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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-05-25 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

JULLI,EN'S CONCERTS.—We perceive that M. Jullien is about to delight the inhabitants of Woodside and its vicinity with another concert. His band of fine players ought to be heard. It is a treat, indeed, to listen to M. Jullien's music. Yesterday her Majesty entered upon the 23d year of her age, when the usual demonstrations of loyalty and respect were observed in this ancient town. His worship the Mayor entertained a select company of friends to dinner in the evening, including several distinguished officers of the army and navy.  A serious accident happened to Miss Davys, daughter of Le Lord Bishop of Peterborough, ou Saturday last. As ie was returning from an airing, on horseback with her ther, on the North Bank, her steed became unmanageable,  and she was in consequence precipitated baekwards with considerable violence to the ground. Her riding-habit being very long caught the pommel of the saddle, and she was drawn for a distance of upwards of 40 yards before she could be extricated from her perilous situation. Miss Davys was at length removed home in a carriage, and, although she was much bruised, we are happy to state that she is in a fair way of recovery.—Lincoln Mercury. On Sunday morning the following desperate and determined suicide was committed at the residence of Mr. Minikin, pro nietor of the Cambrian Hotel and Coffee-house, Great Rus>ell-street, Covent-garden, by a gentleman unknown. It ap)ears from the statement of Mr. Minikin that the gentleman entered the coffee-room on Saturday night, and requested .o know if he could be accommodated with a bed, and, being answered in the affirmative, he sat some time, and afterwards retired to bed. At half-past two o'clock, yesterday morning, Mr. Minikin, in passing the gentleman's bed-room door,  leaid dreadful moaning, and on entering the room he foetid dm lying with his head over the side of the bed bleeding codouslv from an extensive wound in the throat, which he had nflicted with a razor. Surgical assistance was instantly sent  for, when Messrs. Ackland and Smith promptly attended, and used every means to restore him, but without effect ; he expired shortly afterwards. There were no papers nor any articles found on his persou to lead to a discovery of his identity.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-02-23 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE.—On Tuesday morning, a person named Agnew, residing in Cowgate, Edinburgh, cut his throat with a rasor, and afterwards threw himself over a window two stories high. Agnew was an itinerent musician, and had been in low spirits for some time.  ANOTHER " LADY" THlEF.—Several contemptible acts of imposition and theft have been committed of late by a person having the appearance of a respectable female, in something after the following polite mode of proceeding : She calls at a milliner's, well dressed, and with a reticule over her arm, gives an order for mournings, with pressing injunctions to have them finished at a certain time; and as the mistress of the establishment is noting her instructions and measurements, the pretended customer applies herself to the filling of her reticule with such " unconsidered trifles" as may be most inconveniently secreted without the observance of the other party. But this lady, it would further appear, has more than one system to practice upon, as the following account of a transaction which took place on Saturday morning will show :—About half-past five o'clock, a medical gentleman was roused by a loud and impatient knocking at his door. On opening the door, there stood a respectable dressed female in great apparent agitation; she asked if the doctor would visit immediately her sister, who was said to be dying—that she had been delivered of a baby the night before, about nine o'clock, but she was fast sinking, and the, midwife declared that she could do nothing, and that  it would be necessary to obtain the assistance or a. doctor.  On hearing this statement the doctor answered that he would attend immediately, taking a particular note of the address. So soon as he could dress, which did not occupy ten minutes, . .  he proceeded to the address, not three minutes walk from hii  hotise. When he arrived there, and knocked up two different families in the land, he discovered that some unfeeling wretch had played off a pitiful hoax upon him, as there was no person of the name in the land, although a person of the name had lived there a few months ago. In this instance there was no theft committed, as far as we could learn; but on the Tuesday morning preceding, a similar trick was played upon another medical gentleman, and in that cpse the doctor's great-coat was slipped off the pin in the lobby. The description of the female corresponds with that of the per• son who is known to have duped the milliners in the manner described, and there is little doubt that there is some bold and ingenious person at work, and acting upon measures preconcerted, with a view to plunder and defraud. We observe that similar dealings have been detected in Edinburgh of late.-1-Glasgow Courier.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-09-24 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

