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ALARMING FINIS.
Yesterday a number of firemen attended at this elite to
lake the usual affidavits to a are which raged theism height
hbout six o'cloek on Thursday night, in the premises of
,Mr. Cagill, of Great Hermitage.streel, Wapplag. The Ore
broke out in the eellar,but bow or in what manner we scald
wet tears; it, briefer, soon spread to the kitchea adjoining,
and threatened inevitable destruction, as the flames were be-
ginning to spread very fast. At this moment the Aidgre,
Royal IC:change, Imperial, neer:, and other lire engines
arrived; and there beim' a plentiful supply of water, they
=with great rapidity; but the Ire being in the
arts of the house, they could not get at it, till the Ire-
Med had torn up the flooring, which made room for them to
to hare full effect, and the flames were in a short time get
'adder. The damage is considerable, but nothing to what
might have been expected.
• Before the affidavits could be sworn, another alarm of fire
was given,and the aid of the firemen ass called, which proved
to have test burst forth in the chimney of the premises be-
longing to Mr. Hollady, No. 333. Wapping, and was spread•
leg to different parts of the house, when the timely arrival of
,the engines deterred the fury of the raging element., ithout
very serious damage being experienced. The firemen them
returned, and their anklavits were received; but ere they
could again depart the office, sesend messengers arrived with
the tidings of another very extensive Ire in Angel-gardens.
Agra each of the parties proceeded with full speed after their
respective engines, to take to the spot. The particulars of
'lbis lire we have not been able to ascertain, but it appeared,
hem report, tube very serious.
GANG OF BURGLARS.
Benjamin James', a most notorious ullioder, was yester-
day brought Ix lure Captain Riehbell, having been stopped on
the preceding night by Smelly, an Akar, with KM, of his
burglarious prey.
John James Ford, of the Lessfori, lying in the t's
Canal, stated, that be kept on hoard or Thursday errand
sot long after he was ins bed he heard a parson come down
into the forecastle, and he suspected it might he his brother,
whose name he called twice ; but or reeeivieg no answer be
got up, and a new suit of clothes had been roles; when be
cut on deck he heard some one hollow to him, and ask if be
had lost .say thing ? to which he answered, " Yes." The
Meer With gun got the grieoner, and the wearing Vowel
now predated was his property.
Jobe dedgosoost tits harp tins met, said. tag ita Them.
day night whoa Imi what to bid tarzij; groat god his
side; when he await* es May he wies it liemeseer
stolen, together with Ye whelk emit Weibel ale *AM
and stockings bad hew dengpod by mos sae ea bawd the
Langfurd, and was retuned to bias g 'there was is. ty. la the
coat pocket ; that produced by the darer is his property.
Beachy and Clarke said, that wham the prisoner saw them
he ran into the White Hart publiehame yard, and threat the
property behind a water butt, which they took, together with
the prisoner, and conveyed to the watch-Morse.
The prisoner pleaded drunkenness in his defence, and tieing
deaf he appealed to the Magistrate to know if it was likely a
deaf person, who must of course subject themselves to de-
tection, would go robbing ; he was innocent of the offence.
This the Magistrate did not believe, and fully committed
Wei to Newgatc for trial.

I.TNION-TIALL.
Robert Skinner was charged by Care, the constable, for en
rious robberies in the country.
He was remanded till Monday neat.
Elizabeth Brannon was also remanded on a charge brooght
against her by Mr. Birkin, a cheesemonger of Waliliorth
for stealing • couple of fowls.
THE ACCIDENT.
Yesterday a man named David Emilio, an ancient Briton,
was brought before Maurice Swabey,jun. Esq. on the charge
'of obtaining • large qiniutity of East India hemp, under a false
and fraudulent pretence.
Mr. Davey, of the Arm of Davey and Co. Sat and hemp
dressers, res ding in Kent street, Southwark, stated, that a
few days ago the prisoner came to his premises, and said that
he was commissioned by Mr. Leah, a respectable emarla
her, residing near the Marsh-gate Lambeth, to purchase
East India hemp low. Witness produced many somplosossil
et length the primmer made choice of one at us. per met.
He said he should take a ton of it, but he would only then
treat for a hundred weight, and that he would, if that wee
approved of by Mr. Leah, return for the remainder of lb*
ton, and bring the cash fur it. Witness told him he did eel
soder his goods to ff., out of the house till paid for. " Ohl
then," said he, " let your man go with sac. and 'IA air_
back with the money." Witness thought him t even
this proposition, and thereupon called upon his eeteinliento
company him, but with strong injunctions sot In •011111 IN*
without either money or goods.
On their reaching Mr. Leak's factory, the 'prisoner tea
the hemp from the man, and went backwards with It, feasts'
him in the front shop. and presently he returned witliosit
saying, " What a pity we shall have to wait in the cold fne
about half an hour, for Mr Leak has just sat down to dieser;
but never mind," said he, "we will go into some pulse,*
house, and have something warm, and by that time he lON
be down stairs." Accordingly the man went with the pel:
seller, and after stopping some minutes he got up and Irmo
out ; some time elapsing, and he unt the Me
went to Mr. Leah's to inquire for him, when he returning,
learned that
he had been there, and had taken a load of hemp away wIN
him. The man inquired if he had not been instructed by.M47
Leah to purchase any, when he was answered in the negative,
that the prisoner was not known there, but that he had roil
quested to leave the hemp on the premises for a short time.
Witness had never seen him since tilt the officer appre-
hended him it,, the *mint.
The prisoner said that when he left the young man in the
public-buuse he went to Mr. Leah, who would not give the
preen for the hemp. ; that he took it somewhere else and sold
it, and was rebut ti ing to Mr. Davey's with the money, when he
met with an accident.
Magistrate.—What was the accident ?
Prisoner (smiling, and holding down his head.)—l am
ashamed to tell, your Worship.
Magistrate—Why should you be ashamed; what was the
accident ?
Prisoner—l met with a women, Sir.
Magistrate—ls that the accident you allude to ?
Prisoner—Yes. your Worship, because she made me spend
all the money but bs.
Thu Magistrate ordered the prisoner to be remanded for
further examine:ion.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.

