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The Sun. — 1840-03-02 (London, England)

EDINBURGH CABINET LIBRARY.  NEW EDITIONS JUST PUBLISHED. BRITISH INDIA, from the most Remote Period to the Present Time. By Hugh Murray, F. R. S. E. ; James Wilson, F. R. S. E.; R. K, Grevillo, LL.D. ; Professor Jameson ; Sir Whitelaw Ainslie, M.D., M. R. A.S. ; Professor Wallace ; and Captain Clarence DalrYmple. Third Edition. In 3.iSsti: With a Map -and, al Engravings. 15s. cloth bds. The period since the last edition was published has been diligently employed not only in bringing down all the information to the present time, but also in illustrating from fresh sources the topics formerly handled. The history of British affairs in India has received important lights from the Despatches of the Duke of Wellington and of the Marquis Wellesley, as well as from the Biographies of Clive, Munro, Baird, arid other public characters ; while the recent events, including the campaign in Cabul, are now embraced in the narative. Materials, both published and in manuscript, roost liberally furnished by Professor Wilson, Director of the Royal Asiatic Society, have afforded the means of giving a very complete summary of the Ancient Literature and Science of the Hindoos. The Mercantile and Monetary Transactions of India having undergone remarkable alterations, are treated much more copiously, and partly from original sources ; while to the Maritime part is added a full view of the progress and present state of SteamNavigation. The political changes under the New Charter, the increased efforts to diffuse Christianity and Education among the Natives, the recent Travals in the North of India, and the extension of the Trigonometrical Surveys by Colonels Lambton and Everest, hay* all afforded fresh materials for this edition. The work, thus revised, enlarged, and in many principal parts entirely re-written, will it is hoped, be found still more deserving of that public favour which has already been so liberally bestowed upon it. LIFE of SIR WALTER RALEIGH : Founded on Authentic and Original Documents, some of them never before published ; including a View of the most iwportant Transactions in the Ite'gns of Elizabeth and James I. ; Sketches of Burleigh, Essex, Secretary Cecil, Sidney, Spenser, and other Eminent Contemporaries. Ily PATRICK FRASER TVFLER, Esq. Third edition, improved. In 1 vol., with Portraits, Seals, and  Autograrhs. 55., cloth bds.  • " A most meritorious book ; it is not a compilation, but a thorough searching up of the history of his day."—Spectator. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh ; and Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., London.  Just published, price 2s. 6d., APRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILITIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Varieties, Causes, Treatment, and Cure  By a MEMBER of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS, London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmary. " I am impotent, and not tit to live."—Last's Records of a Suicide.  Sold by Onwhyn, Catherine-street,. Strand; Templcman, 348, Regent-street; T. Hill, Medical Bookseller, Great Windmill-street, Haymarket. I onion ; lioss and Nightingale, Liverpool ; Barlow, Birming ; . and all Booksellers in Town and Country
The Sun. — 1840-04-17 (London, England)

