SUFFOCATION BY Futss.—Three young children were unhappily sun. cated, by
a fire which broke out on Monday in Prospect Row, .11rompton Road. The unfortunate mother, who was with child, and has since been seized with premature labour, made the most extraordinary efforts to save them, and was severely burnt in consequence : she is not expected to survive.
A fire broke out on Sunday morning, in the sugar-house of Mr. C. Holt- house, in the Back Road, in St. George's in the East. The entire building, seven stories in height, was consumed. The damage is estimated at 15,000/.
'IN THEIR DEATHS THEY WERE NOT DIVIDED."—NTS. Howe, of the Grecian Coffeehouse, near Temple Bar, expired on Saturday last. When the undertaker came to the house, Mr. Howe told him to keep the body as long as possible, as one grave might serve them both ; and he actually ex- pired next day ! SUICIDES.—On Friday, last week, a poor tailor drowned himself in the Serpentine. On Monday, an old woman named Long, a pauper in Ken- sington Workhouse, swallowed arsenic. On Monday sennight, a painter named Fraser drowned himself in the river Ness, in Inverness-shire. On the 19th, a woman named Armstrong poisoned herself at Newhaven. These four cases we observe recorded in a single number of the Morning Herald. We had thought the practice of suicide had been falling into disuse. Sir Charles Baring'" committed suicide during the night between Sunday and Monday last, at his seat in Kent.
Two women, named Francis and Paterson, residing in Brook Street, Ratcliffe Highway, quarrelled on Sunday last. Francis left the house, and on returning, said she had poisoned herself. She had a pint measure in her hand, in which were the remains of a white powder. Paterson said it was merely magnesia, and with that scraped off part of the powder. It proved to be arsenic. Both died in a few hours.
A considerable sensation has been excited at Eton by an attack by a part of the populace upon a young nobleman, one of the students. A labourer had applied some offensive epithets to his Lordship, which his Lordship re- sented by thrashing the delinquent. A riot ensued, from which his Lord- ship, after being roughly handled, escaped with difficulty. In several places in the vicinity of Loudon, the snow on Thursday morn- ing was three or four inches deep. Major Rennell died on Monday, after many weeks of severe suffering, occasioned by the fracture of his thigh. He was in the 88th year of his age. Mr. Moscheles, the composer and pianist, met with a very serious accident on Saturday; he was thrown from the roof of a stage-coach, and remained for twelve hours quite insensible. He was severely bruised, but is now de- clared out of danger.
A few days since, a vessel belonging to Mr. Prentice, of Stowmarket, anti freighted with a large quantity of barley from Ipswich to London, went down in a strong gale of wind, in the middle of the night, and the captain, three men, and three women, passengers, perished. A lads about eighteen years old, alone escaped the fate of his fellow-passengers, by clinging to a wood- fender, and after buffeting about an hour or more, succeeded in making himself heard by the crew of another vessel passing.
On Wednesday sennight, a man was unfortunately drowned in the Dee at Craigleig, in Aberdeenshire, owing to the fall of a pair of shears employed in. the erecting of a suspension-bridge. The contractor of the work, a Mr. Swarns, was at the same time dangerously hurt from the same accident.
The people of Crieff, in Scotland, were alarmed some few days ago by the discovery of the bones of a human hand, and three human skulls, in the house of a person who gains his living by killing pigs. " No one," says the Stirling Journal," can conjecture how they came into the pig- killer's possession, who has been long known as a decent-enough fellow in that part of the country."
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