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uished. 
pens of the watermen they were extin- 
Property to the amount of several 
thotsand pounds has been consumed, but no 
lives were lost. wee 
On the night of the 23d of November, a 
fire broke out-in the house of Miss Larpent, 
Sioane-street, and entirely consumed it. Miss” 
Larpent has been for several yeats past col- 
Jecting a variety of curious and valuable arti-: 
eles, consisting of geld, silver, jewellery, &c. 
which she kept in a chest in the house. On 
the day above-mentioned she went with her 
sister to celebrate the birth-day of a friend at 
Hoxton, and when they returned at night the 
house was burnt to the ground. The fire 
kreke’ out about ten o'clock in the second 
floor, .The alarm was given, and the doors 
broken open, and some of the furniture wag 
gaved. The chest was deposited in the se- 
gond floor ; and the loss sustained by Miss 
Larpent is very considerable. 
At three o'clock in the morning of Decem- 
ker 5th, a dreadful fire broke out at the pre- 
mises of Mr. Weede, tallow-chandler, in 
Nightingale-lane, East Smithfield, which 
entirely consumed the same, and damaged the 
two houses adjoining: Property to a very 
tensiderable emovnt was lost, | 
December 8th, avout two in the morning, 
the Mexican Hotel, in Lisie-street, Leicester 
fields, kept by Mr. Simeon, was discovered 
to be on fife. 
the fiames, that the interior of the house, 
with thé whole of the valuable furniture, 
stock, &c.' was consumed before amy assis- 
tance could be procured. Mr. and Mrs, Si- 
fneon perished in the fames. Three female 
servants saved their lives by jumping out at a 
two pair of stairs window, Part. of the body 
of Mr.‘Simeon has since been discovered 
among the ruins, but no vestiges of his.wife 
have yet been found, ; 
December 14th, about five o'clock in the 
evening, ahouse in White Hart Yard, Drury 
Pane, fell down with a tremendous crash, 
burying several personsin the ruins. Among 
others, the bedes of Mr. and Mrs. Anderson 
were precipitated from the garret into the 
cellar, and were taken out dead. A nephew 
of the ‘unfortunate sufferers, a youth about 
20, was also taken ont, but had sustained no 
mizterial injury. The son of Mr. Anderson 
made his escape by dropping out of the two 
pair of stairs window, by which he was dread- 
fully hurt. Two other young men were 
taken out of the ruins, with broken thighs, 
and otherwise burt. 
. Westminster Abbey is about to be restored 
to all its former grandeur. Mr. Wyatt, the 
architect, hasundertaken to put the walls and 
ornaments in a complete state of durability, 
without doing the least injury to the monu- 
ments. A drawing of the original structure 
has been found im a vase taken from the 
Court of Records in a high state of preserva- 
tion. 
produce ail the minute ornaments which time 
Incidents. and Marriages in and near London. 
So rapid was the progress of. 
From this the artist will be enabled to 
fJan. 1, 
has destroyed.. The saints which stood ix 
the niches are to re-appear. 
Proposals are in circulation for raising by 
subscription a fund for the erection of another 
bridge in the metropolis, from the bottom of 
ueen-street, Cheapside, to Bankside, South- 
wark, about half way between London and 
Blackfriars Bridges, with a new and handsome 
street running from the bridge to St. George's 
Church. Fir . ; 
A question of fashionable consequence has 
eccufred in respect to the property boxes of 
the Opera, of the annual value of from 350 
to 400 guineas each. In the leases and te- 
nure of these, there is a positive covenant 
that none of them shal]. be disposed of. 
by public sale, or let, otherwise than 
by private contract; directly contrary to 
which have been all the dealings at the Bond- 
street shops and other places, now of several 
years standing, by which it is contended, that 
leases so implicated have become void; and ag 
a very considerable property is involvedin the. 
question, it is likely to be carried through all 
the stages of litigation, and ultimately to the 
House of Lords itself. In the interim, the 
Property boxes of such a description most 
probably must be locked, up from all use or 
benefit to the contending parties, unless the 
Court of Chancery can interefere, and direct 
the letting of such boxes, bringing the rents 
of them into court to await the issue of the 
causes, which may probably be. determined 
when all the partics now interested are na 
moze, | 
MARRIED. 
© Francis Eccles Barker, esq: eldest son of 
Francis B. esq. of Hans Place, to Louisa, only 
daughter of the Rev. John Stewart, of the 
Charter-house. 
“At St. Mary’s, Newington, Mr. Young, of 
Fenchurch-stréet, to Miss Jane Grandon, 
At Ealing, Benjamin Sandford, esq. of 
Manchester, to Catherine, eldest daughter of 
John Harrison, esq. of Chorley. 
At Hackney, Mr. J. Kirby, of Bicester, 
Oxfordshire, to Miss Gibbs, of the Grove.— 
Mr. Walter Etty, of Lombard-street, to Miss 
Hamilton, of Sudbury, near Harrow.—A bra- 
ham Wilkinson, M.D, of White Webb Park, 
Enfield, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late 
Jabez Smith, esq. of Stoke Newington. 
At St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, John Pon- 
ton, esq son of Thomas P. esq. of Nizells, 
near Tunbridge, to Catherine, eldest daugh- 
ter of John Dunn, esq. of Bedford-street. - 
Edward Charles, esq. of Lawn Place, Shep- 
herd’s Bush, to Miss fames, eldest daughter~ 
of the late Edmund J. esq. of Ham Common, 
At St. Matthew's, Friday-street, Major 
Blundell, esq. of Great Coram-street, to 
Ruth, second daughter of Stephen Wilson, 
esq. Goldsmith street 
At St. James’s, Clerkenwell, Alfred John 
Russell, esq of Gray’s Inn, to Susanna, only 
daughter of the late Mr. P. Josien, of Hart- 
street. va" ' 
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