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The Sun. — 1869-11-16 (London, England)

THAMES.  FAMILY SUICIDE 31amA.—Angal Campbell, aged 14 years, was charged with attempting to commit suicide. His father, a stevedore, shot himself a year ago, and the prisoner, a sharp, well-informed lad, has been since in charge of gangs of men on board ship. On Sunday night a police-constable of the H division met four lads carrying what appeared to be the lifeless body of the deceased towards the surgery of a respectable practitioner named Loane, who advised that ho should be taken to the hospital, where the stomach pump was used and a quantity of laudanum was dislodged from his stomach. He has remained under medical care ever since. It appeared that he pursued his studios at school and was a zealous scholar and when ho was not at school he was at work. Ho told the police-constable who conveyed him to the hospital that he had taken 4d. worth of laudanum because he was out of work several weeks and was driven to despair. Several persons saw the prisoner take the laudanum in the street.  Mr. Benson said it was a very melancholy thing for a lad who appeared to be possessed of some talent and energy and a desire to learn should be giving way to despair. Ile really thought there must be some mistake. The prisoner appeared to be more like 18 than 14. The mother of the prisoner said he would be 14 on the 28th of December next.  Mr. Benson said the prisoner would be well taken care of in the House of Detention, to which place he remanded him for a week.  A Docx THlEF.—George Wilson, a noisy and talkative fellow, was charged with being on board the ship Walter Hood, in the West India Dock, with intent to commit a felony.  Mr. Benjamin Batt, chief mato of the Walter Hood, hearing a noise in the cabin went there and saw the prisoner concealed.  Mr. Charles Dong, Into chief officer of the Dock police, went on board and found the captain's chest opened and many of his things, some of considerable value, strewed about the floor. He asked that the prisoner might be remanded for inquiry. The prisoner said he belonged to the ship Countess, and was put on board the ship Walter Hood in mistake, and that he was no thief and no felon, and ought not to be detained. He then delivered a long speech, and called upon the magistrate to discharge him then and there, instantly and without hesitatior.  Mr. Douglas said that no ship named the Countess was in the dock.  Mr. Benson, in spite of the prisoner's loud and energetic) protests, remanded him for a week.  DEBENHAJI'S Vow. By Amelia B. Edwards, author of "Barbara's History," &c. 3 vols.--" We are always glad to hail with the heartiest welcome any novel from the pen of this accomplished writer, and the work now under review is one certainly most deservedly to be received after this manner, because of its being one of the cleverest, if not the cleverest, she has ever written. The subject is as well conceived as it is distinctly brought out. We commend Debenham's Vow' to the perusal of our readers, for a more interesting and edifying book wo have rarely had the good fortune to meet with."—Messenger.
The Sun. — 1869-01-20 (London, England)

REMARKS.  The slight diminution in pressure noticed in the west yesterday afternoon has since last evening extended to all stations; though the change has at present been small. Readings, though comparatively uniform, are lowest in the west—that at Greencastle being 0111 n. lower than that at Yarmouth. Very high pressures have been prevailing in Russia for the last few days, with very low temperature. In the west of France temperlture has decreased from 10 to 15 deg., and a similar change, but to less extent, has occurred in England. The weather at Nairn is warm, and the difference of reading between it and Rochefort is 20 deg. The winds iu the N. and W. of our islands are all between S. and S.W., and a very strong southerly wind has appeared in the Irish Channel since last night. On our south coast light south-easterly breezes are blowing, and winds are from E. to N.E. on the French coasts. Rain has fallen in the west.— very heavily at Valencia. The sky is cloudy, but the air much clearer than during the past few days. The sea is calm generally. Weather seems unsettled, as there is so much difference in temperatures.  The Right llon. the Attorney-General for Ireland has left Dublin for Ifawarden Castle, North Wales, en a visit to Mr. Gladstone.  Mr. I)evereux, who was unseated by the judges of ho Irish Court of Common Pleas, on petition of Mr. Motto, again canvassing the electors of the borough of Wexford. No other candidat.; 11, s arpoared. At a meeting of the workpcople of Messrs. Edward Wpiey and Son, dyers, of Bowling, near Bradford, Mr. Ripley, M.P., propounded to them a scheme whereby all the workpeoplo connected with that firm aro henceforth tc receive a share of the prcfits realiced at the end of each year A terrible tragedy is reported from Nuneaton. A man named Thomas Charnel has murdered his wife by cut, ing her throat with a razor, and then committed suicide by cutting his own. When the police visited the house thorn were evidences of a severe struggle having taken place, tht woman having two fingers cut off, and a terrible wound as the beck of her head.
The Sun. — 1869-01-20 (London, England)

