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The Sun. — 1838-03-20 (London, England)

UNION-HALL. Yesterday Jane Mott, who described herself the wife of Mr. Mott, the Poor Law Commissioner, was brought before Mr. TRAILL, charged with being drunk and disorderly ; and while in that condition using threatening language towards two tradesmen residing in Walworth. Mrs. Mott, who was well dressed, and seemed to be a woman about fifty years of age, said that she had taken a little much on Saturday, and that it affected her ; that she had experienced great misfortunes in life, and was reduced from a state of affluence to one of misery. Mr. TRAILL said that Mrs. Mott must find two sureties of 301. each to keep the peace. She was then taken backwards, and locked up in one of the cells.  Sir Walter Scott's monument at Edinburgh will be a splendid Gothic tower, composed entirely of the choicest beauties of Melrose Abbey, and containing a marble statue of he mighty magician himself.  Last ;light an inquest was held at the Duke of Wellington, University-street, Bedford-square, before Mr. Stirling and a respectable jury, on the view of the body of Mrs. Sarah Boxhall, aged forty-three, a respectable woman, who committed suicide by hanging herself under circumstances of a very afflicting nature. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was the wife of a builder living in St. Pancras-street, Tottenham-court-road.. The unfortunate lady had been in a dejected state of mind for some months past, owing to constitutional causes. O•n Friday last she was discovered by her husband suspended from the rail of the bedstead. Although dreadfully agitated he cut her down, and Mr. Joy, a surgeon, was sent for, who promptly arrived, and endeavoured to restore animation,but without effect. Several witnesses spoke of the dejected state of the poor woman's mind for some time past, after which the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary mental derangement." The deceased has left a numerous family to deplore her melancholy and premature end.  In the whole parish of Bishopstone, near Swindon, there never has been a primrose seen to grow, though in the neighbouring parishes they abound. A stream parts Bishopstone from Hinton, and on the side of the latter primroses are to be seen by thousands. —Salisbury Herald. Sunday afternoon the remains of Teophil Odechowski, a native of Valonia, in Poland. and aged 33, were interred in the new cemetery at Kensall-green. The deceased had held a high tank in the Polish army, and was distinguished for the courage and intrepidity he displayed in the many engagemer.ts that took place during the Polish' struggle for liberty, and more particularly in the defence of Warsaw. Since his exile, the diseased had resided principally in Germany ; but feeling his end approaching, he expressed an earnest wish that his friends should convey him to England, that he might, to use his own expression, " die in a land of freedom." This wish was complied with, and the deceased lived but a few days after his arrival in London. The deceased was followed to the grave by a great number of his unfortunate countrymen and companions in arms.
The Sun. — 1838-01-04 (London, England)

SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—Since Sunday last a very painful sensation has taken place in the neighbourhood cf Ivy-lane, Paternoster-row, in consequence of a most dreadful circumstance which has occurred in the family of Mr. Hodges, a respectable master butcher, residing in Ivy-lane. On the 4th of December last Mrs. Hodges was confined uith a fine little girl, who, after the mother was up, received the name of Sarah. Subsequent to the poor woman's accouchement she became exceedingly weak and poorly, and was low-spirited and dejected in the extreme. Within the last week her mind has become more disordered, and on Friday last she told her muse, a female named Harvey, that she had dreamt that the levil had appeared to her twice and said that she must murder her baby—that the dream had male her very unhappy, and that she was sure she was mach r the dominion of an evil On Sunday morning, during the absance of her husband aral nurse, the unhappy woman put a period to her innocent infant's existence by smothering it with some pillows; she afterwards put the body into the copper, and filled it up with water. On the discovery of the horrid deed Mr. Hay, a sargeon, of Newgate-street, was called in, but all efforts to restore the life of the child proved unavailing., the slid uentleman giving it as his opinion that the death of the infant was caused by suffocation before being put into the water. The wretched mother has, ecknowl•dged the act, and says the devil prompted her to it— she has since the sad event been i❑ a-raving state, and great care is taken to prevent her from committing suicide. AR inquest has been appointed to be held on the infant. No further authentic account appears to be obtained s to the persons who attempted to stop the mail cart, a short distance off Scarborough, on its way from Bridlington la t Wednesday night week, It is supposed, however, that one of the three men was either wounded or killed. Time will, I probably, ere long, clear up the affair.—Hull Observer.
The Sun. — 1838-03-19 (London, England)

