Mr. Patrick Conroy, a barrister, died on Monday night of
apoplexy, brought on by excessive drinking. His last feat was drinking a bottle of brandy, which he accomplished in fifteen minutes.
On Monday night, John Sayers, who for between forty and fifty years was the coadjutor of the celebrated John Townsend, and who with his colleague attended at Court during the greater part of the last three reigns, was attacked with a fit of apoplexy at his house at Pimlico, and expired within an' hour. The old man was at Bow Street Office on Monday, apparently in good health ; and conversed with a friend at the corner of the street about the recent departure of his friend John Towns- end ; when lie observed that old John did not long survive Sir Richard, and he thought it time to prepare, as so many of his old friends had lately dropped off.
A middle-aged man, named Alexander Richards, died a few days ago very suddenly. It appeared that he was in a violent passion in consequence of his son returning home late. He made several at- tempts to strike his son, but was prevented, and at length made a rush to give him a desperate blow, when a female present stopped him, by laying hold of him in her arms. He immediately exclaimed, " Oh, oh ! " hung his head on her shoulder, and, after giving three gasps, sunk down a corpse. The son was at first taken into custody by the Police ; but the true nature of the case was cleared up before the Coroner, and the Jury returned the verdict, "Died by the visitation of God, while in a violent passion."
Two men, one the youngest son of Mr. Bowtell, of Skinner Street, Snowhill, and the other his shopman, were drowned on Sunday, in re- turning from an excursion up the river. The shopman was in liquor, and fell from the boat, and the young man was drowned in an attempt to save him.
On Thursday morning, about half-past seven o'clock, the body of a man named William Jackson, aged forty-six, a butler in the service of Sir William Clayton, Park Street, Soho, was found in the reservoir in Hyde Park. The deceased, who bore an excellent character, had been in the service of Sir William Clayton upwards of five years.
A poor little chimney-sweep was on Thursday very nearly suffocated, from getting jammed in a chimney in Upper Baker Street. Four hours elapsed before he was got out.
A poor man named Seeger, a carman, was crushed to death yester- day morning, at Ball Wharf Hall, by the shaft of a laden waggon. He
had neglected to lock the wheel, and the waggon in consequence was hurried rapidly down the steep. It was in an attempt to stop it that he was killed.
A set of pickpockets, who had gone on board the " King William the Fourth " Margate steam-vessel last week, contrived during the passage to abstract from the Cockney excursionists 96/. On Wednesday, a newsvender named Beresford, in a fit of intoxican don, attempted to cut his wife's throat. The poor woman's conditio- is very doubtful.
On Thursday morning, between eight and nine o'clock, a gentleman named Mallen, who is extensively connected in the Russia trade, and resides at Wilna Cottage, in the Brompton Road, was discovered by his servant on the floor of his back-room weltering in his blood, which was still flowing from a deep tmd extensive incision on the left side of the throat ; a razor was firmly grasped in his right hand, with which it ap- pears he had inflicted the wound. A phial containing a small portion of laudanuin was found on his dressing table. Surgical aid pas imme- diately procured. The unfortunate gentleman is still alive, but his case is considered very desperate.
On Wednesday morning, a few minutes before one o'clock, a fire broke out at the house of Mr. Sears, at the corner of Gilbert's Passage and Portsmouth Street, Clare Market. The flames were first ob- served issuing from the third-floor window, over the room in which Mr. and Mrs. Sears slept. Mrs. Sears, who had been confined for nearly three weeks, with difficulty, and in a fainting condition, e›aaped with her infant to the adjoining house ; the servant maid, who elein on the same floor where the fire commenced, effected her escape by the trap- door, and gaining the roof, a butcher in the employ of Scrivener got upon the roof through the adjoining house, and rescued her. The flames were not subdued till the upper part of the house down to the second floor was completely destroyed.
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