It is with much regret that we announce the sudden
death of Mr. Home Twiss, a gentleman who has been for many years well known and deservedly esteemed in the political and literary society of the Metropolis. Mr. Twiss had been for some time in indifferent health, but it was not until Wednesday the 25th ultimo, that the nature of the disease which has proved fatal manifested itself. While attend- ing on that day a meeting of the Law Life Assurance Company, of which he was a director, he was suddenly seized with spasms of the heart and other symptoms which indicated the existence of that formidable malady known as angina pec- toris. He rallied, however, almost immediately ; and though fully aware of the dangerous nature of the disease, and impressed with the conviction that it would terminate suddenly and fatally, he soon regained his ac- customed cheerfulness, and resumed the ordinary course of his active life. He left home yesterday morning at about ten o'clock ; and having spent the in - tervening hours in the transaction of other business, attended at two o'clock a meeting of the Rock Assurance Society, at Radley's Hotel, Bridge Street. The discussion had begun, and he had risen to addreis the meeting, when, after speak- ing some minutes with his usual clearness and force, he suddenly sank back into his chair, as if in a fainting-fit. He was immediately carried by the friends about him into an adjoining room, and several medical gentlemen were instantly in at- tendance. Cordials were promptly administered, andievery other means which science could suggest were taken to restore the action of the heart; but it had ceased to beat, and, after one or two convulsive sobs, Mr. Twiss had ceased to exist.—Times.
Mr. Hudson bas retired from the Chairmanship of the York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway. At a special meeting of that company's shareholders, in York yesterday, a committee of investigation was appointed.
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