A person, whose name has not been ascertained, was brought
helms the Bow Street Magistrates, on Tuesday, charged with unruly cot-razes. He was evidently mad, and his conduct in the office is thus describer& by the penny-a-line gentleman-
" He entered, wearing a wild look, his eye having a peculiar expression. fir was well dressed, and of athletic appearance. He advanced to the ben* awl said that he !orl recently route into hag:, property, the lout in Islands and neat ly the whole of South America having been beipteatheil to him. lie went on to say that he was ;damn to become the husband of the Princess Victoria, when the King will be his grandfather. Na—his wig's mother. No—her uncle." At the same moment, extending Ids halal in a 6h-1:illy and condescending manner to Mr. Miushull across the bench. he invit a hint to sup with him, at the Duke of Wellington's, on Saturday eveuiug. lie subsequently, however, altered the day, and begged that it might be that nigl,t, alining that the wurthy Magistrate would be most welcome. Ile should aka be happy to see him at his wedding supper, which would also take place at the nob!, 1;ake's residence.
Mr. Minshull begged to decline his prod:-red friendship, as well as the invita- tion with which he had favoured him. Ile advised hint ti say no more on the subject. The Magistrate then ordered that he should be conveyed to the parish workhouse of Marylebonc, where he would be admitted, and proper means to restrain him would be takeu.
At the Lambeth Street Office, on Monday, three Irishmen, and three women of the same country, were charged with riotous conduct and assaulting three Policemen : one only, however, seems to have suffered much. He stated the case as follows— On Sunday morning, while on duty in Pennyfields, Poplar, he found the pri- soners committing a great disturbance in the street ; and on their refusing to go home, be secured one of the male prisoners. He had no sooner done so, than they all fell upon him, beat hint in a most unmerciful manner, and would, he had no doubt, have murdered him, had not a woman, known by the name of " Scotch Meggy," come to his assistance, and, with extraordinary power and dexterity, laid several of his assailants prostrate, as well as himself.
" Scotch Meggy" (a powerful and muscular woman, who has obtained much celebrity by her skill and dexterity in rowing, having won several wagers in rowing-matches on the Thames), here stood forward, and said, that seeing at least half-a dozen of men and women beating the Policeman, she threw off her bonnet and shawl, and set to work at them. In doing this, however, she had herself received some severe blows from brickbats and other missiles flung at her by the prisoners and their friends.
Meggy also informed the Magistrates, that she had been for forty -two years on board a man-of war ; during which time she had been in nearly a dozen en- gagements, and bad a pension of 21. per annum allowed her by the Admiralty for her services.
The Magistrate said, that Meggy's conduct was " above all praise," and sentenced the male prisoners to a month's and one of the females to fourteen days' imprisonment. The two other women were discharged.
William Bush and Hugh Allen Clark, two privates in the Wool- wich division of Marines, were committed from the Union Hall Office, on Tuesday, for assaulting and robbing Mr. Edward Delves, the son of a gentleman residing at Tunbridge Wells, when walking on the Deptford road. The complainant was intoxicated at the time of the rubbery, and cuuid se,i ivii Low he value into the company of the pri- soners, who knocked him down, kicked him when down in a most brutal manner, and robbed him of his watch, eighteen or nineteen sove- reigns, and some silver.
Early on Tuesday morning, an alarming fire broke out in the Bene- dictine nunnery in King Street, near the Broadway, Hammersmith. It was first discovered by some of the sisters, whose sleeping-rooms were on the second floor. They immediately gave an alarm, and ran over to the house of Mr. Gomme, an auctioneer, residing opposite, who instantly got up, and with others of the neighbours, who had also been alarmed, proceeded to their assistance. On entering the yard of the building, they discovered smoke issuing from a large washbouse on the ground floor ; and on opening the door, found a number of wooden horses and a large quantity of linen in flames. They- also found that the room above it, which was occupied by Miss Alargaret liosville, an aged lady who had resided there fur years as a boarder, was on lire. On going up stairs to her room, the furniture arid flooring of which were blazing furiously, the heat was so great that they were at first compelled to retreat ; but there happily being a plentiful supply of a water, the fire was, after much exertion, sufficiently subdued to allow them to enter the room, when the body of the old lady was found burnt in a most shocking manner. It is supposed that she had got out of bed, and gone to a chest of drawers which stood between the windows ;
dowe her candle bad either communicated to her night- dress, or to the contents of the drawers, which, in her endeavours to extinguish the flames, she had pulled over her.
On Tuesday afternoon, a saddle horse led by a boy took fright, and
ran furiously down Harley Street into the New Road, where it came in contact with a cart, staggered back several paces, and fell against a lady named Newson, who was crossing the road at the instant, and knocking her down with tremendous force, rolled over her. Mrs. Newson was taken up dreadfully injured, having sustained a compound fracture of the right thigh. She was conveyed to her house in Grafton
Street, Fitzroy Square, and is in danger of losing her life.
An accident which had nearly proved fatal in its consequences, hap- pened a few days back to Captain Charles Clarke, of the Guards. The Captain was riding in Hyde Park, in company with Mr. William Thompson, of Waterloo Place, when his horse took fright and started off at a furious pace in the direction of Kensington Gardens. Captain Clarke, was thrown into the road, and, pitching upon his head was taken up insensible. He was taken to St. George's Hospital, and is likely to recover.
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