A few days ago, a fire broke out in the
dwelling-house of Griffiths, a masen, in the parish of Beguildy, Radnorshire. Every article of household furniture was destroyed, and a little girl of five years of iaa: was burnt to death. The father, in endeavouring to rescue his child from the dames, was so severely burnt that he lingered till the Iii xt day, when he died. Another daughter, eleven years of age, was rescued, but not until she had received such serious injuries that she too has since died. Thus three lives have been sacrificed. — Shrewsb,try Chronicle.
Two incendiary fires occurred last week in the parish of Chaagten, Sussex, on the farm of Mr. Botting : a barn, stable, and a quantity of corn and straw, were destroyed.
A great sensation exists in Roston, in consequence of the extra,.r- dinary disappearance of Mr. 'Fames Taylor, of Frith Bank. TIT. prevailing opinion is, that Taylor has been murdered and buried, an-3 that his hat wasihrown into the river as a blind.—Lincoln Gazette.
George Corfield, gamekeeper of Mr. Benson of Lutwyche, svis killed on the night of Thursday week, by a poacher, named Thonao ; who was tracked by means of a peculiar mark on the heel of his shoo, and lodged in Shrewsbury Gaol.
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