15 MARCH 1856, Page 9

Alexander Smart, a retired shopkeeper, attended the service at St.

Paul's Cathedral yesterday morning; he then went up to the whispering-gallery, mounted the hand-rail as the clock struck twelve, laughed hysterically, and before two vergers present could stop him, he leapt down, and was found dead on the pavement. His limbs were fractured,- the spine dislocated, and the skull beaten in ; but no blood flowed.