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The Sun. — 1836-11-24 (London, England)

KET.—Nov.:22. Wheat, 01d.... ...... .... 4S.s sls. Os. New soi 5Ps. 645. Foreign —s. —s. —s. ln bond... —s. —s. —s. Oats, Poland -- Small or Feed.... —a. —s. 20s —s. —s. 235. -- Foreign —s. —s. —s Barley, Norf. & Suf ... —s. —s 325. Line. & Wold —'.3ls. 355. --- Foreign Beans 365. 325. 425. Foreign Pease, White......... ...... 365. 3.is. 433..6 rey 325.26+. 40s. Tares .„ 4os. —s. 44s Foreign 34s. 365. 3.1. i. Rapeseed, in bond none Free, per last 321. 33:. Os.  There will be five eclipses in the ensuing year, two visible and three invisible. The visible ones are both of the moon—the first will take place on Thursday, the 20th of April, at 47 minutes past five o'clock in the afternoon ; and the second on Friday, the 13th of October, at 32 minutes past eight in the evening.  During the night of Thursday last the diligence from Angers to Paris, belonging to the Messageries Royale:, was overturned between Menug and Saint-Ay, four leagues from Orleans. The concussion was so violent that the imperial was undermost, and the wheels in the air. One woman wi killed, and several of the other passengers severely wounded. The accident is attributed to the carelessness of the conductor and postillion, both of whom were asleep at the moment.—Gazette de France.  On Saturday morning Mr. Jasper Holmes, residing at Groat's-place, Blackheath, committed suicide by cutting his throat. The unfortunate gentleman has been for some time past labouring under low spirits. He was the treasurer of the Greenwich Saving Bank, and one of the principal subscribers to the Blackheath Bible Society. The deceased has left a family and a large circle of friends to lament his untimely end.  A letter from Naples of the 23d ult. says :—" Professor Zahn has this moment returned to town with the intelligence of a most curious discovery that has just been made at Pompeii. A complete table service in silver has been found. It consists of forty-four plates, a large dish, three small vessels, two spoons, and four forks. The workmanship is admirable, and the articles are all in the highest state of preservation.—Nationel.
The Sun. — 1836-11-21 (London, England)

BRISTOL.—The Tories are boasting that they have succeeded in returnino. the Mayor and Sheriff of this ancient city. Mr. Kington, the Sheriff, has long been, and is now, an excellent Reformer. Though the late Municipal election was favourable to the Reformers, yet it will be recollected that there is still a majority of Tories in the Council, and this will account for the election of a Tory Mayor. The wheat exhibited at the Canterbury market on Saturday met a ready sale at 755. per quarter, and in consequence of the failure in the northern crops, those wellinformed on the subject declare that it will be five pounds before the end of the season. The bonded corn has no influence on the market, there not being a sufficient for America, where it fetches a better price than hers.—Kentish Gazette.  All the wheat grown by several farmers in the neighbourhood of Exeter has been taken at 7s. 6d. a bushel, to be delivered as required between this and July next.— North Devon Journal.  The dispute between the operative joiners and the masters of this town has not yet been settled.—Hull Obsesver.  On Thursday last, William Brooks, well known in this town, committed suicide by hanging himself from the banisters of the attic staircase. The deceased was a young man, and no cause, we understand, can be assigned for the committal of the rash act, excepting that he drank excessively, being sometimes out from his work for a month together.—Northa mptoll Chronicle. A second attem)t to commit self-destruction was made on Thursday night, in the Old Gaol at Chelmsford, by Sarah Rockliff, the unfortunate woman who is confined there for the murder of her child, at Hornchurch. During the night she made fast her handkerchief to some bars over the door of her room, and had suspended herself in such a manner that had she not been discovered by her attendants, death must have ensued in a few minutes.—Essar Herald.
The Sun. — 1836-11-21 (London, England)

