Lieutenant Parry, of the First Regiment of Life Guards, was
drowned on Tuesday, in the Serpentine River, which he had attempted for a wager to swim across, in his clothes The wife of Thomas Benson, livery lace-maker, of Great Quetta Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, being suddenly taken ill on Thursday morning last week, to all appearance expired ; and when every symptom of life had fled, the body was duly laid out. The husband, hoping for a little consolation in his distress from some money which he had rea- son to believe she had secreted from him in her lifetime, began to search for it ; and in the course of the evening found upwards of 701., principally in silver, in a rusty tin box deposited in an old birdcage is the cellar. The following night, between nine and ten, whilst the un- dertaker was in the house receiving instructions for the funeral, to the astonishment and terror of the whole family, Mrs. Benson came down stairs, having been in a trance nearly thirty hours. Her situation has se terribly shocked her, that but faint hopes are entertained of her recovery. On Monday morning, as two journeymen painters were employed itt the erection of a scaffold on the roof of the Herald's College, one of them, while in the act of tying two poles together, slipped off the board on which he was standing, and was precipitated into the street, from a height of between seventy and eighty feet, and killed on the spot, hia brains being sprinkled about the place in all directions.
A dreadful fire broke out on Sunday night in Bishopsgate Street+ which consumed nine houses.
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