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The Sun. — 1838-08-25 (London, England)

SUICIDE AT LIVERPOOL.  The person who terminated his existence on Monday last at the Waterloo Hotel, Liverpool, arrived in this country on the preceding night by the Royal William steamer, from New York. Amongst the evidence taken on the Coroner's Inquest was the following : Joseph Anderson stated that on'proceeding to the Waterloo Hotel with Mr. Lynn, he was shown to a I),A-room, on the floor of which the deceased was ,lying with his throat cut. The windpipe was completely severed. The deceased appeared to have been dead some time. Ile had evidently made two cuts. On the floor witness saw the razor now produced. There was a silk handkerchief twisted round the handle—for the purpose, evidently, of getting a better hold of the handle. The razor was knotehed at the edge, and as the bone of the vertebrae was cut, witness was of opinion that the knotches were occasioned by cutting against it. Death must have been instantaneous. Witness was of opinion that very great force had been used. James Johnson stated that he was a surgeon. He arrived here on Sunday last by the Royal William, from New York. Witness knew the deceased, who was also a passenger on board the same vessel. Witness anticipated what had taken place from his desponding state. So strong was this impression on the mind of witness, that, while proceeding on Monday to keep an appointment with the deceased, he passed the dead-house in Chapel-street, and seeing a crowd of persons round it, was apprehensive he might find the deceased there. Under the circumstances he did not think it prudent to alarm his friends.  George Nicholson also arrived from New York by the Royal William. The deceased was a friend of witness. His name was Alexander Cruiksbank. He was a native of Scotland. He left Surinam in a very bad state of health, and was very desponding. Witness and deceased put up at the Waterlog Hotel. They breakfasted together on the morning of the catastrophe. The deceased appeared much as usual. He was 36 years of age. The Jury, after an inspection of the body, returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity."  THE DEVIL'S Lows.—The gambling speculations to which the widely fluctuating duty is c4lculatpd to giyp rise, are now in full operation. Speculators are doing what will gain or lose them hundreds of thousands, as the season may turn out. They buy corn from the continent, say at 30s. a quarter. Should it happen that the price in this country is reduced to 50s, 4 sr., they will have the choice of paying 355. Bd. of duty, or of re-exporting. Shull the price continue above 735., they will be charged a duty of Is. The spirit of rash speculation which such a system creates, would, were we even to overlook the miseries which it brings on millions of tile people, be sufficient to make us dtmand that some vast preponderant gdod'itiould'be exhibited as the justification of such a sacrifice ? And what have we ? The rents of some portions of the land slightly increased beyond their natural value.—Scotsman.
The Sun. — 1838-08-24 (London, England)

MANAGERS. Sir Peter Laurie, Ald. Chair- John Irvine Glennie, Esq. man. ICharles Hertslet, Esq. Francis Warden, Esq., Deputy'John Pirie, Esq., Alderman. Chairman. Isaac Sewell, Esq. Robert Cockburn, Esq. ',Walter A. Urquhart, Esq. Archibald Cockburn, Esq. George Webster,, Esq. John Connell, Esq. Benjn. Boyd, Esq. t Resident. W. Petrie Craufurct, Esq. Mark Boyd, Esq. S Physician.—John Webster, M.D., 56, Grosvenor-street. The advantages offered to the Public by this Corporation are1. Ample Security from their large capital. 2. Rates of Premium nearly 5 per Cent. lower than most other offices acting on the system of participation of profits. 3. Premiums may be made payable either in a single payment, or by annual, half-yearly, or quarterly payments. 4. The assured may either participate in the profits secured against all responsibility by the capital of the Corporation, or may pay a less premium for securing a specific sum without periodical additions. 5. When policies effected by parties on their own lives are assigned to others for onerous causes, the holders are assured against the risk of the original assured dying by suicide or duelling. 6. Every facility given on moderate terms to persons going beyond the prescribed limits of the policy. 7. Advances made on security of policies of more than three years' standing to the extent of their value. S. A liberal price given for policies to parties wishing to surrender them. 9. Persons resident in the country can effect Insurances by corresponding with the resident Members of the Board, Messrs. B. and M. Boyd. Attendance daily at the Office, No. 4, New Bank-buildings, Lotlibur, London, from Ten o'Clock in the Morning WI Four in the Afterynoon, where Tables of Rates and Forms of Proposal may be obtained. PREMIUMS For the Assurance of £lOO on a Single Life, either by Annual. Quarterly, or Half-yearly Payments.  keuarteriy, Ur II ima-.) ',as a j - ..., TI-j......................................r...... ror Sevenl For the Whole Life, lor the WI) le Life, L n„. Years, at without Profit. with Profits. fir4.l For —"" an Annual' (----A , ~..--,—....,--___..., Year. Premium !Yearly Half. Quar- Half_ Quar. of 1 • • Yearly t. rly..-- ----X'. i d. i £. s. d. IX. s. d .E. s. d X.. s. d .4 s. d. .E s. d. £. a. d. t'.o 1 2 3 I 1 4 3 ,'I. 17 f 0 19 4 0 9 1., 2 1 0 1 1 10 10 9 Yearly. Yearly. terly. 31 I 7 3 1 9 612 6 G I 4 00 12 2,2 10 6 1 6 1013 3 4, 1 14. 0 117 II 3 0 91 11 f 0 16 0 ,3 4 11 1 13 8 0 17 2 50 2 6:0 213 0 'l4 3 3 3 3 5 I 2 24 7112.5 10 1 3 4 60 3 7 9 317 816 0 9 3 8 61 12 7 6 7 2 3 6101 14 5
The Sun. — 1838-11-29 (London, England)

THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.  SlR,—Your articles on the evils which arise from on. heavily taxed postage, both to the industrial and moral advancement of the country, make the whole system totter to its base, and a responding cheer from the intelligence of the country is only necessary to complete its downfall. This country must soon enjoy the great blessings which you have so long and so ably advocated ; for, although our present " Do-nothing" Ministry may reject the amendment of these proved abuses, still the whole country is convinced that so practical and inexpensive a good would be among the first measures of a Conservative Ministry. Comparatively little has, however, been said on the subject of foreign postage ; but this department is even worse than the inland, and requires still more your assistance. It is, in fact, a cruel and suicidal system, for the tax is so heavy, that by far the greater number of letters travel in bundles from England to the Continent by private hands. I appeal to all those who -have intercourse with foreign countries, whether the greater number of their letters do not go by other means than through the Post-o ce ; and I would ask all those who cross the seas, whether their travelling-bags are not inconveniently occupied with bun. dies of these letters.  I know this to be the case in my own instance. No sooner do my friends hear that I am going abroad, than my office becomes a reeciving-house, and the letters come, not only in twos and threes, but often tied up in bundles of a dozen.  Recently, on my return from Hamburgh, my friends sent me bundles of letters, and one of my most intimate said, " he would not give me the trouble, for that his packets of letters were delivered regularly each post-day, at a merely nominal expense." He fully explained to me his very simple and truly economical arrangement ; and it would be really laughable, were it not for the great moral and social evils which this system engenders, to see at least ninetenths of the letters travelling with the official boats, but without paying any postage. Is it not too bad to charge 20d. for each sheet of paper transmitted through the Post-office to Hamburgh, when the expense to the Government need not amount to Id. ? The public would at present deem it an immense boon if all foreign postage were reduced to 6d. for each letter under a certain weight ; and I em confident that the certainty of speedy delivery, which the generally good arrangement of the Post-office insures, would be a sufficient inducement to most people to send these contraband letters through the official channel. Begging your strenuous assistance in this cause, I am, Sir your most obedient servant, E. M.
The Sun. — 1838-09-14 (London, England)

DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY.-On Wednesday night, about half-past eleven o'clock, a highway robbery, attended with circumstances of great violence, was committed on the person of Mr. William Dowe, a respectable young man in the employ of Mr. Purday, the music-seller, of No. 45, High Holborn. Mr. Dowe was on his way home, along the new street, leading from the Westminster-road to the road ia front of Bethlehem Hospital, when two tall, stout men, dressed iii short jackets, went up and inquired of him their way to Vauxhall, and while he was in the act of directing one, the other, who was behind him, struck him a violent Mow on the back of his head, with a bludgeon, which felled him to the ground, and while in that position the ruffians beat him in a most cruel manner over his legs and body with their sticks, until he became perfectly senseless, when they rifled his pockets of a purse containing a sovereign, and a half sovereign, with which they succeeded in escaping. After remaining some time on the ground, insensible, the poor man recovered his reason, got upon his feet, and continued to crawl to his home, No. 9, Little Moore-street, Lambeth, at the back of the hospital. lie was bleeding profusely on reaching home, and after being put to Led was attended by Mr. Hooper, who dressed the wounds on his legs, and applied the necessary remedies to allay the swelling and pain caused by the blow at the back of his head. Mr. Dowe is still confined to his bed, and was yesterday labouring under considerable fever and pain, occasioned by the violence of the blows. A few moments previous to the attack being made upon him by the robbers, the policeman on the beat passed him, and there is every reason to suspect that the two fellows watched the constable away before they commenced the desperate outrage. Just after he had recovered his senses, he saw two policemen pass ; and, although he called to them, he was so exhausted that he could not make them hear. The street where the robbery was committed has not long been opened as a thoroughfare, and there are only two unfinished cottages in it. The street adjoins the large plot of ground fronting Bethlehem Hospital, and is not much frequented. The hat worn by the injured man is indented inwards at least an inch by the force of the blow he received on the head.  Yesterday evening an inquest was held at the Portman Arms, Quebec-street, Mary lebone, on the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Price, aged 63, a respectable married lady, who committed suicide by hanging herself. It appeared from the evidence that for a length of time past the lady, whose husband is in independent circumstances, had laboured under an unhappy delusion, the impression on her mind being that she should be reduced to the situation of a pauper in Marylebone workhouse. On Sunday she was very low and deject xl on this account, and on Monday she was discovered suspended to the rail of a bedstead. She was immediately cut down, and a surgeon sent for, who endeavoured to restore animation by bleeding and other remedies, but ineffectually, as life was quite extinct. The Jury returned a verdict of—Temporary Mental Derangement.
The Sun. — 1838-08-05 (London, England)

LIFE ASSURANCE. The new principles on which pis Society is founded bring the benefits of Life Assurance, hitherto almost exclusively confined to the upper classes, within the reach of all. It provides against the contingency of misfortune during life, as well as against the risk of death; and even affords to the Assured a fund out of his premiums on which he can at any time operate, as his circumstances may require. It thus affords to the industrious and prudent of all classes the greatest facilities and most powerful encouragement to lay up a certain provision for the future. Among other advantages the Assured will enjoy the following: 1. Moderate rates of Premium consistent with security; besides the guarantee of half a million of capital. 2. No entry-money. 3. Power of converting the policy at any time into a payment in cash—a new policy—or immediate—or deferred Annuity. 4. After five years, two-thirds of payments on elapsed policies, returnable at death. 5. The Assured, on complying with the conditions of the office, may, at any time, borrow two-thirds of all previous payments, and the amount of any declared bonus. 6. Two-thirds of the entire profits on the Life Assurance, and on the investment of the Guarantee Fund, divided annually among the insured, and at their option paid in cash, added to policy, or applied in reduction of future premiums. 7. Gre it facility in effecting insurances—Premiums payable by one payment, or Annually, Half-yearly, Quarterly, or Monthly, or on the increasing or decreasing scale. 8. Females assured at one year less than their actual ages. 9: Relaxation of restrictions on travelling beyond the limits of Eurore, except to places specially enumerated and a policy in force seven years not forfeited by suicide. SPECIMEN OF ANNUAL PREMIUMS TO ASSURE Mg.  Age 20. I Age 25. I Age 30. I Age 3i. I Age 40. I Age 45. I Age 50.
The Sun. — 1838-02-26 (London, England)

HARRIS—.-ThiS, Mr. Warde, appears 10 have been a large speculation It was stated that 8,0001. was to be raised by debentures. The case was adjourned for a few days, to perfect the notice for Mr. \Verde to be discharged. At the rising of the Court in the evening the consent of Mr. Vincent, the creditor, was procured, and Mr. Warde discharged.  On Tuesday an inquest was held before Mr. Payne? the City Coroner, at Guy's Hospital, on the body of Charles Hamilton, aged 84, who committed suicide by cutting his hroat with a razor, in a most shockinr, manner. It appeared rom the evidence, that the deceased was a bricklayer. On Monday week he was employed in repairing some buildings at Horselydown, when he fell, and severely injured his head. He was conveyed to the hospital, where every attention was paid him. On Friday a delirium came on, during which he contrived to get possession of a razor, and noarly severed his bead from his body. Verdict—" Temporary insanity." Yesterday week, a sheep purchased by subscription was roasted whole upon the ice on Hornsea Mere ; those who afterwards partook of it, paid one shilling each; the money thus collected was given to the poor.—Hull Advertiser. During the late immigration of northern birds, a gentleman of this country shot a brace of wild swans at Barton urf, which he brought down one immediately after the other, from his double-barrel piece.—Norfolk Chronicle.  During the drifting snow on Wednesday the 17th ult. Mr. W. M. Kent, of Earl Soham, in Suffolk, lost a hogget sheep, which he found in a ditch on Friday, the 9th inst. alive—and strong, considering it had been under the snow' twenty three days, wholly without food, as from its position it was unable to move from the place where it fell in.
The Sun. — 1838-05-05 (London, England)

