On Monday, a lad, eight years old, got up behind
a Dulwich coach, in Little Wild Street ; but losing his hold, his leg was forced between the hind-wheel and the body of the coach, and completely torn out of its socket : his thigh was also shockingly mangled. He was taken to the Charing Cross Hospital, and the driver to Bow Street; whence, we suppose, he was at once discharged, for he stopped the horses as soon as be could, and does not seem to have been in fault.
Mr. William Leigh, for many years clerk to Lubbock and Co., was yesterday knocked down by a horse and cab near the Mansion! erase. His skull was fractured, and he is not expected to recover.
An estimate has been made out, by order of Government, of the loss sustained by the late fire in the Penitentiary at Milbank ; its amount s 70001.
On Monday afternoon, a well-dressed young man, apparently a foreigner, went into the Bath Hotel, Piccadilly, and ordered a dinner and a room to be got ready for him. The room was prepared ; and in the mean time the stranger despatched his dinner, and afterwards re- tired up stairs as if to lie down for a short time. Soon after this, he returned to the coffeeroom, said he had pressing business at Binning. ham, which he had just recollected, and he must set off for that town by the first coach. He then paid his bill and went out, refusing the assistance of the porter to carry his luggage. The next morning, a gentleman staying at the hotel discovered that a jewel-case containing valuables worth between 2001. and 300/. had been stolen. Suspicion immediately fell upon the Birmingham traveller, as the bed-room pre- pared for him was contiguous to the room from which the property had been stolen. Information of the loss, and the particulars, were for- warded to the Police.
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