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The Sun. — 1841-11-03 (London, England)

XVI. could be guilty of such a piece of folly. Espartero after settling matters at Vittoria, arrived at Bilbao on the 24th ult. He at once ordered a contribution of 60,0001. sterling to be raised upon the town. This will cure the inhabitants of their passion fin. insurrections. The editors of the lidscougado fled, but one of them has been retaken, and brought into San Sebastian ; as have the Marquis and Marchioness of Santa Cruz, the Marquis of Valmediano, the Count de Corres, Goiri, Arleta, Larrondobino, the two Uhagons, Toledona, &c. The citadel of Pampeluna has definitively surrendered, though a French journal, the Memorial dee Pyrenees, expressed a hope that it might hold out General Lahera has been taken at Santander ; but Narvaez, it seems, has escaped on board the brig that brought him. to Cadiz. Immediately after the capitulation of the Christine garrison at Pampeluna, Messrs. Rodrigues and Salsedo, a mercantile firm at Bayonne, received from Paris three millions of francs for the use of the insurgents. Will Christina Munoz tell us whether it was herself or Louis Philippe that advanced this money? A Contemporary has the following account of General Vandersmissen, one of the Belgian conspirators:— " At Waterloo, that person was a Major in the Dutch Artillery; after the peace, he left the service, married the daughter of an English naval officer, and became a manufacturer of vermicelli, but was unsuccessful. On the breaking out of the Belgian revolution he joined the insurgents, and was for his services appointed by the Provisional Government General-Commandant of Antwerp. He was, however, dismissed the Belgian service in May, 1831, on a charge of being engaged in a plot to give up the town to the Dutch troops under General Chasse. He then sought refuge in England and France. It is certain that he is poor and wholly without influence in Belgium." —We shall only add, that he has neither improved his fortune nor increased his influence by attempting to dethrone King Leopold. The Augsburgh Gazette gives a letter from Vienna, which contains the following details relative to the Austrian population :—ln 1840, deaths in the provinces, 659,840 ; 9,501 more than in 1839. Births, 177,200 ; 861 suicides, 53 cases of fatal hydrophobia, 473 assassinations, 9,369 accidental deaths, and 28 executed.  A ,,,, 0....,,P1. * ' .7. , - ...., ~ 0, ~,.., 4,.1 A .. 4.4 v, . ,-;;-(cc,',7,,,,.0.•,_______..e.4-1c:;;r:, .= ',VIZ"' .:. ' •••,,ja,-.W.' ifi. 0 • ...A..., - • -t-.'?PtltwN-Tt..._ - - -‘,..  T et
The Sun. — 1841-04-15 (London, England)

MEMBER. of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS, London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmary. " I am impotent, and not fit to live."—Last's Records of s Suicide.  Sold by Onwhyn, Catherine-street, Strand; Ross and Nightingale, Liverpool ; Barlow, Birmingham ; and all Booksellers in Town and Country‘ N.B. Persons in the Country may have this work forwarded by post (free), upon addressing either of the above Booksellers, and inclosing a remittance of 3s.  Just published, in royal 18mo., cl.th, price 3s. ; and sent in Town'or Country free, by post, 3s. 6d., ANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PREL_Vii. MATURE DECLINE, with. Plain Directions for ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to these suffering frzm the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence, solitory Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on the TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRHEA, GLEET, &c. Illustrated with Cases, &c.  By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY, Consulting Surgeons, London. Published by the Authors, and sold by Ralliere, Medical Bookseller, 219, aegent-streot ; 59, Pall Mall; Swange, 21, Paternoster-row; Pattie, 4, Brydges-street, Strand; 8, D'Olier-street, Dublin; Duncan ,114, High-street, Edinburgh; and to be had of all Booksellers.  The Work which is now presented to the public is the result of very extended experience in a class of •diseases and affections, which for some unaccountable reason have been either altogether overlooked, or treated with apathy, and almost indifference, by the ordinary practitioner. Ts enter into the details of these afiections, to point out their causes, and to mark the terrific consequences, social, moral, and physical, which are sure to ibllow from indulgence, in certain habits, would be entirely out of place in an advertisement. We have no hesitation, however, in saying that there is no member of society, by whom the book will not be found interesting, whether we consider such person to hold the relation of a PARENT, a PRECEPTOR, or a
The Sun. — 1841-06-09 (London, England)

