On Monday afternoon, there was an alarm of fire at
the Stock Ex.. change. Some plumbers. employed to thaw the ice in the pipes and gutters out the roof, set fire to a heap of straw and lumber. Little damage o us done.
The granary, stables, and other premises belonging to Mr. Stevens, in the Belvedere Road, between the Waterloo and Westminster Bridges, were burnt down on Thursday night. Three horses perished ill the stables.
There was an alarm of fire at DrurylLane Theatre on Thursday evening, but no mischief was done. Some gas escaped from a pipe in the saloon, and caught fire—that WAS all.
The ruins of the Royal Exchange are now boarded in, and work- men are employed in getting out the property, consisting chiefly of books and documents. " Lloyd's " is now held at the South Sea House ; and the merchants meet at the Guildhalls The City seal that was lost bus been found.
The severe weather has continued during the week. Many vessels are locked up by the ice in the Thames. The entrance to the London Docks is frozen over, so that vessels can neither enter or go out.
Several thousand people visited the Serpentine River on Sunday; end a serious accident occurred from the breaking of the ice. About eight or nine persons, one of them a woman, fell ia. All were ex- tricated by the Humane Society's men, except two, one a young Irish. man, the other a girl of sixteen. It was owing to the foolish curiosity of the crowd that the female's life was lost. She had been placed in the ice-boat, used the men were dragging it to the bank ; when a crowd rushed to the boat ; and the consequence was another breaking of the ice. Many persons fell in, but all were got out. The boat soon filled with water ; and the girl was carried Olt a ladder to the Receiving- house, where she soon died.
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