An inquest was held on Tuesday, at the Bridge House,
Borough Road, on the body of Mt. W. Knight, aged fifty-two, formerly an extensive brewer in the Borough. He was compelled to relinquish his brewery about a month ago from a falling off in the trade, and he had since been living in lodgings with his wife and four children. His misfortunes preyed on his mind ; and on Tuesday morning he was found hanging by a rope from the staircase. Verdict-Insanity. An inquest was held the same day at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of Mr. J. Leach, aged forty-eight, formerly a grocer, in Norton Falgate. About five weeks ago, be became a bankrupt ; since which his spirits had been much depressed. On Friday morning begot into a hackneycoach in Pickett Street, and told the driver to take him to Cheapside : on opening the door, the driver found him weltering in his blood, having cut his throat with a razor. He died on Monday. Verdict-Temporary derangement. [ Suicides, in a great majority of cases, are committed under the pressure of pecuniary difficulties. A man cannot endure the sight of his wife and children in want of their accustomed luxuries or comforts, and he therefore cuts his throat, or hangs or drowns himself,-thus inflicting upon the objects of his love many additional pangs it would be a better proof of his affection for them were he to go and break stones upon the road.]
In our second edition last week, we mentioned some particulars of a calamitous fire in Wood's Hotel, Panton Square, Haymarket. It was discovered about four o'clock on Saturday morning ; and was supposed at first to have originated in the bedroom of Baron Von Billow, a German, who was reported to have been in the habit of smoking in bed. This, however, is positively denied by the Baron : he declares that he had not smoked at all that night, and that he was not in the habit of smoking in bed. Mr. Nagle, an Irish gentleman from Cork, and Mr. Cope, a Glasgow merchant, both lost their lives. Mr. Nagle was lately married, and Mr. Cope has left a young wife with three children. Baron Bulow lost a considerable amount of property in money and trinkets : he was also very much burnt. Mr. Wood's insurance had run out, and his loss is very heavy. An inquest was held on the bodies of Mr. Cope and Mr. Nagle on Monday last ; and the Jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death by fire, but that there was Ile evidence to show how the fire originated."
A gentleman having taken a boat to Westminster Bridge, last week, on getting home missed a 51. note, in which were five sovereigns. In a state of uncertainty as to where he might have lost it, he applied, on the following day, with little hopes of recovering it, to Jack-in-thewater : Jack immediately recognized him as the party pointed out by the waterman, who had stated his having found the money, and left his address, "Henry Wessendorff, Bennett's Hill, Doctors' Commons." On Tuesday morning, about three o'clock, a party of young men employed in the Queen's Theatre, were passing over Westminster Bridge, when James Weldon, lamplighter at the theatre, agreed with one of his companions to swim across the river for a gallon of beer. The other, however, in the end, refused to hazard his life ; but Weldon plunged into the water. He had scarcely got half-way across, when be was seized with the cramp, and he called out for help. Two of his companions put off in a boat, but Weldon sunk before they could reach him.
Some thieves entered the Mansionhouse on Tuesday morning, a little before four o'clock. They contrived to decamp before one of the officers who had heard a noise in the room over the Justice-room, could secure them ; but were only able to carry off i few inkbottles, a seal with the City arms engraved upon it, and another small seal. It is supposed that their object was to get at the plate, of which about 40,000/. worth is deposited in the Mansionhouse.
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