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The Sun. — 1842-01-03 (London, England)

HAILWAV SHARES. _ _ _  Versailles.L.l3..... .......... 212 50 ... 212 50 ... 207 50 ... 2 0 H. 1: 340 ... 340 ... 319 73 ... 310 Rouen ........ ...... 457 50 ... 457 50 ... 457 50 ... 457 50 Orleans . ... 512 50 ... 517 50 ... 512 50 ... 517 50 Strasburg to.l3ale. 232 50 ..235 ... 232 50 ... 233 75  HOMICIDE AND SUICIbE.—It is observed, in a  letter published in a Weekly Journal, that suicide and • homicide very often go together. The writer, a Mr. Sampson, quotes a considerable number of instances in which murder has been committed from a disregard of the murderer's own life, or an actual desire to get rid of it. Our Journal of Saturday evening recorded such a case at Mansfield, which will add to the number of the writer's illustrations. From the connection he notices, he draws a conclusion that capital punishments, by gratifying the desire of suicide, encourage and promote murder. If that be a just conclusion, what a commentary does it supply on the wisdom of our law-makers! There is undoubtedly some truth in the observation, and it makes apparent a most benefiCial change in the character of man. At present no inconsiderable number of murders arc committed from this morbid desire to get rid of the monomaniac's own existence, which will probably terminate when the law ceases to supply its gratification. But whatever may now be the case, undoubtedly in former times life was frequently taken from jealousy, from revenge, and from avarice, with a view to obtain worldly enjoyments by committing the crime. The remark of the author we have referred to shows that crimes of violence in modern times from such motives are much rarer than is generally supposed. That is the beneficial change in the ~character of man, which his remark makes obvious.
The Sun. — 1842-01-03 (London, England)

GEORGE H. PINCKARD, Secretary.  mediate, deferred, or Survivorship; the purchase of Contingent and Reversionary Property; the endowment of Widows and Children ; and the advancing of Money, on Annuity, Mort.; age. and other available Securities. ( • The annexed Rates of Premium are moderate as consistent with perfect security. They are strutted on the principlef of affording to the Assured the o ion of either securing a fixed Sum, or of having it increased b a participation in the Profits. Assurances may al.o be effected by is; single payment, by a payment fur a number of years certain.,i,or by any oilier mode as may meet the views of the Assure 4 : and the Premiums may be paid either yearly, half-yearly,i• or quarterly, at proportionate Rate.. Attendance W-11 be given daily at the Office, from Ten to Four o'CLek, where As,urances may be effected, and Lo-'n granted without delay. No Charge will be made on parties assuring, under the head of entrance-moms, admission• fee, or Otherwise, beyond the &amps for the Policy. As the most scrupulous care will be taken at the time of effecting the Assurance, in making all proper' inquiries, no Assurance, when once completed, will afterwards he questioned or disputed, except in cases of manifest fraud or misrepresentation. Policies assigned for bona fide considerations will not become void by death from suicide, duelling, or the hands of justice ; and in cases where Policies shall not have been so assigned, a discretionary power, founded upon the most liberal coniideration, is vested in the Directors to return to the Widow or Children of the assured the whole, or any part of the Premiums paid. All Claims on the Company in respect of Assurances will be paid within three calendar months after satisfactory proof of the death of the party, or immediately after such proof on the allowance of discount.  ADOLPHUS COURVOISIER, Secretary.