STRATHALLAN. HONORARY MANAGERS.  J. Evan Baillie, Esq. Lieut. -General R.)bert Bell. Vice Admiral Sir J. P. Beresford, Bart. The Right Hon. Henry Ellis. Hon. Archibald Macdonald.  The Right Hon. Jas. A. Stewart Mackenzie. James Mackillop, Esq. W. A. Mackinnon, Esq., M. P. George Traill, Esq.  Sir Peter Laurie, Ald. Chair- ['John Irvine Glennie, Esq. man. !Charles Hertslet, Esq. Francis Warden, Esq., Deputy IJohn Pirie, Esq., Alderman. Chairman. Isaac Sewell, Esq. Robert Cockburn, Esq. ,Walter A. Urquhart, Esq. Archibald Cockburn, Esq. George Webster, Esq. John Connell, Esq. • Benjn. Boyd, Esq. W. Petrie Craufurd, Esq. Mark Boyd, Esq. Resident. Physician.—John Webster, M.D., 56, Grosvenor-street. The advantages offered to ie Public by this Corporation are1. Ample Security from their large capital. 2. Rates of Premium nearly 5-per Cent. lower than most other offices acting on the system of participation of profits. 3. Premiums may be made payable either in a single payment, or by annual, half-yearly, or quarterly payments. 4. The assured may either participate in the profits secured againtt all responsibility by the capital of the Corporation, or may pay a less premium for securing a specific sum without periodical additions.  5. When policies effected •by parties on their own lives are assigned to others for onerous causes, the 'holders are assured against the risk of the original assured dying by suicide or duelling. 6. Every facility given on moderate terms to persons going beyond the prescribed limits of the policy. 7. Advances made on security of policies of more than three years' standing to the extent of their value.  8. A liberal price given for policies to parties wishing to surrender them. 9. Persons resident in the country can effect Insurances by corresponding with the resident Members of the Board, Messrs. B. and M. Boyd. Attendance daily at the Office, No. 4, New Bank-buildings, Lothbury, London, from Ten o'Clock in the Morning till Four in the Afternoon, where Tables of Rates and Forms of Proposal may be obtained.  PREMIUMS For the Assurance of £lOO on a Single Life, either by Annual, Quarterly, or Half-yearly Payments.  For Seven For the Whole Life, For the Wh Ic Life, 9. For One Years, at without Profits, with Profits. an Annual ,r----A , „-------•—,, cn .• , i ear. Premium Half- Quar- Hal 6_ Quar. of Yearly. Yearly. t..rly. Yearly. Yearly. terly. --X. s. d. X. s. d. X. s. d. X. s. d X. s. d..E.Z71. Xs. d. X. s. d 20 1 9 3 1 4 3 117 6 019 40 9102 1 01 1 1010 9 3U 1 7 3 1. 9 6 2 6 61 4 00 12 22 10 6 I 6 1013 3 49 114 0 I 117 II 3 0 9111 60 16 03 411 1 13 SO 17 2 50 ; 2 610 213 0 4 3 3 3 3 5 I 2 2 4 711 2 5 100 :1 `f 601 3 7 9 317 8 6 0 9 3 8 61 12 7,6 7 2 3 610 !'l4 5 ______  COMFORT FORTENDER FEET, ,S;c•—• HALL and Co., Wellington-street, Strand, Patentees for the
The Sun. — 1838-10-30 (London, England)

