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The Sun. — 1870-12-09 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY CASE OF SUICIDE.—On Wednesday evening Mr. Carter, the .Surrey coroner, held an inquest at the Henry the Eighth, Church-street, Lambeth, touching the death of James Rudge, aged 45, who was suspected of having, about a month ago, murdered a widow named Mary Ann Williams, who kept a tobacconist's shop in Ellis-street, Chelsea, whose body was discovered floating on the Thames, off Horselydown. Inspector Turpin, of the B division, who had had charge of the affair since th,e discovery of Mrs. Williams's body, said that facts had come to light which pretty clearly shewed that Rudge was Innocent of Mrs. Williams's death. After her disappearance the neighbours and women, especially the women, used to assemble round the door and call Rudge to come out with such expressions as " Who murderedthe woman?" " What have you done with the body?" &0., and believed this so preyed upon his mind that he had committed suicide. He had always lived upon the best terms with Mrs. Williams, in whose house he lodged, and it appeared that she had been very low and dispirited just before her death, having met some debts of her son's with three bills, which were due in three days afterwards, and which she could not meet. Her son had told him that he did not think Rudge instrumental in his mother's disappearance. After hearing the evidence, the jury found that James Rudge destroyed his life while in a fit of temporary insanity, brought on by his having been falsely accused of murder.  CAN I AFFORD IT ?—Pay your Stationer 6d. for a reply. Map of the World gratis in all Letts's Office Diaries. Letts's 6d. and ls. Diaries give most value for your money. Letts's Housekeepers' and Ladies' Diaries are much improved. Lettfi Invisible Ink for Postal Cards, ad. per bottle.
The Sun. — 1870-06-23 (London, England)

THE DETERMINED SUICIDE IN DRUR  LANE.  Last night Mr. Bedford held an inquest at King's College Hospital on the body of Edward Herbert, aged 33 years, who committed suicide on Monday last by throwing himself from a window at 41, Parker-street, Drury-lane. It appeared from the evidence that deceased was in partnership with his mother, who carry on the business of architectural modellers at 242, Euston-road. On Saturday last he went to visit his sister, a married woman residing at 41, Parker-street, and remained there up to the time of his death, which resulted from his leaping from the third-floor window between one and two o'clock on the Monday morn. ing. It was proved that the suicide was of a most determined character, as deceased, after jumping once from the window, went upstairs and repeated the act. The medical testimony disclosed the fearful injuries he received, and a statement made by Thomas Herbert, his brother, left no doubt on the minds of the jury that he was insane. A verdict of " Suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity'' was then returned.  FADTERTISEMENT:I - Holloway's Pills.—Bilious affeco tions and stomach complaints, induced by atmospheriheat or too liberal diet, if not early checked, are often attended with serious consequences. When any one finds his ideas less clear than usual, his eyesight dimmed, and his head dizzy, while he is indisposed for all exertion physical or mental, he may be quite sure that he is in immedite need of some cooling and purifying medicine. Let him send at once for a box of Holloway's Pills, after a few doses of which his head will be clear again, his spirits ele, vated, and all his energies be restored. Printed directions for the guidance of patients in the use of this admirable medicine are affixed to every box.
The Sun. — 1870-06-23 (London, England)

THE DETERMINED SUICIDE IN DRURY LANE. Last night Mr. Bedferd held an inquest at Xing's College Hospital on the body of Edward Herbert, aged 33 years, who committed suicide on Monday last by throwing himself from a window at 41, Parker-street, Drury-lane. It appeared from the evidence that deceased was in partnership with his mother, who carry on the business of architectural modellers at 242, Euston-road. On Saturday last he went to visit his 'sister, a married woman residing at 41, Parker-street, and remained there up to the time of his death, which resulted from his leaping from the third-floor window between one and two o'clock on the Monday morn. ing. It was proved that the suicide was of a most determined character, as deceased, after jumping once from the window, went upstairs and repeated the act. The medical testimony disclosed the fearful injuries he received, and a statement made by Thomas Herbert, his brother, left no doubt on the minds of the jury that he ivas insane. A verdict of " Suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity" was then returned.  M. and Madame Ferdinand de Lesseps have arrived in London. The Emperor Napoleon continues to make satisfactory progress, the swelling of the foot having considerably diminished. A fresh conflagration has burst out in the forest of Fontaine ►leau. There is reason to fear that it is the  work of an incendiary. Within the past fortnight 5,259 lbs. of meat have been seized in the City as unfit for human food. It has  all been destroye d. The Emperor of Austria has directed the arms of Austria and Hungary to be quartered with the family  arms of Count Beust. A meeting of the Glasgow ironmasters has agreed unanimously to accept the proposals of the men to return to work. Notices of the lock-out are to be withdrawn.  After a long and warm discussion, and several divisions, an attempt to pass a resolution in the Dublin Town Council in favour of the Permissive Bill has been defeated by a "count-out." Yesterday the bankruptcy of Mr. W. H. Cotterill, solicitor of Throgmorton-street,who lately absconded, came before Mr. Registrar Roche. The liabilities amount to £150,000, and there are in effect no assets.  The Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford, have presented the Rev. Peter Robert Watts, M.A., curate of Milton, near Abingdon, to the vicarage of Thornton-le-Street, in the room of the Rev. H. R. Cunnynghame, M.A.  The Pall Mall Gazette hears that the ex-Queen of Spain has at last signed her abdication in favour of her son, and that the document has been shewn to the Emperor and the Spanish Ambassador by the Duke de Sesta, who came here purposely to implore her Majesty to make this sacrifice.  The committee of the "Temporary Home for Lost and Starving Dogs," advertise that in consequence of the violent and persistent opposition of the inhabitants of Hollingworth-street, Holloway, they are under the necessity of seeking another site for this institution. A piece of freehold land has been offered them in some more eligible and central locality.
The Sun. — 1870-11-14 (London, England)

