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The business of the Home Office is removed to apartments in the Tree- my, during the time that will be required for completing the extensive alterations which are now in progress.
Notice has been given that all the houses at the corner of Old Broad Street are forthwith to be demolished, preparatory to the projected im- provements.
It is in contemplation to sink another shaft at the works in Trafalgar Square, in order to obtain a further supply of water for the neighbourhood.
It having been deemed requisite to enlarge St. Giles's Workhouse, it was resolved to appropriate a piece of ground which has been employed as a burial-place for the parish paupers. The consequences have been very revolting, and have caused much excitement in the district. When the workmen began to dig out the earth, they encountered great quantities of human remains; after some had been carted away to Battle Bridge as rubbish, the authorities directed that the bones should be conveyed to the St. Giles's Cemetery in Pancras Road. It is calculated that the remains of twelve hundred persons have been dug up. Generally, the corpses were so decayed as to leave little more than bones; but "to the North, and to within a very few feet of the workhouse itself, the soil is comparatively firm; and here an appalling sight was presented. Owing, it is supposed, to the pecu- liar properties of the soil in this place, the coffins were found to be in a better state of preservation, and to have resisted to a greater extent the mouldering effects of time. They could not, however, be removed in anything like a perfect shape, and parted asunder when exposed to the action of the air. The bodies they contained were found to be still solid; the hair upon the eyebrows and eye- lashes clearly discernible, and every feature entire and perfect as when first de- posited. The flesh, however, had turned into a white substance, resembling to the touch, and not unlike in appearance, the common mushroom. The mffins containing those bodies were found at depths varying from four to nine or ten feet." These bodies, about thirty in number, were packed in black boxes, and sent away in a hearse. More ground is yet to be disturbed.
At the Guildhall Police Court, on Saturday, Mr. Job, a stationer in Bread Street, charged Mr. Freeman, one of the inspectors of forged notes at the Bank of England, with detaining a sheet of paper, his property. It appeared in the course of the investigation, that Mr. Job had manufactured aquantity of paper for Mr. Thornton, who a few weeks since destroyed himself while in the custody of the Police charged with uttering forged bank-notes. The papa had a waved water- mark similar to that in real bank-notes and was used by Thornton in pro- ducing the spurious notes. It having been found that Mr. Job made this paper, the Bank authorities applied to him: he had detained one sheet for his specimen- book; this the officials borrowed of him, and then refused to return it. Hence this charge. Mr. Freshfield, the Bank solicitor, stated, that Mr. Job had made himself liable to fourteen years' transportation by manufacturing the paper;' a clause in an act of Parliament attaching that penalty to the making of paper with a waved water-mark similar to that used by the Bank. It having been appa- rent that Mr. Job had acted inadvertently, no proceedings were taken against him; but the sheet of paper was detained. Paper had been manufactured suf- ficient for ten thousand notes; this quantity of paper had been stopped at Alex- andria, on its way to Cairo, in which city Thornton had an establishment: had the attempt succeeded, a vast quantity of forged notes might have been put into circulation in India and Europe. Mr.Job said, the act of Parliament did not pro- hibit the making of such paper for exportation, which this was ostensibly for:Mr. Alderman Gibbs however, proved by reading the clause, that the making of such
paper was expressly prohibited, no matter for what purpose. Eventually, Mr. Job withdrew his complaint.
The sheet of paper was produced in wort. It was larger than a bank-note, and had a water-mark bader round it; the words "Dupont and Co." appearing at the top and bottom, and "Egypt" Oft each side; but a distinct water-line showed where this border.might be cut oftleaviu&s, centre-piece exactly the SiEll of a bank-note.
Crawley, a young Irishman, went into a shop in Spitalfields, kept by Ann Linner, to purchase a small 'quantity of cooked meat: when it was nit, he had not enough money by a halfpenny to pay for it; and he said be would call and pay the halfpenny: upon this, Linner snatched a carving-knife and stabbed Crawley: he was canted to the London Hospital, and died there about a week after. Linner is in custody.
The Third Regiment of Foot Guards, or Buffs, have the right to march through London with colours unfurled and drums beating: this right was exercised on Monday, with a fatal result. While a division was marching over Blackfriars Bridge, it was met by a drove of bullocks; one of the animals, irritated by. the noise of the drums and the red coats of the mai, dashed at the soldiers, who drove it away by applying their bayonets; thus repulsed, the bullock made a dash at the crowd of lookers-on, and knocked down a girl ten or twelve years old, fracturing the skull so that she died in a few minutes.
Stewart, a young man in the employ of the Eastern Counties Railway, was killed on the evening of Friday week, on the line, near Brick Lane, by attempt- ing to descend from a carriage while the train was in motion: be fell under the wheels of the carriage, and was cut in two. The man met his death by attempt- ing to evade the payment of the fare from Tottenham station the place where he was employed: had he been found in the carriage, he would have had to pay as a passenger, and he thought he might avoid this by descending before he reached the ticket-platform. Another account represents him as telling his wife, who was in the carriage with him that he intended to get out to speak to a porter, and would join her at the ShOreditch terminus.
A workman at the London Bridge terminus has been crushed to death between two railway-carriages : he was engaged in cleaning a carriage which was slightly in motion; another was moved towards him; before be could get out of the way, he was jammed between the buffer of the moving carriage and the body of the other, and his ribs were crushed in.
Coleman, a servant on the Croydon Railway, has been killed at Forest Rill station' by an atmospheric train passing over him: the man was heedlessly stand- ing on the line, signalling a down-train; and an up. train, towards which his back was turned, knocked him down.
A fatal firework explosion has occurred in Kent Street, Borough. Ellen Sharp, a girl of eighteen, and two children, were employed in making fireworks; by some means the combustibles became ignited, there was a violent explosion, and the premises were set in flames. The two children were rescued by their father rushing into the place and snatching them up; but when the fire had been got under, the blackened corpse of the young woman was found in a comer.
A man ran against another in the London Road, Southwark, while he had a tobacco-pipe in his mouth: the stem of the pipe was driven completely through the gullet, and it is feared that the consequence will be fatal.
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