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While same children were playing on the banks of the Thames at Hampton Court, on Saturday, one, a fine boy, about five or six years of age, the son of a labourer named. Adams, fell into the river, which was, considerably swollen by the late rains. He was rapidly carried down the stream ; his clothes, however, kept him floating on the sur- face, and he occasionally uttered a piercing cry. This attracted the notice of the Honourable Miss Eden,' one of the Queen's Maids of Honour, who was walking in the Palace Gardens ; and seeing the struggles of the child, she immediately leaped over the high wall, and, without a moment's consideration, dashed into the river. She had reached within a &w. feet of the child, when, having got beyond her depth, she was carried in a contrary-direction : luckily • she again re- covered her footing, but the Add was now far beyond her reach. She then retraced her steps to the bank of the river, calling, at the same time, to the child to keep its head up, and she would save.it.. Her cries at last aroused the ferryman at Thames Ditton,—for by-this time the child and Miss Eden were nearly opposite to that village ; and she at length saw the child rescued from the flood. It was 'brought ashore, but was insensible. She had it carried up to the Palace, and medical aid was sent for; but, notwithstanding every effort for more than an hour, life was found to be extinct. An Inquest was held upon the body of the boy, at the Toy, Hampton Court, before Mr. Stirling. It was stated that Miss Eden was unable to attend, in consequence of a cold. The Jury brought in .a verdict of Accidental Death, and expressed the highest admiration at the conduct of' Miss Eden ; than Nri10111 no person was more worthy of the Humane Society's medal.
Mrs. Ailsey Scott, a respectable old woman, well known in Shad- well and Wapping, especially among the Scotch captains and seamen who frequent those quarters, was found drowned, on Monday morning, in the Hermitage Lock of the London Dock. Her intellects seem to have 'become lately' impaired ; but the Inquest Jury were unable to pronounce an3r decided opinion upon the. circuinstances of her death.
A poor idiot, well known about Westminster, named Charles Key- mer, but who was generally called Silly Charley, went on Tuesday 111E0 a house in the Commercial Road, Pimlico, where soup is distributed gratuitously to the poor ; when he suddenly fell back in a state of in- sensibility, and expired in ten minutes.
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