The Sun. — 1857-09-09 (London, England)

REMARKABLE SUICIDES.—Two brothers, named Wm.- of this divorce measure-Weida even mutilated and and Henry Adams; sons of John Adams, a cabinetmaker, imperfect as it is. • The spirit of monkery displayed residing in Devonshire-street, Sheffiell, have been fOund in the opposition to it, the de,sire shown by Oxford 'drowned Under singular circumstances. From inquiries and Cambridge and their organs, the Gladstones, made by the police, it appears tbat on Wednesday last the Henloys and the mat, to make marriage a sacraHenry Adams, who is 15 years of age, had a quarrel meat and matrimony a prerogative of the sacere with his father, who, it is alleged, either struck cr pushed dotal, order, will enable the people to set their mark him, and angrily told him to leave the shop. Tnis was ' about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and shortly afterwards upon the abettors of ecclesiastical superstition. It tl urces the youth went to the Victoria 'Railway Station to carry will a place them in a po- Rion to tracy ie snootion, a parcel for some friends. He returned home, refused to of alsohytraditional and purely priestly partake of tea, and, having 'watched a favourable oppor- t hat adultery alone ought to be thegroundfordiv.o_ rce, trinity for Speakitag to his sister, told her he should not Nice people, it is truly said, have nasty idea.s. again baseen alive, and went away. He was not after- Monks •themselves, forbidden to marry, appear to wards seen alive. Oa the following day (Thursday) about think that the chief end of matrimony is, as it were, 5 o'clock, William Adams, who is 21 years of age, also to moralise and sanction theseems mere to lie at gratificationbot of left home, as is alleged, shortly after having had an the sensual appetites. T his the altercation with his father. He went with 21. to pay a torn of the objections of some to second marriages, poor-rate, and instead of returning home with the receipt especially of Bishops, to marriages with deceased forwarded it through the post, with an intimation that wives' sisters, to facilities for new marital relations he too should never be again seen alive. Oa receiving by divorce. So far from such scruplesmhianvdtin, having ntheir f dweherree ared this intimation on the Friday Mrs. Adams reported the source in superior delicacyToorouprurmitiyn, absence of Will.am, the elder son, at the police-office, ideas. To obligations of marriage them as the suggestions of a coarse but, strangely enough, said nothing at that time of the To find that th younger son, who bad gone away on the Wednesday. the most grovelling Nothing more was heard of the brothers until Monday offences against the implied morning, when the body of the younger son, Henry, far greater than mere adultery. whose absence had not been at first reported, was fund grossest deceptionhas been practised by either' party e to ended ; for an honourable and in the canal just at the outskirts of the town. On fTuete iin reference particulars on which their first coneomilealjn to be compelled to continue conday morning the body of the elder son William was ound ! hseignht-wmoiunlddedhaNyv from i cohabitation with a thorough floating in the same canal about half a mile further liar, thief, drunken Sheffield than the place where his brother was found. These are the circumstances connected with the melan-0 her own mind scoundrel, a habitual debauches, or swindler, whereby choly event, so far as they have at pre out transpired. may The only cause assigned for the rash conduct of. th blasted • • be defiled, and her character younger eon is the altercation with his father ; while to b i 9 tied to a man of loose marital , is, in our sense, a far greater injustice than with regard to the elder son it is thought that a severenotions, or too illness from which he had been suffering for some months ' strong passions. Third parties are too often formight have had au influence on his mind. An inquest gotten in these "questions of conscience." Chilwill, however, be held, when the circumstances will be siren, the future citizens of the State, are brought more fully investigated. up according to the degree of moral attainment of