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The Sun. — 1841-09-30 (London, England)

SUICIDE AND INQUEST.  e On Monday evening an investigation took place at the White Lion, Brighton, before Mr. Gell, Coroner for East Sussex, into the circumstances attending the death of William Ogilvie Morrison, a commercial agent, about 37 years of age, whose body, after being interred for a fortnight, had been exhumed for the purposes of the inquest, by virtue of the Coroner's warrant. After the Jury had been sworn, The .CORONER said, he thought it right to mention that the inquest was called under somewhat peculiar circumstances, it being, in fact, occasioned by an anonymous letter, dated the 18th of September, and sent to him at Lewes by post. The letter, although anonymous, was written hi so proper a style that he had felt it to be his duty to send it to the Brighton officers; and Mr. Solomon, the chief officer, made the necessary inquiries. Ile (the Coroner) afterwards called on Mr. Philpott, the medical gentleman who attended the deceased, and took his deposition, from width it appeared clear that the deceased had died an unnatural, if not a violent, death. He (the Coroner) thereupon consulted several gentlemen, including some of the medical profession, and a highly intelligent Magistrate ; and although it was a most unpleasant thing to exhume a body, he had felt it necessary that this should be done, and that an inquest should be held on the remains. Mr. Richard Price Philpott, surgeon, who went to see the deceased, fcund hint retching. That which came away from the stomach smelled strongly of turpentine. Witness was told that he had taken a mixture of corrosive sublimate and turpentine. lie continued to attend deceased to the day of his death, which happened on Wednesday, the Bth of September, and in one of his visits deceased said he had taken poison for the purpose of self-destruction. The poison was probably the cause of his death, but the symptoms of poisoning ceased before he died. Deceased appeared to be perfectly sensible, but he had been subject to hypochondriacal disease. Witness learned from his parents that this was the fifth time that he had attempted self-destruction. Witness observed a cicatrice in deceased's neck, which he understod was caused by his cutting his throat. Other witnesses were examined, and after the investigation, had lasted three hours anti a half, the Jury returned a verdict "That the deceased destroyed himself I by taking poison while in a fit of insanity.".  " What will London become ?" is a question which may well be asked when the rapid extension of its numerous streets, squares, &c. is contemplated. One contract recently entered into by Messrs. Cubitt, the eminent builders, is for six thousand houses near Belgravesquare. The sewerage of the ,f2:rou nd, now in progress, will alone cost no less a sum than 25,090/.—Cumbridye Advertiser.  PRICES OF CANAL,DOCK,ASSULIANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c.
The Sun. — 1841-07-14 (London, England)

DEATH OF JAMES BELL.—We are indebted to Major B. I'. Baker for the following. statement of the facts attending the death of 'James Bell, Esquire, brother of the lion. John Bell,' Secretary of War. The two gentlemen named left New Orleans in company on Tuesday, the Bth instant-, on board the steamboat New Orleans, for this place, Mr. Bell being on his :way to Washington. On the succeeding Sunday more. ing (the 13th), about sixty miles below Memphis, :having been indisposed during the, passage, in a fit iof mental derangement, he threw ennself overboard mud was drowned. Though the boats were instantly ileetvered, and his body in five minutes brought on :hoard,. lie was a corpse. At Memphis Mr. Baker left boat,he taking the body of his unfortunate friend ashore, where meeting- several of Mr. Ben he friends, he ga„ the body into their charge. Before .left. the arrange_ monts had been made for the funeral of the deceased, on the succeeding day. Many friends are left to mourn this untimely disaster.—Louisville _Advertiser. A DREADFUL MUR of a most Ira gical murder and suicide which occurred on the fitt.., about two miles from that place on the Virginia side of the river. A man and his wife, the forthee a German and the latter an American, were teavellitg together, when a quarrel arose between them, and the wretched husband . took a razor from his pocket and cut the throat. of his companion from ear to ear, causing instant.. death. He then applied the :aame instrument to his own throat, but failing to :accomplish his purpose .he finished the work of death by tying a handkerchief about his neck and susTending himself to a fence. The wretched pair had been "re-tarried about two years, and a little girl, daughter of tae murdered woman by a former husband, looked upon the bloody scene with indifference.
The Sun. — 1841-05-13 (London, England)