DELIBERATE SUICIDE. _On Thursday last a fourrier in the 39th Regiment of the Line, named Gauthier, in . the barracks of the Rue de Reuilly, made up his accounts, striking out a sum of seventeen francs which he had just paid in. and wrote to the treasurer of the regiment, in which he informa him that he owed twenty-seven francs to his comrades, which he begged him to pay with the seventeen francs, making up the remainder by the sale of his effects. At the bottcm of the page on which the entry was made, and in the place left for the name, he wrote 'c Died in his room, the 2d of April, 1840, at eight in the evening," and then signed his name " Gauthier, fourrier of the company." Having done this he wrote a letter ' to his mother, informing her of the slay and hour of his death, as he had done on his register, and then charging his musket with a ball-cartridge, and putting a bit of German tinder in the pan of the lock, pointed the musket to his heart anal waited for the explosion. At the report his comrades hastened io his room and found him a corpse. No cause is assigned for the act. His accounts were in perfect order, and lie has never been heard to say anything which could lead to a belief that he contemplated suicide.--Paris Print. SUICIDE BY POlSON.—Thursday an inquest was held at the Two Brewers Inn, Wandsworth, on the body of Mrs. Clarkson. From the testimony of the witnesses it appeared that on Wednesday Mr. Fathan, a surgeon of wandsworth was called in to attend the deceased. He found her in one of lower rooms of the house, vomiting very much, and in great pain. She was sensible, and told him she had taken some stuff a man had given her to cure corns ; she at the same time handed him a bottle. He thought she had taken corrosive sublimate, and gave her milk. He went home to test the poison, and found it was what he suspected, He gave her other medicine, and attended her till she died on Saturday. In the course of Wednesday she told him it was of no use his endeavouring to save her, as she would do it oasis. She was labouring under great depresion of mind, and he had no doubt it was her own act. Verdict—" That the deceased destroyed herself in a state of temporary insanity." On Sunday the gardens belonging to Chelsea Hospital were thrown open to the public for the first time this season. During the day there landed at the Swan Pier two thousand six hundred and forty-one persons from the iron steamers, independently of those who landed at the Cadogan l'ier, in Cheyne-walk, from the wood-steamers.
The Sun. — 1840-07-18 (London, England)

CORONER—No person was within sight when deceased was found but those who were in search of him. The deceased was often in the habit of walking in that direction. He was lying on his back in the water, %lk* at that spot was not more than twenty inches deep. His body was not covered by the water, but only his face. He was quite dead. By Mr. Gehl—Deceased had been very low-spirited for the last week or ter' days, and had been rather unwell for the last six weeks or two months. His family during that time were continually watching him. Had observed a marked difference in deceased's habits of late. He wouid walk out by himself, without noticing anything 'or any body. Gall then propoPcd to his brother jurors that they should find a verdict " that the deceased had beca found (load in the waters of a certain brook in the parish of 111. lingdon, but how he came there, there was no evidence before them to show," which, being acquiesced iu, was recorded accordingly. Just as the Coroner had left the house, and the Jury were proceeding across the park towards.their homes, they were met by a messenger with the intelligence that James Winch, stud-groom to George Hawkins, Esq., brother of Mrs. Clarke, the widow of the lamented gentleman on whom the inquest had been held, and son-in-law of Mr. Gall, the Foreman of the Jury, had just committed suicide by hanging himself in an outhouse attached to his cottage in the village near the church. Larkins the constable, with most of the Jury, instantly hastened to the spot, when they found the statement too correct. It appears the deceased, who was about 36 years of age, and has left a wife and three children, complained on the previous evening of being poorly, and yesterday morning he kept his bed. While the inquest was proceeding at Swakeley Hall, his wife went out on some business, and on her return, after an absence of an hour, she found him hanging from one of the beams of the outhouse. The sensation produced in the village and neighbourhood by this second lamentable occurrence is beyond description.
The Sun. — 1840-08-04 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE BY A LADY.—Saturday the passengers of one of the Dundee and Perth steamers were thrown into great excitement by a lady on board having twice attempted to throw herself into the water. First she sat on one of the paddle-boxes, and leant against the quay when the boat was preparing to start at Dundee, with no doubt the intention, as was subsequently discovered, of allowing herself to drop into the water as the boat sheered off. Fortunately as the boat was moving and the lady slipping between the quay and paddle box, a cry arose respecting her situation, when a passenger sprung up and caught her by a portion of her dress in the act of falling. Suspicions were entertained that she had intended to let herself fall into the water, and she was narrowly watched on the passage up. When at Newburgh she again attempted to drown herself by leaping over, but from the precautions taken she was prevented, and conveyed to the cabin, where she was prevailed upon to remain until the boat landed at Perth. Various Caledon ian Mercury.urs are current as to the cause which prompted her._ On Saturday morning a suicide was committed by a young woman named Mary Ann Kimpton, living with a man named Harris, at No. 2, Lucas-place, Cromer-street, Brunswiek-square. It appears, for some time past the man Harris had been unwell, and continued getting worse. On Friday afternoon the deceased called Gila neighbour for the purpose of borrowing some money, and appeared very dejected, and spoke of the illness of Harris. She said " that if he should die she would not live long, after him, as she intended to destroy herself." Whilst talking, a message was delivered to her that Harris was worse, and wished to speak with her. She left the place for the purpose of going home, but was not seen till seven o'clock in the evening, when she w as found in a water-closet, with her throat cut to such an extent as nearly to separate her head from her body. A razor, with which she had committed the act, was found lying by her side. A surgeon was prompt in his attendance, but too late to render assistance.
The Sun. — 1840-09-07 (London, England)

JOHN B. SERNY, M.D. Formerly House-Surgeon to the Westminster Hospital, &c. Illustrated by numerous Wood- cuts and Engravings. Published by Sherwood and Ce., 23, Paternoster-row, London.  Just published, price 2s. 6d. LiPRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILITIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Varieties, Causes, Treatment, and Cure By a M EMBER of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS, London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmary. " I am impotent, and no' tie. to live,"—Last's Records of Suicide. Sold by Onv4hyn, Catherine-street, Strand; Ross anal Nightingale, Liverpool ; Barlow, Birmingham ; and all Booksellers in 'Town and Country. 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 limo., cloth, price 34. ; and sent in Town or Country free, by post, 3s. 6d., MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PREMATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suffering from the destructive effects •f Excessive Indulgence, Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations en the TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRIICEA, 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, '219, Regent-street; 011ivier, 59, Pall Mall; S.range, 21, Paternoster-row ; Pattie, 4, Brydges-street, Strand ; Machen and Co., 8, D'Olier-street, Dublin ; Duncan 114, High-street, Edinburgh ; and to be had *fall Booksellers The Work which is now presented to the public is the result of very extended experience in a class of diseases and affecbees, which for some unaccountable reason have been either altogether overlooked, or treated with apathy, and almost indifference, by the 0, 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 cut of place in an advertisement. We have no hesitation, however, in saying that there is me member of society, by whom the book will not he found interesting, whether we consider such person te hold the relation of a PARENT, a PRECEPTOR, or a
The Sun. — 1840-12-30 (London, England)

HINT TO LORD MELBOURNE AND LORD HILL.—" I alien not, whilst I have the honour to administer the government, bring a man into any office of consequence knowingly, whose political tenets are adverse to the meastres which the general government are pursuing, fur this I hold to be a sort of political suicide.-- Vide Washington," by 111. Guizot, Secretary of State to Louis Philippe. If the outer garments of children and elderly people were made of stuff, or of any material of which wool made the greater part, we should not have occasion to lament so many deaths by burning. The aprons and pinbefores, even of boys, should be made of the same material. Those who purchase clothes for the poor would do well to consider the utility, rather than the cheapness of the article purchased; and parents should reflect that, though a linen frock may cost less than a stuff, yet it is not half so durable ; besides its liability to take fire it may be the means of bringing a premature and painful death upon their uffapring, or a long life of lingerint, misery. A curious circumstance occurred at Cranbrook last week, which perhapa may end seriously. A lady and gentleman having made application to the Vicar to be permitted to see the interior of the church, they were directed to call on the clerk to go with them ; the Vicar, it is said, saw them enter and withdrew. Whether the good lady had lately had some curious dreams, or was otherwise affected in her head, is not yet ascertained, but she pretended to have some documents that proved she had a legal claim by heirship to the esiate or farm called Sessinghurst, in Cranbrook, ard which formerly belonged to the ancient family of the Bakers, who were buried in a vault in the chancel of the church, where a beautiful marble monument is erected to their inem,ry. The good lady said there was an iron chest. buried with the last Mr. Baker, in which were the writings the obtaining of which won'd shot;, her right of claim to the estate of Sessingliurst, now the property of the Esti Cornwallis.. She accordingly procured a stonemason and assistants to remove the slab that covered the entrance of the vault, who began to operate, hut had not precrcded far enough to obtain their object, before they were called to order by the Churchwarden, the Vicar, and others, and ordered to quit the church immediately. The lady remonstrated, and her " father " refused to go out : their ejection was, however, speedily accomplished, the whole party being threatened with a prosecution, and notice is given of a vestry to take the case into further consideration. We understand the good lady had her fortune told before she left the place by a female adept in the science. —Canterbury Journal.
The Sun. — 1840-11-12 (London, England)

