30 JULY 1836, Page 5

Henry Williams, a convict in Newgate under sentence of death

for a burglary, escaped from his prison on the evening of' the 22d. He was allowed to walk in the yard assigned to condemned criminals; and having been a chimney-sweep, managed to work himself up one of the angles to the top of a lofty wall, whence he crawled along the roofs of some houses in Warwick Lane, and descended through an open sky-

light into one of the houses : where there was only a woman, who was much frightened, and who of course could not prevent his escape into the street.

Forrester, the man who absconded some weeks ago with considerable prepetty, was overtaken at Brest by Forester the Police-officer, who obtained from him a large sum in bank-notes and certificates of foreign stock. The thief was travelling under a false name, and with an illegal passport, and therefore the French Police wade no difficulty in assist- mg to secure him ; but it seems that the law would nut allow them to deliver up the man himself.

A serious accident occurred on Tuesday morning, under one of the arches of Blackfriars Bridge, which was undergoing repair. About twelve workmen were about to lift a heavy stone into its place near the crown of the arch, when two of the spars of which the scaffold was composed broke short off, precipitating the stone, with two men, from the scaffold tm to the place where other men were working below. Two ma- sons, Martin and Colley, one of whom was at work above the scaffold and the other below it, were killed. Martini never spoke after he was picked up, and his body exhibited a most dreadful spectacle. Colley showed some signs of life, and was immediately removed to the hospi- tal; on the way to which, however, lie died. Two other men, who were severely injured, are now in Bartholomew's Hospital. The fore- man of the gang of masons is also hurt, but not severely. Several of the men had very lot tunate escapes from the fulling timber and etunes; which flew about them in all directions.

Mr. Augustus Dancer, son of the Reverend Mr. Dancer, of Hull, was drowned while bathing in the Thames, off Battersea, on Tuesday. It is supposed that he was seized with clump. He was twenty-two years old.