In an assault case, heard at Hatton Garden Office on
Monday, in which complainant and defendant were sturdy female beggars, it came out that one of them was formerly in the habit of making 12s.
a day by her vocation, but that since she had got twins to exhibit, her income had daily reached 11.
On Sunday evening, an attempt was made by some persons, at present unknown, to set fire to the premises, 24, Pluenix Street, Spitalfields, the property of the Eastern Counties Railway Company. The buildings, which are shortly to be pulled down to make way for the railway, adjoin numerous dwellings of poor weavers. About the time mentioned, an inhabitant observed smoke issuing from the windows. She raised the alarm, and on the doors being burst open, the stairs and lower portion of the interior of the place were found in flames. Engines from all parts of London soon arrived ; and the firemen, with the aid of the police and inhabitants, subdued the conflagration. On examining the premises, it appeared that the fire had been kindled under the stairs leading to the kitchen. A reward has been offered for the discovery of the incendiary.
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