The Express. — 1848-08-28 (London, England)

SUICIDE. AT LYNDHURST.-Isaac Helmer, • New Forest woodcutter, residieg at Emery Down. near Lynd. burst, cut his throat on Saturday. Ile had been sometime hack questioned by the police relative to the forest depreda tiring. and the circuni4ance is said to have preyed upon hie mind. On Saturday morning he got up early. and was sten walking quickly from his how.° towards an adjacent wood. Some ipeies were et camped there, and one of them was awakened by a noise outside the tent. On going ogt he found Rohner with his throat cut, leaning against it. lie assisted his out ..f the wood, and conveyed him home. A rigor was found near the spot. Hummer had a wife and three  charged against him by • contemporary. In his opinion the captain and mate did all that it was possible for men to do under the circumstances. The captain, in the first place, took all the necessary steps to check the conflagration, and afterwards behaved with the greatest promptitude; but all his exertions were rendered fruitless by th - confusion produced by the terror which spread among the puseneers. The captain stuck to the ship until the fragments of the blazing monmast were falling about him : he did not leave until it was an impossibility any longer to stand the heat between the two fires raging fore and aft. He had great difficulty, in fact, in saving his own life at the last, and he certainly saved the lives of others in his instructions to those who hesitated to ' throw themselves into the water, and there truet to the spare Mr. Ellis was picked up by a pilot-boat out of one of the Ocean Monarch's boss (the mate's), almost swamping I at the time with the twisty seas, and was afterwards plac,el on board • Wexford smack, the Queen. Mr. Ellis mentions an incident nQt at all creditable to the crew of the pilot-boat fsupposeed to be Welsh). One of the mssengers, a Mr. Powell, had stripped himself on account of wet, and could only obtain the covering of • blanket from the people on board the pilot-boat by surrendering, in exchange, • silver watch. Mr. Ellis believes that one passenger still remains on this boat; he remained because be was perfectly naked, and could get no clothes given to him. Mr. Ellis, like the majority of the other passengers, has lost evcrytoing by the fire. As • professional man, his sterilises are even more to be regretted than those of others: he has lost hi' diploma (granted by the Royal College of Sergi one), all hi. instruments, books, dm. Mr Ellis states that the tire first appeared in the cabin, and he there. lore questions the statement that it was occasioned by the carelessneu of an emigrant in the steerage. Mr. RIO, was sitting in the cabin, reading, at 12 o'clock in the day, when the eeccuid steward rushed in and said that the ship was on fire. A lady, named Andrews, was in the cabin, alao reading, at the same time ; she was greatly alarmed. lie believes that this unfortunate lady, with her daughter, • child nine years old, have been hat Isle. Andrews' the husband of this lady, has been saved. At the time the fire broke out • great number of the emigrants were lying, sea nick, in their berths, and he atiribute a the subsequent confusion to the I alarm produced by these running naked on deck. In this way many of the children were los.. The tug-boat, which took them out of the river, bad not left them half an hour, when the first ainuke .as seen; had she stayed a little while longer with them every human being would bars been saved.