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The Sun. — 1842-05-19 (London, England)

SUICIDE FROM JEALOUSY.—On Tuesday was held before Mr. Baker, at the Adam and pied vern, Homerton, on the body of Mary Ann -",rer aged 25, who committed. suicide. William Cor"fellqo he lived at Barber's nursery. Deceased was servant. On Friday night last, about eight the met deceased walking with a young man in jillu, '4 bridge road, and shortly after in the Greyhounl house, drinking half a pint of ale to herself. e ra' her ask if she could have a bed there, and being no, she said she would not go home, '',;ace.;„ sister had behaved badly to her, and ruined her 1/:;,cilwe'r mind for ever, as she had been out the whole ilaY/.ed pany with the young man who was to have mall., stialco, (the deceased). She walked with witness for some °,llolive and said she would go back again and ask the len 06ill let her have a bed. He followed her and overtook t,;P in the direction of Lea-bridge, near which he 5 511; her. He then said she should go to Hox to" tamed • She appeared much agitated, and he endeao 604; sooth her, when she promised to go back to the hound, if witness would not follow her. At her 1u0! he left her, and had not gone far when he heard aro tit in the water. He called a policeman, and theY:o the,{ gether towards the bank of the river Lea, be .I„tiatfrj progress fell over a lime heap, and were nearlynet AO4 and suffocated. They found the deceased's bo1:6, shawl on the bank, and having procured the 4,,,111f0ru1i,11, the body out in about twenty minutes; and Mr. -e°,0,0300/ surgeon, endeavoured to restore animation, h°,,,doctpe effect. He had no doubt that jealousy, at the cotta, i her sister, was the cause of the deceased connuP rash act. Verdict—" Temporary insanity." The Limerick Chronicle of Saturday says We A mountains were then covered with snow.
The Sun. — 1842-05-19 (London, England)

TESTIMONIAL TO BEN. M. KENNEDY, ESQ.—Last week, we quoted a paragraph from the Ross-shire Advertiser, mentioning that the friends of Ben. M. Kennedy, Esq., in Wick, proprietor and editor of the Arbroath Guide, had transmitted a splendid gold watch and appendages, through the Provost of that town, to the Chief Magistrate of Arbroath, for presentation, as a testimonial of the high respect entertained for Mr. Kennedy in his native town. We have now the pleasure of recording the presentation, which took place in the Town Hall on Thursday week, at a full meeting of the Town Council of Arbroath. It is certainly very flattering to Mr. Kennedy to know that he should be the honoured instrument of so much esteem, not only of the respectable inhabitants thetf)(f)rso short P cif his oce snativit.ipyi,wd a but of that in which he has public position ; indeed, he felt it to be so ; for, in returning ic( a period his grateful thanks for the very valuable preSent which he received from the hands of Provot Mann, he obServed, " If anything could have enhanced the value of 'the gift in ii, } eyes, it is assuredly the circumstance of it having been presented to me through a channel so respectable ;" also, " Hand • some and costly as the gift is, which I now hold, I hope I shall be enabled to look upon it, not fur its intrinsic value alone, but as usefill in pointing out to me that a conscientious and honest discharge of public ditty is not without its reward."—Diaidee Advertiser. . The General Steam Navigation Company's Splendid steam-yacht, Menus, from Ostend, landed her passengers at 10 o'clock this morning at London-bridge \MK.' . . . I esterday an . inquest' *Ps. hell •qt • the Royal .Oak Inn, Lewisham-road, before Mr. Carttar, on the body of Miss Jane Sophia Mortloek, aged 19; a beautiful and accomplished young lady, who committed suicide by drowning herself. Edward Miles, butler .to Mr. Moor, of Talavera Cottage, Lewidialu-road, deposed that the deceased young lady was his master's neice. She had resided with her uncle since her father .and mother had left England 14 India. Iler. father was an officer in the • East India Company's service. On Monday afternoon witness saw the deceased caulking in the flower-garden ; she had a book in her hand ; at dinner-hour, which was five o'clock, the young :lady. was missing. Inquiries were made as to her absence, but nothing satisfactory took place to account for her absence. About seven o'clock the same evening; the body of the unfortunate young lady was discovered in a pond -1-1 i s, one of the meadows adjacent to the premise,i, ivir• Nicholson, a surgeon, was called in, but all human aid was unavailing. Other evidence was heard, after which the Jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity." Fourteen houses, twenty-one barns, and a great quantity of farming stock and household furniture, were destroyed by fire, three days ago, at Martinpeuch, near Arras, causing a loss estimated at 120,000 f,
The Sun. — 1842-02-02 (London, England)

