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The Express. — 1866-12-12 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF R. HENRY SAMPSON, OF LEEDS. Yesterd.ty (Tuesday) morning, about breakfast time, Mr. Henry Sampson, a gentleman well known and highly respected for his personal and substantial support of the Strangers' Benevolent Society and many of the philanthropic institutions in the town, and especially throe connected with the Wesleyan denomination, committed suicide by cutting his throat, at his residence, in Queensquare. Deceased has been in a weak state of health for some time, and has for the last few days been suffering from a boil on his chin. His spirits have been very much depressed, and for several weeks he has been in a state of religious melancholy, which was at times so intense that he considered himself to be lost. Mr. Beardshaw, who was not only his professional adviser, but his personal friend, has endeavoured, along with his family and other friends, to cheer him in his despondency, but, as the fatal event of yesterday shows, without effect. Mr. Beardshaw saw his patient on Monday night, and promised to call for him to accompany him on a drive. The unfortunate gentleman partook of breakfast about nine o'clock, apparently in his usual spirits, and then retired to his toom, where a gurgling sound was immediately heard by one of the servants. Alarmed at the strange noise, the inmates ran up stairs, when Mrs. Sampson was horrified to find her husband standing in the room, with blood Bowing from a fearful gash in Ills throat, which he had inflictel with a razor. Mr. Beardshaw was speedily in attendance, but unhappily his services were of no avail, for the unfortunate gentleman expired in a very short time. MB death will be deeply regretted throughout the town. —Leeds Mercury. Fiats AND Loma OF Lutz. —Yesterday morning at an early hour a fire broke out on the premises of Messrs. Peathers and Son, grocers, Wandsworth-road, and was not extinguished until the premises were destroyed. The cause Is unknown. Another fire broke out in Highstreet, Camden-town, which ted inWilliam Appleton, aged four years, being burnt resulto death.  !- "'Er) I JAN !P67L 1 ---.7 NEwspArvvt _4- , c:24____/,,,--(...________......,, '_€.l',... /7•-- 1 , JI AI . .I / --o- A 7:1 7.' .- - - .'" TT r(--);.-- 'T, 7. 7 i . . . -UR ti da-a jai._ Arr 1. t , 1 I • I . i 4. . . -- - .1 11. I i tI 1 I I I li . I ,
The Express. — 1866-04-21 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF A YOUNG WOMAN IN THE RIVER LEA THROUGH A LOVE QUARREL.  INQUEST THIS DAY. This morning an inquiry was held at the Old Five Bells tavern, St. Leonard's-street, Bromley, relative to the supposed suicide of Jane Eliza Jones, aged 19 years. Sarah Jones, 29, Cordelia-street, Bromley, said that the deceased, her daughter, was a servant in a gentleman's house in Brie-park, but she left her situation a fortnight ago amleanue home to live with witness. She was very desponding in consequence of having bad a quarrel with her young man, and having broken off with him. On last Wednesday fortnight, in the evening, she removed her crinoline, but witness took no notice of it then, because she knew that the deceased was a young woman that studied the fashions, and witness thought she left it off because crinoline was going out of fashion. Witness said to her, " Don't go out, dear ; it is a wet night," but she made no answer, and, putting on a pair of new goloshes to keep her feet dry, she went out. Witness never saw her alive after, but a young woman, no doubt the deceased, was seen that night walking about on the banks of the River Lea. Sarah Jones, a sister of the deceased, deposed that the deceased told her that she kept company with her young , man, whose surname she would not tell, for 16 months, and that then they fell out. She said, "I am very sorry I broke off with William ; I wish I could see him, but I do not know where he is now," A week before she disappeared she asked witness, " Cana person sink in the water with a crinoline on? or does does it make a person float?" Witness told her not to ask such foolish questions. Cant (coroner's officer) proved that the body of the decessed was found floating last Tuesday morning near to Bromley-bridge of the river Lea. She had no crinoline on and her shawl was thrown over her head. The body had been about a fortnight in the water. The jury returned an open verdict, " That deceased was drowned in the river Lea, but how she came into the water there was no evidence to show."
The Express. — 1866-10-31 (London, England)

