FRENZY or LOVE.—A gentleman of respectable appearance took an inside
place in one of the Brighton coaches on Friday week. When the coach stopped to change horses at Cuckfield, he suddenly ran off, leaving his hat behind him, and threw himself into a pond at some dis- tance. With extreme difficulty he was got out, in a state of exhaustion,. and conveyed to the George Inn, Cucklield. The gentleman was evi- dently deranged ; and, in the course of the night, his conduct became so violent, that it required five persons to restrain him. A large sum of Money, in sovereigns and a valuable watch, were found upon him, but no paper or memorandum to lead to the discovery of his name or con- nexion. He constantly mentions the name of Miss Foote, the actress ; And was on his road to Brighton when she passed on her way to town.- It is supposed, from what has transpired in his lucid intervals, that his name is Logan or Harrison.
ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE; ON A GREAT SCALE.—OR Sunday morning, the Policeman on duty near the Asylum, Westminster Road, being directed thither by the groans that issued from it, opened the doors of the show of the "Scotch Giantess,". and found the interesting lady and her hus- band stretched on the floor of the vehicle in which the exhibition is made, apparently dying. They were immediately conveyed to Guy's ; where a quantity of arsenic was extracted from the stomach of each, by means of Read's patent stomach-pump; and there is now a prospect of their recovery. It seems the husband was jealous of a tall lover of his enormous wife, who passes under the name of the "Spanish Giant." The quarrels that ensued at last induced the Scotch Giantess to swallow poison ; and, in his despair for the apprehended loss of his spouse, or his show, the jealous husband drank the remains of the cup, which she had previously in part emptied. Suicide is getting sadly vulgar.
UNTOWARD EVENT.—A young gentleman, in his nineteenth year, an officer in a regiment of light dragoons, and a member of a highly respectable family in Warwickshire, was lately in the act of tying the connubial knot with a frail Cyprian, when the ceremony was suddenly interrupted by the appearance of a police-officer, acting under the autho- rity of the gallant's father. Notwithstanding the protestations of the disappointed pair, he bore off the gentleman to prison, from whence, on Tuesday last, he was conveyed, under strong escortr to his father.— Birmingham Journal.
RAILWAY Acorns:Ism—On Tuesday, last week, the Rocket got, by some accident, off the rails at the cutting at Olive Mount, on the Liver- pool Railway. The tender was dashed to pieces against the rocks ; the engine considerably injured ; and a female and the assistant engineer hurt, but not seriously.
WELL.SINMNG.— Three poor men, employed in repairing a well at Sheldon, near Honiton, last week, were suddenly buried by the falling in of the sides. One of them, at the depth of eighteen feet, was dug out, quite dead ; somewhat lower, the second was found, alive, and not much injured ; and, what is still more surprising, at the very bottom. of the well, the third person was found, not only alive, but not in the slightest degree hurt.
WAecoN ACCIDENT.—AS the waggon of Messrs. Sykes and Cook was rapidly descending Ballingdon Hill, near Sudbury, on Monday, one of the leaders slipped and fell ; by the accident several of the other horses were thrown down, and before they could be extricated, three of them were killed.
SAILOR KILLED.—On Wednesday morning, the mate of a Scotch trading vessel, receiving empty casks on board at.St. Andrew's wharf, Wapping, was killed by the accidental falling of one of them on his head.
HEATH FROM WANT.—A wretched-looking female was found dead in a hall in Pill Lane, Dublin, on Saturday night. From all appearance she had perished of absolute want. Another woman was found dead in a hall in William Street.—Saunders's News-Letter.
ATTEMPTED Su:cum—A man named Stansfield, who had been committed to Bolton gaol, on a charge of forgery, was found, on Monday week, weltering in blood, from a wound in his throat, inflicted by a pen- knife he had contrived to secrete. Immediate surgical assistance was
procured, and be is expected to recover. • FIRES.-.-A fire broke out at Elvaston Hall, the seat of Earl Harring- ton, on Sunday morning ; but it was soon got under. Another fire on the evening of the same day consumed a barn, with fifteen quarters of wheat, belonging to Mr. G. Moorley, at Ashton-upon-Trent.
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