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The Sun. — 1844-01-10 (London, England)

CAPT. WAKEFIELD.—The late Commander ..‘rtliur Wakefield, R.N., whose lamented fate we recorded last week, was in the 44th year of his age at the time of his death. He was the third son of Edward Wakefield, Esq., of Burnly,m, Essex, the author of the well-known statistical and po itical account of Ireland. Captain Wakefield entered the navy at ten years of age, and first sailed in the Nisus frigate, with Captain Philip Beaver, whose expedition to 13ulama, and other services, are matters of history. He was subsequently present at the taking of Batavia and the Isle of France, and in the land engagements of Bladensburgh and Washiugton, where he served as aides de•camp to Admiral Sir George Cockburn. He was afterwards for some time in command of a brig on the coast of Africa, where he captured several slave ships after obstinate engagements and boarding from boats away from his ship. It thrice occurred to him to jump overboard and save the lives of shipmates at sea. Few officers were better known or more highly considered in the navy than the subject of our remarks. Before his promotion to the rank of commander he vim much sought after as a lieutenant, and was seldom at home many days between leaving a ship !saki off and being appointed to another newly put in commission. He had served in all parts of the world, and left the command of the lihadamanthus steam-frigate, shortly before untiertaking the foundation of the Nelsen settlement in the service of the New Zealand Company. His conciliatory manners and moral worth had made him respected and beloved by all classes at Nelson, and it will be difficult to find a successor to him possessed of his energy and ability in the administration of the Company's affairs.—Netv Zealand Gazette.  Crisford, the landlord of the Bull Hotel, a man universally respected, committed suicide on Monday, by drowning. near the King's Mill, Newnham. An inquest was held on the body, when the jury returned a verdict of " Found Drowned."— Cambridge Independent.
The Sun. — 1844-06-27 (London, England)

LAW ASPS POLXC.2.I. At the Westminster Sessions, John Williams, connected with a gang of notorious coincrs, pleaded guilty to stealing a quantity of silver plate from the residence of Sir Edward L. Bulwer. The prisoner was sentenced to three months' imprisonment and hard labour. On hearing the sentence the prisoner exclaimed, "Not lagged yet, neither," and went laughing from the bar.  lad,—named Sullivan, was charged, at Marlborough-street, with having stolen a quantity of geraniums and other ornamental shrubs from Kensington Gardens. The defendant was seen to get over the wall, and the plants were found in his possession. Fined 20s. or a month's imprisonment. At Union Hall, Ann Feudon Croisy, alias Pain, was brought up for re• examination, charged with defrauding several persons, by representing herself a ward in Chancery, and entitled to ccnsiderable property. Mr. Cottingbam, having perused a letter which he had just received, on the subject of the prisoner's apprehension, said that the writer of the letter detailed circumstances, by which it appeared that the prisoner had robbed a poor woman at the east end of the town, who committed suicide, which latter event was alleged to be attributable to the scandalous treatment she had experienced at the hands of the prisoner. She was remanded.  COraT—ra3EIXONA33X.M. The Marquis of Exeter entertained a select circle at dinner yesterday, in Grosvenor-street. The guests included the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Douro, Lord Charles Wellesley, the Earl and Countess of Wilton, the Earl and Countess of Manvers, Lord and Lady de Ros and Miss de Ros, Lord Thomas and Lady S.Thia Cecil, Hon. Henry Pierrepoint and Miss Pierrepoint, and the Hon. Captain Percy. The Duke and Duchess of Argyle entertained the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland. and Lady Elizabeth Leveson Gower, Duke of Hamilto.n, Countess of Lincoln, Viscount Morpeth, and a distinguished circle, at dinner on Monday last. A. small party assembled in the evening to 'met Lady _Elizabeth Leveson Gower, about to be married to the Marquis of Lorn.  The Duke of Bzdford arrived at the railway terminus, near Exeter, by the noon-day train on Saturday, and proceeded immediately with .four post horses from Cockram's New Louden Inn to Endsleigh Cottage, near Tavistock. The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort have issued cards for a grand entertainment to her Royal highness the Duchess of Gloucester, on the 11th of the ensuing month, at Beaufort Honße.  His Excellency Count de St. .Aulaire is on the eve of departing for Paris on leave of absence. His Excellency's absence will not exceed six weeks, during which Count Jarnac will trans-act the diplomatic duties of the embassy as chargé d'affaires.  1-A-.1 Palmerston, at his scat, Broadlands, and Sir Willism lleatlicote, at Hursley Park, will entertain select parties during the approaching agricultural meeting at Southampton.  15XX C ZI.7.II.
The Sun. — 1844-07-15 (London, England)

