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The Sun. — 1844-09-20 (London, England)

MANCHESTER ATHENIEUM.—The member no.. te Manchester Athenaeum intend holding a grand 8-0 of the Great Free-trade Hall, Manchester, on the , pro' next month. Benjamin D'lsraeli, Esq., ALB, next mised to preside. The following noblemen and"Colrf men have already accepted the invitations of 1101 ° mittee to be present :—The Right Hon. the p., th. Ducie, the Right lion. Lord Francis Egerton 'George Right Hon. Lord John Manners, M.P., the ion. TVs' S 3 dney Smythe, M.P., Mark Philips, Esq., 14.,11„" Milner Gibson, Esq., M.P., Richard Cobden, Dslierto°' Richard M. Milnes, Esq., M.P., Joseph 131t.wrink Esq., M.P., S. A. M'Geachy, Esq., M.P., John Joh° Esq., LL.D., M.P., Edmund Buckley, Esq., o'Y"Coci.cei Bright, Esq., M.l'., Rowland Hill, Esq- /1';.,,,, i Taylor, Esq., LL.D., Mr. and Mrs. S. C. HAIL whAt' be seen from this list that the meeting has nothing iry gr ever to do with party, but is to be a purely literartsece' thering, and one of the greatest interest and imp antis' It is expected that upwards of 3,000 ladies On b men will be present Pll/1. 1,1. SUPPOSED SUICIDE THROUGH FEAR or - ke —Yesterday Mr. William Baker held an inques'oo the George the Fourth, Green-street, Bethnal-green, it ar body of Harriet Downs, aged fifty-eight years. _weer, peared the deceased was the wife of a Spitalfields In consequence of the slackness of work, and der led tion in weaver's wages, she had lately becoote of the desponding. On Friday last, in the early Patrijue t 4/ day, she said to her husband, " Jack, I o ' e see you work so hard, and not live better. deavoured to soothe her, but she was very lop' anAt, jected, and said she should not live till SaturtaY;olol five o'clock she left home, and was not again meting in until Tuesday last, when her body was found do,ricige; the water of the Regent's-canal, near the Ferry- boo The husband deposed their altered circurastaneiidenoe, preyed much upon her mind. There being n° e wee° of how deeeased came into the water, the jury re an open verdict of "Found drowned." Aon the 18thf MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Marrie-, - son ° instant, at Bramham, by the Rev. Win. Harcourt,. _coos his Grace the Archbishop of York, Frederick Ax'isnii, Milbank, Esq., of Hart and Hartlepool, to Ai; se' daughter of the late Sir Alexander Don, But.'°L whose ton Don, Roxburghshire. The lovely bride! 00, was beauty and elegance attracted universal admire attired otireel given away by Sir Maxwell Wallace. She 0' d wd attain a superb dress and veil of Brussels lace, an, .00 Fos' by six bridesmaids, viz., Miss Milbank, Miss Irffer the two Misses Vavasour, and two Misses Fane. 4_"t Groves ceremony the marriage party returned to Ches°,"ctor the the residence of Sir Maxwell Wallace. the dejeuner the happy pair set off to Thorpe rel?°, Lag splendid seat of Mark Milbank, Esq., who, "I'r-flair Augusta and her family, are at present residing:" ingham Park. e gales 1/4
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 Giffeustreet, 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 18 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 Ewins, 160 It, Sergt. Lowell, 15 11, and Sergt. Roscoe, '2 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, Ste., had arrived and searched the 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 fur 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. I am 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 Sun. — 1844-03-06 (London, England)