THE LEVEE EN - MASSE.—The Tours correspondent of the Standard, in a letter of the 9th instant, says :—A decree yesterday divides the levee en masse into four bans, which will be called out as required. The first ban is the single men.between 21 and 40. These are called out by the decree of September 29, but, like many decrees, that has been a mere dead letter, and the men are for the most part still in their homes. Does not this shew the utter folly of issuing decree after decree without taking the slightest care to see that they are carried out ? The second ban takes in all married men up to 30, the third from 30 to 35, the-,fourth from 35 to 40. No hint is given of the dates at which these various bans will be called out, but the general opinion is that, with the exception of the first, they will never be summoned at all. It would, indeed, cause far less distress and inconvenience to summon at once the conscripts of '7l and '72, This would give 600,000 young fellows, even allowing for the provinces occupied by the Prussians. Theso lads would learn the use of arms and the necessary drill far more speedily than the older men; besides which a large number of the married men are at present enrolled in the National Guard, and can be utilised for the defence of their respective districts. It need scarcely be said that the entire absence of hands for agricultural manufacturing, and other purposes, by the absence from home of all men, single or married, between 21 and 40, would be enormous, and that the number of women and children who would be at once thrown upon the State for support would be overwhelming. It is in fact this very circumstance that Che family bread winners are still at home that enables France to support war with less suffering, except in the invaded districts, than is experienced in Germany. By all means make every married man a National Guard, drill him and discipline him to the utmost, and bring him into the field for local defence ; but to take him away from his field or his workshop until the very latest moment would be simply an act of suicide for France, and such, I need hardly say, it is generally considered to be here. Ido not suppose, however, that M. Gambetta ever gave the matter a thought when lie dashed off his first decree, ordering a general levee en masse.
The Sun. — 1870-02-11 (London, England)

IRISH CRIME.  A correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette says that the statistics of crime in Ireland are greatly affected by the religious faith of the country. Unlike the English population, the Irish people have a constant active faith and exercise of religious duties. Their priests far from being the sort of men described in the filthy works sometimes strewn about the streets, preach virtue, law, and order to their flocks not only from the pulpit, but also in the confessional-box. how, then, it may be asked, does this " potting " of landlords continue ? In most of these cases the assassins come from distant parishes, and after the act leave the country. Thus the surprise of the priests when a murder is committed within their cure is unfeigned. The perpetrators themselves do not look on it as a crime, or as a sin, but as an act of war. With regard to sedition, of which Ireland has an unpleasant monopoly at present, a recent papal edict on the subject leaves no loophole of escape for traitors. " Whatever a sound or sweeping land bill may effect in curing Fenianism, it will bear no comparison with the consequence of the Pope's fulminating edict on the nationalists." Ireland holds an exceedingly high position on the score of chastity. Any matrimonial scandal or immoral connection occurring in a parish is denounced from the pulpit, and the poorer section of the population . almost universally regard with horror the loose morality so prevalent among the labouring classes of England. With the latter country, too, Ireland contrasts favourably on the question of suicide. An Irishman never feels so utterly beaten in the battle of life as to resort to blowing out his brains. The whisky and pfirter drunk there does not so quickly drive a man to delirium tremens as the unadulterated drinks on this side af the water.
The Sun. — 1870-03-22 (London, England)

