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The Sun. — 1856-03-27 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF A S.4.LES.IIAN NFITVGATEMARKET.-EXTIMOUDLYAKY CASE.  Mr. Wakley, the Coroner for the western division of Middlesex, accompanied by Mr. Brent, the DeputyCoroner, held an inquest yesterday at the Victory Tavern, Lower Holloway, touching the death of Mr. Thos. Ward, aged 26, a meat salesman of Newgate-market, who committed suicide on Saturday evening last at his residence, No. 16, Barnsbury-place, Islington, under somewhat extraordinary circumstances. He had been greatly addicted to very intemperate habits for the last few years, having been treated for delirium tremens. He was a widower, having lost his wife about nine weeks ago, and since that period he has been in a state of constant inebriety, indulged in to assuage his feelings in consequence of her lose. Ann Park said that she was housekeeper to the deceased, and was present at his death on Saturday evening, a little after 7 o'clock, in the kitchen of the house. About 20 minutes past 6, he came home in a cab, along with two females (women of the town). He went into the kitchen, and thence passed to the scullery. Witness followed him, when one of the femaes said something to her, and she stopped him ft an instant. The young woman then told her about one of the bottles of poison which he shad taken frog him in the cab. At that moment he coughed ;n a strange manner, when witness went into bin, and found him near the window,holding on by the drerser. She asked him what he had done, and loosened his neckcloth, when be attempted to saysoniething, but was unahhand fell down on his hands. She then got him in a chsir, and sent one of the women for Mr. Huddlestone, the surgeon, and the other for some neighbours, seve-al of whom came in to her assistance. Mr. Huddles;one also arrived in a few minutes. The deceased never spoke. the stomach-pump wan used, but he died in a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes afterwards. She found two bottles on the dresser, one being a half-pint and the other a small phial. M.. Huddlestone here produced; the bottle alluded to, together with some others that had been found upon the person of the deceased. There were five small phials, all filled with essential oil of bitter almonds, and bearing the labels of several chemists in Islington, and upon the label was printed the words, "Twenty lour drops are sufficient for a pint of custard." They must have been easily obtained. The Coroner said that the practice of selling those things in that way wan abominable. The word " poison" was not even written upon one single phial, those Phials containing at the same time one of the strongest poisons existing. The jury returned a verdict that he had destroyed his life by poison whilst in a state of temporary insanity.
The Sun. — 1856-03-03 (London, England)

TIIE TIPPERARY JOINT-STOCK BANK.  Every day there are fresh indications of the ruin impending over the shareholders of the unfortunate Tipperary Bank. There is a wide-spread feeling of pity for the position of Mr. James Sadleir, the chief victim of his brother's frauds, and upon whose shoulders will fall the full weight of the suicide's transgressions. The member for Tipperary is, in fact, a ruined man, and it is said that he has already broken up his establishment, parted with servants, equipage, (t.c., and is prepared to meet with becoming fortitude the sad reverse which has cruelly crushed his wordly prospects. In a communication to his own journal Mr. J. F. Maguire, M.P., writes as follows :  "There is scarcely any topic now in the city save that of John Sadleir and his victims. The war itself is a subject of subordinate interest at this moment. Who is the new victim ? is now the question—one, toe, that fills many a breast with the most terrible apprehension ; for what are securities—what are deeds—what are mortgages—what are shares, if they be nothing better than counterfeits ? There is ne one who has bad dealings of this nature with him for a long time that has not reason for some doubt. In fact, no language can describe the consternation which the recent disclosures have caused, and which it will take a long time to dispel. The shareholders of the Tipperary Bank are to be pitied, but more especially those who Mime anything to lose ; for it is said that not a few of them are persons of no means. If so, those who have means must meet every deficiency. There is no more fearful screw in the whole legal armoury than the process now being set in operation. It was under the Joint-Stock Winding-up Act that the victims of the St. George Company got the coup de grace, In that blessed concern, not only was the original property, the fully paid up capital lost, but everything of the debts was squeezed out of those who were able to pay. You lost your 1001. share, or your 20 shares, as the case might be ; and you had to pay up an equal amount of liabilities. Nor does the list which you published the other day, as that of the shareholders of the bank, at all represent the whole of those liable; as, according to the law regulating banks, a shareholder who has retired six or 12 months before the smash is as liable as the man who had not transferred his shares up to the last mommt. I know that. there are some people in Ireland, of very prominent standing in the country, who are in this position, and who, though not in the present list, are still liable. I believe the liability continues for so long a period as three years after retirement. The liabilities of the bank are said to be immense, inasmuch as it had great influence, and its high rate of interest on deposits offered inducements which it required astonishing prudence to resist. It must have been the full view of the utter ruin which he had brought upon hundreds of families, then reposing in fancied security, that wrung from the wretched suicide those words which sound like groans, and look tears of blood."