HORRID MURDER AND SUICIDE.—A most horrible sour_ the, followed by suicide, was committed in Wallingford on Tuesday morning, the 20th inst., by David Hopkins Hotchkiss, on the person of Mrs. Harriet Jane Allen. Information of what had taken place was early given to Justice Pomeroy, who summoned a jury of inquest at the house of said Hotchkiss; and when, with others, we re. paired thither, a scene indescribably shocking and pain_ feeling of humanity was presented. On a bed ful to every in a small bed room at one end of the kitchen, lay the lifeless body of Mrs. Allen, with her arms, face, and head horribly cut anti hacked with a sharp axe—the instrument used in her destruction. On a bed also, at the other end of the kitchen, lay the lifeless body of Hotchkiss, with a great profusion of blood on the floor. He seemed to have been sitting on the edge of the bed, when he thrust his large pocket knife into the side of his neck, by which he opened the jugular vein, and poured forth his blood upon the floor. Rising up, he walked a few steps towards the door, as the bloody tracks of his bare feet returned id indicate but probably finding himself faint, he reand threw himself backward upon the bed, where i he soon expired. The murdered woman about two years ago, left her husband, and since that time had lived chiefly with Hotchkiss at his house, it is i mStueppposeerdaieomn atne.rills of cohabitation. Hotchkiss was a very intemperate A shocking accident took place at Redding, Conn. on  Friday last. Mr. Stoddard J. Frost, of New York city, and formerly of this county, while on an excursion with his wife, and a lady whose name we have not learned, was thrown from his carriage and instantly killed. Mrs. Frost was slightly and the other lady badly injured. We have no farther particulars.—Bridgeport Standard.
The Sun. — 1840-08-08 (London, England)

COMPANY. The Board of Management is composed of Shareholders and Policy-holders, the majority being assurers to the extent of 2,0001. each with the institution. The Trustees to be nominated by the Metropolitan Board, and by the Local Committees, the majority of the latter in each case to be the holders of policies for the term of Life for 1,0001. and upwards. The lunds of the Company to be vested in the Trustees, none of whom are to be Shareholders, but all of whom may be Policy-holders, who are to have a power of intervention in the affairs of the Institution for the protection of Assurers. No severance to be made of the assurance fund, nor any dividend paid upon the capital stock, until a Report, approved by the Auditors, shall have been made of the debts, credits, and precise state of the Institution, showing the estimated profit, a cautionary reserve to protect against casualties, and the sum applicable to meet the outstanding engagements to the Trustees, who are vested with a veto against th,s payment of an excessive dividend. No claim upon a policy to be resisted, except upon the authority of a special report and recommendation of the Committee of the district within which the policy was effected, showing a fraud upon the Company, or some well-grounded objection to an unjust demand. All claims payable within one month after proof of death. Ten per cent. on the sum assured may be received immediately after satisfactory proof of death shall be afforded, whenever the circumstances of the claimant shall render such an accommodation essential. No proof of birth required after a claim shall arise, as the age of the assured will be at all times admitted in the policy. Fraud only to vitiate a policy, and all disputes to be settled by arbitration, at the option of the assured. Policies assigned, or duly deposited, as equitable securities with creditors, not vitiated by suicide, death by duelling, or the hands of justice. Policies forfeited by non-payment of premiums renewable upon satisfactory certificates of health, and the payment of the premium in arrear with interest thereon, with a small fine to be fixed by the Board. Females and others to whom it may beinconvenient to appear before the Board will be attended by the Medical Officers of the establishment. A Committee of the Managers and the Medical Officers attend daily for the dispatch of business at the office, where every practicable facility is given for the completion of proposals for Assurance, and where every requisite information relative to the establishment may be obtained. C. F. KIRKMAN, Esq., Resident Manager. A reserve of Shares has been made for appropriation in the country, and applications for them, and for the office of Agent to the Institution in the different towns of the kingdom, are requested, addressed to the Resident Manager, at the Office of the Company.  INFIRMARY for the CURE of STRICTURES of the URETHRA, SYPHILIS, GONORRHCEA, GLEETS, and all DISEASES of the GENERATIVE and
The Sun. — 1840-07-17 (London, England)

