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The Sun. — 1841-06-10 (London, England)

MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS. Price 2s. 6d.  Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row; Caryalho, 147, Fleet-street, Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Harris, 25, Bow-skeet ; and all Booksellers.  Just published, price 2s. 6(.1. APRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILITIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Varieties, Causes, Treatment, and Cure.  By a MEMBEII of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS, London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmary. " I am impotent, and not fit to live. '—Last's Records of Suicide.  Sold by Onvaiyn, Catherine-street, Strand; Ross and Nightingale, Liverpool ; Barlow, Birmingham ; and all Booksellers in Town and Countrs, N.B. Persons in the Country may have this work forwarded by post (free), upon addressing either of the above Booksellers, and inclosing a remittance of 3s.  Just published, in royal 18mo., cloth, price Zs. ; and sent free, on receipt of a Post-office Order, for 3s. 641., MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PREMATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to these suffering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence, Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on the TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRHEA, GLEET, &c. Illustrated with Cases, &c.  By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY, Consulting Surgeons, London. Published by the Authors, and sold by Balliere, Medical Bookseller to the Royal College of Surgeons, 219, Regentstreet ; 011ivier, 59, Pall Mall ; Strange, 21, Paternosterrow; Pattie, 4, Brydges-street, Strand; 8, D'Olier-street, Dublin; Duncan ,114, High-street, Edinburgh; and to be had of all Booksellers.  The Work which is now presented to the public is the result of very extended experience in a class of diseases and affections, which for some unaccountable reason have been either altogether overlooked, or treated with apathy, and almost indifference, by the el dinary practitioner. To enter into the details of these affections, to point out their causes, and to mark the terrific consequences, social, moral, and physical, which are sure to follow from indulgence, in certain habits, would be entirely out of place in an advertisement. We have no hesitation, however, in saying that there is no member of society, by whom the book will not be found interesting, whether we consider such person to hold the relation of a PARENT, a
The Sun. — 1841-07-03 (London, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE. An inquest was held on Wednesday afternoon, at the House of Correction, upon the body of Thomas Jackson, a prisoner, aged forty. Mr. Jackson, the Governor of the House. gave evidence respecting the deceased, who had been placed in his charge on the 6th of April last, to be held to hard labour for eight calendar months, having been found guilty of defrauding his emplever, Mr. John Flint, of the sum of 6/. ; it was his It.”st offence, and he bore the punishment very impatiently; he was exceedingly irritable, and sometimes remarkably quarrelsome. Robert Davison, surgeon, saw the deceased on Monday, as he was unwell, and ordered him a little aperient medicine. He had a most veracious appetite. Saw nothing more of him till he was dead, when witness found him lying on the bed, on his side, with two considerable wounds on his neck ; one on the right side, rather superficial in depth, about two inches and a half in length, and- one on the left side, about three inches long and very deep, and had divided the blood-vessels ; he had lost an immense quantity of blood. Could find no knife, but after the most diligent search, a small thin piece of brass, part of the boss of a lace bobbin, was found in the blood, and nothing else that it could be imagined possible for the wounds ,to have been inflicted with. The bit of brass had apparently been rubbed to a sharp edge on one side, and it was about the size of a sixpence. A person very determined on selfdestruction might inflict the wounds found on him. The wound on the left side of the throat was exactly in the direction of the vessels, which deceased well knew • having been a butcher, and accustomed to bleed calves, he would know where to find the vessel. Had seen him frequently, but certainly never observed him to be insane. There being no evidence to show that Jackson was of unsound mind, the Jury returned a verdict--That the said Thomas Jackson feloniously and maliciougly destroyed himself by cutting his throat, and so he died, and not otherwise, as appears at this inquest. The deceased was heard at daybreak, on the morning of his death, and for several hours afterwards, at intervals, reading aloud from " Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress," and also was heard to pray.—Nottinghain Review.  The Pau journal relates that lately a person named Border°lle, who, during the season, kept an hotel at Saint Sauveur, in the Pyrenees, lost his life in the following extraordinary manner, at Luzen Bareges. Having gained a lawsuit, which put him in possession of a very large property, he gave a grand dinner to a party of friends ; but while he was singing some couplets, made by himself for the occasion, was struck with apoplexy, fell from his chair, and died instantaneously.