Between eight and nine o'clock last night a fatal accident
occurred at Somerset House. John Onis, an assistant porter
in the Navy Pay Office, bring in a state of inebriety, get on
the iron railing, for the purpose of raising the sash to get ad-
mittance into the hall, overbalanced himself and fell into the
area, a depth of forty feet, and was killed on the spot.
The unfortunate man was Immediately picked up, and carried
into an apartment in the office, and a surgeon was immediately
sent for, and Mr. Kenny, assistant to Mr. Staunton in the
Strand, attended ; but from the nature of the injury he received,
his skull being fractured in several places. he could tender no
assistance, life being totally extinct. He was about thirty
years of age, and has left a widow and two children to deplore
his loss. There will be an inquest held on the body this
evening.

Mr. HALL has sent us the foll Owing correction al
nue report from Bow-street police-office or. Saturday, De-
cember it. Our reporter appears, from this correction, to
hero mistaken the question—" Were
.you ever a 1144111.
droper?" for " Were you ever indicted?'
Reading—Mr. Hall, were you ever a linen-draper?
Hall—l was.
Reading—Did you lire in Barbican?
Hall—l
ReLlinit—Were you a bankrupt?
Hall—l was when under use, consecinently before I was
retitled to an interest in the property of which you (prisoner)
defrnuilcd me.
Reading—Did you, Hr. Hall, ever take the benefit of
Insolvent Act?
Hall—No, I never did.

Another accident occurred yesterday by an Imprudent ven-
ture on Ice. A respectable youth, of the name of Leather-
barrel, was amusing himself with fetching a bung to play at
hockey, on a sheet of ice, to St. James's Park, which was not
bearable. It gave way, sad a person (rote the bank of the
canal rushed into the water to save the youth's life. This
humane endeavour failed at the risk of his own life.—The body
of the youth was taken up and conveyed to the Ship, at Chair-
ing-cross, for the inspection of a Coroner's Jury.
The scarlet fever, which was lately very severe in
the town and neighbourhood of Brechin, is now con-
siderably abated. We are sorry, however, to state
that a species of inflammatory fever is prevailing there
at present, still more fatal in its consequences. The
dumber of deaths in Brechin for the year is generally
rtom 100 to 110, but during the last time months up-
wards of 100 persons have died in that town sad
pettish,—Ediaborgit Observer.
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EARTRQUAIc IA SYRIA.
The following are extracts from ClifiCi3l toniliuni-
ciations of Mr. Barker, the Consul at Aleppo, to the
Levant Company, describing the late dreadful earth-
quakes in Syria :-
4' goartbe ruins of Antioch, September 13, MI.
" It has fallen to my lot to relate the particulars of
an event that has thrown most of the families of this
part of Syria into sorrow and mourning, and all into
the greatest difficulties and desires..

l'-On the 13th August, at half past nine in the
evening, Aleppo, Antioch, Idlib, Rtfia, Gissa Shocr,
Darcoush, Armenas, every village, and every detach-
ed cottage in the Pashalic, and some towns in the ad-
joining ones, were in ten or twelve seconds entirely
ruined by an earthquake, and are become heaps of
stones and rubbish; in which, on the lowest computa-
ion, 20,000 human beings, about a tenth of the po-
pulation, were destroyed, and an equal number maimed
or wounded ! The extreme points, where this terrible
phenomenon was violent enough to destroy the edifices,
seem to be Diabekir and Merkab (twelve leagues
south of Latuchin), Aleppo and Scauderoon, Kith:
and Kahn Shekoon. All within these points have suf-
fered so nearly equally, except Orfa and Latachia,
which have not suffered much, that it is impossible to
fix on a central point. The shock was seusibly felt.at
Damascus, Adeno, and Cyprus.
" To the east of Diabtkir, and north of Killis,
am not yet well informed how far the effect extended
in those radii of the circle. The shock was felt at sea
so violently, within two leagues of Cyprus, that it
was thought the ship had grounded. Flashes of fire
were perceived at various times throughout the night,
resembling the light of the full moon, but at no place
to my knowledge has it left a chasm of any extent,
although in the low grounds slight crevices are every
where to be seen, and out of many of them water
issued, but soon after subsided.
" There was nothing remarkable in the weather or
state of the atmosphere. Edifices on the summit of
the highest' mountains were not safer than buildings
situated on the banks of rivers, or on the beach of
the sea.
" It is impossible toconvey an adequate idea of the
scenes of horror that were simultaneously passing on
the dreadful night of the 13th of August. The awful
darkness, the continuance of the most violent shocks
at short intervals, the crash of falling walls, the
shrieks, the groans, the accents of agony and despair',
of that long night, cannot be described. When at
length the morning dawned, and the return of light
permitted the people to quit the spot on which they
had been providentally saved, a most affecting scene
ensued.
" You might have seen many, unaccustomed to
pray, some prostrate, some on their knees adoring
their Maker. Others there were running into one
another's arms, rejoicing an their existence. An air
of cheerfulness and brotherly love animated every
countenance.

