8 MAY 1830, Page 5

FinE.—The workshops underneath Latchfield's Chapel, in Bartholomew Close, were discovered

about one o'clock on Monday afternoon to be on fire. The alarm was instantly given, but from want of water—the perpetual want on such occasions—half an hour elapsed after the engines arrived before they could be rendered available. The mob that was attracted by the fire served also in a great degree to impede their working. The consequence was, the destruction of the chapel, the district Charity School, the house and work- shop belonging to Mr. Davis, a cabinet-maker (whose stock was however saved), of the fringe-manufactory of Mr. Burgh, and of the vestry-room of St. Bartholomew the Great. The damages are estimated at 35,000/. One lad was much hurt by jumping from a window of Mr. Davis's premises ; no other accidents are reported. • ACCIDENT IN THE FLEET.—A poor old prisoner was killed On Satur. day night, by falling over the bannisters of one of the stairs of the Fleet Pri- son. It was proved, on the inquest, that the bannisters had long been corn.. plained of as too low, and several accidents had previously happened from that circumstance.

St:mum—George Vaughan, eighty-six years of age, blew his brains out on Saturday night, from vexation occasioned by the failure of an engine on a new principle, on which he had been several years sedulously engaged.

COACH AectnEarr.—On Wednesday, a boy about ten years of age, who had clambered up behind a hackney coach in the New Kent Road, was dragged, by his clothes getting entangled in it, below the hind-wheel. He had no bones broken, but was very severely bruised.

Dnowxrxo.—On the afternoon of Friday last week, two men were drowned in the Clyde, opposite the Water Company's works. One of them, Burns, was pushed in, in sport, and, though a good swimmer, almost imme- diately sank. The man who pushed him in was in turn pushed in by the father of Burns, and also sank, though he too was a good swimmer. They had been previously bathing.

ACTED DROWNING.—On Wednesday evening, a young woman, named Grant, threw herself into the Serpentine ; as, however, she was careful to wander up and down the bank till she was observed, before she took the leap, she was soon got out again.

A young man employed by the Commissioners for Watering Hyde Park was nearly drowned, on Thursday evening in the Serpentine River, the horse having got out of hia depth while he was giving it some water. ft was found impossible to Save the horse, which is valued at forty guineas.

ACCIDENTAL POISONING.—A fine child, about four years of age, lost its life on Wednesday, at Somers Town, by swallowing a quantity of aqua fortis. Every thing that could be thought of was done to relieve the little sufferer, but in vain. POISONING r OR Lovr.—On Wednesday morning, a well-dressed young woman, named Francis, who had previously tried to drown herself in the Thames, was brought to Guy's Hospital in a state of insensibility from having swallowed a large dose of opium. The stomach-pump was used, but there is little chance that her life will be saved. A disappointment in love is stated to have been the cause.

POISONING FOR EMBEZZLEMENT.—A young man of the name of Cnrrie, a shopman in the employment of Bowling and Walker, chemists, Southwark, being detected on Wednesday in the act of embezzling his em- ployers' money, swallowed some prussic acid, and immediately expired. A S avneo Ac c IDENT.—A poor man, during the severe frost of last winter, i

lives, solely inconsequence of an accident from which so many have perished. like a puff. How many go to hear him on Thursdays, Sundays, or any

have been originated by Mr. Owen' admirers ; it looks remarkably purpose of lecturing on theological subjects. The lectures were first given on Sundays, and then, by desire of the members, on Thursdays. The dispute loggerheads because of e theatre having been let to tl.is gentleman for the Mr. OWEN.—The members of the Mechanics' Institute are at pesent at fell on the road near Berkhampstead, where he lay in a state of insensi-

bility (he was returning from a frolic), until he was roused from a slumber that could not have failed to prove fatal, by the wheel of the mail-coach run- ning over him ! Though much, he was not dangerously hurt, and he now s On Monday morning, Mrs. Bean, wife of the Reverend Mr. Bean, second other day ?

master of St. Paul's School, threw herself from her bedroom-window in St. RUTHERFORD, THE NEW ZEALAND CHIEF.—This man, whose adven. Paul's Churchyard, and was killed on the spot. The cause is supposed to tures are detailed in the last published numbers of the Library of Enter..

wall near which they had been playing. A much greater number might have EMTGRATION.—Two American vessels sailed on Wednesday last week suffered, but fortunately they were scared but the moment before by the from Havre, with a number of Swiss agriculturists for the United States.

threats of a shopkeeper near. Some of these families carry with them property to the value of 3000/.