A horrible fog settled upon the metropolis during nearly the
whole of Monday and Tuesday. Many accidents occurred. A drummer in the Guards was drowned, near Btackfriars Bridge; and a stonemason near Wandsworth. One of the Ken nington coaches, though attended by link-boys, was overset by going on the too'. path : all the passengers were severely bruised, and some had broken ribs.
A poor creature, a woman of the town, died at St. Giles's workhouse i week, of cold and hunger. She had slept on the street for several nights before she found admission to the workhouse.
Mr. Munn's sugar-refinery, in the Commercial Road, was burned on Saturday. On Wednesday night, a canvass manufactory in St. John's Street, and on Thurs. day, Mr. Ferguson's silk warehouse in Wood Street, were burnt. Soon after the Rev. Alexander Fletcher had commenced his sermon on Sunday evening, a lady, from the excessive heat of the chapel, fainted. A gentleman, is order to restore her, incautiously lighted a piece of paper, in the body of the chapel, but the blaze having caught his fingers, he dropped the paper. Front this circumstance an alarm of fire was immediately raised, which created such disorder among the congregation, that a rush towards the doors took place at every quarter of the chapel. In vain did the reverend gentleman encourage them by his solicitations to remain undisturbed. The scene of confusion was hide- scribable. Two engines arrived in consequence of the alarm, and the reverend gentleman could no longer continue his discourse.
Mr. Saxton, newspaper-vender, of Evangelist Court, Ludgate Hill, died in Clerkenwell Workhouse, last week, where he had been removed the night before, having been found on the steps of a door in a dying state. His wretched ap- pearance excited great sympathy. He was a man of the most niggardly habits, and his illness is believed to have been produced by a want of the common neces- saries of life. On the anniversaries of the newsmen's feast, he would devour whatever came within his reach most voraciously, and to an excess. To avoid the expense of fuel, he habitually frequented a coffee-shop in winter, where he remained all his leisure part of the day. His room was covered with filth and dirt, as if it had never been cleaned during the time he occupied it. Several Bank of England notes were discovered in a box ; deeds and leases of houses were also found, together with a book containing a summary of his property in the Bank, Savings Bank, &c. Altogether his property amounts to 1,000 a year. —Morning Chronicle.
A gas-pipe exploded in the King's Head, Old Shambles, Manchester, on Wed- nesday, and blew up the floors of a front parlour, the bar, the lobby, and all the windows on the ground floor. No lives were lost, but every individual in the house was severely scorched. The cause is stated to have been the insufficiency of the pipe. Last week, during the dead of night, a family in the parish of St. Stephen were alarmed by the cries of " Murder:" uttered by a woman named Tretheway, who was one of the inmates. A light was speedily procured, and on proceeding to the bed of the poor woman, a large rat was seen to jump from it, and make its escape; the woman was found to be covered with blood, which flowed from her right shoulder, which was dreadfully lacerated, and from a severe wound on her cheek. She stated, that she was awoke by feeling her shoulder torn by the teeth of the rat, the terror and anguish arising from the attack caused her to scream and endeavour to free herself from the assailant, when the rat fixed its teeth in her cheek, where it held until the approach of the persons who had been roused by the cries of the sufferer, with a light, induced it to seek its safety by flight. The poor woman is still ill of the fright and the wounds she received, the marks of which will probably remain through life.—West Briton.
Mr. Orr, surgeon, in Glasgow, and his brother were suffocated last week in bed, by the smoke of a fire which they had believed to be extinguished, and had prevented from escaping by closing up the chimney with the " damper" to ex- clude cold. The one was 23 years of age—the other 18.
A dead body was found last week, in the churchyard of a country parish in Yorkshire; and a rumour got abroad immediately that sonic of Burke 's disciples had been at work in the neighbourhood. It proved, however, to be the body of the son of a poor widow, whose brain had been affected by her bereavement and who having heard the clergyman expatiate the day before, on the raising oi Lazarus, dug up the corpse, in the belief that she should be blessed by a similar miracle.
On Saturday last, four men, belonging to Brighton, went off in a boat to hook for whiting. When near Rottingdean, they picked up a tub containing foreign spirits, which they broached, and drank of the contents so plentifully, that one of the party, uamed Marchant, fell insensibly from his seat to the bottom of the boat. His companions, alarmed, rowed on shore, but by the time they arrived, two others of them were almost lifeless from the effects of the liquid fire they had swallowed. A cart was procured, and they were brought hither, when every means to restore them was tried ; two recovered their senses, but Marchant gradually sunk under the effects of the liquor, and on Sunday morning expired ! It is thought that one of the survivors will lose the use of his arms.--Brighton Herald.
As Isaac Glenny, Esq. of Glenvale, was lately exploring an ancient Irish cairn, in the neighbourhood of Newry, he made a fortunate discovery of twenty pieces of silver coin, its an excellent state of preservation. Among them were one of the reign of an Alexander, of Scotland, and others of Henry II., and one of the Ed- wards of England, coined in Waterford.
On Sunday last, a male parishioner did penance at Camberwell Church, for bestowing a naughty name upon a female, who perhaps did not deserve it. The culprit wore a white covering; and while the clergyman read the appro- priate form of recantation, he bowed his head at the appropriate places or pauses. The crowd was very great, and (of course) behaved as they might have done had they been looking at the feats of a merryandrew.
Prince Victor Metternich, eldest son of the Austrian Chancellor of State, died
of consumption about three weeks ago, in the twenty-seventh year of his age.
Mr. Joseph Mitchell, of Barrow Marsh, near Reading, had the misfortune, lass week, to upset his cart, while driving it along the road. A double-barrelled gun was discharged, by the overturning of the vehicle, into Mr. Mitchell's foot, and caused his death a few hours afterwards.
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