READFUL SUICIDE—in the early part of Monday afternoon a respectably-dressed man applied to Mr. Simmons, of Bury-street, one of the Churchwardens of the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, for permission to ascend the tower of the new church, stating that his motive in asking the favour was to enable him to take a sketch of Westminster Abbey. Permission was, without hesitation, granted to him, and he went up the steeple to the summit, with the man who usually tolls the bell for the funerals ; who having conducted the stranger to the top, returned below to the ringing chamber, and commenced tolling the bell. About a quarter before four o'clock a policeman on duty outside the churchyard rails observed a person on the top of the tower apparently preparing to precipitate himself to the ground, and a second afterwards he threw himself off, and came down with terrifia velocity on the west side of the tower. Several persons were immediately on the spot, and lifted the unfortunate man up, but life was found to be quite extinct. The stones all round were covered with blood. The height of the tower of Chelsea New Church is nearly 200 feet. A shell was pro. cured, into which the body of the deceased was placed, and conveyed to the workhouse adjacent, where a medical gentleman examined it, and found the skull fractured, shoulders dislocated, and the legs broken ; in short, the body was literally smashed. The deceased wasattired in a suit of black, nearly new, and, upon examining his pockets, eight sovereigns and two shillings were found, also two letters, addressed to "Mr. Lloyd, Leamington, Warwickshire." From this it is judged that the deceased's name is Lloyd; his linen being marked with the initials "J. L." strengthens this supposition. The deceased appears to be about fifty years of age, fair complexion, rather stoutly built, and is about five feet eight inches in height. When he applied to the churchwarden in the first instance, nothing in the slightest degree remarkable was observed in his manner ' and when ascending the steeple with the man who tolls the bell, he seemed cheerful and collected. An old lady, who chanced to see the deceased as he was falling, went into violent hysterics, and was conveyed to her residence in a state of insensibility. No time has yet been appointed for the inquest to take place.
The Sun. — 1841-06-03 (London, England)

CORONER'S INQUEST.  SUICIDE OF AN EX-POLICEMAN.—Late on Monday evening Mr. Carter, the Coroner for Surrey, and a respectable Jury, met at the Adelaide Inn, Wandsworth, to inquire into the death of William Dickson, aged 38, formerly a tradesman of consi.lerable eminence, but late a constable in the L division of police, who was found drowned in the river Thames. Mr. John Hall, carpet-warehouseman, No. 1, Southamptonbuildinf,s, Holborn, was well acquainted with the deceased, who sva., the last time he saw him alive, in the L division of police. He was a married man, and had a family of seven young children. On Sunday morning last a policeman came to his residence and said a man had been found in the Thames at Wandsworth, with a sealed letter on his person, addre,,sed to witness. As soon as he saw the superscription he knew it was the deceased, and came over and identified his body. The CORONER proceeded to read the letter. It was dated Saturday morning, and commenced— " Dear John—lt is with feelings of no common kind that I write to you. I'm the victim of a broken heart, produced by a piece of tyranny unparalleled in its brutality. I've been discharged from the police force, my last resource for bread upon this earth, and by the time you receive this I shall cease to exist. There are two things I wish you to do, my dear John— write to Barnard Castle and to Scarborough, but not to my dear wife. Tell her not, I entreat you, how my miserable career was ended. I hope God will forgive me, but I did it for the best. I had nothing in store for my dear wi:e and children but starvation ; but perhaps, now that I'm gone, friends will spring up and do something for them; and may that God, into whose presence I am going, protect and support her. John, I say again, I have been the victim of a most cruel persecution—my heart is broken. Tell my brother Joshua to pay you what I owe you, and, should you not get all the money, you will have the consolation of knowing that you have, at times, saved me from starvation, and with my dying breath I bless you for it." The letter then d tails at considerable length the circumstance to which the unfortunate deceased alludes to in the previous part of his letter. It appears that he was dismissed the force upon an alleged charge of drunkenness, and in the most bitter language he.accuses some of his superior officers in the L division of the grossest injustice towards him, and says that, as they have thrown him destitute upon the world, his death lies at their door. Others of the officers and constables he speaks of in terms of gratitude. After some directions as to how money may be raised for his wife and family, the deceased says, " My body will be found somewhere near Putney. Bury it, my dear John, and God will remember you." The letter concludes with, " From your truly heartbroken and wretched friend,
The Sun. — 1841-03-01 (London, England)

