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The Sun. — 1841-05-17 (London, England)

FORD CONFIRMED. On Saturday morning the ship Tigris, Captain Symons; arrived in 'the-West India Import Dock from Colombo, which place she left on the 20th :DeCeniber ; Cape of Good Hope, February 2s ; and St. lielePa, March 15. .In consequence of a report that Lord James Beresford, of the I.oth Hussars, had committed suicide. on board that vessel, being on his passage to.-. England, and which painful intelligence had not-reached his Lord,. ship's noble relations, and being therefore generally discredited, inquiry was made on board the vessel on Saturday, and the report 'wtis found to be too true. It appears that Lord James Beresford, who was only in the 26th year of his age, embarked passenger on board the Tigns for England, and that it was remarked at the time, and at a subsequent period during the voyage, that his LordsYp appeared to be labouring under slight symptoms of and that his servant was in consequence ordered to-pay more than usual care and attention to his Lordship, which he did. On the night or TueSday, Alr'd 27, his Lordship was in • his own cabin, and did not evince to the servant or to the passengers during the day anything ;1 particularly remarkable in his usually somewhat eccentrio manners. The servant, before _going to lie down in his settee for the night, went to his Lordship's cabin for the purpos3 of inquiring whether: his Lordship needed any further attendance that evening, and having repeatedly knocked at his state-room door without receiving any answer, the servant opened it, and discovered the cabin floor partly covered with blood, and on proceeding to the water closet adjoining the apartment he found his master (Lord James Beresford) reclining over the seat, with his head nearly severed from his body, and quite dead. The rash act was committed with a razor, and so determined had been his Lordship to effect his dreadful purpose that only a small portion of skin at the back part of the neck attached the head to the body. The: alarm having been instantly given, the utmost consternation prevailed among the passengers (27 in number) and crew ; but any attempt to restore life was beyond the • power of human aid. Afteuonvltation by the officers • of' the ship and passengers, The mangled corpse of Lord James Beresford was, with great solemnity, consigned to a graVe in the abyss of the ocean. This lamentable event has created great grief and distress among the noble relatives of the deceased and the fashionable world generally.
The Sun. — 1841-05-17 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE.—An attempted murder and. suicide occurred on board the steamer Clipper on Sunday evening last, while on her way from this As we could learn the particulars, city to Bayou Sara. it seems that Mr. Tiernan, an old and respectable planter of Point Coupee, had a sum of money stolen from him while on board the Clipper, and soon ascertained that it was taken by a yellow boy belonging to him some fourteen years of age. He did nothing to the boy at the time, but threatened him with a severe flogging on reaching Point Coupee. Shortly after Mr. T. went to his berth, lay down, and was soon asleep. The boy, probably insogated by the fear of future punishment, procured a large butcher's knife, went to his master's state room, and stabbed him twice in the throat, inflicting severe, and it was feared mortal, wounds. He then fled to the bow of the boat, and, as the men were approaching to secure him, jumped overboard, and was seen no snore. We learned the particulars at Donaldsonville on Sunday evening last, at which time it was feared that Mr. Tiernan would not survive.—New Orleans Paper. The notorious vessel the Malek Anhel arrived at Baltimore on Tuesday, from Rio Janeiro, under command of Lieut. Ogden of the U. S. Navy. The crew have all been arrested, examined, and committed on a charge of ' piracy. Joseph Nunez, the Captain, escaped at Bahia and was not retaken.  Five young men are now in gaol in Brooklyn, New York, for committing a most atrocious rape on a married woman, in Myrtle-lane. They were of a gang of fifteen, and strong hopes are entertained that those now at large will soon be secured. The poor woman we understand is dead. No punishment can be too severe for these inhuman rascals.
The Sun. — 1841-05-17 (London, England)

