The Sun.
London, England, 1829-06-30 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL.

SUNDAY, JUNE 25.--High water twenty minutes
past n;ne o'clock.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived the Feronia,
Mundy, from Port Medway ; Cornhill, Florence, front
Newfoundland ; James, Cunningham, from -Faro ; RetAy,
Howell, from Rotterdam; Pomona, Dennison, from Sierra
Leone.

CLEARED OUTWARDS.--The Medway, Wright; for
New South Wales ; Amelia, Pott, for Buenos Ayres ;
Wm. Wise, Winder, for St. Petersburgh ; Hero, Jolly,
for Gibraltar; Diana, -, for Quebec ; Ardent, Turn_
man, for Philadelphia ; Governor Douglas, Robinson, for
Maranham.

Off Holyhead, inward hound, the Home, from New
Orleans ; Planter, from Antigua ; and Hopp, -, h out
New Orleans.

The Americans have published an English
Dictionary containing 70,000 words, which is 12,000
more than is contained in the last edition of Johnson.

" It is an ill wind that blows nobody good ;"
in proof of which it is said that, owing to the deploy able
day on which the Horticultural Fete took place, a party
went down to the Gardens with a speculation in ladies'
clogs, of which they sold no lisi than 1,100 pair.
A water-wagtail performed a singular freak this
season at the house which is building at Golluthie : unio_
tisnidated by the passing and repassing of masons and
their labourers, the din of mallets, chisels, and lrunmers,
and the chippings of stones, the little animal built itself a
neat in a small vacant space imraediately betwixt the
planks of the scaffolding and one of its supports—laid its
eggs, and performed all the. necessary operations of incu-
bation ; and when it was necessary to remove the scaffold-
ing, the workmen, as a reward for thcvonfidence it had
placed in them, lett some short piedes of ro shield
its young brood until they should be fully 4,41/4,4; and
ere this time the " mat will be flown."---Fite Merald.

MURDER AND ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.

It is our painful duty this day to record the par-
ticulars of as atrocious a murder, committed in the
vicinity of the metropolis as has occurred for a
series of years. At an early hour yesterday morn-
ing a report was circulated throughout Blackheath,
Greenwich, and Deptford, that a man named Joseph
Lambourn had murdered his wife, Who was living
servant at Mr. Davidson's, landlord of the York-
shire Grey Inn, at the foot of Blackheath-hill. Se-
veral residents of the above neighbourhood, hearing
what had taken place, quickly repaired to Mr. Da-
vidson's house, when, on entering the kitchen, the
lifeless body of a female, named Maria Lambourn,
presented itself to the beholders. The body of the
unfortunate woman was lying on the floor with the
head nearly separated from the trunk, to which it ad-
hered only by a small piece of flesh at the back of
the neck. There were several cuts on the cheeks,
and also on the arms, particularly on the right one,
which had a wound on it nearly six inches in length.
The floor of the kitchen was literally inundated with
blood from the wounds on the deceased, together
with a quantity which also flowed from a 'gash that
appeared on the throat of Joseph Lambourn, the hus-
band, who was discovered lying beside his wife, and
who it seemed, after having murdered her, had
AtteTqted to destroy himself by cutting his throat,
When the surprise and horror which such a dread-
ful spectacle was calculated to inspire in the minds
of those who first beheld it had in some manner
subsided, the knife which the wounded man still
held firmly in his grasp was wrested from his hands,
and he was forthwith conveyed into another apart-
ment in the house, and medical assistance sent for.
I,:n the interval he thrust the fingers of one of his
hands into the wound he inflicted on his neck, and
tried to tear it open, and no doubt would have suc-
ceeded in destroying himself, bad he not been pre-
vented 11 several persons who held him. On the
assival of the surgeon be found the unfortunate
woman beyond the power of all human aid. The
wounded man, however, who was then not consi-
dered in imminent danger, was enabled to articulate
when the wound was stressed, and on the way to
Guy's Hospital, where he was ordered to be con-
veyed, he scarcely opened his lips during the whole
way from Blackheath. From subsequent inquiries
made by our Reporter, it was ascertained that no
person was present when the circumstances that
previously occurred between Lambourn and his
wife took place, and which terminated in the truly
shocking manner above described. It seems that
Lambourn and the deceased, who had been married
to each other about two years, lived very unhappily
together, he being of a morose and violent temper.
In consequence of his ill-treatment of her at various
times, she left and went into service, and
since then 'tie has frequently called where she
was living and ill-used and abused her.—
Ori;:ng to a beating that he gave the deceased at
OAO commencement of this month, she went before
the Magistrates of Greenwich, and took out a war-
rant against him, which, however, was not executed,
as the person against whom it was issued left the
neighbourhood, and went down to work in Oxford-
shire. Since he absented himself from Blackheath
his wife has been living at the Yorkshire Grey,
where she has conducted herself with great pro-
priety, and was considered by her employers as a
quiet, inoffensive woman. Mr. Carttar, the Coroner
for Kent, having been made acquainted with the
dreadful nature of the case, immediately issued his
summons for a Jury to investigate the affair.