5 OCTOBER 1839, Page 3

Between one and two o'clock yesterday morning, an altercation ensued

at the Albion Tavern, Great Russell Street, Covent Garden, between Captain M'Neal, of Devonshire Street, Portland Place, and two gentlemen, said to be officers in the Army, but whose names have

not been allowed to transpire ; which terminated in blows being struck by each party; and during the contest, Captain M'Neal was thrown over the bannisters down the well of the staircase, and sustained a severe fracture of his right leg. He was conveyed in a cab to Charing Cross Hospital. The cause of contention was a lady.—courier.

Mr. Charles Fenn, steward of the United Service Club, who told a strange story of an assault and robbery of which he professed to have been the victim, has been dismissed by the Committee of the Club.

A fire broke out on Thursday morning in the premises of Mr. Green, a dairyman in the Strand, near St. Clement's Church. The lives of the inmates were saved, by means of fire-escapes ; but the building was " gutted," and among the property destroyed were some valuable furs belonging to a Jew lodger. None of the property was insured.

Mr. May, the Chief Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police Force, and a party of thirty men of the A division, who have been doing duty at Birmingham since the riots, arrived in town on Tuesday night. Several of the men who accompanied the Superintendent to 111r- mingham remain there, having accepted appointments in the Police Force organized in that town by Mr. May before he departed.