The Sun.
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TtiE SCN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 28, 1845.

tion with Emile, to Lamberti's great an-
noyance. Madame Delbois (Mademoiselle Mery),
the sister of Emile, arrives, and then the tables are
turned, and Madame Jurigney is quite as much an-
noyed at the attentions which Larnberti pays to
Madame Delbois. At length, however, Lamberti
repents him of his peccadilloes, declares his intention
of quitting France for ever, and is of course forgiven
by his wife, and received with open arms. Made-
moiselle Nathalie, as Madame Jurigney, made a great
deal of a part which in other hands would have been
comparatively insignifinant. She looked and acted the
pretty widow admirably ; while M. Lafont, as Lamberti,
was the very beau ideal of un homme u bonne fortunes.
The comedy of Pierre le Rouge is in the three epochs.
The first epoch is in 1788, and the scene is laid in the
country village of Mentdragon. Pierre le Rouge
(M. Lafont) is the mauvais sujet of the village—a sort
of French Will Fern—warm-hearted and generous,
but coarse and brutal, because ignorant. Pierre le
Rouge is a poacher. No wonder, then, that he is
hated and persecuted by the Marquis d'Entraigues,
the Seigneur of the village—no wonder that his so.
ciety is scarcely tolerated by Madre, (M. Tourillon),
the respectable village miller. Pierre, however, has
a heart, and that heart he has bestowed on the pretty
Jeanneton (Mademoiselle Nathalie), the coquette of
the village. It is the feast of the Rosiere—it is the
height of Jeanneton's ambition to be La Rosiere; the
Marquis promises not only to make her Ro-
siere, but to give her a handsome esta-
blishment in Paris if she will comply with
his wishes. The temptation is too great to be
resisted—the fickle Jeanneton falls. The pro
cession of the Rosiere takes place. In the frenzy of
jealousy Pierre rushes upon her, snatches the wreath
from her brow, and tramples on it. The indignant
villagers rush upon him. He seizes a flail to defend
himsele—he strikes one of the villagers with it, kills
him, and makes his escape. The scene of the second
act is laid in Paris in 1798. Jeanneton, as
the Citoyenne Cornelie, is the admired of
all admirers, and the reigning- beauty at the
quasi Court of Barras. The Director, Pierre le
Rouge, who has educated himself, is, as Citizen
Quissac, a man of immense wealth and considerable
shrewdness, but of very vulgar manners. He dresses
in the extreme of the mode, and is exactly the beau of
the period of the Revolution. Cornelie has continued
faithful to the Marquis ; and now that, as a ci-devant
noble, he is proscribed and hunted down, she gives
him refuge in her hotel. Quissac is introduced to
her, recognises her, and renews his suit. She
refuses him. The guard enter to search for
the Marquis, and with the presence of mind
of a loving woman, she throws herself into the
arms of Pierre, calling him her dear Marquis. He is
arrested, but the Marquis, who from his concealment
has heard all, advances and surrenders himself.
Cornelie drives off to Barras, to endeavour to obtain
his pardon ; and Quissac, who is involved in the
plot of Collot d'Herbois, is attested, and sent off to
Cayenne. In the third act we find ourselves at
Montdragon, in the year 1818 ; Pierre, decorated
with the Legion of Honour, is a Count of the
Empire, and has purchased the chateau. He
has adopted Justine Rambeau, the grand-
daughter of the man whom, forty years before,
he had unfortunately killed. Every year he had
transmitted to Madre large sums of money for sup-
port of the Raimbeau family, the greater portion of
which Raimbeau had purloined. The Marquise
d'Entragues arrives, and desires to purchase' what she
calls the castle of her ancestors. She is introduced to
the Count, who at once recognises Jeanneton. It
appears she had saved the Marquis's life, and he, out
of gratitude, had married her. He is, however, now
dead, and the airs of nobility of Madame la Marquise are
most amusing. She looks with the most perfectly well-
bred stare of disdain atthe barrack Count of the Empire,
as she calls Pierre, and talks about her ancestors in
the most amusing manner. Pierre, however, at
length forces her to recognise him, and Madre, who
subsequently enters, recognises him also. Pierre
has, in the meantime, heard of the villany
of Madre, who, when accused of it, threatens
Pierre with exposure ; Pierre siezes the hypocritical
old rascal by the throat, and is on the point
of strangling him, when he is prevented by the
arrival of Jeanneton and Justine. Ere assembles the
villagers together, declares that he is Pierre le Rouge,
and exposes the villany of Madre, who, out of
revenge, is on the point of proclaiming the low origin
of Madame ; he is, however, stopped by Pierre, and
the old rascal is turned out of the village ; while the
lovers of 1788, Pierre and Jeanneton, are united
in 1818, as M le Comte and Madame la Mar-
quise. The acting of Lafont in Pierre le Rouge
was perfect. The character gives him ample
opportunity of exhibiting the great versatility of his
talents, and he knew how to avail himself of it to the
utmost. Whether as the poacher, the vulgar fop, or
the gentlemanly old Count, he was equally admirable.
Mademoiselle Nathalie, too, was excellent ; nothing
could exceed the naivete of her village co-
quette, the elegance of her grande dame, and the
rich affectation of her Marquise of the Restora-
tion. They were both called for at the conclusion
of the performances, and will no doubt become as
great favourites in London as they are already in
Paris. The house was well and fashionably attended.

