Lady Esther Percy met with a serious accident on Thursday
morning. She was driving her phaeton along Grosvenor Place, when in endeavouring to pass between a cab standing by the road-side and a gentleman's gig which was approaching in the opposite direction, the wheel of the phaeton came in contact with that of the gig; and the concussion was so violent, that her Ladyship was thrown forward over the dashing-iron, and fell with'considerable violence on her face. She was quite stunned, and bled profusely, from some lacerations about her face ; and it was afterwards discovered that her left shoulder was dislocated, and two of the fingers of the left hand broken; but her wounds are not dangerous, though severe.
On Wednesday, a woman crossing Bridge Street, Westminster, was knocked down by a Greenwich omnibus, the fore and hind wheels of which on the offside passed over both her legs, causing a compound fracture of both limbs. The poor creature was carried shucking with agony to the Westminster Hospital ; where she remains in a highly dangerous state. Admiral Lewis, of St. John's Wood Road, shot himself in the head on Wednesday morning, in a fit of insanity.
On Saturday, Mr. Felix Pincemaille, a Frenchman, of considerable property, which he had acquired as a dyer at Old Ford, took a quantity of oxinuriate of mercury, in mistake for carbonate of soda. He died the next day, notwithstanding every medical aid was rendered him. He was fond of making experiments in poisons and chemistry generally.
William Summers, a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Ashley, bankers in Regent Street, absconded on Wednesday, taking with him notes and gold to the value of 5000/.
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