THE POLYTECHNIC JOURNAL. The first article of F. Winslow, Esq., " Author of the Anatomy of Suicide," &c., contains some singular facts, illustrating the wonderful changes produced on the animal frame by cold. Indeed, so singular are they, that but for the respectable names by which they are attested, we should have classed them with the tales and lies of the. Munchausen school; and, notwithstanding the authorities, we believe many readers will still be sceptical, so contrary are many of them to the ordinary laws of nature. In short the treatise is interesting, not only in this respect, but for the sound practical advice it affords to persons who, from necessity or choice, remove from one temperature to another. " The popular practice," says the writer, " of waiting till a degree of coolness has taken place before quitting a hot room, or before going into a cold bath, is dangerous in the extreme. It is questionable whether any person ever re2eived an injury from cold after leaving a heated assembly, if he left while he continued warm, and either by exercise in the air, or by a warm covering, kept up that warmth in some degree till he arrived at home." On the authority of Dr. Currie, nothing can be more dangerous for persons in a state of perspiration, who wish to bathe, than waiting on the edge of the bath, or at the water side till, they are perfectly cooled. They ought to plunge in at once, to avoid sudden chillness, often of the most ul..lng.e-rous character. The following are a few of tiie most remarkable instances given of the effect of cold: Bomare affirms that on the Andes there are found some of the bodies of the first conquerors of South America, arrested by cold on their passage to Peru in quest of gold. They are still piieserved with all they carried with them, and in the various attitudes in which they were frozen and surprised by death some 300 years ago. Izaak. Walton, on the authority of Gesner, gives an account of some large breams being put into a pond which was frozen next winter into one mass of ice, so that not one could be found, yet they were all swimming about in spring as lively as ever. Captain Franklin saw a carp leap about with great vigour after it had been frozen for thirty-six hours, with others that had been split open with a hatchet like a piece of wood. And, according to Gangiu, quoted by Fletcher in his Physiology, there is a people in Moscovy who die every year, about the 27th of November, and are not restored to life till towards the end of April ! There is a curious article also on the duration of  coal in the TJnited Kingdom, from which it appears, that in the northern districts of England and in Scotland, there is coal sufficient to supply the current annual draught for a period of 1,727 years, independent of the vast beds in Wales, which would supply all England for 2,000 years more. The present generation may, therefore, rest satisfied that they shall have coal fires at least for the dura`ion of their lives.
The Sun. — 1841-05-25 (London, England)

APRIL 24.—Foreign journals have announced the great scarcity of money that prevails here, and that the Government intends to contract a loan at Amsterdam already. Last year an attempt was made to remedy the deficiency by creating bonds of the Commercial Bank and Treasury Bonds. From this year forward the proprietors of the gold mines in the Ural Mountains and Siberia, are to pay a much higher duty ; the building .of the Isaacs Church of the Hermitage, and many other Imperial edifices, is suspended for the present. A fortnight ago the last English missionaries, Messrs. Thallybrass and Swan, of the Edinburgh Society, returned from Siberia. on their way to England. Henceforward there will be no English inissionariea in all Russia, as, the Russian Government has confined their operations to preaching only, and the converts are obliged to embrace the Greek religion. These two clergymen have slow a great service by translating the Bible into the Mongol language.  SUICIDE AT THE CAMBRIAN COFFERHoy sE.— On Sunday morning, at half-past three, a man having, the appearance of a footman entered the Cambrian Coffeehouse in Great Russell-street, and having called for a cup o* coffee, he asked to be furnished with a bed. The waiter conducted him up stairs, and had just reached the shop again, when he heard a heavy fall on the floor. He ran up stairs, and on entering the room found the man extended on the floor with his head nearly severed from his boiy, the carotid artery being completely cut through. No letters or papers were found on the deceased to lead to a clue of his name or address. He hail on a dark mixture coat, brown waistcoat, plush smallclothes, white stockings, and shoes. The buttons have a boar's head, and are the manufacture of Messrs. Trimmer and Co., Strand.
The Sun. — 1841-05-25 (London, England)

