The Dundee steam-ship left her moorings at the entrance of
the London Docks on Wednesday night, after taking on board a very ex- tensive cargo of merchandise, fifty passengers, several carriages, and a great number of horses. Since the arrival of the Dundee in the River on Friday morning, no fewer than 20,000 persons have inspected her. This splendid vessel has produced a fine harvest for the watermen; who say that during the memory of the oldest of them no object on that part of the river has attracted so much attention. Almost every indi- vidual connected with steam navigation in the Metropolis has visited the Dundee; and they have all declared that she is the most complete specimen of naval architecture ever seen in this country. The size of her berths, the accommodation for families requiring large or small state-rooms, and the elegance of her saloon, culled forth universal ad- miration.—Sun.
Mr. John Martineau, a partner in the house of Whitbread and Co., disappeared suddenly on Friday afternoon last week. Search was made, and his body was found in a yeast-trough on the premises. Mr. Martineau was nearly eighty years of age, and was subject to apoplectic fits : he had doubtless fallen into this trough, while taking his usual walk round the brewery.
An ox, rendered furious by want of water, broke from the drove to which it belonged, on Monday afternoon, when returning from Smith- field market. It forced its way into Lincoln's Inn Square; where it attacked an old man, whom it tossed into the air, and injured severely. The animal ran at several other persons; who, however, escaped its fury. It was finally induced to join the drove again, which was driven to the Square in order to entice it.
One little boy was killed, and two others were severely injured, on Thursday afternoon, by the falling of some scaffolding, on which a large quantity of bricks were piled, at the brewery of Messrs. Combe, Delafield, and Co., in Castle Street, Long Acre.
A housebreaker fell from a parapet wall in Nag's Head Court, Graceehurch Street, early on Sunday morning; and was hurt so badly that he died in the evening of that day. He is supposed to have been making an attempt to rob the premises of Messrs. Frodsham's, the watch makers ; as he had housebreaking instruments in his possession.
A Coroner's Jury on Saturday, brought in a verdict of "Found drowned," on the body of Jane Bond, the young woman whose corpse was mentioned last week, as having been found in the New River.
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