REMARKS.  The slight diminution in pressure noticed in the west yesterday afternoon bas since last evening extended to all stations ; though the change has at present been small. Readings, though comparatively uniform, arc lowest in the west—that at Greencastle being lower than that at Yarmouth. Very high pressures have been prevailing in Russia for the last few days, with very low temperature. In the west of France temperature has decreased from 10 to 15 deg., and a similar change, but to less extent, has occurred in England. The weather at Nairn is warm, and the difference of reading between it and Rochefort is 20 deg. The winds in the N. and W. of our islands are all between S. and S.W., and a very strong southerly wind has appeared in the Irish Channel since last night. On our south coast light south-easterly breezes are blowing, and winds are from E. to N.E. on the French coasts. Rain has fallen in the west— very heavily at Valencia. The sky is cloudy, but the air much clearer than during the past few days. The sea is calm generally. Weather seems unsettled, as there is so much difference in temperatures.  rim Right Hon. the Attorney-General for Ireland ins left Dublin for llawarden Castle, North Wales, on avisit .0 Mr. Gladstone.  Mr. Devereux, who was unseated by the judges of he Irish Court of Common Pleas, on petition of Mr. Motte, is again canvasNit,g the electors of the borough of Wexford. No other caudiditt, 11, sal peared.  At a meeting of the workpeople of Messrs. Edward  Ripley and Son, dyers, of Bowling, near Bradford, Mr. Ripley, M.P., propounded to them a scheme whereby all the workpeople connected with that firm are henceforth tc receive a share of the profits realised at the end of each year A terrible tragedy is reported from Nuneaton. A man named Thomas Charnel has murdered his wife by cutting her throat with a razor, and then committed suicide by cutting his own. When the police visited the house there were evidences of a severe struggle having taken place, th 4 woman having two fingers cut off, and a terrible wound al the back of her head. ,
The Sun. — 1869-09-23 (London, England)

THAMES.  STRANGE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.--Jane Houghton, a well-dressed woman, about 30 years of age, was brought beforo Mr. Benson, charged with attempting to commit suicide.  Police-constable Croft, 463 K, was on duty at half-past two this morning, near the New Globe public-house, Mile-end-road, and heard a groan. He looked over the parapet of the bridge of the Regent's Canal, and saw the prisoner partially undressed, and about to divest herself of her chemise. Her drawers were banging about her legs. He asked her what she going to do with herself, to which the replied that she was about to put an end to her existence. He went down to the bank of the canal, asked her where she lived, and compelled her to dress herself. She said she lived at 25, Regent-street, Mile-end. She appeared to be tipsy. The prisoner denied that she was drunk. She war, excited and subject to fits. She had had a quarrel with the man she was living with just before she was going to bed. Her paramour said she was a nuisance. He had been drinking with some friends.  Mr. Benson said the prisoner seemed rather off her head at present, and had adopted a most extraordinary course to go out at half-cast two in the morning and undress herself on the banks of a canal. He remanded her for a week. Some time after a man got into the witnessbox and said he was a furrier and the husband of the prisoner, but was not married to her. He asked the magistrate to accept of bail for her. She was subject to excessive excitement and fits when she drank heavily.  Mr. Benson—No. I certainly will not take bail for her. I remand her for a week to the Clerkenwell House of Detention, and the chaplain will attend upon her. I've no doubt the quietude will do her good.
The Sun. — 1869-04-20 (London, England)

