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The Sun. — 1829-12-16 (London, England)

LOVE AND SUICIDE.  A young gentleman, a cousin of mine, a native of one of the northern counties of beland, formed an attachment for a young lady, in his father's immediate neighbourhood—it grew with his youth, and was reciprocal between himself and his beloved. The young lady had no fortune, but a most prepossessing appearance, and amiable disposition—she, an only child of an aged couple, respectable though poor. The gentleman had but two eons and two daughters, the two latter married. The young gentleman, the subject of this painful narrative, was the eldest. On the father hearing of his son's attachment, he induced me, as I was my own master, to accompany his son to the Indies. To describe his distraction of mind at being forced from the idol of his soul- may be better imagined than described by me. I shall merely say we set sail; on our departure the father of the young lady was indignant at the apparent irdifference of the young man to his daughter. Ile left the country and took her with him to London; when he introduced her into society, she was only to be seen to be admired, and this was her first time of mixing with the world. A Colonel of rank met her at a ball, fell in love with her, proposed for her to her father, whose remonstrance induced her to accept so advantageous a proposal. They were milled. The fatal intelligence reached me—and to describe my situation in a strange countr!—well aware of the effects of this unfortunate event, I did not disclose it to him; hut he received himself a letter shortly after, informing him of it. Oh ! my God, to describe his appearance on reading it. "Oh ! Charles, my darling gill is for ever another's," said he, "my first anti only love ! is she in the arms of another ? Oh ! my father has ruined nip for ever." He spoke frantically of every scene that occurred between them. I remonstrated with him saying, had she loved him she would not marry another : but he said, why not obey her parents as well as I did ? " Oh! my darling girl, this world," said he, "is now a blank to me." It would be itnt possible for me to advert to all his distrwled expressions, " When," said he," will I see her ?. Oh, never again !" I cannot write fully ; lum now merely on my journey to his father, who is yet unacquainted with it, and I just take this spot to give you au outline. He committed suicide by means of his rEzor; he cut his throat. I only went out on sonic business—l got him a corpse on my return ! and on opening his breast, found a lock of Cue young lady's hair suspended about hiq neck in a locket, which, until then, Itviriu saw with him. I got tl:e poor victim of utichanging love interred far from his native home. Alt, his father woold now give worlds, I dare say, had he him a:,--,at.,,Coric, spondent of the Dublin Frcev,;c4; 4;ouniql.
The Sun. — 1829-07-20 (London, England)

SUICIDE.  James Waling, the watchman, who was acquitted at the last Old Bailey Sessions of the capital charge of maliciously stabbing with intent to kill Lydia Goddaid, but detained for the minor offence, was placed at the bar on Saturday at the Middlesex Sessions, upon an indictment charging him with a common assault upon the said Lydia Goddard. The facts of this case having been recently detailed at length, it will be sufficient to state, that the prisoner, without any other cause than the prosecutrix's desiring a man, named Perry, with whom she lived, and who, as well us the prisoner, was a watchman belonging to St. Pancras, to leave his company, went over to her, and, in the coolest manner possible, pulled from his pocket a butcher's knife, about six inches in length, and plunged it iNto her left breast.  The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The CHAIRMAN said he really did not knowAybat to do with the prisoner. After consulting tvith some of the County Magistrates, the Chairman sentenced the prisoner to two years' imprisonment, and to be kept to hard labour. The prisoner upon hearing the sentence of the Court, thrust his hand into the breast of his coat and pulled out a breakfast knife, with the other hand he quickly drew down his neck handkerchief, and was just in the act of cutting the carotid artery, when his arm was seized by a fellow-prisoner and Havel], a headborough of Battlebridge; a posse of constables, together with Mr. Vickery, the Governor of the House of Correction, and Mr. Harles, the chief constable of Clerkenwell, quickly surrounded him, and the knife was forced from his hand. His arms were then secured behind his back by means of a pair of handcuffs. The consternation of the persons in Court was excessive. The prisoner's sentence was then changed from hard labour to solitary confinement.
The Sun. — 1829-05-29 (London, England)

