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The Express. — 1849-04-02 (London, England)

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1849.  he r. Martin) had shad—a strong desire to spare the feelings of the weer who bud bees hie wife for Sr yeses. sad to spare the feeling. of her favailr. Sir Frederick Thrive, ea behalf al the deimmd at. then row, sad said that he priestly sympathised with the feelings width had bra so =espeamed by his Mead Mr. llsetia. When he unthe modest of tees ashes% his wont desire was, r fir se Itelipalesable that Mr. Hartley should extra the tear firths eimpiejery whisk had eustreed. He (Oh F. ) was desirous that that st call be aoemselbeed. se mark es possible sparing the Fee i. of the parties who weld bar les pared by the pabl sttysod those Massestire to which kis /dead Mr. Maeda alluded. He (Uk F. Thesierer), ow the pert of Mr. Thorsr, felt it due Now, lute mitres, torahs the awl atemeissat whir could be rode, sad to state that Xr. ist• knowledge/ that Mr. Hartley bad ten deeply wronged. aad that if there bad been say impatatisas east epee his ramie r. to dealer* that these izapratices were satkely anfonaded, sad were mow eoesple•ely withdrawn. The jury, by direction of the eseemer, retard • verdict fee the plratiff for 4,0001. SUICIDE OF • CLeitavm•te.—We (Lire pool Awned), deeply regret to say that the Rev. Mr. Chapman eonrimed suicide this (Saturday) morning, at Peeler. [Os referee* to the elergy list, we found that Mr. Chapman enjoyed the vicarage of Preecot, valued at 1,3621. pa rural  Situ arti.  artrees of a highorder. She balk too, great qualities as a Boger ; her high notes are singularly clanr and brilliant, while her lower tones are inferior in %loses and power; but it is probably the extraordinary excr•llenee of theme part of her voice that stakes the deficiency o' the o her apparent.
The Express. — 1859-12-10 (London, England)

WANDSWORTH. LACDASUV.—•N OVIIR-DOSE. A poor. distressed-linking woman, who gave the name of Alias Brows' and dnerribed Ismael, an a needlrwirosn, woe crin she dock belove Mr. Ingham charged with att,mptol commit suicide by swallowing litudsnozn. otios-conotable Taman, TM V, said that about half.past 1 o'clock on Feldey aftvrm,on he wee railed to Mr. Nicholin, ono of the pariah doctors, in Church row, Wandsworth, to remove a women who wee milting on the step of his door sad who would seep away when reloested. Whoa he reachedilits bows be had the prawns sit tog down apparently any 111 end unable to move. Upon lifting her ep, he found that she held a bottle is bar ha* soil upon. smelling it he dia.:moored that it had contained am. lus proomir told him this she bad taken a dose of laudanum for the rheumatics, se she had heard that Laudations was good for It, He conveyed her to the station, and Mr. Duos, the divisional surgeos, attended nod administered mom medicine.  Mr. Ingham inquire] how the conotahls knew the prisoner Intended la destroy herself. The constable said he did not know that she ever intended to do on.  Inspector A brook informed hie worship that Mr. Brown said the primmer bad taken more laudanum then wee sufficient to &strop her. The doctor Moo said that where en overdue* cf lantana= was taken it soled se en emetic. The prieoner, who sn l epurered rely 111...41 *be MA not take the lawleaaci with the intrt'i.na of thrtroying bereeU; she we. in gram psis, end took name than she ought to hare does.  Mr. Ingham attla.d if any of her Mende were pelmet ? The conwohle ..ad they were sot. She •ldo told taw she had hem in a great deal of trouble. Ste bad Nan living with tier lather, and he 12..1 duet ; since then oho had hem obliged to aoll all her c10th..., and abe Lad had nothing to eat foe the bed two dap.. Mr. lughant mid be should remand her foe • week. ORMENWIeIi. • tt w•ty r,l
The Express. — 1859-10-06 (London, England)

