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The Sun. — 1842-07-23 (London, England)

KON ER'S INQUEST. GE SUICIDE BY A CHILD NINE YEARS OF ;t,'"',7(tah Last evening an inquest was held at St. George's rlr,ine before Mr. Higgs, on the body of Emily Cowdroy, eZe's:riea years. Mrs. Thomas, of York-terrace, Chelsea, a ißcheloman, stated that she resided at No. 6, Church-terrace, door. sea. Deceased and her parents oceupied the second mpas There were five children of them altogether. On thee/the instant, about eleven o'clock in the morning, the motherid out deceased was in her room, and some of the children caller pat that Emily had broken a mug. Witness told the *i' then to beat her, and she said she would not. The deceased ;Oat, on the stairs, and seemed distracted about the by the went upstairs and was shortly. afterwards folloWeu I,iltietsl mother. There was a screaming then by all of the C", or tee and the mother came down stairs again. In a morneni`nute the screaming was resumed more violently, and in aW- bet' two afterwards witness heard that the deceased had thr°s", title self out of the window, and saw the Lindlady of the DOO, carrying the child up stairs in her lap. The children were a treated harshly by the parents. A little girl, a sister of the deceased, about six years eli`.l' stated that the deceased asked her to undo her dress, which sPf. took off and threw into a corner, and said, Thank Y°ll:., She then kissed her little brother, and got up on the wincie.: seat, and opening the window, was getting out, when she (wr. sister) attempted to prevent her, but she kicked her froin !wee; and threw herself Lead foremost into the ate& Tr,e,r To was then down stairs. tel The father of the deceased, who was affected to tears, st,!.id, tlvit the deceased was a moat affectionate and sensitive 7,e, The mug in Question was a mere child's plaything, but th, ceased set great store on it, as it belonged to one of her sistet 12 The deceased was quite naked when picked up in the area. _ti, Several other witnesses were examined.from whose t,e:be moray it appeared that the mother entered the room 1;0`,„, instant the child was in the act of getting out of the via to and franticly rushing forward was only just time enougPro catch hold of the deceased's hand. but was not able to re. ler her hold of her. The re:.son assigned for her undroing , self was, the: she was ashamed of her clothes which were shabby. It also appeared that she had been impressed hYt to father, although not intended by him, in a serious waY P°olf break that mug.—Verdict," Died from having thrown he, from a window while in a state of mental excitement." •
The Sun. — 1842-03-25 (London, England)

COMMIT SUICIDE.-- -., GO-- 00- 31,1 in "" e t"'" great consternation and alarm was created urreoc to thely ists(t).°l.)):.t47".uresl • d racks, Charing-cross, by the following "hcoonging sot/Jeer the privates, named William Humphries, . „. there' the be battalion of Grenadier Guards, now 513,./Ino;td setaivgroolos showed symptoms of mental derangemen?m, in thehrew rtlii self from frq portunity of being left alone for a short tt ~ he t lot fp nes, Jug fee' di° oumar quartered windowi n (one upon nthe h efoiluar;tr 1,11 is abutA OD 100 rai Mos of the area. The distance he state, ans. „ter 4 was taken up in a dreadfully shattere.d._ tes, boa is t.Dwobele Charing-crass Hospital, but not the slice h _44, ann_oBo ,n, of of his surviving. • He is about 35 years t ywias'in cotichoseti: be several years in the regiment. 111 rePhad t'sse"e wade or the neighbourhood that Humphries . ,c,_ having ..