The National Register.
London, England, 1822-09-29 00:00:00

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SHOCKINOACCIDENT---EXIOW from a private let-
ter dated Boulogne, Fahlay, Sept. 20 As the Dositer;post-
o.lire steam -boat, from Dover, was near the peal, the unfortua
nate engineer was caught in some of the steam apparatus, and
tame isto the harbour with his arm dreadfully shattered, sod
and his Irg mist:wily turn, lying on the derh. Soon after seeing
Vita unpleasant sight, and passing through a creel in the upper
Dame( Ate lower town, I saw • crowd, and asking the
a French woman told me that the English Countess was rode
os CT aad killed. In a slate of horrid anxiety I immediately went
t her louse, Rue de %Idlest!, where I saw, breathing her last,
I.le beautiful daughter of my very old 111141 partici: ar friend,
Mrs. Charles Lock, the daughter of the DuSiess of Leinster by

the second husband, Mr. Oiils ie. his eldest daughter married
a toreigu Count of the name of %lay, and bad just recovered
tea u her acconultesuent. Arctic was riding out yesterday for
1.,e host time on her donkey (boedet as they call it here,) sod
coming down the hill towar.:s her own house, with her mother
walking at her sid, , and her sioer, Mrs. Murray Gresill•, in
co.npany, a cart csine down tiom the top of the street, the horse
running away with it at full opted, ran over and killed on the spot
tie boy in Attendance, and ran over. the Countess de Vilty, and
her &owlet, the wheel passing over the lower part of her body.
isi an almost lifeless state she was brought inte her house close
toy, where I saw the melancholy scene attoremeutioned—her
loisband tramic leaning over her almost inanimate body. By
farce lie was torn away, to give the surgeons liberty to els-
smite the hurt : but, ides! to no purpose, she had breathed her
Ist at the moment of separation from her husband. 'Mrs. Gre•
v•Gc had it narrow escape, the wheel scraping bar arm, and
Mrs. C. bock was thrown in the confusion. ,I shall nut attempt
to describe the confusion, but God grant. that I may wit