GREENWICH POLICE. Yesterday Mrs. Mary Hewitt, wife cf a master waterman, residing in Greenwich, appeared to a warrant, obtained against her by her husband. The defendant appeared with her head bound with a handkerchief, spotted with blood, and was accommodated with a seat in front of the bar.  Mr. J. Hewitt, the complainant, said the conduct of his wife was so outrageous that he could no longer endure it. She had repeatedly threatened to destroy him, by throwing vitriol over kim ; and several times had flourished razors (one in earls hand) over his head, vowing she would • take his life. Their matrimonial differences had been often brought under the notice of the County Magistrates, and at their suggestion, a deed of separation was drawn up, and he was relieved of her company, en allowing her Bs. per week. On Sunday morning he was awoke whilst in bed, by a noise of glass breaking, and on getting up he found the defendant had broken six panes of hi, hed-room window. He got up and found she had obtained access into the house, where she vowed she would remain, threatening if he touched her to bury a razor in his heart. It was stated by Harris, the officer, who served the warrnnt, that on taking her into custody, she went into a fit, and afterwards, on the road to the station, she fell down and cut her forehead. Whilst in the cell she attemtte,l to commit suicide by cutting her throat in two places, with a penknife, and ultimately she went off in a strong tit that lasted two hour's, and required six men to hold her. A more violent woman he had never seen in his life.  Mr. May, solicitor, who appeared for the husband, advised hint again to separate from her, and the complainant offered her Bs. a week, together with a room of furniture, for that purpose. Mr. May had just inquired of her if that would suffice, and the defendant (who evidently had a desperate struggle to restrain her feeling:), had just replied " If 1 don't have better health, it won't," when she fell, as if struck with a shot, from her seat to the floor. ,  The officers of the Court immediately raised her, and conveyed her in an inanimate state to the outer office, when nearly half an hour elapsed before she returned to consciousness. The Alag;strate ultimately allowed a private arrangement.
The Sun. — 1842-12-13 (London, England)

SEDUCTION AND SUICIDE.  An inquest was held yesterday before Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the Skinners' Arms, Hart-street, Paddington, as to the death of Emily Churchill, aged twenty-two. Mary Jackson, of 10, Hart-street, widow, stated that the deceased had lodged at her house for about four months. •She had a child with her, and said that her parents were the owners of a very large farm in Yorkshire. She left home about two years ago, in consequence of some differenees with her family, and about eighteen months ago got into service in London, and very soon after was seduced by a gentleman under a solemn promise of marriage. If she went home, she said, she feared her father and mother would not look at her, and she thought her seducer was eoing to be married to another ; and if he did, she would not be long for this world, for she could never afterwards be happy in it. Witness had frequently seen a gentleman call on her. The last time was on Monday. On Thursday he sent deceased a letter, and she afterwards told witness he was going into the country for a few months. The deceased remarked that was only an excuse, and she believed he was going to get married the next morning. On the I ridgy, finding the" deceased did not come down to breakfast as usual, she went up to her room, and found her hanging by a rope attached to her neck, and suspended from a nail in the wall. The poor child was lying in bed asleep. IVitness imrnetrotdee deceased e butdyt,s, table;i witnesst e sit added, hadw u (Lately went for a surgeon, who, on his arrival, said she had been dead two or three hours. She was very low-spirited eshe er meantaf waster f nreadingthehy e herself. letter, tnhoa a l idea unsealed, and was to the following purport : Ini'L.llorltyondoeaarodChtarroluebsc Ia oeya nlnoontg ob er ;a ry ouup kmuiot hw you have so often promised to marry me. I could never bear to see 'my father and mother again unless you keep your promise, and now you are going to get married to another • it is more than I can bear, dear Charles; I did not think you would have so deceived me after your sacred promise. My mind is quite distracted ; people in this world will laugh at me, and I shall be pointed at by every one. lam resolved to make away with myself, and before you receive this letter I shall be no more; but I pray God you will take care of my dear little Emily, and do not desert her as you have me. I hope God will forgive me, and my dear father and mother. Once snore I pray you to take care of Emily. Adieu, dear Charles, and God be with you.—Your once truly affectionate lover, "
The Sun. — 1842-05-10 (London, England)

