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The Sun. — 1837-05-16 (London, England)

THE FREDERICK-STREET MURDER.-Throughout the whole of yesterday Mr. Inspector Aggs and police constable Peglar, 104 S, were actively engaged in tracing the murderer, but they were unsuccessful in gaining any clue likely to lead to his discovery. It is now ascertained that the man who was seen running from the house soon after the murder, with his hands stained with blood, was not the perpetrator of the deed; but that he had met with an accident, which accounts for his appearance, and was hastening to a surgeon to have his wounds dressed. Tie friends of the unfortunate young woman assert most .'positively, and their assertions are corroborated by the statements of the medical gentleman who examined the wound, that it was quite impossible that she could have committed suicide.  If cold or filth is allowed to impede perspiration, sensible or insensible, and prevent the waste matter from being thus got rid of, it must be thrown upon some other function, and will produce bowel complaint, or cough and expectoration, according as the lungs or the bowels are weakest. _ _ _  One-of Sattertbwaite's 'best jokes was tying a bit of meat very securely to the bell-handles which dangle outside the gates of certain suburban villas—sweet retirements of snug citizens ; the result of which operation was that every liungry dog that chanced to pass that way instinctively—rea:lcn:abiy almost, but naturally certainly—began to grabble at tempting morsel, which he vainly attempted to detach ; the inevitable consequence of which attempt was the violent riagrir of the bell. Out come the servants candle in hand, Lek a:I around, hear nothing, see nothing—shut the gate, and go in. Thi.next doggy who comes trotting along, -and who has not happened to dine well, has another touch at the an-at; away goes the bell again, out come the servants, as #iefore, and, as before, go in again. And thus ten times in the night the family nithin continue to be alarmed beyond n, lee,•re at what apdears a systematic attack upon Hawthorn ttae:: or Eglantine Hall, the master of which is a decided hrp,,eliendriac, and the mistre33 expecting to be confined II elf hour.—Theodore hook ire " The Humourist."  A .71ac employed in cutting down a 3yeamo:e tree, in a gentleman's garden in tle neighbourhood of Breck-lane, Eve) inTL, f)tod a throstle's rest, near the top of it, composed of eightryards of lace and two net caps, %%hich articles had missed by the family, aA, in c )nsequence, one of the ss,,rvants unfortunately turned away. To what a state of luxury c:nst England have arrived, when even birds form their beds blor,de lace !—Lirerirool
The Sun. — 1837-11-25 (London, England)

SUICIDE.—At Kirkton, parish of Kirkmahoe, on Saturday week, Janet Smith, an elderly, industrious, and re. spectable individual was found suspended by the neck from a joist in the garret of her house. Surgical assistance was immediately called for, but proved unavailing—life having been for some considerable time extinct. The cause for the commission of this rash act is unknown.—Dumfries Courier. About eight o'clock on the evening of Saturday last, a woman named Devellin threw herself into the Nith from the Dock. Mr. Wallace, of the National Bank, who heard the plunge, and suspected the worst, immediately procured a light and assistance, and succeeded in rescuing the infatuated woman from her perilous position—little the worse, if we except the effects which may reasonably be expected to arise from a thorough ducking on a November night. Habits of irregularity and consesuent want are assigned as the cause of the insane attempt.—Dun fries Courier. The Leamington Hastings Estate, in Warwickshire, near to Dunchurch, has changed hands this week through Mr. George Robins' instrumentality. The price is said to be 40,0001, independent of timber, which is thirty years' purchase on the present rental. The Government of Spain is about to sell all the gold and silver plate and jewels belonging to the convents and churches of Madrid, to which will be added those brought from the cathedral of Toledo, one of the richest of the Peninsula. Among these precious relies are to be found masterpieces from the hands of the great goldsmiths of the fifteenth and sixteenth centurics, and some wrought by Benvenuto Cellini, Alonzo Cane, Michael Angelo, and other great artists of more Modern date. The plate will, it is said, be disposed of by weight. The manuscripts and rare books are being rapidly carried off by agents from England and Germany., BRUSSELS, Nov. 21.—The new Engli4h cltitFa erected on the Boulevard of the Observatory is finished, and will V opened 19. F PiYine gel"fice on Sunday' next, e continue under the influence of severe winter weather in this quarter. The wind has been very strong from west and north-west, accompanied by torrents of rain, or overwhelming showers of sleet and hal. Little or no damage, however, has been done that we hear of; the river; have been swollen very considerably, but a: the te4t butt of grain and potato wa..; p.reviowily seirecl; /he debris borne Meng' by thetto&l; was of little consequence, being composed phietly of toppings from trees or bushes.—Ayr Obseever.
