John Steening, the common informer, appeared at the late Old
Bailey Sessions, to speak to the character of' a prisoner ; and on being asked his trade, he replied, "my employment is to put the penal slat tea in force."
Five young men, of genteel appearance, were fined one shilling each on Wednesday by the Magistrate at Marylebone Office, for disturbing the neighbourhood of Oxford Terrace, at three o'clock in time morning, by their imitations of the musical sounds of donkeys. [ Were these men of "genteel appearance" Members of Parliament ?] Three females were stabbed by some ruffian, on Sunday night, in Sussex Place, leading to Hanover Terrace, near the Regent's Park.
The first was a servant, who was crossing to her mistress's house in Hanover Terrace. The fellow stabbed her on the hip she screamed violently, and he ran off. Immediately afterwards, he wounded two ladies in the groin. They fell from loss of blood, and were carried home. The assassin has not been discovered.
Mr. Pons, a fencing-master residing in the Haymarket, met with a severe accident last week, when fencing with a gentleman whose foil broke close to the button, and inflicted a serious wound in his chest.
The engineer of Mr. King's new steam-carriage met a shocking fate on Wednesday morning, on the Turnham Green road. The carriage
was getting in readiness for an experimental trip, as early as five o'clock ; and just as every arrangement was completed, the engineer was looking underneath to see that all the machinery was right ; when the carriage having been unexpectedly set in motion, the wheel passed over his bead, and crushed it to pieces.
An inquest was held at the Middlesex Hospital on Monday, on the body of a hackney-coachman, aged sixty, who was run over by a hired cabriolet, on the previous Thursday night, in Oxford Street. Mr. Flower attended to watch the proceeding on behalf of Mr. King, a gentleman residing at Islington, who was driving the vehicle at the time
the event occurred, and who, together with the cab-driver, was examined
at the Marylebone Police-office on Friday. After the examination of several witnesses, the Jury consulted together for about three-quarters
of an hour, and returned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against James King. The Coroner then issued his warrant, and tire witnesses were bound over to prosecute.
A fire broke out in Field Lane, Holborn, on Monday afternoon, in the house of a confectioner, which was consumed, with four adjoining houses. During the conflagration, the exertions of the firemen were greatly impeded by a dog, which would jump at them and catch hold of the pipes with his mouth, until, with the utmost difficulty he was se- cured by his master.
After the late dinner of the Licensed Victuallers, in the gardens at the Mermaid, Hackney, the stewards discovered that a bag, containing upwards of 200 sovereigns, which had been taken by them in the course of the day, was missing from the place where it had In en deposited ; and that, notwithstanding the utmost inquiry has since been instituted, nothing satisfactory has been elicited.
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