SurcinE.—On Wednesday, Mr. T. Marshall, brother of Mr. Marshall of
the firm of Sirnpkin and Marshall, put an end to his existence, by strangling himself with a silk handkerchief. It appeared that the un- fortunate man had given repeated evidence of insanity within the last few weeks ; which, as is usually the case, were neglected till attention was unavailing.
ACCIDENT AT THE ADELFHI THEATRE.—On Monday evening, a serious accident happened to Mr. Perkins. In the last scene of the Evil Eye, he has to ascend a platform nearly ten feet above the stage. On reach- ing the summit, the plank on which he stood turned over, and he was precipitated to the bottom of the stage, just behind the scenes, and con- sequently out of sight of the audience ; who knew nothing of the occur- rence, till Mr. Millar, who was performing in the same piece, came for- ward and apprized them of it ; at the same time requesting, that if there were any medical gentlemen in the house, they would lend their assist- ance. In an instant there were no fewer than eleven of the healing art behind the scenes, by whom it was ascertained that two of Mr. Perkins' ribs were broken. He is, however, out of danger, and in a fair way of recovery. ACCIDENT FROM Cases itscriao.—On Tuesday week, the Duke of Leeds and Perseverance coaches, which run between Manchester and Leeds, were racing at full gallop near Blackley. The Duke, which was first, drawn by four beautiful horses, with seven outside passengers, caught the wheel of a coal cart, and came down with a tremendous trash: -the coacliman'and passengers were scattered in all directions, and ray senseless or bleeding on the road; the coachman apparently dead : the horses were all thrown down, and lay panting like spent hounds. The Perseverance coach was but a short distange behind, and it was with the utmost difficulty the coachman stopped without driving over the passengers lying on the road. The coachman of the Duke had several ribs fractured, and his shoulder dislocated ; two female passengers were severely, but not dangerously wounded ; the other passengers escaped without serious injury.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—AS a train of waggons was proceeding on Thursday from Liverpool to Manchester, the axle of the engine gave way, and it ran down the embankment. The concussion caused the overturning on the road of two of the leading coaches, four other coaches retaining their position on the rails. The passengers, though greatly alarmed, escaped uninjured; and the engine and firemen were only slightly bruised.—On Wednesday, an accident happened on the Bolton Railway. The man at the station-house, contrary to the orders given him that very morning, not to permit more than twenty tons of goods to descend the inclined plane at one time, actually admitted a train con- taining seventy tons to descend. The velocity became so great, that on the empty waggons arriving at the top, the rope broke, and they were thrown over each other in a most extraordinary manner and a poor fellow, who had only been two or three days employed on the railway, and was with the empty waggons, was crushed to death by their con- cussion.
Geri ACCIDENT.-011 the return of the 1st of September, the destruc- tion of partridges is not more sure than the deaths of sportsmen. We never read of such melancholy accidents as the following, without won- dering at the obstinate blindness which shuts its eyes to the power of guaranteeing shooters against the recurrence of them, afforded by the use of Mr. Somerville's infallible safety-gun. "On Friday last, an inquest was held at the Full Moon at Hawridge, near Chesham, in the county of Buckingham, before Mr. Chearsley, on the body of Thomas Lovett, Esq., of Cholesbury. On Thursday the 1st, deceased left his home about six o'clock, for the purpose of sporting. He had not pro- ceeded far from his own residence, when his gun went off, lodging the contents in one of his thighs, completely severing the principal arteries and shattering the bone to pieces." The unhappy gentleman lingered till three in the afternoon, when he expired. The Jury found, "that the wound received by the deceased from the discharge of thegun caused his death; but that his death was accelerated by the improper adminis- tration of opiates."
FATAL MACHINERY ACCIDENT.—A young man at Mr. Seville's mill, Lee's-brook, near Manchester, while cleaning the carding-engine, had his head and one of his arms completely severed from his body, in conse- quence of the shafts catching his waistcoat.
Fin.—About two o'clock on Sunday morning, a fire was discovered by the police constables on duty in the extensive pottery of Mr. Jones, of Prince's Street, Lambeth. An instant alarm was given ; and in a short time. the different assurance-office engines and a large body of fire- men were on the spot, by whose exertions, with a good supply of water, the fire was got under, after considerably damaging the upper part Of the building, where it is believed the fire originated. A body of police constables were in attendance, whose services were very essen- tial upon the occasion. We understand that the property was insured.
THE LAUREL.—A vessel of this name, belonging to Scarborough, was lost on the night of the 20th ult. off the North Foreland. The crew, together with the captain, his wife and two children, took to the boat ; in which, in about an hour after ;hey had left the ship, the captain ex- pired of fatigue. The rest escaped, by getting on board a schooner in Dover Roads.
Loss OF LORD NEWBOROUGH'S Yscur.—On Wednesday last, Lord Newborough's beautiful sailing yacht Sapphire, struck on those rocks in the Straits of Menai known by the name of the Cow and Calf, and almost instantaneously filled with water. His Lordship, the Honourable S. Wynn, Captain Perceval, and, we believe, sonigether gentlemen, were on board when the accident happened, intending to proceed on a voyage of pleasure to Liverpool. The elegant and valuable furniture, orna- ments, &c. with which her cabin WAS so tastefully fitted up, will be materially injured, if not totally destroyed, as the whole of her hull is under water when the tide is in.—Liverpool Mercury. [Lord New- borough resides not veryfar from the scene of the shipwreck ; and he and his seamen ought surely to have been better acquainted with the Cow and the Calf than to run their heads against them almost under his Lordship's own windows.]
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