An inquest was held on Tuesday, on the body of
Mrs. Mary Ann Crannis, the wife of a shopkeeper in the City, who was drowned on Monday week in leaving the Enterprise, Hull steamer, on board of which vessel she had been with her husband, taking leave of some frierds. Mr. John Crannis, brother of the deceased's husband, gave the foil ming testimony, embracing the facts of the case— He west on board the Enterprise to proceed to Hull ; and his brother and sister-in-law accompanied him, to see Imimim olf. They had not been on boatd
above a minute before the vessel sheered off; and when out in the stream, a
boat was called to take his brother and sister-in--law, and a Mr. Smiley, on shore. The men belonging to the steamer let the gangway -ladder down ; and his sister-in-law was the last who descended. While doing so, witness heard one of time men say, 6' Look sharp—we are just going, to set the steam on." The vessel at that moment went on; and his sister. in.law fell between the boat
and the vessel, and the boat was swamped. Witness begged of time captain to
put him on shore, and told him he had drowned his sister-in-law and others. But the vessel kept on her comse down the Pool, though the people in the vessels around hallooed to the captain that he hail drowned several persons. Witness was put ashore at Rotherhithe. He attributed the accident to gross neglect on the part of those who had the management of the steamer.
Several witnesses spoke of the hurried and cureless manner in which passengers were taken on board and put off the steam-boats in the Thames : it scented that a minute's time was worth more than a man's life. It appeared that no notice was given to the captain or pilot that any person was going on shore; and that the steam was ordeeed to be " set on" in ignorance that there was any cause for delay. The Coroner said, that there was as much blame on one side as the other ; that 710 person was criminally affected by what had occurred, and that it was a case for a deodmid. After two hours' coitsideratiou, the Jury returned a verdict of" Accidental Death," with a deodand of 1010/. on the steam-boat : they also expressed their belief that " the pet,ple" on board the Enterprise had been guilty of culpable negligence.
The Comet, Gravesend steam-packet, on her voyage to- London on Tuesday afternoon, ran down a boat containing four gentlemen in Bugsby's Hole, between Greenwich and Woolwich. Time steamer was
coming up the river at full speed ; and the beat, containing the four amateurs, was going the same way. The captain made signs for them to proceed in a particular direction; but, from some misunderstanding, and alarmed by the velocity of the Comet, they did not do so, and the steamer struck their boat and Ian it down. Two of the party jmnped
out on one side of the boat, and two on the other, with great dexterity, in order to avoid the paddles, not more than two seconds before the collision took place, and thus saved their lives. The steamer was stopped and a boat instantly lowered, which picked up one gentleman. The others were saved by the skiff of the Henry, Captain Lambert, and other ships' boats, the men iit which displayed praiseworthy alacrity. They were all taken to London in the Comet, and were provided with dry clothing. The boat was cut in two, and the escape of the gentle- men was really miraculous.— Times.
An old woman was robbing the garden of Mr. Taylor of Camberwell, on Tuesday night ; when she fell into a well, sixteen yards deep, with
about two yards depth of water in it. She rose after her first tumble, and contrived to hang by a projection on the inside of' the well, till her cries of "murder" brought Mr. Taylor to her assistance. She suffered no hurt.
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