" In a public calamity, in which the Turk, the
Jew, the Christian, the Idolator, were indiscriminate
victims, or objects of the care of an Impartial Provi-
dence, every one forgot for a time his religious ani-
mosities, and what was a still more universal feeling
in that joyful moment, every one looked upon the
heaviest losses with the greatest indifference. But
as the sun's rays increased, they were gradually re-
minded of the natural waists of shelter and of food,
and became at length alive to the full extent of
the dreary prospect before them ; for a greater
toast of human misery has not been often produced by
any of the awful couvulsions oe nature. A month has
now elapsed, and the shocks continue to be felt and
strike terror into every breast. night and day. The
fen that they may not cease before the rainy season
commences, has induced those whose business cannot
allow of their quitting the ruins of their towns, instead
of rebuilding their houses, to construct temporary ho-
vels.of wood withoutthe walls, and many families who
thought themselves before this calamity straitly lodged
in a dozen of apartments, now exult in the prospect of
passing the winter in a single room 20 feet square.
" The spacious mansion that has been the residence
of the British Consul at Aleppo fur 230 years, is coin
pletely ruined. The houses of all the other public
agents and private European individuals at Aleppo have
been likewise entirely ruined. At Aleppo, the Jews suf-
fered the must, on account of their quarter being badly
built, with narrow lanes. Out of a population less than
3,000 souls, 600 lives were lost. Of the Europeans,
only one person of note, Signor Esdra di Picciotto,'
Austrian Consul General, and ten or twelve women and
children perished, but the greatest part are now
suffering from ophthalmia and dysenteries, occa-
sioned by their being exposed to the excessive heats
of the day and the cold dews of the night. When it
is considered, that two thirds of the families in Aleppo
have neither the means of making a long journey, to
remove to a town, out of the effect of the earthquake,
nor of building a shed to keep off the rain, it is im-
possible to conceive all the misery to which they are
doomed the enusing winter, or ever to find more de-
serving objects or the compassion and charity of the
opulent, whom it has pleased God to place in happier
regions of the globe.
" Here planks and fuel are cheap, and the people
have the resource of tiles, which they were taught to
make by the crusaders, in their long residence at
Antioch; but in Aleppo, where wood is very dear,
they have no contrivance to keep out rain but free-
stone walls, and flat routs 'made of a very extensive
cement."

" September to, len.
" I ern sorry to say that shocks of the earthyra e
continue to be felt to this day, the thirty-eighth after
the principal shock, anal no change has taken place in
the state of -desolation that the dreadful catastrophe
has produced." •
" October le, Int.
" Till the 9th inst. slight shocks ofeanhquakes con-
tinued to be felt ; since that day they have entirely
ceased, but confidence in a continuance of safety
from that dreadful calamity is not restored, and
although the rains and cold weather render our
temporary sheds very inconvenient habitations, no-
body is yet inclined to sleep under a roof supported
by walls."

CHRIST'S HOSPITA L.—To•morrow evening, and
every Sunday evening from Christmas to Easter, the boys in
Christ's Hospital will sop in public, and sing an anthem.
Tickets to tins very interesting sight may be had of the
Governors.
The premises at Chard, in which the very large
woollen cloth factory has for many years been carried on, but
which base been lately abandoned in consequence of the general
decay of that important branch of trade in the West of England,
have been taken hr some manufsrturere of patent lace. Upwards
of 1,300 hands are to be immediately employed in this concern,
which has been undertaken by some of the emelt now or lately
connected with a similer establishment at Tiverton. A stantim
engine and gas Importune are erecting on the premises, the
latter being for the purpose of furnishing gas, through the we
Mane of which the lace is rapidly passed, for divesting it et IM
I downy filaments. The net is subsequently sent to Pease*, where
it receives a rich and elegant improvement, by the midair,. elf
curiously wrought foliage and Mowers, and it is dise le .m,eo44ri
We wintry, in which, notwithstanding this elakeeteesetieet k
ex* realises the hopes contemplated by the i
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suet hay earbilikabe W laid* the Preasl4lll the Mt=
Selleme he he wing—isher Parer.
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