MARY ANN CHAMBERS. The afflicted with those tormenting diseases, Gout, Rheumatic Gc4, Rheumatism, Lumbago, Sciatica, Pains in the Head and Face, often mistaken for the Tooth-ache, Tic-Doloreux, &c., will find from the use of this medicine, that Speedy relief for which it is so justly celebrated. And while its efficacy ts unparalleled for the foregoing must be consolatory to the afflicted with Gout, to be assured that it possesses diseases, it the property of preventipg the disease flying to hebram, stomach, or other vital part, Sold by Thomas Prout,229, Strand, London; and, by his appoint. 'rent, by el respectable Medicine Venders throughout the United King om, Price is. 9d. per boa, mk for BLAIR'S GOUT ano RHEUMATIC PILLS, and ob. the name and the ot " Thomas Prout, 2/19, Strand, Lon. inm=on the qoyer4nent Stamp affixed to each Box of the CHOWS  Just published, price 2s. 6d. APR ACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILITIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Varieties, Causes, Treatment, and Cure. Byal‘l EMBER of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS,  London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmary. " I am impotent, and no fit tr live."—Last's Records of Suicide. Sold by Onnhyn, C4therine-street, Strand; Ross and Nightingale. Liverpool ; Barlow, Birmingham ; and all Booksellers in Town and Couv.t.l,  N.B. Persons in the t ountry may have this work forwarded by post (free), upon addressing either of the above Booksellers, and inciosing a remittance of 04.  Just published. in royal ltimo., cloth, price 34. , and sent in Town or Country free, by post, 3s. 6d., MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PREMATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suffering fr.m the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence, Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on the TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRHEA, GLEET, &c. Illustrated with Cases. &c.  • By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY, Consulting Surgeons, London. ?üblished by the Authors, and sold by Balliere, Medica Bookseller, 219, Regent-street; 69, Pall Mall; Strange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Pattie, 4, Brydges-street, Strand; 8, D'Olier-street, Dublin; Duncan ,114, High-street, Edinburgh; and to be had of all Booksellers. The Work which is now presented to the public is the result of very extended experience in a class of diseases and affec. nobs, which for some unaccountable reason have been either altogether overlooked, or treated with apathy, and almost in. difference, by the (~ dinary practitioner. To enter into the details of these affections, to point out their causes, and to mark the terrific consequences, social, moral, and physical. which are sure to follow from indulgence, in certain habits, would be entirely out of place in an advertisement. We have no hesitation, however, in saying that there is no member of society, by whom the book will not be found interesting, whether we consider such person to hold the relation of a PARENT, a PRECEPTOR, or a
The Sun. — 1841-03-02 (London, England)

TER. AT-LAW,  Humbly Showeth,—That a Bill pending before your I Honourable House for facilitating the Administration of Justice in the House of Lords and the Privy Council, concerns a matter upon which your paltioner pre• sualei to offer to the consideration of your Honourable House, the result of much reflection end experience. That the Crown has for many years past been used, at its discretion, to refer to the Privy Council, divers petitions upon subjects not cognizable in Courts of Law or Equity ; being complaints by, or against, Crown officers and claims subject to the adjudication of the Crown ; and at the like discretion, the Crown has also long used to refuse or deity indefinitely the hearing of such petitions,.complaints, and claims. That by the 4th section of the statute, his late Majesty King William IV., for better administering justice in the Privy Council, the reference of matters of. this sort to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was left to the discretion of the Crown, and what was before an uncertain and often unjust practice, thus in 1833 became a legs! injustice. That by BM now before your Honourable House the sane v.l discretion is left uncontrolled, and thus by continued acquiescence a new sanction is given to a system which unceasingly works great wrong. Its victims have Lean known, under the torture of despair, to commit suicide, and to kill a Minister of State ; and the sufferings of many under the same system arc often heper than those, which, in some cases, lead to suicide or assassination. Besides all which, the usage of not heating such petitions, complaints, and claims is against the ancient common law, which only requires good guarantees by stttute for hearing parties to be satisfactory. That your petitioner submit; that this s'a'e of things constitutes an intolerable grievance, and that especially in our colonies, spread over many !emote legions, it is even more mischievous to the public service than cruel to individuals. Petitioner therefore prays ths.t there may be added to the Bill afore:aid a provision, enjoining the Judicial Committee to hear and determine every petition preferred to the Crown by or against any public officer, and every comphint or claim at present cognizable by the Privy Council, only upon express reference by the Cro ar n._  And petitioner, at in duty bound, shall ever pray. Presented by Mr. Hume.
The Sun. — 1841-03-02 (London, England)

