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The Sun. — 1853-11-04 (London, England)

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(11111 S P  LONDON, Nov. 4.-- Wind this day at NO' light breeze, and fine. RAMSGATE, Nov. 3.—Wind, E.S.E. stis for Rio Janeiro.—The Catherine Maria, Neweastis and Monte Video, has been assisted off the Goodwin Sallos is into harbour.—The Helen, Newcastle to Galway,Od eontact with an Austrian brig in the Downs yesterday' has put in with damage to sides, rigging, &c. A Cia9 PLYMOUTH, Nov. 3. -Wind, E.S.E. Anive.ritorta, line, from Bordeaux, for Rio Janeiro, leaky; lits? London, for Australia ; Golden Land, London, Ig',..ate•P bonnie, leaky. Sailed—Sultana, for Melbourne ; do. ; Tudor, do. BSilea PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 3.—Wind, E.N.E. to S.E. —Huntress, Yarmouth, U.S. _„jsc, FALMOUTH, Nov. 3.—Arrived—Regina, from iirrol. for Port Adelaide ; Louisa Margaretha, Callao, lb ~,rtsr stow ; Eos, Sunderland, for Mauritius, with Soil started, &c., having been struck by a heavy sea; feet • Havre, for the West Coast of Africa, with throe water in her hold, having been on her beam ends. Ae' SALECOMBE, Nov. 3.—Wind, S.E. to E.S.E. Era, St. Thomas ; Patelina, Nassau. LOUCESTER, Nov. 3.—Arrived--London Quebec LIVERPOOL, Nov. 3.-- The England, arrived here, 0 ports the Malabar, of Boston, bound from Que Bristol, Oct. 23, which had been struck by a sea' 4. 01141 lying to, on the 21st, and swept the decks, stanchions, deck-house, boats, galley, &c. ; one mal3..,eter' and another seriously injured ; ship making much "uleit SWANSEA, Nov. 3. —Wind, E.S.E. Sailed—Et° 00 Sierra Leone ; Utile, Monte Video ; Jane Erskineagt Janeiro; Commodore, Cuba; Golconda, do. ; Cape de Verd. st' HULL, Nov. 3.—Wind, E.S.E.—Arrived—Fortuna' John's, N.B. ao, STETTIN, Oct. 31.—The Amaranth, of NeckerMattion lo; Galatz to Queenstown, struck on a rock near Fill 0. sustained much damage, and had sold her carg°' master committed suicide. SOA,Citber FREDERECKSHAVN, Oct. 28.—The Licence, land to Rostock, which got on Hertsholm on t'a got off, after throwing part of cargo overboard, an• come in here with damage. if•° OFF DOVER, Nov. 3.—Arrived—Edward Cohen, Shields, for New York. CARLISLE, Nov. 3.—Arrived—Robert Burns, Que. CLYDE, Nov. 2. Arrived Trelawney, wal. day; Sailed—Margaret, Buenos Ayres; Horatio, St. 0 John Kendall, Philadelphia. Qtle' QIIEENSTOWN, Nov. 2.—Arrived—St. Lawrence' Or bdc.—The Urania, of this port, is on the Bank, but, out apparent damage. 30: PARIS, Nov. 3.—The Germaine Martinique to nlv" deaux, which got on shore at Croisee, on the 19' has been got off with damage, and making water.  (Br
The Sun. — 1853-10-27 (London, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE OF A 'GENTLEMAN AT TOO BRIDGE-HOUSE HOTEL, LONDON-BRIDGE. Yeeterptiot morning, about Dine o'clock, the most intense exciten3 was occasioned at the Bridge-house Hotel, iu conseque„ "ce ",c. of a report that a gentleman had committed self-destr'ut tion, which proved to be a most melancholy fact. .41a-b° that time, from what has been allowed to transpire'ar report of a pistol was heard to proceed from the bg 1041 room, and on a man entering he found a gentleman 1111 shot himself through the heart. An alarm was inetgar raised, and messengers were dispatched for medical s, sistance, when Messrs. C. and B. Muriel, aurge;3l3l promptly attended, but the unfortunate gentleman aid expired. Of. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE SOUTH WALES mil fel —An inquest was concluded before Mr. J. Lovegr°. at the county hospital, Gloucester, on Tuesday, on lisb" of the body of George Wood, who died in that estab i 1 went from injuries which he bad sustained upon thiso'co of railway. It appears that the up express train Sty, Carmarthen to Gloucester left Chepstow, on the '0 at 1.56 p.m., beingo six minutes after its time. The ' does not stop between Chepstow and Gloucester 1"- /4.0 „1-en 011* seven miles), and was proceeding at a rapid rate the line near Newnham, when the deceased, pet standing close by the side of the up rails of tir., leg was caught by the steps of the carriages, and u;toitig broken. He was conveyed to Gloucester, and re opt to have his leg amputated, he lingered for snrn?ninecb and then died of the injuries which he had ens"-f itA. good deal of evidence was taken, in consequenofouth having transpired that the Newnham siganal at themtior of the tunnel was not visible at a distance. The 040 of the train, John Brown, deposed that the triu'roileo proceeding at the rate of thirty-six or thirty-seven an hour ; and having observed the man on the '1 ef° It stopped the train, though he could not do this b 0 _, 0 had passed through the tunnel and beyond Ne"ai station, and he expressed his opinion that the 84%60: not sufficiently far from Newnharn to allow the 7.0° driver to pull up when the train was going at thirty to forty-five miles an hour; so that if the signal vras to stop at Newnham, he could not have done B,°: th 0 , jury, nowt.vei, considering that the signal had iverdic case nothing to do with the accident, returned of "Accidental death." ser
The Sun. — 1853-01-18 (London, England)

OLYMPIC THEATRE.  A French drama, turning upon the interest excited by a false accusation of poisoning, and which, under the name of Marie Simon, made some noise in one of the Boulevard theatres, has been adapted by Mr. Morris Barnett, and was lasi, night successfully produced at this theatre as Lilian Gervais. The plot may be briefly described as follows :—A somewhat dreary old Marquis magnanimously poisons himself in order to give his unfaithful wife an opportunity of mar marrying her lover, -e. smart young barrister. Lilian Gervais, an innocent girl, a dependent of the family) and to whom the dissipated but not quite unworthy son of the Marquis had been Paying guilty addresses— is accused, in consequence of a train of minute circumstances, of the murder, brought to trial, and condemned to death—her former lover now appearing in the character of his father's avenger, and her motive being alleged to be the removal of that father as an obstacle to her intrigue with the son. The best point in the play is that in the scene in which the condemned girl tells the marchioness that she is knew of her intrigue with the barrister who conducting the case against her, and that her motive for getting rid of her husband must have been greater than her own could have been for putting out of the Way the father of a lover, whose guilty proposals she had never listened to. The Marchioness solemnly swears that she has had no hand in the tragedy. Lilian then Magnanimously keeps the secret of the intrigue to herself, and is rewarded when on the point of execution by a confession of suicide being found in the hand-writing of the deceased, so that the barrister may have the marchioness, and we are quite sure that the son of the marquis has Lilian. The incidents of the piece are slight enough, in all conscience, but in artistic hands like those of some of the performers at this favourite house they are made touch of. The heroine was played by Miss Anderton, a young lady boasting, it is said, " of considerable provincial and transatlantic reputation," but quite new to the London boards. She acquitted herself very creditably in this, her first appearance in the metropolis, and as she evidently possesses dramatic powers of a superior order, elle will no doubt soon work herself into as much popularity with John Bull as with Brother Jonathan. Her orte lies in the "passionate or pathetic line of business," and certainly her acting, though sometimes overstrained, is, generally speaking, simple, touching, and energetic.' The other parts call for no notice whatever, further than that they were well sustained, while, as for the success of the play, it is enough to state that it was announced for repetition until further notice, amidst much applause.
