The Sun. — 1837-05-30 (London, England)

SUGAR.—((Wit Havaenah, White Brown 5%4 74 Rio, White 7 8% Brown 5 5,4 1  82,i Discount.) Bahia, White Brown 5 6 Pernambuco, White 634 71 Brown 4• 5;,:,  The Finance Committee of Worcester have resolved " that the silver bands to the hats of the Mayor's officers be dispensed with, as an unnecessary expense."  SUICIDE OF A MEDICAL YOUTll.—Yesterday afternoon an inquisition was taken before Mr. Stirling, at the Queen's Arms, Acton-street, Gray's Inn-road, on view of the body of Mr. Henry Stevens, aged 19, who committed suicide by swallowing prussic acid. Mr. Evans, assistant to Mr. Archibald M'Donald, surgeon, Acton-street, deposed that the deceased, whose parents reside at Kensington Gore, was pupil to Mr. M'Donald, with whom he had been some years. On Saturday last he was to leave on account of some difference which he had with Mr. M'Donald. About six o'clock he went to his room to put his wearing apparel in his trunk. Shortly after witness followed to assist him ; but he could obtain no admission, as the door was fastened. Mr. M•Donald, accompanied witness to the room, and by whose order a blacksmith was sent for who forced the lock. The deceased was then found lying in bed and dead. Witness, subsequently, by direction of Mr. M'Donald, called on Mr. Morton, who supplies him with medicine, when he informed witness that the deceased had that afternoon obtained a phial of the above poison, arid of the greatest strength. The phial was found at the foot of the bed. By the Coroner.—The deceased was of a most irritable temper, and easily excited. Mr. Archibald M'Donald stated that for the last four months the conduct of the deceased had been such that he gave him orders to leave him on Saturday. The unfortunate youth was one of the best pupils he ever had, and was most attentive to business, but his temper was unbearable. Mr. Evans stated that it was a constant remark of the deceased that stations were nothing, and that he was inferior to no one. Verdict— " Temporary Insanity."  The number of fires in this neighbourhood (Exeter), within the last eight or ten days, has raised the suspicion that they arc the work of incendiaries. On Thursday evening, after the engines had left Silverton, it was discovered that Flayne-farm, in that parish, the residence of Mr. Elworthy, was on fire, and a reward of 501. had been offered by the West of England-office, and 201. additional by Captain W3ndham, to discover the authors of this diabolical crime. On Tuesday the Pound house of Mrs. Webber, Silverton, was burnt down. On Monday the house at Oskford-mills, on the Crediton-road, was burnt down, owing, it is thought, to a fissure in the oven.— Western Times.  On Saturday evening an inquest was held in the Board-room of St. George's Hospital, Hyde Park-corner, on the body of William Henry Ray, aged 26. The deceased was guard to one of the mail coaches. On Sunday last he got upon one of the Chelsea omnibuses at the Black Boy and Camel, Leadenhall-street, to proceed to Hyde Park-corner. On the omnibus reaching opposite Engine-street, Piccadilly, it received a severe jerk in consequence of going over a large stone, which threw the deceased from his scat. The coachman instantly pulled up his horses, but the near fore-wheel went over the deceased. The unfortunate man was conveyed to the above hospital, when it was ascertained that both his thighs were broken, and he was otherwise much injured. lie lingered until Thursday, when he died of the injuries ho had received. Verdict—Accidental Death.  None of the rivers of South Africa are, to any extent, navigable ; and, if navigable within, they are generally inaccessible or difficult of access from without. Along a coast of 1,500 miles no good and safe, or at least available harbour has yet been discovered ; some arc exposed to the fury of the westerly winds, and some to the fury of the easterly. Both occasionally roll in a tremendous surf, which makes anchorage unsafe, and landing often impracticable. The best port ►s Saldanha Bay, but the country around is a dreary desert of sand ; there is no good water, except a weak spring, found by boring through a granite rock ;" and the place it inconveniently situated, even for affording shelter to ships in distress. —British and Foreiyn Revisal.