THE Fitorac.—Among the number who perished in this vessel, were
the following individuals : General M‘Leod and four servants ; Major Boyd, his wife, and three servants ; two children and seven others; unknown, all from Tenby; eighteen sailors going to join South Sea whalers ; three servants from Castle Hall ; one ditto from Boulstone; one ditto from Pict= Castle; three runaway ap- prentices of J. Matthias's ; a son of Mr. Griffith' the currier, of Prendergast ; a colonel of the army, supposed to be Colonel Gordon ; -a Mr. George, of Pater, and Mr. Anderson, of the dockyard, his only son and eldest daughter—all from Milford ; and the entire crew of fifteen -or seventeen. The scene of this most distressing accident was the Ness Sands, on the Glamorganshire coast, a short distance from Cowbridge. STARVATION.—On the 23rd, an inquest was held at Rochdale, on the body of a young man named Richard Pilling, a pauper, who died in the Wardleworth workhouse. It appeared that the deceased had been confined in a solitary cell in which there was no bed, covering, or any thing to lie down upon, but a bench of wood of about a yard broad ; that he had been confined fifteen days, when he was discovered, lying naked on the stone floor, which was covered with filth! lie was in a dying state, with a portion of his clothes in his mouth. He was carried about ten- .o'clock that night to the workhouse, where he died in ten hours after- wards ! The Jury returned a verdict, that he "died from hunger ;" and in consequence Richard Hargreaves, Elizabeth (otherwise Betty) Burrows, and Hannah Holt were committed to Lancaster for manslaugh - ter.—Manchester Herald.
ACCIDENTAL HANGING.—Ill the neighbourhood of Dumfries, lately, a poor woman was accidentally strangled, while resting her burden on a paling. The burden slipped down, and the noose got across her neck. We recollect a similar story of a thief, who perished in
attempting to get over a gate with a sheep on his back ; in the morning, the dead felon was found on one side and the live sheep on the other.
FATAL DESCENT FROM EDINBURGH CAsme.—On Friday night, three soldiers of the depot of the list Regiment, having resolved to get out of the Castle after tattoo-beating, descended, between nine and ten o'clock, from that part of the ramparts which overhangs Welhouse Tower. One of them, a native of Edinburgh, fell over the most precis. pitons part of the rock, and was killed. The second rolled to the bot- tom, more to the eastward ; and although dreadfully injured, made shift to get to the Castle-gate in the morning, and was carried by the guard to the hospital. The third man, on the disappearance of his comrades, prudently returned to his barracks.—Edinburyh Adver- tiser.
Film—Between one and two o'clock on Wednesday moping, the sugar-house of Mr. Farmer, in Osborne Street, Whitechapel, was dis- covered to be on fire. By the timely arrival of the fire-engines, and a plentiful supply of water, the flames were subdued, but not before there was from 4,000/. to 5,000/. worth of the property destroyed.
Another fire broke out on Tuesday at a house in Broad Street Build- ings, which occasioned much alarm, from the circumstance of the pre- mises joining Brokers' Row, Moorfields, a great depot of furniture ; but the lire was confined to the house in which it commenced, and some adjoining out-houses.
FATAL COACH Accirmxr.—The Bognor coach was upset in Arundel on Tuesday. A servant of Lord Arran jumped off the roof just as the coach fell, and was crushed to death. The coachman and some of the passengers were more or less hurt, but not seriously.
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