, Sarah Bishop, both of whom are in custody, and remanded by the police magistrate of Clerkenwell on the capital charge of murder. Evidence at great length was given, but none tending to show that the deceased had been killed by any act of violence, intentional or otherwise. The jury returned the following verdict;—" That Harriett May came to her death from effusion of blood on the brain, but that whether that effusion was caused by natural disease or accidental violence, there is not sufficient evidence before the jury to show."'
The Sun. — 1848-10-26 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.--LINCOLN, OCT. 24.—A young man named Charles Hastings was yesterday charged, before Messrs. Whitton and Fowler, maaistrates of this district, with having cut the throat of Lydia Gresham, and also with having subsequently attempted to destroy his own life in a similar manner. The young woman stated that the had lived with the prisoner from February until the beginning of the present month. On the sth instant sho left her home at eight o'clock in the evening, leaving a woman named Mary Bente- tt there, and also one or two other persons, and upon her returning to the house she met the prisoner, who gave her a blow in the face, which knocked her down. Ile was of a very jealous disposition. When the prisoner knocked her down she fainted, and on recovering her senses she found her throat cut. Mr. Low, surgeon, said that on the sth instant he was called to a house in St. Michael's.gate, when ho found the prisoner with his throat cut. He said he had done for her, and would do !for himself.; that he had been within two inches of the jugular, and the next time he would be nearer. There wero two wounds in the throat, one running into the other. A blood-stained knife was produced in court, with which the prisoner had cut his own throat, and no doubt that of the complainant. After other evidence had been given, which showed that the house was a notoriously bad one, and that the prisoner suspected the female had been corresponding with another man, ho was remanded for a week. Tuesday, forenoon, at ten o'clock, Mr. Wailey, M.P., Coroner for West Middlesex, and a jury of the inhabitants of St. Pancras, assembled at the Elephant and Castle, King's-road, Camden-town, to investigate the death of Harriet May, aged two years and seven months, alleged to have died from violence inflicted eta her by her mother, Ann May, and her aunt, Sarah Bishop, both of whom are in custody, and remanded by the police magistrate of Clerkenwell on the capital charge of murder. Evidence at great length was given, but none tending to show that the deceased had been killed by any act of violence, intentional or otherwise. The jury returned the following verdict:—" That Harriett May came to her death from effusion of blood on the brain, but that whether that effusion was caused by natural disease or accidental violence, there is not sufficient evidence before the jury to show."J
The Sun. — 1848-10-26 (London, England)

MURDER AND SUICIDE.—LINCOLN, 24.—A young man named Charles Hastings was yesterday charged, before Messrs. Whitton and Fowler, magistrates of this district, with having cut the throat of Lydia Gresham, and also with having subsequently attempted to destroy his own life in a similar manner. The young woman stated that the had lived with the prisoner from February until the beginning of the proseat month. On the Mu instant she left her home at eight o'clock in the evening, leaving a woman named Mary Bennett there, and also one or two other persons, and upon her returning to the house she met the prisener, who gave her a blow in the face, which knocked. her down. He was of a very jealous disposition. When the prisoner knocked her down she fainted, and on recovering her senses she found her throat cut. Mr. Low, surgeon, said that on the sth instant he was called to a house in St. Michael's-gate, when he found the prisoner with his throat cut. He said he had done for her, and would do .for himself; that he had been within two inches of the jugular, and tho next time he would benearer. There were two wounds in the throat, one runDing into tho other. A blood-stained knife was produced in court, with which the prisoner had cut his own. throat, and no doubt that of the complainant. After otherevidence had been given, which showed that the house was a notoriously bad one, and that the prisoner suspected the female had been corresponding with another man, he was remanded for a week. Tuesday. forenoon, at ten o'clock, Mr. Wakley, M.P., Coroner for West Middlesex, and a jury of the inhabitants of St. Pancras, assembled at the Elephant and Castle, King's-road, Camden-town, to investigate the death of Harriet May, aged two years and seven months, alleged to have died from violence inflicted art her by her mother, Ann May, and her aunt, Sarah Bishop, both of whom are in custody, and remanded by the police magistrate of Clerkenwell on the capital charge of murder. Evidence at great length was given, but none tending to show that the deceased had been killed by any act of violence, intentional or otherwise. The jury returned the following verdict:—" That Harnett May came to her death from effusion of blood on the brain, but that whether that effusion was caused by natural disease or accidental violence, there is not sufficient evidence before the jury to show."' ABOLITION OF THE LAT lil-
The Sun. — 1848-07-17 (London, England)