THE POLICE COURTS.  (THIS DAY.)  MANSION-HOUSE. Martho NersAaU was charged with atteespdarr to ecosseit suicide by throsias herself over the parapet at LA:Adm. bridge.  --folios-constable 629 sold—Yesterday, about 11 Volta I saw a crowd collected as Landon• Midge, and oa seism to the spot I eta the primmer ou the parapet, from where ales had attempted to precipitate herself, bat Ind bees prevented by some of the byereaders. I_ got bar lowa sad persuaded her to go home grisly. SW meet •WU way, and when she got to the Mips she raa dove and rid she would throw herself in the water, but I ran after bar awl prom Med Mr. She was not sober at the time. I again _pwasteled her to go home. and she promised re abs do se, s.d sot attempt it epee, but fearing she tree, I idiewed her at • short dYWr baind. She west back over the bridge, but had sot gate vary far before abs again attempted to threw herself over the parapet. I ran forward, and eseght her jest in time to Fire her. Os her way to the station she said she had does aornething he which her father would never forgive her. I have made ismdrise et the address atm ger% which is her father's, and gad that as reseal of her bed oonduct she hr sat bees allowed to go bone for two mire. The Lord Mayer—Whet have you to ry, primer ? Prieoner —I re very Nom, ay lord, butt bar be. very unfortunate.  The Lord Mayor said if An bad, that wee to MICR she should add iTtma re bar miefortane, and he ahould remand her for a week at two is order flat the chaplain might reason with her, and show her the eservaity of the aimed which she had been guilty. itannadel accordingly.
The Express. — 1859-02-02 (London, England)

GUILDHALL.  Maria 11,zatith rrarecAabl; dreamed y rmol, de.,,jood eo Ito will. of •;roter, fining ai eitag n.street, Fore.etreet, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by stabbing herself twig is the stomach with a knife, on Sunday morniog last. Sergeant hollow, 34, said be was called in by Dr. Simpson to take the prisoner into custody an the above charge, when oho admitted that she had stabbed herself In coasequouos of • few words she had had with her husband. Mr. Weisford was unable to account for the candoct of his were, and the landlady of the hams spoke to the general good character of both partite. Sir J. t luogrove said it was a very mysterious affair, and it would In his duty to sift It throughout. The prigoser wee charged %kb a 'cry mer.ous offence, sad he therefore re quired sureties for her appearaoce on Thunday next, by which time Inquiries should be made to dear up the matter. Th. landlady offered to become bell. Sir J. Mammye said he was not favourably impressed with the husband'. manse, bat the fact of his dlady becoming bail for his wife waa rather in his favour. Mr. W.h&rd rid he was ea anxious a. any one to have the affair cleared up. The prisoner mid elle could not have kaown what she was doing or she would never have attempted such a thing. Sir I. Musgrove then remawied the prisoner on ball till Thursday next. . _ . .  was summoned for assaulting and threatening Louis Blonifield, whereby ths latter want in fear of his life. This was a aquabble between parer respectively in the employ of Mr. Johnion and Mr. , of the Court of Bankruptcy. and it was stated by Mr. who speared for the camplainent, that the defendant bad committed a violent mem& upon his client in tits Court of Bankruptcy, and threatened to dog him to his privets residencs, and there do for him, in order that ha might not spin &ppar in that court.  Baud, for the defendant, said he had suggested that as his client was cot prepared with evidence to rebut anything that might be said spinet him, he had advised the defendant to consent to enter into his own reoognionices to keep the peace for twelve months, and also to apologies to the complainant for any warmth or hastiness of temper he might have been guilty of. This course wu proved of by the complaMant's friends, and it only remained for the court to Isa 2 it.  Sir J. Nampo— ve said ha mast have some better mcarity than the defendant's own recogniesnoss. Be should require one gaiety in 201. This arrangement was aoudad to without going further foto the else, and the defendant was locked up in default of bail.
The Express. — 1859-05-31 (London, England)

