The Sun. — 1847-03-22 (London, England)

JETEEMINED ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.—At an early hour on Thursday morning, a constable on duty at Horton stopped a man who was hurrying along endeavour. ing to conceal a large bundle he was carrying, and, suspecting it was the produce of some robbery, he conveyed the man toof the Robert-street station. There the man gave the name Smith, but refused to tell his residence or how he becamee possessed of the bundle, which contained a quantity of workmen's tools, two glazier's diamonds, and several coats; it was, however, shortly afterwards ascertained that a house in the New North-road had been broken into by cutting a pane out of one of the windows. and articles of that description carried away by the thief or thieves, and the prisoner was therefore locked up in one of the cells at the rear. His person was searched previous to his being placed in the cell, and everything in his possession, as it was believed taken from him; but ten minutes had scarcely elapsed after he was lodged there, when a man who was confined with him saw him stoop down over the watercloset, and, not seeing him afterwards move, thought something had happened to him and went to his assistance, when he was horrified at finding the blood pouring in a stream from a frightful wound in his throat, which he had cut completely across with a knife he had secreted. An alarm was raised by the other prisoner, and Messrs. Coward and Amsden, two surgeons, were instantly sent for, who dressed the wound, which they pronounced of a very dangerous description, and ordered the man's immediate removal to the hospital. A cab was, therefore, procured, and the unfortunate man placed inside it, with a constable on the box to watch him and render assistance; but the vehicle had only proceeded as far as Chartstreet, and was going at a very rapid rate, when the prisoner was seen to leap out of it, and, with a desperate energy that V'" marvellous in his weak and exhausted condition, dash down one of the by-streets, through which and three others he succeeded iii running before he was re-captured in a fainting state. He was again placed in the cab and driven to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where, at the time of the last inquiries by the police, he was pronounced to be in imminent dayer, aria but Re E very small hopes entertained of his recovery. ..4tCaor ME.mr.—A correspondent of the DroghetiaT regret to learn that severa of l Saturday writes as follows :—" I ploughing farmers in this district have a necessity for fields of wheat; indeed I saw some fields, which after the platanost and snow had a healthy pearance, ploughed u ,?ulared for the reception of' barley or oats. The kind of ladPnr gowltioich the failure is most prevalent is under lees, and, stran is itshdoteisciri ti description of ground did remarkably well last year.saYlt, maw, th the centipede kind of insect is luting th plant—probably g at Pe'le or wireworin : be it what it at of the county Me e crop Is suffering very much. In ath, and also in o fields, and only a few of which, I visited within the last fe days,Pr lions of Louth, I saw a great many indifferent- looking_ what may be called good ones. I consider,ai when we have a change from the present scorching weather, that the wheat crop will prove better than farmers imagine. fi❑ Thursday last, while the men making excavations betwixt shafts Nos. 2 and 3 in the railway tunnel, near Perth, were thefiringy found a block of superincumbent rock, about forty tons in weight, had fallen from above, in the spot where they were working but half a minute before. Having examined the place from wine' it fell, they found that a slight stroke of the hammer would have brought it to the ground, and that their escape was providential,—Eclinburgh Weekly itegieter.  - - -