OUDA.—The second carnival celebration took place at Habana on the 6th of March. The concourse of people was unprecedented, and fully fifty-thousand people joined in'the procession, but no disturbances took place. CaptainGeneral do Rodas has issued a proclamation in relation to the 'murder of Isaac Greenwaldth, and the execution of-Zamora. He says that the latter was justly executed for his crime, for he outraged the law, and disgraced the Spanish flag, under whose protection Greenwadth was at the time of his assassination. A brother-in-law of the American Consul at Trinidad, who was in prison on a charge of sedition, has committed suicide. Eighteen laborantes have been courtmartialed in Bavamo, documents havingbeen found upon the person of Mircano, implicating them in the movements Of th: i=urgents.  The Echo understands that the proposition to form London into one school district under the Education Bill is to be withdrawn, and that a plan for two divisions, east and west, the former to include the City, is to be substituted, Mr. W. Torrena is likely to move the amendraea.  A California paper says the Japanese " will wit universal respect by a sort of heathenish habit they have of minding their own business."  THE RELIGIOUS Dirrre uLTY. --Arch de aconDewson gives the John Bull some facts as a sample of what is to be found in many parishes. The parish of East Brent population 800, contains four schools all in his hands. The schools are :—The National school, on the books, GO ; present at diocesan inspector's examination, February 25, 1870, 48. 2. Dames' school, 18 ; 3. Ditto, 43 ; 4. Middle school, 13. Total, 104. The condition of admission to all these scholarr, is the having been baptised in the Church of England. The rev: gentleman can see his way to no other rule.  uari.nal Uullen has expressed from .1-Come his approval of the Government Coercion Bill  A. contemparary says that the wife of a welignown dissmting minister has eloped with a captain.  Twenty-three farms in the neighbourhood at Swindon are infected with the foot-and-mouth disease.  Returns are being made by the chief towns of the statistics of drunkennoss duce the new Beer Act came into operation. 0r ;.a ••• • 4  Fever has broken out in several of the pauper establishments in the metropolis. At the school recently built at Highgate several childron died last week, owing, it is thought b.Y.tin medical, mfai—t9 prsrerowanz.
The Sun. — 1870-10-20 (London, England)

ROMANCE AT THE POLICE COURTS.  It is not often that the tale of a perplexing and troubled love affair is told with so much melancholy interest as it was in a case at the Worship-street Police-court on Tuesday. A young lady of 18, Miss Alice Maud Kemp, "of prepossessing appearance," was, at the sitting of the court, charged with attempting to commit suicide by taking laudanum, on Saturday evening last. A doctor who had been called in to see the girl after she had taken the draught ordered- that she should not be allowed to sleep all night, and, consequently, a policeman was obliged, as he stated in evidence, to " walk up and down the girl's room with her On his arm till Sunday morning had well set in." The constable had been called in when Miss Kemp was found to be insensible, it being assumed, as usual, that the necessary attendants at the time of such a circumstance should be a physician and a policeman. Possibly the latter by no means objected to having his " beat" and business so changed as they were. This,  however, was not stated in court, although the whole story of the girl's misfortune was, and that too by a man whose appearance might have been  least expected on the occasion. This "gentleman" was named Walker, and he lived, so he said, on his own private property. He applied that the accused might at least be admitted to bail.  He had been on the point of being married to Miss Kemp, and the banns had even been published. Last week, however, for some reason n©t made known, Miss Kemp wrote to an old sweetheart of hers, and the new lover (the witness) unfortunately got hold of the letter. Some little difference ensued, and the girl, thinking that Mr. Walker was About to forsake and forget her, purchased the poison and attempted to destroy her life. The magistrate thought it would be judicious to keep the girl in safety for a week. It is probable that Mr. Walker's straightforward conduct in coming into court to help the heroine of this little romance will tend as much as anything else to persuade Miss Kemp of her folly.
The Sun. — 1870-03-29 (London, England)

CURIOUS VISITOR.  It appears from the Lawrence (Kansas) Tribune that we have an interesting stranger among us, and that we owe his presence in this country to exceptional causes. Dr. John Doy, whose conflicts with the pro-slavery party, and, whose exploits in connection with the underground rail- , road while the fugitive slave law was in force, made 4, him very notorious, was arrested . Battle Creek 'Michigan,. on the charge of procuring an abortion, and thereul causing the death of a woman who ' sought his services. On this charge he was found guilty, and sentenced to a long term of confinement in the StatePrison. As he was found dead in his bed one morning, under circumstances which strongly pointed to poison as the cause of his death, it was generally supposed that he resorted to suicide to ward off the disgrace which would result from imprisonment. At all events, he was buried, and, as usual, almost forgotten. It has' lately transpired that he is still living, and is at present in England. He has sent for his daughter ; and the rest of his family are making arrangements to follow him immediately. The circumstances of his resurrection are stated as follow :—Having come to an understanding- with some friends, he took a large dose of morphia, and, when found in the morning, the vital forces were apparently extinct. As he was considered dead, of ' course no objections were raised to his body being restored to his family. This being done, in order to carry out the deception, a coffin was procured, and regular funeral; services held, the body being committed to what all supposed to be its final resting-place. When everything was over, his grave was opened, the body removedo and, by.the application of powerful remedies, soon restore& to its normal condition* Prudence, of course, required that he should leave a country where he was no loiter safe, and, accordingly, he went to England—his formerhome. We have sent so many questionable characters to America that we must not be too sensitive as to a few resuscitated criminals claiming our hospitality; but we hope if they die here they will not trouble themselves to come to life again.—Pall Mall Gazette.
The Sun. — 1870-12-01 (London, England)

