DEATH OF THE Mattems D'HARCOUR.T.—The Marquis and family returned to
their cottage, at St. Leonard's Dale, near Windsor, on Tues- day night, from town, where the General had gone in order to attend the Drawing-room. The Marquis and his lady had been to pay a visit to a friend, and were returning to their own residence : they had scarcely passed the park railing, round Sir Robert Wigram's house, when the ap- proach of a cart caused the horse on which the General was riding to
• start, while he was in the act of looking at his hat ; and being off his guard, was thrown, and by a blow which he received from the horse, was killed on the spot. The Marquis was a Peer of France.
Dcarn BY A FALL.—On Saturday night last, between twelve and one o'clock, a gentleman named Turner, who resided in Southampton Street, Camberwell, in passing from the Camberwell Road into Providence Place, fell into the main sewer, a depth of ten feet. The noise of the fall attracted the attention of a policeman of P division, who hastened to the spot, and with the assistance of another policeman they extricated the unfortunate gentleman and carried him home ; but he expired in less than two hours afterwards.
FIRE.—About a quarter before two o'clock on Thursday morning, a fire broke out on the premises of Messrs. Chambers and Co., grocers and tea-dealers, opposite to St. Clement's Church, Strand, which completely destroyed the whole interior of the building in little more than an hour. Tim ARTS AT ISM:E.—The wheels of the truck on which the gigantic horse, which was intended to bear the colossal statue of George the Third, was carried, sunk, from the extreme weight, into the road leading to the summit of Snow Hill, where it was about to be placed; and upon attempting to drag it out, the truck overturned, when the legs of the horse were broken off. It is supposed it will be necessary to recast the steed altogether.— Windsor Paper. FATAL Exenostox.—A tremendous explosion of a gasometer took place at Mr. Rothwell's Mills, 'near Bury, in Lancashire, on Monday sennight, which has been attended with the loss of life. Three men at work upon the tank were blown into the air ; one of them expired soon after, and the other two remain seriously hurt. The accident took place from one of the men incautiously approaching the tank with a lighted candle.
EFFECTS OF Foam:I.—Prior, the swindling partner of Sir Henry 3Ieux and Co., against whom a commission of bankruptcy issued in De- cember last, and who, it was supposed, had fled to America, was last week discovered to be residing in Havre de Grace. Poor Samuel, one of Prier's creditors, who was a cooper at the brewery, and by years of honest industry and economy put together a sum of 4801., which he lodged in Prior's custody for security, suffered so deeply iu mind from the loss of his all, that he died last week of a broken heart.
Su ICIDES.—On Sunday forenoon, a young man of respectable appear- ance, who had lived for five or six days at the house of Mr. Lane, the Twelve Bells, in Bride Lane, Fleet Street, put an end to his existence by blowing his ',rains out with x heavily-loaded pistol.
Mrs. Catharine Clarke, many years housekeeper to the Earl of Rosebery, swallowed a quantity of laudanum on Monday morning, of the effects of which she died in the course of the day. She had re- ceived her dismissal on Saturday from Lady Rosebery, in consequence of her fatal propensity to drinking.
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