The Press.
London, England, 1858-10-30 00:00:00

ITHE PRESS, OCTOBER 30, 1858.

and a light punt lsy on the shore. The young girls
off when the boat upset, and they were
thrown into deep water. The elder succee ed in
ching the side of the punt, but her sister, Helen,
ealiftt:r clutching vainly at an oar for support, missed
her hold, and sank to rise no more. Loch Kemph is
far from any human habitation ; no eye witnessed
the disaster, and there was no answer to the cries of
the poor young ladies for help. How either of them
escaped drowning is a miracle. For an hoar and a
half Miss Gentle clung to the boat, and when at last
it drifted ashore she sank quite exhausted on the
beach. The accident occurred about eleven o'clock
in the forenoon, and it was about three o'clock before
she reached home. Helen Gentle was about sixteen
years of age ; her body had not been recovered,
though every effort was made by her friends and the
people of the district. The loch, though small, is
very deep, and the bottom is filled with large roots
and jagged rocks, which prevent its being dragged
with nets.
AN Iseuesr was held on Tuesday, by Mr Wakley,
the coroner, respecting the death of John Gayton,
aged tifty, a carriage-coupler, who died in University
College Hospital, on Saturday, from the effects of
injuries received whilst at work among the carriages.
It appeared from the statement of the man
himself before death, and which was confirmed by
other testimony, that on the night of Monday, the
19th inst., about eleven o'clock, the deceased was
employed in his usual business, uncoupling chains at
the station in order to break up the train, when, no
me thinking he was there, the train was put in
motion. The deceased stepped from the coupling
chain on the buffer, and thence on the step-board of
the carriage, but, in leaning back, he was caught
against one of the pillars supporting the roof, and
knocked from his standing, the wheels of two carriages
passing over him, completely crushing his feet. He
was immediately removed to the hospital, where am-
putation was performed. He only survived the ope
ration twenty-four hours. In answer to the coroner
it was stated that the deceased had been told before.
hand that there was to be no uncoupling done at that
time, and to let it alone. He had been nineteen years
in the service of the company, and was well acquainted
with the regulations connected with his duties. The
jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death," in
accordance with the suggestion of the coroner.
A Fast. ACCIDENT has occurred in Cheapside.
For some time past an elderly man, named Jeremiah
Underwood, has had the charge of an unoccupied
house, situate at No. 4, Bread-street. The shutters
being down at a late hour on Tuesday' excited the
suspicions of a polioeman, who broke open the door,
descended to the basement, and there found the
unfortunate man lying on the floor in a pool of blood
and quite dead. From the examination made, there
is no doubt that the deceased had got upon a sky-
light that lighted up the whole of the lower floors
for the purpose of cleaning it, and that by some
mishap he must have lost his equilibrium and fell
to the bottom, a distance of between fifty and sixty
feet. The poor fellow's skull was frightfully fractured.
A FRIGHTFUL OCCURRENCE happened at Cyfarthfa
Iron-works, South Wales, a few days since, to a.
young girl, fourteen years of age, named Thomas,
In the course of her work her clothes caught fire,
and with her burning dress she ran to the rolls
where water is always running, in order to put out
the tones. In doing so her dress was caught by the
spindles, and in an instant the poor cteature was
dragged between the revolting rollers and literally
crushed to pieces.

in 1829 ; a member of the Royal College of Physi-
cians in 1831; fellow of the Royal College of Physi-
cians in 1814 ; senior assistant•physician of Guy's
Hospital in 1853 ; late physician to the Surrey and
South London Dispensary ; and member and late
president of the Hnnterian Society. He was author
of " A Clinical Introduction to the Practice of Aus-
cultation, and other modes of Physical Diagnosis,"
and a contributor of various essays in Guy's Hospital
Reports, the Medical Gazette, and the Edinburgh
Monthly Journal.

SIR ROISERT PRESION, BART., died a few days ago
at his residence, Sydney-place, Bath. The baro-
netcy was a Scottish one, created in 1637, and Sir
Robert was the eighth baronet. He succeeded his
father in 1846. He was formerly a colonel in the
army, and was appointed a deputy-lieutenant of Lin-
colnshire in 1849. The sixth baronet died in 1834,
and the male line of the first baronet being extinct,
the title reverted, according to the patent of creation,
to his nearest male collateral relative, the late
baronet's father, who was representative of the first
baronet's next brother. Sir Robert Preston is suc-
ceeded in the baronetcy by his brother Henry, who
entered the R,yal Navy in 1801, and became a com-
mander in 1830.