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The Sun. — 1860-04-21 (London, England)

SEEMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Wind N.W. ; tide second hour's flood, weather fine. Arrived, April 20—Esther, from North Sea; Matilda, from Gothenburg. Sailed, April 21—Triton, steamer, for Calais. DEAL, Saturday Morning.  Wind N.N.W. ; moderate. Passed—Elizaloeth, from London, for Buenos Ayres. Sailed—Mencuis and Agricola, for London, both in tow, and Times, for Bremen.  EXTRAORDINARY ATTEIIPT AT I singular attempt at self-destruction is described by the 41'ldd Telegraph as having occurred a few weeks back. A man named Jas. Axon, aged 45 years, went to the cemetery gates, and asked permissibn to go into the grounds to see the grave of his mother.. He was refused admissioni whereupon he threatened to avenge himself by committing suicide. Ile went to some lads who were playing a short distance off and told them he was goin, to hang himself, if ho could ,only find a likely spot for flie job. Thelads, too anxious to see the fun of the thing, helped him to seek a place for the purpose, and Ihe party adjourned into a neighbouring grassfield. A flue strong tree, with a good stout bough, here rewarded their research, and the man very methodically proceeded to tie his handkerchief and a cord together and attached them to the branch above. He divided his halfpence among the boys, and told the senior of the party not to cut him down till he whistled. The lad promised to do se, and Axon attached the cord to his neck and flung himself into the air. Ho had no sooner done so than blood gushed from his nose and mouth, and without waiting for the signal, the lad cut the rope, and the would-be suicide came sprawling to the earth. His first words were a sound blackguarding to the boys around hire, and an indignant remonstrance to the eldest of them for not waiting as he had promised ; 'but the boy gave information to a policeman who happened' to be close I)y,•encl, Axon was taken into custody.
The Sun. — 1860-10-02 (London, England)

MELANVHOLY SUICIDE OF A CLE.RG rilf-A.N:  Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held by Mr. F. Langham, deputy coroner for Westminster, is the vestry-room of St. George's, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, on the body of the Rev. Edward Cobbold, aged 62, a clergyman of the Church of England, and brother to the rector of Wortham, Suffolk, who committed suicide at Thomas's Hotel, Dover-street, Piccadilly, by nearly severing his head from his body with a razor. John Chevalier Cobbold, banker and merchant, of Ipswich, stated that deceased was his nephew, and for some time past had occupied apartments at No. 7, Earl's-court, Kensington. On Thursday morning last deceased came down to Ipswich by train, when he observed that he was materially altered in appearance, very desponding and lowspirited, and, in answer to witness, he said he had suffered from repeated attacks of giddiness and paralysis. He was a married man, but his domeatic and pecuniary affairs were such as to cause him great uneasiness of mind, more especially as he was of a very excitable and sensitive disposition. He returned to town the same day. Witness never heard him threaten to destroy himself. Betsy Thatcher, housemaid at the hotel, deposed that deceased came there about half-past four o'clock on Thursday afternoon, and entering the coffee room ordered dinner. In the evening, between seven and eight o'clock, he retired to the bedroom he was to occupy, going up stairs in a very hurried and excited manner. On the following day, at 12 o'clock, she noticed drops of blood falling from the ceiling of the room under deceased's, and he not having been seen, the head waiter called in a policeman, when, on the door being forced open, deceased was found dead. Thomas Mackney, head waiter and manager of the hotel, stated that, on entering that room, deceased was discovered on his stomach on the floor, in a pool of blood, which had flowed from a frightful wound in his throat. He was quite dead and cold, and had an open razor firmly clenched in his right hand. Police-constable 324 A produced property found in deceased's possession, consisting of £BO in bank notes, some silver and copper moneys, and two memorandums, as follows :—" Ask Alfred for Miet's dividends for distribution, and the £2,000, &c., &c." " Should Ibe found dead of apoplexy or paralysis send to my brother, the Rev. Richard Cobbold, Wortham, Suffolk." The first witness identified the writing as that of deceased, whose life was insured for £2,000, as well as for £6,000. Mr. Bloxam, jun., surgeon, having said that the wound must have caused almost instant death from loss of blood, a verdict was returned of temporary insanity-.
The Express. — 1847-01-27 (London, England)