INCREASE OF THE ROYAL NAVY.—Thursday, the Admiralty had quite a warlike appearance in consequence of the number of bills stuck up at the gateway of the names of ships put in commission for foreign service, and notice to petty officers, able-bodied seamen, and seamen, lads, and musicians wanted to join them. At Woolwich, Sheerness, Chatham, Portsmouth, and Plymouth dockyards, the greatest activity prevails in getting them ready for service ; but some difficulty is experienced in obtaining able seamen at those ports, and at the general rendezvous, Queen's Head, Tower-hill, as there is a great demand at present for the merchant-service and American.—Nornikist Chronicle. SUICIDE OF A CHlLD.—Yesterday afternoon the following determined act of sell-destruction was committed by a girl about 13 years of age, named Mary Cattle, or Callow, residing with her parents, in Glocester-cottage, William-street, Maiden-lane:--In the morning, the deceased having accidentally broken a window, her mother threatened to tell her father, a vender,of catsmeat, on his return home. and also threatened to give her a beating herself. The girl said nothing, but watching an opportunity, opened the street door, and ran away. She was not missed for some time, but the mother wanting her, called her several times, but receiving no answer, she began to search about the place, and went to several of the neighbours' houses, inquiring if they had seen her. No tidings could be learned of her until about one o'clock, when some boys who were playing on some dust hills, near the Maiden-lane basin of the Regent's Canal, saw her deliberately plunge into the water, and almost immediately disappear. They informed some men who were at the Albion public-house of the circumstance, who procured the drags from that house, and -after using them for some time, succeeded in getting the body out. It was taken to the above house, but all attempts at resuscitation were fruitless. The deceased, no doubt, committed the act under the fear of the ill-treatment of her father, who, the neighbours state, is in the habit of beating his children in a very unmerciful manner, so much so that a short time since one of his boys was beat in so cruel a manner that he ran away, and was absent for three week. On the fact of her daughter having committed suicide being communicated to the mother, she became greatly excited, attributing to herself the cause of deceased's death.—Times of Thursday.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-04-27 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Thursday morning last, as two Title boys named Sparkes and Mealor, were in search of their donkeys on Wallasey Sand Hills, they were horrorstruck at discovering the body of a man with his throat cut in a most dreadful manner. They immediately gave the alarm, and several persons were soon at the spot, and the body of the unfortunate. man was conveyed to the White Horse public-house. It was soon recognised as the body of John Medcalf, who had been in the service of Mr. Garratt, of the Victoria Hotel, New Brighton. He had been missing two days ; and not the slightest cause, except that arising from intoxication, can be assigned for his committing the rash act. It being generally rumoured, on the finding of the body, that Medcalf had been murdered, Mr. Palmer, special' highconstable, of Wirral, went off from Birkenhead with all speed, and on arriving at the spot and examining the body, he was speedily convinced that Medcalf hail been his own destroyer, for, on searching the body, in the deceased's breast-pocket he found a razor in a case, and another with which he had committed the deed, covered with blood, was lying under his head on the sand.  Two cypriaus were pui forward at the police-court, on Friday, on a charge of having picked the pocket of a fashionable young gentleman, in a public-house, in Cases-street, the evening previous. It appeared that the complainant was accosted by the damsels in the street, and that he gallantly ushered them into the aforesaid house, and gave them something to drink. One of them contrived to take from his waistcoat pocket a £lO, and also a £5 Bank of England immediately after together with three sovereigns. Almost after both the fair ones decamped. The complainant then missed his treasure, gave chase, and overtook them, when he seized them, one by each hand, brought them back, and assured them that their booty consisted of papers of no value to them, but of paramount value to him, and offered them a sovereign if they returned them. The bargain was instantly struck, and the money returned. Mr. Rushton said the complainant w'as liable to be indicted, for compromising the felony, his duty being to give the parties into custody at once to a police-officer, and have them sent to bridewell. As it was they should be discharged.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-04-27 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Thursday morning last, as two litle boys named Sparkes and Mealor, were in search of their donkeys on Wallasey Sand Hills, they were horrorstruck at discovering the body of a man with his throat cut in a most dreadful manner. They immediately gave the alarm, and several persons were soon at the spot, and the body of the unfortunate man was conveyed to the White Horse public-house. It was soon recognised as the body of John Medcalf, who had been in the service of Mr. Garratt, of the Victoria Hotel, New Brighton. He had been missing two days ; and not the slightest cause, except that arising from intoxication, can be assigned for his committing the rash act. It being generally rumoured, on the finding of the body, that Medcalf had been murdered, Mr. Palmer, special- highconstable, of Wirral, went off from Birkenhead with all speed, and on arriving at the spot and examining the body, he was speedily convinced that Medcalf had been his own destroyer, for, on searching the body, in the deceased's breast-pocket he found a razor in a case, and another with which he had committed the deed, covered with blood, was lying under his head on the sand.  Two cyprians were put forward at the police-court, on Friday, on a charge of having picked the pocket of a fashionable young gentleman, in a public-house, in Cases-street, the evening previous. It appeared that the complainant was accosted by the damsels in the street, and that he gallantly ushered them into the aforesaid house, and gave them something to drink. One of them contrived to take from his waistcoat pocket a £lO, and also a £5 Bank of England note, together with three sovereigns. Almost immediately after both the fair ones decamped. The complainant then missed his treasure, gave chase, and overtook them, when he seized them, one by each hand, brought them back, and assured them that their booty consisted of papers of no value to them, but of paramount value to him, and offered them a sovereign if they returned them. Thebargain was instantly struck, and the money returned. Mr. Rushton said the complainant was liable to be indicted, for compromising the felony, his duty being to give the parties into custody at once to a police-officer, and have them sent to bridewell. As it was they should be discharged. Goss
