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The Sun. — 1844-04-24 (London, England)

LAW AND POLICE. In the Consistory Court on Tuesday, the case of Dysart v. Dysart came on for hearing. This was a suit for restitution of conjugal rights, instituted by the Earl of Dysart against his Countess, which was met by her Ladyship with a plea of cruelty charged by her against her husband. The pleadings, which are of great length, occupied a considerable part of the day ; the case was then opened on the respective sides, and the rest of the day passed in hearing and deciding upon objections to various letters offered as exhibits in the cause. The argument will commence next court day. At Unibn-hall Elizabeth Godfrey, a respectable- looking young woman, was brought befot e Mr. Trail!, charged with attempting to commit suicide. Policeman 132 L stated that while on duty that morning, at one o'clock, he observed a young female walking along Waterloo-bridge apparently in a very dejected condition. He could hear her sobbing as she went along, and when she thought she was unobserved, she retired into one of the recesses, and commenced taking off her bonnet and shawl, and then ascended the seat, and was in the act of clambering over the parapet for the purpose of throwing herself into the river, when he immediately hastened up and pulled her back. The prisoner expressed her regret and promised to return to her sister, if permitted. The Magistrate, however, required sureties, and she was locked up. After the night charges had been disposed of, Daniel Dearlove, a young man, was placed at the liar before Mr. Henry, at Lambeth-street, on a charge of enteing the dwelling-house of his uncle, Mr. James Dearlove, and stealing therefrom bonds, bills of exchange, Bark of England notes, and other property to a very considerable amount. The circumstances of the robbery have already been described. The prisoner, with the advice of Mr. Pelham, who attended for him, declined saying anything in his defence, and was remanded to a future day. Yesterday Thomas Horn, John Ruddick, William Southin, and William Smith, four " cads" or " hangers-on" of omnibuses, were brought up at Hammersmith Police-court, on warrants for having assaulted Robert Haggerstone, a conductor, in the employ of the Hammersmith Conveyance Company. The assault having been proved against Ruddick, Mr. Paynter said, such improper proceedings on the part of persons connected with omnibuses would lead him to determine, in all future cases brought before him, to impose the highest penalty the law allowed. There was not the slightest accusation made against the conductor Haggerstone. An assault had been clearly proved against the defendant Ruddick, whom he should tine 20s. and costs; but the other defendants must be discharged, there being no evidence against them.
The Sun. — 1844-04-24 (London, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE OF A FRENCH CAPTAIN.This morning the French brig St. Jean, from Gravelines, arrived at Fenning's wharf, having on board the body of the Captain, Victor Lavalee, who hung himself on board at Halfway Reach. The vessel arrived at Gravesend yesterday afternoon at one o'clock, loaded with eggs. The captain, who was well known to the tide-waiters for upwards of twenty years, appeared in low spirits while the vessel was making up the river. At eight o'clock he went into his cabin, as the crew supposed, to retire to rest. About half an hour after, Cairnes, one of the tide-waiters, went to the companion-way leading to the cabin, and attempted to get his bed down. Finding some stoppage, he looked about and discovered the deceased hanging by his neck by a silk handkerchief to an iron catch, used in fastening the companion-way. He was cut down, and found to be quite dead. Deceased was fortyfive years of age, and has left a wife and large family at Gravelines. He was part owner of the vessel and cargo. The body was removed this morning to St. Olave's workhouse, to await an inquest. INSTITUTION FOR THE PROTECTION AND EMPLOY'. NEXT OF THE DISTRESSED NEEDLEWOMEN IN LONDON,- Her most Gracious Majesty the Queen, and his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, have both been pleased to patronise the grand vocal and instrumental concert to be given on Friday evening next, at the Theatre Royal CoventGarden, in aid of the funds of this benevolent institution, where a phalanx of talent will he brought forward that must ensure an overflowing house. Several of the most distinguished of the nobility have already engaged private boxes for the: occasion, amongst whom is her Grace the Duchess of Sutherland. PONTOP AND SOUTH SHIELDS RAlLWAY.—Yesterday a special meeting of this Company was held at the office, in Guildhall-buildings, M. B. Rennie, Esq., in the chair, for the purpose of obtaining the assent of the proprietors to a Bill now in Parliament, the provisions of which are to give the Company power to widen about five miles of their line, to accommodate the traffic of the Newcastle and Darling:on Railway, also to enable them, if they think proper, to lease the same line; also to make a more convenient branch to connect the Brandling Junction than exists at present, and to limit their capital if they find more than sufficient. After a few observations, it was proposed by the Chairman, " That the meeting do approve of the said Bill," which was seconded by Mr. Htimphry,. and agreed*, wuuninqusly. The ravetiog then adjourned,
The Sun. — 1844-11-13 (London, England)