POILEXG7IT.  On Tuesday afternoon the King of the French and Madame Adelaide, accompanied by General Aymard, Colonel de Chitbannes, the Count de Montalivet, and the Marquis de Strada, paid a visit to St. Cloud, but returned to Neuilly to dinner. In the evening, their Majesties received the English, Austrian, and Neapolitan Ambassadors, the Pope's Nuncio; Duke Decazes, Marquis de Pange, Baron Reinach, M. Dupin, sen., and M. Bonier& la Meurthe. The' King and Queen of the Belgians arrived at Neuilly on Thursday evening. Her Majesty was to accompany the Royal Family to Dreux, to assist at the funeral service which is to be celebrated there for the repose of the soul of the Duke of Orleans on the 13th, the anniversary of his death. A telegraphic dispatch announces the arrival of the four Spanish Ministers at Madrid on the 7th inst. The Queen of Spain has conferred the Order of Charles 11.. upon M. Azevedo, Prefect of the Basses-Pyrenees, in testimony of her satisfaction at the good offices which he has rendered to her government. Count Alexander of Wirtemberg, cousin of the King, died on the 7th inst., aged 43. " All accounts (says the Constitutionnel) concur in giving a. sad picture of our establishment at the Marquesas. A lady who has accompanied thither her husband, an officer of the Staff, writes that she has found nothing but privations and misery." We have already announced the intention of the Council of the Order of Advocates of the Cour Royale to appeal against the decision of their judges. On learning their intention; which has now been carried into effect, the members of the Council of Advocates of the Court of Cessation tendered, says the Commerce, their aid in the appeal to the members of the other bar.  On the sth inst. two Englishwomen, mother and daughter, accompanied by the two children of the latter, went on the jetty at Ostend, with the intention, as has been since avowed, of first drowning the children and then themselves. They- had thrown in one of the children, when they were observed by some persons on the spot, who saved it. 'The younger of the females -then declared, in answer to the questions which were put to her, that distress and despair at having been abandoned by her husband had suggested this project of murder and suicide, in which her mother had consented to participate. The Constitutionnd, in which we find this account, does not inform us what was done with these *Omen, whose wretchedness must have been extreme indeed to have urged them to such a oourse. Accounts from Trieste state that the insurgents captured in Calabria have been shot.
The Sun. — 1844-07-15 (London, England)

ALIO°  POREICI.7. On Friday the Duchess of Nemours was safely delivered of a son, who is to bear the title of Duke d'Alengon. a We learn from Berlin, July:s,:that:intelligence had just be,ei received there, from St. Petersburgh, announcing that t,a,, Grand Duchess Alexandra had been delivered of a dead dill' and had received the last sacraments. Nedim Effendi, Councillor of the Ottoman Embassy ie Paris, died on Friday, at the age of thirty-two, of snal;4 tion of the lungs. He was one of the most distinguit of :public functionaries in Turkey, where he held the taw` Chief of Division in the Department of Foreign Affairs. The Council of Discipline of the Order of Advocates oLL tbo Cour Royale have confided their appeal to M. Gamier, .o"' tonnier of the Advocates of the Court of Cassation. On Saturday M. Thiers presented his report to the Chararl ber of Deputies on thefSecondary Education 13111. The rell, (which took three hours in reading) is very hostile to pretensions of the clergy. The report of the Committee on the Prison Reform Billr (says the National) will not be made this ear. The Neel,. of the Seals, being far from approving then ystem of Alessrt de Tocqueville and de Beaumont, has desired that the rePo should be postponed till the next session, in order to give hw time to consult the Cours Rovales on the subject. Don Joaquin de Abarca, Bishop of Leon, and who formerly acted as Minister to Don Carlos, died last month at the 11l nastery of Lanzo, in Piedmont. Marshal Soult leaves Paris immediately for St. Cunard,hii residence, near Toulouse, where he will remain for a month' The Court of Assizes of the Seine was on Wednesday 01; pied with the trial of a native of Corsica, named Frang,°/0 Gallina, aged 42, for forging Bank of England notes. '1,„; jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the Court sentenced llw" to eight years' hard labour, with exposure on the pillory. . „ A letter from Stockholm, June 28, states that the question relative to the Swedish. flag has been decided in the Sivedi,, and Norwegian Council of State. The two nations preser%" their respective colours, but in the Union flag the colour` will be blended. There are, says a Frankfort journal, upon the German railroads 296 locomotives, of which 194 were manufactured in England. 57 in Germany, 16 in Belgium, and 29 in Ameriet A letter,from Dusseldorf states that great commotion Yiaj excited in that town on the 4th, by the suicide of M. Ling hardt,'Procureur du Roi, aged 42. This gentleman Way equally distinguished for his talents and amiable rnanneTi and the greatest surprise is expressed at such an event. is suppoSed that the circumstance of a disturbance havier taken place in the street, on June 6, in which the militia,' were called, and two men killed, preyed on his mind, and ja. duced him to blow out his brains with a pistol.
The Sun. — 1844-08-03 (London, England)