NEWMARKET, MONDAY NIGHT.—The following are entries for to•morrow 501. Plate. R.M.—C. out of Miss Craven's dam, Lacll.Ajo. ford c., f. Wire, Misnomer c., Nuncio, Sea Hone, keale, Wild Duck c., Rover, Robert de Gorham, and Roaa`i.4;:: T.M.M. Plate.—Sir Hans, 4 yrs: Y. Qin) Minus, 4, Michaelmas Day, 3 yrs; Ohio, 3 yrs; Robin, 3 yrs ; and sody, 3 yrs. Handicap.—Flambeau, 6 yrs • Menalippe, 5 yrs; Joaeuuso 4 yrs ; Eringo, 4 yrs ; Lady Fulford c., 3 yrs; and f by zard, out of Emma, 3 yrs.  On Monday last, a farmer of the village of Mlon • nistos, near Pau, was returning home from the fair 0 f f trejeau, with the money he had received from the sal°, °,30 yoke of oxen, when he was induced to enter a publie'n° on the road, and there became intoxicated to such a clethis that he was unable to move, and his companions carrieti into a barn, in order, as they said, that he might sleep °Pg ,ds fumes of the liquor. On Tuesday morning he was found drj hanging to one of the beams. At first it was believed bet;o, committed suicide, but the fact of all his money having oat' taken from him, and other circumstances, gave conviction he had been both robbed and murdered. The Polish Literary Society celebrated on TIIeSCIS the fiftieth anniversary of the Polish Constitution of 17°1' re the Poles in Paris, and a great many foreigners, were ! iI sent. Prince Czartoriski presided, and delivered a speenTif whieh he expressed the gratitude of himself and his coon peg, men for the asylum granted to the refugees by both Frled and England. Several other Poles of distinction also explw, the same sentiments. 4171  One of the finest specimens in the kingdom of_itiol. Glyeene Synensis, or Wisteria Consequana, a plant imri; from China, is new in full blossom, in the nursery grouSIS Messrs. Newman, Chichester, and has within the last ',kb*, been visited by most of the florists of that neighbeurhoo4'ogtnee extends along a wall 60 feet in length, and 10 fee. Lei of the whole of which space is literally covered with to" flowers of the most exquisite beauty and fragrance. wa9 The National says—" General Bourjolly, vvh° write as our readers will remember, in consequence of cool? tor made by him against the manner in which certain coal.° or protected by the Government, fulfilled their engagements't the on the retired list, and placed under arrest for a month '".1,14 citadel of Lille, and who afterwards continued to refuse 01any concession, has at last, it is said, been again put Oil pay, and sent to the camp at Luneville."
The Sun. — 1842-10-27 (London, England)

FOREIGN.  ...,011 .11na  The Levant mail has arrived with letters ;•-i papers of late dates. The intelligence, which will found elsewhere, is not important. • _.trt i ap. Barcelona advices of the 18th state that a dread storm on the coast of Valencia and Catalonia wit* 1 caused considerable ravages. f on The police at Paris have seized on several copies' a pamphlet, published by Laine, the bookseller in t, Passage Verot•Dodat, entitled " Lord Guizot, tre de rEtranger en France." The same work voll seized at some other booksellers, where a sec°, pamphlet was on sale, entitled "Les Ministres sur Sellette, ou les Dix Commandemens," with this motto'  " Saint Angleterre adoreras, Guizot l'ordonne expressement." The fourteen horses sent by the Pacha of Egypt a present to the King of the French, were landed °e, the 19th at Marseilles. They are remarkably hue' animals. et 4 We learn by a letter from Copenhagen that a new s of recruitment for the army is under discus' sion by the Danish Ministry. It is said, that in futurg, iastead of making peasants, as at present, exclusively liable to military service, the obligation will be lin' posed on all classes. According to the proposed Pin there are to be three branches of the army, viz.' regular troops, whose period of service will betir years, and two classes of militia, one of eight, and t'e other of four, years' service. The Courrier du Havre says :—" A cabin boy °n board the Recherche, the natural son of a Conntlfes; just received information that his father had "t" after having acknowledged him, and bequeathed tO him a fortune of 20,000 f. a year." The number of suicides is shown to be on the in. crease in all the capitals of the Continent. ithe The Emperor of Russia left Warsaw on the inst. for St. Petersburgh. On the same evening'. tea Grand Duke Michael, brother of the EinP eror' arrlc at Warsaw.to It appears that new negotiations are about b:. opened between Russia and the Papal Governnnilva A letter from Rome, 13th inst., announces. tle-ptlrrt,:rsin that city of Captain Gregorieff from St".-e burgh, with important despatches. Alotre The Senate of Hamburgh has invited S. e the Consul of Bremen at Bordeaux, to Per'u— rtu the a functions of Consul for Hamburgh, ad interim, in sequence of M. Meyer having ceased to be CoO' General of the Senate in that city. M. Berryer, who was to have set out for Gereliatrliolo' is detained at Angerville, by the serious inclispos of his son.
The Sun. — 1842-10-27 (London, England)

