Some alarm has been felt lest a portion of the
provisions damaged in the great fire at London Bridge, and said to have been near some
barrels of arsenic also stored in one of the warehouses, should be purchased and sold in the metropolis; but a representation having been made to the Lord Mayor, and through him to Lord John Russell, that there was really ground for apprehension, the sale has been prohi. bited, and the provisions will be destroyed.
A few days ago, Evans, a private in the Coldstream Guards, pro- cured from a public-house in North Attdley Street, a box of clothes, in which was also a sum of 41., belonging to a servant who had left her place, and who, he said, had sent him for the box. The scoundrel, it appeared, had been drinking in the bar-room, and overheard the servant making an arrangement with her mistress to deliver her box to a person wheel she would send for it. He has since absconded from the regiment.
On Sunday morning, the rice.milla and granary of Messrs. Ewhank and Cordes, with other buildings at the head of the Sorry Canal, were nearly destroyed by tire. The firemen were ridx aken as to the place of the fire, and many engines went down the Commereial Road, and into Ratcliffe, supposing it to be in that direction, so that much time VMS lust before there was a good muster et the right spot. The loss is estimated at from 40,000/ to 50.000/ ; but the parties are insured to a large amount in the Sun, Plice.dx, Atlas, arid Protector Offices.
At the Marylebone Office, on Saturday, Atm Fitzgerald, servant to Mr. Dovan, a hardwareman in the New Road, was charged with causing the death of her master's infant child by shutting it up in a bedstead. It was proved clearly enough that the girl's fault was only extreme carelessness; and site was discharged. She was taken into custody to appease a 'nub who assembled round Mr. Dovan's house, and declared that she was a murderer.
An inquest was held in Pentotiville on Tuesday, on the body of a Sir William Hewitt, Baronet, who died iii a very poor lodging, from exhaustion occasioned by want of proper food. Mr. Bytom, a tax- collector, gave some particulars respecting the deceased Baronet. He said that he had been welly ruined in attempting to recover pro- perty by law, and had lately bidden himself from ell his relations. Some tone ago he was master of St. Botolph's Parochial Scheek The verdict of the Jury was" Died by the visitstion of God."
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