The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-12 00:00:00

ei,ERKEN WEL, .

INFANTICIDE.-- Elizabeth Willed, a y( ling c;irna,-;,
wbo seemed to be labouring under exeesive
and resi ling at No. 1, Orchard-court, Orchard-street,
Kingsland, was charged with endeavouring to conoeal
the birth of a female child Such was the charge on
the police sheet ; but there seems to exist the same
reason for charging her with the concealment of the
birth of two children as of one.

It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner was
in the service of a tradesman at Shacklewell up to
about seven months ago, at which period she returned
home to her father in Orchud-court, and continued
to reside with him up to the time of her apprehension.
She supported herself and her parent by needle-work.
Her size increased in the manner of women enceinte
up to the 7th of March last. On the m:_xiiing of
that day Mrs. Gibbons, the landlady, saw blood
on the step-ladder leading from the prisoner's room
to the story beneath• and she traced the marks of
blood to an aperture over the door of the privy.
which had been nailed up for a long time. In the
privy, through this space, she saw the body of a
child, which a man named Robinson pulled out with
a drag, and which on examination was found to be
fully grown, and newly-born. Suspicion Imme-
diately fell on the prisoner, who at first denied all
knowledge of the matter, and said that if she knew the
author of so wicked a report, she would have him
punished. Mrs. Gibbons then observed on her di-
minished size and delicate appearance, to which the
prisoner made no answer, but walked away. Wood,
the beadle, was then sent for, and the prisoner wps
given into custody. An inquest was h?ld on the
body; before Mr. Baker, Coroner, for Middksex, and
the jury returned a verdict of " Found dead in a pricy,
but no evidence to show whether or not the child
was born alive."' The prisoner was apprehendel, but
in consequence of her delicate state of health was sent
to Hackney workhouse. On her way thither she said
"I have .committed the act ; oh, may God forgive
me !" Three days after the first child was found, the
privy wqb opened, and the body of a seeonl female
child having nearly the same appearances as the
fortner, was found buried in the filth. A second in-
quest was held on this body, which was adjow•ned„
and finally a similar verdict was returned as in the
former case.

Mr. Wm. Bernard Robinson, a surgeon, residing
in Shaeklewell-lane, ShaeklewAl, deposA that he
made a post mortem examination of the body of the
child first found, and was of opinion that it had
breathed, but he could not positively ~Nve,ir that it
had breathed after birth. The surw•on added, that
the unfortunate woman was in a- deep consutnption.

Pace sergeant thlt the prisoner ac-
knowledgA the offence in his' presence. She :tatecl
that she kid been seduced by a young man, who
slighted her, and afterwards got, married to another.
The prisoner, when called upon fur her defence,
did not say a word, and was reminded.
Two women, named Green and Shawe, were
charged with being concealed in the robbery of a
large number of pieces of woollen cloth, silk, satin,
and velvet, the property of Mr.. Lamb, a woollen •
draper, residing at 100, Holborn-101.
Mr. Humphries appeared for the prosecution, and
Mr. Robin son for the prisoners.
It appeared from the evidenc,, that in November
last Green, who was cook to Mr. Lamb, was dis
charged from his service. Since her discharge infor-
mation reached him that Green had been disposing of
his property, and on searching the house in which the
prisoner lived, in Crown-court, Goswell-street, a
number of keys were found, one of which opened Mr.
Lamb's wareroom, in which the mo-t valuable of his
goods were deposited. There were also small pieces
of satin, silk, cloth, and velvet found there which the
prosecutor ideni:ied. It was further proved that the
prisoner hail got several pieces of the stolen cloth
manufactured into fashionable cloaks, and the velvet
into bonnets, by a milliner named Chelford, in Little
Sutton-stri et. Most of these things were pawned at
the office of Mr. Tingly, in Greek-street, Soho ; and
his assistant produced them. They had been pawned
for less than half their value.

