The Press.
London, England, 1855-02-17 00:00:00

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monition from the Bishop of London, addressed to
the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Liddell, the incumbent of
the church, at the instance of Mr. Charles
Westerton, directing that the high altar in that
church shall he removed, and a decent communion-
table substituted.

3,ttibtnts ad Cantu.

THE PERPETRATION OF ♦ SERIOUS AND DARING
BANE ROBBERY at Ballarat has been communicated
to the London police authorities by the last overland
mail from Melbourne, it being suspected that the
robbers had escaped to England. The robbery was
effected on the 2nd of November, when four men,
supposed to be from the gang who hau,it the
diggings, and have often committed the most fearful
atrocities, entered the Victoria Branch Bank in broad
daylight, but with their faces concealed by masks.
Each was armed with a revolver. The villains seized
Mr. Buckley, the manager, and Mr. Marshall, the
chief clerk, the only two who were in the bank at
the time, and, having bound them with cords, rifled
the establishment of all it contained, and decamped,
previously threatening the lives of those above named
if they dared to move. The Police Gazette of Syd-
ney furnishes a full description of the thieves, with a
partial list of the bank-notes and gold stolen. Among
them were four hundred 10/. Victoria Bank notes, Mel-
bourne issue. The value of the notes stolen is nearly
17,1.001. Several bags of gold, in the whole amount-
ing to 17,0001., were among the plunder. The Colo-
nial Government have offered 1,6001. for the apprehen-
sion of the offenders.

A FIRE broke out on Tuesday evening in the house
No. 3, Pleydell•street, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street,
occupied by Mr. Thorburn, bookseller. The two
lower shops, belonging to Mr. Thorburn, were nearly
burnt out, and the building severely damaged. The
contents were insured in the Sun and Unity Fire-
offices. The adjoining premises of Mr. Adams, pub-
lisher of Bradshaw's Railway Guide, were also dam-
aged by fire and water. The fire is said to have
been caused by the gas•buiners.

AN INQUEST was held on Monday at the Charing-
cross Hospital, touching the death of Mr. Charles
•I' Proctor, the proprietor of 0 liver's• hotel, Westminster-
...
road, who committed suicide by shooting himself
with a pistol in Smith's Rifle•gallery, 398, Strand, on
Saturday last. The jury returned a verdict of
" Temporary insanity."
A HOUSE in the Lower-road, Islington, which seems
to have been ill-built rather than old, fell down
piecemeal on Sunday night. The premises were
situated over a gateway, the walls and roof of which
gave way first and buried several persons beneath a
mass of rubbish. Assistance was quickly on the spot,
and while efforts were being made to disengage the
sufferers a further portion of the house tumbled down,
and an unfortunate police constable named Stoker,
who was actively aiding in the work of humanity, was
himself buried and killed by the falling materials. It
was not until next day that the adjoining walls were
propped up and the dhbris safely removed. In the
end six bodies besides that of the policeman were
discovered. The names of the victims were:—Thos.
Hodges, aged 14 years ; George Hodges, 8; Joseph
Glover, 26, a married man ; Jane Glover, 30, the
wife of the former ; Joseph Glover, 4, the son of the
before-named; and Sarah Lane, aged 40 years.
THE BRITISH AUTHORITIES IN ROME are on the
look-out for two English swindlers, named Davidson
and Gordon, besides a host of aliases, who have
made away with the genteel sum of 500,(1001., chiefly
by forgeries of dock warrants, and have been traced
to Genoa and Civita Vecchia.
ON Saturday an inquest was held near Rochester
on the body of a man named William Salmon, who
was found frozen to death the previous morning.
The deceased, a married man, with a large family,
had been partaking pretty freely of liquor on Thurs-
day afternoon, and between five and six o'clock pro-
ceeded about a mile from his house to purchase some
coals. Having executed his errand, he was return-
ing to his residence, when he was overtaken by that
severe storm of snow with which we were visited on
that day, his road home taking him across some open
fields where there was no shelter, and all traces of
the footpath effaced. He appears to have battled
with the storm for some time, until at length he was
obliged to take shelter near a haystack. Here he was
seen by some men who were passing that way between
seven and eight o'clock that evening, and these he in-
formed that he could not get along. They thought he was
joking with them, and, after persuading him to make
another trial, left him and passed on. As he did not
return to his home that night, his family became
alarmed, and a search was instituted for him, when,
early on Friday morning, his dead body was found
at the spot near which he was seen by the men, and
near him the coals he had purchased. When found,
the body was quite rigid.