FEMALE CHARACTER. Fourth Thousand. With a Portrait of the Author. Price 3s. 6d. cloth gilt, each volume. London : George Virtue, and all Booksellers.  Just published, price 2s. 6d. APRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILITIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Varieties, Causes, Treatment, and Cure._ __ _  By a IViEMBEit of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS, London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmary. " I am impotent, and not fit to live."—Last's Records of a Suicide.  Sold by Onwhyn, Catherine-street, Strand; Ross and Nightingale, Liverpool ; Barlow, Birmingham ; and all Booksellers in Town and Country.  ..... ~ .... .. N.B. Persons in the Country may have this work forwarded by post (free), upon addressing either of the above Booksellers, and mclosmg a remittance of 3s.  Just published, in royal 18mo., cloth, price 3s. , and sent in Town or Country free, by post, 3s. 6d., ATANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PREMATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suffering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence, Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on the TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRHOEA, GLEET, &c. Illustrated with Cases, &c. _ _ _  By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY, Consulting Surgeons, London. Published by the Authors, and sold by Balliere, Media Bookseller, 219, Regent-street ; 59, Pall Mall ; Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Pattie, 4, Brydges-street, Strand; 8, D'Olier-street, Dublin; Duncan ,114, High-street, Edinburgh; and to be had of all Booksellers. _ _ .  The Work which is now presented to the public is the result of very extended experience in a class of diseases'and affections, which far some unaccountable reason have been either altogether overlooked, or treated with apathy, and almost indifference, by the el dinary practitioner. To enter into the details of these affections, to point out their causes, and to mark the terrific consequences, social, moral, and physical, which are sure to follow from indulgence, in certain habits, would be entirely out of place in an advertisement. We have no hesitation, however, in saying that there is no member of society, by whom the book will not be found interesting, whether we consider such person to hold the relation et a PARENT, a PRECEPTOR, or a
The Sun. — 1841-11-06 (London, England)

CAUSES OF DEATH.  Respiration — 240 266 Diseases of the Hea-t and Blood-vessels l2 18 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other __  68 60 9 4  Qrgans of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys &c Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c  Diseases of Uncertain Seat o'.d Age, or Natural Decay 6B 71 Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intemperance 25 25 Causes not specified Deaths from all causes 792 Average Weekly Deaths .. 926 Deaths in the Average Weekly Week. Deaths, 1138-9-40 Western Districts ... 98 ...... 139 North Districts Central Districts l3l ..... 190 East Districts South Districts ... ......  Total 792  It is slated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the 32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of London with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality—. and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington, Fulham, Hammersmith (Chapelry), St. Luke (Chelsea), I3addington, St. Mary (Stoke Newington), St. Leonard (Brom ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890. The weekly average for 1838, 1839, and 1810, was obtained by dividing the deaths in the three years by 156. TEMPERATURE IN TEE WEEKS ENDING Oct. 23. Oct. 30. 63' 58' . 38 37 50 48 4, 1841.  Highest  Lo';vest Daily Mean . General Register Office, Nov.  BRIGHTON, Nov. 5.  Several complaints having been made to the Postmaster-General of the loss of letters directed to various parties in Brighton, some of which contained money, Mr. Ramsay, one of the inspectors of the General Postoffice, was dispatched to Brighton to endeavour to find out the guilty parties. On his arrival he obtained the assistance of the Brighton police, and searched the whole of the clerks, sorters, and letter-carriers. An officer was then dispatched to each of their residences, and a strict search made. One of the carriers has been suspended, although there is no direct evidence to fix any of the parties with the robberies. Notices have been frequently issued, cautioning parties against sending letters containing money,', without either registering, or availing themselves of the facilities for obtaining a money order. The Post-office authorities contemplate registering every letter in which money is detected, compelling either the receiver to pay the shilling for registering, or returning the letter to the ,sender, and make him pay the amount. Mr. Hold, who attempted to commit suicide off the Chain-pier, on Tuesday-, was sufficiently recovered to be removed yesterday from Creak's Baths. The medical gentlemen were upwards of two hours in restoring animation. Mr. Hold had between 501. and 601. in his pocket when picked up.
The Sun. — 1841-12-09 (London, England)