THE HONOURABLE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. THE PETITION OF S. BANNISTER, BARRIS TER. AT- L AW, Humbly Showeth,—That a Bill pending before your Honourable Home for facilitating the Administration of Justit e in the Hous of Lords and the Privy Council, concerns a matter upon which your p, ttioner pre• sumes to offer to the consideration of your Honourable House, the result of much reflection and experience. That the Crown }:as for many years past been used, at its discretion, to refer to the Privy Council, divers petitions upon subjects not cognizable in Courts of Law or Equity ; being complaints hy, or against, Crown officers and claims subject to the adjudication of the Crown ; and at the like discretion, the Crown has also long used to refe.e. or (Idly indefinitely the hearing of such petitions, complakts, and cla:mn •  Thi.t by the 411,sectiohof e statntr, ktopitlaiesty-Kirg ltttninisteritit jdttico in the Privy Council, the reference of matters of this sort to Cie Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was left to the discretion of the Crown, and what was before an uncertain and often urjutt practice, thus in 1 833 became a legel injustice. That by t-,c 13,11 now before your Honourable House the same cvil discretion is left uncoctrolled, and thus by continued acquiescence a new sanction is given to a system which unceasingly wo,ks great wrong. Ita victims have tom known, under the torture of despair, to commit suicide, and to kill a Minister of St ite ; and the 6tfferings of many under the same system are often deeper than those, which, in son-.c caws, lecd to suicide or assassination. Besides all which, the usage of not hearing such petitions, complair.ts, and claims is against the ancient common law, which only requires good guarantees by statute for hearing parties to be satisfactory. _ .  That your petitioner subm!ts that this s'a'c of things constitutes an intolerable grievance, and that especiaAy in our c,,lonies, spread over many tcmote regions, it is even more tnisch.evous to the public service than c.ur! to individuals.  Petitioner therefore prays flirt there may be added to the Bill aforesaid a prevision, enjoining Vie Judicial Committee to brar and c'et rmine ccery petition preferred to the Crown by or against any public officer, and every complaint or claim at present cognizable by the Privy Council, only upon exprass reference by the Crown.  And petitioner, as in duty bound, shall cver pray. P resented by Mr. Hume.
The Sun. — 1841-11-19 (London, England)

SALUTARY EFFECT OF' SEVERE PUNISHMENTS.—THA SUICIDE MANIA.—In the course of a forgery case heard yesterday at Guildhall, Sir Peter Laurie said he regretted that there- was an evident increase in crimes of circumvention or intellectual ingenuity ; but he thought the evil might be met by resorting to due severity in punishing such offenders. He had tested what might be done by such means in respect to the mania for committing suicide at Blackfriars7 bridge. He had a return lying before him, by which it appeared that in the two months preceding the Ist of November, twenty-three persons were 'apprehended for attempting to commit suicide (only them at. Lonone et' don-bridge). Early in November he set the example of committing such offenders to be tried at the Old Bailey for the crime, and a day or two afterwardseanother Ale:!erenan pursued the same course with an offender This seemed to have checked the penchant for drowning at Blaelefr:ars-bridge ; for these two Were the only cases that had occurred si'Ace the Ist of November. SUPPOSED LOSS OF THE WOODM atu,:iety his been -felt here during the present week, in conseciuence of a report that the Woodman, of this port, bound for the East Indies, had been lost, and that all the crew had perished. By the all.,rivalofhat the tlheiniAgrsotood.. Kingston, Mg- earl, at Dublin, from China, ‘ e learn t man and the latter vessel came into collision during the night near the line, by which the Kingston was much damaged. In an hour aftqrwards, the report of .ct min was heard from theWoodtran, and in the lapse a three. quarters of an hour more the lights on board of hei disappeared, from which circumstance it is feared she n.O have ,gone down. Hopes are csitertaitied, howev,r, itr consequence of it being fine weather, and the time which had elapsed after the collision before the lights disappeared, that the crew may have got into the boats, and may lave been picked up at sett.—Bell Times. •
The Sun. — 1841-05-15 (London, England)