The Sun. — 1842-03-30 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—The Baltimore American of Saturday says—Mr. Thomas J. Flack, wholesale grocer and liquor merchant, was found in his warehouse in Argyle-alley, near South-street, this morning, with his throat cut and in a state of insensibility. Physicians were immediately called in, who dressed the wounds in his neck (being two giShes running into each other immediately under the chin), after .whichrhe was removed to his dwelling, apparently insensible, and unable to communicate any reasou for the rash act. Slight hopes, however, were entertained of his recovery. Mr. Flack, it is said, had between one and two thousand dollars about his person yesterday evening, which was not found on him this morning, though it may have been disposed of or left in some secret place at his house. The spickets of two large casks of liquor in the warehouse had been turned some time in the night, and the contents (amounting to several thousand gallons) run out.  MORE Mon Law.—The Batesville News, of the 10th ult., gives us an account of an outrageous mob in Van Buren county, Arkansas. The circumstances are as follows :—A short time since, at the County Court of Van Buren, a young man by the name of Kiser, was engaged in a fight with one of Samms, when Butram threw a rock and broke his skull. Butram was arrested and committed for trial, but subsequently made his escape. A mob, then, of some fifty persons gathered up and attempted to commit violence upon the father of the young man who was killed. The old man then with some friends, barricaded his, hoise, and the mob commenced firing into it, which they riddled considerably with their balls. A female child, daughter of Mr. Kiser, had her finger shot off. Mr. Kiser, by some means, got a messenger off for aid to a neighbouring county, to assist him in getting off with his family, but on their arrival, Mr. Kiser and five others of his friends, who were in the house with him, were missing. What has become of them no one knows. The mob, at the last account, were still in arms, and had stopped a number of persons passing through the county, and examined their persons and papers. The Neu s understands that a messenger had been dispatched with a petition to the Governor, to call out the militia of the adjoining counties to put down the mob.
The Sun. — 1842-09-05 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF A MAN AGED 92.—Yesterday, John Nicholson, who resided with his son and daughter-inlaw in Queen-street, Webber-street, Lambeth, destroyed himself under the following circumstances :—lt appeared that on the deceased not appearing at the breakfast table yesterday morning, the son went to his bed-room, when he discovered his aged parent weltering in blood, and his throat cut from ear to ear. In his right hand was the razor with which he committed the dreadful act. Mr. Adcock, a surgeon, of Short-street, New Cut, instantly attended the case, but the deceased had ceased to exist many hours before the discovery. It is stated that the deceased was in great dread of ultimately being obliged to apply to his parish in the country, which no doubt greatly affected his mind, and caused him to destroy himself.  An inquest was held lately before Mr. Chapman, the Borough Coroner of Manchester, on the body of a child under one year old, which had been entered by its parents in no less than six burial clubs, for which they would receive the sum of 34L 3s. Another child had died about twelve months ago, for which nearly a similar sum had been obtained from different burial clubs, and what rendered the matter more striking and suspicious, was the statement made at the inquest, that not less than seven children of the family had died . under the age of 18 months. The jury, after some deliberation, returned a verdict that the child died for the want of proper nourishment, but how death was caused they knew not. It seems to be understood that Mr. Phillips, UnderSecretary of State for the Home Department, is about to retire from his of and that his successor is to be Mr. Gregson. Mr. Gregson has long enjoyed the personal intimacy of Sir IL Peel, and is known to have been his principal agent in preparing his Bills for his Consolidation of the Criminal Laws when the Right Hon. Baronet presided over the Home Department.  ' p , Sl/4-11,4* 441#  published in the Semaphore of Marseilles, has the following intelligence : The Druses, whom Omer Pacha had secretly supplied with arms, in order to enable them again to attack the Christians, are ready to renew their recent cruelties : but we are happy to believe that the presence of the French men-of-war on the coast ofziyria will defeat all these fatal projects. " " Madrid journals of the 27th contain no political news ; but they inform us that the Eco del Commerdo, the oldest of the Madrid political journals, the most ardent advocate of the movement party, has changed its proprietors and editors. The editor communicates this unexpected change in its number of the 27th. The new proprietors and editors declare that they mean to defend general interests, not those of any body in the State, or any party or person in particular."-- Commerce.