„, on,Soilt sereral of his comrade's musketsoctil n_ admit FiJoell oil It ell 1 shut himself in his room, and refusehdis to toro-e, of se Per' of the window, he fired several .4 danger °OOl err, of the room-door, to the immTaenTiativg_piace. the stoltbri to leave it himself, and just previous toshot thr,°wirl tile P ver" persons, who were standing on thet I Re Invent'h s on the reporter making a'or of the that it hoot he was informed by the Sergeant-m j mour, and been tb° there was no truth whatever in the roe_ having.. bt. , hey I doubt arisen from the fact of II uallhirits 5 hr-ad, awl 1::De c inquiry a year or two ago similarly affected.' _tting fire r.o rid attempted to set fire wills roo,:n D . t iyllto his passe'''tOhnut, 1111.ttd ridges he had by some means ,0 ;Alit states a 03 el tlie the Barracks on doe The' Hainburgh. Correspo / 783,466 roub e it. The exports amounted to Odessa, ani 9, and 4 Jaffi ......i1m8:01,,t5286t65, vessels osentered the port 00: lady of Bill TB'S' the la-, r 1 ton, flan"' fleil On the 21st inst , at Lyming Sceales, Esq., of a son. Bromley, D , On the lith inst., at Vert. , Berger, of a daughter. At .... ~D. _e_......a g° 04
The Sun. — 1842-06-10 (London, England)

LEFT SPEARING.)  A letter front Bastia, of the 21st ult., relates the fbllov.ing attempt at suicide by a criminal to avoid public expo' sure. Gel orne Benetti, of -Arbellara, one of the most powerfat members of the, family of the Coppi, • which has so long maintained an implacable feud with the Lucciani, being tried before the Court of Assizes for Corsica on an indictment for murder, was found guilty, and condemned to hard labour at the hulks for life, and ,to stand on the pillory. On hearing his sentence, he became frightfully exasperated, tore h:s clothes into tatters, and, with the us, st g.ieatiful imprecations on the beads of his enemies, swore they should never have the gratification of seeing hint publicly exposed to their vengeance and ridicule. Such members of 'his family as were present openly applauded his resolution, and declared that, he would be dishououred if he did not keep it. On being taken back to suison, his counsel endeavoured to calm his mind by assuring m that they had every hope of reversing the judgment by an 'appeal, and, at all evi nts, of obtaining a mitigation of his punishment through the Royal clemency. Upon this, he appeared to be tianquilli.ed. rverthete-s, every precaution was • taken to, p. event trim ;rpm making any attempt on his own life, boing confined in a cell with two o, her prisoners, who eng,ged to watch over hen. Siortly afterward., however, they were heai dto all for help, and the ,:aolers, on enter in; the cell, found Benetti extended on the 11 or, weltering in his own blood. He had made two incisions in his thio.rt ith a small lusty knife, which he previi.,toy endeavoured to shatpen on the stone pavement, aint which no one c did tell how i.e ha i pro,ureu arot cenvid.d. he was procesdieg to inflict other wound, on himself, %shed his companions interpnsAi and preiented hint from Going se. Ills wounds were nut mortal. of Public limtruction having collected and laid before the Royal Council of Public instruction testitin vial of the skilful, humane, and zealous care and attention paid by the students and dies ers at several of the hospitals, andby other young medical men, to the sufferers from the railroad disaster on Ilse Bth ult., the Minister decided that all the charg s for inscriptions, examinations, and diplomas which they Free still to pay, in order to obtain their degree of docto,i should be remitted. :Some of them having already acquired a right to this remittance, from being laureates of the Faculty, or sons of profe:sors, the hlinister, in the name of the University of Franca, awarded to them several valuable works on medicine, surgery, and nasurai history, as tokens of its satisfaction.
