For the last sixteen years, two brothers and three sisters,
named Cunningham, have resided at No. 129, East Street, and procured their living by mending china, fke. About three weeks since, one of the sisters died, and was buried by Mr. Gawler, the parish clerk of Lam- beth ; since which time, the survivors bave been in an ill state of health ; and on Wednesday last week one of the brothers died. On Saturday evening. Mrs. Moro:, next-door neighbour, inquired of' the surviving female how her sister was, mid when her brother was to be buried ; she replied " Mv sister is a little better ; but I have been 60 ill that I have not been able to go to the undertakers to order the coffin." Mrs. Moss thought the answer a very strange one, and went to Mr. Gawler, to whom she stated the case, and Mr. Goa her, accompanied by a surgeon, called ut the house. They knocked at the door several times; butt not obtaining any answer, the door was forced open ; they proceeded up stairs, and found the corpse of as man in the back-room, and that of is female in the front-room, both presentieg a most horrible spectacle, being in a state of putrefaction said covered with vermin. On de- scending, a male and female were discovered in the back-room sitting on two chairs, apparently lifeless. A sedan-chair was sent for, in which they were conveyed to Lambeth Workhouse. Early on Sunday morning, Dunn, one of the beadles, ordered two sheets to be taken to the house, into which die bodies were put ; and in doing so the flesh came off by handfuls. An inquest was held On the bodies on Tuesday ; when the above-mentioned facts were deposed to. It was also stated that the Curminghains were by no means poor : between four and five pounds were found in their house : they had lately come into possession of a considerable property. For some reason unexplained, they had taken the name of Cunningham, their real name being Pratt. rhey always shunned their neighbmars ; and seem to have been all subject to a kind of brain fever. The Jury found, that "time deceased died of an affection of the brain caused by fever." The survivors were taken to Lambeth Workhouse.
Christopher Yates, a private in the Fifteenth Regiment of Lancers, shot himself on Tuesday, at Hounslow Barracks. The cause of his suicide is not known ; but, according to the penny-a-line gentlemen, "attachment to a young woman " was his motive for blowing out his brains, or what passed for such.
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