AMERICAN NOTES.  A correspondent, writing from Philadelphia on November 14th. says :—" M. Treilhard arrived at New York on November 12th, and at once telegraphed the fact to Washington, at the same time making an inquiry of the Government as to his reception there. M. Treilhard, if will be remembered, upon the suicide of M. Prevost Paradol, was appointed by Napoleon the French Envoy to Washington. Napoleon has since been overthrown ; M. Treilhard has received no endorsement from either the Paris or Tours Government ; and M. Berthemy (Paradol's predecessor) now represents France at Washington. It is understood that the American Government has advised M. Treilhard that he will not be received in Washington in a diplomatic capacity, and that M. Berthemy will continue there until relieved by the French authorities. The steamer Ontario recently sailed froth New York for " Cowes and a market," carrying 73,620 muskets, 20,950 carbines, 500 rifles, 500 revolvers, 55 cannon, and 17,785,352 cartridges—total value, $1,853,497—a1l designed for the French army. On the 11th of November, at St. Charles, above St. Louis, where a railway bridge is being built across the Missouri river, a span gave way, precipitating 25 persons into the water, 16 of whom were killed and nine injured. The cause of the disaster was the breaking of a wire rope while the men were hoisting a heavy column. Fourteen bodies have been recovered. Near Columbia, South Carolina, on the 10th of November, a passenger train on the railway from Greenville, Tennessee, fell through a trestle, three passenger coaches being precipitated to the ground, a distance of 25 feet. Four persons were killed and some 15 injured. The receipts of cotton at the Southern shipping ports are greatly increasing iu amount. Thus for the week ending the 11th of November the receipts were 132,065 bales as compared with 106,406 bales for the previous week, and 94,108 bales for the corresponding week of 1869. The total receipts for the period since the Ist of September are 678,550 bales, as compared with 626,613 bales for the corresponding period last year. The cotton movement this year is thus shown to be in excess of last year, and the large receipts now are in some measure accounted for by the heavy rainfalls recently which have wade the Southern rivers navigable. The exports this year are 281,106 bales, against 258,992 bales last year.
The Sun. — 1870-10-08 (London, England)

SUICIDE AT ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S HOSPITAL.— Last evening Mr. W. J. Payne held an inquest, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, respecting the death of Dr. Augustus Matthiesson, aged 39 years. Mr. Henry Matthiesson deposed that he was a merchant, residing at Furnival's-inn. The deceased was his brother. He was an M.D., and the Professor of Chemistry at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Witness had not seen him for six months. On Thursday, by appointment, witness was to have dined with him. In consequence of that appoint. ment witness went to the hospital at a quarter to 5 o'clock in the evening, and upon doing so, proceeded to the private room of the laboratory, and found it locked. The door was opened by means of a key. The chemical assis taut of the deceased was present at the time, and he went into the private room connected with the laboratory. They found the deceased sitting upon an arm chair, and he looked as if asleep. The chair was near a table, upon which was a glass. The room had a peculiar smell in it. The deceased was dead. A doctor was then sent for. The deceased was a very excitable man. Alfred Burns, laboratory boy, said that the deceased came to the hospital at half-past nine 'o'clock on Thursday morning. He asked witness for the keys of the cellar in which the chemicals were kept. When he came out of the cellar he had a phial in his hand. He afterwards went into his private room and kept walking about. In the afternoon witness found the door locked. Mr. W. W. Baker, lecturer on physiology at the hospital, deposed that he was called to the deceased when . he was found dead in his room. He had then been dead four hours. There was a " test glass " tightly corked on the table near the corpse. It was labelled " Urate of ammonia." The deceased was a man of high character and worldwide reputation. There could be no foundation whatever for any charge of indecent assault brought against him. Dr. S. J. Gee, assistant doctor, said that the' deceased was a very sensitive man. He had 13 high moral character. He would feel keenly any charge brought against him. Witness had made a post-mortem examination of the body, and he had found that the deceased had poisoned himself with prussic acid. Mr. W. H. Cross, clerk of the hospital, said that he found in a drawer in the deceased's private room a letter as follows : " I have been charged with an indecent assault on a lad, and although innocent, yet it blights all my future prospects,,and.therefore I have resolved to resign all." The coroner having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of " Suicide while in a state of temporary insanity."