It is intended to invite Mr. Coke to a public
dinner at Norwich, in honour of his political integrity and private worth, as exhibited during a period of nearly sixty years. This homage will be appreciated by him the more highly, because it takes place after the effervescence of party-spirit, as far as he is personally concerned, has subsided. It is an homage to Mr. Coke's public integrity and private worth. We shall be glad to see it followed up by a small subscription, on a large scale, for a piece of plate to the father of Norfolk agriculture, as well as to the uncompromising defender of general liberty.—Norfalk East An- glian.
On Monday night, there was an incendiary fire at Corpusty, which consumed a barn and two stables, the property of W. E. L. Bulwer, Esq., in the occupation of Mr. Hace, of Saxthorpe. The barn con- tained a quantity of straw, and only two or three coombs of barley, thrashed ; but Mr. Hace had purposed to remove a stack of corn into it_on the following morning.—.Artafidk East Anglian.
On Saturday sennight, in the little village of Wighton, near Wells, two men—the father-in-law and the son-in-law—were poisoned by the wife of the latter. Two of her children, it seems, died lately ; and the consequence has been, as is supposed, the mental derangement of the unhappy mother, and the double murder, under its influence, of her father and husband.
On Wednesday night, as the Liverpool and Bristol mail was passing along the road, soon after leaving the Burton Head Passage, it en- countered some obstacle ; and, horrible to relate, on the coachman alighting, it was discovered that one of the e-heels had passed over the head of an unfortunate man, who, apparently from the effects of in- toxication, had fallen down in the centre of the road.—Herrford journal.
On Saturday evening, an inquest was held at Messrs. Hancock's factory, at Stratford, on the body of William Gutteridge, an engineer ; who came by his death under the following circumstances. It ap- peared that on Thursday last, the steam-carriage was preparing for an experimental journey ; when the boiler, which was a newly-invented one, besot with a tremendous explosion, which shook the houses in the immediate vicinity. The deceased was the only person on the coach at the moment, and MO scalded in a dreadful manner, and died of the injuries he received in less than an hour. The boiler, which was made on a new principle, was the invention of the deceased ; and it was stated that he forced the engine beyond its power, and also neglected to examine the safety-valve, which was insecure. The Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death."
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