The Sun. — 1837-11-18 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.—An inquest was held on Monday last, before Mr. De Lasaux, coroner, at the parish of River, on the body of Francis Ayburn Worrell, who destroyed himself by cutting his right arm with a knife, from which he bled to death. It appeared from the evidence of Crosoer, of the Dover police, that on Saturday morning he found the deceased in a field in the parish of Poulton ; he was lying on his back quite dead, without a coat. An incision had been made in his right arm, from which a very large quantity of blood had issued ; near him was a knife marked with blood, which there could be no doubt was the instrument that caused his death. It also appeared in evidence, that ;the deceased had been in a nervous state during the last year, and had lately visited Dover for a change of air, lie being at times very low and desponding. He was 53 years of age, having a daughter married to a respectable tradesman, who lives at Dover.  Verdict, Insanity.—Kentish Observer. Sunday morning, a man was discovered drowning in the Clyde betwixt the Glasgow and the Accommodation Bridges. On some individuals rushing to his rescue, they found that he had got his arms firmly tied to his sides with a handkerchief, and seemed bent on self-destruction. It was only by force they got him out, and carried him to the Police-office, where, being taken care of, he recovered. Should there there not be a few spare blankets or greatcoats kept in the office in which to wrap unfortunate beings in such an emergency as this.—Scots Times. The tide rose so high on Sunday as to overflow the street in Strood, and numerous passengers were conveyed in carts at the charge of a penny. A barge going up the river became fixed in one of the arches of Rochester-bridge until liberated by the falling of the tide.— Kentish Observer. _ _  ----The wife of a respectable man in Carluke was last week brought into the gaol of Lanark on suspicion of having murdered a man by administering poison to him, and during her examination a suspicion arose that she had taken the life of another, an old woman in the neighbourhood, by the same means. Both had died under her charge, and were buried, and both were raised from their graves, and the fact ascertained that they had died by poison. Proof has been obtained of her having purchased arsenic on account of rats, and that no rats were known to be in the house to any one but herself. The whole circumstances of the case have been sent off to the Lord Advocate.— Glasgow Courier. Thursday evening, between eight and nine o'clock, a young gentleman of the name of Wrightson, residing with his brother, an artist, at No. 4, Southampton-street, Mornington-crescent, Camden-town, committed suicide by shooting himself. The b•dIl entered the pericardium, and death must have been instantaneous, for on his brother and a medical friend, whose company he had recently left, entering his bed-room scarcely half a minute after the report, life was found to be perfectly extinct. A paper was on his dressing table on which was written, in pencil, " Life is sweet.  in °.Sir Ed. Hales' case he maintained the dispensing 14" of the Sovereign • and he and the other judges (ex-414 S 4 .• • that the Kings of t eet and Powel) were of opinion, Nland were absolute monarchs. He was subsequently ttia"ed to the Common Pleas, and, at the Revolution, t: ally „listnissed. I cannot find any trace of this judge of rWaras--in all probability the influence and services of to 'ttel:ative, Admiral Herbert, induced the House to con• Di 1- :tself with the declaration in the Bill of Rights— e'Y, that James had forfeited the Crown of England, IC.'"git other things, " by prosecutions in the Court of 14, 41's Bench for matters and causes cognizable onlyi in o li,4ll.l4aient" Sir \Vim Williams was not popular, anct tl.;:je'la'e historians attribute Parliaments not compellinge 11dg" to Pay the costs and damages incurred in cons of their illegal decision. These and the next case Topham) clearly, distinctly, and vunequivocally,kio 001 the meaning of the ninth article in tl..Billof oq,l its, which declares that, " proceedings in Parliament 14:ent /Int to b, 411 t of Parliament." peached or questioned in any Court or tlte 14th Car. 11., Mr.Topham, the SA.geant-at: Arms, treap, :At, order of the House of Commons to an action of Jay us h' ought against him in the King's Bench, by one clt) The plea concluded to the jurisdiction—this the vivi art tover-r uled. In 1689, after the Revolution, the sur4eQ4:`udges, Chief Justice Pemberton and Sir Thomas k\i' Were brought to the Bar of the House ; and, having ard their defence, were committed. They re Common Proverb. I have found it bitter." The dread of the failure of some literary speculations is the only assignable motive for the rash deed.