There has been more squabbling among the congregation of the
Tuber. naele Chapel, City Road, of which Mr. Wilks, M. P. is a leading mem. ber. A Mr. James Temple was held to bail at the Worship Street Office on Saturday, on a charge of being foremost in a row on the pre- ceding evening, which was raised against the preacher appointed by the trustees. The minister is now regularly locked in the pulpit, lest he should be dragged out ; and sometimes the Police are called in to keep these worshippers quiet. Altogether, the proceedings are most dis. graceful.
On Monday, a dray-cart, loaded with beer-barrels, drawn by one horse, was seen coining at a rapid rate from Parliament Street, and crossing Whitehall, going in the direction of the Board of Trade Office.
There was no one who could check the animal's progress : it dashed through every obstacle, coming with great violence against the strung stone balustrades facing the above office ; which, with the coping, and the whole of the stone-work, about twelve feet in length, gave way, and fell into the area. The horse also tumbled in headloug, taking the dray along with it ; the shaft of which went through the windows of a room on the ground floor, while the barrels were flung about in all directions. Every exertion was used to extricate the heavy machine and the horse; and, after the traces were cut, several planks were put (being sloped up gradually to a level with the pavetnent), on which the horse ascended, not having received any very serious injury.
One of the Greenwich stage-coaches broke down on Wednesday evening, while going over London Bridge. The coachman was slightly hurt ; but a gentleman who was on the outside was thrown with such violence on the pavement, that he is not expected to recover from the injury he received. The inside passengers escaped with trifling bruises. The accident was occasioned by one of the wheels coming off.
On Sunday evening, at half-past eight, as the Emerald steam-hont from Gravesend, was passing the tier of vessels moored immediately olf the Tower, she came in collision with a North-country brig; and al- though the steamer was not proceeding at very quick speed, the comes- sion was sufficient to carry away her chimney, and seriously injure her paddle-boxes. The chimney fell over the side of the steamer. Thole were seven hundred passengers on board; who were much frightened, but not at all hurt.
A soldier in the Tower, who was lately convicted of an offence before a Court-martial, for which it is likely he would have been severtly flogged, had it not been for the disgust shown by the public to such mode of punishment, has been sentenced to a perpetual drill ; than which nothing can be more irksome to a soldier, particularly if he has been any time in the army.—Herald.
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