The Sun.
London, England, 1815-08-12 00:00:00

AIEGANCIMLY CA I'ASTROPHE.

Friday night last, the inhabitants of two houses
in llawson•row, prtnond-market, were greatly
al,,rtned by .i loud cracking Of the walls, Which
they distinctly heard, three Or fosir times in quick
slit:cession ; were inhabited by poor room-
keepers, who took Inagers, so that each room
contained sevoral persons young and old, They
providentially owe their safety t,o the precipitancy
with which they got out of the premises, as part
fell in ituntediately as the last of them quitted.--
It becomes our painful duty to state, that yester-
day 'nothing., between the hours of eleven and
tweiien.docki the fabrics fell to the ground, not
leaving a vestige standing. The only p-ersons
that unfortunately•were passing 'at the time were
Janie& Kelly, of Cuckoo-lane, a fine lad about
17, who».e skull, lot chi:4ot, aim t highs, is ere di cad-
fttlly and sliorkinOy fractured', aunt who died just
as he entered Jervis-street Infirmary a most
heart-rending scene took place—his mother, a
dowo with, b cnildren, whose principal support he
was, reclaim; near the market, being incautious-
ly made accraintea at the ins:an: with tdre dread-
ful citeuntstaucz, ran to the spot, followed by
her helpless little ones, whose frantic and -p.teous,
cries would harrow the very soul J. Carroll, an
industrious man, the father of -four children,
dreadfully fractured 'and contused,was also brought
' to Jervis-street Infirmary, where he remained to
a late hour last night in a state of insensibility.
It is someivhat singular in this unfortunate man's
case, that he was an inmate of one of the houses,
and the first who gave the. alarm on Fruity
and carried his children one by out,- and conic at
the moment of their faking to see what state tiny
wear in. A female, whose name is not known, is
also a serious sufferer, ai:d is' in the infirmary in
a dangerous way; bad this dreadful- accident occur.,
red at any period of the Matket of the dery before
(Saturday) which is the heist attended in the week,
we tremble to think what, the melancholy conse-
quence might have been ; it bibs been represented
tf) us, since this welanelioly business occurred,
that the houses at either. side are in a most ruinous
and dangerous way. We know not whether we
are well informed On the subject, hat evfzuts,
we consider it our ditty to call the attention- of
the (iland Jury to the circumstances eve, have
stated, confident that they will do theirs. A 'Co-
roller's Inquest will be held this day at the fair-
mary, on the body of James Kelly.—(l)ub4irt
Paper.)

-ACciDENT.—Yesterday morning a man, Who
was. carrying a sack of beaus up a
_ladder, in
Market-street, ‘Vestutinster, lost his.hold, and
fell upon a child, aged three years, that was pass-
ing underneath at the time. The child was killed
upon the spcg, presenting a frightful spectacle,—
The man was severely hurt, but not dattl.ttrous!y•
Yesterday afternoon a file broke out.at No. 9,
in Downing-street, which, created considerable
alarm in the nei:,,Lbourbood.,but fi'oni the pronvt
exertions of the inhabitants, it wigs happily got
under without doing any material injury.
On Thursday, a man named
.Smitb, .accompa-
nied by his suit, a la.! aged Id.yt:ars, was engaged"
in i;itiding a barge along the river, opposite Co
Laiubeth Palace, and he scut his son 'aft for some
ropes. The son not re:-.wri;.!,4-,, the fat her looked
round for hiin) and he <• <a litst in time to see the
lad sink, 11- having fallen o..(.•vboard. Search for.
the hotly as innuediately cotr‘nueneed, but yes'
terday nn,rnihg it bad not been tound.
Wedne.Aily,itiglit the stables ad4oini3v; gicen-
striate Poitce-O4eu were broken into and robbed
of at plantity of

tAN:V T-41TELLIGENCli,

ISOLVENT IiEBTOP.S' COURT„,I.uc. It.

The discharge of Mr. flobert L'per Percy, Vetts
opposed by Mr. Ccittwooti, on tne park of Mr.
Fisher, a Creditor, tiiltler the following circlim-
stztwats
The Insolvent had deposited with Mr. Fisher, a
valuable gold sauff-bok,ornattiented with masonic
emblems, as a security for a debt of EOl. He soon
after called on Mr. Fisher, and requested he would
let hint have the snuff-box, as he was {_ming where
he should not wish to be observe4l
_without it ; at
the same time offering to replace it by an East Lon-
don Water-works share, which was at"that time
conceived an equal coliatei'al security; this re-
quest was complied with, but ultimately Mr.
Fisher lost the advantage be sitppoSci himself hi
possession of by this security, for the share not
being assigned to him by Air. Percy, the latter,
through another channel, procOted its amount
from the )vast London Water Company, and by
this transfer the creditor was frustrated in the
certificate he held.
• Mr. PocoCK, for, the Inscilvent, said, that even
if the facts were as they had been stated, they
Would not amount to the obtaining a fraudulent
credit.—But the fact was, Mr. Percy bad repeat-
edly offered to add a regular assignment to the
share ; but Mrs. Fislier said her husband would
have no" concern in the %vater-works, which had
already involved several persons in heavy losses.
This'vertement was denied by Mr. Fisher, but as
file share on the face of it was of no value with-
out a regular assignment to the holder, and as the
creditor must have seen this when he took it into
his possession, the Court conceived the abjection
insufficient to prevent the Insolvent's diseiarge.
There were thirteen cases in Court this day,
but they were devoid of interest.
Adjourned until half-past t%velve o'clock on
Tuesday next.