ATIEMP-TED SUICIDE BY A GlRL.—Between five and six o'clock on Tuesday evening, Mary Broomhead, between thirteen and fourteen years of age, the daughter of respectable parents living at No. 8, Brewer's-green; Westminster, was brought into Westminster Hospital, suffering under the effects of having swallowed a portion of sugar of lead. She stated that she had taken it with the intention of committing suicide, as she was tired of living at home, and wished to go out in the world, which her parents objected to. The usual antidotes were applied, and she is expected to recover. STATE OF TRADE,--11l Haslingden, Burnley, Colne, and the neighbourhood, the woollen and printing trades are very bad ; prices not only being low, but emPloYment scarce. The masters, in some instances, are even going the length of making considerable reductions in the wages of their managers. Thin calicoes, 28 yards long, for printin, for the Persian trade, principally, are now woven at bid. per cut, by the hand-loom weavers, who size their own warps also ; and numbers, although eager to do so, are unable to get work at this rate, which is greatly embarrassing the power-loom trade, as that branch cannot, with any profit, manufacture them at the same price, because the manufacturers who employed handloom weavers have little capital at stake, and are at no expense either for steam power or machinery. Last week but one, a ;manufacturer at Preston paid the wages of 200 weaver34ith 91. A gentleman from this neighbourhood was passing through Edenfield on Saturday last, and saw a female prostrate on the earth. She was removed into a house, and, on recovering, Was found to be a respectable female thrown out of employment by the stoppage of a mill, and at length had turned out to beg, being almost hungered to death. The, day was wet and windy ; and, being almost exhausted to commence with, she had fallen down, being at length overpowered by buffeting against the storm.
The Sun. — 1841-12-09 (London, England)

LAW AND POLICE.  At Worship-street Mrs. Emma Clarke, a young widow, of very lady-like appearance and deportment, was charged by the parish officers of St. Luke's, Middlesex, with having deserted her five children, whose ages varied from four to thirteen years. It appeared that her husband died two years ago, and that since that period she had been leading a very' irregular life, often leaving the children for days together, and had latterly fled to St. Alban's, to escape the parish officers. She was held to bail to appear on a future day. Ann Bowling and Henry Marriott, who pleaded guilty, at the Central Criminal Court, of attempting to commit suicide, at Blackfriars-bridge, have been sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment in Newgate. Louisa Stanfield, a laundress, and her husband, charged on Saturday with robbing Mr. M‘Donald, a barrister, residing in Gardeners'-court, Temple, of plate, valued at 601., were committed yesterday to take their trial. The case of Miss Sophia Darbon, aged 25, against Mr. Rich. Rosser, aged 83;for breach of promise of marriage, which has occupied the Court of Queen's Bench for the last three days, was last night decided by the verdict of the Jury, which found for the plaintiff damages 1,6001. The stock of 6661. in the Globe Insurance, standing in Miss Darbon's name, will also be enjoyed by her. At the Brentford Petty Sessions, Mr. John Grainger, a highly-respectable and extensive maltzter, at New Brentford, appeared to answer an information preferred against him for an infringement of the Excise laws, whereby he had incurred a penalty of 100/. The prosecution was conducted by the solicitor of the Excise, and the information alleged that the defendant had, in the process of making malt, so compressed it together in the couch, as to defraud the Crown of the duty on seven bushels, amounting to seven half-crowns. The defendant brought witnesses to' prove that the process had been carried on in a fair and legitimate manner, and the Magistrates at once dismissed the information. John Job Ward, convicted of the inhuman murder of his child a few days since, is to be executed on Monday week, the 20th instant.