The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-18 00:00:00

THE CITY IMPRoVEMENTS.

Tire workmen are now removing the large mound of
earth upon which the merchants used to assemble in the
Royal Exchange, and which, according to the original
estimate, the Committee intended to be retained,
and vaults are to be constructed under the whole of the
bull line.. These vaults will be secured with iron doors,
and every provision against fire. Already several of
these iron vaults have been taken by merchants as de-
positorie - fur their securities, books, and documents of
various kinds. By the arrangement for vaulting, the
standing place for the merchants, the dampness
of which was always an objection to the old arena,
will be completely prevented. Whose the sug-
gestion wx: is not mentioned ; but a great many who
were yesterday informed of the order, expressed their
approbation of it. Mr. Webb, the contractor for the
building, has corn:noticed the erection of the Sun Fire--
office in Bartholomew-lane. It will be a building corre-
sponding with the magnificent pile which will soon begin
to show itself. The contract amounts to from 18,0001. to

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19,000/. There appears to be some check or hesitation
about the pulling down the clump of houses called Bank-
buildings. If these houses be allowed to remain, the
view of the western front of the Royal Exchange will
be most preposterously impeded. The price of re-
moval will be about 40,0001, and there is a report in
the City that Government is reluctant to allow the ad-
ditional sum to be raised by the continuance of the duty
on coals.
The Argus Assurance Company's Office, and the
two adjoining houses, are to be pet hack, so as to form
a direct line with tha London and Westminster Bank
in Lothbury, and thus the thoroughfare leading to Cat-
eaton-street will be considerably widened. Already a num-
ber of houses in the narrowest part of CAeaton-street
have been levelled, and the workmen arc now pulling
down the large premises of Messre. ll ivis, Barber, and
Howse, at the corner of Guildhall-yard, in which it strikes
every one as necessary that the front of the Guild-
hall Coffeehouse should be put back several feet
in order to improve tha arena, and exhibit to
greater adv.lntage the church of Saint Law-
rence Jewry. It is proper to state that since the
Royal Exchange improvements commenced a great
number of clterot;ons have suggested themselves to the
minds of the Conititto!r, arising from the removal of
the houses in the severvl thoroughfares, and the Corpo-
ration are evideutly disposed to adopt every judicious
change which has the sanction of the experienced men
whom they have appointed to superintend the great work.

NEW APPROACIITO covENr

GARDEN.

Last evening a mcetirg of t+ e rate-payers and inhabi-
tants of S.. Paul, Covent Ga-der, was h li in the vestry-
room, the Rev. G. H. Bower, Itctor, in the eh, i-. The
object of the meeting was to take into consideration
whether any or what means shluld be adopted to obtain a
batter approach to Govent Garden tra-ket from the West
end. M. Clarke, the Vestry Clerk, having read the re-
quisi-ion to the Rector for cahing the meeting, the Chair-
man, Me-Ars. Clark, Crossly, Broatl, and Daniel, com-
mented very Idly upon the disadvantages which were in.
flicted upon the traders of Covent Garden by the narrow
avenues tri, it; and insisted tha' grea' heaefit in a corn-
metcial, moral, and physical point of vex would accrue to
all the inhabitants of the pot ish by a new approach,—
(Hee-. ) The commercial trade would profit by a bet-
ter approach fore the Wes•-end, along the New-street,
from Coventry-street ti Long-acre. The value of land
in that line would he also raised, and realize at least seven
per cent. The morals of the neighbourhood would be also •
bettered by the removal of the dens of infamy with vtWeh
it was surrountlel; and its health would be likewise im-
proved by the pulling down the houses in Rose-street,
which were Elled with poor.—(Hear.) A resolution was
pasted pledging the meeting to pi tition Parliament for a
branch thoroughfare from the We:,t.end along the new lire
of street fi•sin Coventry-street to Long-acre, and to lay be-
fore the Commissioners of City Improvements, the plan and
report of Mr. Payne, the parish surveyo,-. Another resolu-
tion was pissed fur la) tog In. fare Lord Duncannon and the
Commissioners of Woods and Forests, the grest advantages
that would arise front the proposed approach—namely,
that the ground that would be vacant from the pulling
down of the houses would produce seven par cent., and
that the distance from Charing-cross to Temple-bar would
be shortened by a quarter of a mile by it. The Chair-
man stated that the new entrance would cost 26,0001., and
that the outlay would produce a rental of 15,000/. a year.
Mr. Clark, seedsman, said that the paving-board of St.
Martin's would enlarge the carriagc-way of New-street, by
lessening the footway, if the parish of St. Paul would pay
the expense (2001.) A deputation was then appointed to
wait upon the Commissioners of the Weeds and Forests.

