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The Sun. — 1850-04-04 (London, England)

CITY OF GLASGOW STEAM-OHM—It seems only' the other day that we announced the launch of this noble vessel. She is now out on' a cruise. The precise dates which mark a rapidity so extraordinary, seem not unworthy of being recorded. On the 28th of February, then, the launch took place. On the let of March the good ship was at the Crane-berth in the harbour, for the purpose of getting her machinery on board. By the 12th, she had returned to the building yard at Partick, with everything fitted in. On the 20th, her steam was up and machinery in motion ; and on the 27th, she proceeded to the Gareloch, to get her compasses adjusted in full rig and equipment for sea. Considering the weight and power of the engines, and the magnitude of the vessel, this celerity of dispatch on the part of Messrs. Todd and DPGregor has perhaps scarcely a parallel hi the annals of steam-craft. We understand that the City of Glasgow, previously to going up the Gareloch on Wednesday stretched out towards the Cnmbraes, and that, in fair steaming, she made ten and a quarter knots an hour; thus exceeding the expectations of her builders and owners, by about two knots, although not in the best trim for speed, being Tour feet draft of water more aft than forward, and the screw topping the surface fully twelve inches. This is an auspicious commencement, and we have no doubt that under canvas, for which she has' been specially constructed, the Pity of Glasgow will prove almost unequalled in speed. The majestic steamer is new out at cea,-proving herself in every possible way, in order that she may proceed on her first voyage as a sound and well-tried ship. It was expected that she would return from this trial trip yesterday which has most properly been made a thoroughly business matter, in place of a pleasure excursion, and that she will then take her place at her loading berth, where she will then come under the care of her active agent Mr. Langlands, who, we are glad to learn, has not been idle in his department, having already secured two-thirds of her complement of passengers, and a considerable quantity of goods. There is now no doubt whatever that this magnificent vessel will proceed on her voyage to New York on the appointed day—namely, the 16th April Glasgow Herald. -  Thomas Emmerson, a police-constable, committed suicide yesterday, by drowning himself near Richmond bridge. He had been sixteen years in the force. At the annual general meeting held by the shareholders of the St. Germain Railway Company a few days since, the report states that the whole amount of the damage done to the line after the revolution of February reaches the sum of 578,079 E 52c. No definitive answer has yct been made by the Government to the demand made by the board of directors for the reimbursement of that amount The receipts for 1849 are superior to those of 1848, but inferior to those of 1847. A dividend of 25f. per share for the past year was declared; and as a sum of 12f 60c. per share has been already distributed, a further stun of 12f. 50c. is now payable to the shareholders.
The Sun. — 1850-09-30 (London, England)

SUICIDE.-0a Saturday Mr, H. M. IVakley held an inquest sit the Sun, Newman-street, Portman-market, on Richard Pryorby a , aged forty-eight, who was found suspended handkerchief from the ceiling of his back kitchen, 33, Newman-street. Mr. Pell, a neighbour, cut him down, and Mr. Tucker, surgeon, was instantly called in, but life was extinct. Thomas Nolby stated that the deceased was clerk of the works at Lady Vane's, under his cousin, Mr. Arva. On the day preceding his suicide deceased was greatly excited in consequence of a portion of a balcony which he had erected at Lady Vane's being several inches too short. lle called witness out of Lady Vane's drawing-room, and, having bitterly complained of the above deficiency, said that he did not know what to do, as he would lose 161. or 1-i/. thereby. Then, taking up a penknife, be rushed at witness, exclaiming, " Either you or Mr. Arva must die." Witness pinioned deceased, who said, " It's all right ; its only a flow of blood to the head." Witness then brought hint home. lie had been under Dr. Roe's care two years ago for insanity, and was put under restraint. Since then he placed himself under Dr. Coffin's treatment. The jury returned a verdict of " Insanity." A vast chain of associations is often spread out before the mind, by a few simple words, and those associations are nine times out of ten totally different from any that the speaker intended to awaken.— .Eliza ok's Journal. It is stated upon professedly good authority that the average yield of wheat for this county is not more than three-quarters to the acre. Some of the qualities are so poor that in last Friday's market at Lincoln sales took place at the low rates of 225. per qr. The choicest samples realised 51s. ; so that the difference in qualities is ',9s. per qr.— .—Several young gentlemen who Stacmofo:lßOTALr(T.uiroyN. were confirmed on Thursday, got drunk at the Crown and Sceptre, North-street, and behaved with violence and indecency. One of them boasted that he had been confirmed, and that he had afterwards committed one of the seven deadly sins; "and he knew which was best." Bishop Phillpotts's hands had been laid on their heads without al eying the devil within them ; it seemed as if they had all their bad passions stirred up by whatever cause ; one of the excited youths behaving with great indecency to the landlady's daughter, was bundled out by the worthy father.-- Western Times.
The Sun. — 1850-08-23 (London, England)

COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, AUG. 22. Her Mejesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Albert, with his Royal Highness the Prince of \Vales, Prince Alfred,..the Princess Royal, and Prin.cess Alice, embarked shortly after five P.M. on board the Victoria and Albert for Ostend. The royal suite consisted of the Right Hon. Sir Francis Baring, First Lord of the Admiralty, the Lady in Waiting, Viscount Canning, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Maid of Honour, and Miss Hillyard, Major-Gen. Wemyss' Colonel Bouverie, the Hon. Charles B. Phipps, Mr. Birch, and Sir James Clark. Colonel Berkeley Drummond remains at Osborne until the return of the Court.  The Chancellor of the Exchequer has left the seat of the Right Hon. Fox n►ule, liirnam, Dunkeld, Perthshire, for ArdverikP, Kinuusse.  E XTRAORDINARY DthcovEnT.—During yesterday numbers of persons were collected at the top of the Old Bailey, it having been currently rumoured that a quantity of human bones had been dug up at that spot,and.a leg bone with a felon's leg-iron attached. Uponinciu3eY it appeared that when the men employed in laying, down the pipes for thew City of London Gas Consumers' Company had dug do‘M about six feet, opposite St. Sepulchre's Chinch, one of them turned up a number of human bones, chiefly rib bones, and ono leg, with an iron which was formerly put on felon's legs, but which has long since been disused except in extraordinary cases. In the course of the afternoon more bones were found near the same spot, together with another shackle. The place is the junction of the four roads, the Old Bailey, Snow-hill, Newgate-street, and Giltspur-street, and it is rumoured that many years ago persons who committed f 10-de-se were buried here under the old barbarous custom, when stakes were driven through their bodies, and that the irons probaby had been buried in this way on the body of some felon who had coMmitted suicide in Newgate. As yet no skull.bone has been discovered nor any arm bones. ,Those found are not in a very deio-Mtieied state. Why are the " Parliamentary Trains" so called 1.-From the extreme slowness with vhich'everpthing moves .upon them.—Punch.
The Sun. — 1850-03-02 (London, England)

THE LATE SHOCKING CASE OF ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE. At lslarylebone Police-court, on Thursday, much interest was excited, in the immediate vicinity of which a considerable number of persons had assembled, their object being that of obtaining a sight of the unfortunate young woman, Elizabeth Higgins, who, on Wednesday, the 21st ult., was brought before Mr. Broughton, on the very serious charge of having attempted to drown herself and her three children, one of them an infant only seven months old, in the Regent's Canal. The whole of the particulars connected with the truly distressing affair have already appeared in our paper, and it will be remembered that the prisoner and her family were all saved through the praiseworthy and courageous conduct of a young man, named John Rollins, a painter, living at No. 6, Devonshire-street, Lisson-grove. At two o'clock the prisoner was brought from the outer office and placed at the bar; she seemed in a very weak condition, and was allowed to sit while Mr. Fell, the chief clerk, read over the whole of the evidence which had been given against her. Inspector Wiggins, of the D division, said, in answer to a question from the magistrate, that he had no fresh witnesses to bring forward. The prisoner had nothing to say in addition to what she stated upon the first occasion, when she alleged that :he bad been driven to the commission of the act by the neglect and ill-usage of her husband, who was by trade a wheelwright, and who, although earning 275. per week, allowed bor no more then the odd 7s. wherewith to pay all housekeeping expenses—the 20s. he spent entirely upon himself.  - The prisoner was committed to Newgate for trial. A gentleman living, as it was understood, in Homerstre3t, New-road, said that if called upon the next morning at his residence he would present Rollins with a sovereign, and expressed a hope that in addition to what might be given by the Royal Humane Society, many other individuals would reward hint for the intrepidity which he had shown. Mr. Herring, solicitor, Stafford-street, Lisson-grove, gave Rollins 10s., and also observed that he should be happy to conduct gratuitously the prisoner's defence. Mr. BROUGHTON remarked that Rollins most certainly deserved to be liberally rewarded, and asked him if he had as yet received any money from the Humane Society.  lie replied that be had not, but a printed form had been sent to him with instructions as to how it was to be filled ap, and he was to take it to the office next Wednesday. The MAGISTRATE directed Rollins to come down to him at the Court on Monday, and bring the paper alluded to with him.  _
The Sun. — 1850-05-28 (London, England)

