Glasgow Courier. — 1854-05-16 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MELANCHOLY AND MYSTERIOUS 81:RIDE  BY A YOUNG LADY.  On the evening of Saturday last, the proprietor of a hotel situated in one of the most faehionahle quarters of thi• city, lodged Information at the Central Police O. that a young lady hadmnat committed suicide in hi. house. Lieutenant Robb use instantly despatched to the hotel, In one of the toed-rooms of which he found a female, apparently nearly thirty years of age, In her night dress, snypended by the neck nlth • cord from the window shutter, and quite dead. Tile mode in which the fatal act had been accompliahed was by unfastening the cord of the window blind, supplementing it with her boot end stay laces, fastening the end to the nob of the shatter, and passing it up over the shutter at the top. She bad stood on the windowsill, anti, with the shutter partially closed, put her neck into a noose, thrown her feet off, and tints effected her purpose. It appear. that she Caine to reside at the hotel on Monday last, since which time she had been complaining, and pretty much confined to bed, but had occupied a good deal of her time in writing. She was last seen alive, by one of the servant girls of the home, on Saturday about mid-day. The same girl, on going into her room with • letter, about three o'clock in the afternoon, found her in the position already described. Sire had brought no luggage along with her beyond her articles of wearing apparel and an ornamented French fruit-box. This latter contained a, few trifling article., and a nuniher of letters, which led to her being Identified as Jenny Lauder, whose family resides in Edinburgh, to which city she apparently belongs. The nielaneholy set appear. to have been the result of disappointed love, and to have been deliberately premeditated. She must have been engaged for the last day or two in writing parting letters to her relatives and friends, all couched in the most idfectienate and endearing terms. These display an intensity of feeling, and, at the ulna time, a philosophy under the moat poignant sorrow that is almost irreconeil,able with the deeperate issue. One letter is addressed to a young man, who appears to occupy a situation in the Customs in a neighbouring seaport, whom she frequently addresses by the endearing appellations of 'Mr own Jim,' and 'My dear Husband.' She asks bim to abstain from drinking; lucerne to Glasgow to receive Iser body, and also Inlay her head in the grave. To • young lady in Edinburgh, apparently an intimate aegeeintaneskshe writes, .1 told you of this three months ago, when you laughed at me for doing so. It in now secomplished; but do not blame my own Jim for it, for he was always kind to me, and I hope you will comfort him.' After bequeathing her friend • favourite necklace, which she received from a gentleman who was to have acted as bridegroom's-man at her marriage, she concludes a most sffectionate letter, with the stanza beginning— 'l leave this world without a tear.'  I 11-i.;  Tbe letters to her near relatives possess an unusual melancholv interest. That to her sister reminds the lattcr of • stroll they had together in the cemetery at Edinburgh three weeks before, in which ' I told you whereto lay my bead. You thought I ' ' with you, but now you know how deeply I I kissed my little brothers as theY ' - • morning I left home. Alas, it Y •t I new.- k•naodwrisesng  She appears to have written her lover a few days previously; and the letter which the servant girl took up to deceased'. room when she found her dead was an answer to it. He apologises for delay in writing her, ascribes thig delay to her letter having been missent to a town three miles di.tant from his proper address, in proof of which he encloses the envelope marked ' missent to G—.' Lieutenant Robb took poen...lon of the property of the deceased, and immediately intimated then.. lancholy fact to her father and to the young man, tu "horn she seems to have been so deeply attached.  was joking was io earnest. they I.iy asleep in bed the it Was to me a painful kissing, . I that I never should see them more.' She farther au her sister. • Never let intoxicating liquor eater the thres_