The Sun. — 1842-03-11 (London, England)

CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held in the Vestry-room of the Church of St. Magnus, London-bridge, before William Payne, Esq., the City Coroner, on the body of Mary Ann Naylor, a remarkably fine grown young woman, aged 16 years, who had committed suicide The deceased, whose parents are in very respectable circumstances, had been for the last month in the service of Mr. Waldron, of Nelson-terrace, City-road, basket-rod merchant, but not being sufficiently strong to perform the duties of her situation, had received warning to leave ; however, not the slightest impropriety of conduct was attr.butable to her. On Alornlay night last, about eight o'clock, she went out on an errand, and, it appears, proceeded to the residence of her parents, No. 7 Queen-street, Soho-square, where she remained for a short time, and appeared to be in her nsnal state of good health, and remarkably cheerful. Her sister-in-law, to whom she was much attached, accompanied her as far as the Angel Inn at Islington, on her way home, and left her about eleven o'clock, after which time it does not appear that she was seen alive by any person who knew her. About half-past three o'clock on Tuesday morning a constable, No 590 of the city police discovered her lying on the causeway, about a yard from the steps of the upper landing place, on the City side of London-bridge, on her bee, with her head towards the opposite side of the river, and about a foot from the water. The tide was then running down. The body was quite cold and stiff, but she appeared to have been in the water but a very short time. It was afterwards removed to the receiving-house at the church. In the i pocket of the deceased was found a letter to her sister-in-law, who was on the eve of marriage ; it was couched in terms of the most fervent affection ; and in her box at her (Mr. Waldroa's) residence, was found another letter, addressed to her sister-in-law, stating her intention to destroy her life, as she was unhappy, but she did not state in which way, and intreatirag her relations not to sorrow for her. The Jury returned a a Verdict of " Temporary Mental Derangement."  " The prosecution against the Spanish clergy," observes the Presse, "is still continued. The metropolitan chapter of Lugo has been condemned to a month's imprisoment for denying, as anti-canonical, the authority of the diocesan governor named under the influence of tlse Regent. The public proiecutor called for sentence of death agair st two of the members of the chapter. Two canons of Toledo have been banished for eight years for the same offence."
The Sun. — 1823-04-10 (London, England)

AFFECTING CASE OP SUICIDE.--On Wednesday last, Harriet Gough, house-keeper to Mr. Roberts, of lieinerton, near Tewkesbury, put a period to her existence, during the absence from home of her master, by hanging herself to the bed-post with a shawl. An Inquest was held on the body on Friday, before JoirN COOKE Esq., one of our County. Coroners, and a verdict given of "'lnsanity." The.poor unfortunate girl was a native of Newport, Monmouthshire, and had lived as servant a great number of years in a family of the highest respectability in the neighbourhood where she committed this dreadful act. She had always conducted herself with the strictest propriety, until she became acquainted, during the last winter, with an Irishman, who had for a long period hawked linen around the country, and who, under a promise of marriage, induced her clandestinely to quit a coinfortable situation, in which she was much esteemed. This unsuspecting creature, it appears, confided in a villain, who, as soon as he could obtain from her all her money, and the best of her Clothes.; abandoned her, and left her destitute even of that good character which she had. justly possessed before she became acquainted with him. Her former conduct, however, was a sufficient recommendation to obtain for her the sftution she filled at the time of her death ; but her mind was not strong enough to enable her to contend with the bitter reflections caused by the error into which she had wickedly been enticed. --.,The conscience of her seducer, unfortunately, is the only punishment which awaits him in this world, though it is to be regretted that the weighty arm of the law cannot visit him with a punishment adequate to the enormity of his guilt.---(Gioceskr Journal.)  Last week in consequence of an alarm given, several of the,watchmen, with the Superintendant of Police, entered a house in Park-street, Aberdeen, where there was reason to apprehend there had been some disorder, and found the body of a widow woman, Margaret Strrtchan or Duncan, lying on the stair, with the neck dislocated and other marks of violence. Suspicion having attached to the son of the deceased, a pensioner, named Wm. Duncan, he, along with a man of the name of Keith, was after breaking into a bed-room adjoining where they had been sleeping together, .secured with some difficulty, and both conveyed, the former in irons, to the watch-house. The parties have since undergone different examinations.