LAW AND POLICE. • At the Central Criminal Court, Thomas Holt, the regitk, tered proprietor of the Age newspaper, was found guilty on, an indictment of libel on Lord William Paget. The libel was published in _reference to the late trial between his Lordship..end the Earl of Cardigan. Mr. Holt being at present undergoing a sentence of imprisonment for a libel on another person, was not sentenced, but remanded to Newgate. He will probably be brought up for sentence at the expiration of his present term. At the Mansion-house, a respectable young man, who had acted as the chief mate of a ship called the Diana, appeared .to answer •a: charge preferred by Mrs. May, the widow .of the late captain of the same vessel, who, on the voyage from St. Helena, was found dead in the cabin, with a pistol wound through his temples. The mate put the ship back to St. Helena, and while lying there, an expkaionywhich _blew up the cabin,-took place, by which the steward was killed. The charge was, that the mate had taken possession of and detained the property of Captain May. It was supposed that the captain had committed suicide. The .Lord Mayor thought there were some suspicious circumstances in the case, and held the defendant to bail. Trnmen, named Dykes and Kenward, were fined at Bowstreet, for a severe and unp'i*eked assault on Mr. Warburton, late Major-General of the. police force in Ireland, and his son. ' Alfred 'and James Bevis (brothers) and Joseph Murray, alias Murphy, were, again ..examined at Clerkenwell, charged by Mr. Nathaniel Neville, boot'- and shoemaker, of St Johnstreet, Clerkenwell, with having hurglariously entered his dwelling-house, and 'attempted* murder him. They were committed for trial. 'COUlLT—rAsuzowAszE„ Earl Spencer arrived at Althorp Hall, Northamptonshire, last week, from Wiseton Hall, the Noble Earl's seat in Yorkshire. ' The Earl of Sefton is named in 'circles as the successor of Mr. ApPletyrbaite, in the is it, . ent of the Ather•ii stone hounds, after the-present season, • . The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry are still detained at. Paris, as the recovery of their daughter, Lady Alexandrine Vane, from the effects of severe scarlet fever, is very slow and protracted. The Earl Cathcart has arrived at Nerot's Hotel from Edinburgh. Lord Hastings ha..l7arrived at Seaton Delays], Northuintrerland, from his Lordship's seat in ;Norfolk. The Bishop of Durban:Land Mrs. Maltby arrived in town en Satin-day, from Auckrand,Castle, Durham. The Bishop of Chicheater, Adnnral•Wollaston, and Mr. E. Gibbons hive been visiting the Nike and Duchess of Norfolk it Arundel Castle within, the leaisveek.
The Sun. — 1844-01-10 (London, England)

ASYLUM FOR TILE DEAF AND DUMB.—On ssof the half-yearly general meeting of the Governors s•Prcr!Ai scribers to this Institution, established in the 1200;011, the last century, for the support and education theeod 100 dumb children of the poor, and situated in t 0' „ittlebo pagate of !A road, was held at the London Tavern, Bisho Mr. Thomas England in the chair. The address mosloff. Committee congratulated the Governors on the Pree's'yOtili increase of the charity during a period of iilioOsiet and stated that though in the first five years the ea, cob 0 of children. amounted only to thirty-six, that in tto 0.1, of the last five ears more than three hundred der admitted, the number at the present moment wi thuk struction in the lastitution, with the exception eeallea t 0 upon the pay list. The s atement of receipts add aotedotl ture showed that the annual subscriptions had ;el, 2,3211., irom Three per Cent. Consols dividends 4,-ua rib from legacies 2,244/., making a total of 10,0231., a for s( deducting the expenditure of 7,3801. and 1,412/. 0400 purchased, left a balance in the hands of the treespieaspe 1,`2301. The accounts having been passed, it was 09;0, !lot the recommendation of the Committee to alter rule of eO4 ing to the apprenticeship of children, to the insertio ea isAt, instea lof 101. The following Noblemen and Gentleul.„l? then cleated patrons anti officers for the year ensuinVielltedi dent, his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch ; Vice-Pre- Orli) Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, Marquis Pop Earl of Zetland, Viscount Sulmouth, Lord Caltir. 000,9 Bexley, Sir W. itshburnham, Sir T. Turton, Sir Alderman Thompson, M.P., Alderman Copeland, 'o,bbly Denison, M.P., Alderman Farebrother, Alderman es sod jell Alderman Welly ; Auditors, Mr. Alderman Gihwooatsoeoti, Alsager ; with twenty-four gentlemen to form the,,,,titer of Management. The meeting then proceeded to e' toeswisei five children out of a list of fifty-six. The poll c'ep,ftbetir, eleven and closed at three o'clock, when the namesbrolte 00', cessful candidates were announced, and the meeting tit ol orld SUlClDE.—Yesterday a young man, anr.o liPost more than twenty years of age, committed suicide' A or Chalk Farm-fields, adjoining the carpet-ground. WV' Mr. Jones, the proprietor, observed him entering the,oo Doll but thinking that he was going to have a shot at ever, 'it took no particular notice. He was horrified,lo,ooo l/,000, an 1 serve the young man place a pistol to his chin, on hett,, act of self-des. ruction; his head being literally balmy of t, The alarm was immediately given, and the remadisole7,ol'; fortunate suicide v. ere conveyed to the workhouse. of pd found upon his erson 4s. 6d. in silver, a coupled with several bullets, and a disk of powder. He „toe., and • / the only piece of paper found upon him ed ifs 00 words, " suffea, ' and " accounts." He was dress __„. frock coat, tweed trousers, and undress military e" :t was immediately given to the Coroner. evpoidgfe4(
The Sun. — 1844-11-18 (London, England)

