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Tee' Week
is not yet brought to a close . At the sitting of Thursday last , Mr . Homer , solicitor said he must object to the conduct of the foreman of the jury , because he had , since '"'the commencement of the inquiry , been assisting in settling cases of compensation on behalf of the company . Mr . Bailey ( foreman ) said he had not in any way ^ acted discreditably either as foreman of the jury , ^ Englishman . Some conversation ensued , and Mr . Bailey ultimately retired from the jury , having first explained , that he was present , by accident , when Mr . Walker ,
the surgeon of the company , settled with one of the sufferers , ^ £ 100 , and thathe had recommended another ^ a member of the Baptist connexion , of which Mr . Baily Is a minister , to settle with the company , rather than go to law , which he did , to the great disappointment of some local solicitor .- — --A serious accident , by which five persons lost their lives , has taken place at the Surrey 3 \ Iusic Hally Shefneld , a place of popular amusement , owing to a false alarm of fire , and it is stated the firing of a pistol in the gallery , whilst others state it arose from an explosion of gas , of which however no trace can he found . —— -A dreadful
explosion of gas took place oh Tuesday night , at Albert Gate , Khightsbridge . The accident occurred at the house of Colonel Fulke S . GreviIley'M . P . for Longford . The family having left town the day be & re for Ireland to the gas pipes , and a strong smell of gas female servants ^ who terrific explosion took place , knocking : down and dreadfully scorching Elizalbeth Foot , Margaret Scoles , and Elizabeth Bramfield , who were immediately conveyed to St . George ' s Hospital , where thev remain in a dangerous state ,- — ---A
destructive fire broke out on ^ Wednesday , mth shop of Mr . Roper , corn chandler , Royal Hill , Greenwich , which unfortunatel y loss of life to two children . T ^ totally destroyed , and the rest of the inmateswith difficulty escaped by the £ 0 of ^ journeyman carpenter , was fined £ 5 , by IMr . Elliott , at Lambeth Police Court , on Saturday , for an offence which is happily of ra . re occurrence—damaging property in the Crystal Palace . The prisoner had been found with eight oranges and several branches taken from one of the fine orange trees , which was injured , it was said , to the extent of £ 10 . The defence was that it was done under the influence of drink
Isaac Hammond , a powerful man , has been remanded from Westminster Police , court , for attempting to murder Sarah Farrell , a woman with whom he lived , by throwing her out of a window on the second floor in York-street , Westminster , a heigfe of between thirty and forty feet . William Manby , who lived next door , heard the prisoner , who had been drinking , lock his room door , and soon afterwards heard him say , " She is now out of the window , and I'm off . " The woman is in too precarious a state for her depositions to be fully taken , but she states that she
threw herself out of the window . Alfred Hanlon , a portrait painter , has been sentenced by Mr . Selfe , to four months' imprisonment , charged with stealing a lady ' s gold watch-chain from the house of Mr . Robert Cook , butcher , of Commercialplace , Commercial-road-east . The prisoner being in great distress , he was employed out of a kindly feeling to paint Mrs . Cook ' s portrait , when he availed himself of the opportunity to steal the chain . At Thames Police-court , Mr . Davis , clerk to Mr . Joseph Smith , a solicitor , applied to Mr . Selfe for summonses against Captain
Pavey , for refusing to pay the wages of his ships crew on a voyage from London to Rangoon . Mr . Selfe granted the summonses , but expressed a hope that there would be no necessity for hearing them . Angel Hyam Cohen , metal merchant , has been committed by the Lord Mayor , charged with having unlawfully in his possession , two casks of naval stores , the property of her Majesty . After hearing all the evidence , his lordship accepted bail in sureties to the amount of £ 400 .- At the Court of Bankruptcy , on Friday , Charles James Dillon , the late lessee and
manager of the Lyceum Theatre , and also described as a bookseller and commission agent , of 12 , Delamere crescent , Upper Westhourne terrace , Paddington , passed his last examination . His bankruptcy appears to have originated in hi * having taken the house whilst already in difficulties . On Thursday , a quarterly court of the proprietors of the Bank of England was held in the bank parlour . The governor said , the net profits for the half-year ending on the 31 st of August , were £ 628 , 770 Os . 6 d ,, making the amount of " Rest" on that clay £ 3 , 676 , 8 ( 38 16 s . & L