The Sun. — 1823-11-15 (London, England)

SMYRNA, OCT. 5.--The last intelligence received frOm the Greek Isles, announces that the Ipsariots and the Hydriots, between whom differences had arisen, are reconciled. Forty,ships of war; fitted out by the islands of Spezzia, Hydra, and Ipsara, met in the latter port; they. set sail a feiv days afterwards. This squadron is accompanied by six tire-ships, conducted by Constantine Canari, celebrated .for ,the success of his enterprises against the two last Captain Paellas. Ten other ships of war are fitting out in these islands, and will immediately proceed to join the Greek squadron, and attack the grand Ottoman fleet wherever they may fall in with it. It is probable that they will soon encounter the Captain Pacha, especially if the report be true that the Turkish Admiral will not return this year to the port of Constantinople. It is confidently stated that he intends to pass the winter at sea with his fleet, chiefly at Mytilene and at Vouria.  We have received, by the Express from Paris this morning, a private letter from a Gentleman who has access to the best sources of information, and who says—" It is stated that all order will soon be issued by the French Government for the free purchase and sale of all description of Foreign Stocks, Bonds, &c. on the French Exchange, which hitherto has been prohibited."  Wmnson, Nov. 14.—This day being fine his MAJESTY took an airing on horseback in Windsor Great Park. The KING continues in the en. joyment of excellent health. The Earl of FIFE left the Castle this day for London. A Cabinet Council, it is said, will meet next Tuesday. It is nearly three months since one has been held. All the Ministers are expected to be in town by that day. Rossm arrived at Paris last Sunday. The admirers of this celebrated Composer, intend giving him a flte to-morrow. The celebrated composer SALTER', who had nearly completed his 80th year, has committed suicide.—( Vienna Paper, Oct. 22.) The Paris Papers say so much rain has fallen at Thoulouse and the neighbourhood since the Ist October, that prayers for fair weather have been put up in all the churches in that quarter. A recent letter from St. Petersburg!), says Count ltosToescnrst, ci-divant Military Governor of Moscow, had returned from this foreign travels, and taken up his former residence in that ancient metropolis.  The Royal Arms of England are now placed over the principal entrance of the British Ambassador's mansion at Paris. It is a composition of stucco, very elegant, and it is hoped will be doable. A party of gentlarmes are regularly stationed every Sunday, during Service, at the gate, in order to regulate the arrangement of the different carriages, and preserve order.  ,
The Sun. — 1823-02-21 (London, England)

INTERESTING TO COUNTRY GENTLEMEN.  r. Gentlemen of the utmost respectability are reduced in their country houses, to the dulness of a domestic circle, and thereby are frequently induced to attempt suicide in the fall of the year, or what is still more melancholy, driven to invite to their houses those ancient and well-known families, the Tags, the Rags, the Bob-tails, and the Bores; and having observed the facility with which the public is supplied with job-horses, and with books from circulating libraries, he has opened an office in London for the purpose of furnishing country houses with a regular succession,of company and guests, on the most reasonable terms. For an annual subscription of 30 guineas, a country Gentleman will be supplied with four guests a week, to be changed at the will of the subscriber. An annual subscribe; of 15 guineas will be supplied with two guests, to be changed once a fortnight. A non-subscriber within 25 miles of London, may be furnished with guests by the day or week, upon undertaking to be' answerable for breakage on ,the road. Mr. *****"'s catalogue contains an elegant assortment of 617 guests, amongst them may be found three Irish Peers, seven Scots Peers, 13 Baronets, six Yellow Admirals nineteen Major-Generals (who narrate the entire Spanish war) thirty:seven Dowagers, 314 Old Maids, on annuities; and several unbenficed Clergymen (who play the fiddle), Deaf and Dunib people. Sportsmen, and Gentlemen, who describe Paris and Fonthill, may be had at half-price. They can all play at cards, and generally with success,if partners, .and they will have no objection to play of a morning (during rain). The guest to be fed by the Country Gentleman, as in the case of job hones, and claret to be produced if Sots or Irish Peers are required. If any guest should be disapproved of, the Country Gentleman is desired by Mr. ***** • to write Bore against his name in the Catalogue, or to chalk it on liis back- when he leaves the honse, and his place shall be supplied by return of the stapx.coadt. Society (Vice.