PITTE9ON.) (Sittings in gxeAtt.- u4RWIER. Mr. MELLOR moved for a writ of certiorari to bring up the inquisition held on tlig body of George Gardner, and also the depositions taken at the imitiost, It appeared that Gardner had been indicted for abducting a young lady from a boarding-school, but an arrangement had been come to. The defendant pleaded guilty, but was discharged on his own recognizances, and was not to be brought up for judgment, Gardner then went to Canada, but subsequently returned to this country, and was articled to a farmer named I'age, for the purpose of learning the business of a farmer. He then renewed his acquaintance with the young lady. After his return from Canada he went to the house of the young lady, having got in through the window in the course of the night. The next morning he had some coffee given him by the young lady. lie was visited by the mother and daughter, the father being ignorant of the circumstance. After breakfast the daughter stated that she perceived a peculiar smell in the room, but did not know what it. was. However, on a bottle being produced at the inquest, she stated that the smell was something like that. After he had taken the contents of that bottle, which had contained laudanum, he asked for a razor and shaved himself. He then became ill, and died in the course of the day. A verdict of felo de se was returned upon the coroner's inquest. The object of the present application was to bring up that inquisition and examination, with the ulterior view that in case the inquisition should be set aside, he (the Learned Counsel) might object to any public inquisition being taken. The form of the inquisition raised as many objections as there were lines in it. It stated that he administered a quantity of laudanum, but if did not state that that was a poison ; that he drank the same, and became distempered in body. It did not allege any place where he died, nor state when he died. It alleged that he died on the 2d of October instant, but the word " instant" was meaningless in this inquisition, because the question was whether the party had died within a year ; and it stated that he did kill and murder himself, but it did not declare in what manner.—Rule granted.
The Sun. — 1844-11-13 (London, England)

LAW AND POLICM. At Guildhall, Catherine Bennet, a woman about thirty-six years of age, was charged with intending to commit suicide at Blackfriart-bridge about one o'cbsek in the morning. After some inquiries Sir Peter Laurie said he would consider whether he would send the prisoner to trial upon the present evidence, and remanded her till Thursday. Baron Moritz Dam Vander Pforte, an individual who held an appointment in the late King of Saxony's household. was charged at Marlborough-street, with having obtained, by means of a fraudulent cheque, the sum of 21. from Mons. Deneulain, the prtprietor of the Hotel de Provence, Leicester-square. The charge led to a long investigation, when Mr. Hardwick asked the Baron if he had evidence, letters, or documents to show that he had any real foundation for asserting that money would shortly reach him from the continent. The Baron said he had letters to show that he was justified in asserting that he would shortly receive remittances. The investigation was adjourned. At Lambeth-street, Francis Palmer, a man of gentlemanly manners and address, was charged with stealing caosnillycheranwdaletcrh; in thecphruorepehr_tyianoef,Mwr.hJitecohhnaTpe. IS. crTivhene era prisoner, who seemed a good deal affected; admitted his guilt, but said that dire poverty and the want of bread alone had driven him to the act. His father, he said, had been for many years an extensive builder and a Common Councilman for the City of London, and had left him, at his death, both a good property and a good business. Mr. Henry observed that the case was a melancholy one, and remanded the prisoner, to give time to inquire into the truth of his statement. At Worship-street, Ann M'Cormack, a servant at the house of Mr. J. G. de Silva, King-street, Finsburysquare, was charged with stealing a sovereign from Leah Abrahams, her fellow servant. The charge was completely proved, but in the course of the investigation, it appeared, that the theft was as nothing in a moral point of view, in comparison with the other crimes of which the prisoner had been guilty. She had actually decoyed away a child ten years of age, the daughter of her master from her home, and agreed to sell her to an old procuress for ten guineas, to devote her to a life of infamy, and in order to procure money to carry this diabolical scheme into effect she had stolen the sovereign from her fellow-servant. Fortunately the absence of the child was discovered immediately. Search was made, and Fhe was rescued from the horrible fate to which the prisoner would have consigned her. It also appeared that the prisoner had endeavoured, but in vain, to induce the nursemaid in her master's service to embrace a life of prostitution. She was remanded.
The Sun. — 1844-07-16 (London, England)

DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—Yre t d s er ay Newfoundland. morning, about three o'clock, the attention of the police constable on duty near Short's-gardens, Drury-lane, was FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Spotted Dog, High street, Poplar, on m attracted by aloud shriek, which was imediately followed by the fall of something weighty ups,-a the ground, where the body of Joseph Good, aged twenty-eight, a foreman on board the Royal mail steam packet the Thames, rehe perceived a female lying upon che pavement bleeding cently arrived from the West Indies. Joseph P rofusely from the head, and apparently dying. No time Ferrer; another foreman, was lost in conveying her to Zlharing-cross' where employed in taking off the floats from one of the stated that whilst he was she was attended by etr. Charles Golding, one of the paddle-wheels, he saw the deceased, who was in a house surgeons, who discovered that his patient was state of intoxication, come across the deck of the labouring under the fracture of both legs, an injury of vessel and stand upon the sponson of the paddlethe spine and head, as also the fracture of several ribs, box, where witness was at work. lb had not been The unhappy woman, who is a widow, named Mary there above a minute, when by some means Ryan, forty years of age, has, it appears, been an itins his foot slipped and he fell from a height of eight feet rant ,yendor of fruit, and it is stated that distress bud into the water and immediately sank. The drags were . herself from s -gardens, Drury-lane, where she residPresided. the attic window of the house, No. 10, causede her to attempt self-destruction by precipitating instantly procured, but the tide running up at the time, h upwards of half an hour elapsed before the body could be Short recovered. Mr. Bains, a surgeon, of Poplar, was promptly THE EXHIBITION or FRESCOS, &c., r's WESTMINin attendance, and for Us o hours and :a half used every
The Sun. — 1844-07-16 (London, England)

FOREIGN.  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:s,,that:intelligence had just been received there, from St. Petersburgh, announcing that the Grand Duchess Alexandra had been delivered of a dead child, and had received the last sacraments.  Nedim Effendi, Councillor of the Ottoman Embassy in Paris, died on Friday, at the age of thirty-two, of an affection of the lungs. He was one of the most distinguished public functionaries in Turkey, where he held the rank of 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, Batonnier of the Advocates of the Court of Cassation.  On Saturday M. Thiers presented his report to the Chamber of Deputies on thelSecondary Education Bill. The report (which took three hours in reading) is very hostile to the pretensions of the clergy. The report of the Committee on the Prison Reform Bill (says the National) will not be made this year. The Keeper of the Seals, being far from approving the system of Messrs. de Tocqueville and de Beaumont, has desired that the report should be postponed till the next session, in order to give him 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, his residence, near Toulouse, where he will remain for a month.  The Court of Assizes of the Seine was on Wednesday occupied with the trial of a native of Corsica, named Irangois Gallina, aged 42, for forging Bank of England notes. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and the Court sentenced him to eight years' hard labour, with exposure on the pillory. A letter from Stockholm, June 28, states that the question relative to the Swedish flag has been decided in the Swedish and Norwegian Council of State. The two nations preserve 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 America. A letter from Dusseldorf states that great commotion was excited in that town on the 4th, by the suicide of M. Linghardt, Procureur du Roi, aged 42. This gentleman was equally uisnnguisnea Tor ma talents and amiable manners, and the greatest surprise is expressed at such an event. It is supposed that the circumstance of a disturbance having taken place in the street, on June 6, in which the military were called, and two men killed, preyed on his mind, and induced him to blow out his brains with a pistol.
The Sun. — 1844-07-16 (London, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE.  On Saturday last, near midnight, a young man named John Cardew, of the Strand, Hayle, whose father was an Excise officer in that place, put an end to his existence by cutting his throat with a razor. Decease I was a sailor, and some months since he was disabled from following his occupation by repeated attacks of ill-health. Latterly, he suffered from abscesses in the lungs, and the disease made such inroads on his constitution that, for several days past, he was compelled to sleep in an erect position, and his family were hourly expecting that his dissolution would take place. On the night in question, he requested some of his family who were in the room to go down stairs, as he thought if he were left in quietude he might fall asleep. They had scarcely reached the passage below, when, to their surprise, they heard him walk across the room, and back to the chair in which they left him. Shortly after they were startled by a dismal shriek. His sister and others immediately ran to his room, and when they entered it, he was sliding off the chair on to the floor, his body and the table before him being deluged with blood. They imagined that a bloodvessel had burst in the lungs, but on looking on the table they saw, to their horror, a razor covered with blood, and on lifting the body, a frightful gash across the throat.  On Monday an inquest was held on view of the body, when, from the evidence given, it appeared that deceased had repeatedly applied to the boards of the Merchant Seamen's Fund at St. Ives and Falmouth for relief ; but owing to some informality in a certificate the board relief was refused, and that refusal preyed so much on his mind that it never forsook him. The jury censured the conduct of the boards for the loose manner in which the wants of seamen were attended to, and were of opinion that the disappointment experienced by deceased, added to the weak state of his body, caused him to commit the dreadful act; nevertheless they returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity.—Devonport Independent.
The Sun. — 1844-03-26 (London, England)

