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The Sun. — 1846-11-05 (London, England)

BASINGSTOKE CANAL NAVIGATION.—The halfyearly general meeting of the proprietors in this company was held yesterday, at the Gray's Inn Coffeehouse, Holborn. The chair was occupied by P. Davey, Esq., jun. The accounts showed a gross receipt, from the Ist of April to the 30th of September last, of 1,0471, 4s. 9d., of which 9461. was derived from tolls. The expenditure for the same period amounted to nearly the same sum, leaving only a balance in hand of IL 4s. 9d. The accounts were unanimously passed. The general report of the committee of management showed a decrease in the traffic of the last half-year of 751 tons, or 681. 7s. 4d. in tolls. With a view to improve the traffic, the toll on coals had been reduced from 2s. 6d. to 2s. The state of the company's affairs at the end of September last showed a balance in their fivour of 443 L, being 1341. 12s. 9d. less than it was at the same period of last year, owing to the expenditure of several sums in improving the works. The committee recommended the payment of 2 per cent, on the bonded debt in March next.—The chairman, in submitting the report, said that the canal was never in a better state than now as regarded the supply of water, and with a view to keep up a more regular supply, the committee now contemplated the sinking of a well at Basingstoke. He did not believe the concern would ever thrive as it had done a few years back, but he considered that it still had vitality in it.—The report was unanimously received and approved. SUICIDE INCREASEINDUCEDBYit OF at Mills, yesterday, held an inquest Workhouse, on the body of H. J. BattetrseAbemMaLrY ei,aTgr° eedbM4n6re, caapboporrosphroieetrnora,knear,moefd Cooper,'Wa'lm er -opfl aperein cLe Li-. oLv A s. s 0 n. grove, proved finding t e bod body wifeo Tsuaeisdd they h Tuesday eighint the Regent's Canal. Deceased's children, and that at her last confinement she gave birth to twins. This circumstance increased their difficulties and deceased's anxieties, who was an excellent husband and father. On Monday last he sold some goods of a lodger for rent due, without the assistance of a sworn broker, and the lodger threatening legal proceedings, deceased said on Monday night, " that what with one trouble and another, there was enough to drive a man to do that which he should be sorry for." The same night he produced several accounts due to him, and gave her instructions as to their recovery, and when she heard of some one having been found dead in the water, it struck her that it was her husband, and that he had destroyed himself. Verdict—" That deceased drowned himself, but in what state of mind there was no evidenmcetc; sh9Yr."  For Three Months—Maria Platt, Sarah Hicks, Elizabeth Sale, Ann Driscoll, J. Edwards, G. Fisher, J. Wilmot, J. Purnam, W. Payne, A. Evans, H. Potter, P. Curley, S. Laken, E. Cain, G. Green, W. Ward, E. Safe, T. Greenslade, R. Henderson, W. Pennell, S. Dellinger, George Barrington, G. Horsford, J. Spenser, H. Davis, R. Brady. ' For Two Months—J. T. Wanklin, G. Barrows, W. Cripps, Catherine Mahoney, Mary Campbell, Ann Berry.
