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The Sun. — 1844-09-09 (London, England)

MIIIICELMANEOIIII.  Cardinal Wolsey's Hall, at Hampton Court Palace, after having been closed for nearly two months, during which period several alterations and embellishments have been effected, will be open to the public on Monday next. A new opera, by M. Nctzer, Mara ~ has obtained a signal success at Berlin. Another opera, by the same composer, the words by Robert Griepenkerl, will be put into rehearsal in Jannary, 1845. According to Captain Pidding's Chinese Olio, the amount of tea cleared at the Custom-house, from the 26th of August to the 3d of September, was 484,0191bs ; the amount of duty paid on the same being 63,0231. The amount imported into the United Kingdom in 1844, to August 5, was 23,000,8241b5. The following removals of troops are to take place at the undermentioned periods, namely, the 46th Foot (depot) from Newbridge to Dublin on the 7th inst. ; the 24th Foot, from Dublin to Kilkenny, on the 9th inst. ; and the 56th Foot, from Kilkenny to Dublin, on the  11th inst. The following general order, referring to the review which took place in Hyde Park, was read aloud to the Guards on parade in the several barracks :—" The officers in command of the regiments reviewed in Hyde Park this morning are desired by his Grace the Cornmander-in-Chief to inform the several brigades that his uoyal Highness Prince William of Prussia expressed himself highly gratified at the manner in which the manceurres were performed ; and his Grace was 1130 pleased  A running down case was tried at the Palace Court, in which Mr. Chancellor, the job-master, recovered 81. from Lady Mary King, for damage caused to one of his carriages, which was let out to Lady Somerset, by defendant's coachman "cutting in," contrary to rule, at the door of the mansion of the Hon. Mrs. Philip, in Hillstreet.  Mr. Commissioner Fern', at the Bankruptcy Court, adjourned for three weeks the further examination of W. H. Whitmarsh, who lately kept the Green Man, at Blackheath, and the hotel at the British and Foreign Institute.  At the Mansion-house, a man named Hill, who is employed at the Old Shades Pier, the property of Mr. Thornton, was summoned before the Lord Mayor for having committed an assault upon Mr. Charles Graham, a gentleman in the commission of the peace for the county of Middlesex. The defendant had attempted to prevent the prosecutor from going on board the Eclipse steamer, which belonged to a rival company. He attempted to justify his conduct, but was bound over to appear at the sessions, and the Lord Mayor directed the water bailiff to pay particular attention to the conduct of the pier-men generally. Mary &nn Clarke, the young woman who attempted to commit suicide at 131aelifriars-bridge, was on Friday brought up at the Guildhall, and delivered over to her father.
The Sun. — 1844-10-02 (London, England)

DEATH FROM EXCITEMENT AND ATTEMPTSO SUICIDE.—On Monday, at three o'clock, Mr. Higgs held an inquest at the Red Lion, Princess-street, Westminster, on the body of Samuel Cotter, aged forty-four, one of the brokers and appraisers of the Insolvent Debtors' Court, It appeared that deceased resided at 50, Prospect-place, St. lieorge's-road, and for the last three months had bee° subject to determination of blood to the head, and consequent cerebral excitement, resulting, according to rumour, from the change in the Insolvent Court effi cted by Lord Brougham's Bill. On Wednesday morning last the groom of Mr. Colombel, surgeon, of Canterbury-place' Lambeth, found deceased at the back of some stables, i° Alfred-place, Hercules-buildings, with a razor in 171 hand, and bleeding from a wound in the throat. The, groom took the razor from him, and having called Mr. Colombel and the police, the wound iso dressed by the former, and by the latter the de ceased was conveyed to the Westminster Hospital. Mr' Priest, the house surgeon, said deceased was admitted )0 a state of insensibility, with a wound in the throat four inches long, and a quarter of an inch in depth, dividing the external jugular vein. After some hours he was tacked by delirium tremens, andcontinued delirious until Friday morning, He then rallied for a few hours, but subsequently sank into a cornotose state, and died 00, Saturday morning. A pest niortcm examination shove° old and recent inflammation of the membranes of the brain, and three ounces and a half of serum and blood effused between the dura mater and the arachnoid men'. brane, caused by great excitement. The effusion fo'' the immediate cause of death, but the effusion was aces, lerated by the wound in the throat. Verdict, "Died from Inflammation of the brain, having, whilst labouiang under its effects, inflicted a wound in the throat."
The Sun. — 1844-02-06 (London, England)

