The National Register.
London, England, 1811-11-24 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, 4-c•

The Sessions House, in the Old Bailey, was broken open on
Tuesday morning, and the office of Mr. Shelton, Clerk of the
Arraigns, plundered of notes and other things, to the amount of
1201.: 301. of which were the property, of Mr. S.'s clerk.
A young woman of the name of Fowler, of reputable con•
nexions, was found dead in bed, at her apartments in George-
place, Oxford-street, on Thursday morning. She had left her
home in Buckinghamshire about three months, and had been
an inmate in a house of ill-fame at Charing-cross, from whence
she lied, and, in a state of despondency, committed the ra,h
act. The deceased committed the suicide with a razor, which
was found grasped in her right hand.
A few days since as some children in the parish of _Roberts-
bridge, Sussex, were at play by the brink of a well or pool,
which was usually covered with slabs, but some of which had
been removed, probably. by the horns of cattle, one of the chil-
dren fell in, and although there was 22 feet of water in the wel:,
and 14 feet of depth from where the child fell to •the water, it
was providentially got up alive and unhurt, by a humane butcher,
w ho dscended the well by a rope, and found the chili sitting oiL
a piece of board that had been floating on the top of the liquid
element.
-About three weeks • since, a house at Christ-church, Hants.
was actually set on fire by water, in the following extraordinary
mairier :—On the premises of Mr. BelbiO, tnason,,a quantity of
unslacked lime was laid, with some bundles of- laths,. Ste.- on it ;
the tide came up unusually high, and inundating the lower part
of the house, kindled the lime, which set fire-to the laths, ant
conununicating with the buildings, burnt the whole to •the
ground, with part of the adjoining house.
On Tuesday evening last as the corpse of ayoung woman was
conveying to the New Burying Ground, belonging to Lynn, io
Norfolk, in order for interment, the procession had but rst ;:r •
rived at the gate of the Chapel-yard, when a furious bullock ca:l-,e
up the road, supposed to have been over drove, which made im-
mediately towards the company assembled, who, to Shelter them-
selves from its ungovernable rage, retired within the gates, whets
the animal attacked the coffin, threw it from the bier, and dash-
ed it to the ground, until the coffin burst, and the corpse acoially
rolled out of it, to the horror and affright of the spectators, which
nny be more easily conceived than described. On the animal's
,!,•hartte a carpenter was sent fisr, and every endeavour used to
inter the body with the accustomed decency and respect.

BIRTHS.
Thursday morning, Mrs. J. A. Twining: of a son.
On the 15th inst. at W►nchester House, Cheliea, the Lady ofk,
the lion. and Rev. Thos. de Grey, of a son.

Al A Rla F. D.
On Wednesday, at Beckenham Church, by the Rex. Edward
Berens, the Rev. Edward Bouverie, secomi scu of the Hon.
Bartholomew Bouverie, and Vicar of Coleshill BerkF, to Fran-
ces Charlotte, fourth daughter of the late Bishop of Exeter, and
of Lady Elizabeth Courtenay.
On Tuesday, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, the
Rev. G. J. Tavel, late Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge, to
Lady Augusta Fitzroy, daughter to the late, and sister to the
present Duke of Grafton.
lately, at St. Werburgh's-Church. Derby, Philip Sqnamtkella,
Esq. eldest son of the Vice Duke of Marino, to Frances, third
daughter of Godftey MeyneU, Esq, of Bradley Hall, Derby=
shire.

DIED.
A few days ago, at Cork Castle Farm-house, in Domtshire,
Mr. John Alfred Parnell, .a farmer and gra2ier, aged 104 years,
who within five years of his death, walked seven tato on the
hard' turnpike road, in one hour and 57 minutei ; the given time
was two hours; and won on the occasion a round of beef, 241bs.
and 1 a gallons of good old rough cider.