The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1856-01-08 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DISTUESSINO SVICIDE.—On Thursday evening, a melancholy case of suicide occurred at Southampton. The deceased was engaged as clerk at the railway-office in the Southampton Docks. Some time since, in consequence of presenting strong symptoms of aberration of mind, he was compelled to relinquish his situation, and was removed from his home in charge of a person who could take proper care of him. After remaining away for some time, and his health apparently improving, he returned again to Southampton, and was reinstated in his situation, the duties of which he continued regularly to fulfil. On. Thursday night, upon returning home from the office, he informed his wife he was going to wash his hands iu one of the back offices of his house, 11, Terminus-terrace. Having noticed him wandering at intervals for some time past, Mrs. Webb had prudently deemed it necessary to watch her husband's actions, and finding him go into the back yard, she followed him. Having ensconced himself in the water-closet for a few minutes, his wife went to the door, which she thrust open, and discovered her husband with his throat most dreadfully cut. The gash extended nearly round the neck, and, with the exception of the spinal connexion, the head may be said to have been severed from the body, Before medical assistance could be obtained life was extinct. It appears that previous to leaving the office the deceased was in conversation with his fellow clerks respecting the execution of Abraham Baker, which took place at Winchester on the following day, and among the various opinions expressed as to the easiest mode of taking life the unfortunate man stated that he thought the act might nor° speedily be committee} by a well-sharpened razor than by any fAlier MOM? Thi§ ctpiniop he seems quickly to have acted upon.  Mn. LAYARD has another work on Assyrian antiquities in the press. SERJEANT MILLER, of the Midland Circuit, has been appointed Judge of the County Court District of Leicestershire and Rutland.  THE plinth and the foundation of one of the buttresses of the Blackfriars Church, built in 1282, has been found beneath the Times-office. THE EARL of ERNE has invested something like £105,000 in the construction of the Dundalk and. Enniskillen hue of railway. Of this amount £75,000 was cash down. UPWARDS of two thousand bushels of sprats were caught in Cowes roads on Sunday night. Scores of bushels were thrown overboard by the fishermen to prevent their vessels from being overladen.  Ix consequence of the enormous rise in the price of all the necessaries of life in Austria, the lower classes of government clerks are in such extreme distress that the Emperor has directed they shall either receive temporary assistance, or have their salaries augmented. WE ( Globe) hear that the title to be taken by Baron Parke, on his accession to the peerage, will be that of Lord Wensleydale, of Wensleydale, Yorkshire. The learned baron, on Saturday, formally resigned his judgeship. Mr. Bramwell, Q.C., has been appointed his successor. On Saturday morning a terrible accident occurred at the White Hart Inn, Windsor. The chambermaid, who had long been in service in the house, was coming down stairs with a basin in her hands, when she made a false step, and slipped down stairs, the basin broke, and the young woman fell upon the pieces. One of the pieces entered her neck and cut the jugular vein. She died on the spot.