The prisoners were remanded.
A gentleman named Smith, was charged with riding
a horse through Woburn-court, it being a thoroughfare
for foot passengers only; also with assaulting Mr. Wil-
liam Chaplin, No. 6, in the court.
It appeared from the evidence that on the previous
evening Mr. Smith rode his horse through the court. Mr.
Chaplin followed him as far at Great Russell-street, and
there seized the horse. Mr. Smith struck him with his
whip to disengage the animal from his grasp.
The MAGISTRATE said that Mr. Chaplin had no right
to follow Mr. Smith such a distance, and then seize his
horse in the manner he had seized him. At the same
time Mr. Smith had acted contrary to law in riling his
horse through a foot thoroughfare, and thereby :objected
himself to a penalty of 40,4
Mr. Smith said, at the time he entered the Court be
was not aware that it was only a foot thoroughfare.
The MawsTRATE said ignorance of the taw was no
palliation of the offence; he would fine Mr. Smith ss.
The fine was paid at once.
UNION-HALL.
Thomas Aberrow, a butcher, was charged with wound-
ing his wife on ill- hr-ad ; and there w,is also a charge
preferred tt.;ainst ti.e of'attempting to drotn herself
at Rat:l:friars- =)ri,!ge.
aopea-ed thtt, oa h. preceding +ht, woman was
prevented tr,;m thr-'wing ii,rself two the Thames near
the above bridge, and '.cat taken into custody. When
conveyed to the station-house, she there sad that shehersAf in cons:aim:nee of the ba,l
t and she, at the same time ex.-
testtieLt.ieli
et,h)
ud,ebsatiritz
hibited a sarere wound on her head, which a.s
inflicted by him. Fr.-bm the woman's staterneat befl:re
the Magistrate it appeared that her husband had ..ormed
an illicit intercourse with another woman, end that it
caused a good deal of quarreliiteg between them. That
on the preceding ui ht she (the wife) and her husbaad
having had some high words on the sulaVet alluded to,
her huaSani struck hec on the head, and inflicted a
wound, which reude,•el her insensible, and a surgeon
having b,eu called in he dias,ed the wound, and
when she subsequently recovered licr ten -es she
became so excited at the had usage she was constantly
receiving at the hands of her husband, that she deter-
mined on d. stroying herself, and far that purpose pro-
ceeded to the bridge, for the purpose of throaing her-
self into the river, wilen she was prevented as above de-
_ _

Mr. CoTTiNanam said that he should not decide the
case until he heard the t,vitlewte of the surg.con as to the
nature of the wound inflicted on thtr unfortunate woman.
Alexander Andrews and John-Neiman %; ere charge Al
with attempting to pick pockets this inoriing, during the
confusion that prevailed at the lamentable accident that
occurred by the falling in of the roof of the terminus of
the South-Eastern Hallway, and by which accident some
lives have been sacrificed.
It appeared that about seven o'clock, when the acci •
dent referred to took place, the two prisoners were ob-
served busily engaged in th.-ir vocation, that of attempt-
ing to pick the pockets of several persons attracted to
the -pct. Beira g known as reputed thieves, they were
taken into custody, and were committed by the Magis-
trate fur a month each to the treadmill.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Liverpool, April 9.
CIVIL. SlDE.—(Before Mr. Baron RoLFE and a Special
Jury.)
OLIVERSON AND ANOTHER V. BRIGHTMAN AND OTHERS.
The hearing of this cause was resumed at the sitting
of the Court this morning. Mr. Byrn, the resident
partner of the house of M•Viccar and Co., at Macau,
was examined at considerable length, respecting the
state of relations between this country and China at the
time the Penang reached the country. He stated, in
effect, that it was impossible to laud the cargo at Hong-
kong, as there were no warehouses there, and that it
would have been imprudent, as it was not a place of
trade. The only port where the goods could have b€en
ch,posed of was Canton ; but a large portion of the
damaged cargo was sold at Hong-Kong. At the time
the goods were transhipped to the James Laing, there
was no intention of again putting them on board the
Captain Joseph Lyas,
Penang.
the master of the Herald, a
Queen's ship, which went out to China in 1840, was next
called. He stated that there never was any lt.claration
of war, on the part of England, againit the Chinese—
that Hong-Kong wai a more preferable Waco for lying
up than Macao, and that in May, 1840, the vessels i)f
war were withdrawn from the Canton river ; but that,
in the latter end of August or September following, the
witness returned with the Herald.