The Sun. — 1823-03-21 (London, England)

ARCII 7.—On the morning of the 3d instant, the body of a poor wandering maniac, called Jean Ounion, belonging to this place, was found on the banks of the river Bludenocn, at the foot of a field belonging to 111 r. Barclay, of the Codand ; as the body was found above the sea-mark, it was thought she was not drowned, but had perished from cold. She had called at a house at the bridge the evening before, about ten o'clock, and was seen as far as the Gallowaill, on her way home, by the inmates, who gave her a stick, which was firmly clinched in her hand when she was found. It is supposed she had been attracted by the light in a sloop lying on the opposite shore which she had mistaken for a house, antthavAlg sat down when she found she could get no further, perished during the storm that succeeded. She had been a servant in most of the genteel families in this town, and was remarkable for steadiness and honesty, until within these three years, when old age, and the prospect of want,,turned her brain.—On the same day, John :11‘Williarn, jun. weaver,Wigton, attempted suicide, by cutting his throat with a razor, in a fit of mental derangement. As the large blood vessels were not injured, he is likely to recover. Be always sustained a t'air and honourable character, and was accounted very religious. We had a dreadful storm here on the night of the Ath inst., such as was hardly remembered by the oldest inhabitants. The gusts of wind were terrific, and I fear we shall hear bad news from the coast.—( Cumberland Packet.) A melancholy accident occurred in Binning. ham on Thursday last (13th instant) at the Methodist Chapel, in Cherry.street, which is undergoing extensive alterations. Several of the workmen employed were occupied in taking off the roof, when, from some cause not at pre. sent clearly ascertained, the principal (the largest piece of timber used in, the construction of roofs) suddenly gave way, and fell with a terrific crash, carrying with it the ceiling joists upon which a temporary platform had been placed, and precipitating to the ground a number of workmen who were at the moment upon it. We regret to add, that one of the poor fellows, a man named Green, was killed upon the spot. Three others were found to be much injured, and were immediately conveyed to the hospital ; one of them, of the :tame of Moore, whose skull was dreadfully fractured, died on the following morning ; the two others, as we are rejoiced to understand,' though seriously contused, are likely to do %veil. One :nun fell upon the gallery,and happily escaped unhurt ; another, who had been engaged in the removal of the coping stones, was left suspended by his arms from one of the walls, but was providentially relieved from his perilous -situation uninjured.----( Wolverhampton Chronicle.)
The Sun. — 1846-05-18 (London, England)

STREET COMPTER.--111 Sun. t eleven o'clock, a young woman apparently about day morning about age whose name and connexions are at present unknown, the above prison, appears thirty years of Oxide lay strangling herself in the cell or room known, committed 8 urILTSed SUICIDE which she had been con in the unfortunate deceased, who, from her appearance, had been that respectable condition of life, the appearance of her hands showiling she had not been subjected to herd work, was apprehended by one of the City police constables on Friday night for attempting to drown herself at London-bridge, and taken before the sitting magistrate, Sir James Duke, when she reit:sing either to give her name or any account of herself,directed she should be conveyed to the Compter to be taken care of with a view to further inquiries as to who she was ; she was placed in a ward with other prisoners, apparently tranquil. Yesterday morning, on the time approaching for the prisoners attending chapel, she complained of illness and re guested to be excused from going, which the matron consented toand left her alone, she then fastened one of the two cords that are used for the 'u, pose of opening and shutting the window, which is some height from the ground, to at4tlit both light and air, round a hook in the wall, and tightly pressing and fastening the other cord round her throat caused strangulation, her feet touching and resting on the ground. Some time after another prisoner entering the room gave the alarm and the matron and turnkeys arriving she was cut down. No medical men could be immediately found, but at length sir. Hutchinson, of Farringdon-street, came, and promptly opened a vein, but without any success. Vidouq. the celebrated French thief-taker, died lately near Brussels, in a state of poverty. Accounts from Nice represent that part of the country —iffering cruelly from drought.