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At a Court of Aldermen, on Monday, Mr. Hulbert sent in a protest against his nomination to serve as Sherif on the ground that he had been erroneously described as of the Grocer's instead of the Girdler's Com- pany. After discussion, it was resolved to take the opinions of the Crown lawyers.
A deputation from the Corporation of London waited on the French Ambassador, at the Einbassy, on ,Thursday, and Presented to him for transmission to Paris the emblazoned votes of thanks passed by the Cor- poration some months since for the fetes of Paris given in their honour.
Pickpockets are taking advantage of the confusion on the Blackwell Railway_ on Sunday. On Monday last, when a young man was committed by the Thames Police Magistrate for stealing a watch from a passenger in one of the carriages, it was stated that in "the rush" at Blackwell terminus on Sunday evening nine watches and some purses were stolen.
The Thames Police were actively engaged on Sunday in watching steam- boats to prevent the conveyance of more than the legal number of passen- gers: it is said that they succeeded. The proprietors ran more boats, and at shorter intervals, to meet the public demands.
There was a fatal river accident near Blackfriars Bridge on Sunday even- ing. Seven men and three women, relatives or Mende of each other, hired a shallop at Hungerford stairs, in the morning, for a trip to Greenwich. About nme o'clock in the evening, the shallop was returning, with the flood- tide, through Blackfriars Bridge, on the Middlesex side, when she came into collision with the Dahlia steamer, which was going against the tide, down the river. The shallop was swamped, and its occupants plunged into the water. Two were picked up by the steamer, and five were rescued by boats which put oft' from the shore; but John Weston, Anne Williams, a married woman, and Emma Bates, single, were drowned. One of the men saved, husband of Anne Williams, clung to the paddle-wheel, and he was much lacerated.
On Tuesday, John Maddox, mate of the Dahlia, who had charge of the steamer as the master was ill, was produced at Guildhall Police Office, on a charge of causing the• death of the three persons by his wilful negligence. The witnesses examined were the survivors of the'party in the shallop, and some persons who gave evidence for the prosecution. The survivors threw the whole blame on the Dahlia. The shallop was going with the tide, the steamer against it ; the people in the steamer did not keep any look-out, went out of their proper course did not stop the vessel when shouted to, and did not aid the persons struggling in the water. Two brothers named Daw- son, seafaring men of Sunderland, who were on board the Dahlia, and who saved two people, censured the management of the steamer. The vessel was crowded with passengers, standing up for want of seats : had the steamer
kept a in course the disaster would not have happened ; but when the people in the shallop shouted there was not time to avoid a collision. Neary, a waterman, a witness for the defence, gave testimony more in favour of the prisoner. He stated that the, paddle-wheel was stopped before the col- lision and that the persons in the shallop upset it by suddenly getting on their leg? when the steamer struck the beat. Alderman Lawrence adjourned the inquiry for a week. Maddox was admitted to bail.
The three bodies were recovered on Wednesday morning. The sufferers were young persons—the women each nineteen years of age, the man twenty- one. An inguest was opened, and was quickly adjourned, that the people connected with the steam-boat might be present.
A fire at a ship-chandler's in Hayden Square, Minories, on Thursday evening, caused the loss of two lives. While Crampton and Wilson, funmeie attached to Whitecross Street station, were directing a stream of water upon: the flames, a lofty wall fell upon them. Crampton was taken out dead, and Wilson died in a few minutes after he had been conveyed to the hospital. The unfortunate men have left wives and families.
A number of buildings have been pulled down in Great Carter Lan; to form the new street from London Bridge to St. Paul's Churchyard; and this.. so weakened the premises of Messrs. Morgan and Co., shawl-merchants, in the churchyard, that on Monday morning they fell down into the-street. Fortunately, the workmen saw Indications of the coming disaster in time for. every person to escape, though some did so with difficulty : a few bricks fell on omnibuses which were passing.
Fatal cases of coup-de-soleil have occurred in London and the vicinity, as well as in the provinces. A nursery-maid at Notting Hill, a cheesemon- ger in Tottenham Court Road, and a labourer at Harrow, were among the, victims.
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