MAW AND POLICE.  At the Carmarthen assizes, on the 23d, John Jones, Evan Davies, John Davies, John Thomas, David Evans, Thomas Thomas, and another John Thomas, were charged with having burglariously broken and entered the dwelling house of one,Daniel Harris, at Pontybenissar, on the 12th of August last, and with having stolen one sovereign, one shilling, and a promissory note therefrom. The case lasted a long time, and was terminated by the jury finding all the prisoners guilty. Mr. Alderman Wood, who sat at the Mansion-house in the early part of the day, said be had received a letter from the Lord Mayor, which had been addressed to him by Mr. Wedgewood, the commissioner of hackney carriages, complaining of a decision which he had come to in the case of a man named Death, whom he had fined for acting as a conductor, he only having a waterman's badge. The worthy Alderman said that he had looked into the case again, and considering the wording of the Act of Parliament and the evidence given upon the occasion, he saw no reason whatever for reversing the decision which he had given. At Union-hall, William Davis, who described himself as a surgeon, was charged with stealing a bullock's heart from a shop in the New-cut, and a further charge was preferred against him of attempting to commit suicide in the station-house. After hearing evidence, Mr. Traill said he had his ',opinion of the case ; but, as the prisoner asserted his innocence, he should send it before a jury, if the prisoner wished, but, if not, he should deal summarily with the charge. The prisoner requested that he might be allowed time to reflect which of the alternatives he would select, and, his wish being complied with, after an hour's cogitation, he rose up at the bar, and, addressing the magistrate, said his mind was made up, and that he preferred a summary punishment to a committal for trial. He was then sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment. A. middle aged female named Mary Farley, was placed within the felons' bar before Mr. Norton, at Lambeth-street,  on a charge of murder, in having caused the death of George Farley, her infant son, aged eighteen months, and also with having attempted the additional crime of suicide by endangering her own life. The prisoner admitted both charges, and said she had been so comfortably off in her time that the idea of being driven to a workhouse, and having her children separated from her, and treated in so indifferent a manner, had driven her to such a state of distraction that death would have been a happy release to her, and she very much regretted that she had been rescued from a situation which must in a few moments have terminated her earthly sufferings. Mr. Norton remanded the prisoner for a future day, and desired that a note should be appended to the warrant that she should be taken particular care of.
The Sun. — 1844-03-26 (London, England)

LAMBETH-STREET.  A middle-aged female, named Mary Furley, was placed within the felons' bar, before Mr. Norton, on a charge of murder, in having caused the death of George Furley, her infant son, aged eighteen months, and also with having attempted the additional crime of suicide by endangering her own life. The wretched woman, who appeared to be labouring under the deepest mental anguish as well as bodily suffering, was accommodated with a chair in the dock, and in addition to this it was found necessary to support her during the investigation. The first witness called was Mr. Thomas Gardener, of the Commercial Coal-wharf, adjoining the Regent's Canal, in the Mile-end-road, who deposed that on the preceding night, about nine o'clock, he was alarmed by the violent barking of a dog in the yard, and in consequence went into the wharf adjoining the Regent's Canal. On reaching the edge of the water he saw something floating, and he instantly laid hold of a boat-hook and drew it towards the bank. He then discovered it to be the prisoner, and as soon as he had got her to the shallow water she exclaimed— " Oh, my child ! my child !" Supposing from this exclamation that her child was also in the water, he (Mr. Gardener) released the boat-hook from her clothes and drew it alongside of her in the water, and in doing so he brought on shore the body of her child, who appeared lifeless at the time. He however took it in his arms, and carried it as quick as possible to the house of his uncle, the New Globe Tavern, near the bridge, and placed it without delay in a warm bath. A medical gentleman who had been sent for had promptly attended, and declared that no better means could be adopted for its resuscitation than that resorted to, but it proved ineffectual.  Polka-constable Henry Cottin, said that he had been called in to Mr. Gardener's premises on the evening before, to take the prisoner into custody, and on her way to the station•house she said she had something very heavy on her mind, and that she threw herself into the canal with her child, whose name was George, in her arms, and that •she regretted exceedingly the gentleman had rescued her, as her sufferings must be greater than ever. The prisoner entered into a long statement. She said that she had been in Bethnal-green workhouse for about twelve months, and made complaints that her children had been taken from her, and not well treated ; that she left the workhouse, suffered much, and rather than return was ready to endure any extremity ; that she was bewildered by her sufferings, having been much better off in her time, &c. Her mind was evidently affected. Mr. NORTON, after complimenting Mr. Gardener upon his promptness and humanity, remanded the prisoner for a future day, and desired that a note should be appended to the committal that she should be taken particular care of.