PORTING.--J OHN ROBERTS supplies the ago a coroner's inquest took place at St. Pancras, LATHS I' EDITION of "TUN SUN" as soon as pubishod.-4, Bath-street, City-road, E.G. which partook in some respects of the tragic nature of the suicide and the distressing characteristics of death from starvation. M. ISIDORE MAGNES, a French artist, residing in Charlotte-street, Fitzroysquare, was found dead in his bed, and the result of the medical investigation showed that heart and brain were physically degenerated, and " gone." from the fatal effects of overwork and anx iety, together with insufficient nourishment, quite inadequate to supply the wants of nature. M. ISIDORE MAGNES had for some time supported life, such as it was, on a scanty supply of potatoes and bread, and a little milk, and yet he might, had he so whiled it, have easily earned a comfortable competence. Like many another ambitious dreamer, however, ISIDORE MAGNES preferred the hope of future fame to the certainty of present existence. He had conceived the idea of a great picture t 3 be called " L'entente Cordiale," representing an incident in the Crimean war, in which Englishmen and Frenchmen were equally conspicuous. To this picture the artist devoted his life. Other occupations, whit.th procured him a certain livelihood, were given up, and for the last five years the Great Picture occupied all his time and thoughts. During the last two years he appears to have suffered under continual privations. Sympathising friends occasionally lent him trifling assistance, and offers of remunerative employment were again and again proposed. The help he thankfully accepted, but all suggestions of any kind that might interfere with his beloved labours were steadily refused. The great picture which was to celebrate the alliance of France and England, and ennoble the name of ISIDORE MAGNES, was (so dreamed the ambitious artist) to appear in the Exhibition of the Royal Academy of London, and then to take its place in the galleries of Versailles, where the brush of HORACE VERNET has already depicted, in radiant colours, the historical glories of Imperial France. What the destination of the picture may be time will show. The artist will not witness the triumph of which be dreamed. He is dead, but the Picture is finished. It is at least a melancholy satisfaction to know that before the brush dropped from the nerveless grasp of the en thusiast his eyes had beheld the accomplishment o
The Sun. — 1869-08-04 (London, England)

GRENVILLE-MURRAY, is quickly set upon and extinguished ; but those who systematically plunder the people, who affix a stigma on the British national character, who ruin families by the thousand and dissipate scores of millions, who in destroying confidence injure for many years the trade of the country—can do so with impunity. The "smashed" as a rule are small peaple ; the earnings of the retired shopkeeper, the savings of the military officer, the modest competence of the widow, may be appropriated and their owners crushed in shoals; they may starve unnoticed, die, or commit suicide; they disappear, when other victims grow up from the path of our " guinea-pig" legislators, who are again ready for action, but surely these men and their doings are more worthy of the national attention than our hereditary legislators, whom it has lately been so much the fashion to write down. Yet this House of Commons, which is so busy that it cannot attend to small matters like this Act, finds time to pass a law for the suppression of Mr. SULLIVAN, the Mayor of Cork. When will Parliament take up this subject, and trace out the ruinous working of the law passed in 1862? If to it is to be attributed the Fraud Crisis of 1866, that measure did more to dissipate wealth, to bring ruin, misery, insanity, and death into families than the Crimean War, or any contest in which Great Britain has been engaged since Waterloo, not excepting the expeditions into Affghanistan. Let any with a large circle of acquaintances calculate the persons they know, who were hurried into their graves from the effects of their severe losses, just as much as were men who eventually died from wounds receives in action, and they may estimate, when they multiply the number by those all over the kingdom what its effect was even in depriving of life. But disgraceful as were the acts perpetrated, disgraceful as is the impunity with which they were committed, and destructive on all sides as have been their effects, it does not appear to be of sufficient importance to engage the attention of England's Statesmen, who are convulsing the country on an Irish Church Bill. The very essence of Mr. GLADSTONE'S Administration is money, the integrity of the Empire even being jeopardised for economy, yet, the Irish Question only involves a sum exceed. ing by a very few times that dragged from the pockets of the swindled shareholders in the matter of
The Sun. — 1869-06-30 (London, England)