COCRIZOINIPIS. The deceased, Frederick Matteis, arrived in New Yoek from Games,' about two years age, and while titers he worked m • butcher. One day, about 14 mouths ago, he was occupied In cutting moat for rouges by • machine. whoa by some accident hi. lilt hand be; ante entanekd in the machine, and the joints of the fore and second fingarewsee cut off. This was the mutilation which the cheand appeared wai.sus to conceal luring his stay in England. On the 16th Marsh last the deceas.d purchased a thket, at New York, to go by the steamship Bremen to Southampton, sad ha sailed in her on the 19th of the earn, month. Prior to his depletive Os mate it generally known that ho intended to return to Germany. Its is supposed to have bad in his posse ion, on leaving America, from 160 to 2.50 d Bare. His father and mother, Jacob and Catherine Menem, are alive, and reside at " Wolheein Mutate's, Bayer, Germany." He is described as a lemon of reserved mamma, but not bypocluew &Meal, nor subject to aberrwion of mind. From the above facts it would appear list the paper found near the deceased, sinned—as deciphered at the inquest.— ..Heinrich blatterigh," and announcing the transmission of No dollars to the mother of the writer, was written, not by the deceased himself, but by his brother. It may he renter ked that at the time the body we. lying in the Pier Soirchouse, oce of the spectivore who visited it inquired whether either of the persons in whore company the demand had been seen on the day preceding the minder am a butcher. The Inquiry (as our reporter uudenrood) was founded on the cirmuu.tanca of the wrist having been divided at the juitt, and also of there bring but ors stab In the body heeding direct to the heart. It was weeded, however, that in a use of murder the ,resole, oven if sequalattd with anatomy, can rarely take his sine with such calmness and certainty that nns stab to suillefeet to effect his object. The supposition that this was a ease of salt athqlation and suicide is undoubtedly strearkened by the cirtunist mcs of the decea.ed having bees a butcher. No intorruatinn has led been °Weisel to show a motive for Weide, but it i. considered not impreh,ble that the deorawd lost • largo priporti in of hi. mousy either by ganibbng or In soma whir way after his arrival in London, and that he res ilved to destroy himself. end, at the mime time. to remove the mutilated band, which would mere for hie ideatilleation.
The Express. — 1859-11-04 (London, England)

ILWAT DISPO22B.—On Tuesday, the Arpley Station, Watrington, was the awe of a equebble between the London and North-Western Railway Company's servants and these of the Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway Company. The latter company have worked the line from Warrington to Star hooter rut Altrint ham. for the put 12 mouths. but should have ceased to do so on November 1, according to the interpretation of the contract by the North-Western managers. However, the movers of the Sheffield Company refused to give up the honour of worklee the Wemngton pumeoger traffic, and on Tuesday the 3.30 train front Warrington to Manchester wan detained for 30 minutes by the Sheffield Company's eterthe shaming Itself in the way, and readating it impossible to proceed. Valium msna•uvrr were then gone through, tench to the awn of the passengers, and at length the Sheffield engine Worked itself to the North-Western one, and attempted to pall It and the train on to Manchester. The NorthWestern driver did not like this co-partnership, and put on kis broken. Finally, on the expostulation of the parangero, and their threats to take cabs and sne the company, the tutter was cnoprombted, and the pareengero were drawn by both engines all the way to Manchester.— Warrington liwareltae.  SimehiNG Suirti,E.— On Wednesday Mrs. 4101111(1311 Scarlet, aged hi, late resident with her husband at 26, l'oneontiv-plece, Pimlico, died front Injuries which she received by throwing herself from a third-firer window on Sunday morning ler. Acoording to a statement made by the woman*. humband, it appeared that on Saturdey night she secretly left her home and repaired to the Thews, fur the pewee of committing suicide by drowning; but her husband, bee= discovered her absence, traced and f atunewly overtookher on the bank of the river just as she was in the aot of ffectiog her earls purpose, and took her back to her room, whore tie Sat up with her for the rest of the night. Towards morning he had ocoseion to go into an adjoining room, leaving her alone. HI. attention was immediately afterwards attracted bye stealthy tread and the opening of • window. Suspecting his =fortunate wile's intention to throw herself from the window, he ran back into the room just in time to catch her by the hand as she sprang through the window. He grasped her firmly, but her weight we. too much (or him, and he wee c tupelled to relinquish hi. hold, when she fell with fearful violence upon the s'one pavement, a great diem= below, receiving terrible injuries. The poor creature was picked up breathing, and conveyed without delay to St. Ganges Hospital, where she lingered in great army till Wednesday when she expired,
The Express. — 1859-11-10 (London, England)

SINGULAR DILATII OF A WKATER.—AIt inquest was held on Monday afternoon on the body of Hobert M'Kellaney, need 46, weaver, who is supposed to have committed suicide by hanging himself on Saturday night or early es Sunday morning, in his own house In Bridge-lene, dimple, Carlisle. From the evidence which was taken before the coroner, Mr. Carrick, it appears that the or had been quarrelling with his wife on the Friday night, in area queue of her having gone to live with soother, men of the same of Temple. He went to the police-office on Saturday night, and &eked Mr. Bent if he could as him in getting We children from a woman he had bees living with for flu years. Mr. Bent told him he could not, but referred him to the magistrates. He wee then Bober, and west away home. !a Armstrong said that she heard a none as if he was a table in hie mom and that the noise continued , from twenty minutes to twelve OM one o'clock. Bridget Ancook maid that she was the ant to go into the deceased's room after the alarm was given that he had hung hintall. He wee then lying in a barrow. The following letter wee found beside him Dear Marie,—You threatened to have =hoses inspected foe the things brought out of —, bat they are Ido sot know. When they bat you know you advised roe to steal them, and you that; betrayed sae, but God forgive you." At this stage of the proceedings the inquest wu adjourned, when the evidence at the woman be lived with will he taken.—Neionuffe Chronicle.  INCENDIARISM NEAR GROITWICDTLAROthge to be the act of an incendiary, broke out In the Irlicryst of the farm of Mr. Wall, of Eashwood, near Droitwich, on Saturday night last, and although every madams was rendered, • portion of the buildings, seven wheat ricks, • clover rick, a bean rick, the farm implements (including • valuable threshinrniachine) were destroyed before it could be subdued. Mr. Wall Is insured for 70W., bat this will not toyer his lose by semis hundreds of pound.. Tett
The Express. — 1859-12-13 (London, England)

