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The Sun. — 1846-06-05 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF A YOUTH.—Wednesday an inquest Wes held before Mr. W. Baker, jun., deputy-coroner, at the Ship, in Finsbury -square, on the body of John Treacher Hall, aged 17 years, who committed suicide by swallowing an ounce of arsenic. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was the son of a respectable hat• manufacturer, of No. 6, Finsbury-square. For some time past the deceased had been in a low and desponding state of mind. He was subject to repeated bleeding at the nose, which appeared to alarm him and prey on his spirits. He was very absent in conversation, and there was no doubt his mind had become affected by his infirmity, which he concealed from his family. On Sunday morning the deceased's brother, Mr. Arthur Hall, left him in bed awake. Shortly afterwards a noise was heard in the room by one of the servants as she was passing the door. Mr. Hall immediately proceeded to his brother's apartment and found him lying on the bed in a state of great exhaustion and pain. Medical assistance was sent for directly, and Dr. Pervia was soon in attendance. He found the deceased vomiting and in a state of collapse. He prescribed for the deceased, and when he was restored to eon. sciousness Dr. Pervia asked him what he had taken. The deceased replied he had taken arsenic The deceased air informed Dr. Pervia that he had obtained the arsenic sib months ago from the warehonse of his brother, who is wholesale druggist, and that he had come to the detertnill4tion of committing suicide, as there was no object worth living for. The deceased expired at one o'clock on Sunday, three hours after he had taken the arsenic. On a post martens ei; amination of the body, Dr. Pervia found a large quantity arsenic in the deceased's stomach. The jury returned a yel diet "That the deceased committed suicide while in a state of mental derangement."
The Sun. — 1846-05-22 (London, England)

REFUSAL TO BURY A SUICIDE.—An inquest was held on the 15th inst. at the Plough Inn, Piecombe, Sussex, on the body of Richard Riddl.s, aged 63, who committed suicide by hanging himself. The jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity." The relations took meaFures to bury deceased at Newtunber, where he resided ; but on Sunday afternoon, when they went to the burialplace, the curate, Mr. Brigsden, refused to bury the body or read ther funeral service, there having been a doubt about self-murd-r. te3l.n Winter produced the coroner's order for burial, and the and if theyl reply, said he had written to the bishop on tile subjecet,xatra shell to would wait the bishop's answer he would provide an was getting very cover the coffin anti keep in the effluvia, offensive. This could not be ac would not ; but allowed get another clergyman to bury him, for body' was interred between the clerk to have a grave dug, and the atiehlwhheiethen said they might live and six o'clock in the evening had neither clergyman, or clerk, or any official with them,__ced;eadnbdttiotntohfueyneral service was read. DEATH OF at his scat, near Charlton, Wool. -ICinsEt.NER A L FvEns. —This gallant Parr's- tivel Iley 'ad"! At.To7Ofthßhis age, and after a brilliant and honour. wick, in the 77th 3' officer expired on thMe but did not enter born in 1769, vanced in life, able career in the seeravrice of his country of 'army until sc4omy viz., in his twenty-fourth y year. THE NEW POTATO CROP . Vl,e regret to learn that the disease has manifested itself in several instances among the new potatoes in Home and Chorlton. One curious circumstance has been mentioned to us. Potatoes of the same kind were planted in the autumn, some apparently sound, and others diseased. On an examination of the crops. it was found that though the disease ex': tad to both, it was most developed in those grown from apparently Sound tubercles.---HancheaW Guardian. Timm—The seventh annual genpeerralimonesetainngd og NEWSVENDERS' BENEVOLENT AND PROVIDENT USTlrhdet affording otveenthplt iatru; relieftl ii, established for me members rsgrantingofithe newspaper publishing e trade, Harmeride,was held on Wednesday, at Andert on 's Hotel, Fleet-street, James Esq., president, in the chair. The report showed that the society t that the subscriptions of the past year were four times greater than the preceding, and that the funded property was now upwards of 800/. Thanks were unanimously awarded to the press, and Mr. Terry stated that no less than 2001. of the subscriptions had been contributed by the proprietors of various journals. The officers for the ensuing year having been elected, the cordial thanks of the meeting were awarded to the president and other officers, and the meeting, 'which was very numerously attended. was dissolved.
The Sun. — 1846-07-13 (London, England)