JANE LOMAX; OR, A MOTHER'S CRIME. By the Author of " Brombletye House." In 3 Vols. London, Colburn, 1838. The incidents comprised in this novel are neither numerous nor complicated. Mr. and Mrs. Lomax, the former a poor clerk in a lawyer's office, attract the notice of Diedrich Hoffmann, a German, and confirmed eccentric old bachelor, who has amassed a large fortune as a sugar-baker at Bristol, and who, in a fit of very usual generosity, allows them, with two children, to occupy apartments in his house in the capacity of house-keepers. A mortal illness seizes him, when he produces a will in favour of a nephew whom he had previously disinherited for marrying a poor actress. At the suggestion of his wife, Lomax is tempted to forge a will, bequeathing the dying sugar-baker's property to himself, and this document being substituted for the original instrument, is executed by Hoffman, who affects the greatest mystery about the disposal of his property, and will not uffer the will to be looked at by any of the witnesses. In he commission of this crime, Mrs. Lomax—who by the ~v layis a Lady Macbeth in masquerade—is instigated Isolely by an excessive maternal love for her son Benjamin, 'a mere youth, but of a constitution so delicate that she fears he will never be able to encounter the drudgery of the counting-house. When her joy is at its height her son dies of consumption ; she herself commits suicide ; her husband becomes a drunkard, and dies in despair in a fit of delirium tremens ; the daughter languishes through life a moping old maid ; and—with the usual regard to novelists' conceptions of the ultimate decrees of a retributive Providence—the sugar-baker's nephew recovers the property left him by his uncle. It will be seen that the moral which this story works out is as old as the hills ; and as for the characters, some of them are so exaggerated as to approach the limits of caricature. Here and there may be met with passages of great beauty, but the impression made upon our mind by a perusal of the whole is neither very striking nor very pleasing. All the characters talk too much to no purpose, and appear too often without any conceivable object, save to weary and perplex the reader. But it will not fail to obtain admirers in the drawing-room, and will be sure to create a sensation at all the fashionable watering-places. The love episodes are unexceptionable for tenderness and disinterestedness on the part of the young ladies, who are all heroines of the first order, and think no more of sacrificing love to the entreaties of friendship, or the dictates of (linty, than they would of presenting a child with a trinket, or a waiting-woman with a pair of gloves. The only naughty woman introduced in the tale is Mrs. Lomax, and even she is respectable for her decision of character, which she perpetually displays, like most clever women, to the annoyance of her chicken-hearted husband. The ladies have, therefore, every reason to be satisfied with Mr. Smith's gallantry.
The Sun. — 1838-04-14 (London, England)

MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—ShortIy before eleven on Saturday night, the inmates of the Benedictine Convent, King-street, Hammersmith, were much alarmed by a loud knocking and ringing at the entrance-gate, which, on the porter opening, was found to proceed from a beautiful and elegantly-dressed young female, about eighteen, who claimed protection for herself and sisters. The principal, on being made acquainted with the application, questioned her as to her name and connections, when she stated her name to be Hortense Mailliard, that she was a native of Artois, in France, where her father resides, but that she had for some time been governess in the family of a gentleman at Datchet, near Windsor, which she had that evening clandestinely left. It being against the rule of the establishment to admit her without previous inquiry, a bed was kindly procured for her at the Sussex Arms in the Broadway, whither she was taken. She had not been there long, however, before she became dreadfully excited ; and after disturbing the whole house, by some means or other, at present a mystery, contrived to leave it, and found her way back to the nunnery, where her application for admittance attracted the attention of a policeman of the T division, who, on questioning conveyed her her actions very unsatisfactory and incoherent, her to the station-house at Brook-green. While there Inspector Morgan elicited from her that she had two sisters in England, one residing in Spital-square, the other at Walworth, respecting whom she had recently nightly had such horrid dreams, fancying one had been murdered while at confessional, and the other assassinated in the public streets, that they had so operated on her mind as to render her totally unconscious of what she was doing. Every attention her distressing state required was paid her during the remainder of the night at the station-house, and on Sunday, having become -Snore tranquil, she was sent, accompanied by a policeman in private clothes, to Spiral-square, where she was delivered into the care of her sister.  In America the trade of a chimney-sweeper is unknown. There are whole States, including some of the largest towns, where such a creature was never heard of. To supply this defect, every man sets fire to the soot in his chimney, by way of clearing—a practice often productive of serious conflagrationp.  On Wednesday evening an inquest was held at the sign of the Elephant, Kingsland, before Mr. Baker, the coroner, and a respectable jury, on the remains of Thomas Staggs, who committed a most determined act of suicide. From the evidence adduced it seemed that the deceased, who was by business a brick-maker, had been for some days labouring under an attack of brain fever. On Saturday he requested his daughter would bring him a pen-knife, that he might pare his toe• nails with it. She complied with his request, and being left alone for a few minutes, he cut his throat h. a most shocking manner, and died very shortly afterwards. The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity...
The Sun. — 1838-07-13 (London, England)