THE SUICIDE OP A GENTLEMAN AT AN HOTEL.— An inquest wee held yesterday on the body of )Ir. E. A. Lloyd, who was found deal in bed at the Portugal Hotel, Fleet-street, from the effects of a doss of prosaic acid, administered by hie own band, as mentioned in yeeterday's Express. Mr. Robert Hill. of Barney add he was an olbeer in the Edmonton (Middleees) Rifle.. Had known demisted some time. Us bad &hems mine by the name of E. Arthur Lloyd. He wee formerly a nonecommisetimed officer in the let Battalion Rifle Brigade, stationed at Portsmouth. On Monday last he received a hitter from deemed, • meting that he had amved is town, and would see him at Bernet on Thursday or Friday. He sew a FOOS in the papers which caused him to meted. The portrait« produced were those of hie eioters one of whom was dead and the other was married to Mr. Herring,t solicitor, of Londe°, Witness received a letter fran Portsmouth that morning, statiog that decennial had been &spent from his regiment seven days , without leave. Always thought deceased to be • very sane man during the Eve years he had known him. Could not amount foe this not. Knew the deceased was coming to London to rectors some money left hint by a I 'te aunt. Ina father wag the heal surgeon of St. Bartholomew's. Hospital. The Coroner—That hi the Dr. Lloyd, of lied ,ird-row 2 Mr. Cam (the clerk)—Yes, sir; and he has a sou who ie at preemie the house surgeon at St. Bartholomew's,. Mr. Won. Churchill Dempsey, surgeon, of 97, Fleet-street, sett that when be w,e celled in ott Thuredoy alternatin death bad taken place about an hour. Found nothing in the 'stem, but on turning up the pillow, [lidera& a 2os. phial ball filled with prussic acid, and the month swell strongly of that poison. The acid was 1 per cent. weaker than Scheele's. two or three drops of which is sufficient to cause deed:. Had the bottle been full, he must have taken more than an OUnCe. The bottle was not labelled, so it was impneeiLli to say where it WOG purchased. Wee certain the deceased died from the eff eta of posele acid. The invertI ration VISA then ediourned for the attendance of the uncle of the deceased, who last sew him elive.
The Express. — 1859-03-23 (London, England)

SOUTHWARK. ATTEMPTED aVICIDE AT WATERLOO BalDol. Mary drat 11111sy, a fine-looking young woman, who Aprztia a very nervous state, was brought before Mr. from Lambeth workhouse, charged with attempting to commit suicide by throwing hirealf into the Thome et Waterloo-=4 William Campbell, a watiaman residing la Ctiurch-etreet, aterloo.road end whose left breast wee aisamell with garde"; 'received in the service of his ematry, said that a little More 10 o'clock ma the previous want* be wee near Waterloobridge, whoa he saw the primer oar robing down the step% war a quality of Lades timber, ant cast herself into the Themes. He immediately proceeded to the spot, end after considerable difficulty he caught bold of her clothes and palled her from seder the dmber. Another man then came to hie usieteree, and they oacoseled in getting her out. She was much knocked about, and la such a state that the constable thought it advisable to convey bar to Lambeth workhouse. David Chaplin, pollee-constable. 100 L, rid he wee called for to take the prisoner into cededy. She was kr ems lime Insensible, but the usual vesteratives wets end with ewer, and, she being in seek a weak Mato, le conveyed kw to Lambeth workhouse. She wowed to have bees Making prior to her attempting to coati the rash set The primmer said that was quits true. She had drank a great deal MI night en in the moratag she quarrelled with seeder feesals, and in her excitement she ran into the river. She was way thankful to the parties who saved her, and she promised sever t, make any such attempt for the future. Mr. Combs told he he should remand bar to gaol for a meek, se that is the madame abe might reosive spirituel elmealdon from the chaplain as to de enormity of her canoe. As for Campbell, Ina addict war highly commendable n saving her life.
The Express. — 1859-03-23 (London, England)

