The Sun.
London, England, 1824-07-26 00:00:00

[ANOTHER ACCOUNT.]

Sunday Evening, Eleven o*Clock.—Mr. Gough is a musician
and instrument-maker, and also superintendent of the watch at
Lincoln's-inn. He wan not aware that it was his own dwelling
that was on fire till he arrived on the spot with the engine, when
he became sanselesur; '4",thatieti Gott his son, escaped from the
one-pair window-01011W% t/tt.' ogactitim his mother and
sister", l'elumed• reil4ll:4l uis brother Francis,
who holds a situation with' At the' Barrister, leaped
from the third story, arid has both his knees fractured. Ho was
removed yesterday evening to the. house of Hall, whom
he was this day to have attended on the Circuit, from Mr.
Marsh's, Chancery-lane, where he was first taken. Sophia
Gough, his sister, still remains there ; she is under seven-
teen • years or age, and-
.EE -AMA --uferc,- The
Ballet-master of/ the' COI* Theatre ; her indentures ex-
pire shortly, and an ,engagerrient has been entered into
on 11..4 own tiecduntnt site 'alio jumped from the third
story, and is in the greatet agony, and not expected to survive ;
her injury is that bf the tw4) surgeons have been in con-
stant attendance, win) tleare her case to be hopeless. Mrs.
Lardley is worse, and is .now considered in danger, though she
has broken no bonci; and is in the Queen's ward, Barth°.
lomew Hospital. 4wictid of the unfortunate sufferers have re-
ceived clothing, pecuniary mist:dance, and letters to medical
institutions from respectable individuals. No subscription has
as yet been entered into,-411 die reports of which are erroneous

The cause between the heirs of the late Count
General STACK? t
6-4; and their opponents, re-
specting the execution of the judgments given by
the Court of (AR;ucery in Ireland, and in the
House of Lords in i.ngland, was this morning
(Thursday last) called on at the First Chamber
of the Court Royal, .The opponents of Richard,
son of Count George, demanded that the cause
" sorlit du role'' should be taken out of its place,
at least so far us regarded the provision of
375,000 francs, which had been granted to them
by a decree of the First Instance, The Court
held, that the case should be kept on the roll,
whence it results that it cannot be heard till
after the vacation,--(Paris Paper.)

A man of ttiO. name. of Archibald Hamilton, a
native, it is said, of the town of Preatonpans, and fortnerly,
a private in the lierwickidfirwMilltia, cut his throat in a
moat frightful mariner, in a held near Mitixsyeil-town, on
the 'lnst. . The first incision' was four
'7I3Y not. contented 'with this he had
inchesln oirnnii.llgeo ugt: hil: 11 ,
made a second gash in a . vertical direction, and with such
SUMS that the grOund ..arotind was literally dyed', with '
blood. Still lie had strength to crawl thirty yardi from '
where. the nor was fnuntl.4yiagi and Oct being catiled• to the
Infirmary, not Only survive(l24linufs; but actitalltsmoke he
oOntrOtS of tlICO: several 101)See0 pip 8* llc 8136 C110,...0 iii
t'.%
moot eager desire for food, though Whifeveilhe'airernpte 0
swallow immediately issued through the gash in the throat, and
in, this way oce(ksioned the most violent c0vgt,.1).,,(1141444.4'
,his senses to the last,- and when ipieition cpp,,T JecE..,tl,
motioned something like contrition foe thildtrWtic ,t,.klit
e4ntirmed apathY Reerned to be the prOillits—fef iqiff,u.
his mind, and as "far as . mold fie observell,lie Wa4 11$0,1A0
anxious to live nor. efrald'to (lie. In his youth tha'fiecApsed.
had been bread a shoemaker, but on being discharged from- the
Militia, had chief!), worked . its a day h'bourer. During, the
two last years of his life the neighbours
generally thought' hint
deranged, and there can bQ little
'doubt that extreme poverty,
combined with depression of spirits, had led to the committal of
therash act. lie has left a widow and a numerous family.