FIRE THIS MORNING.  A tire brae out at a quarter-past eight o'clock this morning, at the workshop of Mr, !Eggs, carver and gilder, No. 40, Parker-street, Drury-lane. - The flames, which blazed furiously at first, created great alarm, from the adjoining shop being occupied by coach-maker s; but the St. Giles's and other engines promptly arrived, and confined the fire to the upper part of the premises, where it commenced. No lives were lost, nor any persons injured that we heard.  The Duke of WELLINGTON'S mansion at Hyde Park-corner is in a state of considerable advancement, and may vie for nobleness °text:Tier with any in London.  One of the pages of the Duke of ORLEANS the other day called the Duke of GLoUCESTEK " le Due de Bon Frontage."  WC were credibly informed yesterday that there is no foundation for the statement that Lord MouNTCHARLES will contest the approaching election for Clare. The clerk of the peace for that county is said to have hind, within the last few days, an interview with the Marquis CONTNGHA3r, and to have returned yesterday to this city. The declaration of the Noble Marquis is represented to be favourable rather than hostile to Mr. O'CoNNELL.— Dutlin Freeman's• Journal of Tuesday.  We learn with pleasure that some improvement begins to be felt in the trade of this town. During the last week the cotton market has been steady, with a tendency to rise in some qualities. At Manchester there is an improved demand for goods, and the commercial letters from London alto speak of an improvement in trade. On the whole, the mercantile interest are in bet ter spirits, and we hope their anticipations of better times are wel fonnded.—Lirerpool Times.  A society for the promotion of archery is about to be instituted in Lincoln.-110 Packet.  The carriage road in front of I anselown-place has lately been undergoing considerable alterations; and the broad pavement for foot passengers when complete, will be one of the finest in the town.—Bath Chronicle.  A celebrated dentist extracts teeth without pain. " How is this ?" we asked. " Why," says a friend, " it is done by making a fulcrum of the other teeth, the pressure on which, by a sort of lever, is so painful, that the pain is taken away, or appears to be so, from the tooth operated on." This is like taking away the smell of onions by using assaketida.  The other day at the National Gallery a welldressed female collected her family round her, and begged them to snake haste, and not be looking at " them picturs." " D'ye think," said s!ie, "if they were worth looking at, they'd let us see 'em for nothing?"  A boy, twelve years of age, committed suicide a few days ago at Auxonne. h appears that being treated with great harshness by his mother, he took advantage of her absence to commit the desperate act. He wrote a letter, forming a kind of will, by which he bequeathed his effects, &c. to some of his comrades, carried it to the postoffice, loaded his father's gun, and then blew out his brains. A judicial inquiry has been set on foot, to ascertain whether this act of suicide is nut attributable to the parents.— Galignani's Messenger.  A
The Sun. — 1845-12-10 (London, England)

SUICIDE FROM MENTAL DEPRESSION, THROUGH IMPRISONMENT.—On Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest in the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, Clerkenwell, on T. K., aged 19, the son of respectable parents, and a baker, who had been committed for fourteen days for having left his work without due notice. John Sims, a warden of the prison, stated that deceased was received on last Saturday evening, about half-past seven. He appeared weak and unable to walk. Shortly afterwards he became so ill, that Drs. Wakefield and Sondes were sent for, who having ascertained that he had taken prussic acid, applied the stomach pump and other remedies without avail, as he expired at nine &clock the same night. R. M., a prisoner, committed for the same offence with deceased, said that he was in the same cell with deceased in the station-house. He then complained of having been severely dealt with for so trifling an offence, and said that he was about being married, but that his sentence would do away with his marriage. The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity," accompanied with the expression of a strong hope, that magistrates would be warned by the deceased's melancholy fate, and order all persons in custody to be properly searched, previous to their incarceration. The Coroner hoped that the police-officers present would communicate to the magistrates the sentiments of the jury. INTREPID CONDUCT OF A YOUNG FEMALE: Last evening Mr. Baker held an inquest at the London Hospital, on the body of Emma Kealey, aged 21, a servant to a lady named Young, residing in Nichol-square, Hackney-roa It appeared that on Thursday last the deceased was washing in the back kitchen, when the lower part of her dress caught fire by coming in contact with the copper flue, she rushed into the street enveloped in flames, when she was observed by a young lady named Wasford, who residedo next doo.str., who immediately seized the door mat, and ran t placing sitting succeeded aanncde, anthend procuring ate fire ; by her exertions she burnt herself very severely. w Deceased was taken to the above hospital, where she died immediately on her admission. The coroner and jury highly complimented Miss Wasford for her intrepidity. Verdict__ " Accidental death."
The Sun. — 1845-12-10 (London, England)

