The Press.
London, England, 1858-12-04 00:00:00

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TROWSCOED HALL, near Welshpool, the residence
of E. S. It. Trevor, Esq., has become the prey of fire.
On the morning of Wednesday last a fire broke out
which completely destroyed this splendid mansion.
'rhe family escaped with great difficulty.
A CURIOUS ACCIDENT happened a day or two ago in
a manufactory at Garde•AdWmar to a girl, twelve
years of age, named Chirouze. She had, contrary
to the rules of the place, been combing her hair in
the work.room, and had left it hanging loose on her
back. As she was standing near the shaft of a
machine, her hair was caught by it, and completely
torn off with all the scalp of her head. She was
carried to the hospital, where she lies in a very
dangerous state.

A REM.MICABLY SUDDEN DEATH occurred at the
Parisian Italian Opera-house, on Saturday night last.
Mereadante's IL Giuramento was given. Towards
the close of the opera the tenor, Viscardo, stabs the
prima donna, Elaisa. At, the moment when this
event took place, a slight scream was heard from a
lady in one of the grand tier boxes. Her friends
around her supposed she had simply uttered the cry
in a moment of temporary excitement on witnessing
;he dramatic events of the stage ; but her bead was
seen to droop, and she was instantly removed. Me-
dical assistance soon arrived, and then, to the sur-
prise of all around, the lady was declared to have
expired. She was a person of no ordinary beauty,
and about thirty years of age—her name Severe.
THE MYSTERIOUS MURDER OF MR. PARSONS, a
tradesman at Andover, has led to the arrest on sus-
picion of Mr. T. A. Banks, the landlord of the Rose
and Crown Inn, with his wife, Emma Banks. A
juvenile party was in the midst of celebrating the
birthday of one of the accused's children at his house
when the arrest was made. The accused has been
examined and remanded on the charge.
A POACHING AFFAIR, attended with serious
consequences, occurred upon the estate of Mr.
E. I. Collingwood, of Lilburn Tower, near
Wooler, in Northumberland. It seems that
gangs of poachers roam about the hill districts
of the northern part of the county, and in conse•
quence the country gentry have to employ a large
number of game watchers. Several watchers were
perambulating the estate of Mr. Collingwood aad
the adjoining estate, belonging to Mr. Cresswell, of
Harehope, about three o'clock on Saturday morning,
when poachers were descried. A watcher named
Nixon, in the employ of Mr. Cnsswell, saw three of
them. He ran after them, and in doing so was
joined by some, if not all, of the other watchers, and
was pursuing closely behind, when the poachers were
observed to look back; they seemed determined not
to be taken, but each seemed to wish his companion
to fire the first shot towards the watchers, until at
length one of them did deliberately turn round and
fired his gun, and shot poor Nixon, who fell, appa-
rently mortally wounded, to the ground. The other
watchers first saw to the state of their companion
Nixon, and gave up the chase of the poachers, who
had still two guns with them besides that which had
been oischarged, and who, probably as a matter of
prudence, were allowed to escape. Nixon was car-
ried in a faint and suffering condition home to his
cottage, and several shots, about No. 6 size, were
found to have entered his body about the thighs and
the lower part of the bowels. He was evidently dan-
gerously wounded, though hopes are now entertained
of his recovery. It appears that Nixon will be
enabled to identify the man who shot him, and to
whom, though it was rather dark, be had been very
near. Having obtained the best description they
could of the three poachers, the police arrested seven
men, suspected as poachers, and in the houses of
some of whom game that morning had actually been
found ; but as neither the wounded man nor any of
the other watchers could identify any one of them,
they were brought back to Alnwick and liberated.
The detectives, however, are still eugaged in in-
quiries, with a view to bring the real parties to jus-
tice. It seems that one of the other watchers was
also hit by the discharge of a gun, but he is not
seriously hurt.

A SERIOUS ACCIDENT I EAPPENED TO LADY TUCKER,
the wife of Admiral Sir Edward Tucker, on Tucsday
evening. Her ladyship while crossing ltegent•strcet
was knocked down and run over by the carriage of

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