LORD JAMES BERES FORD CONFIRMED.  On Saturday morning the ship Tigris, Captain Symons, arrived in the West India Import Dock from Colombo, which place she left on the 20th December ; Cape of Good Hope, February 28 ; and St. Helena, March 15. In consequence of a report that Lord James Bcresford, of the 10th .11ussars, had committed suicide on board that yessel; being on his passage to England, and which painful intellkrence had notreachecl his Lordship's noble relations, and being therefore generally discredited, inquiry was ma le on board the vessel on Saturday, and the report was found to be too true. It appears that Lord James Beresford, who was only in the 26th year of his age, embarked pasSenger on board the Tigris for England, and that it was remarked at the time, and at a subsequent per:ol during the voyage, that his Lordship appeared to be. Labouring under slight symptoms of insanity, and that his servant was in consequence ordered to paymore than usual care and attention to his Lordship, which he did. On the night of Tuesday, April 27, his Lordship was in his own cabin, and did not evince to the servant or to the passengers during the day anything particularly remarkable in his -usually somewhat eccentric manners. The servant, before going to lie down in his settee for the night, went to, his Lordship's cabin for the purpose of inquiring whether his Lordship needed any further attendance that evening, and having repeatedly knocked. at his state-room door without receiving any answer, the servant opened it, and discovered the cabin floor partly covered with blood, and on proceeding to the water closet adjoining the apartment he found his master (Lord James Beresford) reclining over the seat, with his head nearly severed from his body, and quite dead. The rash act was committed with a razor, and so determined had been his Lordship to effect his dreadful purpose that only a small portion of skin at the back part of the neck attached the head to the body. The alarm having been instantly given, the utmost consternation prevailed among the passengers (27 in number) and crew ; but any attempt to restore life was beyond the power of human aid. After a consultation by the office rs of the ship and passengers, the mangled corpse of Lc rd James Beresford was, with great solemnity, consigned to a grave in the abyss of the ocean. This lamentable event has created great grief and distress among the noble relatives of the deceased and the fashionable world generally.  Per Quarter Carlisle Hexham Nforpeth Penrith Sheffield Winchest, r Per Bushel. Carmarthen Cowbridge_. Swansea Per 8011. Barnarticasti Durham Richmond ] Stockton  1 Wheat.  S. to S.  51 (;6 5t 64  52. 6J s. d. s. d. 78 79 80 80 00  Barley.  a. to a.  28 :24 '27  '2B :;1 s. d. s. d. 00 37 00 4f` 40 48  s. to S.  eo 2t 21 k,l  U 0 20 s. d. s. d. 00 23 00 3u 30 38  Beans. I Pease.  8. to 8. 46  34 36  44 40 41 s. d. a.d 56 00 50 53 56 60  s. to s. 46  3i 34  35 ai s.d s.d 0u o 0 56u„ tjo 0 0  10 0 0 100 0 lc 0 0 10 0  150 180 80 93 64 76 90 106 136 16 6 8 0 9 0 6 3 7 3 0 0 106 1,0 18 0 7 0 86 56 80 96 120 140 166 90 90 50 6 6 8 0 100
The Sun. — 1841-08-21 (London, England)

MISCELLANEOUS. A person, named Argent, of Cambridge, lately left his property to his niece, on 'condition that before he was buried his head should be cut off, as he dreaded being buried alive. This was done a week or two ago, and his niece obtains the property. A floating breakwater is proposed to be erected at Brighton, and on Monday a meeting takes the proposition into consideration. • •  A few days ago a Coroner's Jury, which met at the George Inn, Burnham, Bucks, returned a verdict of felo de se on the body of a servant girl, 20 years of age. It appeared that the unfortunate girl, who had always borne an irreproachable character, and had been for two years and a half :,in the service of Mr. Evans, drawingmaster, at Eton College, had been betrayed by some villain, and to hide her shame took a quantity of arsenic, sufficient to kill six persons. The body was interred at eleven o'clock at night, without religious rites. What a picture of the cruelty of man ! This day is the anniversary of the death of King William the Fourth. He was born in the year 1765. The cattle are dying to an awful extent in the vicinity of Dublin, Carlow, and Drogheda. The distemper arises from cold, commences with a cough, and generally terminates fatally in ten days.  To-day is the anniversary of the battle of Vimicra, the first battle in which the Duke of Wellington measured himself with the then conquerors of Europe. It is said that a distance of fifty-seven miles has been travelled on the common road, in a Bath chair, by electro-magnetic power, in one hour and a half r and further, that the applier comes over daily from St. Alban's to the Bank of England in the said chair in half an hour, at an expence of sixpence.  MONEY and
The Sun. — 1841-09-02 (London, England)

