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The Bee-Hive : — 1869-01-16 (London, England)

BRUTAL FATHER.  At the Westminster Police-court, on the 11th inst., Charles Legg was charged with brutally assaulting his daughter, Mary Eliza Legg, 13 years old. The prisoner has been married three times, and the only child—that one in question—was by the first wife. According to her evidence, three years ego, when at Dorchester, he seduced her. This illicit intercourse has been kept up ever since, and seven weeks age the prisoner married again, and went-to reside at Queen'sgardens, Bromptou, where he frequently brutally assaulted her with a thick strap. Last week her cries attracted the attention of the landlord, Mr. Fletcher, who, in the most humane manner, conveyed her to the police-station atWalton-street on the previous Saturday night; the prisoner followed and was given into charge. Dr. Seton found marks of violence on her face, and was of opinion that the girl had been abused some length of time ago. It also transpired that the prisoner assaulted his wife, and that the child was afraid of him. The prisoner called two witnesses, who declared that the girl was a thief, ran about the streets, and lost her situations; was untruthful, and had twice attempted suicide, once by taking paraffin, and once with a razor. The girl was called, and in reply to Mr. Selfe said she had not taken the paraffin, but had,taken the razor to kill herself, as she had seen her father do it, and he had brutally ill-treated her. She acknowledged stealing a pocket-handkerchief from her situation, and some trilling articles from her father. Mr. Selfe said he was sorry the law 'did not allow him to subject the prisoner to the same discipline as he had exercised on his poor liar: tunate child ;. he was just the candidate for flogging. Putting aside the serious charge, which would be vely difficult to establish, the girl might have been both untruthful and troublesome, but there was no evidence that she had been so during the past week; and everybody who heard, the case must have blushed to think that prisoner had the semblance of man. He was a brute, and the evidence of her previous misconduct was an aggravation of his offence, and showed that be had a deep-rooted animosity to the poor child, which had culminated in this unmanly and atrocious brutality. lie (the learned magistrate) would take care that he did not assault her for some time to come, and in sentencing him to the full term the law allowed, viz., six months' hard labour, added to his sentence that the prisoner find bail to keep the peace for six months longer.
The Bee-Hive : — 1869-01-16 (London, England)

SHOCKING ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE BP A  LADY.  . ,Qn,the 11th inst. a shocking and determined attempt eppmit suicide was made at Ealing by f! young lady, named Lloyd, 23 years of age, by throwing her- Ng from the parapet of a bridge in front of an express ihsat Western train. It appears that Mass Lloyd, WAOhelongs to Devonshire, has recently lost by death her father, who. was a minister, and, also her mother; sad thplia bereavements had preyed upon her mind to an,ob. an extentas to render it necessary she should UT!) a consta.ntattendant. A change of scenery being advised, she came a few weeks ago to Ealirg, and Leek apartmenteat Ivy-lodge, on the Uxbridge-road, which immediately faces the railway. On the after.. in of the 11th. she and one of her nurses were out fox walk on Ealing-common, and they thence strolled al far as the Hanger Hill-bridge, which is over the railway. Just as the 12.25 p.m., express from Padding- ; ton was approaching, the unfortunate lady suddenly 40ape4 upon the parapet of the bridge, and sprang off OD, the London side, falling a depth of 30 feet. The express dashed upon her, and as she had fallen upon r one of the rails the- train cut off both her feetoubove the ankle, and otherwise frightfully mutilated her, as it scarried her forward several yards in the direction of Ealing :station. The nurse tried in vain to save the 1 poor lady from leaping from the bridge and seeing I what had occurred at once raised. an alarm Dr. George Cooper, one of the Middlesex magistrates, was driving past at the time, and at once rendered the necessary surgical aid, and had the sufferer removed to her lodgings. Mr. Goodchild and Summerhayes, local surgeons, were also in attendance; but, after consultation, they expressed their opinion that she had received too severe a shock to her nervous system to admit of the amputation of her fractured limbs, which was the only chance of saving her life. Later in the evening she was fast sinking, and it was feared she 'could not live many hours.
The Bee-Hive : — 1869-05-22 (London, England)