DREADFUL SUICIDE.-Mr. William Payne, the coroner for London and Southwark, was engaged for several hours on Friday night, at the Harrow public. house, Borough-market, inquiring into the death of a female, apparently about thirty years of age, at present unknown, who committed self-destruction at the London-bridge Railway Tavern. Mrs. Sarah Wallis, the landlady of the Railway Tavern, on the Surrey side of London-bridge, stated that on Wednesday evening last the deceased came to the bar, and asked if she could be accommodated with a bed. She had a small basket in her hand, and said she expected a letter from some one that evening, and added that when it arrived would I forward it to her apartment ? Deceased went out two or three  times during the evening. On the following day, about four o'clock, a letter came, directed to " Mrs. Lloyd, at the Railway Tavern, London-bridge." At seven o'clock the deceased went out, and soon afterwards came in with a female, who went up-stairs with her. The deceased ordered tea and toast for two. The female referred to left in about an hour, and the deceased remained in her room. At half past eleven the same night witness went up-stairs and knocked at the door of the deceased's bed-chamber, but not receiving any answer opened the door and walked in, when witness discovered the deceased sitting on a chair, with her head reclining on the bed. The deceased's features were dreadfully disfigured, and witness, being alarmed, ran out to the adjoining room and called a gentleman, who found that the deceased was insensible. She had a small phial firmly clasped in her right hand labelled, " Sulphuric acid—poison." The deceased was attired in a black satin gown. The deceased's face was dreadfully burnt by the effects of the acid which had fallen from the bottle. The deceased wore a blue necktie, a silver brooch, gold earrings, white stockings, black laced boots, Sze. In her basket were found a letter and a small note; the former was the one which came by post on Thursday afternoon, and the same bore no date or signature. The principal portion of the letter was to the following effect :—" For Heaven's sake I hope you will not commit any rash act, or think of destroying yourself. I trust you will be advised by the female friend to whom I referred you, and who, I am sure, will give you the beat of advice. By the time you receive this letter I shall have sailed from England for ever." There were 4s. in silver and a pocket-handkerchief in her basket.  After some further evidence of no importance the inquiry was adjourned with the view of finding out the deceased friends.
The Sun. — 1850-05-28 (London, England)

CORONERS' INQUESTS. LOVE AND SUICIDE.—On Saturday evening, at Mr. William Carter, the coroner' for six o'clock, inquiry at the Old Mitre Surrey, opened a longßlack friars-road, respecting the , years, latelyDoctors'commons, Tavern, Broad-wall, death of Thomas HuntK Cooper, eßr,ya,gieerd. residing at No. 5, Ryder-court, circumstances briefly who committednl the following dreadful act of -self-destruction under thedetailed in the subjoined evidence of the principal Witness :-Elizabeth Straker, of No. 1, Thomas,. place, Gravellane, 131ackfriars-road, stated that she had known the ad been frequently for many years. Witness' h annoyed by the deceased, who followed her about daily from place to place, more particularity, during the last 14 weeks, and occasionally ho would threaten to take her life. Witness at one time went in bodily fear, and told him if he persisted in continuing his annoyance she would seek assistance by application to a magistrate. The deceased for a short time desisted, hut again resumed his visits, when she was about to go to a police-court, when the deceased bezged so earnestly that she would not, that she again declined, on his promising not to annoy her again. The deceased still continued to follow her, and on Thursday morning. last witness hard a knock at the street door, and upon opening it *witness saw the deceased, who exclaimed in a loud voice, "I will blow your brains Out:" at the  sa moment deceased presented a pistol towards witnemess, who called for the landlord in the front parlour, who came out and stepped between them. The deceased rushed up stairs, and the next moment the report of a pistol was heard, and when the witness and the land.  lord reached the second-floor back room, they discovered the deceased lying a corpse on the floor, with the upper portion of his head blown to pieces. Deceased seemed lifeless, and by his side lay a pistol.
The Sun. — 1850-05-28 (London, England)

