morning of the 8th inst. At the corner of Arundel-
street, three houses had been pulled down; and workmen
were digging for the foundation of one larger
building in their place. One house, occupied by
Mr. Thompson, a tailor, was shored up; but either the
supports were insufficient, or the workmen had
undermined them. About eight o'clock on Thursday morning,
a boy who was taking down the shutters perceived that
the house was giving way—he rushed across the street,
and escaped. The whole of the building sank down
sideways, falling into the excavation, and leaving the
party-wall between it and the next house as smooth
as if every bit of wood inserted in it had been carefully
removed. A female servant happened at the moment to
be in the cellar under the street; she was got out
unhurt. Mr. Thompson, his wife, and Mr. Thompson's
foreman, were taken from the ruins dead; apparently,
they had died from suffocation, not from wounds. Rowe,
the builder's foreman, received a compound fracture of
the thigh, and was pronounced to be in a dangerous
condition. Had the fall taken place later in the day,
the consequences must have been more fatal, as the
workmen would have been employed near the side of
the house, and the number of persons in the building
itself would have been greater. Traffic through that
part of the Strand was stopped for two days, and
measures were taken to secure the house next to
Mr. Thompson's. A coroner's inquest has been held
on the bodies of the sufferers. After a protracted
investigation, which terminated on the 26th inst., the
jury returned a verdict, finding that "the falling of the
house is to be attributed to the gross negligence of
Mr. Abrahams, the surveyor employed by the Duke of
Norfolk, and the Messrs. Smith, in not causing the
party-wall to be sufficiently shored up, and underpinned,
before the excavations for the new building were
commenced." A warrant for the apprehension of
Mr. Abrahams was then granted by the Coroner.

On the same evening, the floor of a room in the house
occupied for a Ragged School in Brewer's Court, Great
Wild-street, Gave Way while a meeting of the directors
and friends of the school was proceeding. The alarm
was increased by the report of the morning's disaster;
but, fortunately, no person was dangerously hurt, though
some received severe bruises.

A young man named Williams was Killed at the
Caernarvon railway station on the 8th inst. The train
was about to start, and he was engaged in shunting a
coke wagon, when he perceived another wagon which
it was his duty to detach. For this purpose he leaned
over the wagon, instead of stooping under it, and in so
doing lost his balance, fell over it, and was caught by the
hook in the lower part of the abdomen, by which he
was frightfully lacerated. His legs fell across the line,
and the train proceeding at the instant, they were
so dreadfully crushed, that he died in about four
hours.

On Sunday night, the 11th inst., a Fire broke out in
the premises belonging to Mr. Levine, a waterproof
clothing manufacturer in Whitechapel. It originated
from some unexplained cause in the front room first
floor, in which three men were sleeping at the time. The
inmates were saved by the Royal Society's fire-escape,
with the exception of a young man named Maurice
Abrahams. Upon the conductor entering the room in
which the fire began he beheld a fearful scene, for the
unfortunate man was found in a corner of the apartment,
burnt so frightfully, that when he was touched the flesh
came off his body. It appears that he had previously
assisted the other two men in effecting their escape,
when he became surrounded with flames, and dropped
in the midst of them.

On Saturday, the 10th inst. about 1 o'clock in the
morning, a Fire broke out at Milwall, Poplar, which
consumed property valued at upwards of £100,000. It
originated in the iron steam-ship manufactory of Messrs.
J. Scott Russell & Co.; and a large portion of the
buildings in the yard was swept away. Stacks of
timber were consumed; and two large ships, one just
ready to be launched, were damaged. From Russell's
yard the flames extended to the steam-engine factory of
Messrs. Napier, and a very extensive timber-building
was burnt: the firemen then arrested the havoc. One
side of Russell's yard escaped, and thus the large body
of workmen will not be thrown entirely idle. Messrs.
Russell & Co. were insured in the Sun, Atlas, Globe,
Phoenix, and West of England offices, for £90,000.
From the way in which the Isle of Dogs extends
southwards, the firemen were at first at fault, and
hastened to Deptford; whence they had to return to
London Bridge to cross the river. A floating-engine
worked by steam was brought into operation at this
fire: it threw immense volumes of water, and was
of great service. Unfortunately this engine is not
navigated by steam, and a considerable time elapsed
before it reached the ground. Messrs. Russell & Co.'s
premises contained very costly machines, and patterns
and models the results of many years of thought, skill,
and labour; these the fire swept away or rendered
valueless.

An inquest has been held at the workhouse of
St. George the Martyr, Southwark, on John Hickie,
a man who died from Asiatic Cholera. Hickie lived in
a place near Friar-street, Blackfriars-road; a district
notorious for its trade nuisances—premises occupied by
bone-boilers or catgut-makers, and knackers' yards.
The air is fetid with the odours arising from the
collected tons of bones, or from operations upon them.
Numbers of poor persons live in streets and alleys of
a miserable kind, where the drainage is deficient or
wanting altogether. Hickie lived in a small house
under an extensive bone-warehouse, and above and
around him were all the elements for generating
disease. An officer from the Queen's Bench Prison
complained of the sufferings of the prisoners from the
foul smells proceeding from the Friar-street district.
The jury returned this verdict—"That the diseased
died from Asiatic cholera, induced by the unwholesome
trades carried on in the neighbourhood; that it is the
opinion of the Jury that the Board of Guardians ought
to be invested with the authority they formerly held
under the Board of Health in such matters, and that
that power should be continuous." A guardian said,
that on the previous evening, a special meeting of the
Board of Guardians had been held, when it was
determined to use all means in their power to obtain a
remedy for these evils. The following resolution had
been adopted—"That the relieving-officers shall get all
the information they can by house-to-house visitations,
that the Board may make a strong appeal to the
Board of Health for powers to suppress these
nuisances."

An inquest has been held at Guy's Hospital, on
William Jenner, a fireman in the service of the Brighton
Railway Company, who suffered by a Collision near
New Cross on the 27th August. He was on an engine
attached to a coal-train which was proceeding along
the branch from Deptford Wharf to New Cross—a line
used merely for coal and luggage. By some error or
mismanagement, a danger-signal was not exhibited at
New Cross, though the branch was obstructed by a
train of empty carriages. When the driver of the coal-
train was warned by a man, there was not time to stop
the train; Beardman, the driver told Jenner to leap
off, and he leaped off himself; but Jenner remained on
the engine, and his leg and thigh were fractured. From
the evidence it seemed probable that a man had turned
off a danger-signal under a misapprehension; this man
was a locum-tenens for the ordinary signal-man, who
was busy with an engine, he having incompatible duties
to perform. The jury pronounced the death
"Accidental," but blamed the Company for the defective
arrangements. It was stated that the Company had
now ordered that a signal-man should be specially
appointed to attend to the signal on the branch line.

A young gentleman, William Joseph Greenland, has
been Drowned while bathing at Margate. He and two
younger brothers entered the sea in the bay beyond
Newgate Battery, without having bathing-machines.
An under-current carried one of the younger brothers
out of his depth; William went to his aid; the brother
was thrown on a rock and escaped, but William got into
deep water. Two gentlemen, Mr. Anderson and Mr.
Addis, made gallant efforts to save him but failed. The
body was washed ashore an hour after.

A man named March, a brewer at an inn in Oldham,