MYSIEI?IOUS SUICIDE OF A LADY.  The inquest on the body of a well-dressed lady, found some time since floating in the Thames, has concluded. It will be remembered that a Mrs. Smith came forward and identified the dresses, &c., as those of her daughter. She had married a clerk to the Admiralty, who had more recently held an appointment at Malta. Her husband had died at Malta, and she, returning, was very much depressed. She went to see her late husband's brother on the 24th of May, and never returned. The inquest was adjourned that the brother-in-law might come forward. He did so at the inquest on Tuesday, and said he was a clerk in the City. He had a brother named Charles Bunker, who was formerly a clerk in the Admiralty, but more recently, and at the time of his death, held an appointment at Malta. his brother was married in London about five years ago, but he did not know the maiden name of his wife, or any of her relations. On the 24th of last May his brother's wife called upon him at his office in the City, and said she had come home from Malta on the previous Saturday, his brother nving died there. She was stopping with her mother, Mrs. Smith, at Arthur-street, Chelsea. She appeared to be overwhelmed with grief at the loss of her husband. She had a black bag with her, which, she said, contained some papers belonging to her late husband and four sovereigns. It was about eleven o'clock in the morning when she called upon him. After some conversation about her husband's death she promised to see witness on the following Sunday, at his private residence. He then saw her to the station, and procured her a ticket for Victoria, as she said she was going back to her mother's, at Chelsea. Had never_ seen her since. He could not identify the rings, but could swear to the outside clothing as being the same as that worn by his sister-in-law when she called upon him. Mrs. Smith was recalled, and said the deceased returned home from her visit to her brother-in-law at -me o'clock on the 24th May. She had her tea, and left home again at 5 o'clock, saying she was going to meet Mr. W. Bunker in the evening. Witness pressed her to stay at home, but she persisted in going out. Before she went out she said she was very unhappy, and had nothing in the world worth living for. Had never seen her daughter since. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased was found drowned, but there was no evidence to show how she came into the water.
The Sun. — 1869-06-30 (London, England)

THE MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE OF A LADY.  The inquest on the body of a well-dressed lady, found some time since floating in the Thames, has concluded. It will be remembered that a Mrs. Smith came forward and identified the dresses, &c., as those of her daughter. She had married a clerk to the Admiralty, who had more recently held an appointment at Malta. Her husband had died at Malta, and she, returning, was very much depressed. She went to see her late husband's brother on the 24th of May, and never returned. The inquest was adjourned that the brother-in-law might come forward. He did so at the inquest on Tuesday, and said he was a clerk in the City. He had a brother named Charles Bunker, who was formerly a clerk in the Admiralty, but more recently, and at the time of his death, held an appointment at Malta. His brother was married in. London about five years ago, but he did not know the maiden name of his wife, or any of her relations. On the 24th of last May his brother's wife called upon him at his office in the City, and said she had come home from Malta on the previous Saturday, his brother ,axing died there. She was stopping with her mother, Mrs. Smith, at Arthurstreet, Chelsea. She appeared to be overwhelmed with grief at the loss of her husband. She bad a black tag with her, which, she said, contained some papers belonging to her late husband and four sovereigns. It was about eleven o'clock in the morning when she called upon him. After some conversation about her husband's death she promised to see witness on the following Sunday, at his private residence. He then saw her to the station, and procured her a ticket for Victoria, as she said she was going back to her mother's, at Chelsea. Had never seen her since. He could not identify the rings, but could swear to the outside clothing as being the same as that worn by his sister-in-law when she called upon him. Mrs. Smith was recalled, and said the deceased returned home from her visit to her brother-in-law at lne o'clock on the 24th May. She had her tea,•and left home again at 5 o'clock, saying she was going to meet Mr. W. Bunker in the evening. Witness pressed her to stay at home, but she persisted in going out. Before she went out she said she was very unhappy, and had nothing in the world worth living for. Had never seen her daughter since. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased was found drowned, but there was no evidence to shew how she came into the water.
The Sun. — 1869-06-14 (London, England)