The Sun. — 1853-03-17 (London, England)

SUICIDE OF .4 FOREIGN MERCANTILE AGENT.  Mr. G. S. Brent, the deputy-coroner for Middlesex, held a lengthened inquiry last evening, at the Middlesex Hospital, touching the death of Van Brecob Frieswicke, aged 31 years, a native of Holland, who died in the above institution on Sunday last, from the effects of having swallowed a quantity of nitric acid (aqua-fortis), on the 2d ult. The details of the case are as follows :—On the morning of the 2d of last month the deceased was lodging at No. 7, Clipstone-street, Fitzroy-square having only taken the apartments the day previously, although he had lodged there before, and he called out from the window of his room to the policeman in the street, that he had taken poison, and wanted help, at the same time throwing down the latch-key. Two constables went in and removed him to the hospital, where he was at once attended by Mr. Corfe, the resident medical officer. He seemed after some days to rally, but fatal symptoms ultimately supervened, and he lingered, as stated above, until his death. After taking the poison, a letter was found written by him, addressed to the " Magistrate of Marylebone," wherein he stated that his body would be found and taken away by his friends, that all necessary expenses would be paid, and he hoped that his name might not be allowed to appear in the newspapers. Mr. Palmer, the landlord of the home, stated that the deceased had first come to him last December, under the name of Charles Lewis Vincent, fresh from the Continent, and as a foreign agent. He also told witness that he had travelled a great deal, having been to the Californian gold diggings, New Orleans, and other parts towards South Ame'-ica. That he was now a mercantile agent in a large way ; and witness believed him, seeing him with plenty of money, and paying a cabman 12s. a day to go to the docks, the Custom-house, &c. When he left to go the first time it was to the Continent, in great haste. His proper name was only ascertained thr3ugh the agent of foreign firms in Birchinlane, City. Mr. Corfe said that the deceased was most respectably connected, but had, unfortunately, got in with some brothel-keeper in a street off the Strand, who had since sent in a bill to the agent of 12 guineas for lodging. A Swiss girl of the same house also visited him in the hospital. A gentleman from the Foreign-office, to whom he had applied for 25L, also called some time since, and stated him to be of the highest respectability. The deceased, when pressed as to the commission of the act, would only reply, " family matters." It was stated that he had a wife and two children in his own country. The post-mortem examination clearly showed the poison to be the cause of death. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical evidence, leaving the state of his mind at the time an open question.  osesoywtsdailB4 1 b s . , were GREENWICH ROASTING HOSPITAL,ii v
The Sun. — 1853-10-17 (London, England)

FEARFUL CASE OF MUTINY.-MURDER AND SUICIDE ON THE HIGH SEAS.  Stock this day .. • • • 41,488 37s Od •• • • Price of Y. C. to 00s Od Delivery last week • • 2,849 Ditto from June 1....' 31,763 Arrivals last week .. , 775 Dittofrom June 1.... I 47,763 Price of Town 1396 6cl  36,795 38,387 29,521 ,ass 6d to 37s 91 to 43s Od Oos 111 .38e Od to 43.3 d 2,321 2,317 2,663 31,626 33,193 31,540 11,837 2,413 533 ;45,792 , 35,047 20,433 418 Od 403 Od 45s 6d  The details were on Saturday received at Lloyd's of a most dreadful tragedy which took place on board the barque Countess of Winton, of Liverpool, while on her homeward voyage from Shanghai. The following are the circumstances as taken from the log :—" On the 17th of May, when the ship was near the Indian coast, the late captain, Mr. James Crangle, ordered all hands on deck. The chief mate, William M'Fillen, did not seem inclined to perform his duty, and the master sent two men to look after him. He was found in the storeroom under the cabin, and the captain dispatched the second mate to bring him up for disobeying orders. M'Fillen was met approaching the cabin, and the unfortunate master ordered the seamen away, in order that he might have some conversation with him privately. A cutlass was lying on the table in the cabin at the time. Angry words were heard passing between them. Shortly aftewards the second mate heard a noise and some heavy groans. He looked through the skylight, but could not observe anything. However, he entertained a suspicion that something serious had happened. He called the crew, and arming himself with a log of wood, went down to the cabin, where to his horror he saw the lifeless body of the captain stretched upon the floor, and M'Fillea thrusting at him with the cutlass. The carpenter, by a dexterous movement, drove the armed murderer on one side. He