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ing out into the middle of the road, fat the purpose of allowing
the rabble procession to move on. The streetkeeper happening to
see the defendant, and die mptley
.group by which he was sur-
rounded, took the liberty of depriving the mob of their amuse-
ment, by handing the pletard bearer to this office, who, after hav-
ing.leen divested of hia " murders," cried like a child, and as-
sured the Magistrate that should he for this time escape batuwsent
to the tread-mill, he would never again appear in the district of
the Surrey Magistrates.
The sitting Magistrate said he would overlook the offence
on those conditions, anti 'ordered the placard, and the murders of
which he had been deprived, to be burnt.
fhostreetkeeper re:eived instructions to take into custody all
fellows of this description, who had latterly become such nuisances
in the public streets.

COROA ER'S INQUEST.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.

Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, an Inquisition was taken
by Thbmas Higgs, ENCI. the Deputy Coroner for the city and liberty
of Westminster, and 14 respectable Jury, at the Marquis of Granby
tavern, Pimlico•road, near the Chelsea V er-Works, touching
the melancholy death of Mr. George Bond, aged 40 years, who was
appointed by Lord Grosvenor as receiver of the toll at the new canal
at Pimlico since its opening.
The deepest comniiseration is felt for the unfortunate widow of
the deceasetl, w ho is left with a family of ten children, the youngest
only six weeks old, to deplore her husband's untimely dissolution.
The Jory having been sworn, took a view of the body, and atter
they had resumed their seats, the following depositions were taken
relative to the lamentable circumstance:—
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James Chester stated, that he attended to the locks of the Gros-
venor CaaaL The deceased Mr. Bond was loce.master, and re-
sided near the canal. About five o'clock on Saturday evening he
saw the deceased alive for the last time: he was then walking up
the tow-path side of the canal. lie appeared to be in good health
and spirits. About tour o'clock on Sunday morning Miss Bond,
one of his daughters, knocked him up, and said that her mother
Was very uneasy at the deceased not coming home, and requested
hint to go and look after him. IVitness traced him to Mr. Carter's,
the Union tavern, where he learned he had spent the preceding
evening, but had left there about eleven o'clock at night. Wit_
nest went in every direction in search of him, but could hear no
tidings. About seven o'clock he was walking up the aids of tho
canal, and saw the deceased". suck floating on the surface of the
water. Witness suspected, immediately that the deceased was
drowned, and procured the grappling' irons to drag the canal for
the body, and at about twelve o'clock in the forenoon the deceased
was picked up about 200 yards from where witness saw the stick.
His pockets were buttoned, and his money was safe.
To a question from a Juror, he said. that Miss Bond told him
that at one o'clock she heard the deceased talkiug to a gentleman
near his residence..
Coroner—And you were not called upon to look for hint till
four ?
11'itness answered in the affirmative. .

Mrs. Hannah Carter, of the Union Tavern, Pimlico, seated, that
the deceased occasionally came to her house, but till Satunlay night
last, be had not been there for six week'. He came about nine
o'clock, and remained there till eleven, when he went away with a
gentlemen named Baker. Ile was in excellent health and spirits,
and witness considers he was quite capable of salting care of him-
self; he was not inspriated, having drank (silly a glass of gin and
water, and three pints of porter during the time he was there. On
leaving the house, he wished to treat Mr. Baker with a glass of gin
and bitters; but witness advised him not to have any, as he had
such a dangerous way to go home, but he only laughed at her
ad vice.

The Foreman of the Jury said, that it was his opinion that the
deceased, who was in the habit of walking with his hands in h:s
poilets, had from the efrects of the potations he had taken,
stumbled over the hillocks on the foot-path, and had fallen into the
water. In this, the whole of the Juroniscquieseed, and returned a
Verttiet.--•• That the deceased was accidentally drowned"

DREADFUL OCCURRENCE NEAR SCARBOROUGH.

