6 JANUARY 1866, page 8

A Great Fire Broke Out At Seven P.m. On Monday

in the London and St. Katherine's Docks, which raged throughout the night and the following day and the following night, destroying pro- perty, jute, tallow, dyewoods, coir, and......

Julia Susannah Bellinger Was Last Week The Wife Of George

Bellinger, a weaver in Bethnal Green. He earned a pound a week, but deserted her to live with another woman, and gave her no money. She therefore went to her mother, a Mrs.......

The Merchant Princes Of London Have Not Yet Quite Lost

their old princeliness in giving. They approve Mr. Rogers' scheme for a great City Lyceum, and accordingly twenty-eight firms have each subscribed to his project 1,000/. Half......

Dr. Jeaffreson, Lately Resident Medical Officer To The...

Hospital, has published a letter directly tracing typhus to the overcrowding of some London districts. Working families are bonsai in these places worse than animals in the......

Mr. Cardwell Addressed His Constituents At Oxford On New...

Day, and made% speech, on which we have commented else- where. The very bad and erroneous sentence in it as to the one " undisputed " point in the Jamaica controversy was......

Dr. Jeaffreson Also Publishes A Very Remarkable...

the occupations followed by London vestrymen. There are 477 of these persons, and Dr. Jeaffreson has obtained informa- tion as to 368. Of these 33 are publicans, 18 grocers, 17......

The Jamaica Mail Brings Home A Number Of Petitions,—from The

Dissenting ministers of the island against the legislative proceed- ings there, and from sections of the inhabitants against the pro- posed new constitution. The press, too,......

The Jamaica Commission Is Now Fully Constituted, And Has Gon

out, Sir II. Storks' colleagues being Mr. Russell Gurney, Recorder of London, and Mr. Blessed Maule, Recorder of Leeds. There seems to be every reason to be satisfied with the......

The New Austrian Minister, Count Larisch, Is At Least...

frank, and the tone of his report on the budget for 1866 is so manly and different from anything we have had experience of there as to promise very well for the future. The......