Mr. Bedwell, Senior Registrar of the Court of Chancery, whilst
attending to his official duties in the Vice- Chancellor's Court on Tuesday, was seized with a fit. Medical assistance having been uro- cured, and restoratives administered, he so far recovered as to be removed from the Court with the assistance of his friends.
An explosion of gas took place in the cellar of Mr. Reid, baker, in Regent Street, on Monday evening, as the gas-men were proceeding to repair the pipe, and some of them were considerably injured. The ex- plosion at first occasioned great alarm in the neighbourhood ; the noise being as loud as the discharge of heavy ordnance, and the hats of per- sons in the street being blown twenty yards high.
A fire broke out on Tuesday morning, in the premises of Mr. Bell, phosphorous-box maker in Wandsworth ; which consumed neatly the whole of the buildings; and occasioned the death of three young girls employed by Mr. Bell, whose bodies were found in the ruins. They had gone to work early in the morning, by candle-light ; and it is sup- posed that they set some shavings in the workroom on fire.
As Lady Follett and her mother, Lady Gifford, were passing White- hall in a phaeton, on Tuesday afternoon, the horse took fright ; and
notwithstanding every exertion of the coachman, lie ran with great force against a waggon, by which the phaeton was upset and the ladies thrown out with violence. The coachman had his hand fractured and his head much lacerated.
Mr. Ha% enson, a gentleman residing at Greenford in :Middlesex, accidentally killed himself when out shooting yesterday week. The gun was found lying across the breast of the deceased, the barrel pointed towards the jaw. A Coroner's Jury agreed• in a verdict of " Acci- dental .Death."
Captain Tuffnell, a gentleman lately residing at St John's Wood, Regent's Park, leaped out of his bedroom into the back area of his
house on Saturday morning, and was so much injured that his recovery is:improbable. He had been for some time under the care of an at- -tendant, in consequence of mental derangement.
Isaac Clason, a native of New York, and his wife, an Englishwoman, committed suicide at their lodgings in Mitre Street, New Cut, Lambeth, on the night of Friday last, by suffocating themselves with charcoal. All the crevices in the room where they slept were stopped up with paper, so as to prevent the air coming in, There was a large pan of charcoal found by their bed-side, and a phial of laudanum and a razor on a table in the room. An inquest was held on the bodies on Mon- day ; and from the evidence given by an acquaintance of the deceased Clason, it appeared that he had been very extravagant, having in two years spent 18,0001. in travelling on the Continent and other ex- penses. He had lately been extremely poor and dejected. His con- nexions in America had also failed in business. The Jury found a verdict of " Insanity."
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