The Sun. — 1842-02-14 (London, England)

PRECOCIOUE SUICIDE.—_A lad, 15 years of age, in the service of a respectable family at llcadleigh, attempted to drown himself last week, under tlw, following circumstances :—lle had been sent to the l'os't-office with a letter, and having loitered by the way, he was obliged.to pay extra postage to secure the eonveyar,ce of the letter. On his return, having informed his me.ster of the circumstance, he was accused of dishonesty. This so grieved the youth that he thought this world no longer a fit residence for him, and he accordingly set sail for the other on a neighbouring horse-pond, into which he resolutely plunged, having, very prudently, however, darkly hinted to his master his watery propensities, and the route by owfl the I he was to set off. This intimation led some .oulme family, to the horse-pond, where they found th_oer) iblli, who had nearly peribrined half his voyage, Lionul'Qhe being taken out, after about five minutes' sideralde difficulty in restoring what poets was found ti, be nearly half dead, and there wad "theconvital sapark."—ipstvich Express. month, according to the Swiss jouirenrarsous fever, EPIDEMIC AT LAUSANNEI7 which has Lpautisartge sufferedhasthel a s I severely from the prevalence 01 ad .vromen. In the course of attacked chiefly young persona`the mortality during amount to more than tJhaenuwahryoltehocfre 448; so that tiec is, proporti,m, double the number. 'Li" onea the decline. , .1, than during the previous The epidemic is a The number of deaths in +,kie metropolis was 91 k The decrease has taken place chiefly in deaths caused wee ". *c and contagious d' by epidemic ‘, Iseases, and those affecting the brain. • Deaths from aiseases, of the rather on the increase the wer;7 secedingee a yhaesnaela nd although id t lungs and stomach are still fewer in the week, ending
The Sun. — 1842-07-06 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—Mr. John Rees, manager of the National Provincial Bank at Devonport, destroyed himself on the second instant, by cutting his throat with a razor in his bedroom at the banking-house. It appears that he was married about twenty-three years since to a lady of suitable condition in life, who, within two years of her marriage, eloped from her house with a military officer, and has resided for several years with her paramour at Brussels. Her companion having recently died, leaving her with a family ofseven children, she was compelled to return to the neighbourhood of London, whence it is surmised she has been making repeated inroad on his purse, and it is said that she has latterly threatened to come to Devonport with a view to enforce some unjust and preposterous claims. These circumstances have bad such an effect on Mr. Rees' mind, as to nearly disqualify him for business, and at length induced him to resolve on destroying himself. He rose at seven o'clock on Saturday morning lass, and partly dressing himself, descended to the office, olives I,e was last seen alive by the servant, avho observed the top of his head over the desk curtain. The man went to the stable, and ou repairing to his master's bedroom at the breakfast-hour (nine o'clock) discovered him seated on the sofa, partially lean . big on his left arm, with the razor firmly clasped in his right hand, and his throat cut from ear to ear. On the table was fodnd a sheet of paper, without date or signature, on which was written in pencil, a half-lucid. half-incoherent statement of his feelings, and of the impossibilitybutitis Magistrateu l kooif Lfohtv,ihs. ne existingv‘b.oh borough rleghlu:enodi of ye e thevltresrt sure of his misfortunes. An inquest was held Deceased Mr. Reesday, and a verdict returned of " Temporary insanity." w'h''aliasesraaens son by Idll'iyearsinri'r:enc's.iaidfnee4d several years, and was greatly esteemed gentleness of his manners.' by ad classes for the urbanity and gentleness in the town of his referringG2 dSessionsr adoption. o jnu tory , tisiaeidextpteant His ,fdrelaEt death will be _ltolnvgia:dwd,e:Lptl): *for Anglesea, theo fthe Chairman, ..-expense ehere had iki rt. ti.-tevii'lelicaemnst((T;rueaffr:se)r. ircrease in this item of Peor-law, in his address to the he regarded as a brio6k_en of the years 1834, expense, The average total expense been, and was, a large annual theit we:IV:119? anyedarl.B36inwlBa3sEl36th,seoOto/i;1. elnB3e7n.reseigiolirt 300/. In 1840 s 151,835,/. In 18;i9 it was 16) ; and in 1841,17,6461. •
The Sun. — 1842-01-20 (London, England)