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT IN • THEITRE.—A. terribla -accident occured on the 13th at the 'Valle Tii2atre ol Rouen. In a set scene, a bridge broke down under the weight of three persons, two of whom were envaged in painting it, when the arrival of their superintendent overweighted the structure. Two are dead, and thild is supposed to be mortally hurt. THE will of the late Sir Edward Cunard has been admitted to probate in New York. His estate is valued at 3,300,000d015., of which he bequeat'is. 1,500,000d015, to his eldest son, Sir Bache Cunard, now aged sixteea years, 700,000d015. each to his second and third sond, and 100,000dols. to each of his four daughters, all quite young. THE body of the man which was found on the seashore at Hythe, about a fortnight ago, has been id(ntified as that of Mr. William Anderson, formerly senior partner in the firm of Gordon, Stewart, and Co., of Calcutta. He had recently been living at Boulogne. THE LORD CHANCELLOR has presented the Rev. Henry Morris, B A., Incumbent of Trinity Church, Rending,- to the Vicarage of Wetherall, near Louth. The Bishop of Manchester has instituted the Htv. W. Whitworth, M.A., of St. John's, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Rawtenstall, Lancashire. The Rev. It. B. Borthwiek, 8.A., has been presented to the Vicarage of Grange, near Keswick. The Rev. J. 0. Sullivan, 3.1.A.,.has been presented to a prebendal stall in Taint Cathedral.  A DEPUTATION of the Leeds butchers waitel upon Mr. -Forster on Wednesday on the subject of the" Contagious Diseases (Animals) Bill." to state their earnest desire to have as free an admisiion of foreign cattle to the inland towns as was compatible with due precaution against the cattle plague. Ihe right hon. gentleman mpressed themselves perfectly satisfied with Ott ed explained some parts of his Bill which had seemed to the butchers an undue interference with the introduction of cattle from the seaports to the interior, and the deputation were EO fully convinced by th 3 explanation that they the propalted, and promis their support to h  SISTERS cousurriNG StrionE.—A peculiarly dia_ eomfobseurieciddthea. is t about a reported from aWgeit,ic Fh:nstiyelri the youngeso. t daughter of the late Dr. Littlehale, banker, of that city, committed suicide by strangling herself, and that she was found dead in bed. There was no doubt at all that the act was done in a fit of temporary insanity. At the time the inhabitants of Winenester It tewesilini manifested their sympathy with the distressed family, who were well known and highly esteemed. Now that distress has been most painfully increased, for on Wed • nesday Miss Ann Littlehale also committed suicide by cutting her throat. She at as found dead in her bedroom between twelve and one yesterday afternoon.. Her head had been almost severed from the body.
The Bee-Hive : — 1869-05-22 (London, England)

DISCOVERY OF A YOUNG WOMAN IN A RESERVOIR AT HORNSEY.  On the 15th inst. Dr. Lankester held an inquest at the "Sluice Howe," Hornsey, on the body of Susaa Golding, 8 domestic eivant, aged. 14. It appeare from the evidence that deceased was in service at ro. 3, Gloutesier-tel race, Camden Town. She. had been • out with two of her sistus on Sunday last, in the Regent's Park. She left them about six o'clock. Sne gave one of them her earrings whetn she was about to leave her. At ten o'clock that night her mistress went down into the kitchen and foulid that she had not returned. Inforatation was given to the police. The mistress said deceAsed was sulject to eelusions, and had expressed a desire to '• die aid come to life again.' Her body was found in one of the filtering reservoirs belonging to the New River Company at Hornsey, It appearel that the post-mortem y Dr. Rayner was made Is ith great difficulty in a hayloft ; the only light accessible was that which came through the crevices in the tiled roof, He c.u.ld detect no external marks of violence, and was of opinioa that death had resulted from drowning. 'DT Coroner, having I:eard the eNidence at same length, was also of opinion that it was a case of suicide, and tok occasion to express his regret that there .was no mortuary in the parish of Hornsey. It reflected no credit on the Christianity or the civilisation of Horn-ey that a post-mortem had to :be made in a hayloft. Th.: Jury for a time consulted with closed doors, but there i eng no reason :o suspect violence, they returned a verdict " That the deceased had committed suicide whle in a state of 'unsound mind."  A REWARD of £lOO a year for gocd service is vacant by the death of Major-Gencral Sir E. Wethertill. FURTHER GOLD D IscovE at Es IN 6ITTHERLAND.— The Inverness Courier learns that gold has beea Ciscovered in. the bed of the River Cassley, on the property of Rosettall, belonging to Sir James Matheson. Bart., lo.d-lieutenant or Ross-shire. About 30 men have been at woik for the last week or ten days. and they have come upon a hiv.ltly auriferous drift. Rosehall is a small estate at the jun:tion of the River Cassley with the River Oykall, a few milt a above the railway station of Invers4in. A joining it are the Sutherland estates of Sir Charles Boss, of Balnagown. and the heir of the late Mr. Butler-Johnstone. of Novar. The Cassley lio vs from the foot of Ben More, the highest of the Assynt range of hills (3281 feet), and runs nearly parallel to Strati' Mora, Strath Donsti, and Berriedale. in all of which gold has been found in considerable abundance.
The Bee-Hive : — 1869-04-10 (London, England)

