On Tuesday morning, about half-past six o'clock, while a steam-
coach, built by Mr. Squires of Paddington, was making One of its ex- perimental runs, in turning the corner of the Harrow Road into Dudley Grove, being at the time proceeding at the rate of ten miles an hour, the steersman inadvertently gave it a wrong direction : it ran in conse- quence with great force first against the garden-railings in front of the house occupied by Mr. Joseph Downes, and then against the house itself. The garden-railings were torn from the stone-work ; and the brick-work on the side of the parlour-windows was knocked into the room to the extent of ten feet high by twelve feet in width. The window-sash, frame, and the underneath wood-work were forced to the X opposite side of the room; and yet, /which is most extraordinary, not one of the panes of glass was cracked. In the room, Mr. Downes, his wife, and infant child, were lying asleep in bed. Six persons, besides the steersman, were on the vehicle at the time ; but, with the exception of the steersman, who received a sligha contusion in the face, they all escaped unhurt.
On Tuesday, the landlord of the Rose public-house, at the corner of Hatton Garden, finding a great smoke in his house, in consequence of the passage of the chimney being stopped with soot, sent to Brown, a chimney-sweep, of Fox Court, Gray's Inn Lane, for a climbing boy, to clear it away. Shortly after, a child about six years of age, a parish apprentice, proceeded up the chimney, until he got to the pot, which was crammed with soot. He was called to to force it out ; which be did, until he managed to Clear it ; but while thus employed, the pot gave way, and he was precipitated .froin the top of the house, a height of three stories, to the yard of Mrs. Heslop's house. Ile was carried to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, without hope of recovery. [The above is the penny-aline account; which we give as a curiosity, though no rarity. The true account runs thus :—.the boy was not a parish ap- prentice; he was twelve years of age ; he did not fall three stories, nor one story; he was not carried to Bartholomew's Hospital ; he is not lying without hope, but running about, as full of hope of many May- days as any chimney-sweep in the capital.]
A youth, named James Moreland, belonging to one of the Margate steamers, was found in the fields at the back of the Eagle Tavern, City Road, on Monday night, with his throat cut in a most dreadful manner. Life was not extinct when he was found. The lad was carried to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
Yesterday morning, about half-past three, an unfortunate female, well attired, flung herself from off one of the recesses of Waterloo Bridge, and was drowned.
On Monday, John Cole, a youth aged nineteen, belonging to the brig Rachael, a coasting vessel, while hauling a barge alongside, lost his balance, and pitched headlong into the water, striking his head against the barge in his descent, with such force that he was stunned, and immediately sunk under the brig. The body was not found until the next day, when a waterman picked it up near Execution-dock. There was a severe bruise on the side of the head.
Yesterday morning, a duel took place in the fields near Kensall Green, Harrow Road, between a Mr. Theodore Rosney, of Bromp- ton Road, and a Mr. Charles Seer, an American. Both shots were discharged at the same instant ; Mr. Seer's taking effect, grazed the fore knuckle of his antagonist's right hand, and lodged in the top of his shoulder. The quarrel originated about a dog.
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