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The Sun. — 1845-01-03 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF A NATIVE PRINCE. (From the Bengal Hurkaru, Nov. 2.) Raja Kishennath Roy, of Berhampore, shot himself on last Thursday. The man whom -he was accused of having caused to be cruelly tortured has died from the injury he had received, and the young Raja, under apprehension of the consequences to himself, was driven to the dreadful act of self-murder. He was living at his mother's house in Chitpore-road, where, on the day in question, he invited Mr. Strettell and Mr. Herklots, and asked them to witness the execution of a folded document, which he himself signed, and told them it was his last will and testament. Very shortly after these gentlemen had left him he locked himself within a room, and, loading one barrel of a double-barrelled percussion gun, bent his head over the muzzle and drew the lock with his foot. Instantly he fell dead to the ground. The discovery of the fact was made by the report attracting some of the inmates of the house to the room. Not long after the occurrence, the deputy superintendent of police proceeded to the house, and found the body of the unfortunate young man on the floor in a sitting posture, with the back le3niug against the wall, and the fatal gun resting over one shoulder. The osfrontis was completely blown away, and fragments of the brain were observed on different parts of the wall and ceiling, and a flattened ball lay near the foot of the corpse. 'i he features were not much distorted, beyond the nose, which appeared much distended. The will left behind is said to be a very lengthy one, but regularly drawn up. In it several handsome legacies are mentioned, while a very munificent portion of the estate bas been willed away tewards the beneficent object of founding a college, or, as the will expresses it, a " university," at Berhampore, with an hospital attached. The young Raja has, likewise, bequeathed a handsome legacy to one of his favourite domestic servants ; and likewise the interest of a sufficient sum to be given for the sub
The Sun. — 1845-09-03 (London, England)

ESPER AT SUICIDE.—On Mon,l;:v morning, between twelve and one o'clock, a middle-ages man, named Fletcher, residing in John-street, Tottenham court-road, destroyed himself by cutting his throat in his lied-room With a razor, which was foua lying by his side on the floor. 'lns; (;11.1,..5T rt,., tillecers W.? 0E64.. paled for the • Great Britain ‘Xlivn reporting her departure Mt her maiden ocean voyage has beet fully realised. She left the Mersey, as our readers will remember, on the afternoon of the 26th of July ; and we learn by recent atki,tes from New York that she arrived off that city at noon on the lOtii ultimo, after a run of somewhat less than fifteen days, during which she had to contend with contrari winds, ere,s seas, and dens., fogs, and set but little canvass. We congratulate the projectors of the Great Britain upon the triumphant manner in which she has vindicated ti,e sagacity which led them to adopt the then novel mode of construction and I,ropul•ion which she embodies; and while, on the one hand, we think the Government and the town of Liverpool should support the men who have thus a sc cond time led the way to an important advance in steam communication with foreign countries, we cannot refrain from again repeating the hope we formerly expressed, that Captain Ilosken, the pioneer of the screw, will receive on his return to Liverpool some testimonial to his ine;•its.—Lieeeptscd Albion. SIMPLE MODE OF PURIFYING IV/amt.—lt is not so generally known as it ought to be, that pounded alum vows-. ses the property of purifying water. A table-spooiful of pulverised alum sprinkled into a hogshead of water (the water stirred at the time) will, after the lapse of a few hours, by rceipilr.ting to the bottom the impure particles, so purify at that it will be fund to possess nearly all the freshness and clear. ness of the finest spring water. A padfull, containing four gallons, may be purified by a single teaspocnful:
The Sun. — 1845-01-15 (London, England)