BOYLSTONE.—There was interred in the churchyard of Somersal Herbert, in this county, on Friday last, an aged couple (Richard and Ellen Phillips), the husband being 98--the wife 75. They were interred in one grave. The great ages of the five last in the register are remarkable, «z.:-87, 84, 82, 93, and 75 years. We very much doubt whether any register in the county, or even in the kingdom, contains anything like it.-..Derby'Reportcr.  handed in to the Magistrate, but its contents were not made public.) Mr. Semple, surgeon to the N division of police, deposed that he had examined the prisoner, and believed him to be insane. He told witness that he had been persecuted unceasingly for the last forty years, and that he would have committed suicide if he had had the courage to do so. Police-constable 172 N said he had been at the prisoner's residence, No. 2, Philip-street, Kingsland-road, and learned from the inmates that he refused to use any other food than bread and water ; they believed him to be labouring under a delusion. The prisoner was remanded for the attendance of the parochial authorities of Islington. A young man, named Sullivan, who has been repeatedly convicted and punished for assaults on the police, was charged with violently assaulting Police-constable 245 G, and "'bother officer. It appeared from the etidence, that on the previous ;light the prisoner was drunk and riotous, when the officers attempted to remove him; he refused to go to the stationhouse, and kicked both the officers so violently that one of them, 245 G, said he still felt pain from the injuries received, —the prisoner having kicked him in the groin and in th* abdomen. The prisoner, who had not the least excuse to make for his brutality, was sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment, without fine, A young man, named Ward; formerly a pauper in the Holborn Lnion Workhouse, was charged with assaulting Bejamin Barlow, the porter of that establishment, and was sent to the House of Correction for seven days. A cabman, named Glover, was fined 51., for unlaTfully acting as Waterman on the Goswell-street cab-stand, on the complaint of Ratcliffe, inspector of cabriolets.
The Sun. — 1844-01-11 (London, England)

DREADFUL MURDER OF TWO CHILDREN, AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.  Yesterday evening, shortly before six o'clock, the parish of St. Paul, Deptford, was thrown into an extraordinary state of excitement, by the discovery of a horrid murder in Giffenstreet, Deptford. It appears that the father of the hapless children, whose name is John Fawley Dickenson, returned home from London soon after five o'clock, having been in town all day on private business, when, on going into the back parlour to meet his wife and children, he found her with her throat cut, lying with her head towards the foot of the bed, weltering in her blood, but still alive; and, en getting a light, he discovered his two children, one aged IS months, and the other two years, lying at their mother's feet, next the head of the bed, with their throats so dreadfully cut that life must have become almost immediately afterwards extinct. In this dreadful state of things he ran out and informed the police, when Ewing, 160 R, Sergt. Lowell, 15 R, and Sergt. Roscoe, R, entered the premises, and immediately sent for Dr. Arthur, the parish surgeon, and another gentleman, who came at once to the scene of horror, sewed up the wound in the unhappy woman's throat, and bandaged it. By this time the churchwardens, &c., had arrived and searched he place, and, after some time, they found a razor covered with blood, and with which the fatal tragedy had been enacted. The name of the father is John Fawley Dickenson, recently carrying on the business of a licensed victualler at the Peterborough Arms, Parson's-green, Fulham, where, it is understood, he was unfortunate. His wife's name was March, and formerly lived at Kensington. The deceased children's names are Jane Eliza and George. At the time of the dreadful event Mr. Dickenson was keeping a lodging at No. 5, Giffen-street. In some boxes and drawers were found an immense number of pawnbrokers' duplicates for articles pledged at Bermondsey, Horselydown, Knightsbridge, and Kensington, and it is therefore evident that the family had been supported by such means for some time past. The following part of a letter was found in a box by the bedside :—" Dear Sir,—l now write to you for the last time. You said last night it was my fault, it was owing to my own misconduct, that I was now in my present distress; but that I deny. I say now, and always shall say, that you were the cause of my downfal at the Peterborough Arms. lam compelled to write to you, as I could not express myself to you last night. I now wish to know if you will be so kind as to pay my rent for me?"  The repoker heard Dickenson's wife say to the surgeon, police, and churchwarden that she did the deed herself. Some brandy and water and also warm tea was poured into her mouth, which revived her a little, and enable.] her to speak in a low tone. Mr. Dickenson, in a most distracted state, was removed to the Union for personal safety. Two policemen are left to sit up and watch the unhappy woman.
The Sun. — 1844-12-26 (London, England)

