Great curiosity prevails in the Metropolis to see Captain Ross
and his brave companions. On Wednesday afternoon, the gallant Captain was observed to pass through Cranbourne Alley, and having been pointed out by some persons acquainted with him, he was, to his great annoyance, surrounded by an immense concourse of persons. The Captain had some little difficulty in avoiding the congratulations of his countrymen.
Captain Ross waited upon the Commissioners of Police, on Tuesday for the purpose of giving information of a loss he had sustained, of very considerable importance. It appears that Captain Ross had, in the morning, an interview with the Lords of the Admiralty ; to whom he presented some of his papers connected with his late perilous ex- ploit, which on his departure were restored to him. The Captain called a cabriolet off the stand in Parliament Street, and desired the man to drive to his residence at the Portland Hotel. Within ten mi- nutes after his arrival, he discovered that he had left in the cab the whole of his important documents and papers. The Commissioners, on hearing this statement, instructed a Policeman to proceed immedi- ately in search of the cab. The cab-driver himself has since restored the papers to Captain Ross.
On Tuesday morning early, the Sheriff's officer proceeded, with as- sistance, to a house nearly opposite Mr. Savage's public-house, and found a great portion of the property he had seized on Mr. Savage's premises for arrears of Assessed Taxes. The goods were deposited at the Marylebone Station-house, and will be removed as soon itS possible for sale.
Lord Teynham's case, it is understood, will come on for trial early in the sittings after the ensuing term.
- The number of forged bills of exchange lately in circulation has been productive of severe losses to the commercial interest, and injurious to a certain extent to mercantile credit, especially in cases where all the names on the bills were not perfectly well known. All this has arisen out of the late abundance of money, and the eagerness shown to employ it in any description of discounts ; for it is not denied that a want of due precaution in inquiring into the validity of the bills presented has been evinced in quarters where a better system ought to have prevailed. —Times.
On Tuesday: afternoon, two men employed in one of the engines used for clearing the river of gravel, &c. were engaged weighing the anchor a short distance above Waterloo Bridge. They had got into a small boat, which they overloaded with the chain, cable attached to the anchor, when it suddenly sunk. Both the men were unfortunately drowned.
A fire broke out on Wednesday morning on the premises of Mr. Williams, a carpenter and builder, in Mare Street, Hackney. In a short time, the parish and other engines were on the spot; and the sup- ply of water from the mains of the East London Water-works Com- pany was very abundant, and immediately procured; but, owing to the inflammable nature of the stock on the premises, the work-shops, dwel- lingliouse, and almost every article of furniture and property which they contained, were consurrel : the adjoining property, however, was pre- served. The fire is supposed to have originated through the ashes from the pipes of some of the workmen on the premises falling among some shavings. The property is insured in the Sun Office to an amount that will cover the loss.
A fire broke out on Tuesday night, in the brewery of Champion and Co., vinegar-merchants, in the City Road, which destroyed the building and stock. Messrs. Champion are insured in the Imperial, Protector, and Alliance Offices.
A Policeman of the K division has been dismissed, for stealing meat from a butcher's shop. In a paragraph in the Times which men- tions the circumstance, the following particulars also given. "On Mon- day, an order came down from the Commissioners for the Policeman's dismissal from the Force; and it was read over in the Station-house, to the effect that he was discharged for gross misconduct, the Policemen at the same time being strictly admonished not to divulge the transac- tion, or speak about it to any one on pain of dismissal. The matter, however, is no secret in the neighbourhood ; and it also appears that he was a fellow in the habit of insulting females, and had been long sus- pected by Mts. Tyrrell; meat generally disappearing when he called to make a purchase; in consequence of which she had forbidden him the shop,—a circumstance unknown to the foreman until Saturday. The inhabitants have manifested great surprise that the policeman was not (as all other persons who commit thefts are) taken before a Magis- trate to answer the charge of stealing."
A robbary was committed at the United Service Club-bouselast Mon- day morning, and gold and silver to the amount of 1001. were stolen.
It appears that the keys of the rooms are kept in the apartments of the head porter, all of which were safe at twelve on Saturday night. Be- tween that time and six in the morning, the key belonging to the secre- tary's room was removed, and a small tin box, in which the key of the iron safe was kept, was forced open and removed ; the thief then pro- ceeded and opened the chest, when the above sum was taken. After the money was secured, the offender proceeded to a room above, and broke open several drawers, evidently for the purpose of obtaining pos- session of the plate. In this he was disappointed, it having been placed in an iron chest in another part of the house. It is evident the robbery had been committed by some person well acquainted with the place.
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