ENGLISH PA.RLOUR. —The parlour was a mirror of gentility and a miracle of ugliness; nothing in it was ever used or ever intended to be used. The fireplace was full of cut paper, to prevent any weak notion that a fire could be lighted there; the carpet, of a design large enongh to fit the town hall. was drnggeted carefully ; two patterns and a half of the paper reached across one side of the room, and every colour of the rtOtbows had been pressed into the service—pink and red, and yellow While chteiolefte txh robberype tl washw rs and hue and green, struggled for the mastery in every direction. The mantelpiece and the sideboard were loaded with frightful ornam(nts, and everything was so precious that it was covered up and shaded, and oilclothed and druggeted in the most aggravating way. It owpaesn e do pp sincer ess itvheel yr close;eem wasthme made, and thheadblninevdesr were af course down. There is a curious want of any sense of,proportion, of harmony of colour, or beauty of form in the ordinary middle-class house ; taste seems a matter entirely of cultivation in England.—Corultill Magazine.  ARCHBISHOP MANNING AND THE FENlANS.—Permisgion having been asked on behalf of the English Amnesty Committee, of Dr. Manning to have the memorial to the Premier left for signature at the doors of the procathedral, Moorfields—the object of the memorial being to obtain a free pardon for the stall incarcerated Fenians—the archbishop returned the following answer to the committtee :—" It is not possible to allow the Catholic churches to be used for any but religious purposes. The Catholic church being the Church of all nations, and in L.:.ndon Catholics of at least twenty nations are united in it, cannot enter into any national questions. Any political or other petition must be signed at other places." The memorial will be presented to Mr. Gladstone on the 10th of May. SUICIDE IN A Tun.—A young man, named James Pease, a clerk, committed suicide at Bradford by immersing his face in a tub, in which there was but five inches of water. Pease had formerly occupied a superior position, but was a victim to drinking habits. THE death is announced. of Lady Caroline Pechell; daughter of the-Countess of Antrim. She was married in 1826, to the Rev. Horace Robert Pechell, Chancel!or of Brecon, and rector of Bix, near Henley-onThames.  • With reference to the case .of " Sutton v. Borrodaile," the proprietcr of the " Englishwoman's Review " writes to say that Miss Sutton has never been in any way coneeted with that journal.
The Bee-Hive : — 1869-08-21 (London, England)

SUICIDES.  The number of suicide and attempted suicides that have recently taken place is creating much anxiety and astonishment at our social position, and has been+ the subject of remark at more than one-inquest. The. following are a few of those that have come to notice.. Just before the arrival of Mr. Justice Hayes and Mn Justice Hannen, who are now presiding at the Liverpool Assizes, a middle-aged, well-dressed mare went up the steps at the south end of St. George's-hall, Liverpool, and pulling a razor out of his pocket, after uttering some words which were intelligible to' those who were close to him, cut his throat almost from ear to ear. The doctors give very little hopes of his recovery.—The neighbourhood of Walworth-roadi Ives in a state of consternation on the- 13th inst. in consequence of Mr. George Shuttleworth, an under-taker, having cut his throat from ear to ear.—Joseph, Brook, master cotton-twister, committed suicide by hanging himself in a room at the Victoria Mills, Brighouse, where he was in business with his brother.He had previously barricaded the door, but was discovered from the window.—At the Southwark Policecourt, Margaret Ward, a well-dressed young woman, leading a gay life, was placed at the bar, charged with attempting to commit suicide by jumping from a. second-floor window at No. 20, Tennison-street, Yorkroad, Lambeth. The prisoner was so severely injured. by the fall that she was obliged to be assisted into. thecourt, and was seated near the solicitors table during the examination. Prisoner declared that she had nointention to commit suicide. It was a pure accident. She opened the window and looked out, for air, when she overbalanced herself. She had suffered very much, since then, and was still in great pain. Fortunately none of her bones were broken. Prisoner' was dis-cliarged.—John Collins, 64, was brought from Guy's. Hospital, charged with attempting to commit suicideby throwing himself into the Thames, near Londonbridge, on the 28th of June. The prisoner said he had no intention of committing suicide, Mr. Burehamordered him to be given up to his wife, who was in attendanc.:e to receive him.—At Worship-street, Robert. Ruff, a clerk, twenty-two years of age, was chargek with having attempted to commit self-murder by,swallowing a quantity of poison. Prisoner was foundz; by some men in a shed in the Rectory-road, Hackney,.' lying insensible. A bottle which had contained chloroform was found at his side, and in his pocket a packet of Battle's vermin killer, and a paper which, had contained "beetle poison." When before themagistrate ho said—" You had bettcr hang me- at once." He refused to give any account oehimself, and said that he would yet carry, out his intention.. I The magistrate remanded him.
The Bee-Hive : — 1869-08-21 (London, England)