DARING ROBBERY.—On Saturday night, between six and seven o'clock, a man called at the door of Mrs. Angus, residing near the foot of Crown-street, Hutchesontown, on the pretence of asking charity. Mrs. Angus, who answered the call, declined to serve him, on which the man pushed her aside and entered the house. Immediately thereafter a female, who was not before observed, made her appearance, and seizing Mrs. Angus by the throat, threw her upon the floor, and held her there with a firm grasp. A second man at this moment pushed past them, from the stair, and joining the one who had first entered, the two commanced to plunder the house, there being no grown-up person, with the exception of Mrs. Angus, present. They laid hold of a silver watch, two pairs of blankets, a tartan shawl, a girl's velvet tippet, a cotton gown, and some other articles of smaller value, and made an attempt to force a trunk, in which, however, they were unsuccessful. The party then hurriedly left the house, taking the articles above-named along with them. All this time Mrs. Angus was under the hands of the female, and unable to make the least resistance ; there were children in the house, but of such an age as to render them incapable of giving any alarm to the neighbours. In these circumstances the miscreants made their escape. A more daring instance of robbery we have seldom been called upon to record within the limits of the city; and we earnestly trust that the police will be able to secure the depredators, so as to insure the punishment which so serious a crime deserves.— Glasgow Argus. SUICIDE FROM MENTAL DEPRESSION, THROUGH es, pCoectladbblaethp-afireenldts: andle rk a enbankTe lrl, ,s LurnisoymErer.—On Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest in the llousle9 ,otfhCe°sror en col (r' n on T. Kha' aged d been committed for fourteen days for C having left his work without due notice. John Sims, a warden of the prison, stated that deceased was received on last Saturday evening, about half-past seven. He appeared weak and unable to walk. Shortly afterwards he became so in, that Drs. Wakefield and Sondes were sent for, who having ascertained that he had taken prussic acid, applied the stomach pump and other remedies without avail, as he expired at nine o'clock the same night. R. M., a prisoner, committed for the same offelice with deceased, said that he was in the same cell with deceased in the station-house. He then complained of having been severely dealt with for so trifling an offence, and said that he was about being married, but that his sentence would do away with his marriage. The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity," accompanied with the expression of a strong hope, that magistrates would be warned by the deceased's melancholy fate, and order all persons in custody to be properly searched, previous to their incarceration_ The Coroner hoped that the police-otficers present would communicate to the magistrates the sentiments of the jury.
The Sun. — 1845-01-04 (London, England)