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-04-27 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Thursday morning last, as two Title boys named Sparkes and Mealor, were in search of their donkeys on Wallasey Sand Hills, they were horrorstruck at discovering the body of a man with his throat cut in a most dreadful manner. They immediately gave the alarm, and several persons were soon at the spot, and the body of the unfortunate man was conveyed to the White Horse public-house. It was scion recognised as the body of John Medcalf, who had been in the service of Mr. Garratt, of the Victoria Hotel, New Brighton. He had been missing two days ; and not the slightest cause, except that arising from intoxication, can be assigned for his committing the rash act. It being generally rumoured, on the finding of the body, that Medcalf had been murdered, Mr. Palmer, special highconstable, of Wirral, went off from Birkenhead with all speed, and on arriving at the spot and examining the body, he was speedily convinced that Medcalf had been his own destroyer, for, on searching the body, in the deceased's breast-pocket he found a razor in a case, and another with which he had committed the deed, covered with blood, was lying under his head on the sand. Two cyprians were put forward at the police-court, on Friday, on a charge of having picked the pocket of a fashionable young gentleman, in a public-house, in Cases-street, the evening previous. It appeared that the complainant was accosted by the damsels in the street, and that he gallantly ushered them into the aforesaid house, and gave them something to drink. One of them contrived to take from his waistcoat pocket a £lO, and also a £5 Bank of England note, together with three sovereigns. Almost immediately after both the fair ones decamped. - The complainant then missed his treasure, gave chase, and overtook them, when he seized them, one by each hand, brought them back, and assured them that their booty consisted of papers of no value to them, but of paramount value to him, and offered them a sovereign if they returned them. The bargain was instantly struck, and the money returned. Mr. Rushton said the complainant was liable to be indicted, for compromising the felony, his duty being to give the parties into custody at once to a police-officer, and have them sent to bridewell. As it was they should be discharged.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-04-27 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE.—On Thursday morning last, as two litle boys named Sparkes and Mealor, were in search of their donkeys on Wallasey Sand Hills, they were horrorstruck at discovering the body of a man with his throat cut in  a most dreadful manner. Tliey immediately gave the alarm, and several persons were soon at the spot, and the body of the unfortunate man was conveyed to the White Horse public-house. It was soon recognised as the body of John Medcalf, who had been in the service of Mr. Garratt, of the Victoria Hotel, New Brighton. He had been missing two days ; and not the slightest cause, except that arising from intoxication, can be assigned for his committing the rash act. It being generally rumoured, on the finding of the body, that Medcalf had been murdered, Mr. Palmer, special highconstable, of Wirral, went off from Birkenhead with all speed, and on arriving at the spot and examining the body, he was speedily convinced that Medcalf had been his own destroyer, for, on searching the body, in the deceased's breast-pocket he found a razor in a case, and another with which he had committed the deed, covered with blood, was lying under his head on the sand. Two cyprians were put forward at the police-court, on , Friday on a charge of having picked the pocket of a fashion able young gentle-Man, in a-Public-house, in Cases-street, the evening previous. It appeared that the complainant was accosted by the damsels in the street, and that he gallantly ushered them into the aforesaid house, and gave them something to drink. One of them contrived to take from his waistcoat pocket a £lO, and also a £5 Bank of England note, together with three sovereigns. Almost immediately after both the fair ones decamped. The complainant then missed his treasure, gave chase, and overtook them, when he seized them, one by each hand, brought them back, and assured them that their booty consisted of papers of no value to them, but of paramount value to him, and offered them a sovereign if they returned them. The bargain was instantly struck, and the money returned. Mr. Rushton said the complainant was liable to be indicted, for compromising the felony, his duty being to give the parties into custody at once to a police-officer, and have them sent to bridewell. As it was they should be discharged.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-11-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER AND  BUM= 1W A DE A. DUMB MAN.  A dreadful murder and suicide were committed at Wincolmlee, Hull, by a deaf and dumb man, named Robert Hickson. The wretched man had quarrelled with his wife, Sarah Hickson, about some domestic matter, upon which he seized a poker, and struck her a dreadful blow on the head, and afterwards destroyed himself, by cutting his throat with a razor.  