On Sunday night, between nine and ten o'clock, the stables
be- longing to the Dutchess of Canizzaro (late Countess San Antonio), in Hanover Square, were discovered to be on fire.' The alarm was soon spread, and fears were entertained lest the houses in the immediate vicinity should be caught by the flames ; among the number being that of Prince Talleyrand, which was next door. The horses were imme- diately extricated, no material injury baying been suffered by them.
About one o'clock on Tuesday morning, a fire broke out at the shop of a cheesemonger in Brill Row, Somers Town, which had nearly proved fatal to two of the inmates, Mr. Brown the tenant, and his in- fant child; who in descending the burning staircase, were overcome by the heat, and fell suffocated into the fire below, just as some of the Police had forced the door in order to expedite their escape. They were instantly dragged out of the flames, having received little more than a slight scorching.
On Sunday morning, a daring burglary was committed at the Horse Bazaar, Portman Square. The watchman appointed to watch the premises, during the time he was walking through the Ladies' Bazaar, heard a smash of glass in the yard; when he hastened to the counting- house, and discovered that two large squares of glass had been broken, and the window and shutters open. Every drawer and box in the counting house had been forced, and all the silver taken. The strong iron .chest fortunately had not been opened; it contained property to an im- mense amount.
• On Saturday night, as Mr. Aldridge. of Hoxton, was passing Shore- ditch Church,.a thief snatched a gold watch with seal and key from his fob. Mr. Aldridge seized the man, but the skirts of his coat gave way, and he escaped.
A Coroner's inquest was held on Monday, at a public-house in Trinity Square, on the body of Mr. Carlo Trincivalli, a Hamburg merchant, who was killed on Friday week, on board the Superb steamer. It appeared from the evidence of the captain of the Superb, that owing rto the breaking of a rope, a collier brig ran foul of her, when coming alp the Thames near Limehouse. The bowsprit of the collier carried away the main-mast, main-top-mast, and rigging of the Superb. The main-mast fell upon the deceased, and crushed his head : he was carried
into Limehouse, and died seven minutes after landing. Mr. Payne, the Coroner, said, that as he died in Limehouse, he had no jurisdiction in the case. It was said that Mr. Baker, the East Middlesex Coroner, lied likewise refused to hold an inquest, as the body was not lying in the county. The Jury were discharged, without coming to a verdict, A convict made his escape from the Woolwich Dockyard on Monday last. On Wednesday afternoon, he returned, and delivered himself up to the Captain of the convict-ship ; telling him, that he had escaped
.disguised in a caulker's cap and jacket, in order to visit his father and :sister, who were, as he bad been told, in a dying state at Chelmsford. He found, however, that he had been misinformed ; so he hastened to retain to his old quarters. He is under sentence for seven years, four and a half of which are expired.
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