SUICIDE. SITNDERLAND, THURSDAY EVENING. TOSlerday being New Year's-day, as usual, a great deal of festive dissipation and sccial drinking took place in this town among the lower classes of the inhabitants, and the public-houses and streets were rather numerously filled with persons in various stages of intoxication, amongst whom quarrels and fights were not unfrequent. As the day waned away the excitement among the disorderly increased, and the police had plenty of employment in the different public-houses and tap-rooms to preserve the peace among quarrelling disputants who were ready and anxious to settle their grievances and maintain their arguments by an appeal to the "fists." In this way the day was spent in the lower parts of the town, and amongst the disorderly guests at seine of the tap-rooms were a few straggling privstes of the 26th, or Cameronians, the depot of which regiment is in garrison in. these barracks. Efforts were made to get the refractory soldiers to the barracks by the police and the sergeants and corporals of the corps, and this was done without creating any mischief or confusion particularly calling for notice. A t the barracks, however, matters did not pass off so quietly, and some of the soldiers, being highly stimulated by liquor, and impatient of control, quarrelled with the non-commissioned officers whose duty it was to keep order, and a great deal of wrangling, it is und,,rstood, was the result. A private, who was greatly under the influence of drink, in a fit of excitem( nt, untOrturo-tely seized the bayonet of the picquet on duty, and with it made a rush at a corporal, who was endeavouring to enforce discipline, and stabbed him in the side, but we are glad to say the wound is not considered to be very dangerous, and hopes are entertained that the injured man will speedily recover. In the hurry and confusion of the moment the soldier who committed this desperate attempt made his escape from the barracks into the town, and on being pursued by the police and some soldiers, be made his way to the river side, and threw himself over the quay into the Wear, and was drowned before any assistance could be rendered, the difficulty attending which was increased by the darkness of the night. His body has not yet been found. This unfortunate affair has been the subject of gene:-al conversation and remark in the town, and, as usual, many exaggerated reports of the occurrence have been in circulation. The matter will undergo full investigation before the proper authorities. It is proper to say, that the soldiers of this gallant regiment, whilst they have been in this town, have conducted themselves with becoming propriety, and that this unfortunate affair, arising out of a drunken debauch, is the first reproach that has attached itself to the uniform good conduet of the depot.
The Sun. — 1845-01-04 (London, England)

THE LIGHT OF OTHER DATS."—The parish of it. Pancras is doubly blest in this foggy weather, fur it has its street lamps burning both night and day. We eounted last Friday, in the Hampstead-road, no less than ten napthas flaring up d mly one after the other. vow could not this superfluity of light during the middle pf the day, when its burning must be an insult to the miblie eye, and a rank offence in the nostrils of every political economist, be put by fur the Kensington•roads, and lent to them every night ? Naptha, it is true, is not ,he most brilliant light the metropolis or the age can ioast of ; but still Kensington will see, we are sure, with 'rat' on eye, enat naptha, dim as it is, is better than no light at all,—Punch.  Mr. Mills said that the deceased's wife and a young woman parto,)l( of the pork, and that almost immediately after they were attacked with spasms, but they had recovered.  The CottonsEa observed that he never heard of a stronger case of the English cholera. Verdict—" Natural death."  SUICIDE AND DESTlTUTlON.—yesterday afternoon an inquest was taken by Mr. Baker, at the Queen's Head. Fleet-street, Spitalfields, on the body of Richard Williams, aged nineteen, a horse-hair spinner. Deceased was living with his mother, a hawker of fish, at No. 4. Little George-street. He was of reserved habits, and had twice attempted self-destruction. On Wednesday last, in the afternoon, he was discovered suspended by a piece of cord, and life was extinct. Sergeant Bar aker, H 11, was then called in, who found the family in state of wretchedness and destitution. The following morning he, after having given the deceased's mother a shilling, lard the case before Mr. Bingham, of the Worship-street Police-court, who instantly gave her 5s from the poor-box, and from the same source ordered a supply of bread and coals, which were thankfully re ceived. The sergeant also raised a subscription in the neighbourhood for her present wants. Verdict—" Temporary insanity."
The Sun. — 1845-04-28 (London, England)

