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paper, we never had to recoril a 

 more heart-rending- calamity than 

 what occurred on jNIonday the 

 21st on Lavan Sands. A number 

 of poor j)ersons, consisting of 

 two men, three women, and three 

 chlkhen, went, as was their usual 

 custom at this season, to collect 

 cockles on the tibove sands; llie 

 day had been remarkably clear, 

 but towards evening an uncom- 

 monly thick fog arose, of whicli 

 they were admonished to beware 

 before they set ont, and it was ob- 

 served very visibly collecting in 

 the distant hoi-izon ; the conse- 

 quence was, as maybe anticipate*], 

 they could not find their way b:ick, 

 night was coming on, and the dis- 

 tance from any succour being 

 nearly four miles, their cries could 

 not be heard — .after wandering 

 in vain for several hours, they all 

 perished on the return of the tide ! 

 The coroner's inquest sat on the 

 bodies of these unfortunate suffer- 

 ers, who weie placed in Aber 

 church; and certainly a more 

 alHicting sight can hardly be con- 

 ceived; husbands lamenting the 

 loss of wife and children, and 

 wives lamenting the loss of hus- 

 bands and children ! One woman 

 and a little girl are not yet found. 

 The party consisted of eiglit per- 

 sons i those found are Ellen Ro- 

 berts and her daughter, from the 

 parish of Llanllechid, the daughter 

 only arriving last week from Li- 

 verpool to see her parents, and 

 has left an infant only three months 

 old; two labouring men, one witji 

 a son, and the other with a daugh- 

 ter ; the last, a little girl of only 

 fourteen years eld, was found 

 kneeling, with her hands folded 

 across her bosom, elose to the 

 prostrate body of her father ! ! 



The two men had large families; 

 one had seven children ! They 

 were discovered close together. 

 The sea was so calm and tlie tide 

 Mowed so gentlj-, that the men 

 were fcnuid with their hats on ! — 

 (Soith ffalcs Gazette.) 



A most disastrous case of in- 

 sanity h.appened at the private 

 madliouse of Mr. Warbiu'ton, on 

 Bethnal-green, on Friday the 20ti), 

 which became the subject of an 

 inquest before .1. W. Unwin, Esq. 

 one of the coroners for Middlesex, 

 at two o'clock on Tuesday. The 

 circumstances attending the fatal 

 afflxir are as follows : — About half- 

 ])ast one o'clock on Friday last, 

 Mr. Owen Anderson, (who had 

 been placed in tiiis establishment 

 in the year 1315, and had re- 

 mained there ever since) with 

 several other patients, had just 

 dined. One of the two keepers 

 who attended upon them quitted 

 the room for some domestic pur- 

 pose; the knives .and foiks which 

 had been itsed at dinner were 

 placed in a knife-tray, on one of 

 the forms. Joseph Deshayes, the 

 unfortunate person who is de- 

 ceased, happened to go to a closet 

 near the fire-place in which coals 

 Avere kept, and stooping down to 

 fill t!ie coal-scuttle, the unhappy 

 gentleman, Mr. Anderson, seized 

 a case-knife, and plunged it into 

 the kee])er's back. He rose up 

 immediately, and received another 

 desperate stab in the lower jjart 

 of the belly. No jiersons were in 

 the room at this time but the de- 

 ceased, Mr. Anderson, and the 

 other patients. 



.John Welch swoin. — Is a ser- 

 vant in the house. (.)n Fridiy, 

 •about half-past one o'clock, was 

 in the kitchen cutting up the din- 

 ner. 



