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The Sun. — 1839-01-21 (London, England)

ODESSA. DEC. 20.—The Governor-General of Minor Russia, Gen. Federof 1., and the Commander-in- Chief of the Military Colonies, Count de Witt, have received an Imperial rcsei ipt, of which the following is the substance:— " The Emperor, desirous to assist foreign nations who are in want of corn, and at the same time to enable Russian merchants to satisfy without loss of time the orders for corn which may have been, or might hereafter be, addressed to them, has ordered- " 1. That three-fourths cf the corn sow stored in the Government reserve magazines and in :hose of the military colonies, may be lent to Russian merchants, ;:rovided they could show that they had received orders for corn fl'f.itu foreign countries.  " 2. That the loan of this corn should be completely gratuitous, but on condition that the borrowers should restore it in kind in the space of six months."  This measure proves both the desire of the Emperor to accommodate Russian merchants, and his friendly disposition towards foreign nations. Of late the orders for our corn have been numerous and very extensive. There are at this moment in our harbour 124 English, French, Italian, and Spanish vessels taking in cargoes of wheat and barley. All the other harbours of the Black Sea are equally encumbered with vessels, coming for the same purpose.—Journal des Debats. . _  A hair-dresser, named Bickers, committed suicide yesterday afternoon, at 14, Clement's-lane, by cutting his throat. Two children were in the room at the time, and the youngest, about two years old, was dabbling with its fingers in the blood which flowed from iLs unfortunate parent. Such is the present demand for straw plaiting, that the earnings of females in the parishes of Braintree, Halsted, and that part of the county are greater than the wages givers at the silk mills the latter have in consequence experienced a deficiency of hands. Applications have therefore been wade to other parts of the county fol. girls to work in the mills, and no doubt the hands will soon be supplied. There is at this time in the Union workhouse here a family of the name of Harris, deserted by the father, belonging to the parish of 131oomfield, consisting of Jano Harris, the mother, aged 49, and her five girls, of the respective ages of 20, 19, 14, 11, and 8 This family may immediately earn in the silk mill somethlog more than 20s. a-week, and an arrangement is in progress with Mr. Courtauld to send them to this establishment under the pi otection of the mother, for whom a cottage is to be provided at a moderate rent. The temptation is great at this tim-j for parishes to provide such families with the means of earning their own living, the cost of maintenance in the per head.—Essex Herald. Union-house now averaging 3s, Bd.
The Sun. — 1839-10-04 (London, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Monday evening an inquest was held before Mr. Wakley, at the Benchers' Chambers, Gray's Inn, on the body of Mr. J. V. Moore, late a clerk in the firm of Martinez, Jones, and Co., Marklane. It appeared that deceased lately threw up his situation, assigning as his sole reason that he considered himself too highly remunerated for the services he rendered ; that since that time his conduct had been very flighty, and on Friday last he complained of depression of spirits. He lodged at No. 1, Verulam-buildings, and on Saturday night did not return to his lodgings, On Sunday, between two and three in the afternoon, he returned, and entered his sitting-room, in which were his brother and another gentleman (the principal witness). He held a pistol in his right hand, which he flourished and pointed at the gentleman, exclaiming, " This is pretty barker." The gentleman said, " Yes, is it loaded ? " He said, " No, only capped," and immediately turned the muzzle of the weapon and discharged it into the right side of his throat. He fell, and when medical aid arrived, in about five minutes after the act was committed, he was pronounced to be dead. A letter was read, written by deceased, in which he stated he was about "starting on his last cruise on his own account," and added that he was sick of life, and determined to destroy himself. The letter contained au enclosure of 151. due to the party to whom it was addressed. Verdict—Temporary Insanity, In working a limestone quarry at Rock, near Alnwick, a stone was discovered, bearing urn it all the marks of a petrified nest of snakest  .:  Maußrrtas.—For yellow descriptions there has been • steady demand, but brown sorts have been taken sparinglya and former rates have not been supported by Gd per cwt. ;, at public sale, 3,152 bags found buyers—fine yellow at 653 to 653 Gd, good 64s to 64s 6d, good middling 63s to 63s 6d, middling 72s to 62s 6d, low middling 61s to 61s 6d, fine brown 59s to 60s 6:if good 57s 6d to 535, low and mid 53s to 55s 6d.