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MOST APPALLING SUICIDE.--On the even-
ing of Sunday last, a catastrophe of the above description
took place at Alkrington Colliery, near Middleton, by
which a mother and the
e children have been plunged inof
to
great distress, and feelings of a large number
friends and acquaintancs of the deceased have
man,
been
strongly excited. A little after sev o'clock,had long
a
named James Guest, 42 years of aen ge, who
been employed by Mr. Livesey, as bookkeeper, at
the above works, rushed out of his cottage near one
of the pits, and threw himself headlong down a shaft about
150 yards in depth. He had latterly become very low in
spirits, in consequence of having to leave the employ of
Mr. Livesey, who is about giving up the works. He was a
man of steady habits, and of good character, Ind had suc-
ceeded in obtaining another situation; but, after trial, he
was not satisfied with it, and came home to Alkrington.
On Sunday be was unusually distressed, and told his wife
he was ill all over, both in his head and his limbs. She
missed him from the door, and saw him rush past the win-
dow towards the coal-pit, and she followed, calling
"James, James," "stop, stop." Ho was heard to say,
Whisht," and almost instantly disappeared down the pit,
to which she approached near enough to hear his crashing
against the horse-trees and guiding rods, as he fell.
" Oh God r she cried, " that's him," and stood para-
lyzed unable to go on or return. A man who heard her
cry came up, and learning what had taken place, he
went round to the colliers' houses near at hand, and
a sufficient number of men was soon mustered to un-
dertake an examination of the shaft. They proceeded to
wind up the baskets, which were about midway in the
pit, and the first bucket which ascended brought viitb
it what was sufficient to convince such of them 8!,
doubted of the reality of the man's fate;
and ether viscera were in the tub, and there was
the
son for supposing that the body had
thehngtubupbecarne
tub, as, on their beginning to wind up!
_all
rig
his barneacif
i down the
leached, and something heavy was beard I
Men were next
remainder of the depth to tae beotnto
iemn.
gled body of pcor
let down, and they sent upe b
in uet will be held tc-mor-
most shocking wanner.
Guest, almost cut in two aAt
nth twiddle, and dgured in a
• sanity only can be anticipate .
and re-
row ; but, as the above are thcle. facts,da verdict of tern.
pororary in. POLITICIAN.--When
THE GAMUT OF A
announced the event
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Napodlooten
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kefr.o,
tauqrnefonews:
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3d
—The
ill conclude his
monster has escaped from the place of his banishment :
Talriee3addC—vo4rin.,ei ei an ng
be his run away from Elbeao.
s(ll,lo'%Ovngehri)misical-if laatndoeadpa_t
tCii
ptero2 od Juan.p—s
mistiriblc adventure by be.commg a wanderer among the
sides, in order to arrest 1113 prcgress—be to
• he cannot possibly escape. 4th—The
mountains— monster
has really advanced as far as Grenoble—vie know
not
to
what treachery to ascribe it. sth—The tyrant is actually
at Lyons. Fear and terror seized all at bl%
Gtn—approach
The usurper bai ventured to
the capit ,1 to
within iixty hours' march. t Buena ar e is
forced matches—but it is impo sa•bl ID advancing by
t oho should reach Pori'.
Bth—Napoleon will teach under thewalls f P • c, Paris to-mor-
row. 9th—The Emperor is at F lal
t•.:rday evening his Maje, t•, th ot t 'nbleati. 10th—Yesi;
entry, and arrived at the s'i'l c Emperor made his public
_Pa ace of the Tuileries-no ng
can exceed the universal joy I