Patrick 31‘Guinness, an Irishman, was committed to Chester Castle on
Saturday, for the murder of Peter Rogerson, a labourer, at Tittenley in Cheshire. The circumstances attending this murder would induce the suspicion that the assassin was mad; but this is positively denied. It appears that yesterday week, he went to the house of a Mr. Hill, a cattle-dealer at Tittenley, and inquired for Lord iiihnorey, who resides in the neighbourhood. Mrs. 1-1111, her husband being from home, gave him the direction ; bat the man would not leave the yard. Soon afterwards, Rogerson, the deceased, at the request of a
son of Mr. Hill, went to the house and desired him to depart; which he did ; but soon afterwards raurned, broke open the door of the house, and met Rogerscn at the kitchen-door, whom he seized by the throat, and, foreleg him against the wall, strangled him. He then armed himself with a fowling-piece and a cleaver; and was only se- cured by five men, who came to give assistance, after a desperate struggle.
A steam-engine boiler, on the premises of Aydon and Co., steam- engineonainifacturers, of Humber Dock Green, Hull, burst at an early hour on Wednesday week ; shattered the engine-house to pieces, and blew part of the machinery into the river Humber, a distance of two hundred yards. It was most fortunate that few persons were at
work at the time, or the consequences might have been very cala-
mitous; as it was, however, a boy was crushed to death beneath a large piece of iron, weighing upwards of a ton, and two men employed
on the premises were seriously injured by the fell of pieces of the machinery. The engine had not been set to work at the time of the accident ; and it is supposed that the man employed to light the fire to get up the steam had neglected to put a sufficient quantity of water in the boiler, which bad in consequence become red-hot.
Oa 1Vednesday night last week, a most shocking accident occurred On the Stockton and Darlington Railway. Some barbarous and mali-
cious wretch having wantonly placed a large piece of wood across the Trial, the engine, on coming in contact with it, was overturned. We le_gret to add, that the unfortunate engineer, James Cleasby, was jerked offend cradled to death on the spot.—Sunderland Herald.
Last Thursday week, a young woman, the wife of a plasterer and tiler named Pearse, living in Bath, was safely delivered of three girls,
who, with the mother, are all doing well. As the usual preparations had been made for only one visiter, the arrival of three has caused great embarrassment. A circumstance calculated greatly to alarm Mr. Malthus and his disciple Miss Martineau, is that the age of neither of this prolific couple exceeds twenty years.—Bath Herald.
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