The Sun. — 1846-06-29 (London, England)

HANDON. " King's Bench Prison, July 7." One hundred pounds in 23 years! and not a penny during the next 19! The utilitarians to whom we vote our hundreds of thousands of pounds, in reward for their having made their own fortunes by railroad schemes, will piously wonder .veer the suicide, whom 42 years of neglect have driven into bird desperate grave. Long before the date of his letter to the Herald, Haydou . .  had been liberated from gaol as an insolvent, under which process one of his finest pictures (a debt contracted for its gilt frame being, I believe, in his schedule; and another, probably, for its canvas and colours), was sold to a tradesman for less than the cost price of its materials I  4ITAA '4-',.  June 25, 1846.  evidence the necessity for some sweeping reformation in the [Surely these facts only tend the more conspicuously to treatment which so many of our countrymen have received, and are receiving, from the Legislature ! Delicacy alone prevents us from mentioning individuals now living who, have acquired for themselves a claim upon the gratitude of their country, but who are at this moment pining silently and secretly, as poor Haydon pined during two-and-fortyweary years of disappointment and penury, their great claim unrecognised, their sufferings unappeased by the balm of sympathy 1 Delicacy, we say, though we acknowledge it to be but a presumptive and hypothetical delicacy, after all. For it arises from that morbid sensi., tiveness, which is the usual accompaniment of genius. We have already adduced the contumely awarded to Chatterton, the starvation of Otway, and the deathful labours of Hood ; we might, unhappily, extend the catalogue of intellectual agony threefold, but that what we have already observed is of itself more than sufficient. When we find an old man like Haydon, who has adorned his country with such noble works, driven to death by career of misery, is there not a proof that some radical change is requisite ? When we find less than ten thousand pounds annually appropriated sufferers, shall we say that to the solace of our illustrious cn a protracted us v Govolienwte Illy LI fairly, generously, nowt, ;ja tilifjrmation in this item there is no cause for__ we Of public expenditure? .If beckon to barrassments I in . vain be incited to a suicidal . A other Goldsmith do another Burns may. neglected death couch ! Ana 'n I Another Laman Blanchard may plhesisd to us for a release from his em. insanity, another Haydon destroy his unfinished creations—the victhiimmsseof our shameful and deplorable parsimony l The shades of these unfortunate and gifted men rebuke us for our indifference, they call in their solemn ilndstmheusithmmfridosYint of memories for a reformation of this national grievance I—En. Sun.]
The Sun. — 1846-06-29 (London, England)

THE CONSERVANCY OF THE THAMES. Alderman WILSON addressed the Court upon the subject of the necessity of taking a view of the upper district of the Thames, and argued that at so peculiar a time, when there seemed to be the strongest disposition to interfere with the privileges of the City, it was imperative upon the Chief Magistrate to do all in his power, by observing the ancient forms of the Mayoralty, in asserting his jurisdiction to protect those privileges. He moved that the Lord Mayor be requested to make the view aecordingly. Sir PETER LAURIE opposed a motion of so extensive a nature, and submitted an amendment, to the effect that the view should be limited to Staines. After considerable discussion, the amendment was negatived, and Alderman Wilson's motion was agreed to. The view will, it is believed, be taken, with all the necessary forms and the usual splendour, in the course of the ensuing month.  Friday evening, Mr. G. J. Mills, the Deputy Coroner for the Western Division of Middlesex, and a jury consisting of fifteen of the most respectable housekeepers in the vicinAla assembled in the drawing-room of the house, No 3, FM Lion-square, for the purpose of conducting an inquiry int( the melancholy circumstances attending the death of Mr. P. Davis, aged fifty-nine years, who committed suicide yes terday morning, at the above establishment, of which he was resident. Mies Mary Davis, daughter of deceased, said that her father had always been a man of very cheerful spirits, and had certainly never given vent to any expression that might lead to a conjecture that he contemplated self-destruction. Latterly, however, he had been exceedingly desponding:, whi.ll she (witness) attributed to his misfortunes in busiuagess,ravtzti;ha, ahe regretted to say, had been considerably coio,sitcircumstance. that occurred recently. Witness—Sir, 41wyou tell us what that was ? ,_y7eeks.ago he was robbed of a large the eum aoirfaimro,nlykbnmovr:ewtegihs:ihuie..f..cl,e,rks, who absconded, ant Y on his mind, as he frequently spoko about it. 011 'O7 usually each, retired to evening he seemelt much depressed, and to rest at an un hour, and on being called about halt ,a (Friday) morning, the lamentable event lgis4etovtelit:d.neit This
The Sun. — 1846-05-25 (London, England)