ACCIDENT AT A FOCHDRT.—Before Mr. Wm. l'ayne, at Gay's Hospital, on the body of George Riches, aged 33. Thos. Haigh, said that the deceased was a firemsn's assistant, and, on Friday week. about ten o'clock at night, was engaged with witness and several other parties in the foundry. A ladle, which bad just been filled with seventeen hundred w. ights of hot liquid iron, was being lifted by • purchase-mane, when the ladle turned over and the metal fill into the pit that had been dug for the ladle ; a quantity of the iron, on striking the ground, splashed up, and, coming in contact with the dome over the furnace, it rebounded and fell over the deceased.—By the Coroner The ladle was suspended on two pivots, or axles, and in order to steady the whole, two bandit+ were placed on the opposite sidaw, which were held by as many men. One of the parties had not properly ^ousted his handle, and was in the act of adjuring it, when he doubtlessly mused the hot metal to run on one side, which would cause the whole to turn over. Four men were injured, two of whom still remain in St. Thomas', Hospital. John Bassett, the house-surgeon, said that deceased. when admitted, wax most dreadfully burnt, and died on Tuesday morning. Verdict, " Accidental death." -- OXALIC Art D.—Before Mr. Mill*, at the Marlborough Arms, Tottenham-court-road, on the body of Sarah Brown, aged 27. William Brown, the deceased's husband, said he was a coachman. On Saturday morning last he went out with the carriage, and on his return home to dinner he found his wife, as was frequently the case, tipsy. Whilst at dinner he upbraided her with her conduct, when she suddenly rose from the table and went out. She returned in about a quarter of an hour, and, in a short time, hearing a moaning noise in the lolt, he went there, and found deceased in en insensible state, with a cup neer her, and a paper by her side, having on it the name of Mr. Toeswell, a chemist in the neighbourhood, and the inscription " Oxalic acid He removed deceased on to his bed, and sent foe-Zrconwell and Dr. Acre, hut before they could apply any remedy she expired. She had several times threatened suicide to prevent him molding her, and once was brought-borne bj a policeman, who found her attempting to jump oti one of the Goal bridges. She had frequently fetched oxalic acid far him, as he used it to clean boot tops.-4.1r, EildatthewS, assistant to Mr. Tosswell, proved having served the deceived with one mime of oxalic acid, for which she paid 4d. She appeared perfectly sober and rational at the time, and said she wanted it to clean boot-tops fee Mr. Brown. As be frequently sold it for that pulse.., he let her have It. Deceased had taken the whole ounce,which was enough to kill four or five persona, —The free some discussion, returned • I Verdict—" That the deceased destroyed herself, but, as to her state of mind at the time there was not sufficient evi, deuce to show."
The Express. — 1847-10-27 (London, England)

OCT. 23. This is in trath a gloomy diy in Dublin. Professor Nl'Cullagh is dead : he perished by his own hand. At an early hour this morning the melancholy intelligence was diffused through the city, and the Collegesquare was soon crowded with anxious inquirers and mourning friends. All the facts are set forth in the inquest which is subjoined. No event for along time has created such a sensation. All is profound and sincere sorrow for the lamentable end of this most illustrious man, whose transition from life to death was so sadden and so appalling. Of all human beings, he was perhaps the least to be suspected of a suicidal tendency. There has not been a suicide in the university for many years. The preceding one was committed by Lord French. He blew out his brains in his son's chambers. As a tribute of respect to the deceased professor, the quarterly examinations now in progress have been suspended. He was 40 years of age, and entered college as sizar in 1821. He was soon conspicuousboth for his scientific andclassical acquirements. Scholarship and the science gold medal were among his early prizes. He was twice a candidate fur fellowship. At first he sulked, and was unsuccessful. In the second, his answering was peculiarly brilliant, especially in mathematics and physics. Ile was appointed Mathematical Professor some years after, and on the elevation of l )r. Lloyd to theseuior fellowship, he succeeded to the chair of Natural Philosophy, in which he gave the most unbounded satisfaction to the few fellowship candidates who attended his lectures. The learning of this illustrious man was not confined to the severer sciences. He had read profoundly and accurately a general course of literature, and took especial pleasure in languages, with ninny of which ho was conversant. Ills contributions b the transactions of the academy, even before he obtained a fellowship, brought him a European reputation, which was not diminished by his subsequent exertions in the cause of science. He had an extensive correspondence with the learned men of Germany, and took much pleasure in referring to the testimonials to his erudition which appeared in the German journals. I may add that his friends expected for him the provoatship of the University, in the event of his surviving the present provost, and the present ministry, or a ministry of similar principles, being in office. The liberals bares mores have sustained a deep loss in his death. Ile was their leader and rallying point, and will be missed in the days of future struggle.  DEPUTATION OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHBVIHOPS To
The Express. — 1847-08-17 (London, England)