LUCX. FOR THE SUGAR AIEILCIIANTS.—The duty of 20s. on foreign muscovado sugar, under the old law, fell on Thursday to 18s. 6d.; and the new law not having come into operation, merchants have paid the duties upon nearly all the stock of sugar in the port of London, is order to avoid the discriminative duty between clayed brown and muscovado of 13. 6d. The operation will put somewhat about 20,0001. into the pockets of the merchants, at the expense of the revenue.—Shipping Gazette —[We hear that one of the principal brokers in this city has paid duty, for the purpose above stated, to the extent of not less than 15,0001.—Bristol Mirror.] The trustees of the Earl of Durham have commenced building freestone pillars for a suspension bridge across the Rector's Gill, ut Bishopwearmouth, as a substitute for the ancient public road, which has been applied to railway purposes. The bridge will be a great accommodation to the public. —Durham Advertiser. On the 224 ult. a double murder was committed at Vitry, near Choisy-le-Roi, and was afterwards followed by the suicide of the murderer. A gardener of that commune, named Bronx, had fur some time had a criminal connexion with the wife of a day-labourer, named D6ie-42, although himself a married man. This being made known to Broux's wife, she naturally reproached him with it, and frequent quarrels arose between them, till, on the 22d, he became so exasperated as to strike hie wife a ith a hatchet and kill her. This deed done, he quietly went to his barber and got shaved. After this, he remained some time in conversation at the shop, during which he contrived to secrete one of the razors. With this weapon in his pocket, he went to his adulterous mistress, and took-her with him to MaisonsAlfort, where they entered a traiteur's, and diiird. The dinner over, they went out to walk in the fields, and from that time were heard no more of till the murder of Bronx's wife was discovered, and Wioriie became alarmed by the absence of his. In • formation being laid before the magistrate, search was made for the two absentees, and it ended in the discovery of the body of the woman Daioree with her throat cut, and several deep wounds in her arms, received no doubt in defending herself: The razor taken from the barber's shop was lying by her lifeless corpse. As the insurrection in Paris had in the meantime broken out, it was impossible for the officers of justice to take any effectual steps for the discovery and arrest of the murderer. It was afterwards learnt that Brous was seen fighting on the side of the insurgents, at a barricade in the Faubourg St. Marceau, and two days ago his body was found in the Seine, near the Port 4 la l'Anglais, with indications that left no doubt of his having committed suicide. Lord Glengall gave notice on Friday in the House  _ . of Lords of a motion respecting the seditious clubs or. ganized in Ireland, for Thursday next.
The Sun. — 1848-04-24 (London, England)

SUICIDE.—An inquest was held on Thursday at it. George's Hospital, before Mr. Bedford, on the body f Hoary Vaughan, aged 21, a confectioner, who lrowned himself in the Serpentine. Josiah Vaughan, of %Tauxhall-street, Lambeth, said the deceased (his brother) had been out of work for the last five months, tnd all that time had lived in his house, and depended won him for support. On Thursday morning, while mitness was from home at his work, the deco aced and ais (witness's) wife ran away together to Portsmouth, ~he latter taking with her the money saved to pay the rent. The next day his wife returned, followed by the ',Teased, who attempted to shoot her because she would not go back and live with him. He levelled a loaded pistol at her head, and pulled the trigger, but the pistol ortunately missed fire. He heard nothing more of the lecetved until Saturday, when a messenger brought him Nord that he had thrown himself into the Serpentine, oaving previously left in his hat on the bridge a letter lirected to witness. In this letter he acknowledged laving seduced his sister-in-law, and stated that as she had refused to live with him his life had become a burthen to him. Witness believed that the deceased tor some time past had not been right in his mind. Verdict —Temporary insanity.  . . A very deplorable event occurred at Easton, near Stamford, on the lath instant. A man named Wilkinson, a labouring plasterer, aged about 45, in a state of frenzy made an attempt on the lives of his two children. The unfortunate man had been for about eight weeks in a desponding state, and had been regularly attended by 11r. Charles Simpson, who finding him very docile, did not consider any restraint necessary, beyond ordinary surveillance, to prevent his making an attempt on his own life. Taking advantage of his wife's absence up stairs, Wilkinson took up an instrument used by him in his business (having a hammer at one end and a kind of hatchet at the other), and began to chop at both the children. Their screams brought their mother down stairs, and she succeeded in wresting the weapon from her husband, not, however, before he had inflicted five horrible wounds on the head of the younger, as well as a deep gash on the wrist. Wilkinson has been since conveyed to Camberwell Lunatic Asylum, there being no room for him either at Northampton, or Leicester, or Nottingham asylums.—Stamferd Mercury.
The Sun. — 1848-04-24 (London, England)

SUICIDE.—An inquest was held on Thursday at St. George's Hospital, before Mr. Bedford, on the body of Henry Vaughan, aged 21, a confectioner, who drowned himself in the Serpentine. Josiah Vaughan, of Vauxhall-street, Lambeth, said the deceased (his brother) had been out of work for the last five months, and all that time had lived in bis house, and depended upon him for support. On Thursday morning, while witness was from home at his work, the deceased and his (witness's) wife ran away together to Portsmouth, the latter taking with her the money saved to pay the rent. The next day his wife returned, followed by the deceased, who attempted to shoot her because she would not go back and live with him. He levelled a loaded pistol at her head, and pulled the trigger, but the pistol fortunately missed fire. He heard nothing more of the deceased until Saturday, when a messenger brought him word that he had thrown himself into the Serpentine, having previously left in his hat on the bridge a letter directed to witness. In this letter he acknowledged having seduced his sister-in-law, and stated that as she had refused to live with him his life had become a burthen to him. Witness believed that the deceased for some time past had not been right in his mind. Verdict —Temporary insanity. A very deplorable event occurred at Easton, near Stamford, on the lath instant. A man named Wilkinson, a labouring plasterer, aged about 45, in a state of frenzy made an attempt on the lives of his two children. fle unfortunate man had been for about eight weeks in a desponding state, and had been regularly attended by Mr. Charles Simpson, who finding him very docile, did not consider any restraint necessary, beyond ordinary ,urveillance, to prevent his making an attempt on his own life. Taking advantage of his wife's absence up stairs, Wilkinson took up an instrument used by him in his business (having a hammer at one end and a kind of hatchet at the other), and began to chop at both the children. Their screams brought their mother down stairs, and she succeeded in wresting the weapon from her husband, not, however, before he had inflicted five horrible wounds on the head of the younger, as well as a deep gash on the wrist. Wilkinson has been since conveyed to Camberwell Lunatic Asylum, there being no room for him either at Northampton, or Leicester, or Nottingham asylums.—Stanford Mercury.