Mr. R. H. Gurney, M.P. for . Norwich, has met with
a severe ac- cident from a gun accidentally going off, the contents of which lodged in his thigh.—Cambridge Chronicle. At Partney, on Saturday last, Mr. Robinson Goodwin, a fine young man, had been shooting in his father's yards, and was thrusting the butt- end of, the loaded gun through the lattice window of an outhouse, when it discharged, and the'muzzle being pointed to his breast he was killed on the spot.—Boston Gazette.
On the same day, Mr. Burrowes, of Lower Edmonton, while s
hoot- ing with a friend at Hatfield, had, just jumped over a hedge; and his friend was in the act of following him, with his fowling-piece "un- cocked," when the hammer was caught by a twig, which partially raised it, allowing it to descend with Sufficient force to discharge the gun; when the whole of its contents were lodged in the calf of Bur-
field and Partney ?]
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