The fire broke out on the ground floor, and in

a few minutes the whole

once. He gave him two cuts. He took the boy into the wood to murder him. He house was in one blaze. Several houses iu Maxwell Court, in the rear had on the frock his brother Jem then wore, and the blood went on it, and was on it of the Punch Bowl, are much damaged. ' Mrs. Styles, who had been put still. He would not tell this, he said, but Jem told first. The witness said that the tobed three days ago, had a most narrow escape out of the flames, the brother contradicted the prisoner in a violent manner, upon which the prisoner said, 4 Do you mean to say, Jem, that you did not give me your knife to cut the boy's room in which she was confined being on fire before she could be removed

to a place of safety. About twelve on Sunday night, there was a fire Paterson, the constable, added the confession of the prisoner while he at Dlr. Wood's, stationer and auctioneer, in Chiswell Street, Finsbury

was conveying him to gaol— Square, which in a short time destroyed the premises, and an adjoining 0 In passing a pond, the prisoner observed, 'That is the pond where I washed my toy-shop. Between one and two o'clock on Tuesday morning, a fire bands and the knife after I did the crime ;' and he remarked, on seeing a path that broke out in the upper part of the White Swan public-house, in the occu..

Don't you think, Sir, he is better off than I am l"Flie prisoner also showed me a pation of Mr. Clamp, Keate Street, Spitalfields. The house was entirely place where he came out of the wood, with the bloody knife in his hand, he said ; gutted, and the property consumed, with the exception of what was and also a place where he and the deceased went into the wood ; that before that rescued from thethe lower part of Mr. Jones' s eating-house, Brick ground floor. About four o'clock the same morning, a

in fire was discovered

tence of showing him a short way home ; bat after they had got some distance, he Lane, Whitechapel. By the speedy arrival of the firemen with their told the deceased he had lost his way, and the demised on hearing that, sat down engines, the fire was soon quenched, without doing much damage. and began to cry, and on that he jumped On the deceased, and in an instant cut his About half-past to on Wednesday morning, the premises of Mr.

from the purse. He had great difficulty in getting the money from the hand, it was Arnold, ship chandler, including dwelling-house, warehouses, lofts, &c. closed so fast ; and that after getting the money, he rushed out of the wood, greatly to the water'? edge, were destroyed ; the inmates of the house having

alarmed." scarcely t;:at: to escape. The rear of the Half Moon public-house was

also burnt down. Between eleven and twelve o'clock on the same day,

mended him to mercy, on account of his youth and the total neglect a fire broke out in the Saddler's Arms, corner of Swallow Street, and shown by his parents of his education. The Judge held out no hopes of the Quadrant, Piccadilly, which burnt for nearly an hour, with great commutation in delivering sentence. The boy is short of his age, but violence.

Suicme.—On Sunday morning, Mr. R. Smith, who resided in Gail. ford Street, Russell Square, shot himself. It appears that a ball had perforated the under jaw, passed through the roof of the mouth, and servant to Mr. W. Beaumont, who keeps the charity school in Pile Street, lodged in the brain, causing instant death. The deceased was upwards Bristol, made a most violent and outrageous assault on her master, as of seventy years old, and is supposed to have become insane from the loss of his wife.

On the same day, the daughter of a Mr. Gough, a brushmaker two of his children, in a room separate from the one in which his wife in Somer's Town, drowned herself in the Regent's Canal at Battle- bridge. The girl was only fourteen years of age ; grief for the loss of an aunt is supposed to have affected her mind.

ACCIDENT ON THE THAMES.—On Monday evening, as the Pluto Go-

vernment steam-vessel was returning from Gravesend, where she had been for the purpose of trying her engines and rate of sailing, she came in contact with a barge, the John of Lambeth, just below Erith ; when cident was momentary, and it is difficult to say how it occurred. There was a pilot on board.

LOWESTOFT Haanomt.—On Wednesday the 20th instant, the Humber keel Valentine, of Hull, Wilkinson master, with coals fin. Colchester,

drawing only seven and a half feet water, being leaky, put back with the intention of entering the new harbour of refuge for the eastern coast of Lowestoft ; but not finding sufficient water to carry her over in safety, was compelled to make for Yarmouth, which harbour she entered at half-ebb. The brigHolkham, of Wells, Garrett, master, coal laden, drawing nine feet water, arrived in Lowestoft Roads on Monday the 18th instant, and was detained there six days before she could venture to cross the bar.

HORSE STEALING. — A gang of Staffordshire horse-stealers has been con- ACCIDENT IN RIDING.—On Friday last week, as Miss Shelley, dangly at Montgomeryshire Assizes. The Judge, in delivering the sea- ter of the late poet, who has been for some time residing with R. E. Beauchamp, Esq. of Walford House, was riding out for an airing, the

lded.