Mr. Bell, clerk to Mr. Stirling the Coroner, yesterday week
in- trusted a had with a check for 351., drawn by Mr. S tirline. ell his bankers, Messrs. 'Terries, Farquhar, and Co. The bee ees tea es, ,ek-. ca: hod in sovereigns, and has not since returned. Ile had S 11 'en considered trustworthy.
On Saturday evening last, a curious robbery was effeeted :it a :e.-vate house in the neighbourhood of Charing Cross. A quant:ty !swat was sent in the course of the afternoon from a butcher in King Street, Covent Garden. About half past eight, a man, dressed as a butcher, without a hat and with a tray in his hand, called, and sayine to the servant that his master had mistaken the weight, begged that the meat might be sent back. One piece was brought to him : he said he mnst also take the boiling piece,—proving evidently that he had seen it closely when delivered or on the way. The girl \VHS thus thrown off her guard, and gave him the whole. At this moment, another man came to the door to ina nice for a person, whom of course she did not know : this was done to withdraw her attention from the butcher, who got off safely with his prize.
A. few evenings since, the daughter of a respectable tradesman in High Street, Poplar, a fine and accomplished young woman, was missed from her home. In a short time it was ascertained that =1st- had been seen to get into a chaise near her residence. She was then: driven towards town by it gentleman, who, it has since been discovered, is a married man with a large tinnily, residing in the neighbourhood of Paddington. The retreat of the parties has not been discovered.
Some boys who were playing on Monday in an untenanted house in. Carlisle Place, Bichmond Stacet, lsisson Grove, discovered au aia man, apparently deed, and lying in the corner of one of the uppee rooms. He was surrounded with filth and vermin ; and had scarcely rag on his back. Life was not extinct, but be died soon after his re- moval to the Marylebone Infirmary; where he was recognized as .a beggar who had the name of " Clean Old Jack," from his invariable cleanliness of person. He had evidently died from starvation. The wife of an innkeeper in the Vauxhall Road ruptured a blood- vessel in her leg on Monday night. A surgeon was sent for, and is applied bandages without delay ; but the poor woman bled to death is a short time.
A fire broke out on Wednesday, at a featherbed-warehouse, near the corner of Long Acre, in Drury Lane, which in about an hour nearly gutted the house, and left little besides the brick wall standing. It ori- ginated in a chimney taking fire, which, before the engines could be brought into play, bad extended to the other parts of the house.
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