RADICAL DEMONSTRATION IN CARLISLE.-Thursday last was the day fixed upon by the Radicals of Cumberland for a " Grand Demonstration" in favour of the People's Charter and the National Petition. Great pains appear to have been taken to make this an effective display. Delegates were sent from the Council of the Union at Carlisle, to Wigton, Cockermouth, Penrith, and other principal towns, to rouse the working classes to take part in the proceedings. A great number of the most popular leaders amongst the Radicals were invited to attend, and so awaken Public curiosity. The time fixed upon for holding the meeting was the principal race day, when the town is usually well-filled with visitors—a circumstance which it was quite proper to take advantage of, and which we merely name as a fact necessary to be known, as it was alluded to by some of the speakers. As in other places, there has been much disputing as to numbers, we deputed two or three persons to count those who took part in the procession as they passed different parts of the city. The number, as thus ascertained by persons on whom we could rely, amounted to between 1,640 and 1,700. A member of the Union, however, has stated to us that there were 1,013 files of 4 each—making a total of 4,052. Yet O'Connor and Stephens both declared there were " tens of thousands" present I—[ We have taken the above account from the Carlisle Journal, several of the columns of which are occupied with the report of the respective speakers at the meeting.]  An inquest was held yesterday at Islington on the body of Mr. Joseph Spey, who committed suicide by swallow.. ing a quantity of prussic acid. Deceased had formerly been in a large way of business in Finsbury as a Staffordshire warehouseman, but had recently been greatly reduced, which circumstance preyed much upon his mind. Verdict-...." Temporary Derangement."  On Monday last an event took place at Sirhowy, which has plunged three families in the greatest distress, and produced a sensation in the adjoining districts of which we recollect few examples. On that day four men, named James Griffiths, Thomas Griffiths (brothers), Thomas Lewis and Isaac Thomas, went into a coal-pit in the above works, the air of which was in a foul state, and having incautiously ventured too far, they were incapable of returning. The fears of those ou the surface being excited by their long absence, efforts were made to extricate them ; but, after much labour on the part of those who undertook the work, they were at length reached, when unhappily the three first were found dead, and the fourth in a state of insensibility. The deceased have all left widows and families.—Monmouth Merlin.
The Sun. — 1838-04-13 (London, England)

ROUTE. The Societies having taken up their position on the Common, in the order above stated, at the sound of a trumpet, the carriage containing the five men will proceed down the lines. After that, a Rocket will be discharged, as the signal for the procession to proceed from Kennington Common, through Walcot-place, Marsh-gate, Westminster-bridge, Parliament-street, Whitehall, Charing-cross, Pall-mall, Waterloo-place, Regent-street, Quadrant, Oxford-street, Tottenham-Court-road, Tavistock-street, Bedford-square (North side), Montague-street, Russell-square, Guildford-street, Gray's Inn-road, Pentonville-hill, Penton-street, past White Conduit-house, when the Procession will halt, and a Rocket be discharged, as the signal for the Procession to break up. If any interruption should take place, so as to prevent the peaceable advance of the Procession, they shall immediately return, by the reverse side of the street, to the place from whence they came, or such other place as may be deemed expedient. If the line of Procession should be broken by the crossing of a carriage, or other vehicle, the body in advance to halt. Each Society is requested to appoint conductors, to keep order down the line. During the Procession, it is earnestly recommended that no member leave his place to obtain refreshment ; and that all members be imperatively required to abstain, on this occasion, from indulging in stimulating liquors, in order that our con. duct may be in accordance with the importance of the occasion. By order of the Committee, R. HARTWELL, Secretary.  ----A remarkably fine wild he-goat was, a short time ago, caught near Wattewyl, in the canton of Berne, but was immediately set at liberty again by order of the magistrates. This beautiful and timid race, which in times past was one of the great ornaments of the forests of Switzerland, has been nearly annihilated, and only a few arc now to be found in those behind the Gourniguel and in the Ithetian Alps. Mr. Bonnel Thornton, who was present at the coronation banquet of George 111. and his Queen, says, " It was pleasant to see the various stratagems made use of by the company in the galleries to come in for a snack of the good things below. The ladies clubbed their handkerchiefs together to draw up a chicken or a bottle of wine. Some had been so provident as to bring baskets, which were let down like prisoners' boxes at Ludgate, or the Gate-house, with `Pray remember the poor prisoners !" On the evening of Wednesday last, the unfortunate man John Roney, or Rooney, who some time ago pretended that he was concerned in the murder of Mr. Macdonald, jeweller, Glasgow, committed suicide in Ayr gaol, by hanging himself from his loom. He was to have been tried at the ensuing circuit for theft ; and, previous to the committal of the fatal deed, had not shown any symptoms of insanity.— Ayr Observer.  The arrangements for the conveyance of the mails by the London and Birmingham line, we understand, will not be completed before the 7th of May, after which day the London bags will reach Liverpool about ten o'clock in the morning. —Liverpool Telegraph.