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Tee' Week
is not yet brought to a close . At the sitting of Thursday last , Mr . Homer , solicitor said he must object to the conduct of the foreman of the jury , because he had , since '"'the commencement of the inquiry , been assisting in settling cases of compensation on behalf of the company . Mr . Bailey ( foreman ) said he had not in any way ^ acted discreditably either as foreman of the jury , ^ Englishman . Some conversation ensued , and Mr . Bailey ultimately retired from the jury , having first explained , that he was present , by accident , when Mr . Walker ,
the surgeon of the company , settled with one of the sufferers , ^ £ 100 , and thathe had recommended another ^ a member of the Baptist connexion , of which Mr . Baily Is a minister , to settle with the company , rather than go to law , which he did , to the great disappointment of some local solicitor .- — --A serious accident , by which five persons lost their lives , has taken place at the Surrey 3 \ Iusic Hally Shefneld , a place of popular amusement , owing to a false alarm of fire , and it is stated the firing of a pistol in the gallery , whilst others state it arose from an explosion of gas , of which however no trace can he found . —— -A dreadful
explosion of gas took place oh Tuesday night , at Albert Gate , Khightsbridge . The accident occurred at the house of Colonel Fulke S . GreviIley'M . P . for Longford . The family having left town the day be & re for Ireland to the gas pipes , and a strong smell of gas female servants ^ who terrific explosion took place , knocking : down and dreadfully scorching Elizalbeth Foot , Margaret Scoles , and Elizabeth Bramfield , who were immediately conveyed to St . George ' s Hospital , where thev remain in a dangerous state ,- — ---A
destructive fire broke out on ^ Wednesday , mth shop of Mr . Roper , corn chandler , Royal Hill , Greenwich , which unfortunatel y loss of life to two children . T ^ totally destroyed , and the rest of the inmateswith difficulty escaped by the £ 0 of ^ journeyman carpenter , was fined £ 5 , by IMr . Elliott , at Lambeth Police Court , on Saturday , for an offence which is happily of ra . re occurrence—damaging property in the Crystal Palace . The prisoner had been found with eight oranges and several branches taken from one of the fine orange trees , which was injured , it was said , to the extent of £ 10 . The defence was that it was done under the influence of drink
Isaac Hammond , a powerful man , has been remanded from Westminster Police , court , for attempting to murder Sarah Farrell , a woman with whom he lived , by throwing her out of a window on the second floor in York-street , Westminster , a heigfe of between thirty and forty feet . William Manby , who lived next door , heard the prisoner , who had been drinking , lock his room door , and soon afterwards heard him say , " She is now out of the window , and I'm off . " The woman is in too precarious a state for her depositions to be fully taken , but she states that she
threw herself out of the window . Alfred Hanlon , a portrait painter , has been sentenced by Mr . Selfe , to four months' imprisonment , charged with stealing a lady ' s gold watch-chain from the house of Mr . Robert Cook , butcher , of Commercialplace , Commercial-road-east . The prisoner being in great distress , he was employed out of a kindly feeling to paint Mrs . Cook ' s portrait , when he availed himself of the opportunity to steal the chain . At Thames Police-court , Mr . Davis , clerk to Mr . Joseph Smith , a solicitor , applied to Mr . Selfe for summonses against Captain
Pavey , for refusing to pay the wages of his ships crew on a voyage from London to Rangoon . Mr . Selfe granted the summonses , but expressed a hope that there would be no necessity for hearing them . Angel Hyam Cohen , metal merchant , has been committed by the Lord Mayor , charged with having unlawfully in his possession , two casks of naval stores , the property of her Majesty . After hearing all the evidence , his lordship accepted bail in sureties to the amount of £ 400 .- At the Court of Bankruptcy , on Friday , Charles James Dillon , the late lessee and
manager of the Lyceum Theatre , and also described as a bookseller and commission agent , of 12 , Delamere crescent , Upper Westhourne terrace , Paddington , passed his last examination . His bankruptcy appears to have originated in hi * having taken the house whilst already in difficulties . On Thursday , a quarterly court of the proprietors of the Bank of England was held in the bank parlour . The governor said , the net profits for the half-year ending on the 31 st of August , were £ 628 , 770 Os . 6 d ,, making the amount of " Rest" on that clay £ 3 , 676 , 8 ( 38 16 s . & L