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THE AWFUL CALAMITY AT YARMOUTH, NORFOLK

... The journalist has bat seldom record an event of such a distressing character as one which occurred on Friday last, at Yarmouth, by which upwards of one hundred persons lost their lives. In the afternoon of Friday, Nelson, tbe clown at Cooke's Circus, proceeded to perform a feat which has excited lome attention, both in London and the provinces, since was first introduced by the late Mr. ...

CRIMES AND CASUALTIES

... On Friday an inquest was held on the body of a man who died at Bethnal-grren, while endeavouring to ascertain by experiment the sensation of hanging. Major Hamilton, in command of the bead quarters 13th Light Dragoons, attempted suicide at Maryborough, by cutting his throat. He was discovered in the last stage of exhaustion, but happily in time save iiis life. Further confirmation of the ...