The Sun. — 1837-03-16 (London, England)

RIVER NA VIGATION.—It is scarcely half a century ago, since the tilt boats for the conveyance of passengers to and from London to Gravesend, were, in shape and speed, just what the Trinity House ballast-lighters are at the present, and taking four tides or more for the completion of the voyage. They were succeeded by the Dandee boats, which, as fast sailers, were both the wonder and admiration of all who witnessed the improvement. They were, however, of the most inconvenient nature, as the passengers were frequently not only called upon to embark in the middle of the night, in order to have the first of the flood, and after tacking and beating about, together with sometimes too much wind, too little ditto, or none at all, besides being huddled in a low and uncomfortable cabin, were frequently, after six or seven hours on the water, compelled to land at Woolwich, Blackwell, or Greenwich, and then to find their way, in the best manner they could, to the metropolis. At length the progress of science introduced steamers for the ferry, which, however, at first generally took from five to seven hours to arrive in London, a length of time it was evidently a desideratum to lessen. On Sunday last the Diamond started from the pier at 4 P. M., proceeded to London, landed her passengers, returned, and at 9 minutes before 8 o'clock was at her moorings, off the Town Pier; thus parforming the two voyages (sixty-four miles), including stoppages, in three hours and forty minutes.—Kentish Observer. THE, SPANISH PR lEST.—I have mentioned my acqLaiatence with the Spani:zli priest. I met him the other morning, and he apologized for not having returned my call the day before. " I was obliged," he said, "to be present at the death of a jackal." " Well, Sir, I hope you had 'good sport." " Sport," said he, " why I was there to give him religious consolation." " Indeed 1" " Yes, indeed, and I assure you he died a very penitent Christian, though he had led a most dissolute life." " Jackals are apt to do so ; but what wis his particular crime ?" " He was addicted to drinking and finding a few francs in the breeches-picket of a fellowjackal, he killed him to purchase brandy." " What the devil jackals with breaches-pockets, drinking brandy, and dying like penitent Christians ! You don't seriously mean, mio Padre, that you gave religious consolation to a beast ?" " Ha, ha, bee, hee," quoth the Padre, " don't you know that all the soldiers of the Light Infantry Regiment here are called jackals?"—Campbell's Lvtters.from the South. Tl:e neighbourhood of North-town was thrown into a state of great alarm on Sunday morning last by a rumour of a lamentable suicide which had taken place there. On inquiry, it appeared that the self-murder was a double one. Two donkies, tied together by a rope bound round the neck of either, had contrived, by come accident, to entangle it over a bar, and the poor animals, pulling against each other, had drawn the nooses so tight, that both were found strangled.--:Somerset Gazette,
The Sun. — 1837-12-28 (London, England)

GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY.—By the activity of the Company's agents, a wooden bridge for carrying the Railway has been constructed at Arpley, across which all the trains on Saturday passed, and business has since proceeded as before the accident of Friday occurred. Mr. Locke, the Company's engineer, who was in London, attending a trial at Guildhall, was sent for by express, and reached Warrington early on Sunday. He expressed himself quite satisfied with the measures that Lad been taken, and is now proceeding to rebuild those parts of the bridge that had been carried away. —Manchester Guardian of Wednesday.  The plan of the Reform Club House comprises between twenty and thirty distinct suites of apartments, to be let to members at 1001. a-year each ; all of which are said to be already bespoke, and which will go far towards paying the ground rent, which amounts, it is sa►d to 3,0001. per annum.  Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the Fox Duke-street, Bloomsbury, on the body of Mr. George Brand, aged 38, who committed suicide by nearly severing his head from his body. After the jury had viewed the body of the unfortunate man, which presented a very appalling spectacle, the examinations of the witnesses were taken, from which it appeared that the deceased, who was a married man with a young family, at the time of his melancholy death carried on the business of a fruiterer, in George-street, Bloomsbury. About a fortnight back be had the misfortune to lose a beloved daughter, a fine girl sixteen years of age. The calamity greatly affected the mind of the deceased, who became low and desponding, notwithstanding the attentions of his wife and family. On Christmas morning his wife left him in bed. Shortly afterwards she was alarmed by something heavy falling in the bed-room. On going up she was horror-struck at discovering her unhappy consort stretched on the floor, surrounded by a pool of blood, which proceeded from a dreadful wound across his throat, extending from ear to ear. Mr. Wells, a surgeon, was promptly in attendance, but all human aid was unavailing, so determined had the wretched man been in his purpose. The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary derangement,"
The Sun. — 1837-10-21 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—Sarah Lee, a 'determined looking woman, about 30 years of age, was placed at the bar charged by James Kerr, 131, N division, with having assaulted him. The prisoner was also charged with a most desperate attempt on her life, whilst in custody at the station-house. Kerr stated that, on Wednesday last, the prisoner was creating a disturbance in Islington-road, when he took her into custody, and she was locked up on his charge. Serjeant Collins, of N division, stated that, after the prisoner was locked up, she made several attempts to hang herself, but was prevented by witness. She expressed her determination to put her design into execution, and he found it necessary to send to Mr. Ashley, the overseer, for a strait-waistcoat, which was put on the prisoner, and she was again locked up, under the impression that it would be impossible for her to do herself any injury. During the day, however, witness heard a gurgling noise, and on proceeding to the cell he found the prisoner suspended from an iron bar of one of the windows of the cell. She  had contrived to extricate herself from the waistcoat, by tearing the breast part of it with her teeth, so that she was enabled to release her arms. She then tore up the garment, and with the remnants suspended herself. Her feet were eighteen inches from the ground. Witness cut her down, when she was apparently dead. Medical aid was procured, and she was restored to her senses. Mr. Ashley, the overseer, stated that the prisoner was a notorious and (I.2.iperate character, who had been frequently charged at that office, and she was released from the House of Correction on the same day that she was taken into custody. Her two children were in the workhouse, and her husband was in the Hospital, through her misconduct. She had been relieved by the parish, but they were determined to have no more to do with her. Her settlement was Shoreditch.  The prisoner affected to cry, and expressed her sorrow, begging forgivenness, on account of her children. Mr. BENNETT fined the prisoner 10s. for the assault, or fourteen days' imprisonment. Mary Ann Riordan was finally examined, charged with having deserted her illegitimate child. The prisoner had the child by a man named Flynn, residing in Clerkenwell, and being unable to support it or herself she applied to him for assistance, and being refused she left it at the door of the house at which he worked. Flynn took it to Clerkenwell workhouse, where it was received until it was properly removed to its legal settlement, St. Sepulchre, where it was taken into the workhouse, and it bad been there about three months until the apprehension of the prisoner on Tuesday last. Mr. BENNETT ordered that the child should be delivered back to the prisoner, and on receiving it he informed her that she was bound to protect her own child, and discharged her with an advice not to be brought there again under similar circumstances. She fell upon her knees and thanked the parties, and then quitted the office with the child.
