On Wednesday morning, about haltpast eleven o'clock, Lady Agnes Meadowes
was riding on horseback along George Street, Portman
Square, accompanied by Colonel Jolyffe; when her Ladyship's horse took fright and galloped off at a furious rate. Having reached the Edgeware Road, Lady Meadowes, who was nearly fainting from exces- sive terror, threw herself out of the saddle, and fell heavily on the
stones, on the left side of her head and shoulder. She was instantly carried to the surgery of Mr. Rankeen, in Bei keley Street ; where it
was found that her skull was fractured, and that her left wrist was broken. She was afterwards removed in a carriage to her residence in Berkeley Square.
On Wednesday afternoon, as Lieutenant William Norton, of the Royal Navy, was proceeding along the Vauxhull Road in a gig, accom- panied by his sister, the horse took fright at the noise occasioned by the beating of a piece of sheet-iron by some boys, and suddenly dashed off into a full gallop ; running the vehicle against the footpath, and throwing the lady from her seat head foremost to the ground. Her right leg was broken in two places, and her head and arms were much bruised, and she lies at her lodgings in a very precarious state. Lieu- tenant Norton escaped without injury.
The body of Mr. John Epps, of Oxford Street, was found lifeless in Battersea Fields, near Long Edge Farm, on Thursday week. It appeared from an inquiry before a Coroner's Jury, that Mr. Epps bad been seized with apoplexy, when crossing the ficels on a visit to his brother-in-law, Mr. Everett of Battersea. Dr. Epps was summoned from town to recognize the body of the deceased, who was his father ; but was too much afflicted to endure the sight of it.
The Adelaide steam-packet was discovered to be on fire, when lying off Greenwich, early on Monday morning. With much difficulty, the Police succeeded in scuttling her, and in saving some craft that lay alongside ; but nearly all the sides and the deck of the Adelaide were consumed. The watermen refused to help in putting out the fire, and shouted with exultation when they saw the vessel burning.
The ship. building warehouses of Mr. Evans, of Rotherhithe, caught fire on Tuesday morning about one o'clock. The inhabitants hastened to the spot ; and in a short while after, by the incessant application of buckets of water, the fire was extinguished, and less destruction of property took place than from the alarming appearances at first was anticipated. The fire was occasioned through overheating a kiln used for the purpose of bending timber to build steam-bouts and other vessels. A very large steam-boat, which has been some time building, fortunately escaped with slight damage.
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