MANAGERS.  J. Evan Baillie, Esq. Lieut.- General R Aped Bell. Vice Admiral Sir J. P. Beresford, Bart. The Right Hon. Henry Ellis. Hon. Archibald ➢iacdonald.  The Right Hon. Jas. A. Stewart Mackenzie. James Mackillop, Esq. W. A. Mackinnon, Esq., M.P. George Traill, Esq.  31AITAGERS. Sir Peter Laurie, Ald. Chair-'John Irvine Glennie, Esq. man. Charles Hertslet, Esq. Francis Warden, Esq., Deputy John Pirie Esq., Alderman. Chairman. Isaac Sewell, Esq. Robert Cockburn, Esq. :Walter A. Urquhart, Esq. Archibald Cockburn, Esq. I Gcorge Webster, Esq. John Connell, Esq. Benjn. Boyd, Esq. t Resident. W. Petrie Craufurd, Esq. Mark Boyd, Esq. S Physician.—John Webster, M.D., 56, Grosvenor-street. The advantages offere4 to the Public by this Corporation are1. Ample Security fOtn their large capital. 2. Rates of Premium nearly 5 per Cent. lower than most other offices acting on the system of participation of profits. 3. Premiums may be made payable either in a single payment, or by annual, half-yearly, or quarterly payments. 4. The assured may either participate in the profits secured against all responsibility by the capital of the Corporation, or may pay a less premium for securing a specific sum without periodical additions. 5. When policies effected by parties on their own lives are assigned to others for onerous causes, the holders arc assured against the risk of the original assured dying by suicide or duelling. 6. Every facility given on moderate terms to persons going beyond the prescribed limits of the policy. 7. Advances made on security of policies of more than three years' standing to the extent of their value. 8. A liberal price given for policies to parties wishing to surrender them. 9. Persons resident in the country can effect Insurances by corresponding with the resident Members of the Board, Messrs. B. and M. Boyd. Attendance daily at the Office, No. 4, New Bank-buildings, Lothbury, London, from Ten o'Clock in the Morning till Four in the Afternoon, where Tables of Rates and Fams of Proposal may be obtained.  PREMIUMS For the Assurance of £lOO on a Single Life, either by Annual, Quarterly, or Half-yearly Payments.
The Sun. — 1838-08-17 (London, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE IN HENRY THE CHAPEL.-AbOut half-past nine o'clock this morning, a very painful sensation was created in the precincts of Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, by the discovery of a suicide being perpetrated in the chapel of Henry the Bth, by the sexton, who also held the senior beadleship of the Hospital just stated The facts are as follow :—This morning, an admission to the chapel, which adjoins Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, was wanted, a person sent to the house of Mr. Thomas Thurrel, the untortunate man, for the keys, but the answer was that Mr. Thurrel was missing, and had been some days ; in consequence the door of the Chapel was burst open, when from the state of some of the contents, suspicions were entertained that there was something wrong. An examination was made, and on going into the belfry, the deceased Mr. Thurrel was discovered, suspended from one of the beams, quite dead, and from appearances had been two days. The alarm was given, when the body was cut down and taken to the dead house of the hospital, till the result of a coroner's inquisition, which will be held to-morrow. The deceased was a married man, and was very much respected. He had held the office as beadle to the hospital, for a great number of years.  An inquest was yesterday taken at the Portland Arms, Portland Town, on the body of John Trante, aged 47. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased, who- was butler in a gentleman's family, about a fortnight ago was on a ladder cleaning the windows of the house, No. 72, High-street, Portland Town, when, one of the rounds he was standing on giving way, he was precipitated to the ground and severely bruised. He was taken in doors and attended by Mr. Gray, a medical gentleman of the neighbourhood, who found that he had broken some ribs, and that his right wrist was dislocated. The dislocation was reduced, but the deceased became gradually weaker, and died on Monday last. He has left. a wife and family. Verdict--" Accidental death."
The Sun. — 1838-02-23 (London, England)