UNION-HALL.  Elizabeth Garrett, a well-dressed female, was charged ; before Mr. Traill with an intent to commit suicide, by throwing herself off the parapet of Waterloo-bridge. Mr. 'Wooden, of .Francis-place, said he was passing over Waterloo- bridge about ten o'clock last night, when his attention was attracted by the extraordinary conduct of the prisoner, whe took off her shoes, and commenced singing, nancing, and making a great noise, which induced him to think that she was drunk. Suddenly, however, the prisoner burst out into a violent fit of crying, and immediately jumped on the parapet of the bridge, and was in the act of throwing herself off, when witness and his friend ran to her assistance, and was just in time to save her from jumping into the river. In answer to some questions put to her, the prisoner said " she was tired of her life ; a villain had deceived her, and she would licQ If Pim W@TO not better inhabitants in the unA policeman '"assent for, and the prisoner known world." given into custody. onduct to Mr. The prisoner gave no explanation of bail for 1: MAIM, the Maqlstrate, who ordered her to tint: . her good conduct in the sum of gOi. for three months, The ptisoner vcts locked up in default. PQ_LICR, On Thntsda.3l ?at. ,tailles smith, the proprietor of a coffeehouse, at No. 38, Mitre. street, Aldgate, came before Mr Broderip, to complain of an imposition practised upon him by the master of an above-bridge steamer, called the Snowdrop. Mr. Smith stated that himself, his sister, wife, and three young children embarked on board the Snowdrop, at Chelsea pier, on Sunday night, for London-bridge, the same vessel having conveyed them an hour or two previous from Londonbridge to Chelsea. Directly he and his family got on board, a man on the gangway I,§gan calling out " Ilungerford Market" only, and he inquired of him if the boat would proceed as far as Lonclon•:bridge ? The man; answered in the negative, and he therefore called to his family to come again en shore, and get their money returned. As soon as the man saw them malting preparations te, leave the steamer, to said,
The Sun. — 1844-04-26 (London, England)

SUICIDE.  Between one and two in the afternoon. of Monday last, the inhabitants of Belper, Derbyshire, were thrown into a state of great excitement by the announcement that a me • chanic named Yeomans, for some time past employed at Messrs. Shutt's mills, had murdered his wife and afterwards cut his own throat. Yeomans was a married man, somewhere turned fifty, and had a family, the eldest son being married. It appears that for some time past he and his wife have not lived happily together, the cause being a suspicion by the husband of his wife's infidelity. On Monday morning, however, Yeomans was observed pace about the street in a distracted mood. He went into the Red Lioa tap and asked for some gin, declaring that he would murder his wife.  In the course of the morning he called at a joiner's shop, and requested permission to sharpen a pocket-knife and a common table-knife, and, having done so, went away. About half-past one o'clock the next-door neighbour heard a knocking against the wall, and a terrific scream, and or proceeding to the door found that it was locked. An alarm was given, and a blacksmith opened the door, when a most revolting spectacle Presented itself. In one part of the lower room, her head resting upon a chair, lay the body of Mrs. Yeomans, apparently lifeless. About a yard from her lay her husband, weltering in blood, his throat dreadfully cut. On further investigation, it was found that neither party was dead, and two surgeons were 'immediately called in ; but Yeomans gasped his last immediately afterwards. The skull of the unfortunate woman was shockingly beaten with the poker, and she died the.following day, having remained senseless during the interval. On the floor near to where the body of Yeomans lay, a pocket-knife and a common table-knife, both covered with blood, were found. The supposition is, that after, as he thought, killing his wife, he cut his throat with the pen-knife blade, but not succeeding, he then used the table-knife. The members of the family were all absent at the time the deed was committed. A poor crippled boy had been sent out of the way by the frenzied father. During the afternoon and evening thousands of people congregated about the house, and the greatest excitement still prevails in the town.
The Sun. — 1844-11-22 (London, England)