AMERICA. (ET ATLANTIC TTLEGRAPN.) NEW YORK, Ocr. V.  Gold, 146. Exchange on London, 160} ; 5-20 United States Bonds, 114} ; Illinois, 1241 ; Erie, 84. Cotton, middling upland, 39.  At the French opera, the evening before last, during the first act of Robert le Diabk, a cry of " Fire !" arose behind the scenes. A light communicated to some gauze hanging up in the dressing-room of Mdlle. Lamy, the dancer, and in a moment the whole side of the room was in a flame. She ran out in great alarm, but the firemen had no difficulty in extinguishing the commencement of the conflagration. The audience knew nothing of the in. cadent. I The Russian government has adopted the breechloader model of M. Thierry. The rifles of the entire army are to be immediately changed into the new weapon. The special committee of the Baden Chamber has refused to grant money for a similar purpose, being of opinion that, with or without breech-loaders, Baden will be defenceless unless received into the North German Confederacy. THE Twat. or RISE ALLAH Bay. —The ProcurenrGeneral continued his address on Monday. He dwelt with much force on the evidence which discountenanced the theory of suicide, and brought forward one by one the proofs of that strong interest which Risk Allah had in . 1 ly's death. " C'est lui qui l'a tut," he exclaimed, putting the climax on a long sequence of allegations, and rolling his voice in the direction of the prisoner sitting near him. M. de Homy having closed his eddies, IIL i Gnu: began the defence of the prisonen, con • . among other things, that the evidence of Lieutenant Charm bad abundantly demonstrated the fact that suicide 1 I was far more likely than murder. The court sat until I nearly 5 o'clock, and then rose until half-pest 9 o'clock the following day.
The Express. — 1866-01-24 (London, England)

NATIONAL BANK OF LIVEKPOOL.—The fifth halfyearly meeting of proprietors was held in Liverpool yesterday, Mr. Higgin in the chair. The report, read by Mr. Hyde. the manager, stated that after writing off bad providing for doubtful debts theaocounts showed& net profit of 17,3561. 3s. 4d., and adding to this 3,000 r. from last account, and 2,9071.105. id. the balanced premium on sew shares, the total amount available for distribution was 23,425/. Of this sum the directors proposed to appropriate 13,0004 in a dividend of 10 per cent., the remainder being carried to seat account. Ampording to the ameeees the paid up capital amounted to 302,5351., and the reserve fund to 110,000/. The report wag adopted, and at an extraordi. nary panel meeting lt was resolved that one of the articles of association be altered to enable the directors to declare, , when they may see fit, interim dividends end bosuns. DISTREPSING SUICIDE THROUGH THE Loin 07 THE LOlrDoN.—Yesterdav Mr. William Payne, meow fee the City, held an inquiry at the Golden Axe Tavern, Bt. , Mary-axe, relative to the death of Mies Sarah Marks,i co 11. V 43 years, who committed suicide by poison through mused by the loss of a sister, 23 years of age, as the f ship London. Jacob Hartmann, 19, Bevis-marks, a board. iniphouse.kesw, said that the deceased cisme to live at his play on Moedsy week. She had bon, witness undersea* in business as a linendraper, but had failed. Until WI Wednesday, however, she was in good health and spirits, but on that day she heard of the loot et the Loodon, sad she then became quite frantic. She said that her youngsister was lost on board that ship, sod that it was she lobe had persuaded her to go to Asistmille. Sbe said," lam my sister's murderer." sod got almost beside herself. She hal also written os a piece of paper, which was found after her death, that she had destroyed herself, for she ems the cause of her sister's death. by persuading her=to Nahanni' in the London. 'The jury returned the deceased committed suicide by taking poison while in • a elated unsound Wad."
The Express. — 1866-12-08 (London, England)