DREADFUL SUICIDE.—Mr. William Payne, the coroner for London and Southwark, was engaged for several hours on Friday night, at the Harrow publichouse, Borough-market, inquiring into the death of a female, apparently about thirty years of age, at present unknown, who committed self-destruction at the London-bridge Railway Tavern. Mrs. Sarah Wallis, the landlady of the Railway Tavern, on the Surrey side of London-bridge, stated that on Wednesday evening last the deceased came to the bar, and asked if she ,could be accommodated with a bed. She had a small basket in her hand, and said she expected a letter from some one that evening, and added that when it arrived would I forward it to her apartment ? Deceased went out two or three times during the evening. On the following day, about four o'clock, a letter came, directed to " Mrs. Lloyd, at the Railway Tavern, London-bridge." At seven o'clock the deceased went out, and soon afterwards came in with a female, who went up-stairs with her. The deceased ordered tea and toast for two. The female referred to left in about an hour, and the deceased remained in her room. At half past eleven the same night witness went up-stairs and knocked at the door of the deceased's bed-chamber, but not receiving any answer opened the door and walked in, when witness discovered the deceased sitting on a chair, with her head reclining on the bed. The deceased's features were dreadfully disfigured, and witness, being alarmed, ran out to the adjoining room and called a gentleman, who found that the deceased was insensible. She had a small phial firmly clasped in her right hand labelled, " Sulphuric acid—poison." The deceased was attired in a black satin gown. The deceased's face was dreadfully burnt by the effects of the acid which had fallen from the bottle. The deceased wore a blue necktie, a silver brooch, gold earrings, white stockings, black laced boots, &c. In her basket were found a letter and a small note; the former was the one which came by post on Thursday afternoon, and the same bore no date or signature. The principal portion of the letter was to the following effect :—" For Heaven's sake I hope you will not commit any rash act, or think of destroying yourself. I trust you will be advised by the female friend to whom I referred you, and who, I am sure, will give you the bast of advice. By the time you receive this letter I shall have sailed from England for ever." There were 4s. in silver and a pocket-handkerchief in her basket.  After some further evidence of no importance the inquiry was adjourned with the view of finding out the deceased friends.
The Sun. — 1850-03-28 (London, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE BY A SURGEON.--CHELTENHAM.—This town has been much excited by a melincholy case of suicide, committed by Dr. Bell, who had been for a short time an inmate of Sandywell Park Lunatic Asylum, kept by Mr. Hitch. The deceased was seized nine months ago with symptoms of suicidal lunacy, and had been placed in the above named asylum, but was occasionally in so rational a mood that his doctor permitted him to pay a weekly visit to his wife and relations at Cheltenham. He had been fetched from the asylum in a carriage by Mrs. Bell, and had spent the day at his own house when the dreadful event took place. Mrs. Bell had gone up stairs for the purpose of dressink, in order to accompany her husband back to Sandywell Park, and the deceased was left in the drawing-room with a young gentleman named Trail!, a pupil at the Cheltenham Proprietary College. This young gentleman was in the act of taking coffee when he observed Dr. Bell walk up and down the room and suddenly stop opposite a looking-glass. He then heard a noise as of scratching, and looking round observed the deceased in the very act of cutting his throat with a table knife, the blood streaming from the wound. The youth endeavoured to wrest the weapon from his hand, but the deceased resisted and pushed him away, upon which he went in search of some of the servants, and returning found him lying on the floor in a complete pool of blood and quite dead. Two surgeons were examined on the inquest, and it was proved that the wound which the deceased had inflicted upon his throat was seven inches in length and four in depth, he having in fact cut down to the spinal vertebrae. The coroner's jury returned a verdict that the deceased had committed the set while labouring under temporary insanity.
The Sun. — 1850-03-28 (London, England)