CORONER—WiII you be good enough, Madam, to ex plain the nature' and extent of. the, difference that existed between the deceased and lief.' br.6thar ? Witness—Nothing more, Sir, than ,lieu di,fMositions and opinions were so much at variance that they dui tVi court can d thcr's reciety. By the Jury—l neVer heard the deceased threaten selfdestruction ; she had excellent religiuns notions ; she had beep subject to nervous attacks, during wi.Pc! ).,sr mental ekcitedidtit h,‘, been very alarming. Fourteen yealg she laboured undef a !"eYere nervous fever, and was at• tended by Mr. Wakefield. I in nttribute no other cause for her committing the dreadful act, but eGcntitutional nervous excitement ; her mind had not been annoyed b rny circumstance, nor at any period bad her affections been blighted ; she was beloved and respected by the whole of her relatives. Some discussion took place as to whether the brother should be examined, but it was eventually deemed unnecessary after Mrs. Thompson's testimony.—Verdict, " That the deceased threw herself out of a window in a state of temporary derangement." On Saturday afternoon an inquest was held at the Cross Keys Tavern, Marylebone-lane, before Mr. STIRLING and a most respectable Jury, on view of the body of Mrs. Charlotte Teller, aged 86, a widow lady of independence, whose death was occasioned by injuries received in falling down a flight of stairs at her residence.—Verdict, " Accidental Death." Another inquest was held at Cobham, on the body of Frederick Chilly, aged sixteen, who was killed by a fall from the box of the Portsmouth stage-van, on Thursday last. The deceased, it appeared, was inclined to sleep, and was advised by the driver of his danger, when he was precipitated from his seat.—Verdict, " Accidental Death." SUlClDE.—Saturday an inquest was held in the Committee room of the Liberty of the Rolls, Carey-street, on the body of James Hodgson, aged twenty-three, late a compositor at the King's Printing-office, who committed suicide. A witness spoke to the deceased's having received notice to quit his employment the day before he committed the rash act, which greatly distressed his mind.—Verdict, " Temporary Derangement."
The Sun. — 1836-08-23 (London, England)

DISBROWE. " Viscount Palmerston, G. C. 8., &c. &c." ( Copy.) " Hague 13th August, 1836. " To Sir Edward C. Disbrowe. " Sir—l have the honour to refer to the Note hereunto annexed, in reply to that which accompanied the letter you addressed to me on the 16th July last. I remain, &c., in absence of the Minister, ( Signed) "A. LE CLERCQ, the Secretary-General." (Copy.) " Orders have been given to replace the buoys in the Channels of Flushing upon the old system. " Hague, 13th August, 1836."  A shocking case of suicide occurred at Bemerton near thia city, on Thursday. Mr. Targett, an elderly gentleman, residing there, deliberately kindled a fire in his garden, and having loaded a gun-barrel, he placed the muzzle to his head, and the other end in the fire ; in the explosion the barrel burst, but a portion of its contents passed through his head, and killed him instantaneously. He had placed a written paper under a brick, stating that he was weary of life, and wished to die as Castlereagh had done. We understand that the deceased was in the habit of distributing, on the first day of each month, half-a-crown to each poor family in the parish. He was a widower, but has left a family behind him.—Salisbury Herald. In reference to a newly invented hat, manufactured at Greenock, the Advertiser of that place says, " Although it is alleged that a Scottish mist will wet an Englishman to the skin, we could venture to guarantee a dry head to any Cockney who should ensconce his caput in one of our townsmen's hats, even if he should encounter a shower calculated, as Mansie Waugh has it, "to wash cats fra aff the hew tap." An alarm was spread on Wednesday forenoon of fire having broke out in the Glasgow Herald office. When the fire engines turned out, it was found that the fire was confined to a garret, immediately over the editor's room, which was occupied as a store for old paper and lumber. The joistlug of the apartment had been kindled for some hours previous, it is said, by the flames of a foul chimney belonging to another part of the building. The ftre did not reach the body of the establishment.
The Sun. — 1836-09-06 (London, England)

