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The Sun. — 1848-10-19 (London, England)

OXFORD, WF.DNESDAY.—This morning an inquest was held before W. Brunner, Esq., the city coroner, on the body of William Grainger, a servant of Exeter College, who was fotind drowned in the Cherwell. It appeared from the evidence of one of the gardeners belonging to Christ Church, that soon after seven o'clock he found a hat on one of the seats in Christ Church meadow, which it was soon ascertained belonged to deceased. Search was immediately made for the body, and in about two hours it was. found•in. that part of the Cherwell called Deep Martins. Several of deceased's fellow-servants were present, and stated that while waiting in the hall yesterday they noticed something very strange about deceased's manners, and that he had expressed to one of them his fear that he should not be able to get through his work this term. Beyond this there was no cause assigned for his committing suicide. The jury, in the absence of any evidence showing how deceased got into the water, returned a verdict of " Found drowned." The Rev. Mr. Ley, one of the senior fellows of Exeter College, was present at the inquest. Deceased, who was highly respected both by the authorities and students, had been a faithful servant of Exeter College upwards of twenty-three years.  [AnvErtTisEssENT.]--A Life Guardsman, one of the Heroes of Waterloo, Cured of Rheumatism by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Mr. Thomas Brunton• landlord of the Waterloo Tavern, Coatham, Yorkshire, was afflicted for many months with rheumatism and rheumatic gout ; his legs were dreadfully painful and disfigured with colours of every hue, frightful to behold; for ten weeks he was wholly unable to walk. The treatment he received from several medical men, not only failing to do him any good, but leaving him, in fact, in considerably worse condition. At this juncture Holloway's Pills and Ointment were resorted to, and by their sole means he has been restored to health and strength. Sold by all Druggists, and at Professr Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.
The Sun. — 1848-07-19 (London, England)

MAGA ZINES.—(CONTINUED). MISCELLANEOUS. Motley was not more peculiarly the garb of Signor Touchstone, when he "fooled it to the top of his bent" in the Forest of Ardennes, than is the character of the different magazines and periodicals which the want of space in our columns compels us to enumerate hurriedly together. In the Eclectic there are sedate chapters—nuts of logic and meditation, such as the studefit might crack with advantage in the privacy of his study. In the Metropolitan, on the other hand, there are light gossamer tales, such as would delect the readers of James and Dumas. The Belle Assemblee has its usual assortment of grave and sentimental papers, some of them prose, some of them poetical, and most of them entertaining, headed by a sketch of Flora Mac Ivor as a frontispiece. "Bristol" is pourtrayed both by a pictorial ard literary outline in the current part of The Land we Live In; due mention being made, of course, of the Guildhall, the Railway Terminus, the Cathedral, College-green, Steep-street, the Quay, Cumberland Basin, the floating dock, the Victoria Rooms, Clifton-hill, Saint Mary's, Redcliffe, and the illustrious poet the boy Chatterton. In Sharpe's London Magazine there are uudiminished evidences of care and intelligence, and in Lowe's Edinburgh Magazine one article at least is worth perusal, we mean the opening paper on the subject of " Modern Philosophy and its Tendencies." The brethren of the occult association will find contributions fitted for their attention in the Freemasons' Quarterly; the lovers of the schemes for the line'. lectuai improvement of the people in the Educational Quarterly ; the promoters of the sanitary movement in the Health of Towns Magazine; those curious in science in Newtoiis Repertory; those involved in the whirl of gaiety and thsaion in Le Follet ; and those disposed to take a more philosophic view of their fellow-creatures in the Ethnological Journal, which, besides other contributions of merit, has a striking chapter on " The Destruction of Atlantis." For the agriculturist there is the Farmer's Magazine, or, if he is more inclined for a longer retrospect, there are the able, and sometimes masterly, pages of the Quarterly Journal of Agriculture. For the religiously disposed reader there are, on the opposite hand, the Church of England Magazine, or the sober columns of the Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal. The medical student will turn naturally to the Journal of Psychological Medicine, edited by the distinguished " anatomist of suicide," Forbes Winslow ; the geographer and the politician to Sharpe's Series of Moe dern Maps (Part 25, depicting Mexico and Jamaica); and the devourers of fiction to the Tale of the Little Monkey, by the Mayhews ; the chapters of Old London Bridge, by Rodwell, and those of Social Distinction, by Mrs. Ellis.
The Sun. — 1848-11-01 (London, England)