The Sun. — 1841-07-03 (London, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE.  An inquest was held on Wednesday afternoon, at the House of Correction, upon the body of Thomas Jackson, a prisoner, aged forty. Mr. Jackson, the Governor of the House, gave evidence respecting the deceased, who had been placed in his charge on the 6th of April last, to be held to hard labour for eight calendar months, having been found guilty of defrauding his employer, Mr. John Flint, of the sum of 6/. ; it was his first offence, and he bore the punishment very impatiently; he was exceedingly irritable, and sometimes remarkably quarrelsome. Robert Davison, surgeon, saw the deceased on Monday, as he was unwell, and ordered him a little aperient medicine. He had a most voracious appetite. Saw nothing more of him till he was dead, when witness found him lying on the bed, on his side, with two considerable wounds on his neck ; one on the right side, rather superficial in depth, about two inches and a half in length, and one on the left side, about three inches long and very deep, and had divided the blood-vessels ; he had 1 lost an immense quantity of blood. Could find no knife, but after the most diligent search, a small thin piece of brass, part of the boss of a lace bobbin, was found in the blood, and nothing else that it could be imagined possible for the wounds to have been inflicted with. The bit of brass had apparently been rubbed to a sharp edge on one side, and it was about the size of a sixpence. A person very determined on selfdestruction might inflict the wounds found on him. The wound on the left side of the throat was exactly in the direction of the vessels, which deceased well knew • having been a butcher, and accustomed to bleed calves, he would know where to find the vessel. Had seen him frequently, but certainly never observed him to be insane. There being no evidence to show that Jackson was of unsound mind, the Jury returned a verdict—That the said Thomas Jackson feloniously and maliciously destroyed himself by cutting his throat, and so he died, and not otherwise, as appears at this inquest. The deceased was heard at daybreak, on the morning of his death, and for several hours afterwards, at intervals, reading aloud from " Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress," and also was heard to pray.—Nottingham Review.
The Sun. — 1841-07-06 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SUICIDE. Early in the morning yesterday, a carpenter named Daniel Savage, purchased some arsenic, exhibited it to his wife, telling her that he was going to take it, and asked for a tumbler to mix it in. His wife did not oppose his purpose, but ran up stairs to inform her neighbour, a Mrs. Lovett, that her husband was going to take poison." They both came down before he had prepared the fatal draught, and looked on while he mixed and drank it He died after suffering great and irremediable agony for six hours. He was fifty years of age. His wife said she " dared not Oppose him," meaning that she was so much afraid of his violence. Six years ago the deceased took a similar dose, but by prompt remedies succeeded in saving his life. The Jury returned a verdict of "Suicide, by taking poison in the presence of his wife." An interesting question will arise upon this extraordinary affair, whether the wife, in thus permitting the deceased to destroy himself, has committed any offence at common law ? Dr. Geyer, at whose shop the arsenic was purchased, says, that "it was a very pure and active article, and had killed ~one man who had taken it, in two hours !"  A STRANGE PLACE TO DlE.—The following paragraph is from the Vicksburg Whig. It records one of the strangest events we ever heard of :—" The Coroner of the county yesterday morning held an inquest over the dead body of a man found on the roof of Prentiss and Dawson's three-story brick row on Leveestreet. He had evidently been dead some weeks, and his body was horribly mutilated by the birds that had been flying around him. The most probable surmise wo have yet heard, is that he was labouring under some bodily disease and was also deranged, that while in this state he wandered into one o` the vacant stores, and ascended from story to story until he found his way to the roof, that there he probably had a fit, and sank down to rise no more." ST.
The Sun. — 1841-08-12 (London, England)

STRANGE SUICIDE.  On Tuesday an inquest was held before Mr. T:salcer, at the Crown, John-street, SpitalfieldS, en the body of Emma Butfoy, aged 18, who poisoned hersta with arsenic, under circumstances not clearly to be accounted for. The deceased wan the daughter of the Landlord of the Weavers' Arms, Brown-lane, Spitalfields. On Sunday evening last, after a hard day's work, she sent the pot-boy for a pennyworth of arsenic, telling him she wanted it to destroy verra:n. The lad broright the arsenic and gave it to her in the kitchen, and told her how Mr. Morton, the chemist from 'whom he had bough tit, said she was to use it. She receivel it, and tent him to her mother for half a pint of bee; giving him the money to pay for it. Her father was in the kitchen at the time, but he was near-sighted ant. deaf. He then absented himself from the kitchen for about twenty minutes, and he believed that in the mean time the deceased mixed the poison with the beer and thank it. A female friend and the aunt of the deceased cafe in. shortly after she had taken the poisOn, 'when she simply complained of sickness, and they administered►,ieripecacuana and castor oil. When the house wag shut up, at twelve o'clock, the mother went to bed 'Without going to see after her daughter, who, between three and four o'clock next morning, came and knocked •at her bedroom door, saying that she was very ill. The mother took her into her bed, and, seeing that she got worse, sent for a doctor, but before he arrived the poor girl had expired. Mr. Birch, the doctor, was of opinion that deceased had died from having taken arsenic; and it appeared she was pregnant. It was stater that deceased had been attached to a widower, named Savage, who was very fond of her, but that she had broken off her connection with him, and fell in love with a married man named Kay. Though these circumstances might have. affected her mind, it was very clearly proved that ever since a fall she had met with five years ago, her head way affected. The Coroner said, that the probability was that the injury formerly done to deceased's head had produced, under all the circumstances, delirium, during which she had destroyed herself. The Jury eventually came to that conclusion, and returned a verdict of "Temporary insanity."