ARREST OF A PARRICIDE.—A young man named John Lynn, was brought before the magistrates of the Head-office, under an escape warrant. It appears that at the Carrickfergus Assizes in 1833 he was tried for the murder of his father under circumstances of unparalleled atrocity, having cut off his head with a hatchet ; but, being declared insane, he was ordered to be imprisoned in the Antrim Lunatic Asylum, from whence he escaped eight or nine months since, and fled to England, but returned here last week. Two peace officers were sent in quest of him ; he was found reading a newspaper in an eating house. Tie officers proceeded to arrest him but he resisted to desperation, and endeavoured to pull out of the breast of his coat two loaded detonating pistols. He had to be held down in a dray or float, and the combined efforts of twelve watchmen were not sufficient to handcuff him. Lynn, on heir.g questioned, said he had taken a passage in an American shin sailing from Liverpool ; that one of the police was about to arrest, and that he shot him. He also said he was going down to Belfast to murder his wife, and then shoot himself. —lrish Paper. Seduction followed by suicide has just been witnessed in the case of Ann Revill, a young girl, between 16 and 17 years of age. In little more than a month after she discovered her pregnancy, she died from the effects of arsenic. Alas poor girl, she fell by that which is the very beauty of her being her trust in the love of him who won her by first entrusting her with hi own love.—Noitinglicon Review. Notwithstanding the reports so industriously spread by the opponents of the Cheltenham and Swindon railway,— that the expences of obtaining the Act of Parliament were SO enormous as to oblige the Company to borrow 20,0001. from the Great Western Railway Company,—we understand, and we have it from authority upon which we can depend, that the expences actually have nut amounted to the amount of the deposits of 21. los. per shrre : the directors, instead of being obliged to borrow, have a balance in hand from such deposits, after paying thebo t h t o; finevn andas early n eight passing 'of the Act.—Bristol Mercury. s The sporting season commenced with great • spirit In every exoence whatever attendant upon the the neighbourhoOd of Chippenham on -Thursday. Birds are Little, of Biddlestone, with a single-barrel gun, bagged 214 brace.—Wilts Herald. numerous. o'clock Several nb r a thee e fiwr setr em ohrannidnegd. a bmo ur .t At the Sheriff's Court, Birmingham, the UnderSheriff has given a decision that has created a considerable sensation in that town—viz , that clerks to attornies are not eligible to act for their principals before that Court, and that no person can address the jury but a barrister or solicitor.-Birmingham Advertiser.
The Sun. — 1836-04-20 (London, England)

CORONER'S INQUEST.  THE SUICIDE AT KENSINGTON PALACE.  Yesterday morning an inquest took place at the Canteen, Kensington Palace, before Mr. Manning. the King's Coroner, upon the body of Charles Hartmann, aged 32, the confectioner of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, who destroyed himself. Enniccs Staggles, one of the servants of her Royal Highness, in the confectionary department, deposed that the deceased had always been in cheerful spirits until about three week since, when he had fallen into a desponding state, and upon one occasion observed to witness that he was about to have his head taken off. On Sunday last she went into his bed-room, and observing a great wildness in his manner, she asked him what was the matter. He replied that he had displeased the Duchess, and another confectioner had been engaged in his place. He then said that some person had been in his room during the night, and had robbed him of all his property. He also said that witness was to leave her place, and that he himself was to be sent out of the country, and have his head taken off. Upon leaving him he said, " For God's sake I shall go mad, don't say anything." By the Coroner.—Has be not been unwell for some time? Witness.—Yes, ever since the 13th of January, when he returned from Ramsgate with her Royal Highness. By the Jury.—This day (Tuesday) would have been the anniversary of his birth-day, and he would have been 32 years of age. Nathaniel Dade, page to her Royal Highness, deposed, that he had latterly perceived a wildness in the manner of the deceased, more particularly within the last few days, and he had observed him talk very incoherently. He asked witness last week whether the Duchess had not made an allusion towards him relative to some transactions in Germany, and that he imagined that she wished to send him back to that country. He also said that it had been alleged that he had for some time been carrying on a system of robbery "upon her Royal Highness. This was merely a delusion.  Mr. Edward Feltham, steward of the Duchess, on Sunday, reported the state of mind of the deceased to Sir John Conroy, who immediately ordered that Mr. Merriman, a surgeon, should be sent for. Witness was not aware that the deceased had ever displeased the Duchess or Sir John. He had been in the service for eight years, and was a man of intemperate habits, but witness had never seen him so far inebriated as to be incapable of doing his duty. Mr. James Merriman had found a number of swan shot, which had passed through the body of the deceased, and his death must have been instantaneous. Thejury returned a verdict—That the deceased died by his own hand, and that he was at the time in an unsound state of mind.  MR. 131.
The Sun. — 1836-07-07 (London, England)