SUICIDE THROUGH DISTRESS.—OR Tuesday, Dr. liardwicke held an inquest at the College Arms, Crowndale-road, St. Pancras, on the body of Griffith Griffiths, who was found dead in his lodging in Nort4ampto.n-street after he had been hanging for four days and nights by a rope round the neck from a nail in the rcom door. The pawnbrokers' duplicates produced showed that deceased had been reduced to great poverty, and had parted with nearly all his things. The jury returned a verdict that deceased committed suicide whilst in an unsound state of mind induced by distress.  THE Bisrior or LONDON, having determined on reconstructing the rural deaneries of his diocese, has already added two to tnose existing. One contains the severalparish es comprised within the ancient parish of Shoreditch hitherto contained in the deanery of St. Sepulchre, and to this he has appointed the Very Rev. G. P. Pownall, Vicar of St. John's, Hoxton, formerly Dean of Perth, Western Australia. The other deanery has been taken out of St. John's, Westminster, and comprises those districts south of the Thames which are in the diocese of London. To this deanery his Lordship has appointed the Rev. W. D. Maclagan, M.A., Rector of St. Mary's, Newington. SIMPLE METHOD OF At,:;ERTAINING Caniere, of St. Jean du Gard, in reply to the offer of the Marquis d'Orches, of a premium of twenty thousand francs, for a practical method of determining death, furnished, the following, which he says he has practiced for forty years :—Place the hand with the fingers closely pressed one against the other, close to a lighted lamp or candle; if alive, the tissues will be observed to be of a transparent, of a rosy hue, and the capillary circulation of life in full /Ally; if, on the contrary, the hand of a dead person be placed in the same relation to light, none of the phenomena are observed—we see but a b,arkd as of marble, 'without circulation, without life.
The Bee-Hive : — 1869-08-21 (London, England)

REWARDS FOR BRAVERY.  On the 17th inst., at a meeting of the Royal _Humane Society, the society's silver, medallion was :unanimously voted to Lieutenant rit. C. Hart, an .officer in the Royal Engineers, al.- saving Louis -Cousin a Frenchman, at Bologne. Mr. Baker, late of the 60th Regiment, was awarded the bronze medallion of the society for assisting in the rescue. On the re.commendation of the.l.4ord.a.of theAdrairalty the silver i.-medallion was also presented to Mr. Berry Norris West, R.N., navigating sub-lieutenant other Majesty's gunboat Bustard, for saving John Arthur Kitt, assistant-engineer, who attempted suicide at Takan, China, on a dark night in November last. The bronze - medallion waa given to William H. Rowe for saving ten persons, whose boat was upset by a steamship . in Plymouth Sound on the 28th ultimo; to Captain It C. Whitlock for saving two men who were carried - out while bathing at Cleveleys, Fleetwood, Lancashire, on the 10th ultimo; to Patrick Doyle, for saving William Walsh, who fell into 14 feet of water at Lavitt's Quay, Cork, on the 17th ; to .Henry Laird Jones and William Buckley, for saving four persons who were overcome andrendered insensible by -foul air in an engine pumping shaft 10 feet deep, at Liverpool, on the 15th ult., to Lieutenant C. Laprimandaye, R.N., of her Majesty's ship Lord Warden, who, with the assistance of Edwin Ryder (who received the thanks of the society, inscribed on vellum), saved William Keast, who fell overboard in Malta harbour ; to William Dow, an able-seaman of her Majesty's ship Penelope, for saving William Way, who fell into I eight fathoms of water at Harwich, on the 2nd inst., ; to George Midland, a boy 14 years of age, for saving , Frank Smerdon, whose boat was capsized in the sea I at Semaphore, South Australia, on the 24th of June last year; and to Oliver Davey, for saving Mr. Nicholas Lobb, who was carried out to sea while bathing at Bude harbour in from 15 to 20 feet of water, on the 21st ult.
The Bee-Hive : — 1869-08-21 (London, England)

