An inquest was held on Monday, on the body of

Honoria London, aged thirty-three, who was killed by the falling of the houses on Saffron Hill on Friday week. The state of the buildings previously to their fall was the main object of the inquiry. The principal witness was Robert Higgins, a bricklayer, who rented the houses on a repairing lease from a Mr. Wiggins. The following are extracts from this man's evidence.

Juror—" Will you swear that you never took away any of the timber from the breast-summers? "

Witness—" I swear that I never took away any timber." Juror—" I think we shall be enabled to prove that you did." Witness—" I did not."

Juror—cc Did you not observe any cracks in the place ? "

Witness—" I observed a settlement in the party-wall, and I observed some cracks in the upper room of No. 13. I thought there was something dangerous, and I put up a pier or upright from the basement to the cobble to keep up the breast-summers. I did not carry it up with cement ; I set the bricks with mortar. On Friday, a Mrs. M'Carthy, who lodged at the top of the house, told me that there were cracks in the ceiling."

Juror—" Were you not spoken to on Thursday last by some young man who told you that the houses would fall in? "

lliitness—" I do not recollect it."

Juror—" What reply did you make to him ? " Witness—" I do not recollect. I might have said, ' You be d—d.'" Juror—" Oh, yes ! you said something more." Witness—" I cannot recollect it."

Juror—" Did you not say, Let them fall and be d—d ? ' " Witness—" I was chaffed by somebody, and I made some reply, but not that ; I would hardly say that, or place the lives of myself and family in danger. My wife had only lain in two days before."

Solicitor for the landlord to witness—" Did not your wife lie just near the party-wall which gave way?"

Witness—" She did, and had a narrow escape. On Friday evening, just before the accident, I was at work in the cellar, turning up mortar, when Mrs. McCar- thy ran out and exclaimed, For God's sake come out ; the house is falling in. You'll all be killed.'" Witness ran up stairs, pulling his son after him, and then hastened to save his wife; whom he carried out; and on getting outside, the houses instantly fell in together. Had it been a moment later they would all have been buried in the ruins.

Juror—" In reading the specification, I find that you were bound to alter the breast-summer which gave way? " Witness—" No; the breast-summer was at the back part of the premises." Juror—" Did you not move away some timber and lead from the house?"

Witness—" I took no timber away from the body of the house that would at all weaken the premises. I have taken some timber to another house which I am building at Hackney, which belonged to a shed. The accident was caused by two stacks of ehimnies and the breast-summers in the centrical part of the premises giving way."

John Shearer, a mop-maker, of Little Gray's Inn Lane, gave evi- dence contradictory in part of that stated by Higgins.

On Friday morning, about ten o'clock, he saw forty bricks fall from a wall at the back part of the house; when he said to Mr. Higgins, "By God ! your houses will fall in:" to which he replied, "Let them fall in, and be d—d." At one o'clock, he saw some more bricks fall; when witness said, "So help me

God, the houses will fall in." Higgins said, "And a good job too." He stood within twenty-five yards from him. At a little after five he saw the whole of the houses fall in. He went into the ruins of the houses, and brought out a child which was buried in the ruins ; it was about six years of age.

Samuel Davis, a tavern-keeper on Saffron Hill, deposed, that He had given notice of the dangerous state of the houses to Mr. Goode, of Hatton Garden, who is the surveyor and collector of upwards of one hundred houses in the neighbourhood. lie sent to him dace times to look at the pre-. mises. The first time he went to him was about eight months ago. He said be wished them let, but witness declined taking them. He saw a vanload of timber taken away from the house, and seven or eight hundredweight of lead, which was sold in Leather Lane. He made several applications to DIr. Goode afterwards ; and he, in company with his clerk, went over the premises. A fire afterwards took place in the neighbourhood ; and be applied to Mr. Bird, of the Royal Exchange, and he informed him of the danger of the houses. Wit- ness added, that they were in so dangerous a state, that lie would not have suf- fered a dog of any value to remain there.

The Jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death, and that there was culpable neglect on the part of all the parties connected with the premises."

[We trust that some means will be taken to bring these culpable parties to task for their neglect. Why did not Mr. Goode attend to the warning so repeatedly given him ? Is he the district surveyor? If not, who is ? and wby was he not summoned before the Jury, and made to explain his conduct ?]

- An inquest was held on Saturday, at the Grand Surry Canal Tavern, Camberwell, on Mr. John Barurck, who had had some difference with his wife respecting the loss of two or three sovereigns, and on Wednesday morning went to the Canal Tavern Bridge, where, notwithstanding the opposition of his son, who suspected his intention and followed him, he threw himself into the water. Drags were sent for, and he was taken out in five minutes ; but animation could not be restored. Verdict, " Temporary derangement."