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LONDON NEWS. Boy DROWNED IN THE THAMES.—Henry Knight, a lad fifteen years of age, the son of a gentleman residing in Pic- cadilly, was drowned on Friday last week, while bathing at Battersea, in company with two companions about his own age. After they had been swimming about some time, his two companions came out of the water, and on looking round, were unable to perceive any trace of Knight. They waited all day, and in the evening took his cloths home to his father's. On Monday morning, some men, employed at Mr. Chillingworth's, boat builder, Vauxhall, saw a body floating, which they drew ashore, and which was subse- quently identified as that of the unfortunate youth. FRAUDULENT BANKRUPTCY.—The Lord Chancellor has made an order, that the Commissioners of Bankrupts do, where a person'becomes a bankrupt twice, inquire very par- ticularly into the cause of such failure, and the time since he was a bankrupt before, and certify the same to him; his Lordship being determined, where there shall appear the least fraud, not to grant-a oertificate." PRECIPITATE RUIN.—A younggentleman, of Brunswick- square, lost, on Friday night, the whole of his fortune, up- wards of S22,,000 in money, at play. An engraver at Kentish-town, named Whelan, a few days ago was drinking tea, and, according to his usual practice, when seated and reading a newspaper, was balancing him- self upon the hinder feet of the chair, when he lost his equi- librium, fell backward, and struck his head against a marble slab; he died since from the wound. CURIOUS W AGER.—The other day a gentleman at a coffee house in the City laid a wager of five guineas that he would walk the length of Brokers'-row, Moorfields, without being asked to walk into one of the shops. He then offered the same wager, that immediately after the determination of the first he would walk the ground over again, and receive an invitation from every broker to inspect his repository. To determine the first wager he assumed the appearance of a tax-gatherer, with his Morocco-backed book open in his left hand, in his right a pen, and an ink-bottle suspended at his left breast. This wager was won by him. He then resumed his own dress and character, and sallying through the row, with a fair damsel under his arm, his attention to whom bespoke a recent or intended trip to the Altar, he received rather a pressing invitation to walk in from every hero of the chips," and the wager was again determined in his favour. 0 BEES IN LONDON.—Some of the citizens keep bees in town. A bee amateur, residing in Holborn, was able to ascertain that his own bees went for honey to Sydenham- common. He suspected this to be the case, and satisfied himself that it was so, by throwing flour over his bees as they came from the hive in the morning. In the course of the same day he discovered bees, as dusty as millers, on Sydenham common, which is seven miles off.

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