The inhabitants of Arlington Street, Camden Town, have lately been
annoyed by some vagabonds in the neighbourhood, who have amused themselves with breaking windows, by throwing stones and missiles. Considerable pains were taken to discover the offenders ; but without success, till Wednesday, when some light was cast, to use the penny-a-line gentlemen's phrase, on " the late mysterious affair." John Pear, a brush-maker, and a boy, were seen throwing stones at thy windows, and were held to bail at this Office to take their trial.
A child, whose parents live at Bromley in Middlesex, was bitten Ill few days ago, by a mad dog. The dog was killed, and its liver was' taken mit and dressed and given to the poor child by its parents, who believed that it would prove an antidote to hydrophobia! This is said; to have hastened the child's death.
Cannon, the Policeman whose scuffle with a robber in Battersea was mentioned last week, is not dead, though seriously wounded.
Early on Tuesday morning, as a Policeman was on duty inUpper Charlton Street, Fitzroy Square, lie observed a female in her night dress make her appearance at a third-floor window, and commence getting out on the window-sill. Suspecting that she was about to throw herself into the street, he called to her to desist ; but by this time she was standing upright on the sill, outside the window, and waving her band for him to stand out of the way, she bent herself for- ward and plunged headlong into the street, from a height of between fifty and sixty feet. She fell on her head on the curb-stone of the foot pavement, narrowly escaping impalement on the spikes of the area rail- ing. The poor creature was placed on a " stretcher," to be conveyed to the Middlesex Hospital; but was so much hurt that she died in a few minutes. She was a lodger in Mr. Thorpe's house, and in good circumstances, but had lately been much dispirited.
Mr. Stirling, a surgeon in Wellclose Square, committed suicide ort Wednesday morning. Ile retired to rest on Tuesday night, after giv- ing evidence before a Coroner's Jury, and was discovered hanging by a sash line to the tester of his bedstead. It appears that Mr. Stir- ling lost his wife about three weeks ago, and since her death he has been in a very dejected state.
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