revenge. She raises her piece, fires at the hus-
band, and he receives a musket wound. The act
is not, however, unrbserved. Jack Gong (Mr. Paul
Bedford) and Muster Grinnidge (proprietor of a
travelling caravan) have gone out to America to
procure Indians for exhibition in England ; in their
rambles they become witnesses of this tragical deed
Miami is dragged to the spot, and receives the dying
injunction of her injurer not
,to visit his offence upon
Geraldine. When he dies, she precipitates herself
into the river, but is saved by a party of French
officers, who happen to be passing at the time on a
raft, and is by them conveyed to England. Before
quitting America, it is necessary to do justice to Jack
Gong and Muster Grinnidge, whose amusing perform-
ance forms a happy relief to the excitement of the plot.
In the third act, which brings us again to Ireland,
Miami reappears as Madame St. Aubert. The daugh-
ter of Geraldine comes, in a singular manner, under
her protection, having been previously purloined from
Nelly O'Neil, foster-sister to Geraldine, by Wild
Murtogh, now become the agent of George °lien-
nedy. Geraldine returns to Ireland, where she finds
the child with the former huntress ; George repents his
conduct ; and Wild Murtogh, his villanous agent,
is arrested on a charge of horse-stealing. The de-
nouement exhibits the death of Madame St. Aubert,
who consoles herself for causing the death of Connor
O'Kennedy by the reflection that she has fulfilled his
dying request, and by making over her estates in
France to the widow. 'The success of the piece was
complete, and the audience, at the conclusion,
crowned their approbation by loud calls both for the
actors and the author, who, on presenting themselves,
were rapturously arplauded. The Corporal's Wed-
ding followed, and The Chimes concluded the
performance.

LYCEUM THEATRE.—This theatre, under the clever
management of Mrs. Keeley, continues to be visited by
fashionable and crowded audience s, the new grand
extravaganza of Valer,Cne and Orson, with its corps of
female warriors, who go through their evolutions very
cleverly, being nightly received with unbounded applause.

