James Barrett and Hugh Kelly, two marines, were committed by
the Woolwich Magistrates on Monday, to take their trial on a charge of being concerned with three other marines in breaking open and robbing the shop of Mr. Charlton, a jeweller, in Woolwich. Two of the three who were not in custody, had made their escape from the prison at Woolwich ; and it is supposed that they had committed suicide, as their bodies were picked up in the Thames, below Erith.
On Saturday night, between ten and eleven, a destructive fire broke sat in the back room of the first floor of the house of Mr. Absolon, a military clothier, /No. 12, Bond Street, within two doors of the Western Exchange. It was soon communicated to the north-western wing of the Exchange ; and in a few minutes the Bazaar, and the houses on the north side of Burlington Arcade, were in flumes—the interior of the Arcade presenting the appearance of an immense fur- nace. Engines from the different insurance-offices were speedily in at. tendance but eight houses in Burlington Arcade were nearly de- stroyed, before the fire-men, by cutting away the roof, and the engine- men, could stop the fire. Its rapid progress is attributed to the scarcity of water in Piccadilly and Burlington Gardens. The supply of water in Bond Street, where it was less needed, was copious ; but it was impossible to reach to it across the naming mass of the Western Exchange, which intervened between Bond Street amid the Arcade. About sixty persons, who bad stands in the Exchange, are severe suf- ferers, only a few of them being insured. The loss of Mr. Yates, s picture-dealer, is stated at 10,000/. ; but the pictures which were con- signed to him for sale are estimated at 30,000/. Many of the sufferers by the tire in the Exchange are young women. A meeting bus been held to raise a subscription for their immediate relief, and a committee appointed to collect contributions : the London and Westminster Bank, Messrs. Ilerries, Farquhar, and Company, and Sir Claude Scott and Company, will receive contributions. Multitudes have been to see the ruins in Burlington Arcade, and the Exchange ; and 'ninny persons have been robbed of their watches and other trinkets and handkerchiefs. A Policeman has been committed from the Marl- borough Street Office, for stealing some sugar out of a house he was ordered to watch.
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