The Honourable Francis De Grey, son of Lord Walsingham, was
drowned on Monday, at Wouldham, near Rochester. Mr. De Grey imprudently entered the water with all his clothes on, to secure a boat that was drifting down the Medway, although repeatedly urged by a clergyman with whom he was, not to do so. Unfortunately, lie was unable to reach the boat, when, becoming exhausted, he suck, notwith- standing the most strenuous efforts of his friend to save him,—who, in so doing, narrowly escaped sharing a similar fate. After a search of some hours, the body was picked up a short distance from the spot where it sunk. Mr. De Grey was about twenty-one years old.
On Wednesday week, Mr. Newbold, a schoolmaster, was viewing Wombwell's collection of wild beasts at Carlisle; and against the warnings of the keepers, patted the tiger on the head as it lay appa- rently asleep. The tiger took no notice at first, but suddenly turned round and seized his hand in its jaws. The man screamed, and the keepers immediately ran to his aid ; but it was with some difficulty they compelled the tiger to let go its hold. The hand, which was dread- fully lacerated, has been amputated.
About three o'clock on Saturday morning, a large part of the Heckingham House of Industry. belonging to the Loddon and Cla- vering Union, in Norfolk, was burned down. A pauper, who had been threatened with a committal to prison for refusing to work, is suspected to be the incendiary, and is committed to gaol on suspicion.
A fire broke out in Uxbridge on Saturday morning, on the pre- mises of Mr. Hull, a dealer in grain, and destroyed property valued at .20,600/.
Previous page
