Fzue.—Soon after ten o'clock on Monday night, a fire Was
discovered in the Printing-office of Mr. Clowns, Charing Cross; and in a short time the two
upper floors and the offices conueeted with this part of the establishment were destroyed. At this office most of the printing for the army was carried on but the greater part of the stock of books was saved, so that the service will sustain no inconvenience for the want.oi a supply ; and as the principal part of Mr. Clowes's .establishment is carried on at his extensive office, in Duke-street, Stamford-street, his general business will sustain no important injury. The greater part of the materials belonging to Mr. Clowns are completely spoiled: On Thursday morning, a house in Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, occupied by Mr. Carey, attorney, was discovered to be in flames. Before the fire was subdued, the house and an adjoining one were much injured, and • many valna.ble documents were destroyed. A female, who was in labour at the time the fire broke out, was taken to a neighbour's, and was so much frightened at the occurrence that she is not expected to survive.
The ricks of grains and out-buildings of a farm near Winchcomb, were on Wednesday destroyed by fire,—the act of an iucendiary.
24E1.as:et-thy END OF t vicious Couusse—On Monday evening, Eliza Jeffkins, a woman iute prime of life, who had been seduced and deserted about seven years , and, utterly friendless and destitute, had continued to use a file of miser rand crime, was found dead among the mud in Wellington-place, Drury-lane, from the effects of cold and hunger.
On Saturday, a female residing in Vere-street, Westminster, fell into the fire in an epileptic fit, and was burnt to death.
The Indian Gazelle of the 2d October mentions, that on the previous Tuesday, Lord William Bentinck had been thrown from his horse, while riding in the Barrackpore Park ; but there was no danger in the case. On Wednesday week, a labourer employed in Plymouth Break-water, was literally crushed to atoms at Oveston quarries, by the falling of a block of :stone upon him, from a part of the quarry above where he was working. Mr. Willis, a cotton-manufacturer at Wigan, was killed on Saturday night rby the explosion of a steam-boiler, which he was erecting. The engineer (was also much hurt. The noise of the explosion was heard several miles off, and the building shattered to pieces, some of the bricks being blown to a -distance of two hundred yards.
A man aged seventy-three, and his niece, aged thirty, who resided in a ensilage beside a lime-kiln, near Plymouth, have been sutlecated by the eilluwia feem the kiln, which found admission by the chimney and other apertures (of tile cottage.
At Aiserdeen, a few days since, a man employed at a distillery, seated 'himself on the edge of a mashing-vat, and fell into the boiling liquid. Another, labouter, in his eagerness to rescue the sufferer, also fell into the vat; and both have died of the consequences, leaving widows and eight orphan .children.
As a gentleman of Glasgow was leaping a hedge in the neighbourhood of :that city, with a loaded gun, the trigger got entangled among the thorns; the piece exploded, and his cheek-bone and skull were shot away. He survived but a few minutes.
The Glasgow mail, on its journey to London, was upset on Tuesday morning, about ten miles on the London side of St. Nees. One of the outside passengers, a Mr. Lee, had his hip dislocated, and internally bruised. A female, en outside passenger, had her arm broken; the inside persons were also snuck hurt.
SHIPWRECK.—The schooner Ringdove, of Gerrance, on her voyage front Falmouth to Swansea, struck, on Saturday, on one of the outer rocks of els Manacles, and immediately sank. Two men were drowned in the vessel; and the mate, who with the master (May) and a boy, had taken to the boat, (lied before they gained the shore.
Two bargemen, named Hodges and Green, were drowned in the river Wye on Friday last, owing to their vessel being swamped by a strong current meeting it.
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