The Sun. — 1841-07-05 (London, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE.—At Brantford, on Saturday, the following determined suicide occurred : On the previous evening a young man went to the Three Pigeons Inn, and engaged a bed for the night. He desired breakfast might be brought him in the morning. Upon the servant going to his room the door was discovered to be fastened, and all attempts to arouse him proved fruitless. Mr. Hills, the landlord, had the room door forced open, when the unfortunate young man was discovered hanging by a silk handkerchief from the rail lat the foot of the bed quite dead and cold. He was undressed, but the bed clothes had not been disturbed. In appearance he was about twenty-seven or twentyyears of age, five feet eight inches high,ust7s brown light thin whiskers under "his chin, sallow twenty-eight hair, rather high cheek bones, stout made, and dressed in a white cottonei socks,Nlorn ladlarackk silks er tioi ouotkceorao itl,i odfa)rvki t lig whitea m b rosopno ttsi3O blucher boots, nearly new, and black h„at, " W. White and Son, 88, Cheapside. of his clothes was only found three k which is scratched the words " R. a pair of kid gloves with bad shilling, and a halfpenny. .R." and a mark en his handkerchief were Thet taking king burned out. No documents lead to the discovery of his friends. the coroner's Magistrates inquest. mraakther''s name' In the pockets keys, a penknife, on ~ Riv Rivers, 1839, Holbeach," heir.s ' marked inside, one Ls shirt was also marked f had evidently been any kind were found te The body awaits a discovery being made just as the in the adjoining teir seats in petty session room occasioned a considerable sensation . \ in the town. 1 The King of the Belgians expressed his gr,cat admiration of the manner in which the vocal concert at the Palace, on 'Wednesday evening, was executed. Ilis Majesty highly complimented Grisi and Viardot. It is not generally known that the King is himself a good musician, and was, we believe, the first to promote the establishment of an Italian Opera permanently in Brussels. His sister, the Duchess of Kent, also sings with 1 great taste and feeling, not only the music of Germany, but many of our popular airs, especially Moore's Irish Melodies. To her refined taste may mainly be attributed (for she had the principal guidance of her early years) 1 the musical talents and superior judgment in all that relates to the art of her Majesty the present Queen. n The mountains I • Scotland have during the I past week been capped with snow. The once joyous and sultry 4th of June was -truly Siberian, but a beneficial II change seems at liand.-IVewcaslle Journal. study the arts and sciences ; there are among them seveForty Abyssinians . are coming to France to ral persons of distinction. to announce the death of this amiable We regret to
The Sun. — 1841-08-23 (London, England)

MISCELLANEOUS. A person, named Argent, of Cambridge, lately left his property to his niece, on condition that before he was buried his head should be cut off; as he dreaded being buried alive. This was done a week or two ago, and his niece obtains the property. A floating breakwater is proposed to be erected at Brighton, and this day a meeting takes the Pr°Psi  tion into consideration. A few days ago a Coroner's Jury, which met at the George Inn, Burnham, Bucks, returned a verdict of .felo de se on the body of a servant girl, 20 years of age. It appeared that the unfortunate girl, who had alwaya borne an irreproachable character, and bed been fur two years and a half in the service of Mr. Evans, drawingmaster, at Eton College, had been betrayed by sonic villain, and to hide her shame took a quantity of arsenic,' sufficient to kill six persons. The body was interred at eleven o'clock at night, without religious rites. What a picture of the cruelty of man Saturday was the anniversary of the death of King William the Fourth. He was born in the year 1765. The cattle are dying to an awful extent in the vicinity of Dublin, Carlow, and Drogheda. The distemper arises from cold, commences with a cough, and generally terminates fatally in ten days.  Saturday was the anniversary of the battle of Vimiers, the first battle in which the Duke of Wellington measured himself with the then conquerors of Europe.  It is said that a distance of fifty-seven miles has been travelled on the common road, in a Bath chair, by eke' tro-magnetic power, in one hour and a half ; and further, that the applier comes over daily from St. Alban's to the Bank of England in the said chair in half an hour, at an expence of sixpence.
