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The Sun. — 1863-05-01 (London, England)

THAMES. ATTEMPTED SUlClDE.—Margaret Lacey, an unfortunate woman, aged 26, was brought before Mr. Partridge, on the double charge of robbing a sailor boy, named Evaneb-n, of the barque Orient, of a half- crown, and attempting to commit suicide. Inspector Denby, of the II division, said the prisoner was a notorious thief, and had given much trouble to the police. She was given into custody by a lad for robbing him of 2s. 6d., but the prosecutor was not forthcoming. He visited the prisoner in her cell a few minutes after she was locked up, and found that she had stuffed a handkerchief down her throat, her eyes were protruding, she was black in the fare, and was nearly suffocated. Ho dragged the handkerchief out of her mouth, and succeeded in reviving her. She threatened to make another attempt on her life, and was very outrageous and violent. He was obliged to put the handcuffs on her. Mr. Partridge said there appeared to be a mania among the prostitutes to attempt suicide. He should remand the prisoner for a week to the Clerkenwell House of Detention, and he hoped that after attending to the exhortations of the worthy chaplain of the prison she would be convinced of the folly and wickedness of the rash act she had committed. Ellen Tenby, a woman of the town, aged 23, who had served her week's probation under the excellent and worthy minister, the Rev. Mr. Jophson, in Clerkenwell Prison, was brought up on remand. The prisoner belonged to that dreadful place, Pa hner'S -folly, Ratcliff-highway, where the woman Lacey has been also living, The prisoner leaped from the swivel bridge of the London dock in Old Gravellane, Ratcliff-highway, into the water, a few nights since, and narrowly escaped drowning. A roliceconstablejumped into a boat, procured the drags, and saved her. Mr. Partridge said be had received a letter from the chaplain of the House of Detention, stating that he had made a deep impression on the mind of the prisoner, who repented her suicidal attempt, and promised not to repeat it. The chaplain believed the prisoner was sincere; under those circumstances he would discharge the prisoner. A great number of unfortunate women have thrown themselves from the swivel bridges in Old Gravel-lane and New Gravel-lane, and many of them have been drowned
The Sun. — 1863-05-01 (London, England)

THAMES. ATTEMPTED SUlClDE.—Margaret Lacey, an unfortunate woman, aged 26, was brought before Mr. Partridge, on the double charge of robbing a sailor boy, named Evanol6n, of the barque Orient, of a half-crown, and attempting to commit suicide. Inspector Denby, of the H division, said the prisoner was a notorious thief, and had given much trouble to the police. She was given into custody by a lad for robbing him of 2s. 6d., but the prosecutor was not forthcoming. He visited the prisoner in her cell a few minutes after she was locked up, and found that she had stuffed a handkerchief down her throat, her eyes were protruding, she was black in the face, and was nearly suffocated. He dragged the handkerchief out of her mouth, and succeeded in reviving her. She threatened to make another attempt on her life, and was very outrageous and violent. He was obliged to put the handcuffs on her.  Mr.PPeared to be a mania among thesuicide. Re should remand the prostitutes Partridgeto said attempt there and he hoped that after attending to the exhortations of the worthy chaplain of the prison she would be convinced of the folly and wickedness of the rash act she had committed. Ellen Tenby, a woman of the town, aged 23, who had served her week's probation under the excellent and worthy minister, the Rev. Mr. Jophson, in Clerkenwell Prison, was brought up on remand. The prisoner belonged to that dreadful place, Palmer's•folly, Ratcliff-highway, where the woman Lacey has been also living, The prisoner leaped from the swivel bridge of the London dock in Old Gravellane, Ratcliff-highway, into the water, a few nights since, and narrowly escaped drowning. A police constablejumped into a boat, procured the drags, and saved her. Mr. Partridge said he had received a letter from the chaplain of the House of Detention, stating that he had made a deep impression on the mind of the prisoner, who repented her suicidal attempt, and promised not to repeat it. The chaplain believed the prisoner was sincere; under those circumstances he would discharge the prisoner. A great number of unfortunate women have thrown themselves from the swivel bridges in Old Gravel-lane and New Gravel-lane, and many of them have been drowned.
