A female, who went under the name of Bentley, died

suddenly, in Litchfield Street, on Monday morning. The death was made a matter of penny-a-line mystery. It has been proved that she was much ad- dicted to drinking; and that, some time before her death, she fell out of bed, and severely injured the back part of her head. Bentley, a tailor, with whom she lived, did not make his appearance at the In- quest; but there does not appear the slightest reason for connecting him with the accident. The woman, who was a widow, is described as a near relation of Sir Charles Wetherell.

The following singular facts were given in evidence on Tuesday, at the Inquest on an old woman named Philips, who died some weeks back, in Church Passage, Piccadilly.

Mrs. Nesbitt, who lived in the same house, said—

She had lived in the house four years, and knew the deceased during the whole of that time, but never saw the inside of her room till it had been broken open. Mrs. Philips was very close and reserved, seldom ate any thing at home, and admitted no one into her room, not even her own nephew. She kept every crevice of her room carefully stopped up at all times. Her habits were very dirty. She would frequently absent herself for months ; and Nesbitt had seen her during such absences eating her meals on the steps of doors. She had fre- quently heard her in her room, moving about, for three weeks together, without once icing her. From these circumstances, she was not surprised at not hearing or seeing any thing of her for several weeks past. Her first alarm was produced on Friday, when the deceased's nephew called, and inquired for her. Till then, she had thought the deceased was staying with him. A twelvemonth back, from motives of curiosity, she had bored a hole in the wainscot of the deceased's room; which the deceased pasted a piece of paper over on the inside, imme- diately on discovering it. This paper she pierced through on Friday, after the nephew had left, and fancied she saw the deceased lying on the floor. She alarmed the neighbours; and the hole being enlarged, they could distinctly see her lying on the floor on a quantity of rags. Information was given to the beadles, who broke open the door. The body was quite putrid.

On examining her repositories, a great quantity of silk dresses, silk stockings, fine linen sheets, and wearing apparel, was found, with a notandurn of 181/. 4s. lodged in a savings-bank. The rags that sur- rounded the body were so filthy, that it was found necessary to burn them out of the way. A most diabolical attempt was made on the life of Mr. John Wyke Fowler, an extensive ironfounder in Lambeth, whilst sitting in his counting-house on Monday evening, by a villain unknown throwing a large flint at his bead. Fortunately it escaped its aim, and we regret the Villain is at large.—Times.

Last night, a fellow crept all-fours into the shop of Mr. Lamb, Jeweller, Cockspur Street, and contrived to get hold of a tray with rings, trinkets, and a gold watch, with which he ran off. He was pur- sued by Mr. Lamb, and caught in the open space at Charing Cross ; , not, however, till. he had scattered the contents of the tray abroad. The loss is estimated at 300/.

A gentleman named Dunton had his pocket picked on Wednesday, of 470/. in papir,- and 85 sovereigns while conversing with an interesting young gentleman, near the ruins of Mr. Ghent's house in Bucklertibury, on the death of Mrs. Ghent.

In the early part of the week, a duel was reported to have taken place between Mr. Carruthers and Mr. Hammack, of Mile-end. The report was entirely without foundation.

The roofs of two old houses, Nos. 25 and 26, York Street, West- minster, MI in yesterday morning, burying eighteen individuals the ruins. Thirteen were immediately got out ; all of them bruised, but only one dangerously. Soon after the living were got, three bodies, very much mangled, were discovered ; one of a girl named Herbert, aged eighteen, and another of her sister, aged nine ; the third was the body of a girl named Barret, aged two and a half. At a late hour in the afternoon, two children of Mr. Perry, a lodger, were found ; the eldest a fine boy of eight years old, quite dead ; the other, a boy of three, to the astonishment of all who saw him, not only alive, but wholly uninjured. The only thing the poor infant complained of was hunger—he had been nine entire hours buried in the rubbish ! If in our laws poverty were as carefully looked to as property, there would be a severe punishment inflicted on the landlord who suffers such houses as these to exist.

An alarm of fire was falsely given at the Coburg Theatre last night ; and the consequence was a rush to the doors, where, in the struggle to escape, several limbs were broken, and fourteen persons were obliged to be conveyed to the hospital : one of them, a boy, is said to be very dangerously hurt.

A lady in the pit of the Olympic was severely hurt, the other night, by a stone bottle thrown [not dropped] from the gallery. The ruffian was not discovered.

Mr. and Mrs. Pluce, of Myddelton Street, Spafields, were violently thrown from their gig on Saturday, on the Bayswater Road, and very dangerously hurt. Mrs. Pluce's thigh was broken in two•places, and her face severely injured. Mr. Pluce's horse had started and run off, and he by some accident dropped the reins.