The Sun. — 1837-09-28 (London, England)

PENNY POSTAGE ON NEWSPAPERS.— "On th:! Ist of September the Act for regulating the conveyance of newspapers by post came into operation, from which time the penny hitherto demanded by the carriers of any cross or penny post, fOr the delivery of a newspaper, cannot be legally claimed." This paragraph has been going the rounds of the journals, and we are convinced, from a. conversation we had with some of the gentlemen connected with the press who formed the deputation to wait on the Chancellor of the Exchequer respecting this impost, that they fully understood the postage was to be wholly abolished. We find however, that the penny-postage is continued, and on an application on the subject to the Secretary of the General Post-office, we have received the following reply :  " General Post-office, Sept. 15.  " Sin—l beg to inform you, in answer to your letter of the 13th inst., that penny-postage is still chargeable on newspapers which have not previously passed through the General Post, or are not intended to do so. The newspapers, consequently, which are posted at Bristol for delivery at Portishead are liable to the penny rate. " I am, Sir, your obedient humble servant, " GEORGE WELSH, Pro. Sec. " To Mr. Taylor, iiiiiror-office, Bristol."—Bristol Mirror.  November has been usually reported the month for su'cides in England. September may aspire to the bad eminence" of that reputation in France. The mania for suicide in Paris appears, indeed, to augment as the month draws to its close, and has infected the Halle (the Billingsgate of Paris), where not less than six women and two men have last week destroyed themselves on the sentimental ground of jealousy or disappointment in love. Two deg berate sil'e'des of more note have also occurred last week in Fiance. M. Saunier Desforts, a police magisti ate of the Mont-Orgueil quarter of Paris, shot himself on Wednesday, at half-past seven in the evening, after settling his affairs, and making the due testamentary disposal of his property with the uttnoit. tranquillity. M. Desforts eas equally esteemed in private life, as respected for his public ability. An inveterate and tormenting malady which had long baffled the skill of Drs. Magendie and MarjoliP, and for the last chance of curing which he had just vainly tried the air of his native place, is assigned as the cause of this deliberate suicide. About the samo period Sieur Robert, a timber-merchant of Amberville, destroyed himself with equal deliberation. Leaving the balance•theet of his debts and property on the table, and a letter for his family, in which begging pardon for the act of despair which he meditated, he declared that although he hail assumed an air of cheerfulness in their presence, life, since the death of his wife, had become an intolerable burthen, and that nothing in his busi• ness had prosperred from that time.
The Sun. — 1837-11-14 (London, England)

CORONER'S INQUEST.  Yesterday afternoon an Inquest was held at the Goat Tavern, near Buckingham Palace, Pimlico, before FREDERICK JOHN TANNINGS, Esq., Coroner for her Majesty's Household, on the body of John Fricker, aged 58, late coachman to her Majesty, who committed suicide by hanging himself in the State harness-room in the Royal stables, Pimlico. The inquiry, which lasted several hours, created much interest, the deceased having on the day of her Majesty's Royal visit to the city driven a State carriage and six beautiful black horses, in which was the Right Hon. the Earl of Albemarle, as Master of the Horse, on which day the unfortunate man was in good health and spirits. Mr. W. Nursey, surgeon, of No. 4, Cleveland-row, St. James's, was called upon to attend the deceased on Wednesday se'nnight. Witness found him in a very nervous debilitate, and suffering from considerable pain. He (deceased) informed witness that he considered his illness was owing to having taken an overdose of medicine, prescribed for him by Mr. Edmonds, a surgeon, residing in the vicinity of Manchester-square. Witness having ascertained the nature of the medicine the deceased had taken, administered mag. nesia and chalk. In subsequent visits to the deceased, witness found that he was so far recovered as to be enabled to resume his duties. William Ambrose bad acted as an assistant to the deceased. The unfortunate man has been very low and depressed for some time past. Witness saw him last alive about eight o'clock on Saturday morning, in the Royal stables. By the Jury—The deceased was a married man, with a family of six children. He was greatly beloved in the establishment, and lived on happy terms with his family. I never heard him complain of any thing connected with the situation he held in the Royal household. The Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of— Temporary mental derangement."  On Saturday afternoon, as a carman of the name of Murphy, residing in George-yard, Duke-street, Grosvenorsquare, was in the act of giving his horse a pail of water, the animal made a snap at his face, and actually bit off the greater part of the lower lip. lie was conveyed to a surgeon's in the neighbourhood ; and tho lip was afterwards found near the spot where the accident occurred. •  At the late Chippenham Fair, a fellow obtained possession of a valuable horse, the property of Mr. F. Smith, of Yatton Keynell, by desiring Mr. S's servant to find his master while he held the animal : on the return of the "flat," the horse and holder were gone.—Wilts Herald.
