The Reverend H. Champion De Crespigny, sun of time late
SirW. De Crespigny, was sentenced, on Tuesday last, in the Insolvent Debtors'
Court, to six months' imprisonment, as a punishment for his extrava- pence and unjustifiable Conduct to his creditors. He will also be com- pelled to pay 301. into Court previous to obtaining his discharge, for their benefit.
Two men were brought before the Magistrates at Queen Square on Tuesday, by some of the policemen, who find detected them in the
net of personatinr, Twopenny Postmen, and delivering fictitious letters for the sake of the postage. It was stated that these fellows belong to a gang who have latterly been practising this fraud to a great extent.
A young man, covered with stars and orders, who called himself Sir Alfred Fitzherbert Brown, was brought before the Lord Mayor on Saturday, and on the Monday and Thursday following, charged with defrauding an innkeeper at Calais of 25/. and a cloak. He told a vast number of lies; said that he was employed on a special message from the King of Naples to the Russian Court; and appears altogether to have been one of the most impudent and accomplished rascals living, though he was only nineteen years of age. He could speak fivesliffe- rent languages, bad travelled a good deal, and appeared to have been playing the rogue in half the cities of the Continent. He pretended to be a nephew of Alderman Lucas; who, it seems, had rescued him
from great distress when a boy, and put him on board a King's ship. He had made use of this connexion with the Alderman to swindle se- veral persons out of their motley. As the offence with which he was charged was committed abroad, the Lord Mayor could only administer to him a useless reprimand.
On Saturday morning, an inquest was held at the Hand-and-Hand, Brixton Hill, on the body of George Sprinks, a boy fourteen years of age, who with two other boys were amusing themselves on the ice, i when it broke, and they all fell in. An inquest was held the same day at Clapham, on the bodies of four boys, who met their death in a similar manner.
Inquests were held on Tuesday in St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the bodies of John Horland, aged four years ; Emma Pragg, aged five years; and John Dernocom, aged three years,—who were all burnt to death in consequence of their clothes taking fire.. A fourth child re- mains in the Hospital, so shockingly burnt, from a similar calamity, that little hopes are entertained of its recovery.
An inquest Was held on Wednesday on the bodies of Mrs. Manley and her three children, who were destroyed by the fire at Hatton Gar- den on Saturday morning last. The bodies were dreadfully burnt and disfigured. No new facts of interest appear to have been elicited. There can be no doubt that the fire originated in the room of Mrs. Manley, who was ab•times quite insane. The whole of the bedstead on which she lay was consumed. The. Jury returned a verdict of " ac- cidental death." They wished to annex a vote of censure for the scanty supply of water; but the Coroner said that that 'mist be the subject of a complaint to the Water Company.
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