On Tuesday last week, a most respectable elderly gentleman, named
Levens, was ridden over, and killed, near the Red Cow, Hammer.. smith, by a gig driven by a Mr. Mullins. The gig was passing on the wrong side of the road, at a furious rate ; and all the apology made by its driver was, that had it been the King, be would equally have ridden over him. The Jury, which sat on Monday, gave a deodand of 10/. against the gig.
A keeper of the wild beasts in the Surry Zoological Gardens was, on Friday, attacked by two ferocious baboons, and lacerated in a most dreadful manner. The man, it seemed, had remained longer in the cage than the inmates would allow.
An explosion of gas took place at Christchurch, Spitalfields, on Sunday, by which the beadle was a good deal scorched, though not seriously or dangerously. The explosion tore up the boarding of a pew, and drove the stone pedestal of the front through a partition some six or seven feet distant. It was occasioned by a defective pipe.
Two children, sons of a fisherman-named Mee, were unfortunately drowned On Sunday morning, by the smack being run over by a vessel going 'down the River. They were in the cabin at the time of thc ac-
cident. The unhappy father with great difficulty contrived to keep his wife and an infaut above water until they and he were rescued.
A boy was killed on Thursday, at Holloway, by a cart of wood falling upon him ; one of the hind-wheels came off. A man riding on the cart was severely, but not dangerously hurt.
The body of an old gentleman named Kirby; was found on Tuesday, in a room of a house, Walcot Place, Lambeth, of which he was the solitary resident, in an advanced state of decomposition. He seemed to have died of apoplexy.
Yesterday morning, while the servant of Mr. Thomas Cooper, butcher, of Camberwell Green, was delivering meat to the different customers, and in the act of knocking at the door of one of the customers at Den- mark Hill, the horse took fright, and galloped off with great fury to- wards Camberwell Green. Thomas Tomlin, a bricklayer, was crossing the road with his tools to a house where he was working ; but before he could get out of the way, he was knocked down by the shafts of the cart, and the wheel went over part of his body and head, wL;c1: was crushed into the ground. About twenty yards further, Miss 11. C. Williams, a young lady about twenty years of age, was knocked down by the horse and cart, and severely injured. The horse was at last stopped by running against another vehicle, when the cart was upset and the horse was thrown down. Tomlin was picked up quite dead ; and Miss Williatns's wounds are considered dangerous.
A man named Lawton, who lives in Sale Street, Paddington, was backed the other day to the amount of .50/. to run three times round the outer circle of the Regent's Park in the space of fifty minutes. He started at six from the entrance to the Park at the end of Upper Baker Street, and returned to the same spot, after completing his task, having nearly half a minute to spare. The distance exceeds eight miles and three quarters.
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