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London, England, 1839-09-09 00:00:00

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EXLPOSION OF GAS. DEATH FROM
Fatotrr.—On Friday an inquest was held before Mr.
Baker, coroner, and a jury, at the George public-house,
Commercial-road East, on the body of Mr. Shaw, aged
43, licensed victualler. A gas pipe exploded on Tuesday
morning. The alarm threw deceased into fits. The jury
returned a verdict that the deceased died from natural
causes, accelerated by the fright he sustained by an ex-
plosion of gas.
ANOTHER DEATH FROM POISONOUS MUSH-
kooms.—An inquest was held at Ickham on Friday, before
Mr. Delassaux, on the body of, a little girl, named Chris-
tiana Hotness, whose death was occasioned by eating mush-
rooms. It appeared that the deceased and another girl
had gathered the mushrooms in Lee Priory Park, cooked
and eaten them on Thursday evening last • that both chil-
dren were taken ill during the night, and the deceased
continuing so on Saturday, Mr. Sankey, surgeon, of Wing-
ham, attended her, which he continued to do until her
death, which took place on Tuesday morning, A post-
mortem examination was made by Mr. Sankey, from whose
evidence it appeared the deceased died from the effects of
congestion on the brain, occasioned by some acrid narcotic
poison, which had been previously taken, and which might
have been produced from mushrooms. Verdict—" Acci-
dental death, from eating mushrooms of a posonous qua-
lity." The other child, we are happy to find, has re-
covered.—Kentish Observer.

THE CAPITAL OF PERSIA.—Do you expect
from me an account of the capital I have just quitted,
after a residence so much longer than I anticipated ?
Verily, I have little more to say of it than has es-
caped my pen. It is a fortified place—that is encom-
passed by a mud wall, about four miles in circumference,
with towers and a formidable ditch, but possesses scarcely
one attractive or marking feature. As in all Persian
towns, its bazars are the only streets it can boast of;
its other paths of communication are but crooked and
winding alleys, so narrow that it is dangerous to
meet even with a loaded ass; sometimes these alleys
have a paved gutter in the centre, flanked with
high and irregular banks; in other places, from the
unsound condition of a water conduit below the
surface, holes are frequent, a circumstance which is
pregnant with evil and broken legs to many a horse
and mule. In all cases they are full of nuisances and,
abominations, not the smallest of which is the number
of squalid beggars who lie just under your horses' feet as
you pace along. The bazars are extensive, and tolerably
well filled with goods as well as people, yet they make but
little show ; there is not a minaret or tower in the place
to give tffect to the distant view; and of the two domes
which it possesses, that belonging to the Shah's mosque is
alone to be perceived by the approaching traveller,
from having a little gilded cap upon its head. 'Tehran,
in fact, like the dynasty and government, is exhibiting
those premonitory symptoms of decay which prog-
nosticate a total breaking up of the body politic,
unless prevented by speedy aid. There is no brilliancy—
no splendour—no bustle of' youth about the place. Like
its King, it is becoming old and careless about such
things; and, like his Government, it is falling to
pieces. The ruins occasioned by time or earth-
quakes remain unrestored, and little of the hum of
business or the excitement of enterprise is to be heard or
seen. Even when the King is in the Palace, its great
square exhibits scarcely any movement ; where the bold
gholaums of Aga Mahomed Khan were wont to glitter,
and his victorious troops to muster, you see some
straggling and ragged toffuochees crawling about ; or a
few horses—those of the ministers and officials in atten-
dance—lobbing their heads in the sun under the sleepy in-
fluence of the place, with a lazy groom in the saddle. An
air of dilapidation is stealing even over the royal dwell-
ings, and there is scarcely
house in the palace, so far as
I have seen, that is kept in thorough repair. The late
shows and amusements were an effort called forth, by a
particular occasion, and will probably but deepen by con-
trast the monotonous dulness that will succeed them.—
Fraser's Winter Journey to Persia and Khorasan.