The Sun. — 1839-04-02 (London, England)

LIFE ASSURANCE.—Since writing the article on Life Assurance in a late number, our attention has been drawn to a number of peculiarities in the mode of eff..cting insurances on lives. Almost every institution, it would ap. pear, professes to hold out some peculiar advantage to assurers, which it would be altogether endless for us to notice. It can, however, be nrither invidious nor t,ut of place for us to bring under the attention of the puhlic a set of rules for insurance, which strikes us as being caner ived in a spirit of enlarged intelligence and liberality. We here allude to those put forth by the institution called the National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society. In the event of having discontinued to pay premiums, the policy is not forfeited, but an allowance made for it to the assurer or his heirs, to the extent of two thirds of all payments which have been made after the first five years. It also lends to assurers at any time to a similar extent, and, as far as safety to the Society will admit, without guarantees; thus prevent. ing the necessity for forfeiting the policy. To the person who falls into a state of poverty these regulations must prove very advantageous; at all events, this Society cannot boast of increasing its gains by the lapsing of insurances. Another regulation still more peculiar consists in the relaxation of the ordinary provision for depriving the heirs of assurers of all benefit in the event of the assurer having committed suicide. It being now a well ascertained fact that suicides are in almost all cases a simple result of mental disease or insanity—not by any means premeditated acts— the usual deprivation of all beaefit in such cases is, we think, to the list degree oppressive towards the unhappy family of the deceased. The institution to which we refer considerably relaxes this provision in reference to those who have been insured for a certain number of years, so that no injurious result to society can possibly take place. —Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.
The Sun. — 1825-05-10 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY I.,ATASTIIOI.IIE.--,A Coroner's Inquest was on Thursday held at Amersham, on the body of Charles Hollis' aged 15, who came to his death under the following extraordinary circumstances :—The lad, it appeared, was employed in the business of a weaver, at his father's house, and having neglected his work in the beginning of the week, and appearing idly inclined on Wednesday, his mother locked him in a room.about nine o'clock, and ordered him to weave seven yards in. the course of the day. At ten o'clock he had wove one yard, but complained of being locked up, and kicked and threatened to break open the door. At 11, his mother went up to him, and asked him if he had got any bobbin, when he said he .would not work ; and she told him that if he did not weave another yard, he should have no dinner. At half-past twelve, his brother' came home -to dinner, and having gone up stairs, looked through the key-hole, and saw the lad smiling, and at work. After the brother had dined, he went up stairs with his sisters; she went into the room, and saw the lad sitting by his loom, but thought he looked ill. She then went to his brother, to make him see what was the matter with him, when the brother, on approaching, saw a cord round his neck. He lifted him up, and took off the cord ' • medical Akistance was immediately obtained, but the poor lad was a corpse, and every means to restore animation was without effect. From the evidence. of the witnesses, who consisted of his own family, there appeared no reason to suspect his sanity ; the attempt was believed: to have been made only for the purpose of exciting alarm. The opinion of the medical men was, that the cord, being very small, had caused strangulation to take place, so quick that the deceased had no power to recover himself. The Jury, on this evidance, unanimously agreed, that the deceased had no intention of committing suicide, and re= turned a verdict—" Accidental death, by his Own hands."  On Sunday morning, as a mechanic was argling in the Regent's Canal, near the Rosemary Branch, he observed a bundle floating in the water, and on drawing it to land, discovered that it contained the body of an Infant, but a few days old. From the appearance of the child, it could not have been long dead. It was at first carried to Mr. Heath's, a surgeon, residing in Hoxton, but as the vital spark was totally extinct, the body was by his directions conveyed to Shoreditch church, till a Coroner's Jury could be. summoned to examine into the cause of its death.
The Sun. — 1825-08-17 (London, England)

LAMENTABLE SUICIDE.-Yesterday• evening un Inquisition was taken, at the Black Horse tavern; Kingslandroad, on the body of JAMES' BOULES, Esq:, formerly an, Officer in his Majesty's Navy. The Jury had viewed the body ; the head was almost severed from the trunk, and the left hand was nearly amputated from the arm. Mrs. E. Hunt, of the Kingsland-road, stated t The deceased had lodged five months in- her house. Last Monday week he left home after breakfast, and returned at four o'clock in .the afternoon, when he appeared dreadfully agitated. • He then _asked her to lend him four or five pounds which she refused, assigning as a reason that she had not so much cash in the house.— He again went out,. and did not return till the following, Thursday. On that day, he informed her that he was married the day before (Wednesdayj, and that lie and his bride, had spent their nuptial day at Richmond. His wife he had left under the protection of her friends,, and he expressed his intention of bringing her home on that night. At the close of this conversation he left the house, but previous to doing so he ordered supper to be got ready at an early hour,and suitable accominoda. tion to be provided for the reception of Mrs. Boules. He did not, however return on that evening, nor did he make' is appearance until the Saturday, at which time she (the witness) remonstrated with him on his breach of promise in not returning on Thursday evening, particularly as she had been put to inconvenience in making arrangements for his and his lady's reception. On Saturday-evening he brought home his bride and they dined together; • after dinner his spirits were evidently much depressed, notwithstanding every exertion on her part and that of his wife to revive him. He and Mrs. Boules retired to rest at half-past ten o'clock. At the hour of five in the morning, she heard the back door open, and some .person walk into the garden. About nine o'clock in the morning the deceased was found dead in the water closet, with a wound in his throat, and a cut-in the arm, inflicted with a razor which he grasped in his right hand. He was 60 years of age—his bride 24. The lady is the daughter of poor but respectable parents. His friends objected to the union. The Jury returned a verdict of— " Lunacy."  THE KING, &c.
