On Tuesday afternoon, a hostile meeting took place between a

Captain Yates and a Captain Templer, in a field adjoinine° Wormwood Scrubbs, when an exchange of shots took place without either taking

effect. The seconds were engaged in endeavouring to bring about a reconciliation, when a constable came up, and took the whole party into custody, except Captain Templer, who afterwards surrendered at Marlborough Street Office. They were bound over to keep the peace, in 200/. each.

A band of some fifty or sixty half-fed, half-clothed wretches, were discovered the other day, some sleeping, some waking, under one of the dry arches of London Bridge. They formed a regular colony there.

Mr. Barry, the lecturer on chemistry at Guy's Hospital, died on Monday, at his lodgings in Furnival's Inn, after much acute pain. It will be recollected, that this gentleman, a few weeks since, was per- forming some chemical experiments, in which gases formed part of the materials ; these suddenly igniting, an explosion took place, which broke the windows and sashes of his apartment, destroyed part of his household furniture, and dreadfully injured him.

On Tuesday afternoon, about three o'clock, a child was heard scream- ing, in one of the coal-barges lying off a wharf at the end of Adam Street, Adelphi, "Brother Billy in the water ! brother Billy in the

water!" A diligent search was immediately made' but the tide, which was running down rapidly at the time, had carried the unfortunate boy

under one of the barges ; and from the circumstance of their settling on the mud at low-water, some days will probably elapse before the body is found. He was the son of a poor woman named Harris, re- siding in the neighbourhood, and was about six years of age. On Monday morning, a poor little sweep, between six and seven years of age, was employed in sweeping an outbuilt flue at the back of the premises of No. 36, Oxford Street; when, from the rottenness of the building, the whole fell with a tremendous crash into the back- yard, just as he had reached the top, and buried him underneath masses of the brickwork. He survived only a few hours.

In Pancras Street, Tottenham Court Road, on Sunday last, a poor woman was taking her pot off the grate, when her clothes unfortunately caught fire. She rushed into the passage, and in consequence of the

street-door and the door in the yard being open, before.any help could . be afforded she was enveloped in flame: She died at five o'clock. An aged female, named Hogan, died on Wednesday, at St. George's Hospital, in consequence of being severely burnt on Monday, by her clothes accidentally catching fire.

On Tuesday, an inquest was held at the Hand and Marygold, Ber- mondsey, on the body of Thomas Grainger. The deceased had recently quitted the New Police, at the request of a cousin, named Land, a . baker, in Long Lane, Bermondsey. ' Land prevailed on the deceased and his wife to take apartments at his house, in order that the former might assist him in his business, and the latter act as housekeeper. Grainger, in a short time, began to suspect his xvife's fidelity; and on Thursday evening he discovered, to his infinite sorrow, that his sus- picions were well-founded. On reproaching his wife with her ill conduct, the worthless hussey, it seems, boasted of it. The poor man next morning, after breakfast, went upstairs, and hung himself in the i bed-room. The wife, on finding him n this situation, quietly walked down stairs, and informed her paramour ; who, instead of cutting down his injured relative, set off in quest of a surgeon, and did not return for twenty minutes. Dr. Castle, who was sent for, cut down the deceased with his own hands. The Jury's verdict was—" The deceased de- stroyed himself in a fit of insanity, produced by the misconduct of his wife and Land the baker." •

On Wednesday afternoon, an alarming fire broke out at the house a Mr. Rickards, a feather-bed manufactory, No. 211, Oxford Street. It appears to have originated in the drying-room at the top of the house. In a short time, the fire seized the house adjoining ; which was unfor- tunately an oil warehouse, and in a little time both houses were com- pletely gutted. A great part of the valuable furniture was got out and taken to a neighbour's house, but the damage done is to a considerable amount.

The sugar-house belonging to Mr. Beckley in Rosemary Lane was burnt down yesterday morning. The loss is estimated at 4,000/.

About noon on Monday, as Thomas Wilmington, of Deptford, was passing along the Surrey Canal, he observed a young female walking • on the banks apparently very much agitated. On a sudden, he saw her plunge into the Canal : he immediately ran to the spot, and plunged in after her, and With great difficulty succeeded in saving her life. From some letters found in her bosom and reticule, it was discovered that her name was Mary Elizabeth Faulkerdon the daughter of Mr. Faulker- • don, of High Street, Camberwell; and she was conveyed home in a ,coach to her father's. The young lady, it seems, had been disappointed in love. A fellow named Alderson had, it seems, courted her ; and they were.to be,rearried, by his own appointment, on the 16th of last month. Previoum however, to that day, Alderson saw fit to marry -another.

Last Saturday morning, Mr. John Glyn Irvine, a spectacle-maker, residing in Kirby Street, Hatton Garden, committed suicide. He was a bachelor, upwards of fifty years of age, a man much respected by his acquaintances, of perfectly sober habits, and industrious in his business. Hewes a disciple of Mr. Owen, and a member of the Council of the Institution of the Working Classes in Gray's Inn Road. It appeared from the evidence at the inquest, that he had bolted his door, and suspended himself to a nail in the wall by a very slight muslin handker- -chief, tied extremely tight. His weight, when he suspended himself, broke the handkerchief; and the noise he made in falling on the door .occasioned some persons to hasten to his room, but too late to save him.

On Monday morning, Mrs. Sherwood, a widow lady, an inhabitant ,of the parish of Poplar, :hanged herself. It appears, that a short time since, the husband of the deceased died rather suddenly, and since that period she had been in a very low and desponding state. On Monday morning, she came down stairs as usual; but being missed for some time, search was made for her, when she was found hanging in an upper apartment of the house. She was instantly cut down, and medical aid was called in -but all efforts to restore animation proved fruitless. Mrs. Sherwood, who was not more than twenty-eight years of age, has left three orphan children to lament her rash act.

On Thursday, a young man named Low, residing in Rolls Build- ings, threw himself from a two pair of stairs window; he fell with such violence as to break two of the bars of the railing below. No cause can be assigned by himself.or his friends for his conduct. He is not expected to live.

On Tuesday, Mr. Joseph Fowle,r, a person residing at St. Peter's Terrace, between Hammersmith and Turnham Green, shot himself through the heart wit.h a pistol-bullet. He died instantly. Grief for the very sudden death of a female, to whom he was reported to be pri- vately married, is said to have been the .canse.

A poor man named Johnson, a journeyrnan carpenter, died at the London Hospital on Wednesday, in consequence of swallowing a quan- tity of laudanum. It appeared that lie had been jealous of his wife, and they had had repeated quarrels ; but, as his brother gave evidence at the inquest, without the slightest known reason.