The Sun. — 1863-01-28 (London, England)

BBGGARS AT A FETE. becomesthe As you reach the gates of the town, ttltieeitrhoewr hide furious. There are scores of beggarstte 10l far the town road, screaming in chorus. be from the city, there is notN aoofwmtrheetcohleido,st maimed who cripple have of your acquaintance, not one of not a ragged baron who dodged you round a Romsansagce through the public squares has levied toll for his passage a privileged robber whot subtle shut up for you a pleasant interesting church, but he is they got there is as inexplicable • • street or waylaid yioluovar sure to be there. as how the apples got into the dumplings in Peter Pindar's poem. Bat at the first ring of a festa-bell they start up from under-ground (those who are legless getting only half-way up), like Roderick Dhu's men, and level their crutches at you as the others did their arrows. An English lady, a short time since, after wintering at Rome, went to take the baths of Lucca in the summer. On going out for a walk, on the first morning after her arrival, whom should she meet but King Beppo, whom she had just left in Rome ! He had come with the rest of the nobility for recreation and bathing, and of course had brought his profession with him.  The charities of the Roman Government are large, says the author, but the money is not always administered to the best advantage. There are hospitals of many kinds, besides establishments for the care of orphans and for the provision of y oung girls. He speaks warmly of the good qualities of the Italians, and by no means shares the depreciating prejudice which he affirms to be so common among visitors who know little of the people they  condemn. He represents thew As a prudent a  abstemious people, and angrily refutes the charges of unhealthinest: which foreigners bring against his beloved Rome, by bidding them do at Rome as the Romans do—live temperately and regularly, avoid heats and chills, and keep their windows closed at night to avo'd the miasma from the Campagna. They are, as we all know, a cheerful people ; suicide is a thing almost unknown ; and one of their great amuse • ments—in fact, almost a necessity of life to them— is the theatre. They are good actors, being entirely devoid of exaggeration and pretence. Of course, as the theatre is in such demand among citizens who are by no means remarkable for wealth, it is indispensable that prices should be low, and that such is the case is proved by the accompanying picture of—
The Sun. — 1863-09-09 (London, England)

TRIAL. Margaret Gibbons, a wretched and dissipated woman, who has been repeatedly in custody, was brought before Mr. Woolrych, charged with being drunk and disorderly, and attempting self-destruction. The prisoner has made repeated unsuccessful attempts to commit suicide. She has plunged into the docks on several occasions and been rescued. She has hung herself in the police cells, and in the cells attached to the Thames Police -e. Court, being cut,down before life was extinct. Mr. 1, ooarych has in the kindest manner endeavoured to reclaim her, and often spoken to her on the folly and wretchedness of her course of life, when she was last remanded to the House of Detention for a week, that she might receive the spiritual advice and exhortations of the chaplain. Roche, the answerable for her life, if she was left alone for a minute; and B'B she was gaoler of the Court, said he could not be sent away in a cab direct to the House of Detention. Last sight the prisoner was in King David-lane, Sbadwell, making a disturbance in front of the station. house there. She was intoxicated and very much excited. She was taken • into the station and locked up. A few minutes afterwards Charles Witt, a police•constable, went into the cell where the prisoner was confined, and, although another woman was alongside of her, she had contrived to fasten a piece of tape round her neck, and her face was swollen and discoloured. The constable said 44 What do you mean by this,.. ane. ~, Cut the tape. He sprinkled water her, and left her. Half-an-hour after on her face, revived this a second alarm was -given. She had twisted a handkerchief round her neck and was black in the face. A surgeon was called in, who revived her. This morning at half-past eight o'clock, although closely watched, she twisted her apron round her throat. Charles Whisson, 196 K, with difficulty Saved her, and took away her apron. William Bloom, 458 le —, said the prisoner was before Mr. Partridge five weeks ago for attempting to commit suicide, and she was then sent to prison for a month in default of i finding a surety.  Mr: Woolrych said the Prisoner had made so many attempts on her life that -.0 was now under the painful =essay of committing her for trial. 1,
The Sun. — 1863-09-09 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. COMMITTAL POR TRIAL. —. Margaret Gibbons, a wretched and dissipated woman, who has been repeatedly in custody, was brought before Mr. Woolrych prisoner The has made repeated unsuccessful attempts the police to commit suicide. She has plunged into the docks on several occasions and been rescued. She has hung herself in Police Court, being cut down before life was extinct. Mr. cnleasismo fh ehr,e: cells, and in the cells attached to the Thames W?olrych has in the kindest manner endeavoured to relac d o uo rf st spokeneeno f life whent oh heron sohne thefollywas l last andt remwarnedt ce hd e d tothe Ho use of Detention for a week, that she might receive Roche, the the spiritual advice and exhortations of the chaplain. gaoler of the Court, said he could not be answerable for her life, if she was left alone fora minute; and she was sent away in a cab direct to the House of Detention.i•gs4 the prisoner was in King David-lane, Shadwell, making a disturbance in front of the station. ; Last house there. She was intoxicated and very much excited. She was taken into minutes afterwards Charles Witt, a police-constable, went into the cell where the prisoner was' confined, and, although another piecean was alongside of her she had contrived to the station and locked up. A few fasten a .of tape r -Mud her neck and her face was swollen and discoloured. The constable said " What do you mean by this," and cut the tape. He sprinkled water this a second alarm was given. She had twisted aon her face, revived her, a handkerchief round her. neck and was black in the face. A surgeonnd left her. Half-an-hour after was called in, who revived her. This morning at half-past eight o'clock, although closely watched, she 396 K, with difficulty saved twisted her apron round raider' and took away her apron. William Bloom, 458 K, the prisoner was before Mr. her throat. Charles Whisson, Partridge five weeks ago forattempting to commit suicide, and she was then sent to prison for a month in default of finding a surety.  Mr. Woolrych said the P— rt soner had made so many attempts on her life that he was now under the painful necessity of committing her for trial,
The Sun. — 1863-09-09 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. COMMITTAL FOR TRIAL. Margaret Gibbons, a wretched and dissipated woman, who has been repeatedly in custody, was brought before Mr. Woolryeb, attempting self-destruction. charged with being drunk and disorderly, and The prisoner has made repeated unsuccessful attempts to commit suicide. She has plunged into the docks on several occasions and been rescued. She has hung herself in the police cells, and in the cells attached to the Thames Police Court, being cut down before life was extinct. Mr. Woolry en has in the kindest manner endeavoured to reclaim her, and often spoken to her on the folly and wretchedness of her course of life, when she was last remanded to the House of Detention for a week, that she might receive the spiritual advice and exhortations of the chaplain. Roche, the gaoler of the Court, said ho could not be answerable for her life, if she was left alone for a minute ; and she was sent away in a cab direct to the House of Detention. Last night the prisoner was in King David-lane, Sbadwell, making a disturbance in front of the station house there. She was intoxicated and very much excited. She was taken into the station and locked up. A few minutes afterwards Charles Witt, a police-constable, went alongside of her, she had contrived to into the cell where the prisoner was confined, and, although another woman was gside fasten a piece of tape round her neck, and her face was The constable said swollen and discoloured. ~ What do you mean by this,'' and cut the tape. He sprinkled water on her face, revived her, and left her. Half-an-hour after this a second alarm was given. She had twisted a handkerchief round her neck and was black in the face. A surgeon was called in, who revived her. This morning at half-past eight o'clock, although closely watched, she twisted her apron round her throat. Charles Whisson, 896 K, with difficulty saved her, and took away her apron. William Bloom, 458 K, said the prisoner was before Mr. Partridge five weeks ago for attempting to commit suicide, and she was then sent to prison for a month in default of finding a surety.  Mr: Woolrych said the prisoner had made so many attempts on her life that he was now under the painful necessity of committing her for trial.
