One of the collectors of rates in the parish of
Islington has absconded with a considerable sum of money belonging to the parish. A reward for his apprehension is advertised. On Monday morning, a hostile meeting took place at Wormwood e, between Captain the Honourable Cecil Forester and. Captain thier, both o W. E. I:Laf the Blues. The former was attended by Cap- tain the Honourable J. IV. B. Macdonald, of the Life Guards, and the latter by Lieutenant Conroy. Three shots were exchanged without effect, when the seconds woUld not permit the affair to proceed further. The meeting, we understand, had become unavoidable, m consequence of an altercation between the principals, accompanied by extraordinary eircumstances.—Morning Post. Early on Wednesday morning, a fire broke out in one of the centre buildings of the Batik of England. Engines from the different fire- stations in the Metropolis were soon on the spot, but the firemen were not admitted. The damage is but of a trilling nature. The fire, it is supposed, was occasioned by the overheating of one of the flues: it was put out by th ervants of the establishment.
The Police having received orders to remove all persons standing on the iron rAilin:r in front of Whitehall, on Tuesday, while the Queen passed to the House of Lords, were proeetding in the execution of their duty, when a gentleman, in endeavouring to descend, became impaled on one of the spikes, which fractured his thieh.
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