LABOURS OF THE FRENCH CHANIBD.`S' The Chamber of Deputies," the Debats observes, " a"e__.,ra; bled in its Committees the day before yesterday, and this .wle r probably for the last time this Session. The subjects of trot discussion was the Bill tor regulating the duties on beet:laity sugar, the principal provision of which is a heavy V at against fraud upon the revenue, the fines being put n 07... 0 from 100 f. to 500 f., and the Bill for continuing the privileit. of the Rouen Bank until 1864. This bank has been in. en, isterice from an VI., 17974798, under different forms. primitive capital was originaly 100,0001., but has since br brought progressively up to 2,500,000 f. Its prosperity !!..ae g. adually increased. During 1840, the number of bills 012 counted was 27,610, amounting in value to about 52,50°' eis The Committees seem to be generally of opinion that th measures cannot be brought into discussion before the rece_., but they intend to enter immediately upon their examinatrit° • so that they may he in a position to make their reports bei° the closing of the Chamb...rs." A Correspondent writes from Naples on the, 26th ult., that Lord Brougham, who had been stopping thderto a fortnight on a visit to a relation who was ill, had returns .d Rome. During his stay his Lordship met with the most mark eit attention from his follow-countrymen, and was re eiverli Court with every distinc•ion. Lord ich, newly attac 'eat ;. to the B. itish Embassy at Naples, had arrived, and was ate to be presented to the King of the Two Sicilies.. A SUICIDE OF LORD JAMES BEItEsFOR.,.--.. letter from Hastings, dated the 12th of May, advising the are; rival of the Tigris there from India, states that Lord Jart4 Beresford, of 'he ICth Hussars, committed suicide on the 2 • of April, on board that ve--sel, being on his passage to EnA4riftil
The Sun. — 1841-04-20 (London, England)

SPENCER'S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE. Any lady or gentleman may dye their hair with ease and secrecy in a few minutes without trouble. Price 3s. 6d., 65., and 10s. per bottle. To be had of the sole Proprietors, 29, Nottingham-place. Fieldgate-street, Whitechapel-road ; also of Mr. Johnstone, 6k, Cornhill ; Butler. 4, Cheapside ; Prout, 229, Strand; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street; Barclay, 95, Farringdon-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond-street ; Connell, Camberwell-green ; Finnigin, 30, Milsom-street, Bath; Hallett, 83, High Holborn ; Hanford, 363, High-street., Cheltenham ; Elmore, 31, Bull-street, Birmingham; and of most Perfumers and Medicine Vendors in Town and Country. Sent to any part of the kingdom by sending a remittance, post paid. Please to ask for Spencer and Co's Chinese Liquid Hair Dye. A liberal allowance for exportation.  Just published, price 2s. 6d. APRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILITIES of the GENERATIVE SYSTEM, their Varieties, Causes, Treatment, and Cure. ByaMEMBEI, of the ROYAL COLLEGE of SURGEONS, London, and Surgeon to a Metropolitan Infirmary. " I am impotent, and not tit to live."—Last's Records of s Suicide. Sold by Onsshyn, Catherine-street, Strand; Ross and Nightingale, Liverpoot ; Barlow, Birmingham ; and all Booksellers in Town and CountryN. 11. Persons in the Country may have this work forwarded by post (free), upon addressing either of the above Booksellers, and inclosmg a remittance of qi.  Just published, in royal 18mo., cloth, price 3s. , and sent in Town or Country tree, by post, 3s. 6d., Hoop: the CAUSES of its PREMATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to these suffering, from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence, Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on the TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRHCEA, GLEET, &c. Illustrated with Cases, &c. By J. L. ConsultingCU in' Surgeons,lS and London.COMPANY, ?üblished by the Authors, and sold by Italliere, Medical Bookseller, 219, Regent-street ; 59, Pall Mall; Szange, 21, Paternoster-row ; Pattie, 4, Brydges-street, Strand; 8, D'Olier-street, Dublin; Duncan 014, High-street, Edinburgh; arid to be had of all Booksellers.  The Work which is now p•esented to the public is the result of very extended experience in a class of diseases and atTectii.i.s, which for some unaccountable reason have been either altogether overlooked, or treated with apathy, and almost indifference, by the c: dinary practitioner. To enter into the details of these affections, to point out their causes, and to mark the terrific consequences, social, moral, and physical, which are sure to follow from indulgence, in ,certain would be entirely out of place in an advertisement. We have no hesitation, however, in saying that there is no member of society, by whom the book will not be found interesting, whether we consider such person to hold the relation of a PARENT, a PRECEPTOR, or a
The Sun. — 1841-08-04 (London, England)

