The Sun. — 1857-07-16 (London, England)

SUICIDE IN THE REGENT'S PARK.—Mr. Wakley held an inquest on Tuesday afternoon at the Elephant and Castle, Camden town, on a gentleman unknown, who committed self-destruction in the Regent'ispark on Sunday morning last. The attention of police-constable 240 S, was aroused about halfpast two o'clock in the morning by a report of firearms on the bank of the canal, near the Zoological Gardens, and he found the deceased lying there with his face and head awfully disfigured by the discharge of a small pocket pistol which lay by his side. Notwithstanding that his skull had been shattered and the left cheek and that side of the nose and eye bad been blown away, he was alive, and, although perfectly unconscious, survived twenty minutes after the arrival of Dr. Goodchild, of Princess•terracs. Thewdaescefaosuedndw fans wheisll pockets,dreased but only jenearanelyelllisadiffddnrsesYs card with_ the name " C. H. Insert" upon it. He appearel about thirty-two years of age. The jury returned a verdict " That the deceased committed suicide, but there is no evidence as to the state of his mind at the time." WHERE WILL THE LEVIATHAN GO !—Speculation continues rife as to the first voyage of the leviathan steamship which attracts every une's attention in passing up or down the river, and a variety of guesses are circulating as to the ports of her departure and destination. Holyhead, IViiiford, and Galway have severally been named for the former, and Portland, Norfolk, and New York are contending for the honour of entertaining the monster as eagerly as the cities of ancient Greece did for the fame of giving sepulture to Romer. The slaveholders of the south have sent a )omiFsioner to this country to impress upon the owners of the "Great Eastern" the commercial advantages derivable from shipping cotton from the port nearest to the place of growth, unmindful of the failure which attended the attempts to establish cotton-mills at Liverpool and bonding warehouses at Maochesters The New Yorkers, having seen all the mammoths of the-ocean enter their harbour, are uneasy at the idea of the most stupendous of all going to any other American port, striving .to secure the and have their agents in England, great ship's first visit for their own city. They admit that she could not enter by Sandy Hook, but affirm that there is sufficient water fur her to lay at anchor in Lone I-laud Sound. Calculations are being made of the profits to be realised by charging a fee to visitors, for the citiz'ns of New York are Ls confident as those of Not folk, who already, in visions of the future, see btheeeixrpceicttyedthseoornivtaol maythat city predicts her goenfoitNenerg %%to, eoh seetae or rsa.sticking aPhiladelphiala journalists : o of the bar, as the inevitable result of the Great Eastern striving to get through Long Island Sound, and relates how a certain guano ship, which could not get up to New York, succeeded in reaching the quays of the Quaker city. All these con. lectures and suggestions have their origin on the other side of the Atlantic, and appear to be little checked by the official announcement, made a short time back, that the Great Eastern is chartered by the Grand Trunk Railway Company to convey emigrants to Canada, and will proceed to Portland in April nest.