RAILWAYS. Cash Orleans .... 9171  Northern  Lyons and Mediterranean Southern.— Western Eastern .. — Sardinian Austrian Lombard 502; North of Spain Saragossa Roman 62  News from the Fernlale colliery has been received to the effect that part of the workings are on fire, and there is great danger of the coal igniting. The fire is walled in to prevent the access of air. Gas is thus generated, and further explosions are feared. The friendly relations of a well-known Irish landlord and his tenants have, the Manchester Courier states, been seriously jeopardised by the late announcement of Mr. Bright. The landlord, an English member of Parliament, was upon the best terms with his tenants, and was disposed to grant leases on favourable conditions to those who desired them. About two months ago six of the tenants desired twentyone years' leases, and the landlord at once acquiesced, and ordered the necessary documents to be prepared. A day or two ago the tenants declined the leases; "at all events until they become thoroughly apprised of the manner in which Mr. Bright intends dealing with the lanl question." An extraordinary confession of murder is reported from Hull. Thirty-three years ago an old woman named Lister disappeared mysteriously from Stockton-ou-Tees, and some months afterwards her dead body was disc ,vered in it hedge. Her only son, who bore a bad character, was suspected of having murdered his mother, the suspicion arising mainly from the circumstance that, on the morning before her disappearance, the old woman said her son was pursuing her to murder her, and to rob her of two pounds At the coroner's inquest an open verdict was riturned— the jury inclining to the opinion that the deceased had committed suicide from the fact that a razor was found lying beside the body. The son died a few days ago at Hull, and, conscience-stricken, he confessed on his deathbed that 33 years ago he murdered his mother in a planta• ton at Elton, near Stockton-on-Tees.
The Sun. — 1869-01-29 (London, England)

REMARKS.  The rapid decrease in pressure noticed at Valencia yesterday afternoon continued, and has since extended to all stations. Readings in these islands are almost all below 29in., and are lowest in the N.W. (28T4in. at Greencastle). Since last evening, however, a recovery to the extent of 0161 n. has occurred in the west, and pressure is now increasing again in London. The difference between the readings at Greencastle and Rochefort is o'9sin. Temperature has not altered much, except at some eastern stations, where it has risen. AS E. to S. gale of short duration blew with great force at our western and southern stations last night ; and thongh the wind has at present generally moderated and veered to S.W., it still blows hard from that quarter at Valencia, and on the W. coast of France. Rain has been very general, and heavy al along our S. coasts. with thunder and hail at Roche's Point, Fog has been prevalent in the east. The sky this morning is cloudy. The sea runs high at Valencia and Cape Clear.  M. Bands, a Paris stockbroker, committed suicide on Tuesday last, by hanging himself in Lis house in the Duo de Balzac. His confidential clerk, M. Alotto, now in custody, is said to have misappropriated funds to the extent of £120,000. When M. Banes heard of his arrest ho was driven to despair, and though (as believed) able to meet all his engagements, ho could not Lear to look his affairs in the face, and sought relief from them by the desperate remedy of self-destruction. The event has naturally caused great excitement on the Bourse.  The formation of a " free labour society" for Manchester was resolved upon at a meeting onlVednesday The object of this association is "to secure to its members the free exercise of their right to dispose of their labour upon whatever terms and under whatever circumstances they may individually and independently think fit." A committee was appointed to conduct the movement, and it was intimated that 14ordiaorton of WattoA ouseotod to apt a~ Drhadatt: