An inquest was held on Wednesday, at the Charing Cross
Hospital, on the body of Charles Francis, aged three years. It appeared that the parents of the child lived in Old Boswell Court, Carey Street. On Monday afternoon, the mother left the deceased and three other chidren in the front room second floor. During her absence, one of the elder children opened the window, and the deceased leaned out and fell into the court, and was dashed to pieces. Verdict, Accidental death."
At five o'clock on Tuesday morning, a meeting took place in a field at the foot of Primrose 11111, near Chalk Farm Tavern, between Mr. Augustus Finchley Irvine and Mr. Vincent Butler, residing in York Street, Bryanstone Square. Arrived on the ground, the seconds proposed a reconciliation ; but it was indignantly rejected on both sides. The distance being measured, the positions taken up, and the signal given to fire, Mr. Irvine received the contents of his antagonist's pastel in his pistol-arm, above the wrist. Mr. Butler immediately advanced to Mr. Irvine, who shook hands with him ; and after the wound wat dressed, both parties quitted the ground. The cause of the meeting is not known.
Yesterday morning, Mr. Petreham, a clergyman about sixty years of age, residing in Park Street, Grosvenor Square, endeavoured to kill himself, by taking a large quantity of laudanum. He was discovered by his servant between seven and eight o'clock, foaming at the mouth and in a state of extreme suffering. By means of the stomach.pump, some of the laudanum was ejected ; but he is not expected to recover. The recent death of his wife is said to have affected Mr. Petreham's mind. The body of a female was found, on Thursday morning, in a pond at the back of the Abbey Road, Paddington. It was at first supposed
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that she had been murdered ; but it subsequently appeared that she had fallen into the pond when in a fit. She was only twenty-six years old, and the wife of Mr. 4Vykes, a respectable engineer, who lives in New Church Street, Lisson Grove.
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