FRIGHTFUL SCAFFOLD ACCIDENT. —On Satul'dal.f about noon, several men were employed upon some mot. folding erected in front of a house in Sellington-street~ Vauxhall-road. It appears that a cornice, which lies just been fixed near the summit of the building, sudden! gave way and :fell upon the scaffolding and worklnZ The former was in consequence brokoa away, and unfortunate men with it were precipitated to the grail= Several persons who witnessed the occurrence ran to assistance of those beneath the fallen mass, and five iN dividuals were, in a short time, removed therefrom, 0 appearance dead or dying. The first was a female 1'11',7 name was ascertained to be Clack, and, on her be'sj, conveyed to a surgeon's it was discovered that she escaped with only present deprivation of consciouspen and a few slight bruises by some of the materials felLil upon her as she was passing underneath. She was short time enabled to proceed to her own residence,_fj the unfortunate men, named George Goodman, forty; George Goodman, jun. (son of the forre.er), seventeen; Thomas Goble, aged thirty-four; rAnd Baker, aged forty, were so much injured that no was lost in conveying the three forme,: to St. Geortfer. Hospital, and the latter to WestminvAer Hospital, vine they remain with at present but ;ii ht hopes of their re:, covery. The cause of the catastrophe is stated to In; its origin in the dense humidity of the weather, whleo did not permit the work `4a) set sufficiently to bear its own weight. SUICIDE OF THEATRICAL TAILOR:—On Satu rn day evening' r. Payne held an inquest at the CrO.,_o. and Anelvor, Charles-street, Westminster-road, on 0; body of a man, name unknown, but supposed to been recently employed in the wardrobes of Covent' ell„; garden and Drury-lane Theatres. It appeared in ey":, dence that the deceased engaged a lodging at the above house a fortnight ago, but never disclosed his name, )9r gave any information about himself except that he ,Yee a tailor, and that he had been employed in makingaregseo for the actors of Covent-garden and I3rury-111,130 Theatres. He was a cheerful disposition, and was in tu habit of talking about theatrical matters. On Wedflegis: day night last, whilst in the tap-room in conversation with some of the neighbourg, he wets observed to einPtit something he had been mixing in a basin into a pint rt and drink it off. The mixture appeared like honey, what it was no one then distinctly knew. The follows' morning, however, the landlord of the house found in' dead in bed. Mr. Hooper, stngeon, said that upon Oro' ing the body he found in the stomach a quantity of gel,i tenous fluid, and upon analysing the latter, he detente: oxalic acid, a large doso of which had caused deem,: vi Allingham, the beadle, said he had made inquilt wherever he thought it probable that deceased '" known, but he had not yet found any one to recognise him. The inquest was adjourned in order that evidenceA to prove his identity might be obtained.
The Sun. — 1844-07-15 (London, England)

WOILEZON. On Friday the Duchess of Nemours was safely delivered of a son, who is to bear the title of Duke d'Alencon. • We learn from Berlin, July:s4th at:intelligence had just be.eue received there, from St. Petersburgh, announcing that th, Grand Duchess Alexandra had been delivered of a dead child, and had received the last sacraments. Nedim Effendi, Councillor of the Ottoman Embassy is Pans, died on Friday, at the age of thirty-two, of an affection of the lungs. lie was one of the most distinguisbeu, public functionaries in Turkey, where he held the rank °L Chief of Division in the Department of Foreign Affairs. The Council of Discipline of the Order of Advocates of the Cour Royale have confided their appeal to M. Gamier, Pl' tonnier of the Advocates of the Court of Cessation. On Saturday M. niers presented his report to the Chair': ber of Deputies on thelSecondary Education nu. The repo!! (which took three hours in reading) is very hostile to the pretensions of the clergy. The report of the Committee on the Prison Reform (says the National) will not be made this year. The Keepe' of the Seals, being far from approving the system of Meshrt de Tocqueville and de Beaumont, has desired that the rer should be postponed till the next session, in order to give ]) time to consult the Cours Royales on the subject. Don Joaquin de Abarca, Bishop of Leon, and who formerly acted as Minister to Don Carlos, died last month at the monastery of Lanzo, in Piedmont. Marshal Soult leaves Paris immediately for St. Cunard, big residence, near Toulouse, where he will remain for a month. The Court of Assizes of the Seine was on Wednesday °cell: pied with the trial of a native of Corsica, named krange''' Gallina, aged 42, for forging Bank of England' notes. TllB jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the Court sentenced h•L''„„ to eight years' hard labour, with exposure on the pillorY• A letter from Stockholm, June 28, states that the qu Sw estio!l relative to the Swedish flag has been decided in the edis? and Norwegian Council of State: The two nations presen'e their respective colours, but in the Union flag the colours will be blended. There are, says a Frankfort journal, upon the German railroads 296 locomotives, of which 194 were manufactured in England, 57 in Germany, 16 in Belgium, and 29 in Americo: A letter from Dusseldorf states that great commotion was excited in that town on the 4th, by the suicide of M. Ling' hardt, Procureur du Roi, aged 42. This gentleman pas equally distinguished for his talents and amiable manner, and the greatest surprise is expressed at such an event. It is supposed that the circumstance of a disturbance haN'iljg taken place in the street, on June 6, in which the militia were called, and two men killed, preyed on his mind, and duced him to blow out his brains with a pistol.
The Sun. — 1844-04-26 (London, England)

