Frances Embleton, a fine girl aged four years, was killed
last week by the carriage-wheels of the Princess Sophia Matilda of Gloucester, as her Royal Highness was proceeding to the King's drawing-room. The accident occurred before the coachman was aware of the child's danger, and the Princess was so much affected by it as to be unable to proceed. The sugar-house of Messrs. Weyback and Co.' in Charles Street, Commercial Road, was last night destroyed by accidental fire. The loss is estimated at 10 000!. Ross mill, at Branley, near Leeds, was burnt to the ground on Sunday mornisz and property destroyed worth nearly 4000/. -Two flats were lost off Garston rocks, during the gale of Tuesday last, and the crews, consisting of six persons, were drowned.
On Wednesday, a female, who had gone into a menagerie in St. Giles's, thrust her arm into a leopard's den. The brute mangled it dreadfully.
On Saturday forenoon, as a young man was passing along Swan-street, Mineries, he staggered from the foot-pavement into the carriage-way, and fell before the wheel of a waggon. It passed over one of his thighs, one side of his body, and his arm ; and before he could be carried to the hospital, the unfortunate man had breathed his last.
The children of Stirlingshire, it appears, have made a game of the late mode of murdering in Edinburgh for dissection. They call it Bucking. On Tuesday sennight it nearly led to fatal consequences in Kincardine. A mother went out to procure water, leaving in the house only a boy about four or five years of age, and a young child in the cradle. When she returned, she was just in time to sate the life of her little unoffending innocent, for, in two minutes longer, it would have been strangled by its own brother.—Glasgow Chronicle.
On Thursday, a fine girl, twenty-one years of age, named Nesbit, belonging to North Shields, went to visit an aunt at a few miles distance. On returning home, in company with a female relation, when near Backworth she attempted to cross the waggon-way, but her foot slipping, she fell, and several loaded waggons passed along her arm and leg, which were consequently bruised to atoms. She was, however, got home alive, and in the evening surgeons attended to amputate the leg and arm ; but on getting her up, she complained of internal pain, asked for a drink of water, and instantly expired.—Tyne Mercury.
Last week, a boy about nine years of age, was knocked down at Stratton Hall, Essex, from the violence of the wind, by a heavy gate' which, resting upon his neck, caused his immediate death. He was found dead by his own father.
A Leith pilot-boat was upset on Saturday, while proceeding to a vessel in the roads, and one of her crew drowned.
On the evening of the 25th of April,the diligence from Brussels to Rotterdam left Antwerp with fourteen passengers, and an immense pile of luggage. On entering upon one of the narrow bridges of the fortifications, the reins broke ; and the horses becbming entangled in the harness, plunged to one side of the bridge, which occasioneetthe vehicle to totter, and in a moment afterwards to fall over the railings into the ditch, a depth of at least thirty feet. The consequence was, that nine of the passengers, the conductor, and three out of the four horses, were drowned. The accident is partly attributed to the intoxication of the driver. On the night of the 30th ult., the carriage of a Mr. Van Berke], the Burgomaster of Delft, was precipitated from the dike into the canal, between Delft and the Hague, and of four persons inside the carriage, three were drowned, two females and one man, all servants. Very near the spot where the last accident happened, the Hague diligence also fell from the dike a few months since, and several passengers were drowned.
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