Saturday 21 Sep 1844 (p. 2, col. 8 - p. 3, col. 1) DEATH BY DROWNING.-On Monday the 9th instant as several young men of the Chester Diocesan Training College were bathing in the River Dee, Chester, Mr. James HOLLIDAY a tutor belonging to the institution, aged 18 years, son of Mr. Thos. HOLLIDAY of this city was unfortunately drowned, having been seized with cramp. He was a young man of talent and considerable attainments, and promised to be an ornament to society, and was highly esteemed and much lamented by the students and others of the institution. ACCIDENT.-On Sunday last son of Mr. VENTYMAN, officer of Excise, Penrith, aged five years, with some other boys of his own age, went into a field near the town head, where a pony belonging to his father and other horses were grazing, and, in imprudently chasing one of them, rather a vicious animal struck the boy on the forehead and seriously fractured his skull. Little hopes are entertained for his life. ACCIDENT IN A COAL MINE.-On Tuesday last a melancholy accident occurred at Dearham New Colliery, the property of Messrs. WOOD, STEELE, and Co. It appears the top-men were sending down a basket of wood, which had not been secured by cord, and in its descent the basket got upset, and two men who were standing in the shaft at the bottom were struck by its contents, one of whom was severely hurt, and the other killed on the spot. The name of the deceased is ALLEN; and we are sorry to say he has left a wife and children to deplore his melancholy end. THE LATE ACCIDENT AT WHITEHAVEN.-We regret exceedingly to state, that Mr. Isaac FISHER, of St. Bees Toll-bar, (one of the unfortunate sufferers in the late lamentable gig accident which we recorded last week) for whose fate we expressed our deepest apprehensions in our preceding number, gradually sank under the injuries he had received, and died in the course of Monday night week, leaving a bereaved widow and several young children to lament his irreparable loss. Mr. FISHER was a most industrious, worthy man, and as a husband and the father of a family, his conduct was meritorious in the highest degree. THE EIGHTON MURDER.-ADJOURNED INQUEST.-On Friday last, the enquiry into the death of Thomas ROBSON, the unfortunate pitmen who was shot dead by some person unknown, on the 10th ult., was resumed before Mr. J. M. FAVELL, the coroner, at the Red Robin Inn, Wrekenton. Some witnesses were examined, but their testimony did not tend to implicate any individual parties in the dark transaction. After a tedious investigation, the jury withdrew about half-past eight in the evening to consider the evidence, and at ten minutes to eleven returned a verdict of "Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown." COLD HEARTED MURDER.-A widow woman named Jane REDMAN, between 30 and 40 years of age, resident in Wellington-lane, in Sunderland, was by the verdict of a jury, before Mr MAYNARD, coroner, held on Wednesday last, at the Magpie public house, found guilty of the "Wilful Murder" of her new born infant. She had been observed by the neighbours to be about to give birth to a child, which she constantly denied. On Tuesday morning, when they entered the house, she was in bed unwell, and her appearance was as if she had been delivered. Suspicion being excited, the room was searched, and below the bolster they found the dead body of a child, without any marks of violence on it. As her delivery happened so lately, she is not yet able to be removed to gaol, but a constable is in attendance at her residence to prevent her escape. HORRIBLE CASE OF DESTITUTION.-On Thursday a poor man named James PEMBERTON, blacksmith, aged 32, residing at No. 4, Baine's-lane, Sunderland, and formerly of Gateshead, put an end to his existence by a draught of poison. He had a wife and four small children, and had been out of employment since the beginning of January last. During that time he and his family had subsisted by disposing of their clothes, furniture, &c., until they had nothing whatever left upon which a single farthing could be procured. For several days past, they had nothing to eat but what was given them by their neighbours, who, being poor people, had little to spare. After he had taken the fatal draught, he became ill, and communicated to his wife what he had done, and stated his reason to be hopelessness in extreme distress. Medical aid was procured; and Mr. TAYLOR, the relieving-officer, was informed for the first time of the situation of the family, and promptly visited the residence which presented an indiscribable picture of destitution. He was lying on a straw bed in a corner, without an article of bedding to cover him, until one of the neighbours brought a covering; nor was there any furniture in the room but an old table and a stool. His wife was lying near him crying, and exclaimed she was as wretched as any person possibly could be. Mr. TAYLOR gave an order for some provisions for their immediate relief, but by that time the sufferer was too far gone to make any use of it. He soon afterwards expired.-Sunderland Herald. FATAL ACCIDENT.-On Sunday evening last, July 28, Christian FORDYCE, a journeyman printer, who had worked in this office for the last ten months, unfortunately met his death while bathing in the East River, at the foot of South Second Street in this village. Deceased was a remarkably quiet, unobtrusive, and inoffensive man. Originally, we believe, from Newcastle-on-Tyne, he worked some time as a pressman in London, and other places before he decided upon coming to this part of the world, which he did about fifteen months ago.-Williamsburg Democrat, July 31. FATAL ACCIDENT AT NORTH SHIELDS.-On Wednesday George HALL, a coal trimmer, was drowned of the Custom House Quay, at North Shields. Whilst in a state of intoxication he was landing in a foy boat from a vessel lying in the river. When the boat was near the shore, he overbalanced himself, and fell into the river. He never rose to the surface, and although every exertion was made to save him, he was drowned in the presence of a great number of persons. He was 25 years of age, and has left a widow and one child.