On Thursday night, or ear...
On Thursday nights or carly on Friday morning, Joh.n Rutssell, a ceach-painter, nearlv 60 years of ege, who resided at the Bunch ef Grapes public house, Old-street-road, put a period to his existence, by Iranging himself in his bed-room, with a clothes lino, which he t,stened to a strong nail that had been secured to the- wall. The deceased had for some years been in the employment of a tMr. King. a coach-maker, in Old-street-road; but his donestie comforts had bten ms;ch disturbed for the last few years, in conse, qcunce, it is said, of the frailty ef his wife (who is at.present in z w;orkhouse), as well as the intermarriage of his daughter, an only chiid, with a cosNwrtronger. The deceased for several days previ. ous to the commission of the rash act, had been drinking, and on last Thursday was about to leave it off; and for that purpose ivect to his bed a little before eleven o'cleck. On Friday morning, about seven o'clock, the servant yirl went to his room in order to ascertaja wihether he vould have breakfast or not, when she perceived hir standing cn the floor in his shirt; but tibe did not at the time tske ainy notice of the rope by which he was suspended. The girl in.. mediately communicated her suspicions as well as her surpnse to her master, who went up stairs and found bim as the girl described wvith his head -leaning on his shoulder. He was immediately cru down, and metlical aid resorted to, bitt in vain. WVe have this week to reccrd one of the rnost horrid and barbarous transactions that was ever known in a civilized country On Monday last a young man, of the name of Shepherd Wells,.by trade a weaver, andi Samuel Sorrel, alias Silkey, bg trade a weav,er auctioneer, &c., along with several others, met at the Bxsd-in, ;rd public-house, in Kirkland, where, we understand, they had 4pe~t mo-t of the day in duinking, and towards the evening began to wresdtl. 'Welts haviag thrown Sorrel, alias SiLkey, sx or sev,n Itimes, so enraged him that, in an engagement, Sorrel got upEFCr..<4St I and attemptedtt o strangle WVells, which ca^used thle y.^uth to pti tongue out * and this savag4e, being not content with seeinAg his 3 ta~or.ist black in the face, seized the opportunity, and aetiuit ncsrly one half of his tongtsa offr._gW strsrLZnd ZYlsre,siel. ~ i--