The Sun. — 1825-06-09 (London, England)

DELAYS OF JUSTICE.—Thcre is, we perceive, to be another meeting of Members of the Bar this afternoon, in relation to the judiciary system. Dilatory litigation is an oppressive evil in any, but more especially in a commercial country ; it is a kind of palsy to all who are so untbrtunate as to be involved in it. We are persuaded that the community will cheerfully second every effort that is made for the removal of the evil, and cannot but express our own pleasure that such a man as Tiros. Aunts EMMET, who is now at the head of the profession, should take the lead in devising measures to accomplish so desirable an end.  Dispatches from the Cape of Good Hope, dated the Gilt of April, mention that Mr. Bresler one of the Members of the Court of Justice, had committed suicide.  The Malta Gazette of the 14th of April states, that the individuals concerned in the atrocious acts of piracy and robbery on board the Speranxa brig, had all been found guilty, but the Governor had commuted the sentence of death for that of transportation for various periods, in consequence of a recommendation from the jury, on the ground that they had all been blind instruments in the hands of others, rather than the planners of the piracy. One of the prisoners, who committed suicide in prison before trial, made a very extraordinary confession, from which it appears that the property in the piratical vessels which plundered the Speranza, was vested in merchants of different nations, and that the proceeds were as regularly appropriated as those of the most legal undertaking. Papers from Halifax to the 4th ult. say, that when the intelligence was received there from England, of the Gottvlernrnent, that intention of the British Government to modify the restrictions on the colonial trade, the Province Building and Exchange Coffee-house were brilliantly illuminated, in testimony of the satisfaction of the inhabitants. specie to the amount of 20000 sf thteonatyhteianl Of April dollars, for British Government bills lately sold in New York, had arrived f it will not, after the 15th of June next, make any advances of money on account of emigrants from America. Tlrey are to be allowed four months' rations and some land, to which a title Conita3inratn-aotificPiarlildieccelarPaatiopnero will be granted on payment of its value. These meas tires are tions • said to have been adopted in consequence of improper speculaby the emigrants, and by agents of foreign vessels. Yesterday the workmen employed at the King's Palace, Pimlico, began pulling down part of the right win n removing the clock that was placed tberez it c. g,
The Sun. — 1825-09-10 (London, England)

THE DISTRESSED ARTIST. GUILDHALL.—Amongst the prisoners brought up before Mr. Alderman BRIDGES, yesterday, was John Brown Eaton, the artist, of Fetter-lane, whose attempt to destroy himself in a court in Fetter-lane, we noticed in our Paper of Friday last, and as the particulars of his case, and the story he then told, were calculated to excite commisseration for him, as to cause unfavourable impressions as to the character and conduct of his wife, it is proper that the public should be undeceived upon these subjects ; and the more so, as, in consequence of the account that appeared, one charitably disposed lady forwarded to Mr. Alderman Atkins a 51. note for Eaton's use. Mrs. Eaton has since made affidavit that the distress of her husband was wholly attributable to his own dissolute habits and propensity to drinking; and that his conduct, for some time past, towards her, had been such as to make it necessary for her to have recourse to her own friends for subsistence.— She also stated that, instead of her instigating him to commit suicide, she, in her endeavours to take the razor from him, received a severe blow in her stomach, and she declared that she considered her own life and that of her child to be in danger  from his violence. The poor woman having removed to her mother's house in Hind-court, Fleet-street; she was pursued there by her husband, as soon as he was liberated ; and it was in consequence of his conduct on that occasion that he was now in custody. Mrs. Street said, that she believed that the prisoner had been intoxicated every day since he had been liberated from the Compter ; that her daughter and her children had been with her ever since Monday, and if she was protected from the annoyance of the husband, she was willing to support them ; but he came there on Thursday, was exceedingly troublesome, and as he declared he would not leave the house, she was obliged to. give him in custody. Eaton in his justification said, that on his return home, on Monday, he found himself locked out of his lodgings, and was told that all his property was detained for an arrear of 2/. 15s. due to his landlord. He was, therefore, now without a lodging, and by the seizure of all his portfolios and apparatus totally deprived of carrying on his profession. Mr. Alderman ATKINS said, .that .his brother Magistrate and himself thought, that as he was able, but did not support his family, the proper thing for them to do would be to throw themselves on the parish ; the Overseers would in conse9uence apprehend him, and the Magistrates would then have it in their power to do that which alone it would seem could cure him of his passion for stating, send him to the treadwheel for three months. Eaton, in the sequel, on his promise not to annoy Mrs. Street in future, and to communicate with his wife only by letter, was discharged.
