A fire broke out on Saturday in the premises of
Mr. Moore, builder, at Rotherhithe. Eight houses adjoining were consumed, and an immense amount of property destroyed. A fire broke out last week in Woodaway Lane Chudleigh, and nine houses were consumed before its progress was arrested. A workman was thrown on Tuesday from a scaffold in St. Katharine'si Docks. Both his thighs were broken, and his life is despaired of. The house of Mr. Taylor, 15, Southampton Place, Camden Town was robbed on Sunday, during the absence of the family at church. The pro- perty appeared to have been deliberately packed up and carried off.
A fellow has been swindling tradesmen at the West end of the town, by entering their shops on Saturday evenings after the banks have closed, pur, chasing some article of value, paying for it with a check on Bosanquet and Co. and receiving the difference, if there be any. Fifty ten-pound checks. with the same signature have been dishonoured within a month.
The house of a gentleman named Wright, in Manchester Square, was robbed on Thursday night of jewellery and other property,worth 600/.
Mr. Ludlow, of James Street, Camden Town, hanged himself on Sunday, in his kitchen. Grief for the death of a child had impaired his understanding.
A fire broke out, on Tuesday, in the Female Charity School in bore Lane; Kensington ; but it was speedily subdued. One of the girls had approached a bed with a candle in her hand, and the curtains had taken fire.
A girl of the name of Garner, residing at Boston having been suspected of putting her natural child to death, poisoned herself last week, and con) fessed before she died, that she was guilty.
A young woman, named Ingles, hanged herself on Wednesday, in Sutton Street, Clerkenwell, because her mistress refused to give her a character.
A boy eight years of age was found wandering on Thursday through the' streets of Greenwich, enqciring whether "lie was in Lunnon ?" He hae, left his mother's house in Portsmouth, without her knowledge, to look foil an uncle named Frederick, who lived next " the King's Head in London.'l He has been taken care of till his mother can be apprised of his safety. On Friday sennight, a young man of the name of William Thompson: of Sunderland, butcher, came to his death in a very singular way. It is usual with butchers, while slaughtering cattle, to keep their knives in a leather case suspended by a strap going round the waist. The case in thii instance unfortunately had a hole in it, and the point of the knife wa; forced through, by a jerk from the sheep, into an artery of the part com- monly called the pope's eye," which caused his death in a few hours.— Newcastle Chronicle.
In clearing away some buildings on the south side of Tooley Street, nearly opposite St. Olave's Church, for the purpose of forming the approaches ti the new London Bridge, a curious vaulted chamber of lofty dimensions hat been laid open. It is chiefly constructed of Kentish rag-stone, and the archi, tecture is strictly of the Saxon or Anglo-Norman period; boldly-turned se; micircular arches rest upon short columns placed against the side walla
These columns have capitals Ornamented in the true Saxon Style, with four semicircular Cotnpattthents: The buildingis supposed to be part of the inn or town-house of the pridr of Lewes in Sussex, and must have been con- structed as early as the twelfth century. A person attends on the spot with lights to show these ancieht vaultinga to persons curious in antiquity. Mr. Standish O'Otady, a Commissioner of Bankrupts, and son of Mr. Edward Grady; Chtitman Of the county of 'Waterford, has been mortally Wounded by Captain Smith, of the 320 Regiment, in a duel at Richmond Barracks, neat Dublin.
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