SHOCKING SUICIDE BY A SURGEON.—CHELTENHAM.—This town has been much excited by a melancholy case of suicide, committed by Dr. Bell, who had been for a short time an inmate of Sandywell Park Lunatic Asylum, kept by Mr. Hitch. The deceased was seized nine months ago with symptoms of suicidal lunacy, and had been placed in the above named asylum, but was occasionally in so rational a mood that his doctor permitted him to pay a weekly visit to his wife and relations at Cl+eltenliam. lie had been fetched from the asylum in a carriage by Mrs. Bell, and had spent the day at his own house when the dreadful event t, ok place. Mrs. Bell had gone up stairs for the purpose of dressink, in order to accompany her husband back to Sandywell Park, and the deceased was left in the drawing-room with a young gentleman named Trail!, a pupil at the Cheltenham Proprietary College. This young gentleman was in the act of taking coffee when he observed Dr. Bell walk up and down the room and suddenly stop opposite a looking-glass. He then heard a noise as of scratching, and looking round observed the deceased in the very act of cutting his throat with a table knife, the blood streaming from the wound. The youth endeavoured to wrest the weapon from his hand but the deceased resisted and pushed him away, upon which he went in search of some of the servants, and returning fund him lying on the floor in a complete pool of blood and quite dead. Two surgeons were examined on the inquest, aid was proved that the wound which the deceased had inflicted upon his throat was seven inches in length and four in depth, he having in fact cut down to the spinal vertebrae. The coroner's jury returned a verdict that the deceased had committed the act while labouring under temporary insanity.
The Sun. — 1850-10-01 (London, England)

BANK OF FRANCE. The following is a return of the situatio❑ of the Bank of Fr:tnee on Sept. 26:  f. 340.556.042 72 113,426.061 0 468,279 23  Cash and ingots Ditto in branch banks Bills past due ..• ••• ••• Bills discounted, but not yet due, of which 15,627, 732 f. were received from the branch banks ... 47,331,129 31 Bills in the branch banks •-• 76.124,580 0 Advances on coins and ingots... ... 5.660.800 0 Ditto by the branch banks . ▪ 1,075,979 0 Ditto on French public securities 15,613 736 10 Ditto by branch banks.., • 2.375,581 0 Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 0 Ditto on the loan of 75 millions ... 50,000,000 0 Rentes of the reserve fund .., 10,000,000 0 itentes, disposable funds 42,394,488 13 Investments of the new branch banks in the public funds ... ••• 12,952,725 74 Hotel and furniture of the Bank ... 4,000,000 0 Real property of the branch banks 3,494,712 0 Interest in National Discount Bank ... 200,000 0 Ditto branch banks ... 230,000 0 Bills protested at Paris 920 9,-17 0 Expenses of administration of the Bank 175 806 91 Ditto of the branches • 230,918 0 Miscellaneous ... 1,145,073 51  L 778,376,879 76  ttetnpted to commit suicide, by throwing herself into the New River.  Sergeant Judd, 44 N., said that when the prisoner was brought to the station-house she stated that a fellow named Richard Grady, who lodged in the same house, No. 1, Fox-place, Kingsland, had violated her ; and he (Judd) had taken him into custody. The fellow was now placed at the bar, and Mrs. Slitter was sworn. The particulars us Aated by her are ef a nature not to be detaileri ; suffice it to say, that the prisoner was se.ling aft-r a situation in the police force, and on Saturday night last he proposed his services to protect the pro,ecwrix .on a vi,it to her sister, and on passing ovar a d-ak field the prisoner threw her down and accomplished hi, object, when she plunged into the river, hut she WAS saved. The prisoner denied the charge, sa‘ing that ihe prosecutrix entered several public-houses on the road, was drunk, and led him across the field. which sh  . . sail was the shortest way to her sister's hous-. The prosecutrix did not deny having drank rum a, smrcral public-houses with the prisoner. Mr. COMBS had no doubt that Mri. Slitter was drum k at the time, and he diseharg-d the prisons.