RECTORY OF BISHOP WEARMOUTH.--R is generally, reported at Sunderland that the Rev. John Patrick Eden, 2.1. A., perpetual curate of Bishop Auckland (son-in-law; to Lord Brougham), will be preferred by the Bishop of Durham, the patron, to the very important and valuable! rectory of Bishop Wearmouth, now vacant by the death of the Hon. and Rev. Dr. Wellesley. It is. expected that this very extensive and wealthy rectory,! which is of the gross yearly value of at least 4,2001.,i will be constituted into several district rectories, among which will be the present curacies of St. Thomas,l Bishop Wearmouth, Deptford, Hylton, and Ryhope,, with an augmentation of income to the respective incinn.4 bents. It is likewise thought that the rectory of Sun .1 derland will be augmented in value from the funds oil Bishop Wearmouth rectory—a proceeding which will be only strict justice, for when Sunderland was separated from Wearmouth, and made an independent rectory in 1701, it obtained the heaviest portion of the parochial; duties without any income to support the rector except! the fees. In this case the just claim of Sunderland! cannot well be overlooked. To promote this arrange-! merit, a meeting of the ancient vestry of Sunder-, land was held on Wednesday, at which it was agreed to, memorialise the bishop of the diocese to take advantage! of the present vacancy in the rectory of Bishop Wear-. mouth to make, either from that or from some other, source, additional provision for the spiritual require-. meats of the sister parish. The memorial referred to' embodies the feelings of the entire town and district, and expresses a hope that his Lordship will be able to, attend to its prayer. THE LATE MELANCHOLY SUICIDE CIF CAPTAIN SWlNY.—Yesterday Mr. Bedford and a highly respectable jury assembled at the Exeter-hall Hotel, in the: Strand, to investigate the circumstances attending the, death of Henry Swyny, aged 35, late a half-pay captain in her Majesty's 63d Regiment of Foot, who committedi suicide by throwing himself upon his sword, on the'
The Sun. — 1848-12-07 (London, England)

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.  We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. There was a report circulated in the lobbies of the National Assembly on Tuesday night, to the effect that CHARLES ALBERT had been poisoned. The Gazette de France alludes to this report, but gives no particulars. The rumour did not meet with general credence. The expedition to Civita Vecchia has not sailed, and has been countermanded in consequence of the arrival of the Pors at Gaeta. The Debats says— " Letters received yesterday in Paris state that the Holy Father is gone to Malta. Malta, as is well known, is an English island, the general population of which is Catholic, and the Governor, M. O'Ferrall, is Catholic, and there is also a Catholic Bishe p. Nevertheless, we doubt the truth of this news. We think that it is more probable that the Pope has sought an asylum in the kingdom of Naples. It is easy to believe that Pius IX. would be unwilling to quit the soil of Italy till the last extremity. All Governments, not only Catholic but Christian, will have contended for the honour of offering pious hopitality to the Sovereign Pontiff; but Italy has naturally the first claim. Pius IX. cannot have renounced the hope, however illusory it may be, of seeing the Romans come to a repentance of their own suicide. At all events, if the head of the Catholic world has thought of waiting in Naples the effects of the remorse of a people as ungrateful as they are blind, we feel confident that he will have gone under the protection of the flag of the French Embassy, which was due to him, and will not have failed him." We read in the Credit:— " A rumour has prevailed that the Pope had arrived at Malta, on board the Tonnare. In reproducing this report, which must be received with a certain reserve, we consider it our duty to make every inquiry into the matter. The following is what we can affirm on authority worthy of all our respect :—Pius IX., before the sacrilegious attack of the Quirinal, which followed the murder of M. Rossi, foresaw in a future, which we, however, did not think so near at hand, the necessity which he might be under to quit the States of the Church; and as we have already said, he turned his eyes towards France. But, in the last moments which preceded his unexpected and precipitate dispossession of power, he perceived, we are informed, a difficulty in the way of the realisation, at least immediately, of his desire. Pius IX., driven from Rome by a Bonaparte, could nut demand hospitality in France from a Bonaparte. His Holiness, in consequence, resolved, it is said, to await at Malta the result of the election of the President of the Republic ; and, according to the choice which shall be then made, he will proceed to Majorca, which the Queen of Spain places at his disposal, or repair to Paris."
The Sun. — 1848-08-30 (London, England)

