• Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Vans Agnew was elected, on Tuesday, a
-Director of the East India Company, in the room of the late Colonel Baillie,
The Charing Cross Hospital, situate at the corner of King William Street, West Strand, was thrown Open for the inspection of the public on Monday; when a fancy fair was held there, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the benefit of the institution: The stalls were
lled with a variety of tasteful ornaments, principally contributed by the ladies who superintended the disposal of them. Among other con- tributions, was one by the Princess Victoria, of a drawing of a cottage- girl, lithographed by Lane. Ninny parties of the nobility visited the fair, and the sum raised is said to be considerable.
Mr. W. Morgan. the nephew of Dr. Price, and Actuary to the Equitable Assurance Society for fifty-six years, was privately buried on Saturday last. Mr. Ildorgan's mathematical and scientific attain- ments were f the highest order.
A fire broke out on Monday evening in the drawing-room occupied by the Duke of Orleans at Grillon's Hotel, but was soon extinguished. The table, with some maps and papers which were lying upon it, were consumed, but no further damage was done.
• A cadet at Woolwich, the son of Colonel Bull, was seriously wounded on Monday last, in the following manner. During the trial of some pieces on Woolwich Common, a shell was carried more than 140 yards beyond the flag staff, which was the mark, and which wir4 MO yards from the place of firing. The shell met with some ob- stele in its course, and branching off in an Oblique direction, struck Mr. Bull on the hip. Surgical assistanee WEI* invittediotely phaetwed, but the wound is considered a dangerous one; it will at least disable the patient for life.
On Tuesday afternoon, three gentlemen, residents in the Temple,. who were going down the River in a wherry which they had hired at Lyon's, Lambeth, rowed Athwart the stern of a barge near Black friars Bridge. The tide was drawinn." the boat under the barge ; *hen Mr. Broderip, one of the Thames Police Magistrates, being on his way to Whitehall in a galley, observed their dangerous situation, and with the assistance of three River Constables rescued them from it. A minute after the last gentleman had been taken out. the boat went down.
Mrs. Longmore, an aged woman v ho lived with her husband in Queen Square, Edgware Road, sct fire to her clothes on Tuesday week, about four o'clock in the morning, in an attempt to obtain a light from it tinder-box. Some of the lighted tinder fell upon her gown,
and set it in a blaze. Her husband, whu was in bed, endeavoured in vain to extinguish the flames, and was himself shockingly burnt in the attempt. They were both removed to the Marylebone Infirmary, where Mrs. Longmore died last Saturday. The old man, though still alive, is not likely to recover.
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