DUTIES ON BALTIC DEALS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—Your Correspondent of the 22d instant labours
under a mistake, when he says that the duties on Baltic
deals, exceeding twenty-one feet in length, is less in
pr •portion than on short lengths, because the duties are
now charged on the cubic contents, whatever may be the
dimensions. Formerly the duties were levied on under
six teet, under sixteen feet, and under twenty-one feet—
the duties amounting to a prohibition on anything above
twenty one feet.
The present method of measurement is, however, pre-
judicial to the Baltic importers. The deals or battens are
piled, and the duty is calculated on the cubic contents of
the pile, no allowance being made for the loss arising
from the deals not lying perfectly close together. The
other day 98 loads, 45 feet of 3 by 11-inch, were mea-
sured by the Custom-house, 103 loads, 29 feet, and 163
loads, 5 feet 2 by 7-inch, were measured by the Custom-
house, 179 loads 23 feet. These differences are serious
on the original cost.—l am, iFec.,
Liverpool, Jan. 25, 1845.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERDAY.
CHESTER CUP.
14 to 1 agst Mr. Jaques's Semiseria—taken
18 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Cataraot—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. A. Johnstone's Obscurity—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Bell's Winesour
30 to 1 agst Mr. Parry's Zanoni
30 to 1 agst Mr. 11. Stebbing's Celeste—taken
40 to 1 agst Sir R. Bulkeley's Hemp—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Hutchinson's Extempore—taken
40 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Pug—taken
40 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Clumsy—taken
40 to 1 agst Mr. Gully's St. Lawrence—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Collett's Corranna—taken
50 to 1 apt Mr. Osbaldeston's Sorella—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Pride of Kildare—taken
50 to 1 agrt Mr. A. Johnstone's The Era—taken
50 to 1 agst Mr. Cuthbert's Queen of Tyne
50 to I agst Mr. Coleman's Dvvil's Dust
50 to 1 agst Mr. Davies's Emun ac Knuck
50 to 1 agst Mr. Heap's Stayley
100 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Milton—taken
100 to 1 agst Mr. Plummer's Alice Hawthorn
100 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Foigh-a-ballagh.
The betting against several of the horses incladed in
the above list was uncommonly spirited, and in some in-
stances at a considerable improvement on the prices last
reported. Semiseria was in immense force, and strong
commissions were out in favour of Obscurity, The Era,
Celeste, St. Lawrence, and Extempore, very few of
which were executed to the full extent. Cataract was
backed, but not heavily, at a trifling improvement, and
the odds quoted against Corranna, Pride of Kildare, and
Sorella, were taken to 1001. each. Winesour's price was
nominal.

DERBY.
13 to 1 apt Mr. Greyille s Alarm—taken
13 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Cobweb colt—taken
16 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Kudger
16 to 1 agst Lord Stradbruke's Idas
18 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Pam
25 to 1 agst Mr. Johnstone's Annandale—taken
30 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Newsmonger—taken
31 to 1 agst Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip colt—taken
35 to 1 agst Mr. St. Paul's c out of Calypso's dam
40 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Laird o' Cockpen
—taken
40 to I agst Mr. Irwin's Connaught Ranger—taken
50 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Lycurgus
50 to I agst Mr. Lintott's Cabin Boy—taken and
afterwards offered
50 to 1 agst Mr. Coleman's Young Eclipse—taken
66 to 1117 st Mr. Coleman's Fusbos— taken 6,000 to 90
500 even between Alarm and the Cobweb colt, and

600 to 500 on Alarm agst Idas.
The grand, and in fact the only, movement, was on the
Cobweb colt, who came into strong play just before the
room closed, was backed at 13 to 1 outright, and for 500
even against Alarm, whose supporters (at 13 to 1) were
numerous. The betting against other favourites threw
out nothing frehh.

OAKS.
7 to 1 apt Mr. Worthington's Lancashire Witch—t.

16 to 1 agst Lord G. Beniinek's Longitude—taken

20 to 1 agst Lord G. Beutinck's Miss Elis—taken.
The layers of the first and last of the three refused to
go on.