ANOTHER HORRIBLE SUICIDE AT NOTTINGHAM.— The IVidtinghaus Guardian of Friday mentions the following terrible case of suicide in Nottingham, which occurred last week :—Scarcely was the excitement allayed occasioned by the recent double suicide in Nottingham, than another' man was discovered in the fields at Ilolme Pierrepunt, near Nottingham, hanging in a holly bush, and who has since been identified as a person of the name of Mellows, a huckster, who was in the habit of attending Nottingham, market with vegetables. The deceased had been missed some days, and the body when discovered was in a most dreadful decomposed state, which would induce a belief that he had been dead some time. The discovery was first made by a lad, who was looking in the holly for bird's nests, when he saw the body of a man suspended by the neck. The Coroner, C. S. Swann, Esq., wes immediately made acquainted with the circumstance, when an inquest was held on the body, at the Fox and Crown, Holme Pierpont, at which the following evidence was adduced :•—• Samuel Richmond, a lad of fourteen years of age, on being sworn, deposed that he resides at Radcliffe, and works for r. Joseph Burgess, at Holme Pierrepont. On Friday witness was sent to the stackyard to fetch some rakes, and in going there he went over the lawn, in front of Earl Manvers' Hall, and saw a sparrow fly into the holly bush on the lawn. Witness went to the bush, thinking there might be a nest, when he saw the deceased hanging in the middle of the bush. At first he thought deceased was "skulking." Witness consequently shouted to a man in the road, and asked him to come and see if there was not a man hanging. The man came to his assistance, and they then discovered that the deceased was suspended from a bought in the holly bush by a handkerchief. He was quite dead. His toes and one knee touched the ground. The man cut the deceased down. His face appeared much swollen and dyblown, and his bands were very black. He was dressed, except his hat, which lay by the side of him. From the situation in which he was discovered he could not have have been easily seen by persons walking past the bush. Deceased was placed on the lawn, after which witness went to his work. Other wit• nesses were called, who stated that the deceased had exhibited signs of mental derangemenr, when he was last seen alive ; and it further appeared that he was a very drunken character. Verdict, •"femporary insanity." DEATH of
The Sun. — 1846-03-04 (London, England)

THE COAL-WHIPPERS' ACT. On the motion of Sir GEORGE CLERK, leave was obtained to introduce the Bill to continue and amend the Coalwhippers' Act. Captain LAYARD asked if the Government was prepared to lay upon the table of the House any returns of the number of suicides committed to the end of the year 1845? Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT said that as there was no distinct register of them there would be some difficulty in obtaining the returns alluded to.  The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at half-past One o'clock.  The Judges going this circuit, Mr. Baron Rolfe and Mr. Justice Erie, arrived here on Saturday last. They were met by the High Sheriff, John Beardmore, Esq., and his train, at about two o'clock, and immediately proceeded to open the commission with the usual formalities.  igYesterJay (Sunday) both the Learned Judges attended Divine ser. vice at the Cathed.•ai.  The business of the assizes commenced this day. . The cause list contains an entry of fourteen causes, of which two are marked for special juries. Mr. Baron Rolfe, who presides in the' Civil Court, disposed of eight of the common juries this morning, of which several were undefended. The special juries are fixed for Wednesday. _ . _  - • The calendar is very heavy, containing the names of ninety-five prisoners. The crimes with which they are charged are also in many instances of a very serious character, there being two charged with murder, one with manslaughter, one with attempt to murder by poison, four with unnatural offences, three with rape, twelve with burglaries, and a like number for highway robberies. It is a circumstance deserving of the greatest attention that in this long catalogue of crime, out of the whole ninety-five prisoners only one is posse,sed of superior education, fitly-two can read and write imperfectly, while thirty-two con neither read nor write at all, so that it would seem that more than the usual amount of ignorance to be found in rural districts exists amongst the poorer inhabitants of this county.  There is a report prevalent in the town that Lieutenant Hawkey, who, eur readers may remember, was one of the principals hi the unhappy duel which took place some months since, near Southampton, the result of which was the death of Captain Seton, will surrender to lake his trial at the present assizes ; but we believe the fact to be that Lieutenant Pym, who was Mr. Hawkey's second at the duel, will surrender and be tried, bnt that Mr. Hawkey will not do so at present. We understand that Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Sergeant Kinglake are retained for the defence We need scarcely say that the above report has caused considerable excitement, as the parties are so well known in the neighbourhood. Nothing of importance has taken place in the Crown Court to-day. 7.  OXFORD ClRCUlT—Reading. March 2.
The Sun. — 1846-04-15 (London, England)

MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 7.—Three per Cents., 29* for cash ; 29i at thirty days ; Five per Cents. not quoted ; Bank of Ferdinand, 260 ; Bank of Isabella, 170 ; Company of Probity, 185 ; Company of Iris, 130 ; Railroad to Aranjuez, 2,080 ; General Assurance, 84 ; Alliance, 170 ; Anchor, 170 ; Gas, 600. Exchanges— London, 374 ; Paris, 16 4.  We have received the Paris papers of Monday. The previous day being Easter Sunday, only three papers were published in Paris on Monday, the Courrier Francais, the Democratic Pacifique, and Galignani's Messenger. It is stated by the Courrier Francais that Tlssowism, who, during the late Polish insurrection, was installed as Dictator at Cracow, had been arrested in Saxony. At the time of his arrest he had a French passport, and had appealed for protection to the French Minister at Dresden. It was believed, however, that the Saxon Government had determined to give him up to the Austrian authorities. We find in the same journal a letter from Vienna, stating that the authorities in Gallicia had received orders to reward the peasants who had distinguished themselves by their loyalty to Austria. The same writer states that the Austrian Government— " Has established a special office for opening letters, and it has been imitated in that respect by the Prussian Cabinet. The intercepted letters are either destroyed or deposited in the archives to serve as criminating documents. Several persons have already been arrested, particularly in Gallicia, in consequence of that odious inquisition. It was the death of the Prior of the Ligurians, who committed suicide on hearing that his secrets had been thus discovered, that opened the eyes of the public on the subject. The police has in its pay a multitude of spies, who do not even rake the trouble of concealing their mission, and live in Austria like bands of condottieri in a conquered country." Lord and Lady PALMERSTON dined on Easter Sunday with the KING, and had accepted dinner invitations from each of the Ministers.  Oa Monday afternoon the discussion on the Naval Budget commenced in the Chamber of Deputies. Lord PALMERSTON was present in the tribune appropriated to the Foreign Ambassadors.  The son of LUCIEN BUONAPARTE had arrived at Havre from England, en route for Paris, to visit his mother, the Princess of
The Sun. — 1846-04-15 (London, England)

APRIL 7.—Three per Cents., 29131 for cash ; 29i at thirty days ; Five per Cents. nut quoted ; Bank of Ferdinand, 260 ; Bank of Isabella, 170 ; Company of Probity, 185 ; Company of Iris, 130 ; Railroad to Aranjuez, 2,080 ; General Assurance, 84 ; Alliance, 170 ; Anchor, 170 ; Gas, 600. Exchanges— London, 37i ; Paris, 16 4.  We have received the Paris papers of Monday. The previous day being Easter Sunday, only three papers were published in Paris on Monday, the Courrier Francais, the Democratic Pacifique, and Galignani's Messenger. It is stated by the Courrier Francais that Tisso\visit", who, during the late Polish insurrection, was installed as Dictator at Cracow, had been arrested in Saxony. At the time of his arrest he had a French passport, and had appealed for protection to the French Minister at Dresden. It was believed, however, that the Saxon Government had determined to give him up to the Austrian authorities. We find in the same journal a letter from Vienna, stating that the authorities in Gallicia had received orders to reward the peasants who had distinguished themselves by their loyalty to Austria. The same writer states that the Austrian Government—  " Has established a special office for opening letters, and it has been imitated in that respect by the Prussian Cabinet. The intercepted letters are either destroyed or deposited in the archives to serve as criminating documents. Several persons have already been arrested, particularly in Gallicia, in consequence of that odious inquisition. It was the death of the Prior of the Ligurians, who committed suicide on hearing that his secrets had been thus discovered, that opened the eyes of the public on the subject. The police has in its pay a multitude of spies, who do not even ake the trouble of conceal ing their mission, and live in Austria like bands of conduttieri in a conquered country."  Lord and Lady PALmEasTox dined on Easter Sunday with the KING, and had accepted dinner invitations from each of the Ministers.  On Monday afternoon the discussion on the Naval Budget commenced in the Chamber of Deputies. Lord PALMERSTON was present in the tribune appropriated to the Foreign Ambassadors. The son of LUCIEN BUONAPARTE had arrived at Havre from England, en route for Paris, to visit his mother, the Princess of
The Sun. — 1846-05-16 (London, England)