THE ATTEMPT AT MURDER AND SUICIDE  IN TH3 CITY. On inquiry at St. Mona* and Guy's Hospital , it was hoed that Mr. Crawley, and John OvenItem' lablit wadi* weft tads going on very favourably, and it wee the opinion al the mailed attendants that they might be removed with safety in the mime of a day or two. Not the beet anger is anticipstorl.—Mr. Tates, the m clerk as Mr. Crawley, dated to the reporter, thaatn:rmg Ovesaame eatered hu employer's house, he appeared in a dreeileady excited state, oaten me of the parties on the premissmkimg him if he knew the time of the day, he merely nisi Ms ante, sad with meat gem replied, " Oh, no ; eh, se." Ormelese is•• stogie lIIIMMI, and not married, es wee areasirealy stated ; lu lived with his sister, who kept bens kr him. It wpm thee Mr. Orenstem was mialt respected la the neighbeerheod when he reeliedi. He has beim patronised by mem el the ashility la eMesquame of kis taste is the arrangement of bailees, end hoe pietares to meet of the galleries , Me Maoism Oveselese was griati•l distressed bylrfrg= My's wit whet him, Mal Habig himself premed, had mat a elreshr is 1V fity and patrons of art, dormice:Pre of some *WM pines effarnitore maaledwa from the et Old Loudon Maw, hoping by the sale of these which were meek peleed by him, to meet the demands of ICrawley. Them letters, it seems, had not met with the 68:7he expelled. 10/iday LRe apes his return, after what he had loped to have hem a sathhetory arrangement for the dispose' of the grader part of his eelloWon, he found the sherlre am la peaseadea of his house. His sister, alarmed at the pmeesidega, fled from the house. No eonmaziestba from his sistm,le whoa be wu tenderly atted, ach being reward, and emadving that her absence was area. elms& by the redeems et the men, he became highly excited. Oa Om* maim, be lea the Moue, and then is no trace of his preesellep tall the fellewiag day, when he called lima a *lead in Bindatresa, to whom he expressed himself very Mon& , and aurae& somewhat incoherently the foregoing It •ppars that the unfortunate man has for many years carried loadarried loaded pistols about his person, in eoxsequenos of having been attacked by robbers some few years ago on his way from his home at West Ham, when he saved his life by his presence of mind, and at the sacrifice of the property about him. As be was obliged, in pursuit of his business, to travel over unfrequented places at all hours, he ever disr carried the weapons which have so unhappily tended to the calamitous event which ia now before the public.
The Express. — 1847-05-03 (London, England)

BATIADAY.—SUICIDE FROM DISTRESS. —Before Mr. W. Haim, at the Crown public-house, Bromley, on view of the body of George Todd Howlett, aged 40 rein, 06, Wele'ngilee, Poplar, who ommitted Meade by eseting his trunk The deemed had been reduced to great dram, and erre the last few days he had been unable to resin any week. He appeared very low sad dejected, and wig bat, about six o'clock, he left home to took He went to a friend's house in Farmer's Ma' , near Bow, and his friend's wife told lir het 1= had gone to work. Deceased bar to some gin and milk for him, Mesgrereli her a eklli He asked for an old razor to cat his earns. The worm left the house, and oa her return, • meter of an hour afterwards, she was linable to obtain adatiedoe. She observed a quantity of blood on the window retains, and hemiliately raised an alms. A police constable opened*. whitlow, and entered the room, where he found the decreedin a sitting position, with hie head nearly =red t o roy& hie body. Mr. Smythe,zineon, was, wh prensunor life to be qua& ex nth must have bun instramens. Verdict,' Temporary Inssaity."— Fart ACCOMIXT Wt TYn ittvra.—Before Mr. Baker, at the Qtamies Seed, Iflik-street, Poplar, on the body of Davis, INW sae. On Thunday, the 16th of le r, the doomed 'was employed on board a new Mint-verel armed the Heighten., lying off Mr. Penn's pier, an ma enter, at Depthrd, when, in descending a ladder from the reed on to the barge, the ladder slipped, and he was ire the river. He was unable to swim, and beL.81.= meld reach IVm he disappeared under a tier of bargee. TM body was not discovered until Friday maelots whoa it was found floating off Limehousereek a ersterinan, who conveyed it to the deadbosun in oplar. Verdict, " Accidental death."
The Express. — 1847-06-12 (London, England)