DWISION AS TO PARTNERMIF.—At the Police-court, Liverpool, on Saturday, a man named Pollard was summoned for embezzling or stealing 24 bags of cow-hair. It appeared that he was a partner with men named Murphy and Carroll in sund,y speculations in hair, the profits arising frotr w:rieh were to be applied for their mutual benefit. On the 16th of July they catne to a settlement, and divided thie. profits of their transactions. It was asserted that on the 21st of that month Pollard forcibly entered the place in which they had hairstorel, and took thence 24 bags of the material and sold them. For the defence, it was contended that as the defendant had an equal benefieial interost in the hair with the other men, and as there hai been no legal dissolution of partnership, he could not •be charged with etnlauleurent or stealing. The magistrate coil cidcd with this view, told dismissed the summons. ATTEMPTED StTICIDE.-011 Satfißlay morning, shortly before the artival of Mr. Justice Hannen and Mr. Just cc Hayes at St. George's Hall, Liverpool, where the assizes are at present being held, a middle aged and tespectably attired RUM Made a Most dn?,Sperate attempt to commit suicide. As usual when the a-sizes take place, there arc a large number of persons, and lawyers and their clients, besides a host of people who are only loungers about the colitis, assemble at the several entrances to the hall. Their curiosity on Saaarday was somerr hat aroused by the strange appearance of a man who walked deliberately up the steps and on to the south front of :7:t. George's Hall, and after murk:ring some incoherent remarks, erew a razor across his thrtat, inflicting a most fearful weund. Fortunately the. jugular vein was not touched, but on examination by the doctors at the Royal Infirmary' it was four d tlta the windpipe was completely severed. Beyond the fact that the man stated he was a hairdre4er. nothing more is known of him. A razor and a comb were found in his pockets, but owing to the loss of blood and prostration he was unable to say what his name was. The unfortunate man is not expected to recover.
The Bee-Hive : — 1869-08-21 (London, England)

REWARDS FOR BRAVERY.  On the 17th inst., at a meeting Qf the Royal Humane Society, the society's silver medallion was unanimously voted to Lieutenant R. C. Hart, an officer in the Royal Engineers, for saving Louis Cousin a Frenchman, at Bologne. Mr. Baker, late of the 60th Regiment, was awarded the bronze medallion of the society for assisting in the rescue. On the recommendation of the Lords of the Admiralty the silver medallion was also presented to Mr. Berry Norris 'West, R.N., navigating sub-lieutenant of her Majesty's gunboat Bustard, for saving John Arthur Kitt, assistant-engineer, who attempted suicide at Taken, China, on a dark night in November last. The bronze medallion was given to 'William H. Rowe for saving ten persons, whose boat was upset by a steamship in ;Plymouth Sound on the 28th ultimo; to Captain 11. C. Whitlock for saving two men who were carried out while bathing at Cleveleys, Fleetwood, Lancashire, on the 10th ultimo; to Patrick Doyle, for staving William Walsh, who fell into 14 feet of water at Lavitt's Quay, Cork, on the 17th ult.; to Henry Laird Jones and William Buckley, for saving' four persons who were overcome and rendered insensible by foul air in an engine pumping shaft 10 feet deep, at: Liverpool, on the 15th ult., to Lieutenant C. Laprimandaye R.N., of her Majesty's ship Lord Warden, who, with the assistance of Edwin Ryder (who received the thanks of the society, inscribed on vellum), saved 'William Keast, who fell overboard in Malta harbour ; to William Dow, an able-seaman of her Majesty's ship Penelope, for saving William Way, who fell into ) eight fathoms of water at Harwich, on the 2nd inst., ; to George Midland, a boy 14 years of age, for saving Frank Snierdon, whose boat was capsized in the sea at Semaphore, South Australia, on the 24th of June last year; and to Oliver Davey, for saving Mr.' Nicholas Lobb, who was carried out to sea while bathing at Bude harbour in from 15 to 20 feet of ' water, on the 21st ult.