ACTUARY—James John Downes, Esq., F. R.A.S.  SECRETARY - Campbell Jame sbovtic.•' Es The following ate among the advantages offerectby this Societe:. LOWER RATFS of Premium than those of any other Office, which entitle the assured to participate in the profits, and considerably lower than those of any other Mutual Assurance Society. THE WHOLE OF THE PROFITS divided among the Assured. b ree Bonuses have already been declared out of Three-fourths of the profits : Th e first, in 1831, averaged £l5 per cent, on the Premiums paid. The second, 1%i9, ditto £3l ditto since the !st die sion. The third, 1544, ditto £35 ditto since the 2d division. In additten to which all Policies entitled to the absolute bonus will receive a contingent prospective bowls of .E! par cent, per annum, on the hum assured, on becoming claims before 1949. Assurances effected on the equal scale ;of premiums in the year 1814, will participate in the Bonus to be declared in 18411. No extra charge for reidence in an, part of Europe, nor for procein On a decked, acsailing or stearn-vesael), from any seafaone port thereof to another during eat., to Assurers not being ring men by profession. Licenses are cranted to go to any part of the world upon terms proportionate to the risks. Policies on the lives of persons dying by suicide, duelling, or by the hands of justice, are not void a, respects the interests of parties to whom they may have been legally asstned. Assurances may be effected on any and every day. By order of the Board of Directors, CAMPBELL JAMES DOWNER, Secretary.  NATIONAL PROVT No. 48, Gracechurch-atree on Livcs, Annuities, &c.  DENT INSTITUTION, London, for Mutual Assurance  DIRT( Charles Pritchard Bousileld, Esq. John Bradbury. Esq. William Cash, Esq "1 homas Castle, I• sq Jame< Crofts, E q. John Feltham, Esq Joseph Hargrave, Esq. Thomas Hodgkin, M.D.
The Sun. — 1844-11-27 (London, England)

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)  THE LATE DOUBLE SUICIDE AT MILE-END.  INQUEST ON THE BODIES.—(THIS DAY.) This forenoon, at half-past eleven o'clock, Mr. Baker, the Coroner for East Middlesex, commenced au inquiry at the Fox Tavern, Rupel-street, Mile-end, respecting the melancholy deaths of Charles William Duckett, aged 21, and Elizabeth Williams, aged 27, who committed self-destruction on the night of Sunday last,, in the arms of each other, from the effects of prussic acid. The jury baring been duly sworn in, they proceeded to view the remains of the unfortunate couple, which laid in about the same state as when the shocking occurrence was discovered, both bodies being stretched on the end of the bed. That of the female was rather pleasingly attired, having on a black silk dress, dark rich shawl, her hair done up in ringlets, and otherwise neatly clad ; her bonnet was off, lying behind her heed on the bed, as if it had fallen there at the moment of her taking the deadly draught. The body of the young man was also very well dressed, having on a black frock •coat, light waistcoat, with a black satin stock, fastened by a pin, and a pair of dark trousers. Both countenances appeared quite placid. On the return of the jury the evidence was gone into.  The principal facts connected with the sad affair adduced before the Coroner, were almost the same as those that have already appeared in this journal. The deceased, Duckett, was, as has been before stated, most fervently attached to the young woman. On Sunday evening, at half-past five o'clock, he proceeded to her mother's residence, and took her out for the purpose of going to church. At this period it is almost certain that they had determined upon committing suicide, for they must have returned to his own home, and having entered unknown to his family, and secured themselves in his bed-room, took the deadly draught, and were discovered, as has already been described. Dr. Letheby, the surgeon at the London Hospital, proved that they had died from the effects of the acid. As regard their state of mind, it appeared that the deceased for some time past had been out of employment, and been rather in a desponding state of mind, and thinking his prospects respecting his union with the deceased were blighted, it had affected him so much as to induce him, who no doubt persuaded the unfortunate girl, to commit self•destruction.  The letters spoken of in another part of this journal were read by the constable, and both from their execution and the extraordinary nature of the language, excited considerable interest.  The inquiry was proceeding when we went to press.)