Mr. Ballantine, the Thames Street Police Magistrate, has been seriously
ill, in consequence of an accident which he met with last week. He was riding on horseback in Leadenhall Street, when a Stratford stage-coach drove furiously against him : the pole of the coach entered the hind-quarters of the horse, and Mr. Ballantine was
thrown off with his head against the curb-stone. The driver is known, and will be brought to justice.
As the Waterloo omnibus Was proceeding alone Oxford Street, on Monday night, it was met by the Paddington and Charieg Cross om- nibus, the pole of which entered the chest of the Waterloo's near wheel-horse, and killed it on the spot. Both the drivers were thrown from their seats by the collision ; and Butler, the driver of the Padding- ton omnibus, had his arm broken, besides other injuries.
A girl of fifteen threw herself out of a window in Marylebone Lane, the other day, and broke her leg,—because her parents refused to let her marry a young man with whom she was in love.
An inquest was held on Tuesday afternoon, at the Christchurch Workhouse, Blackfriars Road, on the body of a young woman which had been picked out of the Thames, and bore marks of violent usage. Mr. Peter Wood, an eatinghouse-keeper in Bermondsey New Road, recognized the body as that of Eliza Baker, who had lived as a servant in his house, and to whom he had evinced so much regard that hi wife had dismissed her through jealousy. He had supported her since by secret allowances. Wood kissed the dead body, and cut off a lock of the hair. The mother and relations, and other friends of the girl, also recognized the body : and the mother charged Wood with having se- duced her daughter, which had driven her to commit suicide. The Jury were of opinion that the case looked very mysterious against Wood. The girl had been wounded on the forehead and thighs. Wood was in extreme distress ; when one of Whitbread's draymen entered the room, and said that he had seen Eliza Baker that day in the streets, and that she was quite well ! The story was treated as an idle inven- tion or a dream. Presently afterwards, however, be brought the real Eliza Baker to the office. She was a fine-looking young woman, in full health. Wood fell into fits ; and when he recovered, walked away with her, leaving his wife behind with the dead body; upon which the Jury returned a verdict of " found drowned." The likeness between it and the real living Eliza Baker was allowed to be remarkable.
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