HERALD.—We perceive that the third edition of the Times is dated " twelve o'clock" yesterday afternoon. That is, about the same time 'that Sir Robert Peel was starting, by the Great Western Rai!way, to wait upon her Majesty with the list of a Ministry FOR "authentication" in the only way in which that authentication could be procured—namely, " by the high and indispensable sanction of her Majesty." Now, we are enabled to state, on the authority of our Windsor Correspondent, that Sir Robert Peel quitted the Royal presence at two P.M., so that by no possibility could any " authentic" list have been published -0" r even heard of in London, until two hours and a half, or three hours, probably after it had been gravely published by the Tunes. Unless the influence of this latter has accomplished the prayer of the two lovers in the Oar= " Ye gods ! annihilate both space and time," we must demur to any such idle pretensions to " authenticity" as it has claimed for a paper in which one material error at least, upon its own showing, had been incorporated throughout the entire of its first and second impressions. The third left the ..Times still at issue with the Post on-tbe question of the Duke of Richmond's presence in the stew Cabinet. " Non nostrum—tantos componere lites." Yet we have some right to remind both our Contemporaries that„.,.so long ago as the 21. q ultimo, we published (with the permission of the party by whom it was communicated) a list of the probable constitution of Sir Robert Peel's Ministry, before any of our brethren had promulgated any intelligence on that subject. The point on which we were permitted to speak with most confidence was, the intention, on the part of the Conservative leader, not to oppose the re-election' of the Whig Speaker, Mr. Shaw Lefevre. The public will not have forgotten, probably, the very angry comments which that publication drew down upon us, from contemporaries of all parties. The predicted re-election of the Speaker, however, seemed to be the " head and front" of our offending. Some of the profoundest arguments in the world .were launched against us day after day to prove that such a notice was preposterous—that such a course would be instantly suicidal to the Conservative party. It may be a, very great hardship, but it is a very certain fact, that the nomination and re-election of Speaker eventuated precisely and literally as we had foretold.
The Sun. — 1841-08-09 (London, England)

PUBLIC JOURNALS  FROM TILE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—The Post of this morning has arraigned the Government upon a new charge, and accuses its members of meditating self-destrUction, actuated probably by despair at the approaching loss of their offices. The Whigs arc gravely impeached by our Contemporary on the ground of their being engaged in an attempt to excite a revolt against the Queen's Government ; and since we as yet know of no other Government but that of which Lord Melbourne is at the head, we can only, presume that the Post accuses the, Liberal Administration of an attempt at suicide. The' patronising, but authoritative, way in which the Tory organ - interferes to prevent the desperate act is exceedingly entertaining ; but we beg to assure the Post that matters are by no means so gloomy in the eyes of those who are still in power, as to induce them to take a flying leap from their official elevation, or give with their own hands the finishing blow to • " the Queen's Goverument." Perhaps we may be told that it is the Government in perspective against which the Whigs are directing their hostility ; but though it is quite true that the coming event has already begun to cast its shadows before, it is not with the shadows that the Liberals mean to contend, and the substance is-too remote, or at all events much too impalpable, to be at present grappled with. To talk of attacking Sir Robert Peel's Government would just now be as absurd as to propose an onslaught ori a cloud of dust which a gust of wind may have carried forward in advance of an enemy supposed to be coming after it. In the first place, the foe may never venture to come to close quarters ;.and in the next place, the dust may be occasioned not by their march against us, but by a scuffle among themselves ; and it is quite certain that internal differences in the Tory ranks are the cause of the present obscurity in which all the Tory movements are enveloped. The curtain must be kept down, or the public would perceive that the Conservative drama never can be gone through with while there is nothing taking place but perpetual differences between the performers and the managers. -It is clear that Sir Robert Peel cannot make a move in any one direction without spoiling the position he at present occupies. He has got into one of those "situations," as the actors call them, which are highly effective, but which arc no less difficult to be got out of than to be got into. Like the imposing tableau in the' Critic, where the uncles could not move because of the nieces, While the nieces were at a dead stand-stilt because of the lovers, and the lovers were unable to advance or retire because of the uncles' daggers, Sir Robert Peel can neither go to the right nor to the left because of his party on the one hand, and the nation on the other ; the one threatening to desert him, the other to give him his deserts, according as he may approach or recede from a Liberal policy.
The Sun. — 1841-08-09 (London, England)