LOVE AND SUICIDE.---A gentleman, aged 32, receiver of the register duties at Aux-le-Chateau, in the Pasde-Calais, a few days since, came to Paris to celebrate a marbeautiful, and amiable lady, which had riage with a young, been projected by the two families, though the parties most interested had never seen each other, On his arrival the expectant bridegroom hastened to the house of his intended, and was received with so much kindness 'by her and her friends, that he returned to his hotel almost intoxicated with hopes of future bliss. The impression he male upon the young lady, was not, however, so favourable, and the following morning her father waited upon the aspirant to her hand, and at once destroyed all his anticipations of happiness by informing hint the young lady declined his suit, as she felt that she was as yet too young to marry. Though the communication was made with the utmost delicacy, and with expressions of the regrets of the father and his family, and their hopes that the union might take place on n future day, the blow was too severe to having hung himbe borne, and the rejected lover, within half an hour after the fatal message, was found dead in his room, self by a napkin to the door of his dressing-closet. He was the only son of a widow, and would have inricrited a fortune of 300,0001. at the death of his mother.—French Paper. A very useful arrangement has just been entered into at the Bank of England, which will save the merchants generally much risk and unneceary trouble, and which ouatht to be made 'crenerally known. Merchants having duties to pay on imported goods arc now at liberty to make their payments, whether by draught on their private banker, or by money, into the Bank of England upon e the account of the ReceiverGeneral of his Majesty's Customs," and certificates to that fact being transmitted by of messengers at ten and two o'clock daily from the Bank to the Custom-house, correspondins, entries may be passed without the danger which is inseparable from the transit of bank-notes and coin. • A
The Sun. — 1836-06-30 (London, England)

SURREY THEATRE.—Last night Madame Ves'ais and Mr. Charles Mathews, who are engaged but for a very limited period, made their appearance here—the former for the first time this season, the latter for the very first on this side the water, at any time. The Man with the Roman Nose, with which the evening's entertainments commenced, was followed by Love in a Cottage; One Hour, or the Carnival Ball, and the Old and Young Stager. In the second and third pieces, Madame Vestrie, who, we are happy to say, looked exceedingly well, assumed her original characters of Mrs. Charles Mulgrave and Miss Dalton—both of which she played with her accustomed spirit and success, and, besides being most warmly applauded in all her songs, was most ratsturously encored in her second, " I'll be no submissive wife." ' In the two latter pieces Mr. Charles Mathews played '.ir. Charles Swiftly and his favourite character of Tim " the tiger." Since we last saw him, lie seems to have much mellowed in his style, and to hare, in a great degree, acquire,' that repose which his performances heretofore most nee(!ed. The house was crowded, A great number of families are about leaving town next week ; there are not many more parties, on a grand scale, in the list of gaities to come ; and the heat has become so intem.:. that the watering places will be filled earlier than usual. It is ranourcd in the fashionable circles that the Baronies of Mordaunind Turvey, at present in abeyance between the Noble sisters of r;a: late Duke of Gordon' will be determined ere long by his Majesty' in favour of the Duchess Lord Wriothesley Russell, Rector of Cherries, Beds, not Lerd of Bedford, with remainder to her Grace's elttvg son, the Rev. Charles, who is the Duchess's second son. The ancient Barony of Mordaunt, county Bedford (by writ of 1532) was inherited by the late Duke of Gordorn, from his distant relative, the last Earl of Peterborough. The number of suicides in Paris, during 1835, was 229, of which 73 were committed by females. The women principally destroy themselves by suffocation from the vapour of charcoal, 47 of the above having taken this means. Not one had killed herself by any sharp or pointed weapon ; 6 have died from throwing themselves out of windows, but only four men have chosen this death. Among the suicides by men, 24 have effected it by means of fire-arms ;7 by sharp weapons; 71 by suffocation from the fumes of *charcoal; 17 by drowning; 32 by hanging, a death which has been chosen by 9 women. Poison was taken by 4 men and 4 women. The number of suicides between 17 and 20 years of age was. 17, of which 4 were females ; between 20 and 39 they were 56, of which 23 were by women. After 30 the women are less given to suicide ; but they continue to be numerous among the men up to the age of 50.--.Galirani's Messenger.
The Sun. — 1836-01-12 (London, England)