WIRE AS A MATERIAL FOR BUILDING SUSPENSION BRIDGES.—Although the use of wire offers some advantages, especially superior strength, bulk for. bulk compared with bars, general opinion is not iU favour of its adoption, on account of the impossibility, nearly, cf adjusting the length of the wires, so that when the cable has assumed its proper curvature, each wire may bear its due proportion of strain, and because of the increased liability to oxidate, in consequence of the increased surface offered by wires to the action of the atmosphere. It has been proposed that each wire should be passed through a vessel of varnish immediately after the process of drawing, and that, after forming the wires into bundles of fifty or sixty each, they should be passed through a concave vessel of oleaginous matter at a high temperature. By this process it is supposed every particle of moisture would be driven of in vapour, and its place occupied by the oleaginous substance in the interior of the cable, where it would be retained by its adhesive property, while it would harden over the exterior, and prevent oxidation, by removing the possibility of moisture coming into contact with the wire.—The Builder.  The annual general meeting of proprietors of the London Institution was held on Thursday, at the theatre of the institution, in Finsbury-circus, Sir Thomas Baring, Bart., president, in the chair. The report of the 3a u,2dsiot s 7 s .announcedannounce., ht lat lea nce receipts the treasurer's the handsyea r as f of. 4141. 4s. 7d., the invested property of the institution being 16,2801. in the Three per Cents. Reduced, and 21,3501. in the Consolidated Annuities. During the past year very considerable additions had been made to the library, which was now in a very complete state. Sir Thomas Baring, Bart., was re-elected president, and Sir William Curtis, treasurer, and Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Hunter was chosen a manager in the room of Wm. Cotton, Esq. SUICIDE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF DEnnx —By private letters received in town, we learn that Dr. Anoughlin, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Derry, died on Sunday from the effect of a wound which he inflicted on his throat with a razor on the previous Wednesday. The distressing fact was kept quite secret in Derry for two or three days by his relatives, who were led to think by the medical man in attendance upon him that the wound would not prove mortal. It was said Dr. rti•Loughlin was in a low state of mind for some time ; but his friends never apprehended that he would resort to violence upon himself.
The Sun. — 1845-08-19 (London, England)

SEDUCTION AND SUICIDE.  Yesterday a long inquiry took place before Mr. Bedford, the coroner, at the White Horse, Rupert- street, Haymarket, relative to the death of Emma V‘ hale, aged twenty-five, of No. 5, Upper Rupert-street, who poisoned her-elf with oxalic acid.  Martin Whaie, the husband, stated that he came away from IVinehester on the 28th of May last, in search of employment as a bootmaker, and having obtained work he wrote to his wife, whom he had left in the country, to come to him. A few days after her arrival he had certain suspicions, end asked her whether she had been true to him during his absence. After questioning her repeatedly, she told him that the wife of a sergeant in whose house he bad left her, had asked her, shortly after he went away, to accompany her to Portsmouth, saying that she was going to receive some money from her brother there, and that she would pay the expenses of both of them. Deceased, without the least suspicion, went with her, and upon arriving at Portsmouth she was taken to a puhlichouse to have tea. After that, and while they were drinking wine, his wife asked the sergeant's wife when she was going to her brother's ? The woman only laughed, and his wife then saw that she bad been deceived. A man known to the sergeant's wife, and described as a half-pay officer, then came in, and they all drank wine together. Mrs. Lynch then told them to go up stairs, and they did so along with her, but immediately they entered the room the sergeant's wife ran out, and the man locked the door. She (deceased) then felt a kind of stupor, and in the morning recovered, and found herself in bed, lying by the side of the man, who was asleep. She cried very bitterly, until he awoke, and told her that he " was used to woman's tears," and that " Portsmouth women were not like Winchester ones." He offered her a sovereign and a gold chain, but she refused them both, and went down crying to the landlady, and asked her why she allowed such goings on in her house. The landlady said that was nothing to Portsmouth, and that if she (deceased) liked she might stay with her, and she would earn 61. or 71. a week. Deceased refused to stay another minute, and went back immediately to Winchester. The man had written to her several times, signing himself Charles Edward Stewart, and endeavouring to persuade her to leave her husband and go with him to India. He told her to write to him, addressing to Miss Louisa Edwards, Post-office, Hull. Deceased described him as a dark, tall, and stout man, but the husband had since been enable to find him. The husband continued tiiiTate that he promised to forgive his wife if he could, but the circumstance was always preying upon his mind, and he resolved to send her back to Winchester, hoping' that in a short time he would be able to receive her back.. She was to have gone yesterday (Monday), but on the previous day she purchased and swallowed three pennyworth of oxalic acid. Verdict—Temporary Insanity.