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The Week
coast during the last week . Yarmouth has been the scene of two , involving the loss of seven lives . At an inquest held on some of the recovered bodies , the jury expressed themselves strongly with regard to the inhuman want of sympathy of the beachmen .- ——A great conflagration took place in Upper Street , Islington , yesterday . Three houses were burnt down , and another waB greatly injured . The inmates of one of the houses had a very narrow escape . Great credit is due to the fire-escape conductor for his activity and courage .- ——A dreadful catastrophe has
taken place at Bradford . A large quantity of arsenic appears to have been mixed with lozenges , and sold at a retailer ' s shop . All who partook of them were attacked with terrible pains , and several died before the cause was discovered . More than sixty persons are still suffering from the effects of the poison , and no fewer than thirteen have already died . It appears to have been the mistake of a chemist ' s assistant .- — -A dreadful slaughter of cattle has occurred on the Eastern Counties line , at Shenfield . Fourteen bullocks strayed on to the line , and two goods trains passed each other , running over and killing six of the animals . The down
goods train was thrown off the rails and was much shattered , and the up-mail train was detained two hours .-- —The four men in custody on a charge of having in their possession copper-plates for the purpose of fraudulently manufacturing tenrouble notes of the bank of Russia , were finally examined on Saturday ; Webster was discharged , and Wooller , Richard Webster , and B & rnett committecl for trial , . .-- ¦¦ C quncill , charged with firing a loaded pistol in the face of Inspector Budd , of Woolwich dockyard , was brought up on Saturday , when the wounded man attended and gave evidence . Councill was committed . — -Thursday , Mr . Roper underwent
another examination at Greenwich police-office . Two firemen stated that they had no dbubt the fire originated in the cellar , and that they had found the remains of several heaps of straw which had apparently been placed upon the cellar stairs , The prisoner was again remanded . ——At the Central Criminal Court , on Wednesday , the trial of the two Frenchmen , Aime Hugon and Beverdy Hugon , who were charged with counterfeiting Turkish coin was ordered to stand over . Henry Lamb was placed at the bar to take his trial on the coroner ' s inquisition for the manslaughter of William Pine at the Willesden Junction of the London and
North-western railway . At the conclusion , a verdict of" ' not guilty " was taken . At the Guildhall a serious charge was preferred against a city broker , named Oliver , by a young lady who had entrusted £ 5000 to him to invest ill certain securities . This he professed to do , and he then induced her to consent to his depositing the securities in his own bank , paying her the dividends quarterly . Suspicion having become excited , she resolved upon obtaining possession of her securities , but her applications to the prisoner were unavailing . He was given into custody , and the evidence produced against him was of a very serious character . He was remanded .
We have received a communication from the secretary to the committee of the stock exchange to the effect that Oliver never was a member of the house .-- — " G . G ., " a scoundrel , still at large , with many aliases , has been luring a number of imprudent ladies into marriage , and immediately afterwards abandoning them . $ ome of the ladies seem to have been extremely incautious . " G . G . " represented himself to be a master in the mercantile navy , has light hair , wears a profusion oi
whiskers and mustachios , and has extremely small neat hands . One of his victims , who was married to him in May last , and who takes the name he then gave her—Mrs . Geer—a very pretty woman , appeared before Lord Mayor ^ Carden to stat e the circumstances of her desertion . Several other injured females are expected to appear and give evidence . Sir Bobert expressed himself astonished 'that the rascal should have got tired of so charming a person as the complainant in only five days , and said he should feel much gratification in hanging him—he hoped to see
him at the bar of the Old Bailey , when , he assured the lovely complainant , he would show the villain no mercy . It is gratifying to find that a latent chivalry exists in the Lord Mayor ' s bosom which can be warmed into life by a pretty complainant , though dormant in the case of an apple-woman defendant . At a meeting of the directors of the poor of St . Paneras , a report was received from a committee appointed to investigate the accounts of Mr . Thomas Birchniore , tho overseer , when it was stated that they wore in arrears to a considerable amount , 1791 . of which Mr . Birchmorc himself admitted having appropriated to his own use .
