The Sun.
London, England, 1824-04-20 00:00:00

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

On Sunday se'nnight a very promising young
man, named Johnson, aged 19, son of a respectable tradesman,
Who resides in the Back Road, Islington, destroyed himself in
afit of insanity. He had for the last six months been attached
fo'ayoUng lady of the same neighbourhood, possessed of con-
siderable female attractions, and had been in the habit of
meeting her at the Union Chapel, Islington, on Sundays, at
Divine Service. He was observed to- labour under consider-
able agitation, but his friends had reason to suppose it arose
from the indifference exhibited by the young lady. On Siinday
evening he beheld her at the usual place for the last time, and
was there treated by her with the most studied coldness," and
indeed aversion. On returning home, he appeared very wretched;
but upon being rallied by his relatives supped with them. The
effort, however, was followed by a fatal relapse of the malady;
about nine o'clock lie retired to his room, and in lessqhan ten
minutes his friends were horror-struck on hearing the report of
a pistol, and on entering the room found the deceased lying on
his back, wholly deprived of life. He had put the muzzle of
the pistol within his flannel waistcoat, and directing it in such
a manner as to prevent the bullet coming in contact with any
of his ribs, shot himself through the heart.—A Coroner's In-
fiuest was held on the body, when evidence was adduced, prov--
. mg the deceased's mind was occupied with some overwhelming
passion, and that he labOured under a general debility of spirits.
The Jury therefore returned a-verdict of " Insanity."
" Another Inquest was held on Saturday night, at the White
Horse, Carnaby-market, before the Coroner for Westminster,
on the body of James Flynn. The deceased was a young man,
in the employment of the East India Company, and resided
with his father at No. 3, Marlborough-row, Regent.street.—
About a fortnight -ago an alteration in his temper and beha-
viour wag first observed, and subsequently his feelings were
continually in. an alarming state of excitement. On Thursday
last he came home and complained of a rain in his head ; he
then went to his bed-room ; his father, who came home about 8
o'clock in" the evening, went to see the state of his son. On
entering the bed-room, he called to him—inquiring after his
health, and received no answer. It being dark, he put out his
hands, and felt his son reclining on the bed ; he shook him,
and his hands became dyed with gore, and he found that the
deceased was stiff and cold. An alarm was instantly made,
and a light being brought, it was discovered that the deceased
had cia a deep wound in his throat with a razor, and he had
'bled to death.—The Jury returned -a Verdict of " Kilied
himself, being at the time in a state of insanity."
Another'lnquest was held at the Prince of tirunswich, Pen-
tonville, on James Barnwell. It appeared that on Thursday
last, the deceased and another man were -conducting a barge
through the tunnel of the Regent's Canal, and which they are
accustomed to do in the following manner :—A plank is placed
across the barge, and a man lays on his back at each end of
the plank, and moves the barge forward by pushing with his
feet against the sides of the tunnel. In performing this ser-
vice, the deceased and his companion slipped off the plank into
the water. The latter was however saved by the assistance of
a woman who was in the barge, but the deceased was drowned.
Verdict—" Accidental Death."

WANTON ACT Or VANIIALISM.—On Thursday,
the Bth instant, a party of sailors belonging to his Majesty's
cutter, Nimble, on the preventive service, then lying off the
Land's End, commanded by Lieutenant Goldsmith, came
on shore for the purpose of removing from its situation that
great natural curiosity the Logging (rocking) Stone; and
which object they were unfortunately enabled to accom-
plish. This mass' of granite which- is nearly one hundred
tons weight, was one of- those objects that excited the cu-
riosity of every visitor to the western part of Cornwall ;
it stood on the summit of a mass-of rocks, at the Land's End,
and was so poised on a natural pivot, that the force which
a man could exert was sufficient to cause it to vibrate.—.
ln this situation it remained from a period antecedent to
our authentic historic records, as it is noticed by our ear-
liest writers, until the barbarians above-mentioned, in sheer
wantonness, removed it from its place. This act of Vandalism
has excited the greatest indignation at Penzance, as it will in
every part of Cornwall, and throughout the kingdom. It ap-
pears that Lieutenant Goldsmith—we hope that he is not of the
family of the celebrated Natural Historian and Poet—who, in
an evil hour, was appointed to watch smugglers near the Land's
End, not finding the duties of that station sufficient to occupy
his attention, as a recreation for himself and his crew of idlers,
devised the overthrowing of the Logging-stone. He landed at
the head of 14 of his men, and with the assistance of hand-
spikes and a hand-screw, called by she sailors—Jack in the box
—with much labour and perseverance threw over the stone.—
We have no doubt that the' Admiralty and the Commissioners
of customs will mark their sense of the service performed by
Lieut. Goldsmith in the proper way ; and that, as to replace the
Logging-stone is beyond human power, they will give the per-
petrator of the outrage cause to remember the deed, which,
like that of the destroyer of the Temple of Diana, will carry
his name to posterity as a disgrace to his country and the ho-
nourable profession to which he unhappily belongs. What ren-
ders the act- most atrocious is, that two poor families, who
derived a subsistence from attending visitors to this stone, are
now deprived of the means of support._( West Briton.)

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.-Mrs. ADAMS,aII elderly
Lady, was burnt to death at her lodgings in Clarence-row' Port-
land-Street,. on Sunday evening. She was left sitting by the
fire-.reading while her niece was absent about a quarter of an
hour. The first alarm ,was occasioned by her shrieks, and on
the servant of the house entering the room the unfortunate old
Lady was in one blaze. The servant wrapped the hearth rug
about her, but her clothing was reduced to tinder. She died
yesterday niorriing, aged 76.

• An important addition to the public buildings
in Voric,Wiii-ithortly be made by.thc:erection of a Music-hall,
caPable, of accommodating 2,00 Persons,
,upon scale so mag-
nitrceilfirs to vie with-any other similar erection in 'Europe.