LOVE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—Last night, shortly after twelve o'clock, amsost determined attempt at sutilVde2lV4Sl made by a young female, near() Clarke's timber-yard, at parejthuantgKgirl, whose name is Wemllrnea,danodf Kennington is much attached tb a . youngwho oe ,and while he to a female residing at the lVestmWaantewrlioloo-risoad. paying his addresses resides with her .ciaLrasket,sevyearnidng ale followed him about ran up to him, with a sharp table would stab herself, as she wasa the arm, but she disengaged herself into her wasiii in s terpassingr os d ik,nelafreyl no f herlifeh. and,T h The nydoue young ami mane dses seized eiw oh herself from him, and was in the act of plunginger tmheanknafalfemocdut OlanheThit Hobert and Lady Peel give a asinctiei,3,wa•hneanwartesrateddes The Puke and Duchess of Norfolk removed to her father's home in a cab. ran up and seized her had a dinner s. She was secured, and parTtyhleastßniigghhtt, atn Nonor.foslkirHnouosbee. grand entertainment to a distinguished circle this evening at the Right Hen. Baronet's residence in Whitehall. gardens. It is stated that a robin is not permitted to live long than four years. At that age he is attacked by the younger birds and killed. Though at other times the most pugnacious of birds, he dies tuneesistingly. RATHER NE w.--A few days ago a lady visited one of the most extensive shopping establishments in Glasgow, and made purchases to the extent of 801. On examining the contents of her purse, she found she had only 50/., and suggested that one of the shop-boys should just step into the carriage along with her, and receive payment at her mansion. Instead, howe thever, of arriving at a fine mansion, judge of his surprise when officials of lunatic asylum seized him and held him fast. The lady had, of course, specially prepared a warrant for his committal. Before and hhe could procure liberation the fair one and good 9 had disappeared, not aim Wen heard of.—arasgoty 4MM  MONEY and
The Sun. — 1846-03-17 (London, England)

FOOT RACE.—On Monday the Mint enks Stevens, of Holloway, and Castles, road, Islington. The men were matched for g1,t,70,154, of Landon, jit:l v one mile of oad. Stevens rattled away at a _71.04 lying close up. At half mile the men Watrt:rwherill,7ll,l±/Fe, other, and continue° at a splitting Pac'. seder oste.A, of the goal both struggled hard for victory, ho 11,0 11, .401 nuous effort succeeded in running in the ;ve inhitb fee $ ing accomplished the one mile of read in do 0,001.0 seconds. „ op Sun SUICIDE BY A YOUNG ontaN. ,nosett_. an act of self-destruction was committed biZztiellin young woman in the service of Mr. class. 4 %st lit:;00; lei No 2, Grove-place, Camberwell. It app ••• decc°7, alt: family left home to go to church, leaving . 1:1 care or the place, and having stopped witi(v.,.4. for, 04,, ultimately e,r leytbuurotnb obtained di, e until dn etblyerver:cnrec i toot:1000$ 0,9/ ing and cold. The deceased was of a cheerful do lelevo:hutuedrrialciyihitiefeot ir:-adyasmduildti deceasedtt was found hanging in the 1?.; asu was discovered to account for the rash act.  ....---e"'7...---- 14, _..---- - 5 ,195 5. 11E3. 04 ~,, tl I Killed, at Moodkee, on the leth of Decernher,,,,,tef '''' dri George T. Hamilton, Interpreter and Quarter° 1,1 ,f Native Intantry. ,r, Pe' fr n, On the 21st of FeLruary, at Islington, Martha.:':tio., otil, ~,, the late J. Van Deurs, of Nappegaara, Island of 1' eon,' tlie ,e On the 13th inst., in Gloucester-place, parr fl , , id* " J. Addams, Esq., D.C.L. •11 I°l fil'f On the 14111 inst., at ltyde, Isle of Wight, Sala lit' ° ijj, of Go it • ' i re... G. Downs, Esq. whittle' oft On the 14th inst., at Peckham, Mr. Richard WO' 0. Fe' staple, Devon. Joe, On the 14th inst., at Wormley llouse, /I"' gi o°, tP• Bound, Esq. ,te. wido- I,' On the lf.th inst., at Kennington, surrey', An' . re0 Thomas Eden, aged t 42. . ter of S't ' it' On the 15th inst., -Visa Booth, the eldest SO .. ji Bart., of Portland-place. ----s_teivp 1.0,nnu.:1, ipirii:,itteed, and,itr,Pl:uilui,s,hte,dit byee..7-111102.2.t71::0°-1(1;:pitlac:°:;,ril". .datosti.... of the SAVOY, in the County of 3,1, 17, 1646.
The Sun. — 1846-07-27 (London, England)