TRAGICAL DEATH.  On Saturday evening an inquest was held at the Town of Ramsgate public-house, Wapping, before Mr. Baker on the body of a fine young woman, named Emmeline Fuililove, aged twenty years, who was found in the river Thames, having committed suicide on Sunday. It appeared that the unfortunate deceased had been married only three months to a man named Jonathan Fuililove, a compositor at the Queen's printing-office whohaa. treated her with great inhumanity. He had his clothes wife b r odu dg ehpt r ihvieTl a:nldhisarmooamrrfinalgl of e, her of the coopion necessaries of life: He had repeatedly beaten her in a most savage manner, and her face and eyes were often discoloured and swollen' from the effects of his brutality. Tho bonnet, cloak, and shawl of the deceased were found on London-bridge, together with s letter addressed to her mother, in which she used these expressions : "My dear Mother,—lt is with sorrow I write to you in this strain, but my troubles are greater than I can bear. My heart is broken ; I cannot survive it. I would have borne with poverty, where it misfortune that caused it ; but to know that my hard earnings are torn from me to keep a prostitute, is more than I can bear ; but let him know that my last dying curse was rot and die a despised wretch as he is, and that he may his jade a and has succeeded in their • —sbe that persuades, _ . vile i tim. The schemes, and made me theteir victim. They be n ymay now o barrier betweenrevel in their unholiness, an will some day overtake them. them. Judgment andschemed to cards we11, They have played their_ rid of me successfully." The jury expressed the greatest horror and disgust at . he was a. • the conduct of the husband, Fullilote, and said perfect monster. They regretted that they could not send him to prison, and were most anxious to return s his severe verdict, expressive of their strong opinion of _ conduct. After a long discussion, however, they agreed to a verdict suggested by the coroner " That Emmeline Fuililove WAS found dead, with a wound three inches in length on her right temple, which was caused after death; and that her death was apparently caused by drowning; but the jurors, however, cannot separate without expressidg their opinion and belief that the deceased has committed suicide from the brutal and inhuman conduct of her husband."  At the request of the jury, Futlilove received a long and severe lecture from the Coroner, who told him he ought to reflect, as long as he lived, on his base and heartless conduct to his late wife.  OItEGON
The Sun. — 1846-05-25 (London, England)

TRAGICAL DEATH.  On Saturday evening an inquest was held at the Town of Ramsgate public-house, Wapping, before Mr. Baker on the body of a fine young woman, named Emmeline Fullilove, aged twenty years, who was found in the river Thames, having committed suicide on Sunday. It appeared that the unfortunate deceased had been married only three months to a man named Jonathan Fullilove, a compositor at the Queen's printing-office, who bad treated her with great inhumanity. He had sold a room full of furniture which his wife brought him on his marriage, had pawned her clothes, and deprived her of the common necessaries of life. He had repeatedly beaten her in a most savage manner, and her face and eyes were often discoloured and swollen from the effects of his brutality. The bonnet, cloak, and shawl of the deceased were found on London-bridge, together with a letter addressed to her mother, in which she used these expressions : " My dear Mother,—lt is with sorrow I write to you in this strain, but my troubles are greater than I can bear. My heart is broken ; I cannot survive it. I would have borne with poverty, where it misfortune that caused it ; but to know that my hard earnings are torn from me to keep a prostitute, is more than I can bear ; but let him know that my last dying curse was, that he may rot and die a despised wretch as he is, and his jade —she that persuades, and has succeeded in their vile schemes, and made me their victim. They may now revel in their unholiness, and I shall be no barrier between them. Judgment will some day overtake them. They have played their cards well, and schemed to be rid of me successfully." The jury expressed the greatest horror and disgust at the conduct of the husband, Fullilove, and said he was a perfect monster. They regretted that they could not send him to prison, and were most anxious to return a severe verdict, expressive of their strong opinion of his conduct. After a long discussion, how(nvor, they agreed to a verdict suggested by the coroner " Toat Emmeline Fullilove was found dead, with a w,i rid three inches in length on her right temple, which wa, cans' d after death; and that her death was apparently caused by drowning; but the jurors, however, cannot separate without expressidg their opinion and b( lief that the deceased has committed suicide from the brutal and inhuman conduct of her husband."  At the request of the jury, Fullilove received a long and severe lecture from the Coroner, who told him he ought to reflect, as long as he lived, on his base and heartless conduct to his late wife.
