DEATH or Mn. FAVELL.—Mr. Favell had been in better health
lately than usual, and attended public worship three times on Sunday ; vas at Camden Chapel in the evening, went home, supped, and talked cheerfully with his family ; went to bed at half-past nine, and before ten vas seized with a stroke of apoplexy, and died in a moment.
Mn. HENRY GREEN, THE AERONAUT.—The Stamford News con- tained an account, the other day, of the appearance of this gentleman's /alloon without its director ; and serious fears were entertained for his safety in consequence. It has since been stated by Mr. Green, that an sccident happened to the valve, which caused the balloon to descend vith fearful rapidity, which was only checked by his cutting away the grappling and rope. He was, notwithstanding, compelled to drop him- self on the ridge of a house, whence he was taken, hurt somewhat, but tot seriously. FIRE.--On Friday night, last week, the house of Mr. Angerstein was discovered to be on fire, in the midst of an entertainment given to a party of the first rank. It was considerably injured before the flames nese got under, but happily the pictures and furniture received no damage. FIRE-DAMP.—An explosion of fire-damp took place in the coal-mines at Drumkavel, near Glasgow, on Thursday last week. Two men were killed, and several others hurt, but not dangerously. Fire-damp is not usual in mines of Scotch dial. DEATH AMONG TUE PRIZEFIGHTERS.—ShehOD, a pug,ilist of some notoriety, who kept a publichouse in Bishopsgate Street, poisoned him-
self the other day with a bottle of prussic acid. Ile had lost, it was
said, a considerable sum by betting. at Ascot, but the amount was not very accurately made out ; accieslinz to one story, it was 8004 accord- ing to another only 73/. The su:%;eon examined, not having opened the body, could nut speak very decidedly ti the fact of the ac.1; but this Jury did not participate in his doubts, and leapt to the conclusion with- out difficulty. A FATAL STEP—AS the son of a driver of one of Wheatley's Green- wich coaches, leaving the White hart Tavern on Wednesday night, was mounting the side of the coatth to take his seat on the roof, his foot slipped, and he fell between the wheels ; and before his father could pull up the horses, the hinder wheel passed over the boy's neck, and he was killed on the spot.
SHOOTING LONDON BRIDGE —J. Flowers, coxswain to the Funny Club, and J. Elliott, of Whitehall Stairs, were upset on Saturday after- noon in passing through London Bridge, oa their way to the Tower Stairs with the eight-eared funny, where some of the Club intended em- barking to dine at Greenwich. Flowers was with difficulty saved by some bargemen, who instantly put off to their assistance ; but Elliott was drowned.
Dnowstsfo.—On Wednesday night, the bisly of a female was found in the Regent Canal, near the .A.lbany tea-gardens. She was apparently about thirty-five years of age ; there was a desperate cut over the right eye.
Suerossamous HYDROPHOBIA.—The Wegtern Flying Post men- tions the death of a Captain Gillam of hydrophobia, on the 16th inst. It appears to be uncertain whether he was ever bit by a dog : the de- ceased, however, is said to have bit a barber employed to shave his head. We believe no intelligent surgeon ever ordered the heath of a hydrophobic patient to be shaved, and no man under the influence of that disease ever bit his barber before.
A NOT ER CAS E.—A little by died at Lisson Grove, a few days ago, who had been bit a short time previous by a dog behbnesing to a gentle- man named Pelhouse.- The surgeon said the boy died of hydrophobia, and a veterinary surgeon declared the dog was not mad I The Jury ordered it to lie hanged in three weeks, and in the mean time watched, to see if it were mad. We suppose, if it prove sane, they will reconsider their verdict.
USE OF A BEARD.—One of Johanna Soutlicot's disciples in Lanca- shire nearly lost his life lately, owing to his flowing beard being caught in the machinery of a cotton-mill.
Last week, a. poor lad, named William Fisher, who had come to-town from Edinburgh with a view to procure employment, was suffo. cated by incautiously falling asleep beside--sa brick-kiln near the Globe Road. He, and a companion who had walked, from Scotland with him, had recourse to the kiln to warm themselves and dry their clothes. DESTRUCTIVE ERUPTION OF MOUNT ./ErNa.—Letters from Sicily give the most deplorable details concerning the eruption of Mount )Ewa on the 16th of May. The terrible explosion, which opened seven new cra- ters in the volcano, destroyed eight villages near the mountain, where the lava and fire of the volcano had never before extended. All the dwellings have disappeared under heaps of calcined stones of reddish cin- ders, which the new openings of the mountain threw to a great distance over the country. Although dreadful explosions announced the event, the inhabitants of the fated villages remained quietly in their homes, se- cure in their distance, which had saved them from preceding eruptions however violent. The destruction of these villages' and of two farm- houses in their neighbourhood, has of course caused a great number of victims both mart and beast. On the 24th May, the edifices which had been consumed were still smoking; and tins unfortunate region was inaccessible in consequence of the heat from the ashes, stones, and lava, with which it was strewed. It was not till eight days after the disaster that it was possible to approach to endeavour to assist the sufferers. But search was fruitless. Never was calamity mine terrible, more unfore- seen, or more general. The coasts of Calabria, and some parts of Italy, towards which the wind blew from Sicily on that disastrous night, were covered with the same reddish dust under which the country near 2Etna was buried.
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