A destructive fire broke out on Sunday morning about ten,

in the extensive premises of Mr. James Finden, patent axletree manufacturer, in Black Horse-yard, High Holborn. Before any effective means could be adopted to stop its progress, the whole of the extensive front wing was enveloped in flames; shortly communicating to the workshops of Mr. Moore, paper-stainer, on the left wing ; which, together with the smith's shop underneath, were, in about half an hour, enveloped in one body of fire, threatening destruction to the dwelling-house of Mr. Finden and the premises near. The house was preserved from total ruin, but much valuable property was destroyed. Notwithstanding every exertion, the flames reached the right wing, and the whole of the extensive workshops of Mr. Winsland. carpenter, ultimately were included in the conflagration. About eleven o'clock, the whole range of the left and front wings fell in ; and the fire was got under by twelve.

A shoemaker at Wareham, and a little boy his son, died last week, in consequence of having eaten largely of some spurious mushrooms which the father had gathered. The mother, who also had eaten, though more sparingly, is unwell, but expected to recover.

Last week, a young Englishman residing at Port Dundas, Glasgow, was awakened from his sleep by a noise in the street ; itnd being of a nervous temperament, he was impressed with the notion that somebody was forcing his bed-room door. Starting out of bed, he opened the window anti leaped to the ground, a height of three stories. He however got up, and ran (says the Scotch paper) along the banks of the canal. Under the delusion that he was on the point of being attacked, he ascended a staircase, and sprung front a height of two stories. He then went on the road to Glasgow, and was found by the police in a state of nudity, and dreadfully bruised. Ile was properly taken care of, and has since been conveyed to the Lunatic Asylum.

A disastrous fire broke out at Bonavista Bay, in Newfoundland, on the 16th June, which consumed all the dwelling-houses, stores, "&c. with two exceptions, at Broad Cove. At Cheltenham, on Friday, as two young gentlemen were riding a race with each caller, in the German Spa Walk, one of them ran against a carriage. His horse was killed on the spot ; and as the:youug man pitched upon his head, he was taken up dangerously Wounded.

While the Telegraph coach was on its journey to Yarmouth, on Wednesday week, the guard prevailed upon a seaman, an outside passenger, to go inside, as he was very drunk. The man became dissatisfied, expressed a wish to ei go aloft," and while the coach was going rapidly forward, he opened. the door to get out, but fell before the hind-wheel, which, passing over his thigh and breast, killed him.

An inquest was held on Monday before Mr. Unwin, at Hackney-fields, on the remains of a foreign gentleman, Mr. C. T. Frank in. the agent of several respectable merchants in the city, it appeared, that on Sunday morning, the deceased, on returning home, tripped over a wall about 18 inches high, and was precipitated into a hollow at least eight feet in depth. His frame, though there were no external marks of injury, was much shaken, and the spine being wounded, paralysis ensued, which, combined with other circumstances, caused his death.—Verdict, Accidental Death ; with a desire that the coroner should express in strong terms the feelings of the Jury on the culpable negligence of those who permitted the existence of such a dangerous nuisance

An inquest was held on Monday, at Strade's-hall, on the body of a labourer, who had provoked a fellow-servant to fight him, and who in the course of the onset received a blow, which caused the rupture of internal bloodvessels, and his instant death. Verdict—Manslaughter. A person named Robert White, alias King, who has long carried on a traffic in counterfeit sovereigns, along with others not yet in custody, was some days since apprehended in Kent-street, Borough, and lodged in Newgate. The counterfeit sovereigns, it is ascertained, were sold at 6s. or 7s. each; but some of the inferior ones were disposed of at 4s. On Tuesday morning, as a young man was attempting to pass under London-bridge, his boat came suddenly upon the boom placed at the arch, to stop the passage. His boat upset, and he perished.

