The Sun. — 1841-11-24 (London, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE IN A LUNATIC ASYLUM.—On Monday an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the Manor House Tavern, Lordship-road, Stoke Newington, on the body of Andrea Bardese, aged fiftyone, late superintendent of the Northumberland House Lunatic Asylum, who destroyed himself under the following circumstances :—Robert Parker, groom to ' Mr. Birkett, the proprietor of the establishment, deposed that the last time he saw the deceased alive was on Friday last, about noon ; he then appeared perfectly sane. About a quarter past eleven the same night he passed through deceased's sitting room, which he had to do for the purpose of reaching his sleeping apartment, and saw deceased lying on the floor in one corner, with his waistcoat on fire. He went up to him, and, on extinguishing the flames, found.blood flowing from a wound in his left breast. He raised an alarm, and Mr. Birkett, with Mr. Spencer, the medical gentleman of the establishment, came to his assistance, and pronounced life to be extinct. He searched the place, and in the wainscotting he found, firmly fixed by the butt, a rifle-barrel horse-pistol which had recently been fired, and immediately above where the deceased was lying. Mr. Spencer, the surgeon, said the deceased was quite dead when he saw him. On examining the wound; he found that the ball had entered the chest, perforating the lower lobe of the left lung, passed through the apex of the heart, and lodged in the left shoulder blade. He saw him on Thursday, when he was much depressed, and had no doubt of its being deceased's own act. Verdict—" Temporary insanity." SCARBOROUGH have°R U Gjus witnessed H9t Nioves.seld9a7 (Extract of a Letappalling accident, the fatal results of which are wholly, and without any abatement, owing to the criminal apathy and negli'colftkhisthtis niowno. After a stormy eight enc emorning, still a hard gale and a heavy sea, the wind 8.5. E., when a small g tohfer thee was,authorities at c e oe sloop, apparently of 25 or 30 tons, was descried making for the harbour. She had laboured through the waves till within a verr short distance (a few boats' lengths) of the pier, and of safety, when a heightened gust of wind and an enormous wave evorset her in an instant. Her crew, consisting of two men and a boy, held on as long as their strength in a tempestuous surge permitted. The was visible the latest, still holding 1 • poor boy up his hands as he sank. In a very short time they had all b disappeared. Had the life-boat el"ging to this place been in readiness every one of them could have been' saved. But it was twenty minutes after the accident before the lifeboat touched the waves ; and so honeless was then the effort that, after proceeding about half-way towards the spot where the already broken fragments of the vessel were floating, she returned back again. The fact is, that the life-boat, instead of being kept under a shed upon the pier, or slung alongside its inner wall (whence also, it could be lowered into smooth water, instead of being, as now, forced through the breakers), is kept in a building on the shore': It was about half-tide when this accident occurred ; and it was necessary to procure horses to draw the boat to the water's edge. But the greatest delay was occasioned by , want of men to man her. None are appointed for the service, nor is there any fund from which the labour of volunteers can be rewarded. The ill-fated vessel is said to have belonged to Boston, and to have been a regular trader between that place and Scarborough. Her cargo was corn and apples.