INQUEST, YESTERDAT.—THE LATE SUICIDE 01 tar SOUTIOVISTESTS RAlLWAT.—Before Mr. Carter, in the hoard-room of the Wandsworth Union, open the body of Frances C. Arney, aged 19, who commix suicide by peecipanting herself in front of the 7 o'clock *ewe train al the South-Waster Railway, on Wednesday Mein, last. Mr. Stevie, the manager of traffic on the Beadh-Weatera Railway, was in atteudanee on behalf of the ormtprogy. Frederick Hudsoo, a labourer on the Sontb-Weelegn Railway, mats d, that on Wednesday morning, about 7 *V8411410 was on the railway-bridge at Battersea, by the side of ffientraldi she look, d very pale, and was retching when the train . a sharp angle. and was very near the bridge. no deceased left him, and ran down the lank mad went on the line. Deceased then stooped down and daffier ' lately laid her head on the near rail on the down line. Whom she did this the train was not mere than five at six yards lowa her. When he next saw her she was lying. in a water: masa by the side of the cutting. When picked up she was not dead ; her fare was covered with blood, and her right sras was broken. There was not sufficient time to stop the train ; the driver blew his whistle. tai called to deceased to pet out of the way, but she did dot umbel may attempt to do so. George Runn eorrobsesnedidmallisomme= Arney stated that he lived with hie paroodsed aenr Gosport, and deceased was his sister. The imilino saw her alive was last Monday three weeks, whoa the IA: hese to go to service at Southsett. He first heard ohs wee wising from her situation on Monday lout. He had bland • that on the Saturday previous the deceased's mistime =i moo property and had his sister's Ws me bet, although r °thing ' was found, the aft you his sister's mind, and on Sunday she • the house under pretence of going to church, but did not netans bier mistress received a letter the next day from the deceased, in which she said that she bad been disgraced b 7 having her boxes searched, that she should never return other to her place or family, but that she should take arsenic. —The jury returned a verdict " That the deceased died *ma injuries by a locomotive engine striking her, she being la the line of the London and South-Western Railway, icing at the time inn state of temporary mental derangement. COMMERCIAL If
The Express. — 1847-11-09 (London, England)

IRELAND.  Dinsuic, Nov. 7. A very unprejudiced authority, the Limerick and Clare Examiner, describes the condition of these counties as violent to the verge of demoniacal frenzy. When a popular journal is forced to such a denunciation, and to include the population of two counties in its indignant censures, we may be sure that, bad as the outward aspect of things may be, what lurks within is far more vicious and deadly Surely I,rioye the Emottner) mme infuriation has mined on the pea. sentry of Clare and Limerick. They muet be growing mad. Their mete are not the octet of men endowed with rationality ; their enema are, we lament to my, Meek and bad enough for savages or demons. Murder accursed of Meaven—murder most fool—murder that  semi, ;l7a; Toil- 7serse—surssesase oo3c. es;;;; .7; offended Goff sad the esame at men. madam our WM, end deeps it Is dlernee rd sy. At sossofq bleed Is 'paled ; at airs /rods *trim per insuLlslks worm skew and roh. bum sad terrifying the poseehle. MY math elm you the hequented hielmray; eNrem* lb ran only rim k le Fraser by arms sound eapilies The *ski slur et slot Melly ow owes oiler sundown hi seme MIAS ; srl seism re trawler r be joueneye on is .net, me, ether mak toy pertheai leak sue: victims to punish or snide._ ffhis mam, Os famenetr sad the anger of the while prlealleel nte ; erred an liernasire, eloqunt, and lobos roe by to the rural audiences lov our good fampres by dos framed wretcbes whose trade m murder, ~sr, and asereten. Far kw they care nothing •they dare its 'fb provoke the wrath of God ; thee incur the =.l7= equal indifference. It will be interest's' gr teats scientific world to know the result of a search in the chambers of the late Professor M'Cullagh. A few days after the removal of the body, a committee of inquiry, with the approbation of his relatives, proceeded to the study of the deceased philosopher, prepared for discoveries of inestimable value. After the most minute investigation they found—not a single sheet or scrap of paper of any kind, with the exception of a few lines, the commencement of a paper on light, and some formulas on a elate, on which he worked out habitually the results of his study before transferring them to paper. This unexpected consequence startled, as well it might, the gentlemen whose hopes had previously been so buoyed up with the importance of the documents which were to be held out to the admiring world of science. Not a solitary fragment of all the profeasor's labours,—the acquisitions of twenty years of genius, reflection, and toil,—was to be found. This was the more remarkable since before his removal to the chambers in which the suicide had been committed he was known to have possessed piles of
The Express. — 1847-12-09 (London, England)

