NEWS OF THE WEEK.
THE week has been one of great fatality to the metropolis. Be- 1 sides the North London catastrophe, which has cost fourteen lives, and an almost indefinite amount of pain and mutilation, there have been no less than seven fires, of which four at least have been on the most deadly scale. On Wednesday night St. Paul's Cathedral, lighted up by a lurid sheet of flame from Paternoster-row, gave Londoners some dim impression of the grandeur of St. Peter's on the night when it is lighted for the Carnival. This irregular consumption of Meisrs. Knight's candles certainly produced quite as vivid, if a less lasting, effect, than they would have done if devoted in more normal fashion to the illumination of Sir Christopher Wren's great work. It was a scene that no one who beheld it could easily forget ; but the London fire insurance offices are probably by no means well satisfied with the lavish multiplicity of the pyrotechnic displays which the inhabitants of London have beheld this year and this week at their expense.
