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London, England, 1824-12-30 00:00:00

FATAL ACCIDENT.

A Coroner's Inquest was held at the Triumphant Chwict,
Pembroke-mews, Knightsbridge, before T. thugs, Esq. on the
bolt' of Thomas Randall. _ _

Dine Bamford deposed, that she lien in King's Heatt.seurt
near the wooden bridge, Pimlico. Low Saturday week, about
20 minutes before 11 o'clock at night, she beard the deceased cry.
" Ilelp, help, for Goers sake help, or I shall be lost." She went
out, and crossed the bridge. The watchman came up, and she tuld
hint to listen; they then heord hint cry„ Oh!" Other persora soon
came, shin George Rope found the earn, who was close under the
caping-stene of the New Wharf now making by the bridge.
The deceased was in the mud; be was taken out, and carries(
to the King's Head public-base. He was alivs and sensible, but
could not move any part hut his left srnt.
Henry Pitman, house-surgeon to St. George's Hospital, stated,
that the devoted sus brought mon the 10:h instant, between use
and two o'clock in the morning. Witi.css examined him. ari,
found that he had received a violent blow on the back part of Gee
neck ; it appeared us if he had fallen on some hard substance.
He lingered until tl:e 23d, when he died. It hos sir ce been aster.
ttined that his neck and breast.bune were broke's, which was be
cause of his death. _ _

George Rope, carpenter. *aid he was coming out of the Stog's
Ilend public-house. about ;tall-past eleven o'clock on Saturday
week last; he licant the riles et a man; he went to the middle ef
the bridge, when deceased exclaimed, " Who will assist me." It
was very dark. and he could not see him. Witness went down W
the wharf, and jumped oft the coping-stone into the waver. 1141411
was about a foot deep, and four:Pen feet under the coping-stoae.
De called out, when the deceased begged him to come and assist
him. At that tine lie was about twelve feet distant from Mtn.
There were mime pieces of timber unikerneath ; his thigh wad
%nese onopier:e a peat or .take was at the back part of' Ids head, and
his knee crippled aeaMet hit breast. Witness raised hint on his knee.
and called out ter assistance a:.il lights. Deceased said be had
come Imin 11r. 4%11111.F. t'anteer., 14, rse Guards, and wss gen%
over the briilde to 11r. Death, a plumber, to repair ....ene pipes. Fib
appeared sober. Ile 0111 conveyed to the King. tired public.
howie, where sonic brat:iie red water was adminiare•aetl to him. ard
he was Men re moved rn the llmpitat To ace.rant tor the deceased
being where he was fimnd, "-mess sated, that some prtmises,
formerly inclosed on the ►tile of the Whigs*, were Dow
laid open. ar..l the deceased. it PAMIR, endeavourcil to go to the
King's Dead public-ho•tse, the lights e.f which could he seen boat
where he till f Red for want of a rail to other security, the pow
men, it beteg !I down.
The ants, rettirm.i e vcrd•et, " Act lJerta/ Death be a fall."

The Coroner sae rtivestcd by the .luny to c form 31css-a..,chn.
son, son, amt Brice. the owners of the tett when, ot the fatal
acciderd, and to tequeat that a rail or light nmy be placed there, tee
prevent further accidents.

Thr ..nruto Aectur .—The other day the driver of a
farmer's waggon :it tt,toke by Clare was going with his
waggon through the street of that village, when the
horses, startitiii st Lf nue cattle, turner► suddenly round,
and ran ce The jiver man, thus taken by surpri7-
101,,,..k,L4 down and run over by the horses as well
whivis of the wa;:gon, by which he had both
broken, and ow, et. them in two places. with 11
protrild'ng throtii:li the skin, his wrist terribly
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, WEDNISDAT, Dm 29.

Lonnatisr came down t,-day at ten o'clock, and oat in his
room, which was own to the public.

NATTER Or CLArDIO ARCA/10E1.0, A XXXXX OTT.
Hi* Loistiauty said, since he was here he had received a letter
'from a gentleman in this matter.
Mr. MONTAUI, said, he appeared for the petitioner, and held in
his hand a copy of the letter his Lordship alluded to. and front the
natrue of it he felt be could not proceed in the petition as he in.
traded. The letter was intomiing tits Lordship that Mr. Horne,
who was retained also as resume', could not possibly attend to-day,
andAlterefore it was hoped his Lordship would order the matter to
stand over till the Conirt met again.
Mt. Faritaotteg said, the letter was sent to his Lordship merely
with a view to have saved his Lordship trouble.
nig Loa UPHIP said, no blame whatever attached to the gentle-
man who had written the letter. _

Mr. Mows/Lott then ellinied the privilege of making an er.
pate application. The petition (which he would not open) prayed
that the commissioo which hail been sued nut against the bankrupt
might be superseded, on the ground of the petitioning creditor not
being able to prove his debt at law. The beamed Counsel's pre-
sent application was, that the Court would order a new commission
to jostle, without prejudice as to which of the commissions should
stand. The petitioning creditor, on whose alleged debt of 2,5110/.
the commission was taken out, is a person of the name of Carew, of
IVapping.wall, who carries on the business of a musician; and it
appeared that he had no means whatever of proving his debt at law.
He stated, that his debt accrued by having lent to the bankrupt the
above sum, in bank-notes, but could not remember the numbers of
them, nor the parties from whom he had received them. It was
supposed, that if the bankrupt would admit the proof of the claim,
there might be something Ilk t a petitioning ertalltor's debt, and
therefore the bankrupt was called before the Commissioners, the,
outline of whose examination on that occasion was, that he had re.
ceived the notes; that he kept an account with two different
banker, but that he had not paid any of this money into the hands
of his bankers, in consequence, as he alleged, of having paid
ieetaiu bills of exchange with it, which about that time became
due, and were payable et his own house. Subsequently to this
examination, the parties had traced their bills, and by exertion of
one kind and another, had discovered that not one farthing was
paid in discharge of the bills, but what came from the hands of his
bankers ; so that instead of suppartit,g the petiticning creditor's
case, the bankrupt had completely annihilated it ; and therefore
the Commissioners yesterday refused to admit the debt. There
was a vast deal of property to he got in, and therefore Mr. Mon-
tagu hoped his Lordship would grant the prayer of the present ap-
plication.
His LORDSHIP immediately desired that a new Commission
should issue, without prejudice to the question whether the present
Commission should stand or not; intimating at the same time,
that it this second Commission ought not to he taken out, the
party who did take it cut would hereafter have to pay the
costa of it.
RLACEMORE r. OLAMOIROANSIIIIII CANAL COMPANY...

HIS LORDSHIP had drawn nut the minutes in this case, which
directed two issues to be tried forthwith, namely, whether what the
defendant had done towards widening and deepening the canal in
question, was consistent with the provisions of the Acts of Pai
orient ; and neat, if not consistent with the provisions of the Acts,
whether the plaintiff's imn-w.wks hail been injured or duneged
by the operations of widening and deepening, by having reduced
the surplus water the plaintiff is entitled to (ruin the river 'Taff, for
the purposes of his works.