The Sun. — 1846-10-12 (London, England)

SWISS GIANTESS. On Friday evening an inquest was held at the Red louse Tavern, Battersea, before Mr. Carter, one of the coroners of the county of Surrey, and a respectable jury, on view of the colossal remains of Eliza Laurence, alias Madame do Letzi, but who was better known as the Swiss Gitintess, which had been picked up in the Thames, near that place, on Wednesday morning. From the evidence adduced it appeared that on Wednesday morning, about eight o'clock, Rock, a waterman belonging to the Citizen Pier, near the Red House, while on the pier, observed the body of the deceased floating up the river with the tide, upon which he jumped into a boat and took it on shore. On searching her pockets a piece of paper was found, upon which 'was written, "No. 3, Shorter's-gardens, Seven Dials, knock twice and ask for Emma." Rock called at the address, and on knocking twice, as directed, was answered by Emma, a young and diminutive female, who had been ascertained to walk with the deceased in Regent-street and that neighbourhood, and on taking her to the Red House she at once identified her old companion, the Swiss Giantess. The last time the deceased was seen in the neighbourhood of her residence was Tuesday night, when she called at a public-house in Sherrard-street, Golden-square, when •she asked a female for a penny, saying she was in great distress, and had had nothing to eat for twenty-four hours, or very little from the Monday before. She also complained of the state of abject poverty to which she was reduced, being without a farthing, or a farthing's worth of property to raise money on, and said she was going over Waterloo-bridge, and that she had a great mind to stop there and make a hole in the water; but whether she had done so there or elsewhere there was no evidence to prove. She was, however, seen upon Waterloo-bridge at ten o'clock on the Tuesday night, which was the last time she was seen alive. She was 51 years of age, and had never been married, but had one child, a son, who did not live with her. The jury, after hearing evidence to the above effect, returned a verdict of " Suicide, while labouring under temporary insanity." This woman, who was well known to the pedestrians of London, not only from her extraordinary height, but also her proportionably bulky appearance, passed many years of her life in a caravan, and was conveyed from town to town and exhibited, under the title of Madame de Letzi, the Swiss Giantess. During this time she natu• rally acquired idle habits, and when she was turned out upon the world, in consequence of her want of continued attraction, the adopted the dissipated life which eventually led her to commit suicide, for she could not bear to be pointed at in the street as a woman without morality and character. She more than once went to Waterloobridge with the intention of destroying herself, and was persuaded by her companions, or those passing, from committing the crime. .
The Sun. — 1846-04-23 (London, England)

KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.—On Tuesday the theolo gical department of the College, established for the purpose of training young men as candidates for holy orders, was opened for the first time, the bishops having consented to receive the students who have passed the curriculum, without requiring them to graduate at Oxford or Cambridge. The course is to embrace divinity in all its branches ; and before a student can obtain the honorary certificate from the principal, necessary before he can present himself to the bishop, he will be required to go through six terms, extending over two years, at an expense of twelve guineas a term. The persons who will be admissible are graduates of Oxford, Cambridge, or Durham, associates of King's College, and all such persons who, having passed a satisfactory examination in classics by the principal, shall obtain the recommendation of a bishop. The following clergymen have been appointed the Professors of Divinity :—The Rev. Dr. IWCaul, rector of St. James's, Duke-place ; the Rev. F. D. Maurice, chaplain of Guy's Hospital; and the Rev. F. C. Trench, examining chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford. EXTRA',RDINARY SUICIDE BY A Boy.---On Tuesday Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Lord Nelson, Nicol's-row, Church street, Shoreditch, on the body of William Thomas Figesa, aged 11;110 years, who destroyed himself under the following circumstances:— The deceased resided with his' mother at No. 16, Vincent-street, in this neighbourhood; his father having absconded from Ida home about four years since, and no tidings of him had been since icarnot. The deceased was always considered a very mild-tempered child, and never exhibited any appearances of mental aberration. On last Sunday forenoon he asked his mother for a halfpenny to Purchase an India-rubber ball of one of his playmates. lle "`s r and after sitting awhile in a chair in a sulinitiesialeivieerr,nhaerdssuaddleiftitliv erbo:y and left the room. In less than five in f found him hanging by a rope which was passed round his neck and fastened to the bannister of the stairs leading ttom his mother's room. He was cut down Instantly, and Mr. Woolf, a surgeon, v as called in, who tried every means for upwards of two hours to restore life, but Ineffectually. Verdict, .‘ Temporary insanity." The Hon. Miss Willoughby, daughter of Lord and Lady Willoughby D'Eresby, continues in very delicate health. at Brighton, whore the family are remaining.
