The Sun. — 1846-03-30 (London, England)

STEAM-BOAT AMALGAMATION.—It has been proposed to amalgamate the Waterman's Steam-boat Company with the City Steam-boat Company, under one directory, and the proposition has been favourably received by the board of directors 01 both cont. putt..  (From Woolmer's Exeter Gazette of Saturday.) On Tuesday afternoon Mr. James Partridge, a solicitor, -residing in Tiverton, and who was one of the coroners of the county of Devor, committed suicide by throwing himself into the Tiverton Canal, near Tidcombe bridge. Just before fire o'clock the deceased was observed 'walking through Gold-street, in the direction of the canal, and was accosted by several persous, to whom he replied with affability, and . even with blandnesS, nor was anything unusual observed in his manner. About half-past five o'clock Mr. William Hepper, of Tiverton, gardener, who was engaged at Tid— combe, the seat of the Rev. W. Rapt, ou looking out of the window of the garden-house, saw the deceased walking on the banks of the canal towards Halberton. Near Tidcombe-bridge he stopped and looked about him for a niinute or two, and then walked towards an opening in the bank. -and there went down to the water. Ile then took hisliat froM his head and placed it upon the Surface of the water, and immediately walked into the middle of the. canal. His head, however,' was not entirly Itnikr water, but his bald crown appeared alove the surf:ce and remaiucd dry. Mr. Hepper immediately came out of the ..r.ardeii-botise, and with a person named Stephen witiqn he called to his assistance, proceeded to the: canal. :ere they found they could _do nothing', as neither of than could swim r.d Mr. Hepper then ran back to the house to gut better acre. Abimt twenty mitmtes after the deccasEd bad walked into the water, William CaKw Riyer, E q., rout of the .Rev. W. Bayer, arrived, and imutedintl V swam in and brought the deceased to the canal bank. I.7ntier the direction, and with the assistance of Mr. Raper, the. body was conveyed to Tidcombe !louse, and a messenger dispatched for medical assistance. About twenty minutes afterwards, P. Mackenzie, Esq., surgeon, of Tiverton, arrived and applied every means for-restoring animation, but without success. J. F. Coward, Esq., surgeon, of Tiverton, also attended in a few minutes afterwards. The body was sub.sequentiv brought, home to the late residence of the deemed in liampton-street, Tiverton. . ,  On Wednesday afternoon the inquest on the body took place, befort E. Mackenzie, Esq., coroner for the borough. The jury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity.... The immediate causes which worked. on the mind of the deceased, and induced him to commit the rash act,-have Le en variously stated. But it is-certain that .for some time past his affairs have been embarrassed, and his failure in some legal proceedings with reference to valuable landed property in the vicinity of Tiverton, it is said, would haNe involved bins in ruin: He has been recently disposing of various portions of his property; and' on issuing the hand-bill for the sale of some houses or land at Taunton, he is said to have dated the bill three weeks after the day of sale, end to have refused to Kiter it when informed that it was an error. The determination to commit suicide has, no doubt, been present in his mind for some time; as about a mouth ago be applied to Mr. Frost, of Tiverton, druggist, for halfa phial of prussic acid.