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The Week
coast during the last week . Yarmouth has been the scene of two , involving the loss of seven lives . At an inquest held on some of the recovered bodies , the jury expressed themselves strongly with regard to the inhuman want of sympathy of the beachmen .- ——A great conflagration took place in Upper Street , Islington , yesterday . Three houses were burnt down , and another waB greatly injured . The inmates of one of the houses had a very narrow escape . Great credit is due to the fire-escape conductor for his activity and courage .- ——A dreadful catastrophe has
taken place at Bradford . A large quantity of arsenic appears to have been mixed with lozenges , and sold at a retailer ' s shop . All who partook of them were attacked with terrible pains , and several died before the cause was discovered . More than sixty persons are still suffering from the effects of the poison , and no fewer than thirteen have already died . It appears to have been the mistake of a chemist ' s assistant .- — -A dreadful slaughter of cattle has occurred on the Eastern Counties line , at Shenfield . Fourteen bullocks strayed on to the line , and two goods trains passed each other , running over and killing six of the animals . The down
goods train was thrown off the rails and was much shattered , and the up-mail train was detained two hours .-- —The four men in custody on a charge of having in their possession copper-plates for the purpose of fraudulently manufacturing tenrouble notes of the bank of Russia , were finally examined on Saturday ; Webster was discharged , and Wooller , Richard Webster , and B & rnett committecl for trial , . .-- ¦¦ C quncill , charged with firing a loaded pistol in the face of Inspector Budd , of Woolwich dockyard , was brought up on Saturday , when the wounded man attended and gave evidence . Councill was committed . — -Thursday , Mr . Roper underwent
another examination at Greenwich police-office . Two firemen stated that they had no dbubt the fire originated in the cellar , and that they had found the remains of several heaps of straw which had apparently been placed upon the cellar stairs , The prisoner was again remanded . ——At the Central Criminal Court , on Wednesday , the trial of the two Frenchmen , Aime Hugon and Beverdy Hugon , who were charged with counterfeiting Turkish coin was ordered to stand over . Henry Lamb was placed at the bar to take his trial on the coroner ' s inquisition for the manslaughter of William Pine at the Willesden Junction of the London and
North-western railway . At the conclusion , a verdict of" ' not guilty " was taken . At the Guildhall a serious charge was preferred against a city broker , named Oliver , by a young lady who had entrusted £ 5000 to him to invest ill certain securities . This he professed to do , and he then induced her to consent to his depositing the securities in his own bank , paying her the dividends quarterly . Suspicion having become excited , she resolved upon obtaining possession of her securities , but her applications to the prisoner were unavailing . He was given into custody , and the evidence produced against him was of a very serious character . He was remanded .
We have received a communication from the secretary to the committee of the stock exchange to the effect that Oliver never was a member of the house .-- — " G . G ., " a scoundrel , still at large , with many aliases , has been luring a number of imprudent ladies into marriage , and immediately afterwards abandoning them . $ ome of the ladies seem to have been extremely incautious . " G . G . " represented himself to be a master in the mercantile navy , has light hair , wears a profusion oi
whiskers and mustachios , and has extremely small neat hands . One of his victims , who was married to him in May last , and who takes the name he then gave her—Mrs . Geer—a very pretty woman , appeared before Lord Mayor ^ Carden to stat e the circumstances of her desertion . Several other injured females are expected to appear and give evidence . Sir Bobert expressed himself astonished 'that the rascal should have got tired of so charming a person as the complainant in only five days , and said he should feel much gratification in hanging him—he hoped to see
him at the bar of the Old Bailey , when , he assured the lovely complainant , he would show the villain no mercy . It is gratifying to find that a latent chivalry exists in the Lord Mayor ' s bosom which can be warmed into life by a pretty complainant , though dormant in the case of an apple-woman defendant . At a meeting of the directors of the poor of St . Paneras , a report was received from a committee appointed to investigate the accounts of Mr . Thomas Birchniore , tho overseer , when it was stated that they wore in arrears to a considerable amount , 1791 . of which Mr . Birchmorc himself admitted having appropriated to his own use .