MIL I. A Zif iiii 0 UV.  On Tuesday night information was received at the various metropolitan police stations of an extensive robbery of plate and jewellery having taken place at the house of Mr. Muddell, No. 6, Little St. Thomas Apostle,Queen-street, Cheapside, the house having been broken into during the absence of the family on the night of the 13th inst. A reward of 301. is offered for the apprehension of the thieves.  On Tuesday afternoon a young woman of respectable appearance, attempted suicide by throwing herself ofiliankside into the Thames, and as the tide was high at the time, and no boats in sight, she would inevitably have succeeded in her rash design, but for the prompt and praiseworthy intrepidity of a coalheaver, named Stephens, who plunged in and succeeded in grasping her by the hair as she was about to sink. A boat having by this time come to their assistance, they were taken up and brought ashore. The dispute between the colliers and their employers is the Ashton-under-Lyne districts has been amicably arranged, the men having received an advance upon their wages of twopence in the shilling. Coals have been raised in price one halfpenny per cwt., which is thought by the manufacturers to be most exorbitant.  Mr. Templeton is giving a series of musical entertainments in Dublin, from the songs of Burns, and other Scotch poets, and has been cordially and enthusiastically received. For several days past a considerable number of vessels, which have been windbound in the Thames for upwards of a fortnight, have returned to the harfs and tiers, in order to get a fresh supply of provisions, the stores which they had at sailing having been wholly exhausted. The long continuance of easterly winds has entailed considerable additional expense on shipping. A pension of 6001. a year falis into the Civil List by the death of Lady Ann Culling Smith, sister of the Duke of Wellington.
The Sun. — 1844-05-11 (London, England)

TINDAL.  ELIOT V. ELLIS AND lIICKS.  This case was resumed this morning, when a few witnesses, in addition to those who gave evidence yesterday, were called for the plaintiff. After the plaintiff's case had been closed, Mr. Sergeant SuEE addressed the jury for the defence. He called upon the jury to defend the parish officers in this case, who had done no more than their duty, and what they were bound to do, in protecting society from a person in the state of mind to which the plaintiff was reduced. He would be able to prove to them that the plaintiff was not in a sane state of mind—that he lived in the most extraordinary manner, and was in the habit of acting in such a manner as no person of sound mindwould act. He would show that when he was brought into the workhouse, he attacked one of the inmates named Harris, most violently, and that when he was dismissr by the Magistrate he was found near the canal by .two policemen, under such circumstances as led them to believe that lie intended to commit suicide. He denied that the plaintiff had suffered any pecuniary loss. He would prove that he had not a sixpence in the world, and that he even owed money ; that he was living in a most wretched manner, and in fact, that it was an advantage to him to be taken to the workhouse. The plaintiff was as mad as M‘Naughten, or any other madman, who committed acts of violence on society, and the parish officers would not do their duty towards society and towards the prisoner himself, if they did not take the steps they had taken. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to call witnesses to establish those facts. We understand there are between twenty and thirty witnesses in attendance on the part of the defence, so that it is probable the case will not terminate to-day.
The Sun. — 1844-05-11 (London, England)