The Sun. — 1856-11-15 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF THE CASHIER OF THE MIDLAND GREAT WESTERN RAILWA Y OF IRELAND.  DUBLIN, FRIDAY. Mr. Little, the cashier of the Midland Great Western Railway of Ireland, committed suicide to-day by cutting his throat.  The cause of this act is supposed to have been the discovery of extensive defalcations in his accounts, which were previously unsuspected.  An amalgamation of the City Gas Company with the Great Central Company is shortly to take place. The Belgian senate was closed on Friday last. Parliamentary notices have been given for the making of a park for Finsbury. A marriage is on the tapis between the Archduke Maximilian of Austria and Princess Charlotte of Belgium.  Incendiarism is on the increase in Nottingham : within a few days property to the amount of 12,000/. has been destroyed.  The only good portrait of the late celebrated painter Turner is in the possosion of Mr. Birch, a gentleman residing near Birmingham. Upwards of 4,0001. having been subscribed toward the Harrow-school chapel, the works have been recommenced and are proceeding rapidly towards completion. BERLIN, Friday.—The convocation of the Royal Diet will take place on the 29th. The King will, it is understood, open the Chambers in person. Subscriptions are in course of collection in Lincoln for the erection of a monument to the memory of Sir J. Franklin, the Arctic navigator. A passenger on board the James Baines, on her last voyage, states that the ship took upwards of 100 days to accomplish the homeward passage. French dramatic pieces, in which the demi smonde is represented, have been forbidden to be performed in Prussia.  Simon Hausen, the Norwegian sailor, stabbed during the fracas at Cardiff, on Friday last, expired last night. The two men charged with the offence are in custody. Yesterday afternoon an unusual flow of water tool( place in the Thames, causing a considerable amount of damage to property at the waterside. Mr. Elliott, of South Brent, deceased, has left property to the amount of 20,000/. to a little boy, the fifth chilli df his nephew, a rigger's labourer in Plymouth dockyard. The brig IriA, of Southampton, was fallen in with on the 10th of Oct., waterlogged in lat. 42 N., long. 50. The crew were taken off and have arrived in  Liverpool. A telegraph despatch has just been received, announc ing that Mr. W. H. Russell, the Times correspondent, lies dangerously ill of fever, at Simpheropol.