A young woman in Sun-street, Bishopsg,ate-street, has lost her life, by the accidental burning of her clothes. She was in the habit of sitting up to read after the family had retired, and her clothes had twice before caught fire, in consequence of her falling asleep. In the present fatal instance, she had gone to the water-closet, fallen asleep, and having dropped the candle, the flame was communicated to her garments.

A gentleman was robbed in Ingress-park, near Gravesend, on Sunday night, by four men dressed like sailors. He knocked one of them down, but was overpowered by the others. The eldest son of a respectable farmer, near Honiton, lately fell a victim to the drinking of cider which had been made on a press with a lead bed or dish ; the necessary effect of which is, that the walk acid contained in the cider exerts a powerful chemical action upon the metal, forming the 'Palate of lead, a destructive poison.

A youth who has been dumb from his infancy, was lately drowned at Laxley, whilst bathing ; and most singular to say, when he was on the point of sinking, he spoke for the first time in his life, by callingb upon his brother to save him, who was a mournful spectator of the heart-rending scene.—Isle of Man Advertiser.

Mr. Pradoe, of Stoke Priory, was killed on Tuesday by the accidental ex* plosion of his gun while passing through a gate. On Friday, a poor woman residing at Bromley in Kent, nearly seventy years old, and who has been blind for the last seventeen years, hanged herself behind her cottage-door. She acted under the impression that she was likely to be removed from her children to the workhouse. A young gentleman in Birmingham attempted to cut his throat on Saturday,—his mind having become morbid, from disappointments in family expectancies, and consequent embarrassments. On Thursday morning, a young woman, about 17 years of age, was found lying on the ground between some logs of wood, in the timber-yard of 31r. Peto, the builder, in Waterloo-road : she was in a state of insensibility, and appeared to he dying from want. She was removed to Lambeth Waskhouse, 1% here she DOW remains in a hopeless condition. It was ascertained that she is the daughter of a tradesman in the neighbourhood of the Strand; and that she eloped with a fellow by whom she was seduced, and afterwards abandoned.

A Coroner's Jury, which sat on Tuesday, at the Buffalo's Head, Newroad, to inquire into the death of an infant which was discovered in a waterclnset in Harcourt-street, Paddington, returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against Ann Prangle," the reputed mother. The body was so much decomposed that the surgeon could not say Nvliet her it Jad been born alive. Arrington, an Irishman, was on Tuesday arre=ted in Southwark, charged with having, Four years tem, been concerned in the murder of a man named Sullivan, in the parish of Bantry. Ile confessed to the officer that he was P resent when the murder was cotrindtted, but said that he took no part in it. 1 le was detained in prison till the authorities in Ireland are acquainted with the matter. Two of his accomplices were at the time tried, convicted, and transported for life. The Austrian Observes relates the following anecdote of the King of Wurtemberg. " Three young men of Weimar, who are travelling on foot in the South of Germany, arrival at Stutgard (the capital of Wurtemberg,) intending to remain there only a single day. It was necessary that their passports should be examined and signed. They proceeded therefore to the commissioner's residence, where they applied ineffectually several times in the course of the day. The King of Wurtemberg, who frequently walks alone on foot in his capital, perceived them, and on accosting them, learnt that the absence of the commissioner was the cause of their repeated journeys to and from his office. The King himself opened the door of the office, requested the young men to enter, received their passports, and signed them thus :—" Examined at Stutgard. The King, for the absent Commissioner." This officer, being immediately afterwards summoned before his Majesty, excused himself in the best manner he was able ; but the King, in a severe tone of voice, while he pardoned him for that time, forewarned hint that if again he should be found guilty of detaining travellers longer than was necessary to examine their passports, he might forthwith make out one for himself, and leave the kingdom. M. Gleizal, a member of the Convention, who voted for the death of Louis XVI., has received from the present Government of France an indemnity of sixty thousand or eighty thousand francs, for the loss of a place of which he was deprived by the last Ministry.