CLIVE—The reason why I put the question was, because I had heard that the deceased and Dalmas had been on intimate terms. I know a man named Cook, but did not hear his evidence as regards the man running past Chelsea old church on the night of the murder. William Gosling was next examined, and- confirmed the constable's evidence as to the statement of the dying woman. Three letters, marked A, B, C, were then put into Court, and read by the chief clerk. They were proved by Augusta Dalmas to have been written by her father. The first, A, was undated, and was addressed to the deceased. The contents were, however, of so grossly obscene a character, and couched in such indelicate language, that it is impossible to report them. The prisoner reproached deceased with having robbed him, and, after criticising her conduct as regarded her intercourse with a Mr. Meredith, be concluded by stating, that by the same post he had sent a letter to her sister, containing similar allegations. The second letter, marked B, was the one referred to, and was almostl a counterpart of the other. The third, marked C, contained what he termed a statement of facts, the so-called facts being of the most disgusting description, and illustrative of the deceased's profligacy. It concluded with a farewell to his children, and an expressed determination to commit suicide. Police-constable Langton—Those letters were found in the prisoner's apartments, and were all unsealed. Superintendent Bicknell, of the V division, found other letters, now produced, in a drawer -in the first floor of deceased's residence. Another was given him by a brother of the deceased. They are dated at various periods, from November last up to the present time. Augusta names was recalled, and ideated them as hay, ing been written by her father.  Mr. Bicknell—l got the letters numbered Ito 10 included, in the drawer described, upon the Tuesday morning following the murder. The other paper was given to me by Andrews, the deceased's brother, on the Ist May. Those letters were also addressed to deceased, and were now read in Court. They were couched in the extravagant and inflated language so common with lovers, and contained protestations of eternal fidelity, intermingled with many complaints of deceased's coldness and cruelty. The writer also stated his determination to commit suicide if treated with continued coldness by her. It evidently appeared from their contents that the intimacy between the prisoner and deceased had been of the closest character. Mr.
The Sun. — 1844-05-11 (London, England)

TIDAL..  ELIOT V. ELLIS AND HICKS.  • This case was resumed this morning, when a few witnesses, in addition to those who gave evidence yesterday, were called for the plaintiff. After the plaintiff's case had been closed, Mr. Sergeant SIIEE addressed the jury for the defence. He called -upon the jury to defend the parish officers in this case, who had done no more than their duty, and what they were bound to do, in protecting society from a. person in the state of mind to which the plaintiff was reduced. He would be able to prove to them that the plaintiff was not in a sane state of mind—that he lived in the most extraordinary manner, and was in the habit of acting in such a manner as no person of sound mind would act. He would show that when he was brought into the workhouse, he attacked one of the inmates named Harris, most violently, and that when he was dismissed by the Magistrate he was found near the canal by two policemen, under such circumstances as led them to believe that he intended to commit suicide. He denied that the plaintiff had suffered any pecuniary loss. He would prove that he had not a sixpence in the world, and that he even owed money ; that he was living in a most wretched manner, and in fact, that it was an advantage to him to be taken to the workhouse. The plaintiff was as mad as M'Naughten, or any other madman, who committed acts of violence on society, and the parish officers would not do their duty towards society and towards the prisoner himself, if they did not take the steps they had taken. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to call witnesses to establish those facts. We understand there are between twenty and thirty witnesses in attendance on the part of the defence, so that it is probable the case will not terminate to-day.
The Sun. — 1844-08-16 (London, England)