INTELLIGENCE EXTRA—BATH, 1845.
Handicap for the Somersetshire Stakes. Declare on

Saturday.
Foig-a-Ballagh, 4 yrs, 9st 91b—Corranna, 6 yrs, 9st 41b
—Newcourt, 5 yrs, 9st 11b—Counsellor, 6 yrs, Bst 131b—
St. Lawrence, aged, Bst 101b—Una, aged, Bst 101b—Ben-
y-Ghlo, 5 yrs, Bst 91b—Mickey Free, 5 yrs, Bst 71b—
Lothario, 5 yrs, Bst 71b—Red Deer, 4 yrs, Bst 71b—Vi-
tellius, 5 yrs, Bst 6 tb—Morpeth, 4 yrs, Bst 51b— Semi-
seria, 5 yrs, Bst 51b—John o'Gaunt, aged, Bst 41b—So-
rella, 4 yrs, Bst 41b—Discord, aged, Bst 21b—Cataract,
5 yrs, Bst lib—Orion, 5 yrs, Bst 114--What, 5 yrs, Bst
—Ajax, aged, ist 121b—Jack Sheppard, aged, 7st 121 b
—Naworth, aged, 7st 101b—Greenfinch, aged, ist 101 b
—Pride of Kildare, 4 yrs, 7st 61b—Captain Flathooker,
6 yrs, ist 61b—Play fellow, 6 yrs, 7st 61b—The Dean,
aged, ist 51b—Teetotaller, 6 yrs, 7s 51b—The Artful
Dodger, 6 yrs, 7st 41b—The Devil-among-the- Tailors,
6 yrs, 7st 41b—Fausta, aged, 7st 41b—Pharaoh, 5 yrs,
7st 31b—Foxberry, 6 yrs, 7st 31b—Barricade, 4 yrs,
7st 21b Roderick, 6 yrs, 7st 21b Croton Oil,
4 yrs, 7st 21b Emerald, 4 yrs, ist 21b All-
round-my-Hat, 4 yrs, ist Ilb Lochinvar, 5 yrs,
7st—ldluness, 4 yrs, Est 131b—Jane, 4 yrs, 6st 131 b
T'Auld Squire, 4 yrs, 6st 131 b Emun ac
Knuck, 4 yrs, Est 131b—Ninety-one, 4 yrs, 6st 131b—
Seaport, 4 yrs, fist 131b—Corodino, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b
Europa, 5 yrs, 6st 1 lib—Surety, 4 yrs, Est 101b—Strath-
spey, 4 yrs, Est 101b—Subduer, 5 yrs, 6st 101 b
Glendower, 5 yrs, 6st 101b—Obscurity, 4 yrs, Est 101 b
—Coal Black Rose, 4 yrs, 6st 91b—Pugilist, 4 yrs,
fist 81b—Discount, aged, Est 71h—Vates, 4 yrs,
6st 71b—Seaweed, 4 yrs, 6st 61b—Mimic, aged, 6st 61b
—Delightful colt, 4 yrs, Oat 61b—Agriculture, 5
yrs, Est 51h—Aurungzebe, 6 yrs, 6st 51b—Comet,
5 yrs, 6st 41b—Turquoise colt, 4 yrs, Est 41b—Temerity,
5 yrs, 6st 31b—Ould Ireland, 3 yrs, Est—Clumsy, 3 yrs,
Sat 131h—Sweetmeat, 3 yrs, sst 131b—Eclogue, 4 yrs,
sst 131b—Miss Eli.s, 3 yrs, sst 121b—Zelinda filly, 4 yrs,
bat 71b—Busk gelding, 4 yrs, sst 71b—Midnight Star,
4 yrs, sst 71b—Bastion, 3 yrs, sst 61h—Pug, 3 yrs,
sst 51b—The Hermit, 3 yrs, sst 41h—Velox, 3 yrs, sst 41b
—Cabin Boy, 3 yrs, sst 416—Plenitude, 3 yrs, sst 11b—
Secutor, 3 yrs, sst 11b—Giantess, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b-
- 3 yrs, 4st 121b—VVild Roe, 3 yrs, 4st 71b—
The Devil-among-the Tailors. 3 yrs, 4st 41b.

JAMES MATHESON, ESQ.. M.P.
FOR ASEIBURTON.

AN ADDRESS PRESENTED TO JAMES MATHESON,
ESQ., M.l'., WITH A SILVER SNUFF-BOX, BY
THE WORKING CLASSES OF THAT BOROUGHS
JAN. 23, 1845.