MURDER OF FOUR CHILDREN BY THEIR MOTHER, AND SUICIDE OF THE MURDERESS. BATH, WEDNESDAY NIORT. A moat horrible trsgrdy has taken place in this city, a wretched woman haying cut the throats of four of her children and then dispatched her own life by the same dreadful means. The unhappy creature was the w ife of a jobbing brewer, named Ridout, occupying • small cottage adjacent to the Bradford Canal boat stet on. The husband, it appears, had been absent the whole of the day. A female, named Seers, residding in an adjoining cottage, not having seen Mrs. Ridout or the children during the day, went to their dwelling, but found the door locked. She wee then induced to look ta at the window, when she saw the wretched woman lying on the kitchen floor, steeped in her own blood. She instantly gave the alarm, and the superintendent of the police hastened to the cottage, with all speed, when the door was forced open. Passing the body of the dead woman, the throat being frightfully dirided, and a razor lying by the aide of the co se, within an adjoining room were the lifeless bodies of four children, forming the family of the poor creature. Their heads were nearly severed from their bodies. The youngest child was en infant, tine months old, and the eldest about six years of age. Of course the only presumption Is that the unhappy parent was It a state of teensy when she committed these dreadful acts. It appears that she had been subject to An of insanity for some time put, and it is now only to be deplored that some means were not taken to restrain her.  LOW) Inapt Rossm.L.—We feel much pleasure in being enabled to state that the health of Lord John Runell continues to improve, although he is not sufficiently recovered to leave his room. The answer to inquiries at the residence of the noble lord, in Chesham-place, this morning, was, "His lordship is rather better."  COMMERCIAL eff
The Express. — 1847-12-20 (London, England)

COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—SATIAIDar. A commission de lunatico inquirendo was opened in the beard-room of Bethlem Hospital, before Mr. Commissioner Winslow, relative to the state of mind of Mrs. Fanny Gunyon, aged 62, widow of a gentleman connected with the Anglo-Mexican Mint Company. The commission, which was unopposed, was taken out by a brother-in-law, Mr. Thomas Liunyon, of Warren's Hotel, Regent-street. From the evidence of Sir A. Morison, physician to the hospital, and other witnesses, it appeared that Mrs. Ours en's husband died en the 30th of December, 1844, after which, as early 'as the 10th of February following, while residing at Clapham, she began to throw her things about in disorder and said eh* had by her misconduct and neglect mused her husband's death (though she was known to have acted otherwise). She was constantly crying out that her hildren (a boy and a girl) would be murdered. She attempted to commit suicide by throwing herself, into a pond at Clapham, and became so unmanageable as to , render it necessary, on the 13th of March, 1845, to convey her to Cowper-house, Brompton, when she became worse ; but since her removal to liPthlem she had been more calm. At Cowper-house she imagined her husband's relations had confined her to rob her of her property, and had there thrice attempted to commit suicide. The remaining testimony tended to show that she was still under similar delusions. This was confirmed by her conduct when introduced to the jury. She constantly expressed a desire to go home to her children, said she had always paid her way, and never did any harm, but admitted the attempted suicide, assigning as a reason that she was " jacketed " in Cowper-house. She occasionally complained that Mr. Nichols, the governor of Betblem, and other gentlemen in the room, were laughing at her, and once said, " You seem to have brought Doctors' Commons, the Lord Chancellor, and all to laugh at me." She thought " the whole world was at an end," when her husband died.—On her retirement the jury expressed themselves satisfied, and returned a verdict dating the unsound-1 ness of mind from Muck IS, 1846.