I A poor, but well-disposed and industrious woman, of the name
of Outhwaite, the wile of a shoemaker, residing at the village of
Cloughtan, near Scarborough, and the mother of four children,
the youngest of which is but a few mcnths old, having business at
the latter place on Fritlay last. resolved to take home, for the use
of herself and children, a small portion of an opening medicine.
‘Vith this view, she called at a druggist's shop in Scarborough,
' ordered the Mlle, and said she would call for it before she left the
town. It was accordingly weighed and placed ready for the poor
woman. In the interim, however, a farmer called at the same
shop, and desired one ounce of arsenic to be weighed, and he would
, call for it in a short time. The dangerous mineral was also got
ready according to order, and as a proper precaution, the word
" poison" was written on the paper containing it ; but, unfortun-
ately, the two were placed together. The poor woman called the
first for her medicine—she received the wrong packet--she could
not reittt--she travelled home to her little family, the unsuspecting
messenger of death.
Soon after her return, she ;rare some of the arsenic to three of
her hapless children, one of them eight years of age, the second
six, and the third only four. Ttftrpoor woman also took a larger
portion herself. Death now commenced his harm, and the dread-
ful effects which always attend the taking of a deadly poison, were
soon triumphant over the tender frames of the little innocents. The
moat excruciating agonies portended immediate dissolution ; and
the miserable mother, forgetting her own bodily sufferings, whilst
witnessing the pangs of her children, became an object of the most
unqualified pity and boundless sympathy. No medical assistant
was near. and still more strange, no one was sent fur. Stupefac-
tion, or distraction must have fixed upon the wretched parent.; and
in that state, she beheld her three beloved children expire before
her, the helpless victims of a mistake, which we ate almost in-
clined to call criminal.
Death, however, bad not completed his work. The mother Will
still left, with her infant—her only surviving child—laid upon her
lap, unconscious of it's' parent's woe. She felt the pangs of ap-
proaching dissolution—but death had lost his terrors—be had be.
come a welcome messenger—the delight of her eyes had departed,
and, oh ! dreadful thought ! she had been the innocent agent.' No
medical adviser still was sent for. She struggled with the fell de.
stoyer till morning began to dawn, when, about the hour of five,
her wounded spirit took its flight to the eternal mansions, whither
her children had departed.

The infant, her only surviving child. we hear, is also in a dan-
gerous state—it having untbrtunately been suckled by the mothir,
after she bad taken the peliaon
A Coroner's Jury sat upon the bodies of the deceased ; and, lifer
a very minute Investigation into all the circumstances of the case.
they delivered a verdict (as regarded each) of" Accidental Death."
—York Herald.

Dt:MBNI.II3 CORSO BY STR•ll.—Between two and three
months ago, a young girl, who belonged to a respectable
family in Edinburgh, lost her voice and became completely
dumb, in consequence of an inflanimation of the lungs. The
most eminent of the faculty there declared that they could
do nothing for her. Iler friends revolved that she should
take the advice of Sir Astley Cooper, and about a month
ago she embarked on hoard the Edinburgh Castle steam-
packet, for that purpose. The machinery of the engine
became deranged on her way, and an alarM was spread
amongst some of the female passengers, that the boiler was
about to burst. The fright of the poor girl was so great,
'as to have a powerful effect upon her disorder. She cried
aloud and suddenly recovered the use of her tongue, which
she exercised sufficiently until her return.home, no doubt
under the apprehension, that if she did not, thete might
be danger of a relapse.

DREA DEE I. FlRE.—Yesterday morning, between two
and three o'clock, a sudden burst of flame through the
lower part of the house of Mr. James Conod, varnish-
manufacturer, of Nordi-street, Oxford-road, discovered
to the inmates tha; the house was on fire. The flames
rapidly ascended through the house, and the family were
obliged quickly to retreat to the roof, across which they
escaped. A servant girl, in the alarm of the moment,
jumped from a wicdow into the street, and her thigh was
broken. Mrs. Conod, who is rather in in, sustained
some very serious injuries, but none of t other fart of
the family were much hurt. The flames ded through-
out the building, which, in a short tim destroyed.
The adjoining house of Mr. Young, carpe -manufacturer,
was much burned. Mr. Coned is insured. The fire, it
is supposed, was caused by th'e explosion of some com-
bustibles.
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—On Sunday evening, soon
after nine o'clock, a lady and gentleman and infant, of the
name of Doyley, residing in Iligh-street, illoonisbury,
were returning from their cottage at Harrow, to their re-
sidence, in a gig, through Oxford-street, when the horse
took fright, it is supposed from the springing of a watch.
man's rattle, and plunging against a wagon, the gig was
debited to pieces, and the party thrown out. The lady and
coilal were carried into the shop of Mr. Mount, surgeon. in
a state of insensibility, and upon being examined, Mrs.
Dayley was found to have received a dreadful wound across
the face; the child was nearly *rushed from her falling on
it, and is head almost scalped, the hair being torn across
the side of the head to some extent. The wounds of both
were dressed, and accommodation provided for themiu the
house, as it was considered dangerous to remove them. Mr.
Daley only received some few contusions.

SU ICIDL.—A Mr. S. Ramsey, late purser on board an
Indiameo' was found drowned in Vi'andsworth.reach, on Sunday
evening. Ile had lately occupied lodgings at Barnes, and tad lift
a letter in his room stating his intention of committing the rash a ct,
thmugh pccaniary embarrassment, His residence was ascertaineu
by cards, with saute silver found in his pothots,

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