This closed the plaintiffs' ease.
Mr. KELLY said that the few observations he hail to
make were in substance addressed to his Lordship.
Having attentively considered the whole of the midence
beforehand, IP' was quite satisfied that no real qu-stion
of fact would arise or he in disput, between the part:es
which c,-)uld properly be left to a jury, and now that the
plaintiffs' case.had come to an end, he begged to say that
there was not one single point which, with any benefit
to either party, or with any view to the administration of

This prisoner, who is but 21 years of
,age, was rext
clene-d with the wilful murder of her aunt, Beiay
Sealey, who livi,cl also at the seine place, by strangling
her, on the Bth of December last.
Mr. Carey and Mr. Merewether appeared for the
prosecution, and Nfr. Kinglake for the prisoner. •
The deceased 4 Betty Seeley, aged 79, lived in the
rieht- hand wing of a dilapidated farm-house, at Pinek-
•ney, under which roof the prisoner lived. This farm-
house stands in a line with the village road. The
prisoner lived in the front part of this wing, and
the deceased aunt in that of the back, to which there
were two ways' of entrance, the one from the village
road, and the. other from a foot-path leading to
Bishop's Lydiard; and at this back entrance th. re was a •
a nail barkin, occupied by cattle, and a barn in the rear,
which formed three sides of a square. Betty Seeley had
from time to time money and things stolen from her, and
in such a manner as to convince her that it must be the
act of some teTson, who well knew the locality, entering
by means of false keys, or in some other clandestine
manner. Deceased received parish support from the
Kingston parish; which money was payable every Friday.
On Friday, the Bth of December, she d. puteel some per-
son to receive her money for her, beine determined, if
possible, to detect the thief. Accordingly, she left her
home, as usual, on pretence of goine. to Kingston, when
she pursued the road leading to Kingston, till out of
sight of the prisoner. who was at home when she left..
She then returned by a footpath thromeh the barn
and barkin to her own door. She.most have taken her
arm-chair and placed it in a dark closet opposite
her entrance door, and then remained there in it
till the robber arrived—for in this chair she was found
dead the next Saturday, the 9th of December, at eight
o'cleck- in the evening; by her son, John Seeley, his
wife and son, who had been fetched by the woman
who went for
,the parish pay on this Friday, and
in consequeßee, toe.- of her having repeatedly failed in
gaining admission th t a 4: These witnesses found that
the old woman's throat- was pinched, for finger-marks
appeared thereon. Her hands and arms were scratched.
. Her tongue protruded fie ,n 2 her mouth, and other ap-
pearances, which led the medical gentietnan, Mr. WeL•h,
surgeon, of Taunton, to say that she died by strangula-
tion. Her bonnet and clothes clearly indicated same
foul play. It also appeared than her daughter.in-law
had sent her, some few days before, an octagon phial-
bottle, the marks of which were visible on her c;othes,
but that the bottle was gone. Evidence was given,
that shortly after the time when it is supposed that
the old woman had left, the prisoner insisted on some
young man leaving her house, as though she wished
to avail herself of the supposed absence of the old
woman. In the earlier part of the day Gabriel Porter
was in the prisoner's house with her when Mr. Far-
thing, the landlord of the premises, passed in his car.:
riage. That on this occasion the old woman hailed him,.
and he stopped, and as she was speaking to him prisoner
said she was talking about her, and that she had taken
some sticks front her own garden hedge that day, and
had the old woman seen her she would have told Mr.
Farthing of that too. It was then alleged that she said
to -a Young girl, with whom she had been picking apples
at Mr. Farthing's, that all old women, such as Betty
Sealey, the deceased, ought to die, and that she for one
would help. Evidence was next given to prove, that as
soon as it was supposed that she had committed the
offence, she went to a place called Etheridge, to Jane
Bond's, the mother of her young man, where she re-
mained some hours, and went again next day. That
when the policeman searched her box on the following
Sunday, a bottle, like the said octagon phial-bottle, was
therein found. It was attempted to be proved that a
trap-door was discovered in one of the prisoner's up-
stair-rooms opening into the deceased old woman's apart-
ments, and that the opening was free from dust.
Several prisoners from Wilton gaol were then brought
forward, who deposed to some strange statements mark
by the prisoner, confessing her guilt.
The Jury, however, hiving retired for half an hour,
returned a verdict of "Net Guilty."