The Sun. — 1856-01-18 (London, England)

THE MURDER IN BEDFORD ROW.  LATEST PARTICULARS.  It was confidently expected that the proceedings at the coroner's inquest would at once throw light upon the circumstances which, in the light of day and in the open streets of London, have led to the perpetration of so horrid a tragedy. We gather that both the victim and his assassin are natives of Somersetshire ; that the father of the latter committed suicide some four years ago while in an unsound state of mind ; and that he left behind him some property, which was divided between the prisoner and his brother. Mr. Waugh was solicitor to the father, and at his death continued to act in that capacity for the sons. It is also stated that theprisoner has been several times in confinement for insane acts, and that the impression under which he laboured, that the deceased bad acted Unjustly towards him, is declared by his brother to be utterly without foundation. He is said to have had so many disputes with Mr. Waugh, and to have insulted him so grossly on different occasions, theA the latter gave up his business, and was obliged oft one oc; casion to have him bound over to keep the peace before Mr. Corrie, the magistrate. The deceased leaves a widow, two daughters, and a son, who holds an ensigncy in the 2d Surrey Militia, to deplore his melancholy death. Westron appears to have been watching for some time an opportunity to fall upon his victim, for on Tuesday morning Mr. Waugh told his chief clerk that the prisoner had been dogging his steps when out with his daughter in the neighbourhood of his residence, at Notting-hill. As was to have been expected, the event has caused a most painful sensation in the neighbourhood, and during yesterday groups of people were collected in front of the deceased gentleman's house and on the spot where he was shot.
The Sun. — 1856-01-18 (London, England)

THE MURDER IN BEDFORD ROW.  LATEST PARTICULARS.  It was confidently expected that the proceedings at the coroner's inquest would at once throw light upon the circumstances which, in the light of day and in the open streets of London, have led to the perpetration of so horrid a tragedy. We gather that both the victim and his assassin are natives of Somersetshire ; that the father of the latter committed suicide some four years ago while in an unsound state of mind ; and that he left behind him some property, which was divided between the prisoner and his brother. Mr. Waugh was solicitor to the father, and at his death continued to act in that capacity for the sons. It is also stated that the prisoner has been several times in confinement for insane acts, and that the impression under which he laboured, that the deceased bad acted unjustly towards him, is declared by his brother to he utterly without foundation. He is said to have had so many disputes with Mr. Waugh, and to have insuited him so grossly on different occasions, that the latter gave up his business, and was obliged on one occasion to have him bound over to keep the peace before Mr. Corrio, the magistrate. The deceased leaves a widow, two daughters, and a son, who holds an ensigncy in the 2d Surrey Militia, to deplore his melancholy death. Westron appears to have been watching for some time an opportunity to fall upon his victim, for on Tuesiday morning Mr. 'Waugh told his chief clerk that the prisoner had been dogging his steps when out with his daughter in the neighbourhood of his residence, at Notting•hill. As was to have been expected, the event has caused a most painful sensation in the neighbourhood, and during yesterday groups of people were collected in front of the deceased gentleman's house and on the spot where he was shot.
The Sun. — 1856-03-18 (London, England)

SUICIDES IN PARIS.  An Englishwoman named Henrietta B-, in the service of an American family staying at the Hotel da Louvre, on Saturday requested a fellow-servant to procure her a bottle of brandy, and the latter, knowing that she was given to drink, did so. But from what Henrietta said on receiving it, the other Servant suspected that she had some fatal design, and instead of going away she stood listening at the door. Presently she heard some faint groans, and she caused the door, which Henrietta had locked, to be forced open. Hen rietta was then found lying on the bed, with blood flowing profusely from a deep cut in the throat, and from the arteries in the arm ; and a razor stained with blood was near her. Medical assistance was procured for her, and she was subsequently conveyed to the Hotel-Dieu. The cause of this rash attempt is not known.---Another attempt at suicide of the same kind waroilso made on Friday. The occupiers of the house No. 32, Rue Chabrol, at La Chapelle, heard in the morning faint groans and' cries in a room oceupied by an elderly man, a labourer, named Paul, and on entering it they found hint lying on his bed with a deep cut in the throat, and with two cut= in the bend of each arm. Medical assistance was procured for him, and he was sent to the Hospital Lariboissiere. He states that as he was dazing on the bed, some man, whom he did not know, came in and inflicted the wounds with a razor which had been lying on the table ; but as it does not appear that the man had any personal enemy, and as besides it was ascertained that eo robbery had been committed in the room, it is supposed that he endeavoured to commit suicide, but that, failing, he was ashamed to say so. In addition to the above, three persons committed suicide the same day. A married couple named Franco* hawkers of vegetables, of the Rue Saintonge, in the Marais, suffocated themselves with the fumes of charcoal ; they were found lying dead in their bed, clasping each other by the hand. The man was 60 years of age, and the woman 31, and it is supposed that it was misery which caused the fatal act. The third person who committed suicide was a washerwoman at Bagnolet, who also effected her purpose with charcoal. Her reason was profound sorrow at the death of her daughter, aged 18, which took place some months ago ; in her hand she bold tightly grasped a daguerreotype portrait of the youn, woman, and in'a letter to her husband she entreated him to keep the girl's tomb constantly decked with flowers.
