Saturday 09 Nov 1844 (p. 2, col. 8) SUICIDE.-The inhabitants of Hawick were thrown into great excitement on the evening of Thursday last, by a report of suicide, which unhappily proved to be too true. The person who committed the rash act, was a native of that town, married, and somewhat advanced in years, and long addicted to habits of intemperance. She was seen to enter her home, High Street, in the afternoon, and about half past seven o'clock was found in a pool of blood, life being entirely extinct. With a razor she had almost decapitated herself. No other cause is assigned for the horrid deed than the effects of intemperance. THE LATE SIR THOS. KIRKPATRICK, BART.-In our last week's obituary we recorded the death of our respected Sheriff, Sir Thomas KIRKPATRICK. For some time previous to his death, Sir Thomas had been in his usual health; and, so late as the beginning of last month, he held Circuit Small Debt Courts in different parts of the county. On the night of Sunday, the 20th ult., when he retired to rest, he appeared to be in the enjoyment of perfect health; but on the morning of the 21st, while dressing, he was struck with apoplexy, and lingered till about 8 o'clock in the evening of the same day, when he expired. By this sudden and unexpected dispensation of Providence, our county has sustained a severe loss. For thirty-three years Sir Thomas discharged the duties of Sheriff Deputy of Dumfries-shire; and throughout the whole of that long period, he justly merited, and most eminently enjoyed, the confidence and esteem of all within his jurisdiction. He was, in very truth, a man "in whom there was no guile;" straight-forward honesty, unbending integrity, and the purest philanthropy, characterised every action of his life. Sir Thomas KIRKPATRICK was admitted an Advocate in the year 1798. During part of the years 1808, 1810, and 1811, he was one of the Commissaries in Edinburgh; which situation he resigned in 1811, upon his being appointed Sheriff-Deputy of Dumfries-shire, in the room of Robert CRAIGIE, Esq., who was in that year raised to the Bench of the Court of Session.-Dumfries Courier.