CRIME IN FRANCE, OR THE FRENCH PAINTED BY THEMSELVES. - The Constitutionael of Sunday publishes the following horrible details of a murder and suicide which were committed at St. Laurent-de-Vignes on the Ist instant :—" M. Beaupoy had sold to M. Brunet, some years since, a property which he possessed at Cetty, in the commune of St. Laurentdes-Vignes. He reserved for himself at the same time the enjoyment of the property for a certain period, but at the expiration of that time he refused to give up possession, threatening to murder M. Brunet if he repeated his demand. M. Brunet, being aware of the savage character of M. Beaupoy, suffered him to remain at Cetty, where he became the terror of his neighbours. M. Beaupoy had an only daughter, whom he determined to disinherit, for which purpose he converted all his property, worth, it was said, 40,000 f., into bank-notes, with the determination to destroy them, at the same time that he should put an end to his own existence. On the morning of the Ist instant be proceeded to the house of M. Geraud, his brother-in-law, armed with a double-barrelled gun. M. Geraud, seeing that he appeared greatly excited, endeavoured to pacify him, but he quitted the house, uttering most violent threats. At a short distance from M. Geraud's house he perceived a vine -dresser, at whom he fired two shots, and wounded him severely in the arm. He then returned to M. Geraud's house, and reloaded his gun. He again set out, and having met a servant of M. Brunet, to whom he had expressed his dislike, he fired at him, and left him for dead on the road. He next set fire to a neighbour's house, and threatened to shoot the owner should be present himself. He then proceeded to his own dwelling, and, having placed a quantity of brushwood round it, he set fire to it. He then set fire to the apartments, and having called for assistance, he presented his gun at the peasants who came to aid in extinguishing the fire. In a moment afterwards two reports of firearms were heard in the house, which were caused by M. Beaupoy shooting himself through the head. The authorities having proceeded to the spot, found the house almost entirely consumed. Among the ruins were found the remains of a human body, supposed to be that of M. Beaup oy but no trace could be discovered of his bank-notes, which it is supposed he burned, in order to prevent his heirs from enjoying them. The peasant, who was wounded in the arm, is at present out of danger, but M. Brunet's servant expired after three days of horrible torture."
The Sun. — 1844-04-09 (London, England)

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The Sun. — 1844-10-04 (London, England)

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) A man named John Godfrey, who stated that he was a carpenter, was brought before Mr. Jardine, charged with attempting to commit suicide, by jumping from Water • 100-bridge. The police-officer, who took the prisoner into custody, stated that he was on duty last night on Waterloobridge when he saw the prisoner shaking hands with another man, and as witness passed them he heard the prisoner say " Good bye, God bless you ; give my best respects to all at home, for they will never see me twain." He then left his friend, and the witness followed° him. He mounted one of the parapets of the bridge, and was just in the act of jumping off when the witness seized him by the coat-tail, and dragged him back. Ho was quite drunk. _ _  The prisoner, in his defence, said he was quite drunk at the time, and he did not recollect anything of the circumstance. _  A person in court here stepped forward, and said he had known the prisoner twenty years. He was usually a steady man. Mr. JARDINE asked this person if he had any objection to become bail for the prisoner ? The man shook his head.  Mr. JARDLNE said the prisoner must find bail, for he was evidently unable to take care of himself. lie was then removed.  A woman, named Jane Russell, was remanded on a charge of stealing the clothes of the Strand Union workhouse.  She had been an inmate of the workhouse, but left without leave on Tuesday last. She came to the relieving-officer last night in a state of intoxication, and asked for a night's lodging. It was then discovered that she had not got the clothes in which she lea the workhouse, She admitted having sold them.
The Sun. — 1844-10-04 (London, England)

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) A man named John Godfrey, who stated that he was a carpenter, was brought before Mr. Jardine, charged with attempting to commit suicide, by jumping from Water• 100-bridge. The police-officer, who took the prisoner into custody, stated that he was on duty last night on Waterloobridge when he saw the prisoner shaking hands with another man, and as witness passed them he heard the prisoner say " Good bye, God bless you ; give my best respects to all at home, for they will never see me again." He then left his friend, and the witness followed him. He mounted one of the parapets of the bridge, and was just in the act of jumping off when the witness seized him by the coat-tail, and dragged him back. He was quite drunk. . _ -  The prisoner, in his defence, said he was quite drunk at the time, and he did not recollect anything of the circumstance.  A person in court here stepped forward, and said he had known the prisoner twenty years. He was usually a steady man. Mr. JARDINE asked this person if he had any objection to become bail for the prisoner ? The man shook his head. Mr. J.inDsNis said the prisoner must find bail, for he was evidently unable to take care of himself. He was then removed. A woman, named Jane Rueseg was remanded on a charge of stealing the clothes of the Strand Union workhouse.  She had been an inmate of the workhouse, but left without leave on Tuesday last. She came to the relieving-officer last night in a state of intoxication, and asked for a night's lodging. It was then discovered that she had not got the clothes in which she left the workhouse, She.admitted having sold them.