The wife of a plasterer, who resides in the City

Road, set fire to her clothes while cooking, on Tuesday. Her husband hastened to her assistance, and in his terror let fall an infant whom he held in his arms. The child's skull was fractured; and the poor woman is not expected to recover.

The Cheshire Cheese public-house, Russell Court, Drury Lane, was burnt on Saturday night.

A fire broke out on Thursday night in the house of a slop-seller in White Hart Court, Drury Lane. There was very great risk that the fire would extend to the adjoining houses, which are of wood, but luckily it was soon subdued by the fireengines. Two lads who were dragging a truck, on Thursday morning, contrived to attach it to a hackney-coach that was proceeding in the same direction. The lads were riding on the handle of the truck, when, as the coach was proceeding along Blackfriars Bridge, the cord by which the truck was attached to the coach broke, and one of the lads was dashed to the ground with such violence, that one of his eyes was much injured; and his life is considered in danger. A man of the name of Barnett drowned himself in the basin of the Green Park on Monday morning.

William Ford, a young waiter at the Bell and Crown Tavern, Hammersmith, hanged himself last week, for love.

A young man, a porter in the Royal Hotel, St. James's Street, Piccadilly, was employed on Monday by a gentleman lodging there, to clean a pair of pistols for him. One of the pistols chanced to he loaded. He discharged it accidentally : the ball lodged in his right side, and he died almost immediately.

On Saturday morning, a youn., man, named Croney, went into the yard in the Tower, round which the cages of the wild beasts are placed, for the purpose of removing the bones which had been swept out of the cages. While engaged in this work, he perceived one of the leopards push back the door of his cage with its paw, the keeper having neglected to bolt it. It immediately sprang towards him. The poor fellow endeavoured to find shelter behind some timber; but the leopard pounced upon him, and sticking his immense claws on either side of his neck, grasped the head with his tusks, and kept a fast hold. Crouey called out for assistance, and reaching out his hand, endeavoured to force open the keeper's room door, but it was fastened. The keepers at length.came to his assistance, and endeavoured to entice the beast away ; but finding 'they could not succeed, they stunned the animal by tremendous blows on the head with a large fowling. piece. Croney's neck and shoulders were seriously injured, and he now remains in Guy's Hospital. A poor man of the name of Roberts, or Robins, was found dead on Thursday night, in his garret in Fishmonger's Lane. He is supposed to have died of hunger. Three brothers, the eldest only nine, sons of Mr. Fyfield, Rotherhithe, fell into the water last week, while sliding, and the two eldest were drowned. Mrs. Sophia Hudson, a respectable widow lady, residing at 'Addington, was burned to death last week, in consequence of her clothes catching fire. The driver of the London and Manchester Telegraph Coach fell from his box on Friday last, near Ashbourne ; the horses continued their speed, and the coach was very soon upset. Only one of the passengers was hurt ; the coachman's ribs were broken.

Lord Chive's coachman was thrown from his box last week, and killed.

While a furnace-keeper at Calder Iron works, near Airdrie, was busied, about a fortnight ago, in preparing the sand-beds for receiving the metal, a furnace burst, and the poor man was overwhelmed in the boiling iron. He was dragged out, but died almost immediately afterwards. Mr. George Godwin, of the King's Arms Inn, Shaftesbury, while out shooting, last week, was killed by the accidental discharge of his fowling-piece.

A poor man, a passenger in a Smack from Leith to Cromarty, died on landing, of the effect of sea-sickness.

An elderly man in Glasgow was choked, last week, by a piece of beefsteak : his death was almost instantaneous.

A miller named Perry, in the parish of St. Ervan, Cornwall, has been in the habit of ridding his mill of rats by means of arsenic. At a merry-making last week, he had a pasty, of which all his family and a visitor partook. Some of the arsenic in the mill had found its way into the flour of which the pasty was coin,posed. The stranger died almost immediately afterwards, and the whole family suffered severely. A boat, with four persons pn board, was upset last week when coming up Rye Harbour, Hants. Three of them were drowned.

The brig, Craig Elachie, of Leith, was wrecked on Yarmouth Sands on the 23d of December. Five of the crew were drowned, or died of cold. The two survivors were saved by the intrepidity of Robert Cleare, of Essex, who made for the wreck in a boat, and at the greatest personal risk saved them.

A boy, while sliding at Lochend, near Edinburgh, on Saturday last, fell in. A young man hastened to his assistance ; but the ice gave way under him, and he was drowned ; while the boy whom he had attempted to save was got out. A person of the name of Raines died on Sunday, while kneeling in his pew in the Roman Catholic Chapel in Manchester. Five houses in the village of Stoneleigh, were consumed on Monday, in consequence of the curtains of a poor woman's bed catching fire while she was putting her children to rest.

An accident occurred on Monday on the Marine Parade, Brighton, which had nearly proved of serious consequence to Miss Place, a younr, lady who was taking exercise on horseback with her brother. The horse rode by Miss Place was startled by the galloping of the Count de Mornay, and becoming restive, after three or four successive plunges, succeeding in unseating the lady, who was thrown to the ground with considerable force. Fortunately no bones were broken, as Mr. Place very adroitly seized the bridle, and prevented further mischief. We take this seasonable opportunity of giving the Count de Mornay and the public authorities a hint, that the furious manner in which he rides along the Cliffs is exceedingly dangerous, as the above accident has sufficiently proved : and we may add, that having caused so much mischief to a lady, the vaunted gallantry of his nation would have been more conspicuous had he condescended to turn back and render that succour which a gentleman ever feels a pride in extending to a female in distress.—Brighton Guardian. A French paper states, that an attempt had been made at Smyrna to poison the Archbishop Monseigneur Cardelli. A dose of corrosive sublimate was mixed not only with the wine in the cup used in celebeating mass, but even in that contained in the bottle. The Archbishop perceived that the wine had an extraordinary taste : he swallowed it however. A few moments afterwards, he was seized with a violent colic and vomiting, to which his escape is to be attributed. The physician who was called in made him drink a large quantity of milk, which removed the pain in the bowels. The Archbishop is now recovering. M. Dupre, the French Consul, under whose protection the Archbishop is especially placed, has caused the persons of his household to be several times examined. The crime is still enveloped in the greatest mystery.

The Paris papers still talk of the extraordinary inundation of the Nile. They say that the crops have been utterly destroyed, and that more than thirty thousand persons have been drowned.

On the 23rd of November, a fire broke out in the town of Camden, South Carolina, by which a whole street, on both sides, was destroyed. The fire is ascribed to an incendiary. The damage is computed' at two hundred thousand dollars.