COLONEL STODDART AND CAPT.

UONOLLY.

Captain'Grover Irs received Dr. Wolff 's journal up
to Feb. 6. Ile left Taiireez on Jan. 20, and, afters peril-
Ms and painful journey, reached Tehran, in perf•ct
health, on Feb. 4. Fifty-six miles from Tehran he was
obliged to write to Colonel Shiel, petitioning that five
hores might :be sent ti his as,istance. Colonel Shiet
instantly sent the required horses, and wrote in the
kindest terms, inviting the Doctor to take up his
quarters at the British emba;sy, and promising every
asAstsnee. The Doctor says, " Could anything be more
kind than this ? He (Colonel Shiel) has also detained
in his house Meshede Rajah, who was three years ser-
vant to Colonel Stoddart, and by whom he (Meshede
Rajah) was sent to Caubul. He had been imprisoned at
Bokhara. I have tak,-n him into my service, and he-will
accompany me to 11.khara in about ten days time. I
have met with the greatest kindness and hospitality from
Colonel Side), awl the gc.ntlem.-n attached to the embassy,
and I wish this to be understood in the strictest sense of
the word."
Dr. Wolff fur'her says, " Colonel Shiel told me that he
had seen the Ambassador from Bukhara, who told him
that he did not believe that Colonel Stoddart or Captain
Conolly
!"had been killed, but that they were kept in
prison Dr. Wolff had seen Count da Medetn, the
Russian Envoy, and received from him, an account of hie
interview with the Ambassador, which differed but little
from that published some time ago in the papers. Tke
Doctor has not vet been to visit the Bukhara Ambas-
sador, as he wishes previously to be presented to the
King of Persia.
Dr. Wolff says Colonel Stoddart's servant told him
that " people had been frequently confined for five years
at Bokhara, and believed by all the inhabitants to have
been killed and then suddenly had made their appear-
ance again." The Doctor then says :
"So much is certain that no one at Bokhara has wit-
nessed the execution of Stoddart or Conolly, and my de-
termination therefore of going straight to Bukhara is
unshaken and unabated. I shall now begin to draw
money on Drummonds in good earnest, for I must appear
respectably at Bukhara, as the Great Mullah from
England, described by the Sultan, and the Seik at Islam ;
but as the Mullahs among the Mahommedans live with
great simplicity, I shall do the same.
" I shall not neglect to make search for the other
British officers at and near Bokhara, and every Sepoy I
might pick up."
The King of Persia evinces the greatest zeal; be has
already written to the Umeer Bokhara, claiming these
unfortunate men as British officers of distinction, and
urging him to send them immediately to Tehran with
all tc;e honours due to their exalted rank. His Majesty
has also ordered a Mehmandah to accompany Doctor
Wolff to the Bokhara territory.
Such is the result of the powerful aid so kindly af-
forded by the Earl of Aberdeen; without that aid Dr.
Wolff never could have reached Tehran, and we may
now confidently expect that the fate of these officers will
not lung remain a mystery.

