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The Sun. — 1841-11-11 (London, England)

MELANCHOTY SUICIDE.--OR Wednesday night an inquest N‘ as holden at the Royal Oak, Galwaystreet, St. Luke's, before Mr. Baker, on view of the bodyof Elizabeth Hobbs, aged forty-six, who hung herself under the following painful circumstances :—lt appeared that, about four months ago, the deceased, who occupied the house, No. 40, Galway-street, was left a widow with four children to support. Her husband died suddenly, and an inquest was held upon his body. Since then she had been most disconsolate. Last Saturday she made an attempt to hang herself; after which she appeared to repent it, and went twice to chapel the following day. On Monday morning, about eight o'clock, she was found in her bedroom, suspended by a piece of ribbon, quite dead. She was spoken to by her sister only five minutes previously, and said she would be down at breakfast in a few minutes. Verdict—Temporary insanity. FATAL ACCIDENT THROUGH DISCHARGING FlREWORKS.—Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr. Wakley, in the Board-room of Middlesex Hospital, an the body of George Messenger, aged 40. From the evidence it appeared that the deceased was a carter in the employ of Mr. Cooper, builder, No. 7, Golding street, St. Pancras-road. On Friday, the sth instant, deceased was with his cart in the Edgware- road, opposite the Black Lion public-house, in the act of taking the nosebag from the horses head, when the ,animal suddenly took fright at some boys discharging fireworks, and, starting off at full speed, knocked deceased down, and the wheels of the cart passed over him. On being picked up he was conveyed to the above institution, where it wa discovered that both shoulder-blades and nine of his ribs were fractured. Every assistance was afforded him, but he lingered in the greatest agony till half-past ten o'clock the next morning, when he died. The Coroner and Jury having deprecated the ir ischievous and dangerous practice of letting off fireworks in the public thoroughfares, a verdict was returned of " Accidental death." In the reign of Charles the First, a Mayor of Norwich actually sent a poor fellow to prison, for saying the Prince of Wales was born without a shirt.— Cambridge Advertiser,
The Sun. — 1841-04-13 (London, England)

RESPITE OF THE SENTENCE OF DEATH...—. On Saturday last the Governor of York Castle received a respite from her Majesty's Secretary of State of the sentence of death which was passed by Mr. Baron Rolfe, at the last Yorkshire Assizes, on John Mitchell, the youth who was tried for the murder of Mr. Blackburn, near Barnsley. Mitchell will, consequently, be transported for life.  Mr. David Bell, of Glasgow, has addressed the electors of the Kilmarnock district of burghs, announcing his intention to oppose the present Member, Mr. Colqu; houn, whenever an election takes place. In his address to the electors, Mr. Bell thus declares his principles : —" I am friendly to an extension of the suffrage, to the ballot, and to shortening the duration of Parliaments to three years. lam also in favour of free trade in grain, of the tonly h e beingp prosperity pi emrpi toys eodf oeno allm til aerrteiec,l e es e odf to o t h import,e principles of free trade generally, and of a moderate duty wellbeing of EthNeTcAomßmtuunitoy g cane reasls ent ial community." most distressing case of suicide occurred in Dundee on Tuesday night last, arising out of the following circumstance A young man, belonging to Forfarshire, who had been for several years labouring under consumption, had been persuaded to come to Edinburgh for medical advice, which he did. A consulting physician heard and examined his case, and, we are informed, hthinle to young understand that man wrote to it was hopeless. Of his friends, and requested a brother to come ; for and conduct him home but, without for his arrival, took the coach for waiting gave him Dundee on Tuesday, and on the evening of the same day, in an hotel of that town , seemingly unable to bear the sentence hang_ ing over him, shot himself through the head, and died inunfortunate stonily. So determined had the than been to effect his purpose, that he had put no fewer three came to Edinburgh bullets into the pistol. His brother. him, unknowingly, on the as requested, but had passed ,made acquainted, made road; and on Wednesd3y forenoon was. by a mutual friend, ru of the chncholy and fatal catastrophe..—Edinburgh Paper.
The Sun. — 1841-04-13 (London, England)

MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS. Price 2s. 6d.  Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street ; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Harris, 25, Bow-street ; and all Booksellers.  Just published, price 2s. 6d. ALPRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILITIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Varieties, Causes, Treatment, and Cure. By a MEMBER of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS, London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmary. " I am impotent, and nof fit to live."—Last's Records of Suicide. Sold by Onshyn, Catherine-street, Strand ; Ross and Nightingale, Liverpool ; Barlow, Birmingham ; and all Booksellers in Town and Couutry: N.B. Persons in the Country may have this work forwarded by post (free), upon addressing either of the above Booksellers, and inclosing a remittance of 3s.  Just published, in royal 18mo., cloth, price 3s. ; and sent in Town or Country free, by post, 3s. 6d., MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PREMATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suffering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence, Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on the TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRHIZA, GLEET, &c. Illustrated with Cases, &c.  By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY, Consulting Surgeons, London. published by the Authors, and sold 1,1 Balhere, Medicltl Bookseller, 219, Regent-street; 59, Pall Mall; S ,range, 21, Paternoster-row ; Pattie, 4, Brydges-street, Strand ; 8, D'Olier-street, Dublin; Duncan,ll4, High-street, Edinburgh; and to be had of all Booksellers.  The Work which is now presented to the public is the result of very extended experience in a class of diseases and affections, which far some unaccountable reason have been either altogether overlooked, or treated with apathy, and almost indifference, by the et dinary practitioner. To enter into the details of these affections, to point out their causes, and to mark the terrific consequences, social, moral, and physical, which are sure to follow from indulgence, in certain habits, would be entirely out of place in an advertisement. We have no hesitation, however, in saying that there is no member of society, by whom the book will not be found interesting, whether we consider such person to hold the relation of a PARENT, a PRECEPTOR, or a
The Sun. — 1841-06-08 (London, England)

MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS. Price 2A, 6d.  Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street, Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Harris, 25, Bow.street ; and all Booksellers.  Just published, price 2s. 6d. PRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILITIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Va. rieties, Causes. Treatment, and Cure.  Bye:MEMBER of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS, London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan i Infirmary. " I am impotent, and not dt to live, -....Last's Records of Suicide.  by Onnhyn, Catherine-street, Strand c Doss and Nightingale, Liverpool ; Barlow, Birmingham ; and all Booksellers in Town and Country. N.B. Persons in the Country may have this work forwarded by post(free), upon addressing either of the above Booksellers, and inclosing a remittance of :is.  Just published, in royal 18rco., cloth, price 3s. , and sent tree, on receipt of a Post-office Order, for 3s. 64,, MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PREMATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suffering km the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence, Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on the TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRHEA, GLEET, &c. Illustrated with Cases, &e.  By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY, Consulting Surgeons, London. t'ublished by the Authors, and sold ky Balliere, Medical Bookseller to the Royal College of Surgeons, 219, Regentstreet; 011ivier, 59, Pall Mall; Strange, 21, Paternosterrow; Pattie, 4, Brydges-street, Strand; 8, D'Olier-street, Dublin; Duncan,ll4, High-street, Edinburgh; and to be had of all Booksellers. •  The Work which is now presented to the public is the result or very extended experience in a class of diseases and affectno.s, which for some unaccountable reason have been either altogether overlooked, or treated with apathy, and almost indifference, by the otdinary practitioner. To enter into the details of these affections, to point out their causes, and to mark the terrific consequences, social, moral, and physical, which are sure to follow from indulgence, in certain habits, would be entirely out of place in an advertisement. We have no hesitation, however, in saying that there is no member of society, by whom the book will not be found interesting, whether we consider such person to hold the relation of a PARENT, a
The Sun. — 1841-06-04 (London, England)