INQUEST.—The important investigation respecting the death of Bassilesa Steapenhill, who was shot by her husband while cleaning a gun, closed this eiv)inaincitnuglly evening. The in which had- been continued from day to day, occupiedaltogetoliferthtehi;triys-onnineer hsoeuemrse,dattido twenty-four witnesses were examined.. In the course of the inquiry, the confidence tilh ee tbecametable, le, generally sat with his face buried in his hands, with his have forsaken himon• seelbioonwssneslesanoifngwhat butit depressed,le caonndwas going forward. He was respectably dressed in black, with black kid gloves, and generally kept his face hid in his pocket-handkerchief. The evidence of the surgeon was very unfavourable to the prisoner's account of the affair. 'the prisoner said, he was cleaning a gun, which lay on a round table, by the' side of which the deceased sat sewing. The discharge entered her chest, making a wound of an inch and a half in diam'eter, internally wounding and lodging a splinter of bone in the courts of the heart, and fracturing the 3d. 4th, sth, 6th, 7th, and Bth ribs. Doctor Daetra. .Turgeon, of the 6th Inniskilen Dragoons, ;a ; consequences to be produced by the Jury% at a gun.The.C.l;oroner summed up at great length, and 'mar andsa ' Zs t s7as a literal impossibility for such a wound , -past nine, returned a verdiet of " Wilful Mimi,' er against Ezra Steapenhill." The all-' prisoner, on he- ' ....iing the sentence,: seemed greatly distressed, ...t covered his face with his hands.  SUICIDE Dirt, A SEltROIMSERY ilit) AND vAirt..--On -Monday a man, ,--. taken into custody ..med James Davis, was possessio- - Crofts, 179 D, who found in, his a bottle of wine, a loaf, and other articles, on his being questioned as to how he came by them, hand, he replied that "they had been given to him by his bro.. go, to prove ther, who was servant to Mr. ,Dowbiggin, of Abercarnr apd might talk placei the prisoner was remanded to afford, tithe: for furwings, as. !wed • but will not. ther.inqUiry,-and on:Tuesday discharged; ins '° _O4 ner. It is spriaLuiTheu-11- ble4)- fl gins having informed- the Magistrate that Mr.—Dow-e from Dr ..0,4 The tureens and vegetable digits biggin's servant had since the fast .examivatOn corneal 211 e. tartle is from the CallAWl2, laitted suicide by liaising hl, e 3&  go
The Sun. — 1842-11-21 (London, England)

FEMALE.—On Saturday nlOl- et, about five o'clock, a Dunstable white straw WI"„ ioir under which was a pair of white whiskers, with aro flower, was found tied to the side, by the banks 0' Canal which passes by Bow-common, and near it, 4 the ground, was a rich black silk scarf, with a fehl attached. Rolfe, lock-keeper of the Ben Johnson W being informed' of the circumstance, immediete ho dragged dragged the canal near the spot, when he found bo body of a female, who was elegantly dressed, and •Woo, was taken to the Gun-maker's Arms, Bow-connto, In her bosom was a letter addressed to Mr.Bennesw. No. 23, Seymour-street, Euston-square, with a sign tore supposed to be " Rahere," in which she slot that she had committed suicide, and requests that so fate might be advertised in the London journaLs, that her husband, who is residing in Lyons, in Fr7h may become aware of it. She appears to be a Fre, the woman, and about 30 years of age. She is about middle height, and rather stout. She had on a" 0 silk shawl 4nd red silk scarf, an Orleans gown, of colour, two flannel and two white petticoats, a rip, stays padded at the breast, a chemise, a pair of vi„-tr," stockings, which were marked with the letter The and a new pair of cloth laced boots, galoshecl• Co. inquest has been appointed by Mr. Baker, the roner, for Tuesday afternoon. env On Saturday, a fire broke out in the naphtha lee iv factory of Mr. Teepe, at Bow, and owing to dire in flammatory nature of the spirit, the premises "Lerived a very short time destroyed. Several engines:l, r as' about ten o'clock from the metropolis, but tj_"'ropicl sistance was not required, in consequence of tuesed to destruction of the property. The fire is suPlof the have been caused by a leakage in the funnel with the gas-still, and which, having communicated %gr fire of the furnace, produced the immediate Cep at' tion of the whole of the naphtha in the retort, am_ was ing to about thirty gallons. Fortunately there no one in the works at the time. ladej It is said as soon as Madame Vestris she es Ointne s o enl? intrust t her engagement at the Ha3'market, h open the English Opera House, and to intrnat there the class of performances which she br°ll67 forward with so much success of the OlymPl
The Sun. — 1842-07-05 (London, England)