The Sun. — 1841-09-06 (London, England)

THE EMPEROR ISSUES KESHEN'S DEATHWARRANT, RESTORES LIN TO FAVOUR, AND APPOINTS KEKUNG GOVERNOR 01? THE TWO KWANG PROVINCES. On the 4th of the 3d moon (26th March 1841), the imperial commands were received as follows : It is represented in Keshen's official report that Chinleen Shing, the officer of the three Keang divisions; (who defended Chuenpec) having erred in his manoeuvres, the troops were slain and he himself committed suicide. But it has also been represented ' by Ho, the General, and B, the Lieut.-Governor, that Chinleen Shing of the three Keang divisions was patriotic, brave, and skilled in stratagem, and that he had besought the Governor Keshen to block up the river, and also to issue out five thousand catties of powder, but Keshen would not allow the river to be blocked up, and only issued out 1,000 catties of powder, and with which moreover was mixed up a vast deal o 4: sand and dirt which rendered it perfectly inefficient. Therefore perished in the ranks both father (Chinleen Shing) and son, which is cause of profoundest sorrow.  It has been previously verified by the report of E, that on the 6th of the 2d moon (26th February, 1841), our position of FootnoOn was lost inevitably (Shih been), which has caused our Imperial heart to be riven with direct grief ! It was not for a moment supposed that Keshen possessed such low capacity as to part with his country for money--a crime for which he is unworthy to live. Let the Imperial body guard therefore forthwith seal up Keshen's temple, and also rigorously put the whole of his family in irons ; and let Wokih proceed to Canton, arrest Keshen, and bring him to the capital, and upon the very day that this rebel Minister arrives, let him and his family at the same time be put to death together.  -And since the fall of the Bocca Tigris the Provincial City must certainly occupy a dangerous position, you, Eleang, with the Imperial Commissioner (Kinchae) Yangfang and others, should, with desperate energies, protect and guard the city. In relation to Lin Tsih Sen, who was formerly Governor of the two Kwang provinces, and of whom the rebellious barbarians stood in awe, the Emperor, being deceived by the false representations of the rebel minister Keshen, thereupon deprived him of his offices. At present various high officers have handed up a document requesting that Lin be reinstated in his original official position' (as Governor, &c.); but as a Governor has already been fixed upon, Kehung, by imperial command (who was Lieut.-Governor of K•vangtung seven years ago), there need be no occasion of further change. And we also allow Lin to become chief of the second degree of official rank, and let him too advise together with Eleang and others in relation to the affairs of the army.—Respect this. Macao, 16th April, 1841.
The Sun. — 1841-06-17 (London, England)

EVENINC- EDITION  FUN, LONDON- TILIURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1841.  not be forced to let go until it was pierced through by a mar. with a sharp pointed stick. Only a few drops of blood followed the bite, and the woman continued her work, but in a very short time her countenance became flushed, and she expe:ieneed a burning thirst, but went to bed without taking any remedies. In the morning she was found dead, and the auti,p3y of the body gave all the symptoms of death from the poison of a venomous reptile, thus contradicting the opinion of naturalists that toads do not possess any venomous qualities. The body of a man, between 35 and 40 years of age, was found dead in the Bois de Boulogne yesterday, and taken to the Morgue. No doubt of his having committed suicide is entertained, as a ball, which must have been discharged close to his breast, had passed through his body, and a pistol was lying close to his side.  The apprentice of a working jeweller; in the Rue St. Mery, was found yesterday morning hanging by It's cravat from a cloak-hook in the alcove in which his bed was placed. He had been dead several hours. His head is said to have been turned by reading the modern French novels and dramatic works. We expected to find in the Messager the report of the expedition directed against Tekedempt and itlaseara, but that Journal contains nothing respecting Africa. Our private letters only confirm the telegraphic despatches announcing the return of the expedition to Mostaganem. It seems that the arrangement made by the commander-in .chief to have part of the provisions carried by the cavalry, had the effect that the people were everywhere able to retire on our approach, without fear of being pursued, because no use could be made of the cavalry. A decree of General Bugeaud, dated Mascara, May 30, and published in the Moniteur Algerien, is of the following terms: —All the inhabitants of Mascara, and those who are established within 24,000 metres of that town, who have left their houses to follow the enemy, shall forfeit all title to the property of these lands, if they do not return within a month of this date. After that time is past their property will be sequestrated, and incorporated in the domains of the State. 1 hese acts will not be valid unless they are countersigned by the French authorities.  The same Journal contains long details of the military operations which took place in the expedition to Tekedempt, Bogbar, and Thaza.—Le Commerce.