THE NEW PUBLICATIONS.—The following interesting new works are just published by Mr. Celburn, of Great Marlborough-street, and may now be had of all Booksellers:-1. Campell's Life of Petrarcb, 2 vols. Bvo, with Portraits; 2. The Hon. Mrs. Damer's Diary of her Tour in Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and the Holy Land, 2 vols. small Bvo. with Illustrations ; 3. Ideas and Reflections on the Properties of Music, by his Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Hanover, Bvo., gilt edges, price ss. ; 4. Three Years in Persia and Koordistan, by George Fowler, Esq., 2 vols. small Bvo., with Illustrations ; 5. L. E. L.'s Life and Literary Remains, by Laman Blanchard, Esq., 2 vols. small Bvo., with Portrait ; 6. Trollope's Summer in Western France, 2 vols. Bvo., with numerous Illustrations; 7. Lady Blessington's Idler in Italy, 3 vols. small Bvo. ; 8. The French Stage and the French People, edited by Theodore Hook, Esq., 2 vols. small Bvo. ; 9. The Personal History of George IV., by the Rev. George Crolv, 2 vols. email Bvo. ; 10. Swinburne's Courts of Europe, at the Close a the Last Century, 2 vols, Bvo., with Portrait ; 11, The Book without a Name, by Sir Charles and Lady Morgan, 2 vols. small Bvo. ; 12. The Life and Letters of Beethoven, edited by Ignace Moscheles, Esq., 2 vols. small Bvo. ; 13. The Third Volume of the New and Revised edition of Agnes Strickland's " Lives of the Queens of England ;" loi. 6d. bound, with Illustrations. A. weaver of Beetry, in the Nord, driven to distraction by the infidelities of his wife, recently committed suicide in the following extraordinary manner :—ln the presence of his children, whom he forbade to interfere or call for assistance, he hung himself by a rope from the upper bar of his loom. When he became immoveable, the poor children screamed, and noighbours entered; but it was too late to recover him.
The Sun. — 1841-08-11 (London, England)

STRANGE SUICIDE.  ,  • 1'  • ..r4P,4e4NA,„:  r.. r • • ~ r P  Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the Crown, John-street, Spitalfields, on the body of Emma Butfoy, aged 18, who poisoned herself with arsenic, under circumstances not clearly to be accounted for. The deceased was the daughter of the landlord of the Weavers' Arms, Brown-lane, Spitalfields. On Sunday evening last, after a hard day's work, she sent the pot-boy for a pennyworth of arsenic, telling him she wanted it to destroy vermin. The lad brought the arsenic and gave it to her in the kitchen, and told her how Mr. Morton, the chemist from whom he had boughtit, said she was to use it. She received it, and sent him to her mother for half a pint of beer, giving him the money to pay for it. Her father was in the kitchen at the time, but he was near-sighted and deaf. .4fe then absented himself. from the kitchen for about twenty minutes, and he believed that in the mean time the deceased mixed the poison with the beer and drank it. A female friend and the aunt of the deceased came in shortly after she had taken the poison, when she simply complained of sickness, and they administered to her ipecacuana and castor oil. When the house was shut up, at twelve o'clock, the mother went to bed without going to see after her daughter, who, between three and four o'clock next morning, came and knocked at her bedroom door, saying that she was very ill. The mother took her into her bed, and, seeing that sho got worse, sent for a doctor, but before he arrived the poor girl had expired. Mr. Birch, the doctor, was of opinion that deceased had died from having taken arsenic, and it appeared she was pregnant. It was stated that deceased had been attached to a widower, named Savage, who was very fond of her, but that she had broken off her connection with him, and fell in love with a married man named Kay. Though these circumstances might have affected her mind, it was very clearly proved that ever since a fall she had met with five years ago, her head was aftected. The Coroner said, that the probability was that the injury formerly done to deceased's head had produced, under all the circumstances, delirium, during which she had destroyed herself. The Jury eventually came to that conclusion, and returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity."
The Sun. — 1841-08-10 (London, England)

