The Sun. — 1841-11-23 (London, England)

DETERMINED SUICIDE IN A LUNATIC ASTLUM.—Last evening 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 him Self 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 ha 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. 13irkett, 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-P ist 1 which had recently been fired, d immediately above where the deceased was ly.ing. Mran. Spencer, the surgeon, said the deceased was quite dead when he saw him. examining the wound, he found that the baltlhheaclieeftiitluerOnegnd, the chest, perforating the lower lobe of passed through the apex of the heart, and lodged in the left shoulder de blade. saw d, and had He him on Thursday, when he h presse no doubt of its being deceased'sTe,Tporary insanity." own act. Verdict—" ojfumistbiclitnaersesev,lc,lbao.Fiva,( SCARBOROUGH) Nov. Extract tof a tI, haveresults owing to the criminal :apathy, and negligenceppalling accident, Letter.)—nl and. without any of the authorities of this town. After a stormy night there was, at 10 o'clock this morning, still a hard gale and a heavy sea, the wind E.S.E when a smap sleep, apparently of 25 or 30 tons, was descried ing tor the harbour. She had laboured through thelengths) waves few boats' till within a very short distance (a of the pier, and of safety, when a heightened gust of wind and an enormous wave overact her in an instant. Her crew, consisting of two men and a boy, held on as long as their strength in a tempestuous surge pennitted. The poor boy was visible the latest, still holding up his hands as he sank. In a very short time they had all disappeared. Had the life-boat belonging to this place beets 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 hopeless was then the effort that, after proceeding about half-way towards the spot where the already bbraockkeangfisagp;n. meTnbtse offatchte ivse,sstehlawt etrheefl ft.nifo,asth, nrsettevaido. edodf being kept under a shed upon the pier, or slung el.ongsnt into It through its inner well (whence also it could be lowered i smooth watar, instead of beiag,as snow, forced the breakers), is kept in a building _ _ about ha!f-tide when .this accident mei!! eed ; and it was necessary to procure horses to draw the boat to the want of edge. to But mant the gherre.ateNstodneelaayrewaapspoochclats.?sdioin.oer. thedby service, nor is there any fund from which the labour of men 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.