The Sun. — 1837-03-07 (London, England)

BAYONNE, MARCH 3, 1837.  " Espartero writes, on the 25th, that the inclemency. of the weather prevented his attacking, on the 24th, the 11 Carlist battalions left at Durango. " The following are the respective positions of the belligerent parties :—The Infanta Don Sebastian is in the valley of Ulzama with 15 battalions, opposed to Saarsfield, who has 19 under his orders. Giubelalde is at Hernani, with 9 battalions, opposed to Evans, who has 21 ; and Goni is at Zorzeno, with 11 battalions, in presence of Espartero, who has 28. The rest is stationed between Vittoria and the Ebro. Saarsfield has withdrawn all the troops from the line of Zubiri, in order to collect a force of 15,000 men about Pampeluna. The communication between that city and our frontiers is accordingly interrupted. Evans has received a reinforcement of 1,100 Spanish marines." We are fearful that the season will be very far advanced before the state of the weathar will allow General ESPAR• TERO to quit his present comfortable quarters. ESPARTERO is one of those heroes that never like to fight without all the advantages that wind, sun, and position can give them. The whole army is prevented from taking the field by the cowardije or treachery of this officer. Is not this intolerable ?  There is no domestic news of any importance in the Paris Journals. Annexed are the only extracts to be found in them worth notice :  PARIS, Manen 5 —The telegraphic dispatch from Bayonne received yesterday, anticipates the journals and letters received this morning, which only confirm the inactivity of the Queen's troops. Further information which we have received relative to the late affair at Bunos, in the Kingdom of Valencia, says that the Constitutional troops were about 1,600 Infantry and 120 Cavalry, whereas the rebels had 4,000 Infantry and 300 Cavalry. Hitherto there is no confirmation of the statement. The telegraphic dispatch states that the Commander of the Cavalry had committed suicide.—Journal du Commerce, March 5. The Moniteur of this morning has nothing official. A Morning Journal has the following paragraph :—" Thee uncertainties respecting the majority have not ceased ; fears are still entertained of the Ballot, and while the Ministers (on) were obliged to sustain the shock of violent speeches, they were sadly puzzled to obtain votes; it is said that for this object great reliance is placed on the Sunday. Out of the Chamber recourse may be had to the enticements of great professions of friendship. The day destined for receiving company is very favourable to their manoeuvres."  The same paper announces that in the Chamber the partizans of the Ministry were yesterday very eager to disclaim all projects of new measures, which were supposed to be intimated in the speech delivered yesterday by M. Persil. Constitutionnel, March 5.
The Sun. — 1837-02-21 (London, England)

KET.—.Feb. 20 Per Ton s. d Walls End Newmarch 22 6 Walls End Riddell's Walls End Eden Main ...... 23 0 Walls End Belmont WAls End Hetton 25 0 Walls Enid Lambton 25 0 Walls End Pemberton Walls End Stewart's Walls End Hartlepool 24 3 Walls End Butterknowl 2l 6 Walls End Gordon 23 0 Walls End Tees Walls End St. Helen's Tees 23 3 Walls End Hartley 23 0  Crd's Redhugh Pontop, Stanhope, and Co 22 0 Russell's High Main. 2l 11 Townley 22 0 West Hartley 25 0 Wylam 03 16 Walls End Bewicke and Co 23 6 Walls End Chirton :10 (1 Walls End Clark and Co 23 3 Walls End Gosforth Walls End Heaton 23 3 Walls End Hilda 22 9 Walls .End Hotpur 23 0 Walls End Killingworth ... 23 3 Ships arrived since  last market day, 2 9.  A clumsy younker wrote to his friends in the country that he was about to try the stage for a livelihood, and was coming out on Thursday night. He hoped they would lend him all the assistance in their power. He received, in answer, a warm great coat, several pair of thick stockings, a long horsewhip, and a pair of leather gloves, with a letter, containing some information about horses, and a charge not to drive fast down hill, as the roads were very slippery, and that, as he was coming out in the evening, the family would be sure to sit up for him.  On the afternoon of Tuesday, Mr. John Chapman, butcher, of Egham, committed suicide at Stanwell, by shooting himself with a horse-pistol. The deceased, who was -an old inhabitant of this place, and was highly respectesl, has been in an exceedingly n.rvous state of mind for a long time since.