attempted to cut his own throat ; then jumped from
the top of a p pice of twenty feet ; next attempted to drown himself in the river; and was at last secured while beating his head against the rocks."
The:fires reported are more numerous than the suicides. • A wheat-r k • at Maddington, near Salisbury, was burnt by incendiaries on Mond . On Friday, last week,eight stacks on a farm near Boston, were destroy d - by.'similar means and agents. In Cheam Lane, Surry, on the same night, a hay-stack was burnt ; it belonged to.Counsellor Thornton. On Sunday. evening, a large barley-stack was consumed at Lodge Farm,
; this fire was accidental. On Wednesday last week, a barn and a quantity of barley, at North Barsham, and on Saturday, two barley-stacks near Great Milton, Norfolk, were consumed. On Sunday, all the great tithe corn of Alfriston parish was burnt by incendiaries ; and on Monday a couple of stacks and two lodges were burnt, at Town Place, Throwly, near Feversham. There have been three fires in Lon- don since our last ;—one on Monday night, in Academy Court, Chancery Lane, where two houses were burnt to the ground ; one on Wednesday night, at Messrs. Westrupp's, bakers,i High Holborn, whose premises were 'wholly destroyed ; and one on Thursday night, at the corner of Bishop's Head Court, in Gray's Inn Lane, which destroyed two houses. It is feared that in this last fire, three if not more lives were lost.
In.the country, on _Monday, a destructive fire happened at Chorley, where the print-works of Messrs. Haigh and Co. were nearly consumed ; the estimated damage is not less than 5,000/. And on Saturday another print establishment, at Aberdeen, was burnt down, and goods prepared and unprepared to a very large amount lost.
SIR J. CARMICHAEL. ANSTRUTHER.—This young gentleman was acci- dentally shot, by one of his companions, on Monday last, at Goswell's, near Eton, where Sir John was a student. It appears that he and a Master Smyth had borrowed a gun from a Mrs. Powell, who lends guns to the young gentlemen of Eton ; and while they were walking toge- ther, the gun resting on Smyth's arm, it went off, and lodged the whole charge in the eye of the unfortunate boy : he immediately died.
ACCIDENTAL POISONING: Two children, sons of Mr. Barker, chemist, at Norwood, died the other day, after violent retching ; and three more were dangerously ill. The opinion that first obtained was that these were cases of cholera,—which, now-a-days, gets credit for all that falls out ; but examination seems to have proved that the children had un- fortunately swallowed some of the drugs of the shop.
SUDDEN Dzarn.—A female, stained Stannard, dropped down dead, the other day, on being informed that her husband, who is a policeman, was ordered to attend the meeting of the National Union. The pour woman had, we suppose, been reading the Herald, in whose columns Unions figure almost as alarmingly as cholera does in the Gazette. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday morning, on the arrival of Goddard's Portsmouth and Petersfield heavy waggon at nitwit, Sunson the driver was missing. He was found lyiwsb in the road some distance at the other side of Ditto's' dreadfully mangled and quite dead. It appeared the poor man had fallen asleep on the shaft, and had tumbled underneath the wheel, which had passed over his body. FATAL Accinsier.—Yesterday a dreadful accident happened to one of the workmen employed in forming the great sewer in Old Change. The unfortunate man was engaged in fixing a large beam across the street, to prevent any injury to the houses on either side by the withdrawal of the sand, &e. beneath the foundations, in order that the sewer might be tunnelled, when the ladder on which he was standing slipped, and he fell from the height of the second story on the curb, and was killed on the spot.
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