The Sun. — 1825-06-22 (London, England)

FOLLGERS.—llitherto, front prudential reasons, we have abstained from alluding to a forgery on the 20s. note of Messrs. Hunter and Co. that appeared about two weeks ago, under the conviction that the most active means would be pursued for its suppression, and in that anticipation we have not been disappoined. Last week a person from Ireland was de tected uttering some of the forged notes in the neighbourhood of the village of Straiton ; and on Friday Lot such information reached the Sheriff Substitute as induced him, with a promptitude highly to be commended, to send the chief constable and a well selected party to Belthet, who through the spirited personal assistance of the Sovereign of that city, by whom they were headed, succeeded, about 5 o'clock on Tuesday morning, in securing two prominent operators, in the very act of making the notes, and having above a hundred before them in various stages of preparation. This, if not the only instance, ix one of the few we have had to record of detection of those apparently the most guilty in this mischievous trade; and it gives us pleasure to understand this fortunate result has being attained through the active, intelligent, and vigorous interposition of the public functionaries in both kingdoms.— For a time at least it must restrain the practice of a gang in the north of Ireland, who have long been in the habit of following this guilty business.—( Ayr Adverti4cr. ) On lkionday last, a young woman having been taxed with infidelity to her husband, was so exasperated, that she immediately left her work, and committed suicide, by throwing herself into the river, near Messrs. Pickford and Poulson's Mill, at Stoke-upon-Trent, where he was found by George Joynson, the postboy, who was delivering letters; and seeing a bonnet on the river bunk, procured assistance, when the body was drugged out, and taken to a neighbouring house. Medical aid was immediately produced, and the usual means for restoration resorted to but without effect—the vital spark had fled. (Pottery tl fercury.) A Reverend Dean, who was very economical of his wine, descanting one day on the extraordinary performance of a blind man, remarked that the poor fellow could see no more than " that bottle."—" No wonder at that, Sir," replied a Aiinor Canon, 44 for we have seen no more than that bottle all the afternoon."  Dr. IbricucLivrE, who tiled Bishop of Peterborough, had much ready wit, and was extremely apt at checking those who were fond of cavilling at the meaning of different texts of Scripture. On being asked one day what was to be understood by the expression, "lie clothed himself with curses as with a raiment,"—" the clearest thing in the world," replied the Doctor, " the man had a habit of swearing."
The Sun. — 1825-07-05 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—On I,Vedne.sda v, Mr. E. YOUENS' a boot and shoe-maker, in Red Lion-street, Holborn, arrived at Brighton with his wife, her brother and sister. The Ladies went in search of lodgings, while Mr. Youens and his brother-in-law walked about. The attention of the latter having been diverted for a few minutes, when he returned, his brother had disappeared, and from that time was not again seen alive by any of his friends._ Every inquiry was made, but without success, till the same evening, when a coat and waistcoat were found lying on the beach, apparently as if deposited there ; the sleeve Of the coat was yet warm, and in the pocket was found 40/, and some memoranda. Shortly after the body was found in.the sea opposite the Regency-square.—A Coroner's Inquest was held, when the brother-in-law stated that his unhappy relative had laboured under mental despondency, and a verdict was recorded, of " Drowned himself while in a state of temporary derangement."—The deceased paid his addresses to the lady whom he. had but just married, as long as 12 years ago. Not being able to obtain the consent of her father, the courtship was then broken off, and, on the death of the father, was renewed. He was 42 years old, and his wife about the same age. An Inquest was held yesterday at the Feathers, Waterloo-road, on the body orf Sophia Thomas. The deceased, who was a lady's maid, was in a few days to have embarked for the Continent with a Nobleman's family, an-I had requested her brother, a waterman, to carry her in his boath from Qucenhithe to the steam-boat. A little girl accompanied them, and on their return the brother rowed up to London-bridge against tide, and was passing under the arch, when the boat struck against the starling and upset; the brother caught one of the sculls and drifted close to the place where his sister and the girl were clinging, they caught him round the waist and held him firmly, he was unable to keep above water, and they all sunk together. The young.tnari and the girl were subsequently picked up, but Sophia:. Thor.p, 'was erawnett—Verdict—" Accidental Death." •