SUICIDE AT WATERLOO-BRlDGE.—Monday%v teri W. Carter resumed, at the Hero of Waterloo, tali of r NW, the adjourned inquiry respecting the d e'ese,inta.! Meyers, alias Emily Ashburnham, aged 21 4 - Pr the testimony of numerous witnesses it hjeared that the deceased, who was in great distress, in 18idedr for two or three days at a house of ill-fame,. it ottekls-buildin Lambeth. On the morning of es. oed ay ;;...... last a companion of hers, named Page, left hera 0 :gear-street, Leicester-square, in the company. lots dieelleg,rean, named Parker, and several females ?t loose Wee icLer• About eight o'clock the same morning s, tole feria' lying upon the sands at the bottom of NN a 4°abridge. Although she was dead her body was velirne• There was a large wound on the right side, %we" kr. Layers, a surgeon, who had opened the body, forvi„/%18 caused by some bones being fractured, and hatlied7g themselves through the muscles and skin, no ha t the result of deceased falling a great height. The cause of death was fractured ribs, which had seti.ol4'ed the right lung, thereby creating a. large extravadiet tlinf blood into the right cavity of the chest. Verdri,,ll ' TeMporary insanity, the result of ex essive , .41 and poverty." „ oub-e, •rn..- "'•"t AT THE RESIDENCE of SIR HENRY -e-clt4 Thu 4104—0 n Monday, an inquest, adjourned from T. ipohy last, was resume d, aid c‘ included, before Ntr. ben Iggs, on the body of Benjamin Payne, aged 40, late t 4 wiil to Sir Henry Pottinger, some particulars relative l'ettibeh_ aPPeared in this journal on Friday. Sir Henry ley stg.er deposed—The deceased has not been long in stepeir! ee, but I have noticed him to be peculiarly A 'h I" t rnihdi-tr ordrn, anti a very absent man. ins 0„ . re mimeo ettemson, had tiequeittl. cp,iien Lu dp::::1:11his :tbsence of .mt-in'cl, which he thought arose from hit, w before I left London, a short time since, I gave that cat:fling, telling him that he did not suit tee. From end fre'e he had been constantly shut up in his room, the raZ,cluently complaieed of a violent head uclee On hPreeiourPing he committed the act, only ten minutes amo, 81, he came into my study, and see' he wished d C:" an apology. His eyes were then red, as if he euit rile, en drinking largely. I told him that he did not 1,,,,,,, but that I should pay him his wages and board t4-117:,3 UP to the 6th of next milith. He asked me fur brie, e`'°' get up his plate, which I granted. On the mornia, ',!_e cot:omitted the act, he told me he had been drink.isi. TY wine and brandy, but he would make it good 04:2°114 helpt sudden discharge caused him to commit Co 2°ll I khe drank to great excess. Lieutenantet,i!aet Malcolm said he had frequent opportunities of rie, ug the deceased, and he appeared to he a man COMeelelY out of his senses through drink. Verdict— MEDICAL Insanity. kb,.
The Sun. — 1845-01-02 (London, England)

THE MURDER AND SUICIDE AT ASHFORD.  Immediately after the verdict of felo de se was re' turned by the jury, Mr. Wakley handed to the constable his warrant for the interment of the deceased, that referring to the man specifying that he should be buried between the hours of nine and twelve o'clock at night, and without any funeral, ceremony The unhappy woman was buried on Sunday after noon, and her remains were followed.to the grave by a vast concourse of persons, who appeared to take 0 deep interest in the melancholy affair. The rnur' darer was not buried until Monday night, about ten o'clock, in the presence of Messrs. Hignet and Mel' rick, the churchwardens of Ashford, the constable, and a few other persons, the only relative of the de' ceased that was present being his mother. The place( that was selected for the grave was a corner 0' the churchyard which has before been the recep' tacle of the remains of two persons who some thirty years since destroyed themselves, and against whom verdicts offelo de se were returned, and dur ing the whole period that has since elapsed there has not been a single suicide in the parish. One of the men referred to was a master butcher, named Lewis, who carried on a respectable business at Ashford, but was suspected of sheep-stealing, and was taken into custody on the charge, but while at the public-house awaiting the time to be examined before a magistrate, he asked permission to leave the room for a short time, and the moment he got into the passage he drew a knife from his pocket and cut his throat in such a dreadful manner that he died almost immediatelY. The other case was that of an exciseman in Wales, named Davis, who had been ordered up to London by the Commissioners to be reprimanded for somemis; conduct. It appeared that the circumstance prayo upon his mind, and he destroyed himself in a corn field at Ashford by opening veins in different parts of his body, and then cutting his throat.• The remains of the miserable murderer and suicide were laid by the side, of these companions in crime. When the coffin in!, been lowered into the grave, the mother looked on 1" for the last time, and exclaimed, "Ah, my boy, thel, have buried you like a dog; but, never mind, Go will forgive you, and take you to heaven !" Slob then walked away, apparently very little concerned 11 what had taken place, or the awful ceremony she bed just witnessed. Since the inquest every inquiry 146 been made to endeavour to ascertain where the de' ceased man had obtained the poison, which was the cause of his death, but hitherto without success. The little boy and girl are perfectly recovered, and they have since been removed to the Brentford Union, to which they belong.