BURIAL OF A FELO-DE-SE AT JUDNIGHT.  For the first time within a nuaetpr of s thettet, Norwood Cemetery was last midnight the swae rids burial without Christian rites of the corlthe of a Melee. The coroner's jury which, last evening at 6 site, found that the commercial clerk, William George n liams, had committed the crime of seltrarder, ee upon Mr. Serjeant Payne the smithy, 4 rs:idng his warrant for the burial of the MO by torchlight between that time and midnight. fele verdict of felo-de-se returned at Guy's Regal, xis in the case of a person who died there the thy re ago, and on that occasion the horrible form of &op stake into the body was gone through. The ghastly OW mony was performed in the burial ground silith l eat lois hospital, and it is said to have been almost the ast Were in which that obsolete barbarism wash tnessed is Lathe. Lest the tradition should be by any miens out In the present case, t coroner expresely ordeesitiat no stake should be used. About 9 o'clock last night a common rinthererti drawn by an old horse, emerged from the hospice! pia The end of a deal coffin hung over the tabard, 99 eth name Williams written on it withsuicide. In the was a bit of chalk, arid that it contained the body of the of an hour the cart, with its burden, was drawn spa tie highway, alongside a hedge at Norwood. The sigth viith• man at tae cemtery was called and informed of thaw nese on hand.e The functionaries at the aryl were just going to bed, and were conk* taken by surprise by the production of the Wg. rant for an immediate burial so late at lied. _!l,l* Gardiner, the superintendent, sent messengentothelsr bat bouring public-house, and was fortunate enough toes grave-diggers there. These men were Prospt " work to dig a grave at the soutb-east eviler of too* tery beneath Dome lime trees. When the gran= enough the cart, which had been left out on the was driven into the grounds. Three men wtherescrline/ lifted the coffin from the cart, and, guided II Ow Sim in light of lanthorns, carried it to the rostllsear either end,e near the bottom, a candle was steekl!nt earth, where, screened from the wind, wilichble,wW, and whistled through the trees. they cast a mkt/ W" upon the yellow clay. The coffin was la sae pkos by means of ropes. The earth Val , ..., shovelled down and stamped in, the lights wen r''" all was over. --.....  Fffiffifia/. ow Balloting Fefinigago ot
The Express. — 1866-05-28 (London, England)

ATTEMPTS MURDER AND SUICIDE.-011 Saturday evening desperate attemptsat murder and suicide were perpetrated by a 111311 named Thomas Henry Gibson, a printer, living at P:sgle-street, lie:Lona. The intended victim was his wife, and but for the great resistance she inatle his purpose would have been effected. It seems that the two lived together on the most unhappy terms, and on Saturday evening the husband, shorty after his return home, wont secretly behind his wile and endeavoured to cut her throat with a razor. She made a desperate resistance, and he having succeeded in Miiicting a wound in her throat, doubtless thought lie had cansed her fatal injury, and at once cut his own throat in several places. The pollee having been brought by the alarm raised by the neighlioun., the two were carried to King's College Hospital, where it was found that while the man hail very seriously injured himself, be had hut slightly injured his wife. lint windpipe was severed in two places, the result of three separate cuts. ATROCTOI S OUTRAOT:.—On Friday night a girl, named Lucy Sitar, died at Crimeby from injuries received a short time before. She was in her sixteenth year, was motherless, and at the time living as servant with a lady. On Sunday ni,!bt, the 13th inst., she had been to church with her mistress, and after that went to sec an aunt. On returning a man took hold of her, and, pressing his hand on her mouth, dragged her out of the way of panaerseby, and attempted to assault her criminally. Whilst she straggled he continued to drag her further. and further away from where assistance might be obtained, mot after a short time souse young fellows came up awl saldresaed her rather brntally. The man who had first Mused her called the others to his assistance, and they threw her down, and committed such outrages upon her as to cause her death. With one exception the men have been committed for trial. The following are the names and occupations of these men :—John Cranford, labourer ; Thomas White, fitter ; Samuel Derbon, blacksmith's apprentice ; William Eniptage, ship carpenters apprentice ; and Edward Nuttle. labourer. John Chantrey, a bricklayer, was also with them, but was discharged.
The Express. — 1866-12-25 (London, England)

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S-INN-ROAD. The baas rother, a lad of fourteen, was kicked and ill-used. o'clock on Monday morning, and the officer who took him, number of patients relieved at this hoopital, during tbe Mr. Partridge--I shall remand the prisoner for a week after receiving two contradictory statements about the week ending Dec. 22, was 3,449, of which 1,118 were new for inquiries to be made about him. man's place of residence, went to a house in Kill-lane, cases. WANDSWORTFL where he found in a room occupied by the prisoner base [Advertisement.l-EioLLoway's OINTMENT AND Charles ; half -crowns florins shillin sad six Herrinaton, 55, a prdener, was placed in the coon -° . , P. Penoes. PlLLS.—Marvellous ceres of 'm.l/fit:a. stiff joints, paralysis of the dock, charged with attempting to commit suicide by having said he had been to a christening in HunterCoup Umbs, and other crippling &manes of the bones, sinews, and muscles, have been accomplished by Holloway's ointment. It is E _.l t c„, ha ruing himself on the London, Chatham, and Dover khi h street, the officer too m t ere to a house where he the only unguent which Pr time. any ha on these tom- tut found Williams in bed. In the bed, concealed, the eonPlaints. The pills also work wonders. The ointment and pills Police-consta le Ba er, 1 waY a at la. k 121 W, said that on Saturday stable discovered a bag containing 401. worth (nominally) should be used at the same time. for the action of the one as night he was on duty in Larkhall-Line, when the prisoner of base coin. They were both locked up and the coin Segreatly assisted by that of the other. Why should any human Tan past him, exclaiming " Oh, oh !" He fol , lowed hir, cured. Skerce, the offioer, baring given evidence to this brine suffer from the above-mentioned maladies, when Iloilo- and asked him what was the matter, when he replied that effect, the two men were remanded. way's ointment and pills are to be found In every city and town in the world? These noble medicaments are composed aaa he intended to go on to the railway to commit suicide.
The Express. — 1866-10-25 (London, England)

EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDS AT WHITBREAD'S BASWERY.-(SSIS DAY.)  Rich This forenoon an bmairy was held by Mr. a deputy coroner, st the Green Gate 'Tavern, Cit 77 to the death of William Ward, aged 30  years, who committedjentene. Tho deceased was employed as a labourer at Wbitbre Brewery in Chiawell-street, St. Luke's. He was of a gloomy and morose temper. Within the last few days he was suspended for using violent language to • foreman, but on blue t better behaviour he erne plena& on &in. lie aPPeered to converse 'with his brother,. with whom he lived at 20, Free-street, fit. Luke's principally upon the best way of getting rid of oneself. dearequently said to him that he would Tike to know the best way to get rid of himself, for he was tired of life, but he did not know what to do. Hie brother and his landlady tried to joke him out of this state of mind. The manner of his suicide was deposed to by Daniel Freeman, • "leather holder," or • person whose duty it was to fill casks with beer from the vats by means of leather pipes. On Tuesday morning, at 9 o'clock, he was underneath vat No. 19, which was empty of beer, but was filled with embank. Acid gas. lie beard a inciter match struck at the top of the vat, which was 27 feet high, and he called out twice, but received no sneerer. He ran up to the top of the est, and there he found a light burning, and the name " W. Ward" chalked on the beam over the vat in large letters. He raised an alarm, and the deceased was seen lying at the bottom of the vat, quit* dead. No one dared enter the vat, and drags had to be employed to get deceased out. Dr. Yarrow said that he was called in to the deceased, and found him quite dead. His fees wee distorted and the body swollen. He had been killed by carbonic acid tag, and death must have been instantaneous. A light was instantly extinguished when lowered into the vat, which was 27 feet deep, and was filled with the deadly gas to within a foot or two of the top. It was stated that the deceased who had been tong earsIt at the brewery, was perfectly acquainted with Nee nature of the pa, and that without doubt he knew well what he was doing wheelie jumped into the vat. Latterly he had complained of " not feeling se he ought," and said he wished to end it. The Coroner having summed up, The jury returned a •verdict, "That deceased committed suicide by leaping into a vat filled with carbonic acid gas, at Whitbread's brewery, while hi a state of unsound mind."
The Express. — 1866-06-28 (London, England)

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE AT LONDON-BRIDGE.  Mr. Wm. Payne, the City coroner, held an in- bquiry at St. Magnus Vestry-room, Lower Thamesswhose treet, last evening, respecting the suicide of a woman name was unknown. Police-constable George Cross, 821, City force, said that last Sunday night, at about 11 o'clock, he was on duty in King William-street, when he saw a multitude of people on the steps at the City side of London-bridge. Witness sprang his rattle for assistance, and hastened to the spot. Several persons told him that a woman had run down the steps and leaped into the river. A boatman pulled her out of the water with his drags in less than ten minutes. Dr. Hughes, of Fenchuroh-street, was sent for, and when he arrived he put a scent-bottle to her nose, pulled her, and shoved her about. He left in a quarter of an hour. Coroner—When the doctor came he had nothing to help him. He could not do much on the steps of the bridge. The woman wanted warmth awl blankets. The witness said that the body was reoovered a quarter past 11 o'clock at night, and all the public-houses were then closed, it being Sunday. The nearest Royal Humane Society's receiving bowie was the Swan in Thames-street, and that was closed. A juror remarked that the woman ought to have been taken to Guy's Hospital, but the Coroner replied that they were so particular there that if they thought the woman was dead they would not have taken her in. All the public-house people could not have been in bed. The witness said a bystander told him that he had seen the deceased walk straight over the bridge, go down the steps, and then throw herself into the water. She looked about 35 or 40 years of age. James J. Anderson said that the deceased was clothed in rags. She was very poor indeed, and had evidently been in the greatest distress. Nothing was found upon her escept a parties of a religious tract which was discovered in her pockets. Her bonnet was found in the river next  morning. Win. Ball, a lightermiin, said that when he recovered the body the doomed wee warm. She appearedto be very poor. At the request of the jury the court was adjourned for the ?rah:sake of evidence respecting the decensia'n identity.
The Express. — 1866-02-13 (London, England)