SUDDEN DEATH OF A BOY.— SINGULAR FATALITY.—On Tuesday Mr. Carter, Coroner for Surrey, held an inquest at the Sea Lion, Wootton-street, Lambeth, on the body of Robert Fitzgerald, aged 14, of 22, Little .Windmill-street, Cornwall-road. Elizabeth Fitzgerald, sister of deceased, said, that on Sunday last she went to St. Thomas's Hospital to see her mother, who had been n that Institution since the preWednesday, and found that she had just died, of dropsical disease of the chest. On her return home she found the deceased, who had been ailing all the week previously, suffering from pain in the chest and various other parts of the body. At bedtime he complained of cold, and at eleven o'clock he threw up about a quarter of a pint of blood. He continued to grow worse, and at two o'clock next morning he expired in his father's arms. On account of the lateness of the hour she could not find a surgeon until after deceased's death, which affected her father so much that after bewailing he ran out, taking , the direction of Waterloo-bridge, off which he would have jumped had it not been for the interference of three policemen, who brought him home. Soon afterwards he again attempted suicide by throwing himself from the window, but the witness prevented him. A witness, named Mary Clarke, said she saw deceased on the afternoon of Sunday, when he appeared ailing, but that he had injured himself about twelve months ago by jumping over a post in the street, which had affected him ever since. By the Coroner—l was present w hen the surgeon, 111 r. Avis, came, who pressed deceased's chest, and caused water to issue from it through the mouth, and said that deceased had died of water on the chest, the same complaint of which the mother died but a few hours before. Verdict, "Natural death from disease of the chest." FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday afternoon, about four o'clock, a dreadful and fatal accident occurred at Nieholson's Wharf, Lo%ier Thame3-street, to a lad named James Wilkuns, 13 years of age, the wharf. It appears that he was at work iyn the third floor of the loftv range of warehouses, and whilst in the aet of giving emploed at lo m ophole to the en below. he overbalanced himself, and fell the some directions from the pavemeni from a 'lei*, of between 50 and 60 feet. He was immediately picked up by the workmen, and conveyed by Mr. Nicholson in a coach to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he expired in a few minutes after his admission. He had been about twelve months on the premises, and repeatedly cautioned by the foreman and others to be careful tow he approahed the doorway of the loft.
The Sun. — 1842-03-04 (London, England)

