The Sun. — 1865-11-18 (London, England)

THAMES.  ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—John Murray, a young man of strongly marked and intellectual features, was charged before Mr. Partridge with threatening and abusing a young woman named Jane Allen.  The prisoner had been making a temporary stay with the complainant, and when he visited her last night• she found he had got no money, and bade him leave her. Ho then abused her, and threatened her, and made so much disturbance that the police interfered and took him into custody. He made two attempts to commit suicide in the police cell. He was heard making a gurgling noise. On opening the door he was on the floor, his face livid, and a stocking round his neck, with three knots in it. He was nearly strangled. The police revived him, and locked him up again. He made a second attempt with another stocking, and the police had to cut the stocking from his neck. There were two knots in it.  The prisoner said he would not go near the abode of the complainant again, and hoped the magistrate would release him, as he was going to sea almost immediately. He was ordered to find bail to keep the peace. On the charges of attempted suicide being proved he was asked why ho had acted in such an extraordinary manner, he said that ho intended to strangle himself ; and it pained him to think ho had acted so strangely in London.  Mr. Partridge remanded the prisoner for a week, and hoped he would be in a better state of mind when he had reflected on the rash and wicked acts he had committed.  New Fenian Projects.  The Fenian Senate, composed of some fifteen persons, says the New York Herald, has, we understand, been in secret session in this city for the past few days, cogitating on some initiatory project in the new revolutionary movements in the British Empire—probably to be the seizure of a portion of the British American colonies in Canada or Nova Scotia, thence to inaugurate on a substantial basis the insurrection, which is not to be merely an Irish affair, but a British republican revolution, extending throughout the entire empire until an English republic is established. When the Fenians have established themselves in one of the British provinces they can fit out some Irish Alabama or Shenandoah, or say a dozen or two of them, and commence operations against British commerce on the high seas. In these matters, of course, our Government is strictly neutral. It has nothing to say upon the 'question, and will undoubtedly preserve that rigid system of neutrality which the Government of England observed during our four years' war. Indeed, we might reply to the British Government, in the words of Lord Russell, that these British republicans are seeking for their independence, while the British Government is seeking for empire. We believe that there has been a large accession of United States officers of high rank and much experience in the late war to the ranks of the Fenians—men who will, no doubt, bring wisdom, caution, and discipline to the movement, which, in the hands of blatant orators and selfish, inexperienced agitators might have proved a fizzle. However, whatever new projects the Fenian revolutionists may have in view in British America or elsewhere' our Government will not trouble itself about them. We presume that the precedent set by England during our rebellion will be a sufficient guide for the actions of the Fenians.