On Monday afternoon, as the Essex and Eclipse steam-vessels were proceeding from Gravesend to London, a boat containing four persons was run down by the former steamer, off Dartford Creek, below Erith. The Essex immediately brought tot and the engines were stopped ; but, owing to their not having a boat in readiness, could render no ma- terial assistance. The Captain of the Eclipse, the steminost vessel, lowered his boat, and succeeded in saving two, while a collier's boat picked up a third in a most exhausted state ; the fourth sunk before any aid arrived.

On Sunday, two ladies, Mrs. and Miss Welder, mother and daughter, driving a four-wheel chaise round the circle of Hyde Park, when near the powder-magazine, were met by two gentlemen in their gigs driving at a furious rate against each other. Mrs. Welder, in endeavouring to avoid them, unfortunately crossed on the wrong side of the road, and, ran the wheels of her chaise against those of a gentleman's carriage ; the concussion of which was so violent, that it instantly overset the chaise, and both ladies were thrown into the road with great violence. The young lady received a very severe contusion over the left temple, and had her arm fractured.

Two extensive fires happened on Sunday ; one in Bucklersbury, by which the house of a Mr. Ghent was totally destroyed, and in which Mrs. Ghent lost her life. It has been stated that several persons in the neighbourhood were importuned for a blanket or sheet, on which the unhappy woman might have cast herself—and refused ! Why were not their names published, that they might be held in deserved execra- tion? The other fire occurred on the premises of Mr. Chappel, cooper and malt-colour maker, Silver Street, Clerkenwell. The malt-loft only fell a prey to the flames.

On Friday morning last week, between three and four o'clock, a fire broke out at Haven House' near Ealing, Middlesex, the late residence of the Rev. R. Greenlaw. After raging some hours, it totally destroyed, the premises.

A female, named Anne Mountain, died in Pitt Street, Tottenham Court Road, on Tuesday sennight, in consequence of blows rece4ved about three months ago, from a man named Beard, a painter, who co- habited with her. The Coroner's Inquest has found Beard guilty of manslaughter. On Tuesday forenoon, a young female, very fashionably dressed, named Susannah Lister, whose parents reside in the Edgware Road, called at the house of a friend in East Street, Marylebone, and re- quested a little warm water, as she wished to take some salts. The, water was brought : and having mixed what was thought to be salts she swallowed them. The moment she had done so, she pointed to the paper which had contained the drug, and her friend then per- ceived " Poison—oxalic acid," marked upon it. She lost no time in procuring assistance ; the sufferer was conveyed to the Hospital, where the stomach-pump was immediately resorted to with success, and after she had partially recovered she was carried home to her parents. The following lines were found in her bosom when at the Hospital. "Dear Father and Mother—Richards has proved false to me, and I shall

never be happy again. So adieu for ever. SUSANNAH." [We have every week such cases of fatuity as this. What is the description of breeding that these poor frivolous creatures receive ? There is evidently

a sad want of any thing like moral discipline in families, to say nothing of religion, out would be impossible, whenever a pale-faced shambling boy or hysterical girl met with the slightest disappointment, that they should have immediate recourse to the apothecary's shop or the river for comfort.] On Wednesday morning, a determined attempt at self-destruction was made in the tap-room of the Royal Standard, Upper Dorset Street,

Bryanstone Square, by a man, between twenty and thirty years of age, who cut his throat in a shocking manner with a razor. leap- pears that the young man had been a gentleman's servant, but having been out of a situation for some time, his apparel became so worn and his circumstances altogether such that he could not seek after any, and he was reduced to the greateo privations He had no fixed residence, occasionally working for gentlemen's coachmen in cleaning carriages, for which he obtained permission to sleep at night in their stables. He had been for some time in the habit of frequenting Mr. Girling's tap-

- room for shelter. The only name he is known by is " Henry." He had appeared very low-spirited for some days before. Mr. Girling, with the assistance of a man in the tap-room, procured a coach, and had him conveyed to the Middlesex Hospital; where he now lies without hopes of recovery, from the desperate manner in which he cut his throat.

A widow woman named ITayter, keeping a green-grocer's shop in East Lane, Greenwich, in a fit of temporary insanity, a few days since, cut her throat. The insanity of the poor woman was attributed to her

. having been charged, the previous day, with stealing some yards of silk fizom a box that was in her custody.

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(Yesterday morning, a police constable named Hart was pushed into the Brent Pie a cow; and before assistance could be rendered, unfor- tunately drowned. EN Canary.