CORONER'S INQUEST.—SEDUCTION AND SUICIDE. —An inquest was held on Saturday afternoon last, at the Nine Elms Tavern, Nine Elms, South Lambeth, before Wm. Carter, Esq., the coroner for Surrey, on view of the body of Elizabeth Bevan, aged 19 years. It appi.ared from the evidence adduced to the Jury, that the deceasel had neither lather,:mother, nor relative living., but had been for several months past in service in a respectable family in Westminster, where she was much liked fur her good conduct. Yesterday week she went out fora holiday, having stated to her mistress that she was going to a friend of her mother's, a little way out of town. She, however, did not return at night, and the following morning on coming back she was dismissed from her situation. A private soldier of the Ist, or Grenadier Guards, stated that he had been a sweetheart of the deceased, and that she had remained in his company during Mondav and until the following morning, when he left her, advising. her to go hack to her situation. Nothing more was heard of the wretched girl until about four o'clock on Thursday morning last, when she was seen wandering across Battersea-fields, her hair dishy yelled about her face, and her dress in a dirty and disordered state. In six hours afterwards her lifeless body was found in the River, near to the steam-boat pier of the London and Southampton Railroad. 'There were no marks of violence about it, nor had she any money in her pockets. The Coroner most severely censured the heartless villany of her seducer, in which the Jury acquiesced. After a very lengthened deliberation the Jury returned a verdict " that the deceased was found drowned, but now she came into the water there was no evidence to prove." A very loquacious female witness, whom the opposing Counsel could not silence, so far kept him at bay, that by way of brow-beating her he exclaimed, " Why, t,oman, there is brass enough in your face to make a kettle !--" And sauce enough in yours," she instantly r. plied, " to fill it."
The Sun. — 1842-04-18 (London, England)

THE NOTTINGHAM CUP FOR 1842.—The sot• cup, value 100 guineas, to be run for at the approae",lloo',• tingham races, has, during the present week, been va",; Its the window of the maker, Mr. Maspoli, of this tear",ess„ one of the largest cups we have seen weighing 160 mint; of t+ extremely elegant, being attractive no less by the beat! s. Th form than the exquisite workmanship bestowed epee itsturiA' cup is capable of containing twelve bottles of is vertiser, monde s‘llitho An on dit has currency in the bean mon-- .of h creates the greatest sensation amongst the fair meal:Ter )3,,' aristocracy. We allude to the rumoured ireention of t's jesty to give a fancy ball. The 12th of May is said t 0 day fixed upon for this new fele at this Court. t Ise; The land-owners and land-occupiers of -.-•'15„ c 5, are not, as a lardy, satisfied with the Ministerial messi.r 1:( far as their operation extends to the agricultural interle voice of complaint is hsard also, and in a louder tone, 4, parts of the country.—Kentish Observer, Tory paPer.oser, A letter • from St. Peteriburgh, in the c° mentions that the Duke de Leuchtenberg was speefill Of to Munich, and to stay there some time. A letter from Frankfort mentions a report tibe3;lit's de Bochow, the Prussian Minister of the Interior an ielb.„, will be sent as the representative of Prussia to the Germ4,ss kl; On Sunday, a man of about seventy, I'o, • brains out with a pistol in the cemetery of Mont-ISaen° hit parer was found on him to indicate who he was. . . On Sunday last, a person m.mad kept a restaus ant and billiard room at Bstssels, to t►t some noisy customers, gave way so much- to pole.' st fell down dead at the door of his establishment. .:11° A travAler passing through Bordeaux, 1100tbIlf, time ago, charged by a friend with the remittance ° lost of 15,000 francs in bank-notes and commercial bills, ,ser pocket-book containing all the money. Thrown i'tcihssotes he was contemplating suicide, when M. Fournia, 0 s, a clerk for twelve years in the house of Messrs. Lac. kei'V're' thier, Saulet, and Co., and who had found the Pecliteeta went to the traveller, and by restoring it with its co fief Never' him from his distress. 1011°93a' The King of Sardinia has announced that, „,,ie of his son's marriage, he ill grant 120 f. to all the fiste'"*Aprits dren born of poor parents throughout his States, fri 0, is Coto at midnight to the same hour of April 13. This ';_e rot are placed in the savings' bank, and the capital and int` be handed to each girl on the day of her marriages ecroVoi ST.
