DROWNING—On the day of the late King's funeral, almost all
the people of London were steaming or rowing, and several fatal accidents were the consequence. A party of four hired a boat at Greenwich to come up the river. The waterman insisted on putting four more into his boat ; which got into the track of the Hero steam-boat, and was al- most instantly upset, with the loss of two persons out of the nine. One of the persons lost was a young woman who was to have been married on the succeeding Sunday. Had it not been for the activity of William Collins, master of the Arnie, a stone-barge, they must all have perished. Two young men, who were returning from pleasuring, were drowned on the same day by the agitation produced by the Prince Frederick steam-ves- sel. Those rickety things called " wherries" appear to be quite unfit
for a river where steam-boats navigate. •
LIVING Enrome mEarr.— On Tuesday last, Stephen Karkeet, twenty- five years of age, whilst employed underground in a mine, in the parish of Newlyn, was buried alive, by the falling together of the sides of the shaft in which he was, at the depth of five fathoms from the surface. The first person who arrived at the spot was a man named George Tre- varrow, who called to know if any living being was beneath, when Kai.- keet answered, in a firm voice, " I know all earthly power can avail me nothing; I feel the cold hand of death upon me ; if there is any hope of my being extricated from this untimely grave, tell me, and if not tell me." Trevarrow at once informed him that there was not a shadow of hope left him, as upwards of four tons of rubbish had fallen around him, and that suffocation must inevitably take place before any human aid could afford him relief. On hearing which, Karkeet exclaimed, " All's well; it is the Lord, let him do what seemeth him good. Tell my dear father and mother not to be sorry as those without hope for me ; 'tis now only that I am happy ; 'tis now I feel the advantage of a religious life ; now I feel the Lord is my stronghold, and now I feel I am going to Heaven." Here his voice failed him—he never spoke again. FalmouthPacket. [The speech is evidently coloured, but the death was a dreadful one.] CUSTOM OF THE COUNTY.—A few days ago, a gentleman named Healey, riding along the bank of the Sleaford Navigation, fell, it is sup-
posed,
in a fit, into the canal. The fall of the gentleman was almost immediately perceived ; and two boatmen of a coal-barge, passing along the canal, were applied to to get out the body. They hooked it up with a boat-hook, and, tying one end of a rope round the leg, fastened the other to 'a post on the bank ! Mr. Healey, whatever were his chanceS of escape before, was of course drowned by this novel process of rescuing him from the waters. When the boatmen were-called before the Coro. ner at South Kyme, they pleaded, in justification, that they had acted "according to the custom of the county." We suppose a matt is no
worse off in being drowned in Nottingham than elkewhere, but it is a perilous matter, it would appear, to be saved there. DEATH BY LIGHTNING.-43R Wednesday last, John Robertson, a road labourer, employed on the Loehlibo road, near to Stewarton, was struck by lightning, and killed on the spot. His clothes were literally torn to pieces, and nothing almost remained on the body but the arms of his coat. His shoes were torn off, and the nails or tackets in them all forced out ; his watch was broken to pieces, and the remains scat- tered around the body, with the exception of the dial, which was got one hundred and fifty yards off. The body was completely scorched, and presented altogether a most appalling spectacle.—Glasgow Courier. SUDDEN DEATH.—On Wednesday forenoon, a man named James Nield, about fifty-five years of age, was making hay at Mossley, in the apparent perfect enjoyment of good health. He had just taken a draught of ale, when he fell back and instantly expired. He had been a singer at Mossley Chapel for forty years.—Manchester Guardian. FLOODS IN SCOTLAND.—The rivers in the county of Banff, which occasioned so much damage last year, have been much swollen within the last fortnight ; but fortunately, though the damage was far from in- considerable, it was trifling compared with that suffered in August 1829. The town of Banff was under water ; and the grounds of Duff House, the seat of the Earl of Fife, and of Cullen House, suffered severely. GROSS NEGLIGENCE.—The workmen employed in mending the sewer opposite Buckingham Street, in the Strand, having left the hole where the repairs were going on without any sign that there was danger, two horses belonging to a private chariot, in driving towards Charing Cross on Wednesday, fell into it headlong ; and, notwithstanding the utmost exertion, they were not got out for a long time, nor without great damage.
ACCIDENTAL POISONING.—A child, eight years of age, was poisoned on Sunday last at Mile End, Newtown, in consequence of having a spoonful of laudanum, instead of a spoonful of Godfrey's cordial, ad- ministered to it by mistake.
HEREDITARY MALADIES.—On Wednesday last week, a female named Dowding hanged herself in a bedroom of the King of Prussia public-house, Stratford. " Her mother," adds the account, "destroyed herself in a similar manner."
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