The Sun. — 1856-02-20 (London, England)

IRELAND.  DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING. THE TIPPERARY JOINT-STOCK BANK.  The Dublin papers in their comments upon the suicide of Mr. John Sadleir, attribute the appalling catastrophe to the deranged state of the Tipperary Bank, with the operations of which he bad been long and intimately connected. It is said that the messages transmitted on Saturday, announcing the refusal of the Bark of Ireland to honour the Tipperary draughts, and the failure of the proposed negotiations for advances, produced the despondency under the fatal influence of which he committed the rash act which cut short a life of almost ceaseless energy and indomitable enterprise. When the news reached Dublin the deepest sympathy was felt and expressed for the tragic end of a man who played so prominent a part in the monetary as well as in the political world, and, as the Freeman's Journal correctly observes, all past hostilities seemed to be forgotten in the deplorable finale. With regard to the actual position of the bank, nothing certain has transpired ; but, according to rumour, there is every reason to apprehend something like a monetary panic—confined, however, to a particular district—as the consequence of the present derangement of the Tipperary Bank and its several branches in the south of Ireland. It is stated that a candidate for the representation of the borough of Sligo has already come forward in the person of Mr. L. A. Treston, of the Connaught cireuit, a gentleman whose nameis but little known beyond the circle of his own profession. It is also stated that Mr. M'Donagh, Q.C., and Mr. P. Blake, Q.C., are in the field, the former baying left Dublin to canvass the constituency, Mr. M‘Donagh is a native of Sligo, and in politics an advanced Conservative.  The weekly reviews from the Amsterdam and Rotten dam produce-markets state that there had been a diminished business, with a slight decline in prices. Few transactions had occurred in sugar. Sales of coffee had been made at a reduction, and there was less activity in rice and indigo.
The Sun. — 1856-08-04 (London, England)

CURIOUS COMPOSITION.—The following is a copy of an advertisement published by the magistrates of a town in the north of England, to announce the purchase of a fire-engine.7"Wh?reas an unaccountable multiplication of dangers is oftentimes occurred by damage of outrageous accidences by fire, we whose names is hereunto prefixed, have thought proper that the benefit of an Indian bought by us for the better putting out of which, by the Providence of that gracious goodness, which may unto us happen, to make a rate to gather from Subscriptions in the aforesaid parishes for the better propagating of such useful instruments in such eminent cases of necessity." SUICIDE IN A BARBER'S Saturdaymorning, at about half-past 7 o'clock, a middle-aged man entered the shop of Mr. Rose, a hairdresser, on St. Andrew'sbill, City, and said he wished to be shaved. Mr. Rose's daughter was in the shop,i and she said that her father would attend upon him n about a couple of minutes. He said it did not matter, and that he would shave himself. Be immediately took a razor from the mantel-shelf, and going to a corner of the room where there was a stand containing a basin, with one desperate cut he nearly severed his head from his body. An alarm was given by the daughter, and several persons were soon in attendance, but life was extinct. Upon searching his clothes nothing was found upon him to give the slightest clue as to who the man was, only 50. in copper being in his possession. He was about 36 years of age, 6 feet in height, with auburn coloured hair and bushy whis kers. Oa his left arm are the letter B and a star, and on the right Adam and Eve and a tree, and a mole on th. forehead. He was dressed in a dark check coat, grey waistcoat, black trowsers, and Wellington boots. Thr body was removed to the dead house, Holliday-yard, to await a ooroner'e inquest.
