The Glasgow Chronicle. — 1847-11-03 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

SUICIDE OF PROFESSOR MTULLAGH.  With inexpressible pain and sorrow (says the Dab/la Evening Mail) we have to communicate the death of ProefeezertanMces`Cutllhage tosotf aTeirinctitinygCtoollaefleh,illfuribeladin,s7annddernicosir-t deeply to be deplored throughout the civilised world, to no part of which his celebrity had not reached. The fatal event took place on funday evening, at his chambers in College. At two o'clock on Monday, Dr Kirwan, one of the city coroners, proceeded to hold an inquest on the body. The first witness examined was an old woman, named Margaret Healy, who was in the service of the deceased, but her evidence threw little light upon the melancholy event. Rev. Samuel Butcher examined—l live in College; I was a particular friend of the deceased; a few minutes before 11 o'clock I was going to bed, when I was called and desired to come over instantly to see Mr M'Callagb; I came over with great haste; I came into the bedroom, and saw the body lying between the bed and the wall —the bead towards the top of the bed; I raised him there was a large pool of blood in the corner; he was quite dead; the razor was on the floor; the porter came in, looked for the instrument, and found the razor in the blood; he was quite dead, nearly cold; this WSB at 11 o'clock; I am not aware that it was one of the razors he was in the habit of using; with the assistance of one of the porters I raised him and put him into the bed in the position in which the body now lies ; the reaor was further from the wall than the body; I saw him last alive upon Sunday at 11 o'clock; he has been in low spirits for the last week, at least since Monday; he was not more desponding and low spirited on Saturday than on the previous days; I don't know that I can use the word desponding; I will say low spirits; he appeared to be somewhat excited in his mind; he was often low spirited; I do not know of any reason for his low spirits; I cannot tell that the late College election had any effect upon him: he had a constitutional tendency to melancholy; he was a delicate man and worked very hard: I am not aware that persons who pursue mathematical studies are subject to melancholy; it was generally remarked in College that he was gloomy the last week; he was subject to gloom; I do not think the bed was tossed as if it had been lain in; had a conversation with him, he laboured under an impression that there were statements In circulation respecting him; bethought there was some charge against him. Dr Stokes, who said deceased was one of his oldest and dearest Mends aas next examined. Be said deceased was a man of strictly temperate habits. Witness had called on him by invitation to breakfast on Sunday morning. He acknowledged that he had been ill—that he had been in a dreamy state, but he felt the illness was passing or had passed away; as far as I could ascertain about his depression, it was that his manner had excited suspicion that he was not right in hie mind, and that this would go out and damage his character and prospects; I assured him that his illness arose from physical causes, and that his depression was merely the result of those causes; he said that medical men might think as I did, but that others would misinterpret it into mental illness; there was nothing extraordinary in his state; the only thing unusual in his case was that he bad improved so much, and then relapsed; I think that his former hallucination returned stronger than it had been; upon the Thursday he said to me that my servant thinks me very ill, and that she watches me; upon one occasion he went to the door and shut it, and said that she was listening; I think his disease was melancholiac, arising from dyspepsia, which originated from over application of mind to a difficult mathematical problem, while he neglected his bowels, and was drinking strong tea; I believe him to have been a very religious man; on Sunday morning I found him reading Butler's Sermons, which he said it was his habit to read; he asked me if I had ever read them; I said I had not, and he said, better shoulder—My bLk ;he doefatern sfriend,eem e dI retloptainmgenmde you thouae under despondency; but I never saw him in such health and spirits as he was in since the College election; heard that two years ago he had an ulcer on his leg; don't think that the stoppage of that nicer affected his mind, because he was in excellent health; he stated in his conversation that his object was to bring a still stronger bearing between sacred and revealed religion. One or two other witneeses were examined, after which the coroner briefly addressed the jury, who retired, and returned in a few minutes with the following verdict:— We find that Professor James WCullagh died of wounds inflicted upon bimoelf While iaboaring under temporiul lwabuoludrninagt insanity,  (owe. I One held I the