The Statesman.
London, England, 1823-01-28 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS OF THE SEASON.

The weather for some days past has been more
inclement than for many years. The snow which fell
last week has trvo kept on the ground by a severs frost
which for the last two days has been attended by as in-
tensely cold and biting wind from the eouth-east, accom-
panied at intervals by heavy showers of snow and sleet.
Wednesday last, two ladies of great respectability, named
Slade, members of the Society of Friends, who came to
this town in the Subscription coach, proceeded on to
Truroby bytheFaiwouth mail; and although particularly
solicited to take inside places, they preferred going on
the outside of the coach. This resolution, we regret to
state, is likely to cost both their lives, as one sister was
taken ill from the effects of the cold, and died the next
day, and the other lies in a very dangerous state. We
bare heard many other instances of the disastrous effects
of the estreine severity of the weather in this neigh-
bourhood, hut unattended by the like fatal consequences.
Many of the stage-coaches are unable to proceed, from
the roads being filled op with drifted snow.—(Ptyznomth
Telegraph.)
On Sunday last, two brothers, of the name of Wain*,
went to shoot birds near to the reservoir in the neigh-
bourhood of Kendal ; when one of them, carrying the
gun at half cock, it by some accident went off, and the
contents lodged in the body of his companion, who was
then walking before him. The unfortaoate young man
died within 24 hours, upon the very day on which he
was to bare been married.—Our readers will recollect,
that on Sunday week two brothers were drowned while
skaiting, very near to the place where the above acci-
dent happened--(cartile Journal.)
On Tuesday se'onight, a Coroner's inquest was held
by M. Ellison, coroner, on the body of Joseph Carter.a
hof atwa -eight. years of age. whose pasente reside in
illrelmgate, )(oak. The deceased, with two eller aft-
°dray, Item near We'd Foss To play, iiid ittamptel,
hand in hand, to go over the ice on the river, which
was scarcely frozen over, when Carter broke in op to
his knees, and the other children disengaging their
hand from him, he got further into the water, and sunk
to rise no more. The children being frightened, ran to
school without giving any alarm; and, no assistance be-
ing at hand, the deceased remained in the water three
or four hours. Upon inquiry being made for him late
in the evening, one of the children informed hit sister
that the deceased had gone upon the ice to slide, and
fallen into Foss, where be was almost immediately
*after found. The verdict was then returaed—Accidentally
Drowned. •

On the 10th inst. a young Man of the name of Verty,
in going over the Fells from Oarrigill Gate, in Comber-
land, to Dutton, in Westmorland, unfortunately slipped
on a large sheet of ice, by which be was thrown over
,a precipice, and so severely injured by the accident that
his life is despaired of.
."...accingsT.—On Thursday last, as a party of colliers
wire drawing a waggon laden with coals, near the new
Bridge in this place, one of them accidentally fell down,
and the waggon passing. over his body, he was so seri-
ously injured that his life is despaired of.—These poor
men, who, for want of better employtnent,had come from
Bedworth, a distance of nearly seventeen miles, with a
quantity of coal, and offered them for sale in the various
places through which they passed, without success,were
on their road to Leamington in search of a customer,
when this melancholy accident took place.—(Warteick
Adv.)