SUICIDE BY A LICENSED VIOTUALLER.—Yesterday Mr. Wm. Payne, the Coroner, held an inquest at the King's Head, Newington Causeway, on the body of Mr. Thomas Tenfold, aged 45, proprietor of the Duke of Wellington public-house, York-street, Southwark. The evidence taken proved that some time back the wife of deceased left her husband and lived upon a separate allowance, but lately she had taken lodgings immediately facing the deceased's place •of business. This circumstance preyed heavily on his mind, and when he saw her go out or enter her lodgings he would frequently burst out crying. A few nights since be told one of the witnesses that his wife watched him wherever he went. If he was ascending the stairs he there met her ghost, and when he was undressing himself of a night he found her standing at his bedside. He deputed a person to go to his wife and ask her whether she would have any objection to come back again. To this she replied that she should be delighted to return back; but when deceased was asked how long it would be before he took her back, he replied, " Full six months, for he intended to sell his business and get a situation for himself as a waterruan." On Sunday morning last, after his children had retired to rest, he committed suicide by hanging himself to an iron stanchion in the bar. Verdict, "Temporary insanity." [ADvEirrisEmENT.]—A most awful Wound Cured by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—George Morris, a mechanic, of Newport, was for months rendered totally unable to work, or even move about the house from , the effects of a dreadful abscess which had formed in his thigh. and which had been repeatedly luiced, under the advice of varioui surgeons; ultimately he was admitted into the hospital, from whence, after the best medical skill had been tried, he was dismissed as incurable. Yet, to the astonishment of all, this dreadful bail wound was soundly healed by the use of Holloway's Ointment and Pills, a supply cf which was kindly presented to him by the minister of his parish. Sold by all druggists and at Professor Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand, London.
The Sun. — 1848-11-07 (London, England)

THE SUICIDE OF VISCOUNT  MIDLETON.  GODALMING, MONDAY NIGHT.—This afternoon Mr. C. J. Woods, the Coroner for West Surrey, resumed at Peper Harrow Mansion, Peper Har• row-park, the seat of the late Right Hon. George Allen Viscount Midleton, the adjourned inquest respecting the death of that nobleman, some particulars of whose melancholy suicide appeared in The Sun of Monday. The first witness examined was George Caesar, who said that he had been in the service of Viscount Midleton for a period of ten years. He saw his Lordship last alive on Tuesday evening, the 31st ult. He was then in his bedroom, and it was about twenty minutes past eleven o'clock. Whilst there witness saw him take a wine-glass and pour something in it, which he drank. He could not tell whether it was brandy or wine. On the following morning (Wednesday) witness went into his Lordship's bedroom at about a quarter-past eight o'clock with the letter-bag, but not finding him there, he went in search of him. After looking in several rooms he remembered that his Lordship had told him a few days previous to take a brazier into another room, and prepare some charcoal, which he stated he wanted for lighting a fire to dry the paper on the walls. The paper in that room was peeling off. According to his Lordship's directions the brazier was placed in the room. The room was a very small one, and approached by a narrow staircase. On reaching that room witness found the door closed, but not locked. A wax-candle which had been in the candlestick was quite burnt out, and on looking round the room he found his Lordship dressed and lying on the floor. The brazier was , standing in the middle of the room. He examined the body, and found it stiff and cold. He left the room and called Robert Dodman, the under-keeper, who was in the house, and who returned with him. By the
The Sun. — 1848-11-07 (London, England)