CURIOUS ANTIPATHY OF A HORSE.—An accident
arising from a novel and singular cause, but, fortunately,
not very disastrous in its consequences, occurred on Sa-
turday, in the liamtnersmith-road. A fine spirited horse
attached to a gig, which was waiting at a gentleman's
door, suddenly started off in the wildest fright, without
any apparoit reason, the road being perfectly clear at
the time, and continued to run for some distance, until
stopped by the gig-wheel coming in contact with the
kerb-stone, when he %vas secured without having received
or occasioned much injury. The cause of his alarm
appeared afterwards to have been a van that was ap-
proaching behind an angie of. the road, containing the
giraGs from the Surrey Zoological Gardens, which were
being removed to a llew place of exhibition in the nekh-
bourh,od of th,, aceidAtt, rite horse havi!m• discoi,ered
them probably by some peculiar odour, beforeP they be-
came visible to the eye, had with instinctive antipathy
endeavoured ,to get away as fast as possible from the
obnoxious vicinity.

justice, could be submitted to a jury. They had had ! DREADFUL ACCIDENT AND
direct answers on every question from Mr. Byrn; and
though he was an hostile witness, he (Mr. Kelly) was . LOSS OF LIFE.
content to take literally and substantially as true every (From our Evening Edition of Yesterday.)
answer that witness had given, and span those questions ' This morning. sheray after seven o'clock, an accident,
and answers to raise the question of law. The law was ' which, for dreadful consequances, has not had its parallel
clearly settled in favour of the defendants, by the case of ' fir many years, occurred in the extensive premises be-
" Brown v. Vean," in 12 Esst, page 293. which was loitgMg to the Dover Railway, neas to the Bricklayer's
decision of Lord Ellenborough in the Court of gteen's
Arms, in the Old Kent-road, by which it is feared a,
Bench. There an insurance had been effected on the
moat deplorable loss of life has been the result.
Ants to- certain p nns in !In! river Plate: The vessel
proceeded to Monte Videe, and, having, stopped there, From inviries instituted upon the spot shortly after
it was intended to proceed it'd finish the voyage at the occurrence took place, we were informed by one of
Buenos Acres. The ran ant intention of she parties the parties working in the yard, that while the body of
were stated. At the time the vessel arrived hostilities '
men, about eighteen or twenty—it not being exactly
were going on at Buenos Ayres; and this was exactly
analogous to the present case. Hong-Keng wag here known how many, as the muster-roll had not been called
. —were working underneath the shed intended for the
named as one of several places mentioned ,in the policy;
ee
but the intended place .of discharge was, in the one ease, goods, &e., to
reception ef the luggage trains bringing,
Buenos Ayres-4n the other Canton. There Was a state ;
to the western parts of the metropolis, the superincum-
of hostilities between Buenos Ayres and the English;th
I bent m ass of roofing, consisting of several tons of iron
: in fte!s and slating, fell to the ground, through the yield-
and here there was a state of hostilities between Canton
and Great Britaitn Though he was quite frt e to admit tag itf the foundation of the pillars by which it was
that in petting the gouda on hoard the James Laing. ' intended to be sustained, burying in its :all the whole of
:
.
it was intende I,', if cireumstansss afterwards permitted, , t :e workmen.
T
and if hostilities should cea,e, to semi them on he rtetee of building in which the unfortunate men
lie bur;., d s epwards of two hundred feet in length.
to Canton, and there dispose of them. still h&c( tntended
'rontage, facing the Dover-road is sub-'
that when a vessel arrived at one of the places men- ', he \'s r t