SINGULAR ATTEMPT OF A BOY TO COMMIT SUICIDE.—On Friday night a woman named Coglan, residing in White's-alley, Chancery-lane, discovered her son, a boy, named William Coglan, about eleven years of age, lying on the floor, covered with b'ood. She gave an ahrm, which caused the lodgers to hasten to her assistance. Some one went for a medical gentleman, who found a very deep gash had been inflicted in the boy's throat, which he sewed up. The boy then, by his advice, was taken to the King's College Hospital, Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn, where he was promptly attended by Mr. Lee, who also discovered two other wounds upon the breast. A table knife, smeared with blood, was afterwards found upon the floor at some distance from where the boy was lying. It was subsequently ascertained from the boy's sister that they had both agreed to make away with themselves, anit that they had -sharpened a table-knife on a pan for that purpose. The boy states that his sister first proposed that they should do so. She observed to him that their mother had threatened to beat them both when she came home, and to avoid this she said, that if he would cut his throat the would cut her's afterwards. He then whetted the knite upon the pan, and first tried it upon his chest ; but, finding that it would not enter, he inflicted the wound upon his throat. His sister was about to follow his example, when an infant brother, who is two years old, and who was in bed, awoke, and who, upon seeing the blood, screamed out. She then let the knife fall. The boy Coglan bears a very bad character, and is in the habit of leaving home for days together and associating with other bad boys. He was on this occasion, locked up by his mother for some misconduct. The last account of him at e hospital was that the wound was not dangerous.
The Sun. — 1840-08-25 (London, England)

DAY.)  A mid m of re,pectable :appearance, named Ge rge Lennox was b ht ron up by conrable Porter, 49 I', charged with robbery, under the following circumstances :  Mr. Thomas Braddon, a solicitor, st.:ted that he ,s proe, edi, g tlinough HolyiArll•srt.rt, Strand. to. w,rds Charing Cross, between two and tl.ree o'clock this morning, in company with two friends, when be felt his hat (produced), snatched off his head by the prisoner, who ran away with it, and having gone in pursuit, the prisoner, on turning the corner of the street near St. Clement's Church dropped the hat, which witness did not delay to pick up, but keeping the prisoner in view, he continued running close to the prisoner, until he attempted to turn the corner of Surrey-street, where he was stopped by the constable, and conveyed to the station-house.  Miss Caroline Noble, who was in company with Mr. Willis and the prosecutor, proved that, on turning round, she saw the prisoner snatch the hat and ran away with it ; but, observing that he was closely pursued, he dropped it at the corner of the street, and she picked it up until she overtook the prosecutor, who went in pursuit. The prisoner said that his hat was a much better one than the prosecutor wore, and it, was very unlikely he would commit such an off,•nce.  Oa being questioned who he was, or where he resided, he said he had no fixed place of abode, and was a native of Liverpool, where he has not been for some years. _  Mr. HENRY said there was no other course left him to pur,ue than to send the case to a jury, and the prisoner should be committed for trial.  The constable whose duty it was to visit the cells during the night, found, on catering the place where the prisoner was locked up, that he was in a very exhausted state, in consequence of his attempting to strangle himself with his braces, and when he was deprived of them he made a second attempt to commit suicide by choking himself with his stock. The Inspector, to prevent him doing any further violence to himself, directed a constable to remain with him all night. Ttmotky Shethen, who was charged on Saturday with stabbing a youth named Robert Hood, with a dagger, in the arm, was brought up for final examination, and there being no further evidence to offer, except that of ;he person who wrested the weapon from his hand at the time he was taken into custody in the street, he was ordered to be fully committed for trial.