Sir, —As the representative of the working classes
in this town, we hail with pleasure your appearance
among us on this occasion. It affords us considerable
satisfaction to find that you and your estimable partner
are in the enjoyment of health. We avail ourselves
of this opportunity of assuring you how very highly
we appreciate your noble and generous conduct,
especially in reference to the inhabitants of this
borough. Probably, Sir, you are aware that when
your respected friend, our late valued Member, was
introduced to us, it was a period of unexampled com-
mercial distress. For many dreary months we and our
fellow operatives were entirely without employ. In pass-
ing ti e door of the weaver no cheerful sound of the
shuttle was heard, and in our factories and workshops
no joyous tongue gladdened our ears—gloom brooded
over the horizon, and despair spread its blighting in-
fluence over ourselves and our families. At this de-
pressing juncture our late representative was unex-
pectedly removed by death, and then, Sir, an auspi-
cious Providence directed us to you as his successor ;
and we cannot advert to this circumstance, without
giving utterance to the umningled pleasurable emotions
which have been excited. Y our introduction to us
resembled the rising of the sun in all its brilliance, after
a lengthened stormy night ; your liberal interference on
our behalf, and your kind and seasonable attention
to our interest, have dispelled our sadness, and
substituted cheerfulness and comfort. Constrained
Sir, by a sense of obligation, we, the working classes,
have wished to offer some small, yet lasting token of
the genuineness and ardour of our gratitude. We
exult in the prompt and willing effort that has been
made by upwards of 2,000 persons from among us,
by subscribing a penny each to procure for you a
silver snuff .box; which we now humbly tender for
your acceptance. Receive it Sir, as the thankful
tribute of numbers whose poverty and suffering have
been alleviated by your seasonable kindness; our
wives and families share with us in the gratification
of expressing to you our warmest thank-
fulness. May the Great Supreme Being
long spare your valuable life to repent your personal
visits among us, which will always delight us, and
may you prove the happy instrument in reviving the
trade of our town. We cannot, Sir, close our address
without alluding to your annual gifts to the public
institutions of this place ; and also to the liberal sums
which you have so generously caused to be distributed
among the poor. Our ardent wish is, that Heaven
may grant you real happiness below, and everlasting
hglory hn
gye roeua fftoerr . 0 u
rl\r' ee
peroens
es indteart ourselvesr
aomn oe un rt e; d in
and
without venturing to dictate, allow us humbly and
earnestly to solicit you to sanction all measures bearing
on " free trade," persuaded as we are, that it is only by
completely unfettering our commerce that the indus-
trious classes will have sufficient employment, and a pro-
per remuneration for their labour, whilst the prosperity
of our country is promoted, and the welfare of man-
kind established. In conclusion, permit us to state,
that with the presentation of this humble testimonial
of our unfeigned respect, we would add our fervent
wishes, that the Divine Providence who has so long
shielded your life in distant climes, may spare you
and your amiable partner many, many years.
Be assured, Sir, in your personal and social happi-
ness we shall always feel most deeply interested.
The grateful working classes and others, with their
children, will ever rejoice in alluding to the name of
Matheson.—We are, Sir, yours most gratefully,
(Signed on behalf of the Committee)
HENRY MEERS, Chairman.
Ashburton, Jan. 23, 1845.

numbers of the convicts sent to our penal settlements
abroad. For these evils, education, intellectual,
moral and religious, with training to habits and
practices as well as professions of good, will be
found the most effeetual cure. A cultivated in-
tellect and well trained habits; an industrious, sober,
moral, and religious life, cannot fail to advance a man
however humble his origin to a higher station in so-
ciety, making him at the same time happier in himself,
more useful to his fellow-citizens, a better husband,
a better father, and a better friend. In this ancient
borough you are happily well provided with the
means of education, and to the good use you have
made of them are to be attributed the estimable
qualities which characterise its inhabitants. How
fervently is it to be desired that the whole country
should be as well provided as you are in this respect.
Right views on subjects of general polity would in
such event be more generally diffused, and the pro-
gress of Legislative improvement would not be re-
tarded by interested motives and delusive representa-
tions such as tended to overthrow the late Liberal
Ministry, to whom the countay is indebted for so
many important ameliorations of our institutions
and social position. Of these none is more remark-
able than the deference shown by the Government to
public opinion when constitutionally expressed, which
prevents their forcing on bad raeasurss, however
strongly backed by a subservient House of Commons.
Equally remarkable is it that the Conservative Go-
vernment feels itself (as the only mode of retaining
power) compelled to dole out piecemeal, and against
the wishes of its adherents, portions of the very mea-
sures on which they had ousted their predecessors
from power. Thus it is a consolation to reflect that
the force of public opinion is able to extract some in-
stalments of liberal measures even from Conservatives
and Tories. Cherish then these liberal principles,
and continue to set an example to other constituencies
of independence, of industry, and of orderly conduct,
and be assured that they can never fail to produce
goods fruits, both to yourselves and to your country.
I will not farther prolong my observations, except
to assure you, in conclusion, that I value molt highly
the testimonial you have been pleased to present to
me, and shall never cease to feel grateful for the flat-
tering terms in which you are pleased to advert in
your address to my past services in Parliament, and
in promoting the trade and welfare of your borough,
and that I shall do my utmost, in future, to continue
to deserve your good opinion and enjoy your confi-
dence.