The Sun. — 1846-04-27 (London, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE BY A FEMALE.—On Thursday afternoon, Mr. Bedford held an inquest at the Brown Bear, Highrow, Knightsbridge, on the body of Matilda aiildon, aged twenty-six. The deceased was the wife • of a beotmaker in Grosvenor-market. For the last three weeks she had been very desponding, the cause of ogn the day previous, and said she man whom she knew, who had which she would not divulge. On Saturhay afternoon last she called oa an intimate friend, with her baby in her arms, and in the course of drowned thought it was a very good place to go and drown herself. About half-past three o'clock she asked her to take care of her baby whilst wveorosdatlon himselfshe taolltuhdeedsot to;nytionuen she took home some work. She left the house, and in about half an hour afterwards she was seen running across the Serpentine-bridge in Hyde Park, followed by a police-constable, who, from her manner, suspected she premedlt ited self-destruction, but before be could reach her she threw off her bonnet and shawl, ascended the parapet of the bridge, and flung herself into the water. An alarm was instantly given, and the boats of the Royal Humane Society were quickly on the spot, and the body was tamed le about four minutes, and conveyed to tits receiving-house, wnere every means were used to resuscitate her, but ineffectually. Verdict, "Temporary inanity."  rzuvrszurozera. Our market was fairly supplied with most articles, -which met I slow inquiry, at but little variation in prices. Z7ZIATGATE 11.1v-1; LaELEIDVNELEI.I,L. Prime Mutton and Lamb commanded a ready sale a.t full prices. Otherwise the demand was in a sluggish state. Beef, tom 2s 6d to 35 6d ; Matton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; Lamb, 5s 6d to 6s thi ; Veal, 45 4d to 5s ad ; and Pork, 3s 6el to 5s per albs. Full average supplies 0i , Poultry were on sale, general speaking the demand ruLid heavy, a". barely stationary prices. Turkeys, 4s to 8s 6d ; Geese, 48 to 6:1 Ducks, Is 6d to 2s 6d ; Tame Rabbits, Is 6d to is 8d , Wild ditto, " to 10d ; Pigeons, 6d to 10d ; Roasting Pigs, Cs to 8s ; and ,_ Fowls, 2s 6d to 3s 6d each; Fowls, 5$ to 8s ; and Chickens, 35 to 00 per couple.
The Sun. — 1846-09-21 (London, England)

DREADFUL SVICTDE. Oa Friday morning great excitement pt ,t M • London-road, Liverpool, and its neighbourhood, In eon. sequence of a baker named Chalton, carrying on a most extensive trade, having committed suicide. The deceased was a man of most intemperate habits, to which this fatal catastrophe may be solelya.t.tributed,',as.,44.9AS norltprieaf that ho was at all inxbit:erili s circumstances. or afflicted with any of those fitful fancies which are the frequent cause of mental aberration. An inquest was held before the borough coroner and a most respectable jury, yesterday forenoon, when the wife of the unhappy man gave the following evidence:— Elizabeth Chalton said the deceased was 55 years of age. About four o'clock yesterday afternoon he went up stairs to bed much intoxicated. Between ten and eleven o'clock I went up stairs to go to bed. lle was then .asleep, but _while I was undre,sing he awokeand wanted something to detr:k. I fetched" him half a glass oil brawly, wh!ch he drank, and I then g.t into bed. I soon tell asleep, and dici not awake until about five o'clock, vdnai I perceived The deceased iirleCl2". •ingAm the foot of the bed, with his arm around ha bed post. I I,:oked at him liar some time, but at length, not perceiving him stir, I arose, and then I found he was hanging by a handkerchief whc!l was fasten, d to the bed-post near the mattress. I gave an alarm, anti Edward Peers, a boy who sleeps in the house, called a man who was at work, who came and cut deceased down. Ile was quite dead. lie had been drinking very li'n for . • the last four months, and during that time had hardly ever been sober. Ido not know that he was at all embarrassed in his circumstances. Edward Peers, the nephew of the deceased, saw his uncle ah.ut an hour after he went to bed on the previous afternoon. lie then seemed very queer, and witness asked if he should fetch a doctor. The deceased replied in the negative, and ordered the lad to fetch him two shillings-worth of brandy, which he refused to do. • It appeared from the evidence of the man who cut the deceased down, that his death was effected in the most determined manner, by stralgulation; and not by hanging, as very little of the weight of the body rested -Upon tha neck.  The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity, caused by excessiv,_-!drinking."— Liverpoq Nail,  DEATH or