Dr. Henry, whose name must be familiar to all our
readers, died by his own hand yesterday morning, at his residence lit Poullebury, near Manchester. For some time past, we understand, he had heen in a very indifferent state of health, and hail occasionally laboured under great nervous irritability. Ills indisposition seems to have been considerably increased by the excitement consequeet upon his attoulance last Iveek at the meeting of the Association at _Bristol ; from which he returned with a euesiderahle aggravation of the symptoms lie had previously exhibited, and el! rstand t lett he r11111.: red minder an almost total privatino or v.hich over-
powered his f "'hies. Fi mereire eb, fi ve o'clock, 1;c lett
his bed and cv.I into his ill the first instance, on account , I a pred(III.: ,:i.1 t.ny surprise : but about seven o'clock, it 1.res foim,i tied: L.! le;:t dressing-roomii, without having put on his dollies; ia eon -coon Lice Gt. t% ICA, immedi- ate search was made ; and lie wes et knee, Im fettled tim the private eleqiel attached to his house, quite dcad, heviimg shot himself with a pistol, the report of which had riot bet II Imenrd by ally of the funily. We lament the pain which the publication ol the above details may inflict upon the relatives and friends of the deveased ; but time circumstances atteed- ing upon the death of a men like Dr. [leery neither can be nor ought to be concealed. Hie death is a matter at' public concern, and it would be mere affectation to attempt to clothe it with mystery.—illanchatee Guardian, of Saturday.
A few days since, as Mr. George Roscoe, a highly-respectable at- torney, was visiting some friends near Ilininster, Sumnersetshire, he was mortally wounded, in the fullowing singular manner. The house in which he slept being alarmed in the night hy a report of thieves, the servantof the family came down with a large horse-pistol, intending to shoot the depredators ; but, unfortunately, observing Mr. Roscoe, who had descended by another staii case, and mistaking him for a robber, in- stantly shot him through the heart. Ile died almost immediately.— Country Paper.
A singular instance of marsh miasmata occurred on the 24th August, at the village of Parson Drove, near Wisbech, and was happily confined to the village. A thick exhalation was observed by the harvest la- bourers to arise from the fen, about fuur o'clock in the morning ; and continued to grow more dense till about seven, when it had become so thick and dark that the teams going inn opposite directions came in con- tact ; and great confusion ensued, as persons could not see each other at ten yards' distance. In ehort, the labourers were completely stopped, till about eight o'clock ; when the exhalation passed off, and the day broke out clear and warm. It entered the houses like thick smoke, and left the floors and furniture covered with animalcuke. An eye- witness remembered a similar plartiomenon about twenty-seven years back, in Marshland; when the stock, being frightened, ran into the dykes.—Hertford Reformer.
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