The Sun. — 1863-05-11 (London, England)

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,  SATURDAY REVIEW.—Mr. Gladstone deliberately commits Parliamentary suicide, by throwing himself in the way of majorities that run over him. Sir George Grey, on the other hand, like a nervous old lady at a crossing, generally contrives to be run over from sheer anxiety to get out of everybody's way. There is something fine in the knight-errantlike spirit in which Mr. Gladstone seeks out a difficulty. His position as Chancellor of the Exchequer furnishes him with considerable facilities for aggravation. It is always possible in a budget, even if you have a serplus,to tread on a great many people's toss. In fee', the possession of a surplus rather increases than diminishes a Minister's power of giving offence. People will submit to he taxed, even according to very unjust or very ridiculous principles, when it is absolutely necessary that the money should be raised somehow. But to be worried or insulted by a small demand from the tax-gatherer, in order merely to accommodate the Minieter's sense of symmetry, is a circumstance of irritation which will try the temper of the most patient tax-payer. Shearing is all very well when there is some fleece to be got ; but to have the point of the shears run into his back, merely for the purpose of trimming one or two disorderly hairs, is a sort of thine which no animal can be expected to stand. Mr. Gladstone, however, has proved that he is not dependent on a dexterous manipulation of his finance for success in provoking hostility. He has shown that he can still flay the managers of charities alive, even though he is not allowed to carry off the skin. No doubt, if his tax on clubs should fail, he will be able, by descanting on the wit kedness of which members of clubs have at all periods been guilty, to offend every member of a club quite as much as if he had imposed the tax specially upon him. He shows a similar dexterity in frightening numbers of people beyond those whom it is his intention to tax. The actual proposal of very dangerous taxes is attended with difficulties in the Cabinet; but as Mr. Gladstone has shown, by repeated experiments, it is quite possible to propose an innocuous tax, or even a remission of taxation, in language that shall effectually alarm every capitalist in the country. In a Minister who was designed to be safe, this might be a dangerous qualification ; but in a Minister whose chief function it is to be pulled by Lord Palmerston out of a political ditch, it will deserve eulogy in proportion to the frequency with which he has created an opportunity for displaying the adroitness of his chief.
The Sun. — 1863-05-11 (London, England)

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS,  SATURDAY REVIEW.—Mr. Gladstone deliberately commits Parliamentary suicide, by throwing himself in the way of majorities that run over him:-Ffr George Grey, on the other hand, like a nervous old lady at a crossing, generally contrives to be run over from sheer anxiety to get out of everybody's way. There is something fine in the knight-errantlike spirit in which Mr. Gladstone seeks out a difficulty. His position as Chancellor of the Exchequer furnishes him with considerable facilities for aggravation. It is always possible in a budget, even if you have a surplus,to tread on a great many people's toes. In fact, the possession of a surplus rather increases than diminishes a Minister's power of giving offence. People will submit to be taxed, even according to very unjust or very ridiculous principles, when it is absolutely necessary that the money should be raised somehow. But to be worried or insulted by a small demand from the tax-gatherer, in order merely to accommodate the Minister's sense of symmetry, is a circumstance of irritation which will try the temper of the most patient tax-payer. Shearing is all very well when there is some fleece to be got ; but_ to have the point of the shears run into his back, merely for the purpose of trimming one or two disorderly hairs, is a sort of thing which no animal can be expected to stand. Mr. Gladstone, however, has proved that he is not dependent on a dexterous manipulation of his finance for success in provoking hostility. He has shown that he can still flay the managers of charities alive, even though he is not allowed to carry off the skin. No doubt, if his tax on clubs should fail, he will be able, by descanting on the wickedness of which members of clubs have at all periods been guilty, to offend every member of a club quite as much as if he had imposed the tax specially upon him. He shows a similar dexterity in frightening numbers of people beyond those whom it is his intention to tax. The actual proposal of very dangerous taxes is attended with difficulties in the Cabinet; but as Mr. Gladstone has shown, by repeated experiments, it is quite possible to propose an innocuous tax, or even a remission of taxation, in language that shall effectually alarm every capitalist in the country. In a Minister who was designed to be safe, this might be a dangerous qualification ; but in a Minister whose chief function it is to be pulled by Lord Palmerston out of a political ditch, it will deserve eulogy in proportion to the frequency with which he has created an opportunity for displaying the adroitness of his chief.
