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INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, anp DEATHS, 1x anp near LONDON, &c. 
With Biographical Memoirs of distinguished Characters recently deceased. 
CHRONOLOGY OF THE MONTH. 
CT. 21. -A fire broke out on the pre- 
mises of Mr. Cooper, baker and flour- 
factor, Hammersmith, which were reduced to 
a heap of ruins. The furniture and stock of 
considerable value were entirely destroyed. 
Workmen have commenced pulling down 
six or eight houses at the corner of St. 
James’s-street and Piccadilly, upon the site 
of which is to be built a most magnificent 
hotel. 
The restoration of the east end of St. 
Saviour’s church, Southwark, has been just 
completed, and forms a splendid ornament 
in the access to the new London-bridge on 
the Borough side. Considerable part of the 
buildings between the church and the river 
are now about to be removed for an abut- 
ment to the new bridge, and to widen the 
future street to which the new bridge will 
join, and the ancient and magnificent edifice 
will be- fully exhibited to the view of the 
public. 
25. A fire broke out in the extensive 
premises of Messrs. Tite and Co, Russia 
matting warehousemen, Fenchurch-street, 
which were entirely destroyed, with several 
adjoining houses. 
27. A fine new iron-gate was this day 
erected at the south end of the entrance to 
St. James’s Park from Spring Gardens. 
The iron railing of the statue of Achilles, 
in Hyde Park, is now complete and tho- 
roughly painted. 
Noy. 17. In the evening, a violent explo- 
sion of gas took place in the shop of Mr. 
Barret, grocer, in Fetter-lane, owing to a 
leaking from the gas-pipes, the smell of 
which had been unheeded, a precaution 
which never should be disregarded, but the 
gas-man immediately sent for. It demolished 
windows, doors, and goods to some amount, 
and set fire to a part of the shop, but was 
soon extinguished ; Mr. Barret, though in 
the midst of the explosion, escaped unhurt. 
At ameeting of the committee appoint- 
ed for the purpose of taking into conside- 
ration the plan proposed by Lieut.-Colonel 
Trench, for making a quay on the north 
bank of the river Thames, at London, held 
on the 2d of November, it was resolved to 
carry the undertaking into effect. £611,000 
is considered an adequate sum, which is to 
be subscribed in £100 shares. Mr. Philip 
Wyatt is to be architect, and Mr. Rennie 
engineer. 
The Columbus, the largest ship ever seen 
in England, arrived at Blackwall from North 
America, laden with red and white pine 
timber, to the amount of 3,600 tons! Her 
length being 300 feet, her flat bottom 53 
feet, her deck 50} feet wide, and the depth 
of her hold 30 feet: her sides straight and 
flat, with a similar triangular head and stern, 
and four masts. 
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Amongst the improvements in the metro- 
politan parks, a carriage drive is now mak- 
ing, with spacious footpaths, from Cumber- 
land-gate at the top of Oxford-street, to the 
door at Kensington gardens at the N.E. 
corner; which door, heretofore, was not 
like the other entrances, accessible by car- 
Tiages. 
At the top of. Portland-place, a com- 
modious archway has been constructed 
under the new road, so that such of the 
inhabitants as haye keys and permission to 
walk in the garden of Regent’s Crescent, 
can now pass into and enjoy the walks in 
the Regent-square garden, on the opposite 
side of the New Road. Handsome gravel- 
led walks are also making within the south- 
western part of the park, for the accommo- 
dation of the noble terraces, which over- 
look this delightful part of the Regent’s- 
Park. b 
The great Irish road by way of Holy- 
head, at its starting from London, soon en- 
counters a summit on the late Finchley-com- 
mon, which must, according to the late 
report of Mr. Telford, still retain its great 
elevation of 338 feet above the Thames level 
at high water: this very considerable ascent 
from the stones-ends in Tottenham-court- 
road and other streets, the very: able and 
experienced road engineer proposes to pave 
with granite, in part of its width, for the 
use of heavy carriages, as has lately been 
done on the Mile-end road, and others of 
the metropolitan approaches. 
A tunnel under the Thames from Green- 
wich, has been announced as in contempla- 
tion ; but the site and mode of construction 
have not transpired: -in the marsh below 
Greenwich (according to Mr. Farey) it is 
perfectly practicable to construct a tunnel, or 
archway, by open excavation, with a secure 
and water-tight covering, suited in level and 
shape for the future bed of the river, which 
would then be turned that way, in a straight- 
ened course; and in order to conduct. the 
road from the north end of this tunnel into 
the east end of Poplar village, an embank- 
ment across the present channel might be 
made, with the spare stuff of the exca- 
vations. : 
The City Philosophical Society, which 
was established in 1808 in Dorset-street, 
Salisbury-square, has lately removed to 
more spacious premises, No. 448, Holborn- 
bars; where this valuable library is depo- 
sited, and where their lectures take place 
every Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock. 
The autograph of Edward the Black 
Prince, which antiquaries have been in 
search of for many years, has at length been 
found on the roll of the Artillery Company, 
where the names and hand writing of some 
of the most illustrious patriots and heroes 
of early times are inscribed. The wage 
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