The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-16 00:00:00

DETERMINED SUICIDE.

On Saturday last, near midnight, a young man
named John Cardew, of the Strand, Hayle, whose
father was an Excise officer in that place, put an end
to his existence by cutting his throat with a razor.
Decease I was a sailor, and some months since he was
disabled from following his occupation by repeated
attacks of ill-health. Latterly, he suffered from
abscesses in the lungs, and the disease made such
inroads on his constitution that, for several days past,
he was compelled to sleep in an erect position, and
his family were hourly expecting that his disso-
lution would take place. On the night in question,
he requested some of his family who were in
the room to go down stairs, as he thought if he
were left in quietude he might fall asleep. They had
scarcely reached the passage below, when, to their
surprise, they heard him walk across the room, and
back to the chair in which they left him. Shortly
after they were startled by a dismal shriek. His
sister and others immediately ran to his room, and
when they entered it, he was sliding off the chair on
to the floor, his body and the table before him being
deluged with blood. They imagined that a blood-
vessel had burst in the lungs, but on looking on the
table they saw, to their horror, a razor covered with
blood, and on lifting the body, a frightful gash across
the throat.

On Monday an inquest was held on view of the
body, when, from the evidence given, it appeared
that deceased had repeatedly applied to the boards of
the Merchant Seamen's Fund at St. Ives and Fal-
mouth for relief ; but owing to some informality in a
certificate the board relief was refused, and that re-
fusal preyed so much on his mind that it never for-
sook him. The jury censured the conduct of the
boards for the loose manner in which the wants of
seamen were attended to, and were of opinion that
the disappointment experienced by deceased, added to
the weak state of his body, caused him to commit the
dreadful act; nevertheless they returned a verdict of
Temporary Insanity.—Devonport Independent.

TWEED FISHINGS.—During the week the fishing
stations below the bridge have continued to be very
productive. On Monday morning at the Carr-rock 120
fish were enclosed at a haul ; on Tuesday at Hallow-
stell, one of the stations near the mouth of the river, in
three successive hauls, 131, 80, and 50 were brought to
shore ; and at Outwaterstell 121 were taken at a haul.
The season for grilses is at present very promising.
The small quantity of water at present in the river pre-
vents the fish proceeding up any length ; they are
to be seen very plentifully sporting in the bay, and all
that is wanting to induce them to ascend the river in
greater numbers is more rain.—Berwick Advertiser.
THE IVEATIIER AND THE CROPS.—We have this
week had an opportunity of taking rather an extensive sur-
vey of the progress of of the crops in the West Riding
of York and the southern division of Lancashire. The
hay harvest in these districts has become very general. The
crops are extremely light, but not more than one- third an
average, and the meadows, both upland and by the sides of
the rivers, will afford but little employment for either the
mowers or the hay-makers. The oats are short in the straw,
and somewhat deficient in corn, but not nearly to the same
extent as in the dry summer of 1826, when commercial
and aggricultural distress was so prevalent. The potato
crop has failed in some parts of the country, but the
quality of this invaluable root will probably be generally
good, and free from that excessive moisture which is often
complained of in wet seasons. The turnip crop is unpro-
mising ; in many fields the seed has never germinated,
and in others the fly has been very destructive. Beans are
generally stunted in the straw, but tolerably well podded.
The wheat crop looks uncommonly well, and will, according
to present appearances, yield more than an average produce.
There is scarcely a field in this part of the country where it is
laid, there is no rust or mildew' and the verdant hue of the
ears and the straw is quite refreshing. This will be thought
extraordinary, seeing that in the months of March, April,
and May, there has only fallen one inch and a half of rain,
while in those three months, in an average of years, the quan-
tity is upwards of four inches. The corn harvest will, this
year, to present appearances, be two or three weeki earlier
than usual. This is generally a great advantage, from the
days remaining long and the sun powerful, and it may ac-
count for the depreciation in the price, in our principal
markets, of both the Michaelmas and Lent sown corn. There
has been some rain since Wednesday evening, but the land is
still thirsty, and there exists the strange anomaly for a
general wish for rain, among the farmers, in the midst of the
hay harvest, from a persuasion that it will do more good to
the other crops, and to the after grass, than it will do harm
to their scanty and easily secured crops of hay.—Leeds
Mercury.
EXHIBITION OF A LION AND LIONESS CUB BEFORE
THE COURT.—Mr. Van Amburgh, who had been exhibiting
his extraordinary feats with his collection of trained animals
in the Bachelor's-acre, at Windsor, since the preceding Mon-
day, had the honour of receiving her Majesty's commands to
attend at the Castle, on Thursday evening, for the purpose of
exhibiting before the Court two beautiful cubs, a lion and a
lioness, only a fortnight old, whelped during Mr. Van Am-
burgh's stay at Warminster, on the 26th ult. The period
appointed for Mr. Van Amburgh to be in attendance at the
Castle being the very time that he was engaged in the dens
of the wild animals at his exhibition in the Bachelor's-acre
(at which upwards of 1,500 persons were present). Mr. Wal-
latt, the " Re: Jocundi" of his establishment, had the honour
of submitting these two perfectly docile cubs for the inspec-
tion of her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince A:bert in
the Queen's drawing-room, where also were present her Royal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Countess Josephine Wra-
tislaw, Viscountess Jocelyn, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, the
Hon. Misses Liddell and Paget, the Earl of Morton, Capt. the
Hon. Nelson Hood, and the several members of the Royal
household. Her Majesty appeared to be much pleased with
the gambols and playfulness of the EXECUTION:
lion and lioness.
HORRIBLE SCENE AT AN EXECUTION.-011 the
Bth inst. Pierre Lescure, who was accused of the murder of
his father, but not brought to trial for want of sufficient evi-
dence, and who has since been condemned to death for making
away with his uncle, was executed at Riom (Puy. de-Dome).
The circumstances attending the execution were most horn
fying. Being a man of herculean strength, he was bound in
prison with an unusual weight of chains. It required at least
half an hour for the smiths to unrivet them. Lescure was
much weakened by his confinement, and assistance was
offered to him in walking to the scaffold, but he declined
it and went forward, and even ascended the ladder with
.a firm step. Fearing resistance the executioners of St.
Flour and Moulins were called in to aid the executioner of
Riom. When Lescure appeated on the platform, his tall
and athletic person towered above them and the priest who
attended him. Unfortunately he was not bound with suffi•
cient force to the swing-board, which also was too short for
his length, so that his neck went beyond the groove, and the
axe, when loosened, fell on the wood of the frame, and only
wounded its intendedvictim. Upon this the executioner from
St. Flour got astride on the head of Lescure, but the convict
struggled from the grasp, and, breaking his bands, rose
again, with his shoulders and breast covered with his blood,
his face flushed, and his eyes haggard, uttering cries that
struck terror to the heart of every spectator. The priest
approached the wretched man, and, presenting to him the
image of Christ on the cross, succeeded by his exhortations
in prevailing on him to again submit to be bound. Again
the axe fell, and again missed its mark, only enlarging the
first wound, Lescure's cries became still more astounding.
The people shouted with indignation, and pressing round the
scaffold, were on the point of overcoming the gendarmerie in
attendance, while the priest, whose surplice was covered
with blood, embraced and did all in his power to console and
calm the mutilated man. The three executioners were for a
time completely paralysed; but at last one of them mustered
resolution enough to fix the devoted head in a proper posi-
tion, and the axe, already stres.ming with blood, fell a third
time, and completed its task. The three executioners are, it
is said, to be dismissed from their offices.— Ga/ignani.
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