The residence of Earl Beauchamp was entered on Tuesday night,
by some thieves, when a writing-desk, containing 250/. in notes, forty sovereigns, two miniatures, a quantity of jewellery, two wills, and a quantity of papers, were stolen. On Wednesday morning, a Police constable in St. James's Square observed 'a writing-desk among the shrubs, which, upon examination, proved to be the one stolen. None of the property was found.
On Wednesday, an Inquest was held at the Middlesex Hospital, en the body of an old man, named 'Thomas Siggs. The deceased was knocked down on the evening of the 15th ult. in the Regent's Circus by a gentleman's cab, which was proceeding at a furious pace. A Po- liceman followed the cab ; but the driver whipped his horse, and at the bottom of Waterloo Place the Policeman was obliged to stop from es...Lotion. Tile cub, in which was a gentleman inside and a footman behind, was then lost sight of. The deceased was taken to the above Hospital, where be died on the 9th instant. Verdict—" Manslaughte'r snake t the driver of a gentleman's cub, who is at present unknown to the jurors."
An inquest was held on the 7th instant, on the body of Mrs. Jane Oakley, widow, aged seventy-eight, for ninny years head housekeeper at the House of Lords. On Friday morning, she was found in one of the areas at the back of the House of Lords, quite dead, with her skull, legs, and right thigh fractured. She had accidentally fallen from the leads of the gallery above (a height of nearly fifty feet), whilst engaged in watering some choice pots of flowers which she kept there. Verdict
A ecidental death."
On Saturday afternoon, two little boys, about six and nine years of age, accidentally fell into the Grosvenor Canal, Pimlico. Mr. Hyatt, an :lour at Astley's Theatre, passed at the moment with his Newfound- land dug, Nero, which, by his directions, plunged into the wetter, and brought to shore successively the two children. They were taken to the nearest public-house, where they recovered.
.e. " --alts.atpt.her A Coroner's Jury, on Monday, returned a verffi t I 1 t against Sarah Wright, a laundress in Chelsea, for killing her niece, a girl ten years old, by the most brutal treatment.
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