The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-16 00:00:00

TIORRIBLE TRAGEDY.

The Courrier du Centre gives details of the murder and
mutilation at Limoges on the 21st June. A quarrel had
arisen at dinner between a man named 13oudineau
and his wife, in consequence of which the man, who
was trader the influence of drink, beat the woman
severely, and shortly afterwards lay down on the bed
and fell asleep. His wife, who had been brooding over the
ill treatment she was constantly undergoing, seeing her hus-
band in her power, procured a cold, and passing it round
his neck, strangled him. She then dragged the body to
the ground, and with a knife commenced cutting it to
pieces During the night she went and threw some of the
limbs on the A venue do Crucifix ; throughout the following
day the body remained in the room against the wall, con-
cealed by a screen, and the next night the woman deposited
the arm and a part of the bowels at Corgnac. As the re-
mains now began to decompose, she got apprehensive that
the smell might lead to discovery, and so took successively
the rest of the portions in open day, wrapped up in a black
cloth, and dropped them in different environs of the town.
The head she concealed in the chimney for five days, and
the n being forced to remove it from its state of putridity,
*hick infected the roorr, she placed it in the dry ditch near
the Rue Encombo-Vincuse, where it was afterwards found.
Tho women since her arrest has been taken to the house
and there repeated her confession, describing with hotTible
cynicism the manner in which she had cut up the body and
disposed of it.

The farmers of Surrey are threatened with some
iuconvenience in their harvest operatious, the labourers
having resolved to strike on farms on which Irishmen may
be employed in the mowing or reaping of corn, thus fol-
lowing the course adopted in the counties of Hants and
Berks last year. The price paid for reaping and tying up
of wheat has consequently gone up from 10s. to 14s. an
acre to 16s. and 18s.—a substantial difference.
ST. SWITHIN'S DAY.—The fallacy of the popular
notion respecting the forty days' rain that is supposed to
follow a rainy St. Swithin's Day has been demonstrated
by observations taken at Greenwich during a period of
twenty years, which shew that the greatest number of
rainy days, after St. Swithin's Day, have taken ilace
when the 15th of July was dry. In 1845, when the day
was fine, there were 2G rainy days out of the allotted 40 ;
in 1848 there were 31 ; and iu 1860, 29 ; and both for the
public health and the country's good it is hoped that the
result of 1863 may prove the reverse to the old a•lage.

DISCOVERY OF HumAN SKELETONS .—ln the
course of alterations that are being made at the Times
office, Blackfriars, which necessitate a considerable
excavation below the original surface, one of the work-
men, on Wednesday morning, struck against a hard hollow
substance, which on examination proved to be a human
al tll. In the course of the morning two snore skulls and
the greater part of the bones of three bodies were found.
Each had evidently been there for a very long period,
though in a good state of preservation. One appears to
be the skull of a young man, the teeth still remaining
fixed in the jaw ; the others are slightly broken. There
is little doubt that the present site, where the noise of
printing machinery rarely ceases, and the printing and
publishing of the Times paper renders it ono of the buSy
places of I..oadon, was once that of the quiet monastery of
131 v kiriars, and that the bones discovered on Wed3ieaday
are the re,mAinN of some of its inmates which had re-
mit:lel there for centuries, in NI hat w *o tie.o on.
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