The Sun. — 1856-01-04 (London, England)

KINV'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, JAN, 3.—Wasey Starry and John Thomas Walford, Ewe., late Scholars, have been elected Fellows of this society, the latter this day. The salary of the Secretary to the Commissioners in Lunacy (the appointment just conferred on Mr. John Forster) is fixed by the 8 and 9 Vic., c. 126, e. 9, at 840/, per annum. The salaries of the commissioners, one of whom is Mr. Proctor (better known to the public by hie poetic pseudonym of Barry Cornwall) are fixed at 1,500/. a year, The New " General Omnibus Company " has already become an accomplished fact. The first omnibuses under ton now regime will commence running on Monday next, being those from Stoke Newington and Kingland to the Rank, lately the property of Messrs. Willing, Mrs. Woodford, Mrs. Hunt, and Mr. Foye. The Chelsea line of omnibuses will next fall into " correspondence," Messrs. Rhodes and Johnson, Mr. Bennet, and Mr. Martin having sent in their adhesion and sold their studs and stocks to this remarkable alliance. Fulham and Brompton, until now under the administration of Messrs Hartley, Webb, Rhodes, and Johnsen, as well as Hack.nay, represented by Messrs. Barber, Martin, &c., have been pase.sd over, so far as regards their vehicular accommodation, to the " Compagnie G3n6rale," whit, Pimlice, under the well-purchased influence of Mr. John Clark,., contributes its well-known Royal Blues to the united stock. The well-known Post-office contractor, Mn. Macnamara, has surrendered even the two remainini, royal mails out of London. MELANCHOLY SUICIDE ET A YOUNG GlRL.—Yesterday, Mr. .Lan,gham, deputy. coroner for Westminster, Rising held an inquest at the osing Sun, Charles-street, Grosvenor-square, on Caroline Jane Redman,. 17, who committed suicide under very distressuig and determined circunistan ca./. The deceased resided with her godmother at 23, Chepstow-place, Westbourne-grove, and for some time past she had been in a melancholy state of mind, se she feared that her godmother, a very aged person, would die and leave her, without any means of subsistence, to the world. This so preyed on her spirits that she was heard to say that she would commit suicide if her godmother should die, as she herself had no means of obtaining her livelihood ; but these and other such observances were treated as idle threats. At length, on the morning of the melancholy occurrence, she loft 23, Chepstow-place, at an early hour, but there appeared at that time nothing particularly disturbed in her manner. She must have at once proceeded to Hyde-park, and wandered about some time ; for it was not until about half-past 11 o'clock she was found lying on the grass in the park in an insensible condition. Medical aid was immediately procured, but she died shortly afterwards. The medical evidence distinctly proved that the poor creature died from the effects of prussic acid, and a phial which had contained that poison was found by her side in the park, but it did not transpire where or when she procured the deadly poison. The coroner having briefly summed up, commenting upon the exceedingly di/dressincr nature of the case, the jury returned a verdict of s' Suicide while in a unsound state of mind."