The Metropolitan improvements are stopped. because the wi,; . e men who
conducted the bill through. Parliament omitted a clause necessary to enable them to raise the sum of money required !-200,000/.
The Magistrates of the Strand Union Petty Sessions, on Monday reduced the sum at whieh Covent Garden Theetee was rated to the poor front 2,652/. to 2.00111. : and for that part of Dairy Lane Theatre which is in the parish of St. Paul, they diminished the rate from 31o/. to 3004 A large issue of neW silver is taking place at the Bank with the Di- vidends of the present quarter.
In the Central Criminal Court, on Monday, George Cant, a publican, was tried on a charge of violating a young woman, in his service, while she was insensible. The curious part of the case was, that a witness for the prisoner swore that he was the criminal, and the prisoner inno- cent; but the Jury, believing certainly very imperfect evidence for the prosecution, returned a verdict of " guilty " after two hours' consi- deration; and sentence of death against Cant was recorded.
On Thursday, 'sentences were passed on the prisoners convicted during the present session. Three were sentenced to be transported for life ; two for fifteen years; one for fourteen ; three for ten ; twenty- six for seven years ; and seventy-seven to various terms of imprison- ment. Cant was the only prisoner sentenced to death.
At the Mansionhouso on Tuesday, a young man, employed in a re- spectable house in the City, was postively charssed by a country gentle- man withrobbing him of three 50/. bank-notes ; but the defendant's em- ployer proved, by reference to work done in his books, and other cir- cumstances, that at the time of the robbery the young man was in his counting-house. The complainanl was allowed to get off by paying 40s. to some charity.
A correspondent of the Morning Chrooiele states, that Mr. Nathaniel Isaacs junior, son of an army-agent at Chatham, poisoned himself at Dover on Friday, having been detected in forging acceptances to a large amount. It is said that this 3Ir. Isaacs lived beyond his means, and associated with officers and gentlemen above his own rank in so- ciety. The amount of his forgeries was about 7,000/. The landlord of the Victoria Hotel, where he poisoned himself, noticed that Mr. Isaacs was unusually "jocular" on Thursday evening, and said when he went to bed, that he was going to take a long nap. On Friday after- noon, he was found in the agonies of death, and all efforts to restore him were fruitless.
Mary Reynolds, a cools in a lady's family. Green Street, Grosvenor Square, drowned herself hi the Serpentine on Friday. Verdict of a Coroner's .1 ury—" Insanity."
Yesterday morning, a female, residing in Carlisle Street, Lisson Grove, threw herself out of the attic window into the yard, and from the injuries sustained almost instantly expired.
An explosion of gimpawder on the premises of a maker of fireworks in William Street, Pimlico, about half-past seven las: night, alarmed the residents in that and the neighbouring streets. The shock, pre- ceded by a low rumbling noise, was very great ; and people ran out of their houses in terror, believing it to be an earthquake. The cause was soon discovered ; for the house No. l0:! William Street, occupied by Harding the fireworks-maker, was seen in flames. Rockets and squibs and other fireworks were for souse time dieeherged through the windows ; and. nobody dared to approach the premises. Firemen and engines soon came, and although they could not save the adjoining house, by nine o'clock the conflagration was got under. While it was at its height, moans were heard in the yard, and found to proceed from Mrs. Hard- ing, who was lying on the pavement dreadfully burnt. She was im- mediately taken to the Westminster Hospital. Besides Harding and his wife, seven other persous lived in the house No. 10ç; and at the time of the explosion, a Mrs. Hanson, two other women, a son of Mrs. Hanson, and three boys engaged in making fireworks, were on the pre- mises. Of these, Mrs. Hanson alone escaped, she can hardly tell how. Seven deal bodies were dug out of the ruins this morning, so much dis- figured that it was impossible to identify them.
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