The Sun. — 1856-05-28 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE ON LONDON-BRIDGE.-Yesterday morning, at half-past three o'clock, considerable sensation was created on London-bridge, in consequence of a wide-spread report that a respectablydressed female, name unknown, had been thrown over London•bridge, and that the alleged murderer had been apprehended. Upon inquiry this turns out to be too true, and the particulars are nearly as follow :—A police constable (Wheeler, No. 557) was on duty on Londonbridge, at half-past three o'clock yesterday morning. He observed a man and woman loitering on the bridge for some length of time. They presently got on one of the recesses. A person who was pa sing saw the man push the woman over the bridge. In falling she struck against the abutments, and fell into the water. Wheeler instantly raised an alarm, when the Royal Humane Society's boats and drags were quickly put in requisition, but the body was not found. The man, when arrested, attempted co commit suicide. Upon arriving at the station, the inspector asked him his name. He answered, William Mayes, billiard-marker, aged 26 years, and that he resided at Three Tons-court,Borough. The acting inspector entered the charge against the prisoner as follows :—Charged with attempting suicide, an l also pn,hing a woman over the parapet of London. bridge, Later in the afternoon the man was placed at the bar, before Sir It Carden, at the Mansion-house, charged with the above offence, He was remanded for s week.  THE S 1711; LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENINGri MAY 28, 1856  LATEST NEWS,  MARSEILLES, MAY 27  The Danube has arrived with advices from Con  stantinople of the 19th, and from the Crimea 01 the 17th inst.  Despatches leave at 10 p.m.  The ship of war Duquesne and the English steamers Empress and Napoleon 111, have arrived  with troops from Kamiesh. Advices from Sebastopol of the 17th state that the Ripon had left for Corfu with the 68th Regiment and part of the 46th,  The Sardinians had left. The Russians occupy  their positions. Lord Panmure's spe9ch has not given satisfac tion to the army.  A few cases of typhus had occurred in the  English camp.  A number of new and large Russian cannon  have been discovered at Sebastopol.  COPENHAGEN, MAY 26,  The King has accepted the resignation of M. Luttichan, the Minister of War, who was obliged to insist on withdrawing definitively from the Cabinet, in consequence of the vote of the Grand Council reducing the budget of his department.  ..1.•........, .....,
The Sun. — 1856-10-25 (London, England)

THAMES.  THE SUICIDE MANIA—ATTEMMED SELF-DESTRUCTION. —Ann Clifford, a desperate and ill-conducted woman of the town, who has been frequently charged at this court with robbery, disorderly conduct, drunkenness, and also with attempting to commit self-destruction' was now brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with attempting to commit suicide in the waters of the London Dock.  A police constable of the IC division, named Wilson, stated that he was on duty in New Gravel•lane, Shadwell, last night. At a late hour he heard a splash in the water, and upon hastening to the swivel bridge saw the prisoner in the lock floating on her back on the top of the water, which is upwards of 20 feet in depth. He procured the grapnels, and just as he was about to throw them into the water the prisoner sank. He got her out of the lock after she bad been in the water seven or eight minutes, and took her to the nearest puhlic•house,where friction and restoratives were applied, but it was some time before she gave any signs of animation. The woman bad been under medical treatment for several hour?. The prisoner said to him that it was the third time she had thrown herself into the water, and she would do it again.  Mr. Selfe recollected that he had allowed the prisoner to go at large on a former occasion o❑ her solemn promise not to repeat the rash and wicked attempt on her life. He would not have released her except on that promise. He was sure the wicked and reckless life which the prisoner was leading must ultimately lead to a frightful death. The prisoner was ordered to find one surety to keep the peace for three months, and in default to be corn. mitted to prison.