and two young men, named Cogger and Issnalf, returning from
Graves-
end, on passing Erith Reach, ran foul of a Russian ship : the sail of the kat got entangled with the vessel, and she immediately filled and sank.
Comer and Issnall succeeded in catching hold of a rope hanging from the ship, but Mr. and Mrs. Hall were drowned. Mr. Hall was thirty-one years of age, and his wife twenty-six.
CIGARRING EXTRAORDINARY.—On Sunday evening, a young man of respectable appearance, while sitting on the top of the balustrades of Waterloo Bridge, smoking a cigar, overbalanced himself, and was pre- cipitated into the river, near the pier of the third arch on the Sorry side of the bridge. Ile was got out, much but not desperately, bruised from the fall ; fortunately the water was neither deep enough to drown MDT shallow enough to crush him. The cigar was lost. Film—The house of Mr. P. Davy, Camberwell Grove, was burnt down yesterday morning. No water could be procured, in consequence
of the main pipe being under repair. It is supposed that the fire was arcasioned by fumigating the rooms with sulphur to destroy bugs, which had not been properly attended to.
FATAL FALL.—A young man, named Thomas Wynne, employed at Whitehall Chapel, fell on Monday from a scaffolding forty feet high, to the ground. He was so shockingly bruised that he expired on the spot. SUDDEN DEATHS—On Saturday last, Ralph Apsden, carrier between Blackburn and Tockholes, stopping to water his horses, fell down in a fit, and inaantly expired. He was eighty-three years of age. On Thurs- day, Mr. Chalk, a butcher at Walthamstow, while presenting a draft at a house in West Smithfield, dropped on the floor, and, after a few groans, expired.
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