INCORPORATION OF THE BOROUOII OF LAMBETH.—Last night a numerous meeting of the electors of Lambeth was held at the Elephant. and Castle, Newington, to take into consideration the propriety of calling a public meeting, preparatory to the adoption of measures for the speedy incorporation of the borough of Lambeth. Mr. Samuel Palmer was unanimously called to the clads. After a long discussion, it was decided that the meeting should be called for the 11th of Fehruary EFFECTS OF MARRIAGE ON THE DURATION or LirE.—Some very curious facts on this subject are stated by Dr. Casper, in a paper of his lately published at Berlin. It had been long ago vaguely asserted the bachelors are less long-lived than married oen. Hufeland and Deparcieux were of this opinion ; and Voltaire observed then there were mere suicides among those 0.11-0 had not given hostages to fortune than among those wlio had. Odier, however, was the first who set on foot the inquiry with ex.: attitude, and he found (Bibl. Britannique, ISI4) that in the case of females, the mean duration of life, • for tho married woman of 25, was above 36 years ; while for the uninarri d it was but 301. At 30 there was a difference of fitor year. "" in favour of the married ;.and at 35, two years, and ,50 It may be said, perhaps, that married females ought to be considered as picked lives ; but, as Dr. Casper observes,this is far from being generally the case, especially in the, middle and upper classes of society : it is chiefly among the lower orders, where a livelihood is procured by labour, that importance is attached to the bodily health and vigour of the female. With regard to men, .‘ve gather from Deparcieux's- and the Amsterdam tables, that the mortality of those from 30 to 45 years of age is 27 per cent, for the unmarried, while it is but 18 for the married ; and that for still more more striking there are IS tmhaerrtld ibliaecnh.eloTrshow,lirfrearetltinciebecomes l n of ti as age advances : at the age of 60, there are but unmarried men alive for 48 married ; at 70, 11 bachelors for t 27 married men ; and at SO, for the three bachelors who may chance to be alive, there are 9 Benedicts. The same ' proportion very near holds good with respect to the female ,ex : 72 married women, for 'example, attain the age of 45, while only 52 unmarried reach the same term of life. M. Casper, in conclusion, considers the point 'as now incontestibly settled, that, in both sexes, marriage Is conducive to longevity,
The Sun. — 1836-01-22 (London, England)

COALS.  POPE BROTHERS, AND CO.'S PRICE CURRENT. Best ( Stewart's, Hetton's, or Lambton's) 'Wall's End, 30s. per Ton. Best Newcastle, 295., other seconds from 275. to 28s. per Ton. Tanfield and Hartley equally low. ABBEY WHARF, Abingdon-street, Westminster, Dockhead Wharf, Shad Thames, Seuthwark, Anchor Wharf, 247, Wapping, York Wharf, Regent's Park Basin, and High Bridge Wharf, Greenwich.  FINE WAX CANDLES, ls. 6(1. per lb.— Genuine Wax, 2s. Id —Superior transparent Sperm and Composition, 2s. ld.—Best Kitchen or Office Candles, 51/2d.— Extra fine moulded Candles, with the improved Waxed Wicks, 7d. Yellow Soap, 425., 465., 525., and 565. per 112 lbs.—Mottled, 5•2.5., 585., and 62s.—Windsor and Palm, ls. 4d. per packet—Old Brown Windsor, is. 9d.—Rose, 25.-2 Camphor, 23.—Superior Almond, 2s. 6d.—Superfine Sealing-wax, 4s. 6d. per lb.—Refined Sperm Oil, 6s. 6d. per gallon—Lamp Oil, 4s. For Cash, at DAVIES'S Old Established Warehouse, 63, St. Martin's-lane (opposite New Slaughter's Coffeehouse), Charingcross.  PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, Regent-street, London. •  In this Office, BONUSES of 131. Bs., 26/. 12s , 301. 10s., and 40/. per cent. have been divided during the last Thirty Years. Military Men are not charged additional, unless called into actual service. Persons are at liberty to pass and repass to the Continent under limitations, without Licence and extra Premium. Persons removing to unhealthy climates, or subject to bodily infirmities, may insure. If any Person die by Suicide, Duelling, or the Hands of Justice, the full value which his Policy bore on the day previous to his Death, will be paid.  If a Life fail within 15 dayi after the annual payment on a Policy became due, the claim is allowed on the renewal being paid within such 15 days.—lf a Policy be accidentally omitted to be renewed within 15 days, it is revived on proof of good health, and on payment of a fine of 6d. per Cent, on the sum insured, if the payment be made within one month after due ; ss. per Cent. if within two months ; and 10s. per Cent. if within one year. • J. T. BARBER BEAUMONT,  Managing Director.  EORGE AND BLUE BOAR INN, 'Or