FATAL ACCIDENTS--A few days ago a young man engaged in
fork- ing hay to form a rick, in Denzille Street, Dublin, was mortally wounded by the fork of the person on the rick dropping on his head.
Mr. Graham, a butcher, near West Linton, Ciunberland, was severely gored by a bull on the 1st instant, and died in a few days after.
Some time ago, a woman named Allen, in a fit of insanity, drowned herself and a baby ten months old, in the water near Swann's mill, Lei. cester. The bodies were found on Thursday last week. It appeared that she had been on a visit to the keeper of the Bridewell, whose daughter- -iu-law she was ; she left the house, with the child, as if intending to take a walk, on the 25th ult. There was nothing peculiar in her beha- viour at the time, nor before ; but, from a letter that has been found in bfir pocket, it is evident that she was insane. SINGULAR DEATH.-011 the morning of the 7th instant, Lieute- nant Jones, of the Royal Horse Artillery, a young gentleman of great promise, was found by his servant sitting on a sofa in his room nearly undressed, his head hanging over the arm of the sofa, dead and cold. A stream of blood issued from the mouth of the unfortunate gentle- man ; but it was some time before the cause of his death, was discovered.
At length, in moving the body, a small duelling-pistol was found in the
- drawers which hung down round the deceased's feet. The mouth was then examined ; and it was found that a bullet had pierced the roof of the mouth, and entered the head, in the back part of which it had lodged. It was evident he had not been in bed ; and his candles bad not been extinguished, but had been allowed to burn down in their sockets. It was at first rumoured that Lieutenant Jones had been killed in a duel ; but this was soon discovered to be a false rumour : it was then supposed he had fallen voluntarily by his own hand. From the concurrent testi- mony, however, of all the gentlemen that were with him the previous evening, it appeared, not only that his sentiments and manners wre most averse from all ideas of suicide, but that on the ni. ht of the dent lie was more than ordinarily cheerful. He was sh souiy carelesi in handling fire-arms. He had borrowed a pair of duelling-lest..., tm a brother officer, for the purpose of firing at a mark ; and at the mo- t-heat when be received his death-wound, he had been attempting to take out the ramrod of one of them for the purpose of drawing the charge. It WIIS very stiff ; and it is supposed he had laid hold of it with his teeth to pull it out, when by some chance the trigger was touched, and the contents of the pistol lodged, as we have stated, in his brain. It does not appear that the face was at all injured ; and yet as the teeth must have of course been closed on the head of the ramrod, it is not very easy to see how this could have been avoided. The Jury found a verdict of " accidental death."
SUDDEN DEATH.—Yesterday morning between two and three o'clock, as John Williams, a private in the first division of police, was going his rounds in the New Road, near to Trinity Church, he heard the cry of fire ; and on running to the spot from whence it proceeded, he saw a inan, with nothing on but his night-shirt, standing at the garden. gate of one of the houses in Quickset Row, calling "fire," and seemingly greatly agitated. The policeman approached him to render what assist- ance be could, when the stranger suddenly staggered backwards, and fell with great violence to the ground. On being raised it was found that he had expired. The inmates of the house were immediately called, when he turned out to be the proprietor, Mr. John Whitehead, marble statuary and mason. It appears, that the deceased had retired to rest at Isis usual time ; and at the hour before mentioned was suddenly awaken- ed by a convivial party keeping it up in the adjoining house ; mistaking this for an alarm of lire, he jumped out of bed in extreme terror and ran to the garden-gate; when the sudden fright caused his death. Mr.White- head was a remarkably healthy man, between forty and forty-five years of age. He has left a wife and a large family.
ANOTHER Gux ACCIDENT..—On Thursday, a party of young men. from Dublin went to Lambay on a shooting excursion. After breakfast in the house of Colonel Talbot upon the island, one of them was in the act of raising a fowling-piece, when it accidentally went off, and mortally wounded an amiable and kind-hearted young man belonging to the party, who died in an hour after.—Dttbars Evening Packet. [Since there exists so simple and so effectual a means of guarding against these mis- chances, by Mr. Somerville's invention, we don't see why they ought not to be made punishable. No man has a right to hazard the life of another in carrying a non-safety gun.] RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday evening last week, as a train of waggons was proceeding at a brisk rate from Liverpool to Rainhill, propelled by the Dart engine, a wheel of one of the waggons broke ; and the concussion was so violent, that the tender, and, we believe, the en- gine also, were thrown off the rail. Several persons who were on the engine were precipitated to the ground with considerable violence, and one of them, a boy, named Turner, had both his legs broken. Another person had his arm broken, but the rest escaped with slight injuries.-- Manchester Advertiser.
SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday last, Elizabeth Jones, a young woman, servant to Mr. Goulburn. at Chealey, near Chester, while endeavouring to catch one of the young pigs that had escaped from the stye, was attacked by the sow, which threw the young woman down, and seizing her right arm, broke and lacerated it in about twenty different places. On Thursday last the young woman was sent to the Infirmary, and lingered until Saturday morning, when she died.
SiticinE.—A few days ago, the eldest daughter of Mr. Dobbs, the comedian, Birmingham, swallowed a pennyworth of arsenic ; which in a few hours put a period to her existence. It seems she had been re- proved for neglecting the household duties from her attachment to the stage ; which professsion, as she possessed none of the requisites, her father had refused to allow her to study ; and she took this way of reveng- ing herself.
BOAT A ccrnExT.—Last week, five young men belonging to Car- narvon embarked in a small boat to amuse themselves by sailing in the Straits. It blew fresh at the time, and as the sea ran high, three of the party got alarmed, and were put ashore. The boat, with the remaining young men, both named Williams, then ran across the Straits. Having reached the Anglesea side, she was upset in attempting to put about ; and both the youths were drowned.
STEAM-BOATS AND Waunntes.—A boat rowed by an old man-of- war's man named Green, and having on board six passengers, was the other day run down in the Pool by the steamer Duke of York, of Hull. The passengers and waterman were happily saved, but the Waterman was much injured by a blow of the Duke of York's paddles. ACCIDENTAL HANGING.—A boy at East Wemyss, in Fifeshire, hanged himself on Saturday last, while endeavouring to imitate the execution of Henderson, the person who was executed a few days before at Cupar, in the same county. WHALE.FISHERY.—The fishery has been singularly unfortunate this year ; not only has the labour of the season yielded a barren return, but from the severity of the weather and the ice, eighteen vessels have been lost, and, it is.to be feared, not a few of their crews: Of the lost vessels,
six belong to Hull, one to Whitby, two to Leith, two to Dundee, one to Montrose, lout to Aberdeen, and two to Peterhead. As the sailors of these vessels are paid in some part according to the quantity of the oil they bring home, very great distress will be felt at Hull and other ports, where the shipwrecks have been numerous, and where many fern', lies having been looking forward to the produce of the fishery for their support during the winter.
FALSE REPORT OF THE PLAGUE—A good deal of excitement took place at Lynn, on Saturday, from a report having been circulated that a ship had entered this port with the plague raging among her crew. The pilot and three other officers who went aboard were not allowed to leave her. The medical gentleman who went to ascertain the fact, we are happy to say, declares that though there has been a good deal of illness, and one pour fellow died, yet it was not any such dreadful affliction as the plague.—Bosten Gazette.
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