. . THE NATIONAL REMSTER.. Alr i bd. for the prosecution, stated th it lie had several other chorg. to ..bulb for%‘o:d itiAiii%t the captain, in consequence of t,,e farther proceeding. were postponed to a foliate day, route respectable persons becoming responsible for the appearance 4i the captain. Thursday forenoon an inquest was held at the Sir Percival Street, before Geo. Hodgkiin on a view - of the body of Richard Litky, a hoy 5 ye; old, in Fremantle-court. Mr. Hazil, who lives at zuid, that en Tuesday, he saw the deceased run aero: bla:e : he v.xtit to its assistance, and extinguished the child was so dreadfully scorched us to cause its —Verdict, accineutal death. Wednesday musing, between one and two Welty, file broke cut in the premises of Mr. Smith, leathei back pint of Cocklane, Smithfield, m Welt burned i rapid manner, and soon communicating to the a created much alatm, the premises in that neighlioto principally of old wooden buildings. Fortunately, val the various engines from the ditlerent fir—oftiet, ravages extending to any gkeat distance ; five houses entirely destroyed, with neatly the whole of their 1)4 no lives were lost. A theadfid fire broke out on Wednesday on the llig2s, straw-bonnet vi at - choose, St. Pmil's (Amp totally ile,trned that and an adjoining lions e, and pi others. We are sorry to relate that two of the eliddru tinh.ippdy perished in the flames, and that none of his insured. A daring attempt at robbery and murder was made the nth inst. in the neighbourhood of Batcombe, which was frustrated by the determined courage of was stopped. As W. Mullins, butcher, was riding to men rushed from the wood adjoining the road near Bi and on demanding his money or his life, he alighted and ituweiliatc ly at tacked his assailants : the fii down, and jumped on his body two or three times, pletely disable him ; the second, who was found cui bridle, lie brought to the ground also ; when a third with a cutlas and commenced a spirited attack GB the notwithstanding the severe wounds and bruises be rec.! geously beat hint otr, mounted his'horse,.and returned A labourer employed at Messrs.Laugmead's brewery fell into a vat of boilitig liquor, on the the Uth nearly three minutes before be could be got out; short time after. A most melancholy accident happened at Lanthri , on Tuesday se'nniglit. Mr. Cross, twiner. having piece to a neighbour, who returned it without draw his son, a fine boy about twelve years of age, not loaded, presented it at his mother, and drew the fortunately only snapped ; he playfully repeate r of the family ; but on presenting it to the maid sere, and Imtzed the whole cl►a+gc in her head ; she lingered and then 'expired. On the 17 th inst. a shocking accident occurred in on board a ship, Inrincily his Majesty's sht►e Bristoi in the Pool to be ripped up. As the HIM sen cap , and, the rope broke. by which accident, one had one his skull frartured, another broke a collar bow others eti lacerated. Sainrday sennight, as Mr. Pocock, cutler, of W returning from Castle Cary, Le was thrown tiom his quarter of a tulle of the former place, anti recei• gontusion, that it occasioned Lis death in a few hours A travelling tinker, of the name of Smith, was wet k to Ipswich gaoi, by Sir E. Lacon, fur steal Upon being asked by the Magistrate what excuse he , his conduct ? He 'tidied, with the greatest sangfroid• good-ene, for he was sure Isis Worship would acksic was much pleasanter to ride at this season of the year On Sunday afternoon, as a lad of the name of Geoi sliding about on the ire of a pond near Hillingdon Gi ly gave way, ard he was precipitated into the wate , could not be extricated for souse time, and on griti• water, every eflort to restore animation proved int' was extinct. Sa'tirday, an Trquest was held on the bodies of who were killed at Mount Moor colliery that morning that as eight persons weie ascending the pit, the elm the rope, by which Robert, Stewart, and William brothers ; William Davidson and Thomas Smith were to the bottom of the shaft and killed on the spot, escaped death by having hold of the rope above the accident was merely fortuitous, anti no blame whatew any of the manq,crs of the HATTON GARDEN. On Tuesday, Harriet Ball %tar mosight up fiir a final examinatirm, on a clime of forgiii the accept:l;lre of Mr..). Parton, vestry clerk of St. Cider's parish, to our separate bills of exchange, one of which was for 151. two l'or tol. each, and a fourth fur 181 which hilt, Mr Greif, a baker, in Hyde-Art.(l, diNeninited for her. The prisoner wa- led to the har it, tweet) two of the officers, who sop pot led her din Mg a •Itort coarge given to her by the Magistiale, oil the enormity of the offence. and the narrow esc.ape hie had through the prosecutor not wishing to come forw aid rite was tlic charged, she immediately swooned, and tell into the arms of Wood, the ufficer. Wl4O carried lie. into the adjoining thrice, %bete she was assisted by some ladies who came to attend the examination. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. --.4110. Friday ae'linight early in the morning, Mr. Deacon, a respectable wait houseman in %Vatting-street, was discovered, almost litless, in the fn hii near the Shepherd and Sheperdess, City-road, having been folioed and so ill-treated as to be kit for dead on the might pre vious Information being given to Mr. Goff, at the Britannia, RI itannia row, he ►mmediately had the gentleman removed to his house on a shutter, and procured medical assistance, by means of which he was at length restored to animation. The occotm• he gave was as Vol lows That he had been passing the preceding evening at the King's Head Tavern, at Islington; And on his return home, about halt•-past ten &Hoek, just as he entered the open field from Queen's Head-lane, he received a violent blow on tin head, from a stick or a stone, sod was instantly attacked by three men, with whom he had a dreadful struggle. during which his clothes were torn to pieces ; th .t they put a rope round his neck, and endeavoured to strangle himond flintily succeeded in robbing and dragging, him into the ditch, where he remained till discovered. 'as above stated, the next morning. The two patroles were on duty at the time this outs nese was committed, but neither of them heard or saw any think of it, though one of them between eleven and twelve o'clock timid M.. Deakin's hat, with a hole broke in the side of it ; and in the coos , of the morning his shoes, one of his gaiters, several pieces of his roat, some cards of Isis address, as well as some pieces of jack. tine asarked with blood, were found scattered between the path and the ,sitch, which are about fso yards apart. Little remained of Isis (oat hut the sleev e s and collar, and his under waistcoat. "his t, mercies, and even his stockings were torn to rags, but his wail c(,;i: mu: uninsured, and the medical gentleman who atleneed him at Mr. G tr's, after the strictest examination, could not discover the slightestappearaoce of a %snood or swelling► on his Issad.or body, but thcre was a mask round Isis neck, as it made by a rope, and his nuse se med to have bled a little. Ile was taken home in a coach by some of his frit'nds ; tale of whom stated, that on Thursday morning, Mr. 1). seas is, possession of bills, &c. to the amount of 3161. and was • to receive &al. the same day, none of this property, however was about him when he was attacked, as he had not more than four or live pounds in his pot ker book. One extiasordinary circumstance connected with this affair is, that the watchman who is stationed Lear the Shepherd and Shepherdess, in the City Road, about two o - cloc,, in the mornitss, saw a man cumin from tl.e fields with his face bloody, and his clothes torn to pieces, and without hat or shoes who told him he had brut) assaulted and sobbed in the fields, and enquired for the nearest watch house; when the watchman di• rected him to that of St. Luke's parish. Sir William Parsons, one ()like Magistrates at Worship street. was with Mr. Deakin, at the Bsitanpia ; and as the business is under the investigation of the M s . gistrates, it is hoped that the mystery which at present envelops it will be elucidated. a' ()inlay su'ilnight, about two o'clock p. m. a fishing boat, belong ing to Gurdon, near liervie, re turning from fishing, was by a sudden squall and heavy sea, upset, when the crew, five married rren, all perished. Their names are James Mill, Alexander Watt, John .13!iies. Andrew Chisholm, and William Ritchie; the wife of the latter was delivered of an infant the same night. Two of the bodies were limpid clinging to a part tit the wreck ; the rest are still Ity this accident, five widows and sixteen children are thr, on the Immanitv of the public. Thuisday morning, about Om e o'clock, a file broke out near the Elephant-stuns, at Rotherhithe, which consumed Wu houses. . . 2e. ihakespear Read, ns, Esq. Coroner, car; and 4 months 3t the next door, ost4 the room in ft d the thone ; but death soon after. ock, an•alarming lierseller, in the in a lotions and adjoining houses, uhood consisting y, the early arri- ves prevented its were howevi contents. Hap- premises of Mr. reh yard, which myth) , burnt two Iren of Mr. Biggs his property was le on the night of e, Somerset, but f the pursou nho o Balcombe, two latcombe-Lodge, from his horse irst he knocked 1, so as to com. lining the horse's. villain appeared le butcher, who receivt2d, coura- ed Lome. :Ey, in Plymouth, inst. and it was he expired in a ridge, near Bath, lent his fowling wing the charge, know Mg it was trigger, when it rd to other parts vant it went di, ed till Thursday, Plymouth Pool, )1, cit. guns, now :re heaving the ad a leg broken, ne, and several Wincanton, was is house within a ived so violent ti s afterward , . committee last ealing a policy, could make tor froid—" A very iowledge that it r than walk. urge Leon, was ;reel), it sudden- ater. The body Ling it out of the etlictual, its life five yourg men, lg . . I t appeared, ain slipped from Simpson, three .•re precipitated The other three the chain. The !ver attached to ;dental Death.