THE LATE ADMIRAL PA.RAVA.  We have_r•oeived, with a request for publication, a letter from Sever Luis ?rade y Pareja respecting the letter which the Tines published, purporting to have been written by the late Admiral Pareja, and to expeine that officer's regret. for having advised war with Chili. ibis letter Senor Luis Prada y Pared* insists on denuunsing as apocryphal, and written in the iotereste of Senor Terns, which he identified with thawed Chili. Elsewhere he declares that it is an artifice of the European ultremontene party in concert with Chilean Janata, The most pertinent of the stateeneute of Senor Luis Pre& y Pareja, who was with the Admiral in the Pacific, are eoetained in the following colleges of his letter : From the moment that the late Admiral Panda entered his Wain, after tskiog leave of the American consul, from whom be learnt the capture of the Covadonge, till the moment is which the report of the revolver was heard which terminated his existeece barely enificieet time elapsed to write the two limes which be left scribbled on the wall, requesting " that his body should not be thrown into Chilian waters." The captain of the frigate, Don Claudio Alvargonzales y Sanchez, the major, and the admiral's personal aide-de-camp, rushed to the admirers cabin on besting the report. They did not find any letter or paper to show the muse of the suicide, but it might awl ought to be attributed to the lose of the COVS4OIIRIi, judging from the alteration of hie countenance and movements immediately upon receiving the news, sod by what I shell further demonstrate. When the admirers papers were esaaiined, to separate tit, se which were private from his official dewagents, neither letter nor writing of any other kind was found, from whence might be known or even remotely gnawed what had been the bidden motive for his self A La rs
The Express. — 1866-01-22 (London, England)

THE ALLEGED SUICIDE OF ADMIRAL PAREJA.  We read in the No,tl, "The news of Admiral Parent's suicide is confirmed. However grievously the capture of the Covadooga may have wounded the self eateeiu of the admiral, especially after the ambitious programme he bad addressed some dos before to the forces placed under his order', it is impossible to believe that this misfortune, for which moreover M. Pareja was not personally responBible, could have been the only motive of his suicide. It must be supposed that the admiral perceived, too late unfortun►tely, that be had entered upon a course dangerous to himself and to his government, in assuming the haughty and threatening attitude towards the republics of South America which he had taken up. • Some time ago,' writes a correspondent of the Ti nips, 'the admiral admitted to Mr. Nelson,theU ailed States minister, that lie had been mistaken is his estimateof Chilian matters. In fact, ever since the fatal 17th September, he has encountered unforeseen difficulties every day. The proud attitude of the Chilian people, and the extraordinary resources they displayed, had disconcerted the Spanish admiral at the very first. Diaposiog of only seven ships for the blockade of more than fifty porta, he could only effect a blockade iu name. The evi•leut exasperation of all the Pacific populiiious tilled him with fears as to his re.victualliog ; the bad news he assuredly received from Spain could not leave him in any doubt as to the assistance to be expected from his government. The expulsion of President Pezet by the Peruvians threw another country upon his hands.' To these circumstances must be added the evident sympathy of the diplomatic corps at Valparaiso with Chili—a sympathy which gave the Spanish admiral no prospect of either moral or material support. Under these circumstances, the triumph of the Spaniards became exceedingly problematical ; ' unwilling to recede or to involve his country in endless expenses without profit, Admiral Pareja preferred to commit suicide. Spain loses in him a man who, although still young, had given proof of good capacity both afloat and at • the Ministry of Marine, which he held for two years. But it is at least to be hoped that the Spanish government will know how to compensate itself for this loss, by profiting by the occasion afforded it to abandon the policy followed b► M. Pareja in Chili and Peru."  GOVERNMENT INstTRANA:E