The Sun. — 1837-09-01 (London, England)

COR.ONER—How do you account for this act of suicide? Mr, Milliken—l can only account for it in this way. M. Lassalle was in distress. I believe he expected a remittance from the Continent, in which he was disappointed. On Monday afternoon he appeared very anxious about a letter, and said he should go to Gravesend. He returned home about eleven o'clock at night, and asked her for the letter. On being informed that it had not come, he swore, and seemed vexed ; and before he went to bed he ordered that it should be sent up to his room directly it came. Next morning, soon after eight o'clock, the letter came by the twopenny post, and it was sent up to him. He had  . . . since searched the room occupied by the deceased,' but could find no trace of the letter. He was not aware of the contents.  Mr. Milliken, in his examination by the jury, said that the deceased had not a farthing of money at the time of his death. He found two pawnbroker's duplicates among his effects—one was for a gold watch, pledged on the .sth of June for eight guineas, and the other for some gold studs pawned for 9s. The deceased's apartment exhibited the appearance of great poverty. The--deceased was always remarkably cheerful and lively, and full of anecdote. Ha _ _  one day told him he had received several wounds, and that his head was affected in hot weather, but he never saw anything in his manner indicating unsoundness of mind. The'ConoNEß said all the circumstances should be taken together. The deceased had received wounds in his head— he had been disappointed in a remittance, and was in want. This might have preyed on his mind. The very act of suicide was a rash one, and in itself an evidence of insanity. The jury-room was then cleared, and after half an hour's discussion among the Jurors the Coroner was called in and the following written verdict was handed to lkm : " The Jury are unanimously of opinion that the deceased, John Augustus Lassallo, committed self-destruction by hanging himself, and that he was in a sound state of mind at the time." ComoNEß—Then the verdict is fel° de se.  The Foreman—lt is so. The CORONER then issued his warrant for the interment of the body accordinc, to law, between the hours of nine and twelve at night, in the church-yard of Christ Church, Blackfriars-road, without the burial service being read over him. The Coroner said the deceased's effects had become forfeited to the Crown, and it was necessary for the jury to make inquiry and annex their finding to the inquisition. Bridge, the beadle, produced an inventory of the deceased's wardrobe and other property, in all its value was about 101., exclusive of the duplicates, the truth of which he was sworn to, and the jury returned that the articles mentioned were the property of the late John Augustus Lassalle. Mr. Curtis said he must return the inventory to her Majesty's Exchequer, and the property must be delivered to him as the proper officer of the Crown. The Court then broke up.  Notwithstanding the suppression of the slave-trade in Europe, and the strong representations made by the European Governments to the barbarian Powers of Africa, this cruel traffic is still carried on by the Pasha of Egypt, of whose army no fewer than 40,000 are blacks, while innumerable other negroes, both male and female, are domestic slaves in that country.