netts such a scene again."
.Ott Saturday Just, the execution of Brierley. for
highway rubbery, teat place on the drop, in front of the House
cf Correction. Chester. About half pest twelve o'clock it was
communicatedla the prisoner that the Sherifs were in attendance
in order to sce the last melancholy duty of their o nce perfumed.
Tim eateationer proceeded to pinion hint, whilst Mr. Chester..
the gaoler, fastened to his legs a heavy pair of irons, for the
tetrpow of ser.elerAting Ids <leads, Brierley being but a short man.
iers being done, the hangman expressed to him a hope tar for-
peerless. Aye, aye, (replied the poor man, in a tone of voice
which inferred that the request was unnecessary) forgive you,
eye; I forgive every body in this world." The Ordinary gave
him same pious exhortations and advice. " Oh, 1 thank (Sod !
Cie exchtiliml) I am quite conifortuble ; Christ has made good
his word with we. I turgive every one, and I know Christ has
forgiven me. In a few moments I shall be in his pretence in
lizaven. Blessed be hit name! ' He was then conducted up the
ep• of the platform, the hangman having made the necessary
limiest:Lions. lie mounted with a firm step. When tied up,
he turned round, and dew down a handkerchief which lie had
in his hand. 'fire executioner then pulled the cap over his face,
descended the step., and it 1111 l ediately drew the bolt which sup-
ports the leaves of the drop, and the -wretched convict was
laranc'ted into the world of spirits. His body was much convulsed
for about a minute and a half after being turned GC when all
motion ceased tiff at least India minute. Convulsive struggles
again ensued—the hands were closely p ripped—the chest hi awed
several times. and the knees were bent upwards. In lase than
three minute* all ett toggling .had ceased. lie had spent a most
abandoned life fur several years. By trade he was a dyer, and
was employed in a very re-pixtable concern in Manchester. lie
was 3S years old this year.
IUoLATRY IN INDIA.-s•-•rhe free Press of Cal-
cutta has operated most powerfully in ramming the most
inveterate and revolting abuser. The effact of seven native
pressers at work in that great city has been to triumph over thin-
. itoo superstition in its strong hold. During, the last festival of
dagernaut the-c were SO few pilgrims ,present that they were
tillable to drag the car. The Brahmins called in talter.rad. but
no &Tate c.erld be persuaded to sacrifice himself to the idol.
They now talk of L.:moving the Bath to a more central situation.
The wily prieialitiod have sagacity enough to perceive that they
must remove the theatre of their sanguinary superstition beyond
the sphere of a tree press, or that the bijoury of thirty centuries
wail disappear. To the pemianent glory of our Indian Adini-
itiatrution, a largeportion of the population of Bengal are receiv-
ing the rudiments of an improVed system of education, while
thettsands of elementary works are circulating throughout the
empire. Even Hindus) women, against whom widowhood, and
subsequent burnaig alive, arc denounced fur learning the alpha-
bet, alai who must nut rend the Veda under pain of death, have
placed their (I:anginas at the public scholis. The celebrated
!Linker rtfinmer. Item Makin Boy, has held public (monthly
meetings at Calrutta„for tits purpose of freely discussing the
tenni of his religion, and exposing the cruelties practised
.er it.
uuoAl. LeiNCIIOLY ACCIDENT.--311 Monday a shock-
ing took place in the Broadway, Westminster, the
sea eimeequeuce of which is, that a married female, six months
advanced in pregnancy, and an interesting young woman, the
I 1;;Iner of a respertahle *tradesman in the neighbourhood,
w. re killed. The eircurisetauces attending this unfortunate se-
ct .ent wee these ,—Tire house of Mr. box, grocer, in the
Broadway, eitminster, is undergoing repeat.' ; and Mr.
Plasters, jun. the sou of the builder, had Ordered his melt to put
sir scaffolding, which they perforated on Monday. There were
t wu I:rge scaffold poles more than were necessary for the work.
and Air. Plasters, jun. said they should not be sent home, as i.
would hinder the men a great deal of time, but they ihould be
Irshed to the sides of the ecallulding already erected, and when
Cie repairs were completed they should take the poles hank
altogether. Between six and rearm ti cloak on :Howley night,
llr. jlasteri. jun., hull the pules emitted, and he was litineelf
sum k ig at the top of the ecaffuld, trying to lash them to the
seaGlii side pole., wheti, as he was pulling the ropes, they
blipped through his hands, otsing, it is said, to the weight a'
the poles, and he fell backwards auti,naruwly escaped falling to
the pound, and being dashed to pieces. As soon as he loosed
C.e ropes, the poles, having nuthing to support them, fell, and
ll isa Aldridge, the daughter of Mr. Aldridge, plumber, in Deere-
erect, anti Mrs. Bieleet, the wife of Mr. Bishop, in St. Anue's-
Street, who were unfertuntaely passing at the time, were struck
Its th.au on the head and back, and so shocking were the injust
roes, t at one died almost instantly. met the other in the course
oh the evening. Miss Aldrafge'a friends are in the must Mena-,
eittealde distress at her dreadful late ; sad Mr. Bishop on bear-
i.ig of his wile's death, was almost in a mate m madneas. She
has lett one child. An invest was held on Wethiesairy on the
bullet. Alter a careful investigation, it appeared that the ea-
Irmily urignetted in accident, wad the Jury retunied as their
verdict—" That the deceased esine by their deaths through the
accidental falling of the scalfolit pule,;' amid a deudeuti of 206.
pas ordered to be levied try the astute.
Oa Tyoeiglay morning early a pair lad fell over-
flow° oppoarte 11-inche►terklhart, 13 'Aside, and continued
to the teetti4 for lire or six minutes. Ile was rescued limn his
'emery grave hi some coal porters wao were on the :yet, and
%%-i4 conveyed to the Anchor public-house on Bankaide, where
by the pciaevering exertions of Mr. Ledger, a surgeon, in the
Doi on •tt, be was happily re-animated: The direction., a.
by that eacellent ettablisernent the }Oita! Humane No-
. were tanstiollvd tar upwards of as hour before ally
tiar. eueld be perceived at UM wrist.