HANGING BY ACCIDENT.—On Monday last, a young boy at Salisbury,
swinging on a rope for amusement, by some strange mischance twisted it round his neck, and expired before he was perceived and cut down.
About one o'clock on Monday morning, a fire broke out in the premises of Mr. Rushton, a coffeehouse-keeper in Jewin Street, Aldersgate Street. The house was completely destroyed, and the lives of the family were saved with difficulty.
On Monday forenoon, fell a considerable quantity of the soil on the rock at the back of the Loggerheads at Nottingham, (where the fall of the rock was last spring); three or four persons were playing at skittles, when two or three large stones came thundering from above, followed by several loads of soil, and all the nine-pins went down without any of the party remaining to set them up again. The roof of an outbuilding was broken in, and a horse covered with the rubbish, but the animal was extricated without having sustained any injury.—Notlingham Review.
On Wednesday morning, the engineer of the William Joliffe, Hamburg packet, was killed by the fall of a large cylinder. The "shears" employed to lower the cylinder gave way, and the unfortunate man was knocked down into the hold, and his skull severely fractured.
William Wright, a beadle of Chiswick, was called on yesterday at Bow Street to find bail for an assault upon a young man of the name of Ivyman. The complainant had eloped with a girl somewhat richer than himself. They were privately married. Of this the girl's mother was not aware, and she gave the constable orders to regain her daughter. In the execution of these orders he had entered the complainant's house, and, not finding the young woman, had been guilty of a riot. • On Sunday last, the house of Mr. Mosley, upholsterer and undertaker, in Duke Street, Lincolia'S Inn Fields, was robbed while the family WAS at
church. On returning from church, Mrs. Mosley found the doors locked as she had left them ; but on entering the rooms, found drawers and boxes empty, and property to a great amount carried off.
On Sunday morning, the house of M:Delaporte, in Canterbury Row, Newington, was entered by thieves, and robbed of jewellery to the amount of 401.
On Tuesday, as a lady named Jones, who lives in Westminster Road, was returning to her house in Vauxhall Road, she was seized by two men, gagged, and robbed of a sovereign, some silver, and her muff. On Monday morning about three o'clock, Mr. Bishop, baker, in Clare Court, Drury Lane, heard a noise in his back yard. He looked through the window, and saw three men scrambling over the walls. He then opened the street-door, called in the police, and apprehended all three.
A poor sailor, of the name of Byrnes, was killed in Limerick, on Satur- day, by a crowd who were pursuing a cooper. Byrnes was moving peaceably along, when a ruffian ran up to him and stabbed him to the heart. His Majesty's ship Wolfe, Captain Russell, on her return from Malta, ran on the rocks at the back of the Isle of Wight on Wednesday; and fears are entertained as to the possibility of getting her off again. Many vessels have gone to her assistance.
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