THAMES. Three suss of attempted suicide were brought under the notice of Mr. Yardley. The Ent wee that of Alitabith Thumpers, a married woman, aged 32, who was discovered by • potios.coustable about to throw herself from the Vic- I torlearidge Into the Regent's Canal. The policeman had much difficulty in laving her. Mr. Yardley remanded her to the House of Detection for a week, and directed that inquiries should be made about M. The second ome wen that of William Harrington, a wnecbed-looking man, who was supported upon crutches, and appeared to be in a very feeble conditios. He plunged Leto the Heetnitage.lock of the Lend= Dock, at Wapping, at a latelseures the preceding right, and as the depth of water there isuwarda of 20 feet, he would have been drownedif the drip and repute had not been speedily procured. Ile was blots eat el the water is a perfectly inernailde condition, and b wee sane time before he recovered. Tbs prism r, who was much agitated, said be met with ea secktent some time ago, and had been in the Loudon Heevital some time, and his log was emputated. When be Get the boa, its! he could gat no work, he had no bora° to go to, and he determined on ending his life sad his miseries topeter. Mr. Yardley said these frequent attempts to commit suicide were perfectly shocking. This was the second case of the kind brought before him in the cures of the lea hour.% The frhad committed a very rub sot, and it mu aided it': of 00.1 and against the law of the land to attempt selfuuider. Ile remanded the primmer for a week. Harriet Janus, whs said she was 111 years ci=biLlt appeared to be mach yearegu, was charged with • quantity of white precipitate powder, with the le.".tes—rios72 110W:eying her life. Thep sneer was discovered en 7 hureday last by bagel Hutch, • police-constable, No. 164 H, in the Mile-end-reed, in • state of great suffering, and upon asking her the caste of her Muss, she said eke had swallowed • nausious pulses. He conveyed her to the Leaden Hospital, where elm bed sbies remised tides Weikel treatment until that day. Tbs '
The Express. — 1859-11-25 (London, England)

SARDINIA.  The Piedmont's' Gotette publishes the report of the Minister Coati on the re-organisation of public instruction. Four universities are maintained in the kingdom: Turin, Genoa, Pavia, and Cagliari. The course of philosophy and literature, that ought to belong to the University of Pavia, will be pursued at Milan ; an institution having the nature of a university is also established at Chambery. A letter from Nice of the 19th says: General Geribaldi has arrived here to the great astonishmeat of everybody. Not a soul knew anything of hie waling with the exception of Colonel Gelder', his host, who received a telegraphic despatch the evening before to apprise his of it. The pragem.tion addres.ed by the geareal to the Hellen' will excite greet interest, as it throws light on what le pawing in Central Italy, end seems to explain the real state of strain. Garibaldi left Bohgna some days ego, posed through Tar* cagy staying just long enough to see the Meg, and got here at the same time as the Turin Jour• eats erlaelt enaconced his arrival in the capital. I have seen the general ; he is la excellent health, netwithetending . .  6U the arts s;hiele be bee undergone. position hare imps= en an the strictest reserve. He is not generally very aoinionnbrative, and now he is Isis 63 than nand, bat W every word betrays • profound irritation.  The Paris papers report the suicide of a young we, the initial of whose tame they give se It—, said to helosig to a rick family la sit English cokoy. He had coatreated a skin disease, which was in reality of • trivial oharenter, but which he fancied to be an incurable leprosy. The Inmates of the hotel in which be was lodging lo the Roe St. Dominique, Bt. Genutin,were alarmed the other mends; by the report of a pistol proceediog from the room in which slept. He wee found deed es the &or with a bell fa his breast. On the table wee a paw addressed to the "anthorities who will inquire into the cause of my death," on  wit& was written the following words :—"lltaisswallOwsd twisty-six drops of Sydenham's laudanum, bat Inevertiseism pored a good night ; the poison does col work. I most MN moons to a pistol." _  A line of omnibuses has recently been 'stab. Mad at Smooth, the Orot ewer ran to Syria. The &doable ran from all sides to lee them pass, sad &Mad loath 6 attar them with astewieluiteat.