The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1847-08-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SUICIDE OF TER REV. WHITWORTH RUSSELL.— On Tuesday an inquest was held in Milbank prison on the body of the Rev: W. Russell, nephew of the Premier. The deceased was one of the visiting inspectors of the prison, and had visited it on the previous day, when he complained that he was very unwell, and unfit for prison business. Mr C. Dawson, the secretary of the prison, deposed, that the last time he saw him alive was a few minutes before four o'clock, when be came into his (Mr Dawson's) private aloe and having drank some water, said he should not detain him long; shortly after which he left, and in about half an hour afterwards the report of fire-arms was heard, but no notice was taken of it, as there was much firing on the river in consequence of the regatta. About five o'clock Mr Watson went to the board-room, and, on opening the door of a small passage leading to the Armourey, discovered the deceased extended on the floor, covered with blood. Some letters were found in the room, one of them directed to witness, in which allusion was made to the fatal catastrophe, and begging it to be kept secret until his relations were in possession of the facts. Mr Davey, the resident surgeon of the prison, said he had known Mr Russell several years; on being sent for, he found him lying on his back, on the floor, in a deluge of blood; a , pocket pistol, just discharged, was found under his right arm, which had been fired into his mouth. The head was shattered; death must have been instantaneous. He had been ailing for some days, and on Saturday and Sunday he kept his bed, and was very much depressed in spirits; an unusually strange appearance in his manners was noticed. The jury returned a verdict that the deceased destroyed himself, being at the time of unsound mind.—Tintes. The Rev. Mr Russell was brother to Mr Charles Russell, the chairman of the Great Western Company, also to Sir H. Russell, and was brother-in-law, to Mr Greene, M.P. for Lancaster. Big father, the first Sir Henry Russell, was for many years Chief ruatice lof the Supreme Court in Bengal. He married several years since the daughter of the late ViceAdmiral Carpenter, by whom he leaves issue three children. Mr Russell held the appointment of Inspector of Prisons for more than seventeen years, having been appointed to it by the Duke of Wellington. He was a most humane man, and took a great interest in the welfare of criminals, particularly the javenite portion. He was the author of the 'recommendation to Sir J. Graham for excluding all persons from public gaols while preparations were being made for executions. The appointment, worth about L.lOOO per annum, is now at the disposer of the Home Secretary.—Examiner. I Pommy v. Porßitir.—Sir, I write, feeling convinced that by this time numbers of your countless subscribers may have given, too easily, credit to Sir E. C. Staith'emost slanderous aspersion on Roman Catholics at large, by propagating a certain printed document, tensisting of an impious parody of the Lord's Prayer, in which the name of the Blessed Virgin Mary is substituted for that of Almighty God. On the ldth of June last, Sir E. C. Smith unblushingly declared that this unhallowed prayer was circulated throughout Belgium, Switzerland, and France, with the fullest authority of the Church of Rome. On the very day of his blasphemous calumny a Catholic priest obtained from E. C. Smith the document, and forthwith wrote to demand an explanation from the alleged printer thereof, by - Victor Janet, We. 55, Rue de Vanguard. It appears this ' ' has bean - and was  i should  I room,