DEATH racial Dnowstissc.—On Wednesday, a respectable young gentleman, clerk to
Inglis and Co., Philpot Lane, was unfortunately drowned, while bathing in the Serpentine. It is supposed that he had been seized with cramp.
On Saturday night, the body of afemale, aged apparently abouttwenty- five years, was found floating in the Regent's Canal near the Albany tea-gardens.
NARROW EscsrE.— On Thursday, four children, by the roughness of the road and heedlessness of the boy who drove the Chaise, were tumbled into the Serpentine. Two of them were saved by their mother, who was close behind ; and the other two, in a very exhausted state, by a gentleman who happened to be passing. Six PERSONS DnOWNED IN A MINE.—Duringthe thunder-storm on Friday last, a dreadful accident occurred at Cwm Carno, in this county. Near to a small brook, that runs down the mountain-side, the workmen had bored an air-hole, for the purpose of ventilating the colliery below. From the heavy rain, the banks of the rivulet were completely covered, and thousands of tons of water poured irresistibly down this air-pipe. There were in the level at the time six men and a female : one man con. trived to make his escape to the mouth of the level, and was extricated when the water had nearly reached his chin ; the remaining six per- sons met a -watery grave !—Cambrian. Loss OF BOATS in SHETLAND.—In the gales about the middle of last month, six fishing-boats were lost, with most of their crews, about
thirty persons.
' THE PACKET-SHIP BOSTON.—We mentioned the loss of this yes. eel in our second edition of last week. The folloWing additional, par& milers have since reached us. The vessel was struck by lightning on Tuesday, the 25th May, at eleven o'clock, P. M. in lat. 394 N., long. 63j W. In a few minutes it was discovered that the vessel was on fire fore and aft. The passengers and part of the crew were busily employed In endeavouring to extinguish the flames; but so rapid was their pro- gress, that before the long boat was got over the side, they had burst through the deck and left side of the ship. At three o'clock the main and mizen masts fell, the flames then raging on the forecastle, and soon 'after,' all over the ship. At half-past three, the whole of the crew and passengers were safely stowed in the boats. The latter consisted of Sir Isaac Coffin and his servant, Dr. W. Boag and his sister, Mr. N. M'Niel, and Mr. S. Osgood. The young lady, after conduct- ing herself in the hour of danger with much intrepidity, sunk under the combined influence of fatigue and cold, and died at eleven o'clock on Wednesday, in the arms of her brother. On the following day, the body was committed to the deep, the funeral service having been reverently read over it. The boats remained near the wreck until three o'clock of Thursday, when they were seen, and the crew and passengers taken on board, by the Ida, of Liverpool, bound for Halifax. They were after- wards transferred to a vessel bound to Boston. Sir Isaac Coffin pre- sented Captain Mackay, of the Boston, with five hundred dollars imme-
diately on landing, as a reward for cool and courageous conduct.
ALLEGED HYDROPHOBIA.—A man named Norton died this week at Hampstead, of a disease which the inquest jury pronounced to be hydrophobia. Like all similar cases, whether from the stupidity of the witnesses or of the reporters, the symptoms are most strangely de- scribed. It seems quite impossible to drive it into the heads of the public, that hydrophobia is not madndss ; and that barking like a dog, and bellowing like a bull (it was a bull-dog that bit the man), form no features of the disease. That the man was horribly bitten, there is no doubt. " Captain Lennox said the deceased had worked for 'him about two years. The deceased had stated to him that, as lie was sleeping in the barn about two months before, he felt a. weight on his body. He threw off the horsecloth which was over his head, and the dog seized him just above the eye. He lay down again, and covered his head with the horse-cloth ; but finding that one must perish, he rose up, and com- menced a combat with the dog. They struggled for upwards of half an hour, and the deceased was nearly overpowered ; when, by a fortunate blow with a pitchfork, he struck the prongs through its head, and killed the animal. His head and various parts of his body were dreadfully lacerated ; and he was so exhausted that he was unable to get out of the barn to have his wounds dressed. The attack was made about five o'clock in the morning ; and he lay in the barn until witness, at eleven o'clock, sent to know if any thing had happened to him."
Another case is reported by an Irish correspondent of a Morning Paper, of a more revolting nature. The sufferer was a young girl, who bad been bitten about a week before, while she was milking a cow. No remedy was applied. In a few days, the poor child presented symptoms of the fatal disease, or of one that was mistaken for it ; and, horrible to be told, she was smothered between two bedi, not by ignorant and officious strangers, but by her own father and mother ! This case is said to have taken place in the parish of Kilnelag, in Galway. We would fain hope it is not true.
EDGE TOOLS.—On Tuesday last week, Lieutenant G. B. Love and a Mr. Patmore, returning from a merry meeting of the tenants of Sir F. 'Barrington, at Hatfield Broad Oak, and passing a field of mown grass in their way towards the Baronet's mansion' the former, in a moment of wantonness, took hold of a scythe, and began cutting with it in a .very awkwanj, manner. Mr. Patmore had proceeded but a few steps, when Lieutenant Love called to him to return, as he had cut himself; and he requested Mr. Patmore to feel his thigh, from which the blood was at the time gushing in a frightful manner. Mr. Patmore, instead of instantly securing the bleeding artery by a ligature above the wound, ?ran off for a surgeon ; but before they got back to the spot, Lieutenant Love was a corpse. DEATH FROM A WAGGON.—Two boys were standing in the Borough Market, Southwark, on Saturday morning, when a waggon heavily laden jammed them both between a post and one of the wheels of the waggon. The stomach of one of the boys was completely flattened by the violence of the pressure, and his bowels protruded through the skin. Ile died before he reached the Hospital. The other lad was much braised, and particularly the thigh, yet no bones were either dislocated
• or broken.
FOUNDATION-LAYING.--At the ceremony of laying the foundation- stone of the new church at Todmnrden, on Tuesday last week, the stone meant to cover that in which the bottle, &c. were deposited, slipped and fell. It weighed a ton and a half; most fortunately it struck no one. A man who stood near was knocked by one of the suspension poles, but luckily he was not dangerously hurt, though considerably bruised.
ANOTHER LANDMARK GONE.—The tower of Whitby Abbey, the loftiest and noblest part of that venerable ruin, fell to the ground on the afternoon of Friday week, with a crash which was heard at a consider- able distance. It was 104 feet in height, and was supported by four lofty pillars ; one of which (that to the S.W.), having been for some time in a ruinous condition, is supposed to have given way, and occa- sioned the fall of the tower.—York Herald.
ACCIDENTAL HANGING.—Mr. Smith held an inquest on Wednesday morning, at Tallow Hill, on the body of Samuel Coombs, aged about ten years, who amused himself, while left alone at work, at trying the effect of hanging, _and. hung himself on a baluster of the stairs. The Jury brought in a verdict, that the deceased " wantonly and in play acciden- aally hanged himself.— Worcester Journal."
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