The Sun. — 1842-04-21 (London, England)

FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 p vent—. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 pei cent lO4 !Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian 80nd5.... .. . ... !Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres 6 per cell !Russian, 5 per cent...,, _ Chilian, 6 per cent..... ;Ditto, N1eta11ic....... Colombian, 6 per cent.. ISpanish, 5 per cent 24 Ditto, 1824.......... ..... (Ditto, Deferred.... . Danish, 3 per cent — (French, 5 per cent. —!. —e. Greek, 18'25, 5 per cent — !Exchange Mexican, 5 per rent.... French, 3 per cent. 81 . —cDitto, 6 per cent. 1637 Dutch, 21 per cent.. 524 Peruvian, 1825, 'i per ct. SHARES Ditto, 5 per cent. .. . 1008 . Bristol :.nd Exeter (70 paid) ... ..... . ... .. 45 ..  East ern Counties Railway (23 paid) ... IOA Ditto New Shares ( paid) Ditto Debentures .. .... . Edinburgh and G!asgow (50 paid) ...... ... 52 Great Western ltailway (65 paid) — Ditto New Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifth (4 paid) Hull and Selby (50 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) 37 1 itto Loan Notes (71 paid) , 8A London and Blackwall (25 paid) ...... Ditto New Shares ( paid.. 10i London and Birmingham (90) • ••' • ..178 London and Greenwich Railway : pd) 6 London and South Western w 6EA London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l4 Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) ... 51 Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ... •• 28 North Midland Railway OW) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) ...... 31 York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ... ... 94  S PA WI OF MEW  AND C4,otlttOn.  " Who runs ma!r read."  FOREIGN Most of the Paris Opposition Journa Is copy the article of he • Courtier Francais, on the pretended . confidential communic 11, Con, by the Emperor of Russia to th, 3 Government of an United States; but few of them comm. ent upon it. The N tional is the only Journal which does so at any length. It t •e-gins by expressing its belief in the auti`ientici ty of the stu tement: and proceeds.with great gravity to enlartle upon the indignant remarks which appeared in the COurries s• The following statement respecting tl.'e natl. Inal debt of Prussia is not without interest, in connec Lion w ith tl se announcement of an intended reduction of the rate of linte rest on public securities in the country. In 1818 the fish twas 32 millions of crowns (1,235 millions of francs). It its re ow re' timed to 98,9000100 crowns, or 375,820,000 f., 1:e taxis 1g . an in: terest of 3% per cent., so that the entire amount of interest" paid annually is only 13,153,700 f., which is a light. bus lien for a population of 15 mil:ions. M. Vanden Hove, remarks the Observaieur B elge, .'sib fourth representative of Belgium who has dieda violent or ailu," den death within two yeoxs. M. Bekaert was struck a In' apoplexy while addressing the Chamber; M. Leseigne wes found dead in his bed ; M. Bazen shot himself, and N. V. II,: den Hove drowned himself. He is We second de/ puty Louvain who has committed suicide durino the present Sessio,