Frites.—An alarming fire broke out on Tuesday evening about nine

o'clock in Queen's-head-yard, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Its progress was accelerated by a smart breeze that blew at the time, and the flames were in consequence at once terrific and grand, lightiug up a large portion of the neighbourhood. No lives were lost, but the premises of Mr. Robinson, cabinet-maker, and several stacks of hay and corn belonging to Mr. Wilson, were destroyed. The crowd was immense; probably not less than 50,000.

By another fire, which broke out yesterday in Bulstrode-street, the workshop and warehouses of Mr. Norton, cabinet-maker, were destroyed. Sir Charles Doyle, Dr. Copeland, and several officers of the guards, distinguished themselves greatly on the occasion, and chiefly by their exertions a collection of valuable

paintings arid other effects were saved.

Tim DUKE or LeiNsrnit—A poor boy was accidentally drowned on Friday, in the canal at Camden Town. The Duke of Leinster, who was riding past at the time, leaped from his horse, and planing into the water, dragged the boy, with a gallant little fellow who was endeavouring to assist him, to land ; butthe former died almost immediately after. The Coroner and Jury vecy justly spoke in high terms of the noble Duke's humanity. It is not every Duke who would even wet his clothes on such an occasion.

Between one and two o'clock on Wednesday morning, Mr. Harding, one of due Thames Police surveyors, heard faint groans and cries for help, issuing from time deep mud off the Customs' warehouses at Rotherhithe. He perceived through the darkness of the night the head of a man above the mud. He hailed the object, and was answered, " 011! take me out, I have been stuck in the mud ffese two hours. For God's sake take me out : I am up to my chin, and cannot assist

myself at all." It was quite impossible then to render him any assistance: in this miserable plight the poor fellow remained for an hour and a half longer, until time

flowing of time tide enabled the boat to approach him, when Mr. Harding and his crew hauled him out, and took him to his lodgings in Shadwell Market. He is a sailor belonging to the Tobago, West Indiaman lying in the Commercial Dock; and having got drunk, he descended into the mud, but how, or by what means lie is altogether unable to tell.

A sloop coming up the River mu Wednesday went foul of the tier off St. James's Stairs, Ratcliff, and the stays of the boom breaking, the boom fell, and one end of it struck a female passenger with such violence that her right eye was actually forced out of the socket, and her nose crushed upon her face. The unfortunate woman was carried to the hospital without the slightest hope of recovery.

Thornton, the Greenwich hoaxer, has been obliged to apply to the Magistrates for protection from the fury of Joseph Dale and his brother, who, after the full denouement of the hoax, assaulted him in his father's shop, and left with bins visible marks of their wrath, in black eyes and a bloody nose. The Magistrates refused to grant a warrant metimist the Dales, considering the assault to have been committed under the influence of justifiable irritation, which Thornton had provoked by his own conduct.

Time stomach-pump was used with complete success, on Wednesday, by a surgeon in Fleet-street, upon a gentleman who had taken an °mice of laudanum about half au hour before. The Poison was just beginning to produce its effects, when, by the application of the pump, the stounachwas emptied, and time water which was injected, and returued at first strongly impregnated with the laudanum, was soon discharged perfectly clear ; and the patient quitted the surgeon's in excellent health.

At St. Genis, in France, a servant girl, of poor but respectable connexions, has died of grief, on receiving intelligence that her only brother, residing in a different department, was condemned to an infamous punishment.

A poor wonian and her infant child have lost their lives at Woolwich, by falling through the decayed flooring of a privy.

On Monday night, as a gentleman accompanied by his wife, was passing along St. John's-street, Clerkenwell, he was knocked down and robbed of a watch and seals, by three desperate villains, who appeared to be lying in wait near the Bull public-house. He seized hold of the fellow who had possession of the watch, amid struggled hard to secure him until he should obtaiu assistance, for which he loudly cried ; but being violently assaulted by the other two, he was obliged to let him go, and they all effected their escape. One reularkable circumetance attending this daring robbery is, that the watchman is said to have been near at hand all the time.

On Wednesday evening, a younglady named Jennings, living at Kensingtom in fit of religious melancholy drew a razor across her throat; the wound is not considered mortal.

DROWNING.—On Wednesday, two women being about to land from a lighter off Woolwich in a small boat, by some accident were, with the two men that rowed them, thrown into the water. One of the men, worthy of a better fate, succeeded in supporting the females until assistance reached them, but was drowned before it could be afforded to himself.

STAGE COACH ACCIDENT EXTRAORDINARY:A Captain Window° was unfortnnately killed by the overturning of the Btistol Regulator on Wednesday, amid several persons were severely bruised. An account in the journals of yesterday, says, Captain Windowe lingered in great agony for five hours, and that he WaS totally insensible from the dune of the accident ! The coach, by the same account, first fell on its side, the outside-passengers all the while keeping their places, except two, who got down behind—it was pulled up again by the horses, ran live hundred yards on three wheels, and then fell a second time. One youth, who was much hurt on the head, after lying for some time without motion, started 'up in a state of frenzy, and ran—.—to his father's house I Such are the narratives that newspapers give their readers. HIGHWAY Roerueav.—On Friday, a gentleman proceeding in a gig to Cirencester was attacked near Beech-pike by two fellows apparently Irish. He had fortunately a brace of pistols, which he instantly made use of ; one of them missed fire, but the other seemed to take effect, the robber falling instantly on his face. The horse, on the report, sprang forward, and carried his master clear away. STORM AT EDINIWRGH.—On Monday night, Edinburgh and its vicinity were visited by a heavy storm, which resembled one of the scowling tempests of December. During the night the rain at times descended in torrents, accompanied by a number of very vivid flashes of lightning, and a high westerly wind, that approached a hurricane. The storm was severely felt in the Frith; and it had a terrific aswearance at Newhaven, where there has been a greater loss of boats sustained by the fishermen than they have suffered in any one season for upwards of twenty years. Out of twenty-five boats that were moored off the stone piers, three only rode out the storm, and on Tuesday morning, the coast in that vicinity was coveretrviith fragments of wreck, thwarts, masts, and oars, and presented a distressing tetne. Six fishing-boats and five pleasure-boats have been dashed to pieces.—Scotsmen.

MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—.0II Monday afternoon, the coat of the Melville cutter, revenue cruizer, with four of her crew, left Newhaven for the Roads, where the vessel was at anchor. When manfully working their way over the mountain waves the boat was struck with lightning, and the resistless element tore away one of thwarts, slightly injured two of the men, upset the boat, and the whole four were thrown into the water. After great exertions, they got the boat righted, burin a state very unfit for weathering the storm, which had then become an absolute tempest. Abandoning all hope of reaching the cutter, they ran to the leeward of the Martell° Tower. A moment's reflection, however, showed them that the return of the tide would drive them from this temporary shelter, and a further and more daring exertion was necessary for the preservation of their lives, the boat having by this time filled with water. They accordingly lashed two oars together., and placed them against the building, by means of which they reached the first sally-port of the Tower—a featnever attempted or done before—which afforded them shelter from the pitiless storm. In this cold and cheerless situation they remained from ten o'clock on Monday night till eight o'clock the following morning, when they were relieved by the humanity and intrepidity of Captain Wilson, harbour-master, who observed them from the shore waving their handkerchiefs. The two who were hurt by the lightning could hardly move.—Seots-nran.