Mr. Robert Burns at New Berlin, Union County, Pennsylvania, advertises, in the papers of that place, that lie has discovered mines of silver, copper, lead, and iron, in seventeen different places in Union County. Gold and silver are also said to have been found in some places in North Carolina.

At Brest, Toulon, and Rochefort, there are 4,403 persons who have been condemned to be galley-slaves for ten years or less ; 1,616, for ten or more years ; 252 for 20 years and upwards; 2,293 for life. Besides these, there are 640 slaves at L'Orient.

A letter from Gaurnay, in France, mentions the arrest of a man, aged seventy, under very peculiar circumstances. The prisoner, who is a person of 50100 consequence in his own neighbourhood, had imprisoned his wife for more dem two years in a small room in his house, where she was denied every comfort, and supplied with only sufficient food to keep life within her. When discovered by the authorities, she was clothed in rags, and almost a skeleton.

The Emperor of Austria has appointed his grandson, the Duke of Reichstack, a captain of the Yagers. The first campaign of young Napoleon is to commence this year, under the auspices of the Archduke Charles.

In the United States, the very microscopes are enormous. The New York Dui& dileertiser says—" A solar microscope is prepared for exhibition at Hartford, w hich is said to possess a magnifying power of 3,000,000, and may be raised to .1,000,000, if the room is sufficiently large and the light strong. By its a 4sistance, the white mealy particles on the surface of figs appear living objects of 2,1, feet in length ; the sting of the common honey-bee appears 14 leet iii length; and hundreds of snakes, of the enormous extent of six to eislit feet, may be discovered in two drops of vinegar."

In June, the Emperor of Brazil, with the young Queen of Portugal, went on board the British ship of war Ganges, off Rio, to thank the officers and men for the aid given in subduing the German and Irish mutineers. The Emperor inquired into everything, took soup with the sailors, and was in all a second Napoleon.

Of more than 500 competent practitioners, only 48 are in favour of the contagiousness of the yellow fever, 483 being decidedly against it. In those parts of America where it most frequently rages, nobody believes in contagion—the extension of the disease seems entirely owing to the atmospheric constitutit.ns and to local causes ; the latter consist, partly, in putrid effluvia —there exists, in no case, a clear proof of contagion having taken place, and all assertions to the contrary are founded either on false testimonies, on defective observations, or on erroneous inferences from correct observations. —Cherrin on tine Yellow Fever.

At the last annual public sitsitur of the French Academy in Paris, the following prizes were awarded :-67000 francs to M. Comte, for a treatise on legislation ; 3.000 francs to Madame Voyard, for a work entitled 11 .man; and a medal of 500 francs value to 31. Jussieu, for a journal called Bon Genie, destined for the instruction of youth.

1.a Clinique, a medical paper, which appears in Paris three times a-week, gives an account of a new kind of disease, which has recently been making great ravages in that capital. The patients are described as first suffering from shiverings, then from burning sensations in the hands and feet, and lastly from the total loss of the use of every limb. Depletion, bark, opium, and other means of cure, have been tried without effect, and most of the patients have died.

N. Beandonin, a native of Paris, has invented a new system of submarine motion, by which he is enabled to remain under water about a quarter of an hour, without any communication with the atmospheric air. The military establishments of France, for the present year, amount to 231,207 men, divided into twenty-one military divisions.

A company offer, for an annual subscription, to keep up the monuments in the cemeteries of Paris, and supply flowers and garlands, and inscriptions in p roi:e and verse.

In Hayti, there are four printing presses in the employment of Government. There is also, at Poet-au-Prince, a national library, which is open to the public three days in every week. Joseph Bonaparte, the ex-King of Spain, is represented to be exceedingly popular in that part of the United States where he resides. He contributes liberally to all public improvements ; employs almost all the poor in the village in improving his property ; he is honourable in all his dealings, and hospitable to strangers who visit him.

The Protestant soldiers in the garrison of Toulouse are henceforward to be allowed to attend the worship of their own church.