SUICIDE IN THE MILLBANK PRISON.—A SEVERE SENTENCE.—Yesterday Mr. Higgs held an inquest in the Millbank prison, on the body of Thomas Bentley, aged thirty-two, an inmate. Mr. Hatchard, the deputygovernor, stated that deceased was admitted on Monday last from Stafford gaol, having been convicted at the last July StafThrd sessions of stealing rabbits, and sentenced to seven years' transportation. The certificate of the previous character of deceased was good, and it stated that he had been a blacksmith, and worked for ten years under the same master. When received into the prison he did not seem depressed in spirits, and exhibited no symptoms of insanity. Thomas Higgins, a prisoner, said that the deceased had told him (they were both tried for different offences at Stafford) that he was innocent of the crime for which he was convicted, and that it was committed by another man, who had been only sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Previous to the robbery of the rabbits, the man in question had asked deceased, he said, to participate in it with him, but he refused. Deceased first appeared as a witness against the man, but something came out during the trial which caused the chairman of the sessions to tell deceased that he was the more guilty of the two, and lie was placed at the bar, tried, and sentenced to seven years' transportation. Deceased also said the principal evidence against him was a little blood and some rabbits fur found in the pocket of his jacket. lie his throat. Ihli e madeeat ht authorities nlikewise stated that he had been married but two months, and that eNiNr,causmesntzh es,t-coomupalkeed hliNtn severityitheutthe the above statement in Stafford gaol, and the es having heard of it, he was not qllow ed to reas, main in a cell by himself. Mr. Ilatchardcofined i said if he had e known this lie would not have n ll a separate cell. William Trevelt, a night-guard ht(gcueaarsded ofi the g prison, proved finding deceased early on Wednesday morning in his cell, suspended by the neck from a clothes peg in the wall by means of his handkerchief. He was cut down, and Mr. Sunman, the resident surgeon, was calkeedm, pwolri aorsya shaen ihta been dead some hours. Verdict, TThe Duke of Rutland commenced grouse shooting on Tuesday, at Longshawe Lodge, near Batewell, where his Grace is entertaLinoirndg a party of friends, including the Ea rl of ertorrsoe:o- a half brace on 'thC‘ rst dj Forrester,,ri Lord George Manners, Mr. &c.aey.parrityi s liGagrLeedwfg forty-five entertain a succeesnsizn, of distinguished visitors at Longshawe during the month.
The Sun. — 1844-08-16 (London, England)

SUICIDE IN THE MILLBANK PRISON.—A SEVERE SENTENCE.—Yesterday Mr. Higgs held an inquest in the Millbank prison, on the body of Thomas Bentley, aged thirty-two, an inmate. Mr. Hatchard, the deputygovernor, stated that deceased was admitted on Monday last from Stafford gaol, having been convicted at the last July Stafford sessions of stealing rabbits, and sentenced to seven years' transportation. The certificate of the previous character of deceased was good, and it stated that he had been a blacksmith, and worked for ten years under the same master. When received into the prison he did not seem depressed in spirits, and exhibited no symptoms of insanity. Thomas Higgins, a prisoner, said that the deceased had told him (they were both tried for different offences at Stafford) that he was innocent of the crime for which he was convicted, and that it was committed by another man, who had been only sentenced to six months imprisonment. Previous to the robbery of the rabbits, the man in question had asked deceased, he said, to participate in it with him, but he refused. Deceased first appeared as a witness against the man, but something came out during the trial which caused the chairman of the sessions to tell deceased that he was the more guilty of the two, and he was placed at the bar, tried, and sentenced to seven years' transportation. Deceased also said the principal evidence against him was a little blood and some rabbits' fur found in the pocket of his jacket. He likewise stated that he had been married but twomoonfthhiss smonths, and that circumstances, coupled with the severity sentence, was enough to make him cut his throat. He rondo the above statement in Stafford gaol, and the authorities having heard of it, he was not alloys ed to remain in a cell by himself. Mr. llatchard said if he had known this he would not have separate cell. William Treveltconfined deceased in a , a night-guard of the prison, proved finding deceased early on Wednesday morning in his cell, suspended by the neck from a clothes peg in the wall by means of his handkerchief. He was cut down, and Mr. Sunman, the resident surgeon, was called, who said he had been dead some hours. Verdict, " Temporary Insanity." The Duke of Rutland commenced grouse shooting on Tuesday, at Longshawe Lodge, near Batewell, where his Grace is entertaining a party of friends, including the Earl of Jersey, Lord Forrester, Lord George Manners, Mr. Thoroton, &c. The party bagged forty-five and a half brace on the first day. His Grace will entertain a succession of distinguished visitors at Longsbawe during the ensuing month.