23 OCTOBER 1852, Page 8

Gosling, or Gurling as his name is now called, the

man who was killed by the bite of the cobra at the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens, had, accord- ing to the evidence'of his fellow-servants, been spending the night in com- pany with a friend who was going to Australia, and afterwards at a public- house in Shoe Lane. He was therefore much excited by the gin and beer he. had drunk, and is said to have handled the snakes under the impression that they would not bite him. At the Coroner's inquest which sat yesterday, the Jury found that Gurling "had lost his life by the bite of a serpent known as the cobra di capello, when in a state' of intoxication, and in conseqiienee of his own rashness and indiscretion."