The northern wing of the sawing-mills of Messrs. Esdailes and
Margrave, Regent's Canal Basin, City Road, was destroyed by tire on Sunday morning. The loss is considerable, but covered com- pletely by insurances.
An awful statement of an "attempt to assassinate the French Consul," was sent round to all the papers on Monday night. It turns out to be no attempt to do uny thing at all—except to throw away two or three imperfect pistol-bullets, by some boys, the sons of the French Consul's neighbour, and one of which bullets happened accidently to pass through the window of the Consul's library.
On Saturday morning, .Mr. Jasper Holmes, residing at Groat's Place, Blackheath, committed suicide, by cutting his throat. The poor man had been for some time past labouring under low spirits. He was the Treasurer of the Greenwich Savings Bank, and one of the principal subscribers to the Blackheath Bible Society.
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