The Sun. — 1845-01-02 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF A NATIVE PRINCE. (From the Bengal Hurkarn, Nov. 2.) Raja Kishennath Roy, of Berhampore, shot himself on last Thursday. The man whom he was accused of having caused to be cruelly tortured has died from the injury he had received, and the young Raja, under apprehension of the consequences to himself, was driven to the dreadful act of self-murder. He was living at his mother's house in Chitpore.road, where, on the day in question, he invited Mr. Strettell and Mr. Herklots, and asked them to witness the execution of a folded document, which he himself signed, and told them it was his last will and testament. Very shortly after these gentleman had left him he locked himself within a room, and, loading one barrel of a double-barrelled percussion gun, bent his head over the muzzle and drew the lock with his foot. Instantly he fell dead to the ground. The discovery of the i fact was made by the report attracting some of the inmates of the house to the room. Not long after the occurrence, the deputy superintendent of police proceeded to the house, and found the body of the unfortunate young man on the floor in a sitting posture, with the back leaning against the wall, and the fatal gun resting over one shoulder. The osfronts was completely blown away, and fragments of the brain were observed on different parts of the wall and ceiling, and a flattened ball lay near the foot of the corpse. 'the features were not much distorted, beyond the nose, which appeared much distended. The will left behind is said to be a very lengthy one, but regularly drawn up. In it several handsome legacies are mentoned, while a very munificent portion of the estate has .been willed away towards the beneficent object of founding a college, or, as the will expresses it, a " university," at Berhampore, with an hospital attached. The young Raja has, likewise, bequeathed a handsome legacy to one of his favourite domestic servants ; and likewise the interest of a sufficient sum to be given for the sub 7 --/,' ‘,/ X, ,- - , . , ~ - -70 ;--,..........„:,. „,// ,fl e(z.z__zz„ /---a;----/,--- 7„,_,K_ ~.. • .. . ..,. ,:.4., ,41, .... i 4 ,•, ~,.: --,4 Illhilk - I sistenee of the widow and orphans of the man who wss 1 - ___ c. ,ni • ,;::Ag. 4 441' e -,1 ,:71V A k ''liill• __ _ , -IR i I. t) i' , ( tA , 4/ .-' Z.Z ; 41 t 1 /* ' • ."'" , i ill b • , \t---, :4. 1 i i tortured. The suicide having taken place in Calcutta, 1 1 the coroner issued summonses yesterday to held an in-1 quest on the body. - ' AeiSt‘'' n ' ..:. '' .'.v!'. ' 1 -, ----- , /A, - - ' 4 .7I- *ON m,„le,, • • ....t• 05';;; -.,., , ---..----..„._ ~•-• I.r 1 ' -!"P"'.e.."-e. . '
The Sun. — 1845-04-02 (London, England)

LOSS OF THE THOMAS LOWRY-SUICIDE OF  - PILOT. The ship Thomas Lowry, from Sydney to London, arrived off Dartmouth on the 27th ult., and landed her letters and received a supply of provisions, and shipped at the same time one of the *most experienced pilots out of that port. By some unforeseen circumstances the ship struck on some sunken rocks, became water-logked, and was run ashore near the berbollr, Where she filled. The pilot the day after put an end to his existence by hanging himself in his own hottO?  LIST OT SCOTTI 33 CO IVIPAIVILS' PILICIIS Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. 4 a. d. 4 a. 0. Bank of Scotland Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. 100 0 0 16834 nßtmkp.a.n.y. 6811: perp c r cent.ce n t . ___- 110000 00 e 0 216276 x,% 10 0 0 15% NationalßritishCommercialLi Union Bank of Scotland . 7%1. pr cent. 50 0 0 95 Bank 6l. per cent. Western Bank 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 76% North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. 5' 0 0 7 Clydesdale Bank . • • • • • 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 14% Eastern Bank • • • • • • • • 31. per cent. 15 0 0 11% Caledonian Bank Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 51. per cent. 5 0 0 7 % City of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. 8 15 0 13% Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1% Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1414 Insur. Co. of Scotlnd • • 51. per cent, 10 0 0 All paid. 10 North British Insur 9/. per cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 27 Caledonian Fire Instir. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24 Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 18% Edin. & Glasg. Railway 4% /. per cent. SO 0 0 50 0 0 65 % Ditto, % Shares .. . • 4%1. per cent. 12 10 0 All paid. 16% Edin., Leith, & Grantu 20 0 0 20 0 0 15 Giasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 4341. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 65% Waspy & Green& Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 .All paid. 15 Glsgw &Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 03 0 All paid. 28 DuruleeSc.krbroth Hall. 5/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 32%  The Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Company have agreed to give fifty guineas towards the expenses of the Royal English Agricultural Society, should their meeting for 1846 be held in this towns—Newcastle Journal.
The Sun. — 1837-08-31 (London, England)

VESSOL.S SPOKEN WITH. The Henrietta, from Liverpool to Valparaiso (out 15 days; Mary. from Bordeaux, both near the Cape de Verds, by the Earl Grey, Arrived at Cork.  On the 3d inst., during the night, while her Majesty's ship Rodney was cruizing off Barcelona, during a gale of wind, and when in the act of taking in the second reef of the topsails, the captain of the maintop fell frlin the lee yardarm into the sea. On the cry being raised of " a man overboard !" the mate of the deck, Mr. Hildebrand Stevens, ran to the gun-room port for the purpose of throwing out some article to enabl3 the man to sustain himself till a boat could be lowered ; but seeing the man at the moment floating past the port, and no one near to assist him, he, without hesitation, jumped into the sea at the imminent peril of his life (being encumbered with his heavy pea-jacket and other articles of clothing, it being bad weather at the time), and happily succeeded in rescuing the seaman. The Captain complimented Mr. Stevens very highly on his humanity and intrepidity. Such conduct should not be overlooked by those who have the power of rewarding it, mt.s.re especially as this officer has been fifteen years in the service, and for seven years past has served in most arduous situaZions.-Naval and Military Gazette. On Saturday afternoon an Inquest was held at the City of London, City-road, on the body of Mr. Thomas Phillips, aged 41, a respectable tradesman, who committed suicide by cutting his throat, under circumstances of very afflicting nature. Caroline Phillips, a genteel-looking young girl, about 14 years of age, daughter of the deceased, deposed that her lamented father 'tarried on the business of a brassfounder, at No. 19, City-gardens, City road. He had been in a low depressed state of mind for some time, and his bodily health had been so seriously affected as to prevent his leaving his bed-chamber for thee' weeks before his melancholy death. On Wednesday morning last her poor father was much worse and kept his bed. About ten o'clock in the day witness went into deceased's bed-room. On entering, she was horror-struck at discovering her unfortunate father out of bed, standing near the dressing-table, in the act of cutting his throat with a razor. (The witness here wept bitterly, and was unable for soma minutes to proceed in her deposition.) Mr. Sleatb, a lodger in the house, went for a surgeon, who promptly arrived, and attended to her father ; but he died about half an hour after he committed the rash act. Mrs. Ann Phillips, the widow of the deceased, a respectable-looking female, who was in a state of deep affliction, spoke of her, unfortunate husband having been in a dejected state of mind for some months, chiefly arising from constitutional ailments. He had latterly laboured under a great delusion of mind, being of opinion that his life was intended toe be destroyed. The surgeon stated that the deceased had a his throat from ear to ear, the whole of the principal yes; eels being divided. Verdict—" Tempi: wary Derangement"
The Sun. — 1837-03-13 (London, England)

