The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1826-04-10 (London, England)

ALLEGED 11101 DEL—The inquest has not yet been held on the body of the unfortunate woman alluded to in our Union.hall report of Friday. The delay, it is said, arises from the Coroner being absent at a distant part of the country. The deceased woman had been much addicted to drinking. nod she was intoxicated the day on which it is alleged she was murdered. Her body has been opened and examined by several intelical men, and it is their opinion that she did not die from the blows or kicks she ntight hare received, but that she expired in a lit, produced by excessive drinking. The body is now in such a putrid state, that unless the inquest is immediately held, it must be interred without that ceremony being performed. There were no prisoners for trial, or any other business at the Easter Quarter Sessions for this town, which were held at the Shire Hall on Monday last, before the Mayor and other Magistrates ; and at the County Sessions, which were held on Wednesday before Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Chairman, and several other 31agistrateit of the county, there were also no prisoners. The Chairman, in his address to the Grand Jury sworn on the occasion. congratulated them upol having no bills to lay before them, and said he believed it walla circumstance unparalleled since he had the honour of presiding in that Chair, or within the memory of the oldest man present—Bedford _Paper. .  Dcaraucriee Ft a E.—Yesterday morning, about halfpast one o'clock. the inhabitants of St. Al toy Axe were thrown into great consternation by the breaking out of a fire in the second floor of the house of Ilrs. (km, No. 21, in the above place. The house being chtufly composed of wood, the flames soon spread to an alarming height. and it was feared that the houses adjoining would become a prey to tiro destructive elemeht. About a dozen engines were promptly on the spot, but notwithstanding the exertions of the firemen, it was some time before the progress of the flames could be put ■ stop to. The house in which the tire originated was entirely destroyed. A young man, with great hazard to his life, rushed through the flavors, and succeeded in saving a child who was in a perilous situation.  nn Saturday afternoon, about four o'clock, a number of persons were congregated to witness a Punch and Judy exhibition, in Lincoln's-inn-fields, when, as is usual on "crowded occasions." the pickpockets were extremely active. A very respectably looking country gentleman, in the crowd, missing his pocket-book, and betraying evident symptoms of emotion at his hos, was told by a bye-stander, that just before he had observed a tall young man, dressed in a suit of deep mourning, very busily engaged close by his side, and that he had just walked away towards taste-street. whither the gentleman followed him. The thief, on perceiving he was pursued, took to his heels, and led hie pursuer a pretty sharp dance through Whetstone-park.when, finding he was losing ground, he threw away the pocket-book, which was picked up by the owner, and escaped through ('area: Turnstile into Holborn, where all traces of him were lost. The pneket-book contained notes and bills to the amount of upwards or 3.11 f. This is only one of those numerous instances or rubbery which are daily occurring at these and similar exhibitions which are suffered to take place in our pub. lie thoroughfares. It was but a few days since that a young lady sod her mother, in passing throngh a crowd in Bedford-row, Hal. born (attracted by the gambols of Pinsch and his frail rib), were hustled by three or four sturdy fellows, and robbed of an elegant cornetist) necklace, with which the thieves managed to escape undiscovered, although at the early Anne of one o'clock in the afternoon. Is there not some connexion, we would ask, between the exhibitionist, the organ-grinder. and the light-tiagered gentry ? The novel anti beautiful article invented and manufactured by Vysl, of lontgate.strept, in Ladies' Hats and Bonnets, for the Spring and Sommer Fashions, is universally admired by the fashionable world for its elegance, lightness, durability, and elasticity.  The following is the Uouse List of Governors ani Directors of the Bank of England for the year ensuing, viz.:—  TOR ooveexoas. John Baker Richards, Esq. Governor. Drewe, E-q. Deputy Governor.