et et-di , tj'lt, snd he the ceetre is an ornamental eleva-
titmed in the policy, intending to proceed to anoteee and
that if, from existing; cirattinstan •es, which prevented the ''' s. - • s•ti fey l- •:, e' ...7,-; t ewer. Those remain, but the
parties from proceeding further, they landed ther cargo, 's- :• - 'ss es e-' Je e: Ssilen, and the whole presents a
or put it into any other place, in order that it taight re- le • .•• • •s-,atofd , se . • •.- ;lotion, and it is feared of death.
et .
main in safety, 'on the chance of that state of things , .0; e .e.e inform. e e., , e slip was noticed by one of
ceasing, so Its that afterwards it might be sent elsewhere, the worainen upon the , .r ,es, who observed the :up-
the parties made that place the ultimate pert of dis- ' porters to turn rapidly round several times, but belbre he
charge, and tharisknYas at an end. If •he were wrong could reach his uncoticieua felltew-workmen, the whole •
on this point, the plaintiff would be entitled to recover ; mass had fallen in, and they were swallowed up in the
and if he were right, he apprehended then, that the 'voy- ruins. Up to eight n'eloelt we have not heard of any
age was at an end and the risk determined. In the bodies bring fiamd, •but" as the dust has cleared away,
case already cited, the verdict was for the defendant. - and the walls is Lich remain have been declared sulii-
Some discussion followed between the counsel on both ciently safe, exertions are 'to be immediately made to
sides ; and at length it was agreed to make it a special explore the ruins. •-- -
case. and to leave it to the Court of Queen's Bench to NINE O'CLOCK.—The body of a poor fellow, whose
decide the question upon his Lordship's note, with the name we understand to he May, a carpenter employed
understaading that if the plaintiffs should be ent;tled to upon the works, has just been found. It is most fright-
recover, interest should be calculated from the Ist I fully mutilated, aid has been removed to the World's
March, 1842. I End public-house, to await the inquest of the Coroner.
A verdict was accordingly taken for the plaintiffs, by Never, certainly, was there melt a scene as now pre-
consent, for 2.870 L, subject to a special case. stints itself. The news of the disaster, has evidently.
CRUICKSHANK AND OTHERS v. WELLS AND ANOTHER. spread far and wide. `thousands of persons are crowd-.
Verdict fer th- plaintiffs, by consent, fee 3,2551. 7s. lid. iug to the scene, and the wailing of friends of the work-
with interest, subjete, to the special cas, in the last. msn, and the eager - Inquiries of scores of women and
BOLD AND ANoTHER v. RoTHERHAM: , children who will not be-satisfied until they know that
Verdict for the plaintiff; by cansent, for 1651. 3s. 4d. -their husbands and fathers are safe. The utmost excite-'
with interest, subject to a special case. =nit prevails throogheut the whole neighbourhood. The
gates of the works are closed, and no one is admitted
WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Taunton, April 9. upon the premises woo is et:t (eeployed by the CoMpHny.
(Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.) (ANOTHE:i ACCOUNT.)
Mary Ann Seale) (sister of Faith Ssaley, who •was This morning soon after six o'clock the utmost eon-
yesterday acquitted of the charge of administering white sternation and alarm was created in the neigilhout hood
arsenie to William Seeley, her father, at-Pinckney, in of the Briglnon and Dever Rainey terminus, Old Kent •
the p .rish of Kingston, near Taunton) was this day road, in cOusequence 'of the steldsn falling in of the roof
pined at the bar, charged with this offence, and no of the eastern wing thee. o!', which is now in the course
evldence being offered, the jury were directed to acquit of comple,ion. and burying undeeniath its ponderous
her. mass nearly thirty workmen ; there were also ab iut

