The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1848-02-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SINGULAR SUICIDE.—At the latter end of January, Dr. Horace Wells, formerly of Hartford, Connecticut, committed suicide at New York. The deceased claimed for himself the honour of being the original discoverer of the use of ethei and chloroform in surgical and dentistry cases, and visited London and Paris for the purpose of stablishing his claim to the original discovery. It appears that Dr. Wells was in the habit of producing intoxication upon himself by the use of chloroform, and, under one of the paroxsinis produced by the intemperate use of this powerful agent, sallied forth into Broadway, and threw vitriol upon the clothes of some of the unfortunate girls who there promenade at night. He was taken into custody, and, for the purpose of drowning the consequences of the exposure, committed suicide by inflicting a desperate gash in his left thigh, penetrating the femoral artery. Beside him, when discovered, lay a razor, a penknife, and a phial, labelled " Pure Chloroform," from which there is no doubt that he used his own medicine to destroy the sensation of pain in the act. A person had obtained from the deceased, a few days previous, a phial of vitriol for the purpose of throwing upon some of 'the girls, who, he said, had injured him, and it is supposed this in his intoxicated state must have operated upon him. He has left a wife and one child. _  107A40NTES.:411;; AT Mu NlClL—There is confusion in the North of Europe as in the South, but the cause is not equally dignified. Munich has been in a kind of insurrection, on account of a Royal mistress, just as Naples has on account of constitutional liberty. The honours heaped by the Kink 'of Bavaria on his Spanish paramour, Lola. Montes, Countess of Lansfeld, have caused a disgust which has at length exploded with considerable violence. The proximate cause of the manifestation arose in the University. There, as in other German universities, the students form themselves into associations, with distinctive names and badges. A new one was ately formed,, under the auspices of Lola Montes. This seems to have caused great irritation ; at length the members of it, on their appearance at a lecture, were hissed and hooted in such a way as to oblige the professor to dismiss the club. The next day there was the same uproar. Prince Watterstein, the minister for foreign affairs, interfered, as it appears, with success, a promise being given that the interruption should not continue. Nevertheless, on the ninth of the month; several of the Almanea—the name taken by the members of the new association—were attacked furiously in the street and obliged to take refuge in an eating-house. They sent a message to Lola Montes for protection, who boldly walked' to the place on foot, but being recognised by the mob she was in her turn compelled to seek for refuge, which she did not seem likely to find, when the king, being apprised of what was going on, left a file he was giving at the palace and hurried to her aid. Offering his arm, he led her to a church opposite the palace. There the melodramatic lady first threw herself at the foot of the altar, exclaiming " God protect my best, my only friend," and then sallied forth pistol in hand. Not at all touched by this display, the mob became furious, and one of them wresting the pistol rival, her hand, pinned her by the throat against a wall. From this rough hug she was fortunately rescued by the gendarmes, who eventually conducted her to the palace. The authorities then announced that the University should be closed for a year. On this the irritation increased, and some disposition was shown to come into collision with the military, sonic of whom it is said had without orders made a charge in the morning and shot down two or three people. Either on that night or the next, the house of the mistress was sacked by the students, Lola Montes having barely time to save herself by flight. The King, it is said, aided by the general irritation, has consented to her expulsion, and reopened the University. Such are the singular and disgraceful scenes which have been occurring at Munich. On the 12th, tranquillity was nearly restored in Munich, though Lola had reappeared dressed in male attire, and made a last attempt to penetrate into the royal palace. Some ten or twelve students of the Alemanna Association, her body guard, escorted her. The moment the return of the royal mistress became known, the people assembled, and strict inquiry was made to discover her hiding-plaee. Fortunately for her, Prince Wallerstein, who still retains his seat in the ministry, caused her to be arrested by gendarmes, placed in a postchaise; and sent off to Switzerland. She reached Augsburg in the afternoon. Three students accompanied her in the carriage with the two police-officers. On leaving Munich she said " The king will abdicate, and follow Me into exile." Intelligence has been received that Lola Mentes had arrived at Lindau, on the Lake of Constance, on the evening of the 13th, and was to leave the next day for Switzerland.