An old woman named Susan Mason died last week, at
the Almshouse, No. 6, York Street, Westminster, near Buckingham Gate. Her coffin was carried by mistake to No. 7, where lived Dinah Mason, an old woman of ninety-seven, but no relation of the deceased. Dinah died next day of the shock.
The David and Harp public-house, in Limehouse, was burned on Satur- day last. The landlord's niece, a girl of fifteen, lost her life. The whole of the furniture and property was consumed. The engine-boiler at United Hills Mine, in the parish of St. Agnes, Corn- wall, burst last week. Nine persons were killed, and three others desperately injured. The accident is supposed to have been caused by the tube placed in the boiler in which the fire is made, being of an oval instead of a round shape. The pressure upon an oval tube is necessarily unequal. The Coro- ner's Inquest has found a verdict of "accidental death, nobody being to blame."
The George Green, a new East Indiaman, was lost last week, on Herb°. rough Sand, Yarmouth Roads. The crew was saved. Two brigs were lost on the same spot within twelve hours afterwards. The crews of both, it is feared, have perished. A smuggling vessel was frozen up last week near Sutton Wash. The crew attempted to set her on fire, but failed, and abandoned her. The ves- sel consequently became the prize of the Customhouse-officers, who are computed to have gained nearly 3000/.
Mr. Thomas Buzby, the senior clerk at Messrs. Barrow's and Prescott's mercantile establishment at Cadiz, was assassinated there on the 1st of January, by three men who forced their way into the countinghouse, in which they hoped to find money. The ruffians have been apprehended. A labourer of the name of Wicks, who lived at Bismore, in the parish of Bisley, Somersetshire, was found murdered in :ais cottage last week. The bar of Montpelier Gardens, NValworth, was robbed a few nights age. Every thing moveable was carried off. The watch-dog was poisoned. A gipsy has been apprehended on suspicion.
Robert Emond was tried at Edinburgh on Monday, for the murder of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Franks, and her daughter, at Haddington. It was proved that the marks on the floor corresponded with the shape of Emond's shoes, and that the clothes he had worn on the day on which the murder was committed were found afterwards marked with blood. Emond, when the murder was discovered, came to Mrs. Franks's cottage, but could not be induced to look at the bodies. Two men, who were confined in gaol with Emond, swore that he confessed the murder to them. On these facts,
the Jury found Emond guilty ; and sentence of death was passed upon him. The crowd received the intimation of the verdict with cheers. Since his condemnation he has confessed his guilt.
THE FROST IN Consrward..—The thermometer has been as low as 180 in Cornwall during the last frost, being much lower than it has been remem- bered for many years. At the date of our last accounts (the 8th), the sur- face work on all the mines was suspended ; it being impossible either to dress, weigh, or carry the ores.
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