eight or nine men upon the top of the roof who fell with
it. The other persons who were at work in the various
parts of the building nulled to the sp••t, and with ;he
a,s!stance of the pi.•lice arel others the sufferers were at
le. :gth extricated. Four of the untOrtuusee men were
lotted to be quite dead, their heads being lite-
relly smashed. and about twenty were wounded,
most of whom were carried off to the hospi-
tals ; in the eon usion, however, wheah necessarily ,
prevails, it was fou:id itnpossib!e to obtain their names
correctly. The police of the M division rendered very
efficient service in keeping off the crowd of persens who
had assembled, among whom were many of the like&
and velatives'of the killed and wounded. The cause of
the catastrophe is stated to have pr cee'lcd from the
cast iron bearers and girders not being of sufficient
atrength to support the slated r• •of. The eontraetors for
this building are Messrs. Grisiell and Peto. A number
of architect, were drawn to the appalling scene during
the morning. 1- he bodies Of the unfortunate men, whose
lives have been thus sacrificed, were removed to await a
coroner's inquest. It is stated that they have each left
a wife and family, to deplore their untimely end.
THE HOSPITALS, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Upon inquiring at Guy's and St. Thomas's hospitals at
the above hour, we !mind that no other sufferera had
been received up to that time than the number we re-
ported at ten o'clock, nor have any other dead bodies
been dug out of the ruins., The names of the parties
who have been received -at. the above establishments,
variously contused. and the majority of ihem seriously
injured, are as follow:
GUY'S HOSPITAL—WiIIiaM Spcsr, John Matthews,
William Mullins, WiLiain Lush, M'Ewen, Robert
Prendergast, George Honey. •
ST. TiIO3IAS' HOSPITAL. —John Hill.
The whole of these parti• s, eli• are bricklayers and
carpenkr-, are more or I.—s ijur ; s >me of them, in
fact, are so dreadfully mnftated that but little hopes are
entertained of tfear recovery. No accident which has
occurred in the metropolis since the falling in of the roof
of the Brunswick Theatre, about 14 years ago, has
caused so much semAtion as the present on, . "
THREE O'CLOCK.
Upon inquiry at Guy's Hospital, we found that the
men whose names are given-abeve, were not so much in-
jured as was anticipated. Upon examination it was dis-
covered that the collar bone of one of the men was
broken • and that two of the ribs of anoiv.r man were
fractured. The others had suffered but slightly,
their injuries consisting of slight scalp weunds.
One of the men was so far recovered at
the time these inquiries were made, that he
was enabled to walk home. It is expected that the
whole of the men conveyed to Guy's Hospital, will the
exception of the two mentioned above, will be able to
return to their employment in the course of a day or two.
The man who was conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital has
been examined, and found to be but slightly injure d.
having received only a bruise on the forehead. When
brought in be was insensible, and it was reported in the
neighbourhood that he was—dead. This, happily, ha'
turned out to be an unfounded rumour ; and there is
every reason to expect that he will be able to restnne his
work in a•few days. It
~.as slated at the h •spitals when
our reporter left, at three o'clock, that only oue man had
died, and that he was killed on the spot where the acci-
dent happened. At the Bricklayers' Arms statian, how-
ever, they state that two were killed, namely, Edward
Mae and John Ryan. The buil dug in which the acci-
dent occurred was this morning examined, and it see:ns
that the unfortunate occarretice was caused by the ken
rafters of the roof being of too slight construction for the
breadth of the roc`; which is very great, so that when the
larg, heavy slates were placed upon it the weight bare
down the roof in the centre.. It was not the pillars upon
which the roof is supported that gave way, but the roof
itself. The whole of the rubbish was cleared away in
about few hours, but the workmen have not yet resumed
their labours.