FALLACIES OF THE FACULTY.—We are -- 00: nished at the great popularity of this volume, agreeing'enter do, with the If estmsnster Review, "that it i 4 almost td sae' raining as a need." Such a clever attack upon rnt% of Or dical opinion could not pass without rousing the ntl,, class, and the bile of another ; and, to quote TV' Dorris at last been fairly praised and abused into fame. • msjoin doctrine that all diseases may be cured solely by atwitiot temperature—in a word, with cold or hot water, an Learoti any doctor at all—is not very flattering to the art. raps4ll but if we may believe the Revue de Versailles, it is:ue making its way to the Continent—witness the follossbri sios sage from that periodical :—" eat inutile de dire I,e ~son fie cause en France 'cette doctrine. Le Docteur ye et' d'autant plus d'attention que jeune et plein d'energierli ..44; court nullemcnt au periphrase pour experimen ce 1:1? Pour lui un chat est, on chat, et les medecins sonts deed iD The ." Fallacies of the Faculty" have just arasrhatil Frenchundon dress at publishers Paris,ef athned work will Simpk in and r supply the trade and the public foreign edition. a The Western Luminary records the suiciVoble young girl, eighteen years of age, the daughter of a re skill man, a pensioner, in Exeter, who drowned herself cntss-,,5--oniane evening last, in a mill-dam near this city. The younker who was apprenticed to a staymaker, and bore a good c"--bat,"' had kept company for some time with her ma-tees sen'esrhP, did not appear on the evidence at the inquest that to an; been any dispute between herself and her lover,. or oot for circumstance whatever had occurred wach could alio 05 the committal of suicide. A medical mlti proved, t eight montl s back the young woman had had a feveiljiht very much affected her head, and he added that he tehfb;ase_A a person likely to be afflicted with insanity. In th other facts to account for her drowning herself, the Jio_.: a verdict in accordance with the surgeon's representatira?f,
The Sun. — 1842-08-17 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—A poor mower, employed in thecounty Wicklow, a few days ago accidentally cut his wrist while sharpeninghis scythe. The blood coagulated and stopped- the wound after some time, but at dinner hour he went to the Lacken, a small mountain stream near where he was at work, to wash his hands. This operation (spelled the wound afresh, and from loss of blood he fainted and fell into the water, which at the place was but a few inches deep. On being missed at meal time his Icompanions proceeded to search for him, and found him dead, lying with his face in the water.—Dublin Monitor.  ---- SUICIDE or A YOUNG Lany.—On Monday afternoon an inquiry was (Tone into before William Carter, Esq., the Coroner for Surrey, at the White Hart Tavern, Kennington-cross, respecting the death of Miss Hortensia Cordelia Haskoll, aged twenty-two, who destroyed herself by taking a large quantity of laudanum on Saturday evening. Mr. Hyde Williams, of No. 17, Chester-place, Kennington-cross, merchant, stated that the unfortunate young lady had resided with him as a frtend of the family for upwards of three years. He then proceeded to detail the circumstances. She was found in bed on Sunday morning. She was sensible. but it almost amounted to a state of stupor. He asked her if she had taken anything, and she said " Yes." He questioned her as to what she had taken, and she said, "Laudanum." She died on Monday morning at three o'clock, and he had no doubt from the effects of .the laudanum taken by herself. She always conducted herself with great propriety and de• eorum in his family. He asked her why she had taken the laudanum ? and she said, " I was very unhappy, for my parents had desired me to return home and leave you, where I am so happy, and the anguish and pain of the separation was so great, and my desire not to hurt the feelings of my family, that it induced me to take the laudanum." She had seen her parents a few days before. He never heard her express a wish to destroy herself. She was of a particularly sensitive disposition and of very religious feelings. When he remonstrated with her ofi the wickedmss of the act, she said, "I could not help it ; I did not know how to leave your house." The Jury were unanimously of opinion that the deceased destroyed herself' while in a state of temporary insanity.
The Sun. — 1842-06-13 (London, England)

CORONER'S INQUESTS. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—On Saturday a long investiga. Lion took place before Mr. Baker, the Coroner, at the City of Paris, Bonner's-fields, Bethnal• green, on the body of George Dnek, aged 48, who committed suicide, by drowning himself in the Regent's Canal, under the melancholy circumstances subjoined : Philip Woodland, of 1, Arthur-street, Hackney, said he knew the deceased, who for many years carried on an eaten • sire business as a -mathematical- instrument maker in Whitechapel, en ploying between 60 and 70 men ; but reverses in business caused him to become a bankrupt to the amount of several thousand pounds. He saw him last alive dn Thursday, when he appeared much distressed, and asked wi'ness for a penny to shave with, which he gave him. He complained that he could get no work, and was nearly out of his mind, for his family were crying for bread, and he bad no food to give expectedtb to emtandtgheet hisdec family easedalisnoto Bs shed tears. workhouse,rs.Hesaid,also ,thhuatt he he had great repugnance to gheaicionhruthohtifehmrthsgeeeoleft,oßand could not find it in his heart to apply. His goods bad been distrained on for rent. poingsßeatu.blieodretfirßniti;nsegelibt,hrleioedbogke-d,kywe drags, His hat, was near and cmbk;ordtnhee-found three duplicates various instruments, for lt3s., and in fu 1 1 o f g r out nlo,kefra°'i ntal lboHeFn agrwlislthattLefrhich be the bawl of the hat was fotn:d a letter, as follows : "My narde is George Mei-, age 48, of Mile-end NewI am obilgerl to Mr. frfo,,::Qes, of Halfmoon-street, Bishopsgate-street, who has kindly sent my poor wife and Children to the workhouse. I have sold alt .1 had to pay my dehts.. end I paWned two beds and one bolster ter 21. 9s. 6d. I Gait do no more for my poor family, for I have not a penny in the ittnlcl.". ultimately returned a verdict of " Tenspartuy The Jul  Insanity.,, FirntACIADINARV