The Sun. — 1863-08-05 (London, England)

MACMILLAN.—The second part of Baron Liebig's essay on Lord Bacon meets us in this number. It continues the somewhat severe criticism on the claims of the author of the " Novum Arganum" as a natural philosopher, which has been previously noticed, and the reputation of the writer no less than the eminence of the subject of the article will attract the attention of the scientific. The "Letters from a Competition Wallah" are continued in their usual lively fashion, not, however, without a subetrature of sober sense. The melancholy and unsatisfactory story of " Vincenzo, or Sunken Rocks" is continued in a more doleful strain than ever, Vincenzo persists against the warnings of his friend in returning to his prison house, for what earthly reason it is difficult to imagine, for a more dependent and contemptible position it would not be easy to imagine. His presence at Rumelli certainly does not bestow much pleasure on his wife and father-in-law, and it is difficult to believe that the most sensitive, or even morbid, conscience could have detected a duty in such a slow suicide. " The story of Schiller's remains" relates the singular vicissitudes that befell the corpse of one of Germany's most eminent and popular men. The Rev. Hugh Macmillan contributes a paper on the Plants on the summits of the Highland mountains, which gives us some curious information respecting those wild and lovely botanical specimens. We learn that a distinct order of plants species o extends from tbo Arctic circle to the higher ranges of the Alps on the f summits period, heights. Of fiftytwo flowering plants gathered last July in the neighbourhood of Davis's Straits, no less than thirty are identical with British species. From these northern centres wte of the h intervening ewhen h says the writer, they were graduallY distributed southwards during the glacial summits of the British hills were chains of islands, in whose gradual upheaval and consequent change of temperature they become restricted to the heights of the new formed mountains. The plants growing at the present day on the Scottish mountains are therefore, we are assured by the author, relics of the early flora of Europe, when that busy group of continent, peninsula, and island was a scattered assembly of isles interspersed with iceberg and surrounded by a waste of waters. Harriet Martineau gives us one of her clear and sensible papers on " Life and Death in India," in which she sets forward, in a plain and striking fashion, the dangers that crown the path of a young Anglo-Indian recruit. ST.
The Sun. — 1863-08-05 (London, England)

MACMILLAN.—The second part of Baron Liebig's essay on Lord Bacon meets ua is this number. It continues the somewhat severe criticism on the claims of the author of the " Novum Arganum" as a natural philosopher, which has been previously noticed, and the reputation of the writer no less than the eminence of the subject of the article will attract the attention of the scientific. The "Letters from a Competition Wallah" are k continuedah ene tinr astttnohryree ofirousual ein livelyeceenzeo.r,o fashion, not, however, without Thesunen Rocks" is melancholy and continuedunsatisfactory in a more doleful strain than ever. Vincenzo persists against the warnings of his friend in returning to his prison house, for what earthly reason it is difficult to imagine, for a more dependent and contemptible position it would not be easy to imagine. His presence at Rumelli certainly does not bestow much pleasure on his wife and father-in-law, and it is difficult to believe that the most sensitive, or even morbid, conscience could have detected a duty in such a slow suicide. " The story of Schiller's remains,' relates the singular vicissitudes that befell the corpse of one of Germany's most eminent and popular men. The Rev. Hugh Macmillan contributes a paper on the plants on the summits of the Highland mountains, which gives us some curious information respecting those wild and lovely botanical specimens. We learn that a distinct order of plants eAxltpeendens ftrhoementhmemAitrecetifc thecir cle to the higher ranges of the intervening heights. Of fiftytwo species of flowering plants gathered last July in the neighbourhood of Davis's Straits, no less than thirty are identical with British species. From these northern centres says the writer, they were gradually distributed southwards during the glacial period, when the summits of the British hills were chains of islands, in whose gradual upheaval and consequent change of temperature they become restricted to the heights of the new formed mountains. The plants growing at the present day on the Scottish mountains are therefore, we are assured by the author, relics of the early flora of Europe, when that busy group of continent, peninsula, and island was a scattered assembly of isles interspersed with iceberg and surrounded las a waste of waters. Harriet Martineau gives us one of her clear and sensible papers on " Life and Death in India," in which she sets forward, in a plain and striking fashion, the dangers that crown the path of a young Anglo-Indian recruit. ST.