The Express. — 1863-04-07 (London, England)

BANK OP ENGLAND.-(THIS DAY)  This morning a general court of the governor and directors of the Bank of England was held in the beak parlour, Threadeeeille-street, for the purpose of electing • governor and deputy governor for the ensuing year ; Mr. Alfred Latham, theoveroor, presiding. Oaly one or two votes were formally recorded in favour of Mr. Kirkman Daniel Hodgson. M.P. for the borough of Bridpert, so governor, and for Mr. Henry Lancelot /folioed as deputy governor. By the regulations of the bank, the balloting box must be kept open until 4 o'clock, at which hour those gentlemen will be declared governor and deputy governor respectively for the ensuing year. The new governor is • nemehaat in London, sad 00Millko04111, the Public Works Lose Ofllee.  EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDES IN A FAMILY AT An inquiry was held by Mr. John Humphreys, Middlesex oorooer, at the Lord Truro Tavern, Debbie, last night, respecting the death of Mr. Thomas Shirley,n= ayears, a wealthy tradesman, who committed suicide nriirtraordinary eircumitmem Sarah Shirley said that deceased had for a number of years carried ea business as grocer, at Kingsland-greie. He was latterly much depressed because the edema= lime of the North London Railway was to be carried through his premises, and the amount of compensation which the oompany were to allow him for turning him out of his house be considered altogether insufficient. Theoompany offered oaly aw, compensation, and he found it useless to resist, and assented ; bat the agreement had not been signed. Between 10 and U o'clock last Thursday be spoke to whose, and passed through the shop upstaus. He was very de@poodles that morning. Directly afterwards from what her moo-in-law told her she went upstairs, and found deceased lying in a pool of blood on the landing. His throat was ant, and he held a Joffe in his hand. He was conveyed forthwith to the German Hospital, where he died in about an hour. He had bees is no peonatary difficulties. By the Cormier—Witness win deceased's third wife. He bad children by his two former wives. Two of the children by the second wife had committed =icicle, and inquests bad been held upon them. One of them, the sou, had destroyed himself and the young person to whom he was engaged to be married. The daughter threw herself into the river Lea and wee drowsed. There was no particular reason for her doing so. There were two children living with deemed at the time of his suicide. They were about 34 and 35 years old. Mr. Frederick Shirley said that his father was much afflicted when he found he was about to be turned out of doors by the railway company after be had been so many years is the place. He expected much larger compensation than the company would give. It was hopeless to go to law with the company, asd he would have had to take anything they offered rather than risk the expense of law proceedings. The loss of his see and daughter depressed him at the time very seriously. Neither of them had speed with the present Mrs. Shirley. On Thursday last 'WHIMS heard the blood trickling down upon the landing, and upon undies upstairs deceased was found with his throat cut. The spring always named to have operated in a peculiar manlier on desired, and made him more nervous._  be. J. fl'itche, home Burgeon to the German Hospital, mid that deceased was brought in with • very deep wound in the throat, from the effects of which he died almost immediately. The Coroner said that the case was in some respects a very remarkable one. The deceased's son bad stated that the spring appeared to have a peculiar influence on datiseeed, and it was certainly curious that last spring he (the *ironer) had to hold invests upon some of kw children, who had also committed suicide. The son that desiroyed himself was going to be married, bat the match was disapproved of at home, especially by Mn. Shirley, and upon his going to his father's house with the young woman upon one occasim, the reception he got was ma that he took his intended to a coffee-Amp in the City-road, and poisoned her aad himself with cyanide of potassium. Wbeu be (the coroner) viewed the bodias they were still looked in one another's arms. The daughter filled bar pockets with stones and leapt into the river Lea, apparently from domestic unhappiness. The deceased and his two unfortunate children appeared to have been subject to an eatniordinary liability to depremion, resulting in 'MAW mania. _ _  The jury returned • verdict of "Suicide while of unsound