LIGENCE.  Oat*.  d. to s. J. 0 10 0 —0 8 6 —0 8 6 —0 8 6 —0 7 6 —0 0 0 70 8 0 —0 9 6  fens. Cwt. era .9,417 21 0 192 0 (  iverage Standard. 111/. 17s. Od.  The hand-loom weavers of Anderston .have first entered the field as petitioners against the crying iniquity of the Corn Laws, and we hope that their example will be followed in other parts of. Scotland. •  An unfortunate circumstance occurred at Nottingham on Tuesday last, in the suicide of a solicitor of the name of Gull, of the firm of Leeson and Gell, one of the most respectable in the county, and who had been appointed UnderSheriff. The unfortunate gentleman had been unwell, and kept his bed the whole of Tuesday, on which day, about five o'clock in the afternoon, he desired the servant in attendance to band him a glass of soda water, which, having done, she proceeded to his dressing-table, when he rather sharply desired her to quit that part of the room. Upon turning round to look at her master, on account of the manner in *Well he spoke to her, she saw him quickly raise two pistols (one in either hand, and which he had concealed.under the bed-clothes) to his head, and instantly discharged them, one taking fatal effect. A Coroner's inquest has since sat ou the body, and the Jury found a verdict of " Temporary Insanity." A dreadful murder was committed in Limerick on Monday last on the person of an old lady, named Anderson, the widow of Captain Anderson of the 4th garrison battalion. Iler servant states that on that evening she was sent out by her mistress for some cakes. She observed a girl sitting at the door, who followed her a part of the way up the street. Upon returning she saw her again seated at the door. She then again left the house for the chapel, and on her return in about ass hour was unable to obtain admission. Procuring assistance, entrance was effected, and the unfortunate old lady was found in a closet with her throat cut from car to ear. A knife, covered with blood, was found on a shelf. One of the hands of the deceased was greatly lacerated, and the other was clenched upon a large quantity of hair, evidently dragged from, the head of a female. A woman, named Mary Cooney. who formerly lived with Mrs. Anderson as servant, was taken into custody under suspicious circumstances, and a verdict of wilful murder was returned against her. Rubbery appears to have been her object. •
The Sun. — 1837-05-16 (London, England)

CORONERS' INQUESTS.  Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the William the Fourth Tavern, Hammersmith, on Mr. Isaac Smitherman, aged 57, who destroyed himself by blowin-g out his brains with a horse-pistol. It appeared the deceased hint been a tanner, and had retired from business w7,th an ample independence. No cause could be assigned for the act but derangement, and the Jury found a verdict to that ecct. Yesterday an inquest was held at the Elephant and Castle, Pancras-road, on a male infant child in an advanced state of decomposition, which had been discovered. in a ditch near the Hampstead-road-bridge. The .111,y gave their verdict—" That the infant had been found inudeeently exposed, but whether born alive and destroyed, or died from natural causes, they were unable to ascertain." Yesterday an inquest was held at St. Bartha:mnew's -Hospital on the body of John Ward, aged 80, wl o mitted suicide by severing his throat with a razor. James Brake, No. 4, Berkeley-street, Clerkenwell, deposed -that the deceased lived at No. 15, Frazine,s-eivtart, Bakeley-street. He was a waiter. Last Friday te.ght witness heard an alarm that the deceased had cut his tb root in his room. Witness went there, and found him si Lting on the side of the bed, the deceased's and witness's wives being with him. 'A. doctor arrived, who bandagea 'up the wound, and advised that he should be brought to f! hospital. A few days ago%he observed to witness .trilat ha was in a consumption, that be had been to seven A hosi itals, and could not be cured, and that he hoped 1 sa shon!d not live  Jane Brake, wife of the last witness, said that; the deceased's wife was her sister. The deceased wLt not in want, but he was out of work, which preyed cc-, his mind. - The deceased has been in a desponding n wf. He and his with lived together affectionately. Vcrnict---" Temporary insanity."