A vessel containing a large quantity of antique jeweller)' has just been found in a subterranean passage at Champ Vert, near Lyons. The vessel also contained some gold coins of the reign of the Emperor Claudius. It is said that the collection is valued at no less titan 200,000 francs.

Last week, an actress in Paris threw herself into the Seine ; but she n sooner found herself floating on the water, and death staring her in the face, than she screamed for help. Two boatmen saved her. She expressed great regret for her folly.

The streets of Paris are infested with robbers. No fewer than ten were apprehended by the police Fast week, in one district of the city. The Royal Court at Paris has fined a man in three thousand francs for an infamous libel on the conduct and character of a*oung widow of sixteen. It was imputed to her that she had occasioned the death of her husband.

Some Sundays ago, Mr. Parker Gall, an English g,entlentan, was going to Vincennes in a curricle, having a lady with him, and a livery-servant behind. On the road the driver of one of the petty public conveyances whipped the horse of the curricle, which darted aside and ran among a party of workmen in one of the side alleys. Two of these men were killed, and six ethers seriously hurt. The driver who was the author of the disaster escaped in the confusion. Mr. Gall having left Paris, was condemned by default to three months' imprisonment, a fine of one hundred francs, and to pay six thousand francs as an indemnity to the families of the victims. He immediately returned to appeal against this condemnation, and the Court, in quashing the sentence, set forth distinctly that there had been neither imprudence nor unskilfulness on the part of Mr. f3a11.—Gatignani's Messenger.

A man muned Grandjean has been condemned to death by the Court of Assizes of Vosges, in France, for arson. The criminal had, it appeared, taken this means of revenging his expulsion from the house where he had lodged, and in which he had been detected in the act of stealing wine. By this act, five houses were burnt to the ground, six families were reduced to the greatest poverty, one person was killed, and another severely wounded.

At St. Omer, a man was recently tried for sacrilege. He had offered for sale some broken pieces of silver, on which traces of a cross coeld be perceived ; and as some churches had been robbed, it was supposed that he had committed tile crime. He was sentenced to the gallies for life, and to be publicly branded on the forehead.

A curious exhibition was witnessed in Paris one day last week. About 100 Anyergnats, chiefly charcoal and corn porters, having at their head live musicians, went in procession : one of them, mounted on an ass, bore upon his back and bosom large placards, upon which were written the christian and surname of one of their comrades, who had been condemned by the body at large to this exposure for having suffered himself to be beaten by his wife. The placard-bearer sat with his face turned towards the tail of the ass, which lie held as a bridle. The procession stopped in the Rue St. Landry, before the house of the hen-pecked husband, where the music struck up, and they executed several dances.

Such is the universal attachment to the practice of smoking at Leipsic, that sixteen students of the University have been known to crowd the diligence with the windows closed, each puffing at his favourite weed.

The inhabitants of Sydney, in New South Wales, complain much of the badness of the times; but they continue, nevertheless, to provide for the comforts and elegancies of existence. A new theatre is being constructed, and a M. Girard, a Frenchman, has opened a restaurant, which might vie with those of Very, or the Roches du Cancale, at Paris, and with the additional luxuries of kangaroo soup and opossum gravy. Houses and lands have risen consi.lerablv in value during the last twelve months ; the same property being sold in February for 1,500/. which in the preceding month of July brought only 1,0001. ; and the free settlers were all so actively employed,. and in want of domestic assistants, that every female convict who arrived by the Elizabeth was eagerly caught up for service.

The Duchess of St. Albans is, we understand, a prey to the Parisians, the stories of her boundless wealth having led them to look upon her as a fit subject for the exercise of their rapacity. Her Grace gave a dinner the other day at Meurice's to fifteen persons, for which she was charged at the rate of 162 francs each, besides 2000 francs for the use of the plateau, a stun in all probability far exceeding its worth.—Brighton Gazette.