The Greenwich Railway Company have commenced lighting their line with
gas. Its appearance from the Old Kent Road is very bril- liant ; and when completed to London Bridge, it will certainly be one of the most splendid displays of gas in Europe.
At the Marylebone Office, on Monday, a Miss Frances Blunt, a young lady of very respectable connexions, was committed for trial, on a charge of stealing a pair of kid-gloves from the shop of a mercer in Tottenhatn Court Road.
Mr. Charles William Chapman, stockbroker, who was mentioned last week as being implicated in the fraud on Mr. Woolley, died on Saturday morning, at his house in Walworth, in consequence of taking laudanum on the preceding Thursday night. There was evidence to prove insanity; he certainly suffered great mental distress for some time before taking the poison. His character was good up to the time of the affair with Mr. Woolley. A verdict that " the deceased de- stroyed himself by taking poison, he being at the time of unsound mind," was returned by the Coroner's Jury, who investigated the cause of his death on Monday.
About one o'clock on Thursday morning, a fire broke out in some stabling under one of the dark arches of the Adelphi, at the bottom of Durham Street, Strand. The stabling was destroyed, but further damage was prevented. Had the fire reached the coal-cellars in the vicinity, the consequences might have been very serious.
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