The Sun. — 1847-09-07 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.  The county coroner held an inquest on Saturday, at Blanchardstown, upon the body of a man named Matthew Nugent, who committed suicide on the previous day by cutting his throat with a razor. The jury, after examining two or three witnesses, found a verdict of " Temporary insanity." The following letter was written by the deceased on the day before lie terminated his existence :  " Dublin, August 26, 1847. " When true hearts lie withered, And fond ones are flown, Oh, who would inhabit This cold world alonel" After years spent in a distant country, I return to my own, and find the affections of my kindred withered and decayed, when I thought to meet with them as fresh and as green as those within my own breast. lam atino3 ed with the petty chicanery and trickery of the world. Every man suspects the rest of the world to be endeavouring to deceive him. There is no sincerity in it. I have seen too much of mankind ever to expect to be happy in this world. I will therefore try what sort of place is the next. I know it will be said that I labour under temporary insanity ; on the contrary, I never was so perfectly sane in • my.life. I know I have been a sinner, but I have every dependence in the mercy of the'-great God. Some would-be philosophers have said that suicide is cowardly. What cur would impeach Cato with cowardice ? Some creature that dare not prick his flo4h with a pin to escape from the most degrading ,lavery. I wish I had an opportunity of staking my life in the service of my country, but as I have not, I hope God will pardon me for thus disposing of it. To two dear friends, from whom I could have expected but little sympathy or affection, I am indebted for the them sincere and genuine kindness ; I sincerely thank ; they will understand that I allude my "pinions deto them. Farewell, my dear friends, firewell. of omannksihnadrearoef unjust, I crave pardon; have my own faults, and should deal„lii,TAtlyr GEN t. " To the public, if the public like to read it."  A rag and bone-dealer, at Shrewsbury, in a railway compensation case, heard last week, declared that he did business to the amount of 1.000/. a week! DRATR OP MAJOR PECK, AT KINGSTON, JA2tAlcA.—We yesterday announced the demise of Major J. J. Peck, of the 2d West India Regiment. The deceased was in command of the detachment of the corps in this island. His remains were ii.terred on Thursday evening in the yard of the parish church on the Parade, the funeral service being performed by the Barracksy lr. - Myers. to the church at five o'clock. The Sring party consisted of the flank companies of the Ist West India Regiment, with its eaband, under the command of I Major O'Connor, follow officers in the vicinity,, as I:,yiklidl the naval and military most rewctable inhabitants as by a number of the bourhoo& Major Peck h°f Kingston and its neighad in the Peninsula, sad for many years with his coserrpsvedin the West Indies, he contracted and latterly on the coast of Africa, diseases which materially hastened There was a large number of persons assembled end' witness the military funeral, ....,being a long time sines a PI/ the Parade to ;similar ceremony was zeivad. ... m this city....,remcgm