made an effort to escape by running up the rigging ; the second mate, however, pursued him, and managed to hold him until he was secured and chained down in his cabin. About a week afterwards, while he was being conducted to the water-closet, duly guarded, he by some means managed to slip from their attention for a moment, and, making a sudden spring, bounded overboard. A rope was thrown towards him, and the boats lowered, with a view of saving him. He made not the least effort to seize them, and in a few minutes disappeared and perished. The catastrophe is greatly attributed to a free use of ardent spirits on board. The deceased master is said to have been often in liquor, and while in that condition treated M'Fillen in a most severe manner. The second mate took command of the ship and brought her safely home. She was freighted with a valuable cargo."  20,942 58s 6a to ON Od 3,031 38,9,3 7,41 R 36,590 62e 6d  • t
The Sun. — 1853-09-16 (London, England)

JERSEY, SETT. 12. The First Lord of the Admiralty, with Admiral Dundas and Captain Milne, accompanied by Lord Raglan, Sir John Burgoyne, and Col. cAtor, R. A., arrived at Alderney on Friday morning, diad devoted the greater part of the day to the inspection of the forts and the harbour of refuge works in Broye-bay, accompanied by Gen. Sir John, Bell (governor), Col. Alexander, R.E., Colonel Fraser, R.A., and Mr. Walker and Mr. Cooper, civil engineers. In the afternoon the party crossed to Guernsey in the Black Eagle and Vivid steamers. After inspecting the Guernsey Artillery on Saturday morning, they arrived in our harbour (St. Heliers), at 4.30 p.m., when they were met by our Lieutenant-Governor, General Love, and by our bailiff, Sir Thomas Le Breton. They have since inspected the harbour of refuge works now in progress in St. Catherine's-bay, Mr.'Walker and Mr. Cooper, with Mr. Bean, the contractoicAibeing in attendence. • • • The harbour will contain about an area of t5O acres, and will, when finished, be most useful as shelter from storms in these dangerous seas, there being at present no harbour in which vessels can run for refuge at low water. Their lordships are expected to leave to-morrow.  -- _ ----SUICIDE OF AN AGED MAL —Yesterday morning William Crowhurst, a man upwards of seventy years of age, and formerly a porter in the Bank of England, committed suicide by hanging himself in his bedroom, at his lodgings, Little Bell-alley, Moorfields. He was iscovered hanging by a cord suspended from, a nail in hs door. No cause whatever can be assigned at present for the commission of the act, as the deceased appeared in his itaual health, and Was pot suffisring under pa. cuniary embarrassment, as a sovereign, a- half-sovereign, and some silver, were found in his pocket.
The Sun. — 1853-02-21 (London, England)

GUILDHALL...4'm. was the senior master in the navy, and the last of the 6to 1 agst Contentment. bons at Canterbury generally. y Murray was placed at the Ditto, New......... Bt. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 street, where he had regularly slept and ever 'bar before Alderman Lawrence, with cutting his superannuated list. Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 00250 0 4B 16 to 1 agat Lampedo. The report was ordered to lie on the table. charged since. As secretary to the Hampstead Waterworks, he throat, with intent to commit suicide. Commander John Dawson's death has been reported. Nat. P- ovnelal of Eng. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 25 to, 1 agst Terpsichore. Mr. KER SEYMER then moved that the evidence He was on the retired list of 1830, having accepted the Ditto, New ........ 6/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 , a from he went, on Frida..y last, to 9, Bridgewater-place, Barbihad an official residence at 38, Harrington-square, a or- Sergeant Kniglit said, from information he received, of the committee be printed, and laid on the table of the Oriental Bank Corpora. sf. e et.Btbs. 25 0 0 25 0 0 46 CITY AND SUBURBAN, tion of which was inhabited by his mother • and fr rank of commander last year. He was in receipt of a South Australia ...... 61, p. ct. & bs. 25 0 0 25 0 0 45 12 to 1 agst The Varmint. house ;and also gave notice that on an early day he . should move that an address be presented to her Ma- motives of convenience. he had taken most of his other can, and in a room on the second floor he saw the primeals there ; but his home was in Powys-place, and he soner lying on his back on the bed, with his throat cut, lieutenant's out pension of Greenwich Hospital. Union of Australia.— 6 '.p. ct.& bs. 2i 0 0 25. 00 71 Ditto .............. 61. per cent. 210 0 • 15 to 1 agst Jullien. had no other esidence This statement was confirmed and the bed-clothes and floor saturated. ,with.blcnd. .He ?rim w...; ...,,,,,,i ...,.1....p0ivrRmium,,,,n%20. Union of London ..... 71. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 18 • Union of Madrid jesty praying that a commission be issued pursuant to