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The Sun. — 1838-10-23 (London, England)

SOUTH AMERICA.  Accounts from Rio Grande of the 14th July represent that divisions had broken out between the insurgent Chiefs since their success at Rio Pardo, and that they were mutually accusing each other of treachery and of not having profited by their victory. Calderon, in the meantime, the Commander for the Government, had collected more than 1,000 cavalry in the Oriental State to reinforce the Imperial a-my. According to advices from Bahia of the 27th of July an auxiliary force of troops from thence bad embarked, and was to sail on the 2d of August for Rio Grande. The sailing of the packet Lyra had been delayed till the 22d of August. Private letters received in the City to-day of the 14th August, from Monte Video, do not confirm this intelli. hence, but the contrary. They state that the outside (Rivera's) party had to a certain extent surrounded the town, and cut off the supplies of fresh provision, The siege, however, was not so strict but that some had gained entrance. Assistance had been sent from Buenos Ayres to Laval:eja, who commanded at Pysandre, by Roses, consisting of 300 men fully armed. Great exertions were also making by the Government to support him. A brig of war bad arrived from France with despatches for Admiral Le Blanc, commanding the blockading squadron, informing him that four more ships of war were shortly to sail from Brest and Toulon, to reinforce the squadron. Exchange at Monte Video, 43id. to 44d. Letters from Mexico, dated the 24th of August, state that advices had been just received there that a French blockading squadron, consisting of two frigates and a corvette, had arrived on the West (the Pacific) coast. A. private letter from Son Luis de Potosi, of the 15th, confirms this intelligence. The writer states that the Prefect had just been with him, to say that an extraordinary courier had arrived, advising that two French frigates, a brig, and a corvette had appeared at San B!as and Mazat to commence the blockade in the Pacific.—Tinies.  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE —Between tSvtive and one o'clock yesterday morning a young man, named John Friend, who is very respectably connected, was brought into St. Bartholomew's Hospital, having male a desperate attempt to terminate his existence by cutting his throat with a rt zor. The rash act was perpetrated at his lodgings in Gray's Inn road; and, although the incision is both deep and extensive, it fortunately did not separate any of the principal vessels of the throat. He had latterly been in a low and desponding way, arising from his addresses to the daughter of an acquaintance having been rejected. S•rong hopes are indulged in of his surviving.
The Sun. — 1838-10-23 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY FIRE.—On Saturday last another fire broke out at Glynn House, the mansion of Sir Hussey Vivian, Bart.' M. P., near Bodmin, under the following strange and singular circumstances. It appears that on that day Sir Hussey was expected home, and the servants had, therefore, lit a fire in the stove to heat the apartments with hot water, which was conveyed through the house in pipes, passing through the lobby to a coil in the corner which warms the great staircase. The pipe in the lobby got red hot, and set tire to the flooring which passed over it ; but, fortunately, as it broke out in the day time, it was soon discovered, and the flooring was being torn up when the gallant General arrived. The fire was soon got under, and no great injury has been done ; but had it occured much later, the whole premises must have been destroyed. It is said by those connected with the house that there was no stoppage in the circulation of the water; but how pipes can become red hot that have in them a free circulation of water, is beyond our comprehension. It is a singular fact that on the last occasion that Sir Hussey visited his residence, the farm buildings narrowly escaped being burnt down, and Glynn House has once before been destroyed by fire. West Briton.  An inquest was held on Saturday evening on the body of a widow lady, named Eastwicke, late of Dorset-place, Dorset-square, who committed suicide by throwing herself from an attic window. Deceased's husband had died about a year and a half ago, and this occurrence had for some time utterly deprived her of reason. Ever since she had been affected with a nervous disorder. She had been attended to with much care by an only daughter, and had been left but for a minute or two, when she threw herself from the window. Verdict—" Temporary Derangement."