HEN RI."" The Ecito de la Nievre gives the following affecting instance of the force of conjugal affection in an industrious couple at Nevers. A journeyman cabinet-maker, named Paris, and his wife, being both attacked with violent illness, were removed to the hospital, where the wife soon recovered ; but the husband remaining ill, she refused to leave him, and was constantly at his bedside. She was at length prevailed on to leave him for a short time, but she died soon after being removed to another room from excess of grief, and at the same moment the husband expired in the arms of one of the sisters of charity.  A miser, who possessed a fortune of more than a thousand francs, but 'who did not expend daily more than six creutzers a-day for the milk and bread which formed his only food, lately committed suicide at Neufchatel, in Switzerland, by shooting himself with a pistol, which he had purchased the day before, after bargaining for a long time in order to obtain a diminution of price on the weapon. . _ _  A man with the appropriate name of Paternelle, as yet only 33 years of age, of the commune of Saint Martin in the Nord, lately entered for the fifth time into the holy state of matrimony, after a fourth widowhood of only 29 days, upon which occasion his neighbours gave him a spirit-stirring charivari. He was first married in 1830, next in 1835, thirdly in 1836, and fourthly in 1839.  M. de Lamartine has returned to Macon from a tour in Switzerland.  The Ministerial evening journal says—" Toulouse has during several days been making marked progress in its return to order. According to despatches received to-day, the disarmament of the national guard is being effected without the least difficulty. Yesterday, in the afternoon, the persons employed at the Prefecture were scarcely sufficient to receive the arms brought in by the National Guards."  The Maniteur Parisien states that the number of persons arrested at Toulouse is considerable. Menaces of death, it acids, have been addressed to the new Mayor and his colleagues, and it was this that caused M. Larigandere to give in his resignation. — The Etna steamer left Marseilles on the 3d, the Meteor and Crocodile on the sth, all bound for Algiers. Several emigrant Spanish priests have arrived at Paris. Immediately after their arrival they repaired to the Prefecture.  The Acheron steamer which returned to port on th© 31st of July, had seen the squadron off the Balearic islands.  Seray's division was still at Tunis, and was said to have many sick.—Le Coninierce.
The Sun. — 1841-10-27 (London, England)

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The Sun. — 1841-07-26 (London, England)

HOME. MISCIMILEINEOUS.  A collision took place between two foreign vessels off Dover, on Saturday, by which eight lives were lost. The Surrey Zoological Flower-Show will be on a grand scale to-morrow. Nearly a hundred prizes will then bq distributed.  An old patriarchal shepherd at Tobosa, in Spain, died lately. • For 100 years he tendwd his flocks, and died in his ,105th." He must at one time have been a very young shepherd.  Purcell's Sacred Music, annually performed at Westininster Abbey, will take place on Thursday next, the 29th inst.: at ten o'clock.  Eton school breaks up to-day for the summer holidays. 'Fireworks on Saturday celebrated the fourth centenary of the establishment of this renowned school.  Mr. Dyer, who committed suicide at Sydenl;xll, had actually issued printed circulars, calling a meeting of ministers, connected with the Tract Society, to meet at the very hotiSe at which the Jury were sitting on his body. . He had lost much through the recent failure of a publishing-house in Paternoster-roar. A large' extent of vineyards in the commune of Leutesdorf has been completely blighted as if by frost. The leaves and grapes have fallen, and left the vines naked as. in winter.. • •  On this day of the month, in the year 1815, was executed Eliza Yenning, whose melancholy fate excited such general sympathy. Some officers in Ghent have introduced umbrellas into the army even whin in.fnll uniform.  _ . The great iron steamer at Bristol will probably combine a greater number and variety of untried principles than were ever yet united in one enterprise of the same magnitude. The vessel herself—her enormity— her material .(plate-iron)--her engines, nearly 1,200 horse-power--her cylinders, 120 inclies in diameter—no piston-rods—nd beams+the connecting-rod laying hold immediately on .the piston, and a moveable hollow casting playing through a box in the -top of the piston—no paddle-wheels, no paddle-boxes, but an unseen agent revolving under her quarters, instead of -any apparent propelling power. Lord Morpeth has forwarded a second donation of 101. for the relief of the sufferers 'by the awful calamity at Rotheram.
The Sun. — 1841-06-24 (London, England)

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