THE SUICIDE OF VISCOUNT MIDLETON.  GODALMING, MONDAY NIGHT.—This afternoon Mr. C. J. Woods, the Coroner for West Surrey, resumed at Peper Harrow Mansion, Paper Har• row-park, the seat of the late Right Hon. George Allen Viscount Midleton, the adjourned inquest respecting the death of that nobleman, some particulars of whose melancholy suicide appeared in The Sun of Monday. The first witness examined was George Canar, who said that he had been in the service of Viscount Midleton for a period of ten years. He saw his Lordship last alive on Tuesday evening, the 31st ult. He was then in his bedroom, and it was about twenty minutes past eleven o'clock. Whilst there witness saw him take a wine-glass and pour something in it, which he drank. He could not tell whether it was brandy or wine. On the following morning (Wednesday) witness went into his Lordship's bedroom at about a quarter past eight o'clock with the letter-bag, but not finding him there, he went in, sectrell of him. After looking in several rooms he, remeMbered that his Lordship had told him a few days prei4alits to take a brazier into another room, and ,prepaptsome charcoal, which he stated he wanted forilighttang a fire to dry the paper on the walls. Tre-1402Ahat room was peeling off. According to directions the brazier was placed in the rOO4',,ll'he room was a very small one, and approiefiod.Wli narrow staircase. On reaching that room witaeas found the door closed, but not locked. A wax•-,44,01e which had been in the candlestick was quite hurnt out, and on looking round the room he found' his Lordship dressed and lying on the floor. was standing in the middle of the room. .11e. examined the body, and found it stiff and cold: '',l4 left the room and called Robert Dodman," the Ulider-keeper, who was in the house, and who returned-with him. By the
The Sun. — 1848-01-28 (London, England)

CRESS. WELL CRESWELL, Knt.) Berkshire—At Reading, Saturday, February 26. Oxfordshire—At Oxford, Wednesday, March 1. Worcestershire—At Worcester, Monday, March 6. City of Worcester—Same day. Staffordshire—At Stafford, Saturday, March 11. Shropshire—At Shrewsbury, Saturday, March 18. Herefordshire—At Hereford, Thursday, March 23. Monmouthshire—At Monmouth, Saturday, March 25. Glocestershire—At Glocester, Wednesday, March 29. City of Glocester—Same day.  SUICIDE OF A TRADESMAN FROM DlSTRESS.—Yesterday forenoon Mr. William Carter held an inquest at the Fleece, Commercial-road, Lambeth, on the body of William Sawyer, aged forty-seven, a master hairdresser, of No. 10, Commercial-road, who committed suicide under the following distressing circumstances:—From the evidence of Jane Woolden, who passed as deceased's 7V ife, it appeared that for some considerable time past his business had fallen off to such an extent, that during the last two or three months he had been unable to earn on an average sixpence per day. The consequence was that deceased and his family were reduced to the greatest destitution. To find food for his four children, the household furniture had been parted with. Of late there had been a great change in the conduct of the deceased, and he appeared, according to the witness's testimony, heart-broken. He also felt greatl) depresseePon account of the condition in which the female was in with whom he lived, she being in an advanced stage of pregnancy. On the morning of Monday last he got up about seven o'clock, and having opened his shop and lighted the fire, he went and plunged head foremost into the water in the butt in the aril. He was found in that condition shortly afterwards, quite dead. Verdict—" Temporary insanity." Mr. Samuel Hutton, a descendant of the historian of Birmingham, died at his residence, Satley, on Sunday night. was in the 63d year of his age, and had lately bi come possessed of his family estates, worth about 8,0001 a year. He was many years engaged in the paper trade, and was elected an alderman on the incorporation of the town. He has left three sons and one daughter to inherit the property, the foundation of which was laid by the historian.
The Sun. — 1848-01-28 (London, England)