The Sun. — 1853-03-29 (London, England)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.  BOW STREET. —William Bigtop, a private in the first battalion of Grenadier Guards, accompanied by his sergeant, attended before Mr. Hall, to state the particulars of the following lamentable occurrence : Bishop said that he was walking backwards and forwards' on Waterloo-bridge, between twelve and one o'clock on Saturday night, in company with a prostitute who went by the name of Elizabeth and lived in Catherine-street, Strand ; and that havineb Gordon,left her for a minute, for a private purpose, she suddenly raised herself to the parapet of the bridge, and leaped into the river. He heard the splash occasioned by her fall into the water, and, on looking over, he heard her voice exclaiming " Bill." She always called him by that name. He had known her on and off for several years ; but he had not had any quarrel with her that night. The sergeant stated that Bishop made a similar statement at the barracks in the morning, but it was thought very extraordinary that he did not raise any alarm at the time, nor tell the police or toll-keepers what had happened. It appeared that he went to the house where the woman lodged and gave information of the occurrence to the landlady or some person living there. Under these circumstances witness had been directed by the commanding officer to take Bishop before a magistrate, to state his own version of the story. Mr. Hall—Was lie sober when he returned to the barracks ?  The sergeant—Yes, quite sober. Bishop—l had been drinking all the evening, but I knew what I was about. I was not drunk. Mr. Hall—You say you had not had any words with her. Was anything said in conversation which might induce you to think that she contemplated suicide. Bishop—No, sir. The sergeant said that inquiry had been made at the girl'slodgings, but nothing had been seen or heard of her since Saturday. Mr. Hall directed the sergeant to communicate with the police upon the subject, as, if the body should be found, Bishop would be required to give evidence at the coroner's inquest.  In the course of the afternoon Inspector Wilkinson received information at the Bow-street station that the body of a young woman, answering, the description given of Elizabeth Gordon, had been taken out of the river at Wandsworth.
The Sun. — 1853-03-29 (London, England)

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.  BOW STREET. —William Bishop, a private in the first battalion of Grenadier Guards, accompanied by his sergeant, attended before Mr. Hall, to state the particulars of the following lamentable occurrence : Bishop said that he was walking backwards and forwards on Waterloo-bridge, between twelve and one o'clock on Saturday night, in company with a prostitute who went by the name of Elizabeth Gordon, and lived in Catherine-street, Strand ; and that having left her for a minute, for a private purpose, she suddenly raised herself to the parapet of the bridge, and leaped into the river. He heard the splash occasioned by her fall into the water, and, on looking over, he heard her voice exclaiming " Bill." She always called him by that name. He had known her on and off for several years ; but he had not had any quarrel with her that night. The sergeant stated that Bishop made a similar statement at the barracks in the morning, but it was thought very extraordinary that he did not raise any alarm at the time, nor tell the police or toll-keepers what had happened. It appeared that he went to the house where the woman lodged and gave information of the occur rence to the landlady or some person living there. Under these circumstances witness had been directed by the commanding officer to take Bishop before a magistrate, to state his own version of the story. Mr. Hall—Was he sober when he returned to the barracks ?  The sergeant—Yes, quite sober. Bishop—l had been drinking all the evening, but I knew what I was about. I was not drunk. Mr. Hall—You say you had not had any words with her. Was anything said in conversation which might induce you to think that she contemplated suicide. Bishop—No, sir. The sergeant said that inquiry had been made at the girl's lodgings, but nothing had been seen or heard of her since Saturday. Mr. Hall directed the sergeant to communicate with the police upon the subject, as, if the body should be found, Bishop would be required to give evidence at the coroner's inquest.  In the course of the afternoon Inspector Wilkinson received information at the Bow-street station that the body of a young woman, answering the description given of Elizabeth Gordon, had been taken out of the river at Wandsworth.