FATED FAMILY.--A poor old woman, aged eighty, was hurried to
death on Wednesday, last week, at Be-ness, Scotland. It is not a little singular, that the mother, sister, niece, and nephew of this woman, have all perished at various periods by the same means.
SINGULAR DEATII.—A little girl, named Rawnsilon, died lately, near Halifax, from eating a portion of a rotten egg which had been cooked and afterwards thrown away. Another little girl who tasted it was ex- tremely ill, but has since recovered. SUICIDES.—An unfortunate man, named Morrice Swancot, destroyed himself on Sunday last, by swallowing a quantity of vitriolic acid. Ile had been at one time a surgeon, but did not succeed in business. At the period of Isis death, he was shopman to a surgeon in Finsbury Square. His incoherent conduct had been on several occasions noticed by his master. • A young man named Marshall shot himself through the heart, on Tuesday night, in King Square.
A child of ten years of age, daughter of a man belonging to the Pre- ventive Service at Port Wrinkle, being ordered by her father, by way of punishment, to wear her ordinary clothes on the succeeding Sunday, swallowed a quantity of laudanum, and in a few hours expired.
The Dover mail, while on its way along Ludgate Hill, on Wednesday evening, came in contact with a man in a state of inebriety, and all the four horses ran over him, but, providentially, without hurting him, owing to the exertions of the coachman. READING WATER-WORKS.—A tank belonging to the Reading Wa- ter-works- Company, which- has been building for two years, was at- tempted to be filled on Monday ; but the pumps had not been worked for above a couple of hours, when, by a failure of the foundation, the tank burst. Considerable damage was done to Mr. Monk's lodge, which was flooded, and in which a child was nearly drowned. Hardly a brick in the tank is left in its place, and the whole must be takers down and rebuilt.
A large brig was lost off Mappleton during the gale on Sunday last. All hands perished. Crowds witnessed the catastrophe, but it was im- possible to render assistance.
Another steam-boat explosion has taken place in America on the North River. The vessel was old. Tens persons out of one hundred and seventy-three were severely scalded, and some of them are not expected to recover.
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