There have been an unusual number of accidents, and attempts
at suicide, this week. We subjoin accounts of some of them. On Wednesday night, a fire broke out in a lodging-house in the " Rookery " in St. Giles's parish. The poor Irish, who abound in this
neighbourhood, were greatly alarmed ; and the street was filled with men, women, and children, running about half naked, arid carrying away some of their moveables. Through the exertions of the firemen, the damage was confined to the house where the fire commenced.
Yesterday morning, Mr. Stanninougbt, who keeps a library and newspaper-office in the Edgeware Road, cut the throat of one of his children, a boy nine years old, and then stabbed himself in the breast, but not dangerously. It appears that his spirits had been for some time in a depressed state; and on Thursday he took his son, who was
left alone with him in the house (his wife and other children being out of town), to see the " Infernal Machine" in Coventry Street. This
exhibition appears to have driven him mad. He went to bed in a state of great agony ; and the next morning, in a fit of frenzy, killed his son. Miss Allingham, eldest daughter of a gentleman residing in Bryanston Square, leaped out of the dickey of a chariot on Wednesday, on its way out of town with the family, in Hyde Park. She was seriously injured by contusions on the heaa.
On Wednesday night, as the groom of the Marquis of Bute was riding a very valuable horse, belonging to the Marquis, along the Edge wareRoad, near Maida Hill, it suddenly took fright, became quite un- manageable, and plunged headlong into an excavation in the road, in- tended for a sewer, which was about fifteen feet deep. The groom escaped with but trifling injury, but the liprse was killed on the spot. NM Henderson, an elderly maiden lady residing in Francis Street, Wa!worth, was burned almost to death on Tuesday, while arranging her clothes in her bedroom previous to a contemplated trip the next day to Margate. She died soon after reaching St. Thomas's Hospital. The servant who came to her aid was also much burned.
Sarah Flack, a servant at a house in Duke Street, Manchester Square, attempted to drown herself in the Serpentine River, on Wed- nesday, in consequence of some love disappointment. She was saved by a policeman, and conveyed St. George's Workhouse : where she lies in a dangerous state.
On Tuesday afternoon, Elizabeth Rogers, who refused to give her address, threw herself into the canal in St. James's Park. Two Polish gentlemen, walking on the banks, contrived, with the assistance of a constable, to rescue her, though not before she was nearly exhausted.
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