The gardener of Mr. Sherbrook, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, suffered a melancholy death. Mr. S. had frequently previous had his pinery robbed, and on Thursday night the gardener determined to sit up and watch; he accordingly posted himself in the green-house, with a loaded fowling-piece, where it is supposed he fell asleep, and in the morning was found dead on the ground, with all the appearance of suffocation, evidently occasioned by the discharge of mephitic gas * from the plants during the night.
* air exhausted of oxygen and containing chiefly nitrogen.
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