An inquest was held on the bodies on Friday night, and, after being sworn, the jury proceeded to view thetp. They were found lying side by side on a slightly raised platform in a small, neatly furnished room, in Owen's-square, New George-street. The sight was a most appalling one, the throat of the man being cut from ear to ear, whilst the woman's skull was literally smashed to pieces. The floor was deluged with blood, but partly covered with sawdust. Immediately over the corpses was a portrait of Hickson, painted in oil by himself. In another part of the room was a painting of Christ, in the same style as the portrait, and executed by the deceased. Selina Hickson, daughter of the deceased, deposed—l am going for eight years old, and lived with my father and mother. They quarrelled yesterday about marrying. My father went ou, soon after breakfast this morning. He was deaf and dumb. He came back at twelve to-day, to his dinner. He came in dripping wet, and mother said she was so poorly she could scarcely wash for him. He was angry because there was not a dry waistcoat for him to put on. Mother talked to him with ber fingers. Father seemed in a passion when they were quarrelling, but I have seen him worse before. We were getting our dinners, and so was mother, when he came in. He took up a poker from the fireside and struck mother four or five times. She fell down on the hearth, and I never heard her speak again. Father took a razor from the cupboard top and cut his throat. Then I ran out. Hickson was in the employ of Mr. Binning, a coal-merchant, as a coal-porter. It appeared, from the evidence of Mr. Binning, and other witnesses, that he had latterly become jealous of his wife, in consequence of a man named Charles Richardson having been seen walking with her. Mr. Binning had spoken to Richardson on the subject, when he said, " he had walked with Hickson's wife, and would do so again." On being called before the jury Richardson said that Hickson had once accused him of being connected with his wife—" but very little." He bad never repeated the accusation, and he (Richardson) never met her at Binning's stables. Had spoken to her in the street, but nothing more. Never met her by appointment, and had only walked the length of a street with her when they met accidentally. Several jurymen said this witness was morally guilty of the deaths of the deceased. The jury, in the case of the suicide, returned a verdict of "Temporary insanity," caused in their opinion by the improper conduct of one of his fellow-workmen with reference to "-• I  deceased's wife. ,n the case of the murder, the jury reurned the extraordinary verdict of "Excusable homicide."
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-11-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SUICIDE OP A WEST INDIAN MERCHANT.-011 Friday morning last, at half-past eleven o'clock, an inquest was taken before Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the house, No. 9, Groveroad, St. John's-wood, London, on view of the hody of Grogan Mitchell, Esq., aged fl 4, a gentleman of independent fortune, resident as above, who committed suicide by shooting himself. Mrs. Margaret 'Nelson deposed that she lived near Cuckfield, in Sussex. Deceased was her uncle. He had for twenty-eight years been a West India merchant, and during that time resided at Tobago. About ten years ago, having amassed a large fortune, he retired, and coming over to England, had since resided in that house. Witness had been staying there since Tuesday week last, and she then came in consequence of having received anote from deceased, requesting her to do so, and informing her that his female servant had hung herself. On her arrival she ascertained that the inquest on the body of the young woman was just concluded. Deceased then appeared very much hurt at what had occurred, but seemed in his usnal health. He was very much acted with asthma, and could scarcely breathe, and one whole night since bhe had been there he was so bad that he sat up in an arm-chair by the side of the fire. On Tuesday evening last, at which time he appeared perfectly collected, be a he made will he had made some Ina paper.which she understood to ago, Which he said people ought always to do when they were in good health. She then, at his request, signed her name to it in two places, and he afterwards sent for two other persons, who also signed it. About ten minutes past eleven o'clock she was in bed, when she was alarmed by some thing falling heavy, which she did not think was in the house, but which the servant, who slept in the same room with her, felt positive was, and said she was afraid it was deceased fallen out of bed. Witness accordingly hurried to his room, and, on entering, was horror-struck at finding him lying on the floor weltering in his blood. Having raised an alarm, a policeman entered, and a surgeon was sent for, who found that deceased had shot himself, and was quite dead. Witness last saw deceased alive at ten o'clock that night, at which time he was in bed, and in answer to her question as to whether he felt comfortable, he said, " Yes.' Witness did not know that deceased was possessed of a pistol. She had never heard him threaten to destroy himself. On Monday deceased told witness that, when half asleep and awake, strange fancies came into his bead. The same night he was bled. Other evidence having been adduced, the jury after a lengthened discussion, returned a verdict, " That deceased was found dead of certain mortal injuries inflicted on himself with a pistol, and, at the tullea the suicide, he was insane."  SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE  FRIDAY, 26TR NOVEMBER  ARRlVED.—Champion, from Alexandria—Black.eyed-Susan,from Beirout—Bether, from Marseilles—Shannon, Stevenson, from St. Petersburg—Sofia, from Messina—Hope, from Wexford—Perseve. ranee, from Killala—Fairy, from Sligo.