CRESS. WELL CRESSWELL, Knt.) Berkshire—At Reading, Saturday, February 26. Oxfordshire—At Oxford, Wednesday, March 1. Worcestershire—At Worcester, Monday, March 6. City of Worcester—Same day. Staffordshire--At Stafford, Saturday, March 11. Shropshire—At Shrewsbury, Saturday, March 18. Herefordshire—At Hereford, Thursday, March 23. Monmouthshire—At Monmouth, Saturday, March 25. Glocestershire—At Glocester, Wednesday, March 29. City of Glocester—Same day.  SUICIDE OF A TRADESMAN FROM DlSTRESS.—Yesterday forenoon Mr. Wiliiam Carter held an inquest at the Fleece, Commercial-road, Lambeth, on the body of William Sawyer, aged forty-seven, a master hairdresser, of No. 10, Commercial-road, who committed suicide under the following distressing circumstances:—From the evidence of Jane Woolden, who pas:ed as deceased's wife, it appeared that for some considerable time past his business had fallen off to such an extent, that during the last two or three months he had been unable to earn on an average sixpence per day. The consequence was that deceased and his family were reduced to the greatest destitution. To find food for his four children, the household furniture had been parted with. Of late there had been a great change in the conduct of the deceased, and he appeared, according to the witness's testimony, heart-broken. He also felt Breath depressed on account of the condition in which the female was in with whom he lived, she being in an advanced stage of pregnancy. On the morning of Monday last he got upiabout seven o'clock, and having opened his shop and lighted the fire, he went and plunged head foremost into the water in the butt in the 3 an% He was found in that condition shortly afterwards, quite dead. Verdict--.. Temporary insanity." Mr. Samuel Hutton, a descendant of the historian of Birmingham, died at his residence, Satley, on Sunday night. He was in the 63d year of his age, and had lately become possessed of his family estates, worth about 3,0001. a )ear. He was many years engaged in the paper trade, and was elected an alderman on the incorporation of the town. He has left three sons and one daughter to inherit the property, the foundation of which was laid by the historian.
The Sun. — 1848-12-26 (London, England)

THE LATE MYSTERIOUS SUICIDE  OF A DRUGGIST'S ASSISTANT. (From the Chemical Times.) It is surely a moat unusual contingency, that at this time, and in this metropolis, the task should devolve upon us, alone, of commenting upon, nay, of even announcing to the public ear, the occurrence of a case of self-poisoning under circumstances which render the secrecy in which it has been held a matter of no little suspicion. Notwithstanding the prevalence of the crime of poisoning in England for several years—the public has not yet been so accustomed to these matters that a case of self•murder, occurring in the west of London, should, under the ordinary working of circumstances, furnish no matter for comment in the daily journals of the metropolitan press. Yet such a case has occurred, and the journals have been silent, for which silence rumour is not slow to find a cause.  The circumstances of the case, we understand, are these :—The principal assistant in the firm of one of the fashionable dispensing druggists of this metropolis had been guilty of irregular ent-ies into the daybook of his principal :—Entrie which led to the suspicion that a misappropriatio of money had, from time to time, been effected. With the view of determining this question, the assistant was called to account; his answers not being satisfactory, the son of the principal immediately proceeded to the young man's securities, to bring the case before them. To this mission the principal himself was averse, but the son persisted. On his return the assistant was dead ; he had taken nearly an ounce of hydrocyanic acid I  Thus far we do not challenge any one portion of the demeanour of the ,principal. He had strong grounds for entertaining a suspicion, and the sad result leaven its own inference. Our challenge is in another direction, involving the question why the whole matter was veiled in such imperturbable secrecy ? In the absence of the open intelligence to which the public has a right in all cases of serious import like the one before us, we are under the necessity of publishing a rumour, one which seems, however, to come before us in a most consistent shape. It is asserted that the unfortunate suicide in su. es tion—a married man, and a father of many children —had been, up to a certain period, in the receipt of a salary usual to gentlemen filling the responsible position of first dispenser in a large metropolitan establishment—a salary of 2501. per annum. At this period, in an evil hour, some difference occurred between the principal and himself, which led to his receiving notice to leave. To the assistant, a man with wife and family, this prospect of leaving shadowed forth such scenes of penury and distress that he determined to make a most abject apology rather than subject himself to this fate. The apology was made (so goes the tale) and accepted, but with the cruel stipulation that the future salary should be cut down to