DREADFUL ATTEMPT at MURDER
AND SUICIDE, BY AN INSANE MAN.

On Friday morning, between five and six o'clock, the
inhabitants of Deritend and Bordesley, Birmingham,
were thrown into a state of great excitement, in con-
sequence of an attempt made by Mr. Bunny, a carpenter,
to kill his wife and afterwards destroy himself. In the
summer of 1843 he conceived the notion that he had
been poisoned by some person, and could not live. The
result of this idea was a constant apprehension of death,
terminating in paroxysms, which rendered restraint
necessary, and he was accordingly removed to the
Lunatic Asylum at Sutton. After a few months he
came out apparently quite recovered, and resumed his
avocation. About three months ago, Mr. C. Walker,
of Round Hills, Aston, became possessed of the Rainbow
public-house. Some alterations being deemed neces-
sary in the premises, Mr. Bunny was employed to
make them: he became acquainted with the barmaid, an
interesting-looking and agreeable woman, named Sarah
Turner. He made an offer of marriage to Miss Turner,
and on Tuesday last they repaired, with their friends, to
Aston church, where they were married. They returned
to the Rainbow, and in the course of the following day
he was observed to be particularly gloomy. On Thursday
he complained of his head, and he and Mrs. Bunny re-
. .

tired to^ bed after supper, about twelve o'clock. About
half-past five in the morning, the servants and the per-
sons living in the adjoining houses were alarmed by tic)*
most awful shrieks and cries of murder. The servant-
man rushed up stairs, and hearing Mrs. Bunny
screaming for help, tried in vain to force open
the door. He then ran into the street, and pre-
sently Mrs. Bunny was seen at the bedroom window
calling for assistance. A ladder was immediately placed
against the window, and'Mr. Bunny made his appear-
ance, and descended into the street, half dressed, with
his throat eut and his person literally covered with blood.
He was conducted into the shop of Mr. Fletcher, within
a few doors of the Rainbow. Here his appearance and
conduct left no doubt of the state of his mind, and Mr.
Fletcher had him well secured, and then proceeded to
the house and upstairs to the bedroom door. This he
found securely fastened inside. When they got in, a
scene of the most horrifying description presented itself.
Mrs. Bunny was leaning against a side wall in her night
dress, which was saturated from top to bottom in
blood, flowing from a number of wounds in various
parts of her body. The bedclothes, curtains, and floor
equally presented a most frightful appearance. She
was immediately put into bed, and in a few minutes
Mr. Archer, surgeon, was in attendance, and on examin-
ing her person, he found not less than seven severe
wounds, which had been inflicted with a knife. The
poor woman's throat was dangerously cut. He imme-
diately rendered the necessary attendance. Ho then
visited the unfortunate husband, and found a wound upon
his throat, which he secured, and also some other cuts
of minor importance. lie was then removed to the
workhouse. During the drive the men had great dill
culty in keeping him in the car, and preventing him from
further injuring himielf. In the course of the day Mrs.
Bunny was so far recovered as to be able to state some
particulars of the unfortunate occurrence. It appears
that about five o'clock in the morning her husband g)t
out of bed hastily, and locked the door. By his doing
so she was awakened, and presently heard him say, " My
dear, we have lived together, we have loved together, and
we shall die together. He had no sooner uttered these
words, than he seized hold of her in the bed, cut her in
the throat, and began to stab her with a large clasp
pocket-knife in various parts of the body. She jumped
out of bed, screaming for help, and the impression on
her mind is that the unfortunate man became terrified,
and attempted to cut his own throat. It would seem,
however, that to the bluntness of the knife the salvation
of both their lives is attributable.