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE FROM FEAR OF PUN-1811 EMPTED the ground the whole of the passengers, amongst whom ENT -__tlitni., - On Satu • . . rday afternoon a poor Irishwoman were two lake tourists, whose names have not yet la s'n Jane Murphy, living Jove-court, Petticoat- transpired, who had the inmisfortune to be thrown under the Ile W • 1/0 , lutechapel, was brought in a c ab to determined onon coach, and the horses still furiously continued to drag the atL/Ital, lab,nuring under the effects of a coach. These _ one hadese two gentlemen were most grievously inh ,I"'Pt at 6 elf-destruction. it appeared that she jured, 11'4 • •of her coup- the ancle to the knee, torn in the most dreadful manner, tryw been qu.vrelling with some . k ss(nnen, when she was informed that morning that whilst his foot was completely twisted round. The other -"lnnsonand she d _ have to gentleman escaped somewhat more favourably, but, nottor" s was o tit against her, ilpon before the 11,Ingistrate, which ha such] d an effect withstanding this, one of his legs was broken, and the keif 'ler, that she went up stairs, and thrust a table other much contused. They were both afterwards re' a carriage to the Crown Inn, Kendal, v e two inches into) one side of her throat. She then moved m _ where all trapped • the _ a pillow rou ud her neck, and told the people in surgical assistance was rendered them, and where they the nett room to pay a shilling she owed, and to sen or d f 'lllin er in an almost hopeless state. The body of Mr Policeman, directly, instead of which they fetched a Heyward was removed to the Plough Inn, Selside, about. She man. No hopes are entertained of her recovery. five nu e'l s north of Kendal. A coroner's inquest was held the body on .1‘ co._ got her living by waAshing for several Jews in Patti- upon .. I d ' on ay, but up to eight o'clock in the 'ise. evening no verdict had been returned. With respect to Cok.. R.,„ other passengers, nothing material occurred to them, Assn 1 s.
The Sun. — 1841-04-08 (London, England)

ELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—At a late hour on Tuesday evening an inquisition was taken before Mr. Wakley, P. a and a Jury of gentl..men resident in Burton-crescent, at the residence of W. Rolls Esq., No. 19, Mabeldon-place, New-road, on view of the body of Lieutenant-Colonel Thos. Dorville, aged 66, late of the Grenadier Guards, who committed self-destruction under the truly melancholy circumstances below detailed:—Jane Gray stated that she was a servant in the family of Mr. Rolls, and knew the deceased, who was a relation of her master, and who was staying with his family upon It v 1.44. th' had Mioyed good health and spirits until the last few days, when he became very dejected and melancholy. Indeed he had become so much so that Mr. Rolls deemed it advisable that she and a fellow servant named Goodie, should sit up with deceased in his bed-room alternate nights. On Monday night last it was witness's turn to sit up with him, and she did sc!. Pegeased slept very well dwing the night. 4400 dye o'clock on that (Tuesday) n orning, she was sitting close at the foot of his bed, when the deceased suddenly sprang up and jumped out of it, exclaiming " murder, murder I' several times, apparently in great fright. Before witness could recover herself from her momentary alarm, the deceased rushed towards the window, which is vou low, and throwing up the shash bent forwards and precipitated himself into the area heneltht carrying with him a rnignienette be; stationed on the sill of the window. She immediately raised an alarm, and accompanied Mr. Rolls, having informed him of the circumstance,wound .ern4atotheb in the back area, where they found deceased lying in his night-clothes, apparently quite lifeless, and bleeding from a head. The Jury. aft,r a short consultation, returned a verdict " That the dcceosed died from mortal injuries caused by a fall from a second floor window." The deceased was an old Peninsular officer, and served at Waterloo, in which battle it is stated he hid no less than three horses shot from under him.