PUBLIC JOURNALS.  BROM THE DAILY PAYERS OP YESTERDAY.  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 Goverment." Perhaps we may be told that it is the GoIreniment 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 on 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 -svhile there is nothing taking place but perpetual etifferences 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 ;)resent occupies. He has got into one of those " situations," as the actors call them, which are highly effective, but which are 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-still because of the lovers, and the lovers were unable to advance or reLire 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. — 1841-08-10 (London, England)

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 on 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 die 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 are 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-still 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 band, 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. — 1841-05-20 (London, England)

SUPPLEMENT TO POST.OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY FOR 1841," a the above prioe.  W. Kelly. and Co., Old Boswell-court ; and all Booksellers.  Just published, price 2s. 6d. APRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILIIrl ES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Varieties, Causes, Treatment, and Cure. By a MEMBER of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS, London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmary. " I am impotent, and no: fit t. live."—Last's Records of Suicide.  Sold by On%hyn, Catherine-street, Strand; Ross and Nightingale, Liverpool ; Barlow, Birmingham ; and all Booksellers in Town and Country. N.B. Persons in the Country may have this work forwarded by post (free), upon addressing either of the above Booksellers, and inclosing a remittance of Rs.  Just published, in royal 18mo., cloth, price 3s. , and sent in Town or Country free, by post, 3s. 6d., MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PREMATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suffering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence, Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on the TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRIMEA, GLEET, &c. Illustrated with Cases, &c.  By J. L. CUR;FIS and COMPANY, Consulting Surgeons, London. t'ublished by the Authors, and sold by Ranier°, Medics. Bookseller, 219, Regent-street; 59, Pall Mall; &range, 21, Paternoster-row ; Pattie, 4, Brydges-street, Strand ;8, D'Olier-street, Dublin; Duneaw,ll4, High-street, Edinburgh; and to be had of all Booksellers.  The Work which is now presented to the public is the result of very extended experience in a class of diseases and affections, which fer some unaccountable reason have been either altogether overlooked, or treated with apathy, and almost indifference, by the of dinary practitioner. To enter into the details of these affections, to point out their causes, and to mark the terrific consequences, social, moral, and physical, which are sure to follow from indulgence, in certain habits, would be entirely out of place in an advertisement. We have no hesitation, however, in saying that there is no member of society, by whom the book will not be found interesting, whether we consider such person to hold the relation of a PARENT, a
The Sun. — 1853-05-18 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE BY A CLERGYMAN.—Great consternation was created at Horncastle in consequence of a report that the Rev. J. T. Clark, the respected vicar of the parish, had committed suicide. The rumour upon inquiry unhappily proved too true, It appeared that the rev. gentleman had been for some time past suffering from a desponding state of mind, for which no rational cause could be assigned, Upon the recommendation of his medical attendants, he was advised by his friends to try the effects of change of air and scene, and consequently he had been absent from his parish for several weeks. On Saturday morning he returned home, and in the course of the afternoon be shot himself. This distressing affair has naturally created a feeling of the most intense excitement in the town and neighbour. hood, where the lamented gentleman was highly respected, not only for his extensive learning and clerical abilities, but also for his charitable and benevolent disposition. In him the poor have lost a kind and active friend. He leaves a. wife and large family to lament his sad end. The unfortunate gentleman had held the living for not more than five or six years. The Egyptian yacht which was run into in the Channel, and was obliged to put into Southampton about a week since, was docked yesirerday at that port to ascertain the damage. - She bolo ngs to an unele of the Pacha of Egypt. Her whole framework about the spot where she was struck was literally twisted with the force of the concussion. Had she not been built of iron she must have sunk. Her costly and magnificent furniture, such as sofas, chairs, &c., have been taken from her much damaged, and are now in the possession of Mr. Buchan, the ornamental carver of Southampton,- to be repaired. The tassels of the sofas and °titer articles of furniture are of gold.