SUPPOSED MURDER AND SUICIDE.—NORTH BIERLY, NEAR BRADFORD, JULY 22.—A most deplorable occurreoTe hai recently thrown this district into the deepest sensa':ion. The ly,dy of a weaver named William Bywater, living at Bullershan, and that of his son Raymouth, were found at the bottom of an old coal-pit on Monday morning, anet, from the fccts adduced at the inquest, there is little doubt that the elder deceased led his child to the mouth of the pit, and, after throwing him in, committed suicide by precipitating himself down the shaft. The parent was employed at the factory cof Mr. J. Sutcliffe, Odsal Moor. He was thirty-three years of age, married, and had three children, the deceased child, -,vh,) was srven years of age, being by a former wife. About eiz o'c lock on Monday morning Bywater go', up and rouPied his Soil, telling him he should take a wall: with him. Alter pre/,,,ring his wife's breakfast he left with his child, and procorded along the road to Braklford. They went over a stilt, leading to the pit, which ;-; situate ou elevated ground, and on reaching a platform vniicli surrounds it, Bywater was seen to stoop under some rails which protect the mouth. They were then lost si",;nt ot; but a few seconds afterwards the cries of a child were heard by the men, who made all haste to the spot, but or, looking down the pit nothing could be heard. The bottom was then searched, and their bodies were found dreadfully mutilated. It was shown that Bywater was much attached to the child, and was never heard to exPrnisho4ll,4 intention of destroying it. In a conversation he had, of ever, with a neighbour, he manifested much Tlessio u• firlienddita, atendd cohmismoibusienrgvastuioieni " That the deceased were found dead me to their clejelii there was no evidence to show. ' by what meaps t pit, but how orsdel.ed.rthoet ca jar} trreubornt impression
The Sun. — 1846-06-29 (London, England)

TAA 71..  June 25, 1846.  [Surely these facts only tend the more conspicuouslyto evidence the necessity for some sweeping reformation in el treatment which so many of our countrymen have receiveh, and are receiving, from the Legislature ! Delicacy alone -, prevents us from mentioning individuals now living who have acquired for themselves a claim upon the gratitude of their country, but who are at this moment pining silently and secretly, as poor Haydon pined during two and-forty weary years of disappointment and penury, thgir great claim unrecognised, their sufferings unappeased by the balm of sympathy ! Delicacy, we say, though we acknowledge it to be but a presumptive and hypothetical delicacy, after all. For it arises from that morbid sensitiveness,a sl rteaar vd ya tiaodnd uocfe do tthweayc,o natnudmtehl ye adweaatrhdfedui which is the usual accompaniment et genius.t o Ch t t eWr teo nn, atvhee labours of Hood ; we might, unhappily, extend the catalogue of intellectual agony threefold, but that what we have deatha s adobrnyed a his already observed is of itself more than sufficient. When we findwith a nsuoclhd nmanob l e likewo driven who li to career of misery, is there not a proof that some radical change is requisite ? When We find less than ten thousand procotruancttel pounds annually appropriated to the solace of our illustrious sufferers, shall we say that Government is acting fairly, generously, nobly, justly ? Shall we e .that there is no cause for a reformation in this Burns item of public expenditure? If we do, another_ death couch ! Anotherabeckon to us from his neglected to us for a release from his emGoldsmith may pleadtAnother Laman Blanchard may embarrassments ! in • :dal insanity, another Haydon destroy be incited to a suicidal t" th vi the midst of his unfinishedcreations—the ions— e c. himself our finis of shameful and deplorable parsimony ! The shades of these unfortunate and gifted men rebuke us for our ••difference, they call in their solemn memories for a reformation of this national grievance !—En. Sun.]