EASTER FETE AT CirvzsEA.—An attempt has ben
made this season to convert the grounds of Cremorne House,
Chelsea, into a scene of rivalry to Greenwich Park, under the
management of Mr. Nicholson, of Garrick's Coffee• house
celebrity. The amusement's provided for the company, com-
prised pony races, a sham-election, wizardism, mesmerism,
music, dancing, poetising, vaulting, and laughing gas, so as
to combine, as the bills announced, " science and amuse-
ment." When the shades of night prevailed, gas and oil in
various brilliant devices threw their light on certain favoured
spots, Chinese lanterns glimmered on others, whilst many
" lovers' walks" were left in gloom, whence issued the sound
of laughing voices, and proved that the darkness was not a
void. An open air concert formed part of the evening's en-
tatainments, in which several vocalists (male and female)
sang a variety of songs adapted to all varieties of taste. We
will not attempt to individualise' the performers, for they were
but dimly seen through the cloud of tobacco smoke which
vainly struggled with gas leaking from the pipes for posses •
sion of the olfactfay nerves. The result of the " thousand
guinea fete," as it was called, has not, however, been suc-
cessful. 'Science and fun at Chelsea, with one shilling for
admission,- cannot compete with fun by itself at Greenwich,
and nothing to pay ; as Mr. Nicholson was compelled to ac-
knowledge on Wednesday evening, when returning thanks
'company for their attendance. •
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF THE SON OF THE LATE
MR. PETHER, THE ARTIST.—On Wedneslay an inquest was
held before Mr. Higgs, at the Red Lion, Princes-street, West-
minster, as to the death of Arthur Pettier, aged seventeen,
whose death was caused under the following melancholy eir •
cumstances :—Miss Hannah Pether, the sister of deceased,
stated that the family resided at York Cottage, Battersea-
fields. On last Tuesday her brother was chopping some
wood withavery heavy hammer, when the top came ofl, and in
attempting to replace it, the heavy iron end fell on his finger,
and caused a severe lacerated wound. He at once went to a
surgeon, who dressed the finger, but as he got worse on Sun-
day, by the advice of Mr. Boulton, he was taken to the hos-
pital. Mr. Morgan, the house surgeon, said that the de-
ceased, when admitted, had a slight wound on the-little
finger of the left hand. He was then suffering under lock-
jaw, and although every attention was paid to him, he got
worse, and died of tetanus on'Tuesday morning. He was
quite sensible to within half an hour of his death, and said
the injury was caused 'by himself accidentally. Verdict,
" Accidental death."
SCAFFOLD ACCIDENT IN HAYMARKET.—
FOUR PERSONS INJURED.—Wednesday morning a painful de-
gree of alarm and excitement was created in the neighbour •
hood of the Italian Opera, under the following appalling and
distressing circumstances :—Several workmen have for the
last few days been engaged in repairing and beautifying the
colonnade on the north side of the Italian Opera, and
imme-
diately opposite Messrs. Feuillarde's Hotel. On Wednesday,
however, the scaffolding upon which the men were at
work suddenly gave way, and they were precipitated with it
on to the pavement beneath. The porters and others from
the hotel immediately rushed to their assistance, and in a
short time the poor fellows, who were four in number, were
extricated, and each of them was found to be more or less in-
jured. No time was lost in conveying them to Charing-cross
Hospital, where they were duly and promptly attended.
The General steam Navigation Company's mail-
packet Giraffe arrived off Bladtwall, from Rotterdam, at
nine A.M. yesterday, with the Datil mails.
CURIOUS BEQUEST.—Thottias Fletcher, who was
Latinist to Queen Elizabeth, gave directions by his will,
that his coffin should be opened every seven years and
exp ised to public view. His request was complied with
several times, and the last amount of the ceremony is in
an old newspaper, dated the 3d of November, 1734, in
which it is said that, " Yesterday his body was ex-
posed to such persons as had tickets to enter the church.
The body is enclosed in a paste, not unlike the composi-
tion which surrounds the
,Egyptian mummies ; and his
bones would be quite invisible, had not a portion of the.
upper crust been broken ha."

14 THE RULING PASSION STRONG," &C.—The pro-
verbial good taste of George IV. has even descended to his
equestrian statue in Trafalgar-square, for it " turns its back"
upon the National Gallery.—Punch.
A NOVEL ENCLOSURE.—During the past week the
spirit merchants in this town and neighbourhood have
received small glass phials (postage prk -paid 2d.), con-
taining samples of spirits sent by some Scotch house.
In the. generality of cases the phials were bri,ken and
the spirit " departed hence ;" no doubt to lend the odour
of rum,' gin, or whisky, to some billet doux designed to
breathe nothing but ardent affection and eau de,Cologne,
—Halifax Guardian,