Baron Parke holding out no hope of a remission of
punishment on account of the jury's recommendation.

At the north riding of Tipperary assizes, two men,
named Michael Hogan and Timothy Ryan, have been
convicted of the Murder of a young man, named
Mullowney, the crime having been committed on the fair
day of Nenagh, in August last, and the cause being an
old feud which the family of one of the prisoners had
with the father of the deceased.

The farm-buildings of Mr. Richard Featherstonhaugh,
of Rockview, late high sheriff of Westmeath have
been maliciously Set on Fire and destroyed, together
with eighteen stall-fed cattle and three heifers, which
they contained. Mr. Featherstonhaugh had lately
given remuneration to some tenants for their improvements,
and thus enabled them to emigrate to America;
and it is supposed that the outrage inflicted on his
property was the result of the vindictive feelings inspired
by even this very modified mode of clearing his estate.

NARRATIVE OF ACCIDENT AND
DISASTER.

MAJOR Charles Colville Young, a distinguished officer
of the Royal Horse Artillery, who had just returned
from the Crimea where he was wounded, has been
Killed by a lamentable accident at Portsmouth. His
wife and children reside at Ryde; on his way to join
them, he arrived in the evening at the Fountain Hotel.
On retiring to his bedroom, he told the boots to call him
at seven next morning. When the boots left him, he
had partially undressed himself. The bedroom was at
the top of the hotel, facing the street. About two in
the morning Major Young hailed a policeman from the
window. He said he did not feel well, and wished to
get quietly out of the house to a chemist's shop
opposite, without disturbing the people, as it was so late.
The policeman went to the inspector, to see what
assistance he could give; and when he returned the
major was lying bleeding on the pavement. He was
fully dressed, and had his hat, great coat, and umbrella.
When found he was unconscious; he never rallied, and
died in less than two hours, apparently from the rupture
of a blood-vessel. Major Young was a tall man; the
height of the window-sill from the floor was only two
feet four inches: it is supposed that the major was
seized with vertigo while leaning out of window, and
fell over this low sill. The verdict of the coroner's
jury was "killed by accidentally falling from a
window."

Captain Johnson, superintendent of railway police,
was Killed at the Warrington station on the 6th inst.
He had been engaged superintending the transit of a
troop of artillery from London to Liverpool, whence they
were to start for the Crimea, when, just as the train
was starting he endeavoured to regain his carriage while
it was in motion; missing the step, he fell down
between the platform and the train, and before the
latter could be brought to a standstill, the hapless man
was crushed in an awful manner. He survived the
fearful accident only a few minutes.

A frightful Explosion of Naphtha, by which two
persons lost their lives, viz., Mr. Chas. Blackford
Mansfield, M.A., Cambridge, and a law student of the
Middle Temple, aged 35, lately residing at Weybridge,
and George Coppin, a practised chemist's assistant, aged
18, came under investigation on the 3d inst. at the
Middlesex Hospital, before the coroner. Mr. Mansfield,
who had studied at the College of Chemistry was, on
the day of the catastrophe, trying experiments with a
small model naphtha apparatus which he had invented
himself and patented, in an old detached building,
situated in Agar Town, and abutting on the Regent's
Canal, when, about one o'clock at noon, a loud explosion
was heard, followed by the falling of the building.
The unfortunate men were observed directly afterwards
escaping from the ruins, and making towards the canal,
their clothes all on fire. Assistance promptly arrived,
when, by rolling them on the ground, the fire was
extinguished, but not before they had been so fearfully
burnt as to resemble more the appearance of shrivelled
mummies than living human beings.

A calamitous Fire occurred in Clipstone-street,
Portland-road, on the night of the 7th inst. The flames
were first perceived by a police officer. Before he could
make the residents sensible of their danger, the flames
had gained a considerable ascendancy. Several persons,
however, managed to gain the street by rushing through
the fire on the staircase, when two women, one between
70 and 80 years old, made their appearance at the
windows, begging assistance from the bystanders. One
of the Royal Society's men succeeded, by means of the
escape in rescuing these women. Hearing that several
persons were still in the third floor, the conductors
kicked in the window, but they were unable to enter
the rooms owing to the density of the smoke. The
roof was next scaled by the conductors, but was so hot
they were obliged to make hasty retreats. As soon as
the flames were sufficiently subdued to allow the firemen
to enter the ruins, they proceeded into the third
floor, when they found in the front room the bodies of
three female lodgers, and in an adjoining room the
body of another woman, the whole being shockingly
burned, one having the legs and hands off. The origin
of the calamity has not been ascertained.

A young man named Kendall was Killed on the
South Coast Railway near Bermondsey, on the 5th
inst.; while he was at work, a horse dragging a heavy
chain passed him, and before he could get out of
the way the chain caught him across the body and threw
him on the ground. He struggled to extricate himself,
but without effect, and the pressure of the chain across
his body was so great as to cause his death.

On the 8th inst. a Fire broke out at Mr. Rouse's
eating-house, Farringdon-street. The flames spread
with such terrific fury that the inmates upstairs could
not effect an escape; two women jumped out of the
window, one of whom was so seriously injured that she
died shortly afterwards. The cause was the over-
heating of the oven.

A frightful Explosion of Gas took place on Saturday
night the 24th instant, in Portsmouth Dockyard. A
number of the dockyard police force were waiting in
the large station-room at the entrance of the yard, to go
on duty, when the smell of gas seemed to them to be
stronger than usual. To ascertain where the escape
came from, one of the men applied a light to different
crevices in the flooring boards, &c, and at length doing
so at the one from which the gas actually escaped into
the room, a terrific explosion took place. The whole of
the floor of the room was blown up, together with its
furniture, and all the unfortunate men who were
sitting in it. In addition to this, the roof of the
building, only consisting of a ground-floor, was blown
into the air. The sufferers were found to be Inspector
Henry Stroud, both legs broken; Sergeant Thomas
Ripley, leg broken; privates James Giles, arm and leg
broken and internal injuries; George Lane, arm and
leg broken; James Wassal, thigh broken; T. Sydenham,
leg broken, D. Palmer, Henry Neville, W. Elmes, and
W. Miller, seriously injured. With the exception of
Miller, all the poor fellows required to be taken to
hospital, and they were at once conveyed to Haslar.
After enduring great suffering, private Giles died, next
morning. Inspector Stroud is in a most dangerous state.
Should he survive, he must undergo amputation of
both legs.

SOCIAL, SANITARY, AND MUNICIPAL
PROGRESS.

THE first anniversary of the Central Association in
Aid of Soldiers' Wives and Families was held on the
7th instant, at Willis's Rooms; the Duke of Cambridge
in the chair. In his opening speech, the Duke declined
to say anything on the conduct of the war—it would ill
become his position; but he protested against his silence
being understood as tying him down either to approval
or disapproval. This did not preclude him from attending
the meeting, in order to contradict the statement that