To The Editor Of The Time...
Sir,-Ever ready to devote, zs you are as much as possible, your valuable time, and the columns of your widely-extendeA and truly esteemed journal to the public welfare, I trust yoa wi no!t deem it irrelevant to the orinciples of humanity, in bringing to ynorwnicm that which may in all probability be the source of -mch eal ity at this very terpestuous season: and- which, if garally known, m-ay, I think, be sufficiently guarded against, and thereby verted. Twice have I bten an eye-wsitness within thie last threE days of hair..- breadth escapes froms ponderous chhurtey-pos, tiil5a, &c., fulling witth a tremendous crash from the house-tons to tSheparvement,tbrtat. ening des'trutction in the fall: a:nd iB she Last inqta;nce, tbia afternoon, in Picailly, the mass wvas within a few inches of falling upon the head of a voung m"an passipgs:a tlie momnent.. The providential es- cape inipefled me to stop and examine as to the probab1e cause, for the .wind wos not blowing hard at the time; ,,-n I found, ES it vsa2 clearly oerceptible,thewvhole had becn in a state of decaysomsetime. Now/, Sir, asa~ bad state of chimnieaf and their appendage, at this tempestuous season mnay in sli probasbility (it cansot 1- thin;;, be dlenied) prove the cause of some disastrouls evrents, 1 wfould tar.. nluously recommend that all householders and o.hers, respensible for the state of thteir houses, and ihe irreparable mischief that may br caused to individuals in conseqKeeee of dilapidasion, tsb ^ make, or cauae to be made, a strict examination: in order that, if suh ex- ists, they may be immediately rep;aired or-acred. This, Sir, ja a subject which, at a elight glance, may appear trifling vbut l am convinced it will obtain the serious attention it deserves froreth pub- lic, w.hen it is considered howv liable each and every one is of his Mlajesty's subjects so danger, fromn the unpardonable negleet of re- mledies wvithin reach. lit is due to humnanity and society, generally and reciprocally, that we shon.ld ta1;e care that our heads be not dashed to pieces, as fiar as we have the power to prevent it, ftmse a source, aswve unsun8spectingly"x walk the'strcets I conclude, ilr. Editor, with a;n advice, sometimes verv pertinently given, and I think not inapnlicable in this case_'"Letbl -that thinlkethihe stands, take tiles fall." enf, Sir, you deem the above subject desarving a place, and at aU likely to remove evidentlv some existiner evils. Toh ll oblitel Sire yoar obedient servant, - J. S. iu Ke-street, Mr. James's. batuMaay, kec.:!b. P.S. Oughtnot the attention ofthediitretsurveyor-to bedirect- ed to the subject? l believe it iB part or their businegs equally with other duties, and certainly quite as importnt a any. TO TUE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.