On Sunday afternoon, some thieves succeeded in carrying off a
cash- box containing notes and gold to the amount of 2391. from the house of Mr. Jenkins, the landlord of the Auction Mart Tap.
On Monday evening, a young man, respectably dressed, walked into Mr. Cope's, Cbeapside, and requested to be shown some knives ; and after picking and choosing for two or three minutes, he deliberately stepped back from the counter, and drew the knife across his throat. A medical gentleman was immediately procured ; and after bandaging up the wound, the young man was conveyed to Bartholomew's Hospital.
On Sunday evening, Mr. Waterhouse, of Chiswiek, who was in his chaise with his two sons, allowed the youngest, aged seven, to take the reins. On getting to Gunnersbury Lane, the horse took fright at some dragoons ; and before Mr. Waterhouse could get the reins, the animal plunged against a lamp-post, and threw Mr. Waterhouse and his sons out. Mr. Waterhouse was taken up insensible, and died on Monday.
On Tuesday, as John Gibson, a barge-master of Windsor, was jump- ing from his lighter, the Prince George, to another in the City Canal, Limehouse Hole, be fell overboard. His eldest son, a boy aged four- teen, who was on board, instantly called for assistance ; but before any arrived, the unfortunate man sunk ; it was more than half an hour be- fore the body was found.
About one o'clock on Tuesday, the back part of the public-house the Ship and Shovel, Hungerford Market, fell down with a tremendous crash, and three persons were buried in the ruins : two, by great exer- tions were rescued from their perilous situation, though severely in- jured; the third perished.
On Thursday, a man named Smith, a bookbinder, employed at So- merset House, fell from the top of a building, on the terrace, and was dashed to pieces. He was in the habit of ascending the building to view the river up and down with a telescope ; and it is supposed his foot had slipped while so engaged.
On Saturday morning, a Mrs. Atkinson, a friend of Mr. Ude, builder, Brandon Street, Liverpool Road, fell from the leads of the offices into the back-yard, and had both her legs broken, besides being frightfully bruised. She had gone out upon the leads in her sleep.
On Tuesday morning, between six and seven o'clock, Mr. Taylor, a gentleman residing in Northcote Place, Pentonville, while walking by, the tunnel at Islington, heard the cries of a person calling for help. On running to the water-side, he found a boy who 'had been bathing; dying that his brother was drowned. Mr. Taylor immediately threw. off his clothes ; and the spot being pointed out where the youth had. sunk, plunged in after him, and after diving to the bottom several times succeeded in bringing up the body and carrying it ashore. The boy had then been under water for twelve or thirteen minutes. Mr. Taylor only waited to put on the lower portion of his apparel, and directly ran with the boy in his arms to the nearest house, the residence of George • Parkwell, Esq. ; who promptly afforded every assistance in his power. Mr. Daly, a surgeon in the neighbourhood, was quickly in attendance ; and by their joint exertions for upwards of three hours and a half; the child showed symptoms of returning animation.—Globe. [What does our contemporary mean by the modest periphrasis of "the lower portion of his apparel ?" the shoes, or the shirt? or is it merely a refined name for the breeches?] The Coroner's inquest on Tuesday returned a verdict of "Wilful Murder" against Catherine Bainbridge, the woman • who stabbed William Francis at an infamous housein.the Match-walk, Sbadwell.
Two young people, Silas Wilmerton and Eliza Vesey, both deaf and dumb, from their youth, were married on Monday, at Paddington Church. They made the responses in writing.
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