The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-09-06 00:00:00

FIRES.

faulters,

Between four and five o'clock yesterday morning the find leer of
a house in Pearl-row. Poplar, the residence of a widow lady, named
Jervis, was discovered to be on fire, and great fears were entertaided
for the safety of the range of eight or nine houses, principally tuba.
bited by respectable families. Several watchmen collected ea the
spot, and every endeavour was made to alarm the Inmates, who
seemed totally unconscious of the danger to which they was ex-
posed. A female who slept in the kitchen was first aroused sad
opened the street door, and two watchmen, with considerable diffi-
culty, succeeded In reaching the upper part of the house, just is
time to snatch the sleepers from the fast-approaching &um, which,
with the density of the smoke, totally precluded all possibility of
returning by the way they ascended; and the whole party were
obliged to escape by the garret windows, and so througgli'att ad.
joining house. The neighbourhood was by this time aware of the
calamity, and every assistance was afforded to the sufferers, who
were almost in a meteor nudity. No engine was yet on the spot
but that of the pariah, and it was discovered that the next hour on
one side had taken fire, which added considerably to the consterna-
tion and alarm. The Atlas at length arrived, and was soon fol-
lowed by three others, by whose joint exertions, and having a pier.
tiful supply of water, the ravages of the devouring element were
confined to these two houses, which were totally destroyed. Soon
after the fire had communicated itself to the next house, a youag
woman was seen at the second floor window, culling for assistance,
front whence she suddenly disappeared. Pears were entertained for
her safety, and a ladder being procured, it was mounted by a your;
man, a plasterer, named Gardner, who found that she had fainted,

man, a plasterer, named Gardner, who found that she kid 'Anted-
from the DRLADFUI. STORII.—A letter from 1 otuouse in toe Timm,.
apparently throu h fri ht
te mocks- 2901 inst. gives an account of a dreadful thunder storm 3. In the event of alarm of any kind, requiring the askiatance
of the troops alien Major.liencral Nicolay is in the country, a party of ruffians, who beat him so unmercifully with &utters, no very strong inclination to pay one tanning more to um
! Clarks- which visited that city, and its neighbourhood, between the
Senior Officer t biome Bruce will give such directions upon the bludgeons, that he died on the following day. M`licnny concern.
that this 2.5t1i and V6th, and lasted forty-eight hours. The electric subject ahe may deem proper, until the arrivsl of the Major.was an --- —--- - --
broke out on g g ,as her escape had not been in the least
obstructed. Assisted by. a watchman, he brought ber down in
being sustained. The property was insured.
house. Fortunately nu
nce tot kid struck the steeple of the village church of St. (hens,—Th police
The horse-stealers have been very busy in the parish of &lane LAS GANC. or Roaarßa. epoce of Hour- sat'etr. and deposited her m a neighbouring
industrious and respectable farmer.
aLives
Curate's
d was communicated by a wire, which went down to the Generalsn the spot.
S. A. PERRY, Lieutenant, Fort Adjutant. Matching, in the county of Essex. In the night of 'rues- &mix lately arrested an escaped felon ; nothing can be wts were hot, nor have we heard of any serious individual injury ..
,ls. 12 0° bed-rooin, intended to enable him to ring the bell -- ---
W.) le in the morning. The unfortunate Curate happened to be Cholera morbus is very prevaknt in Dundee, especially tflranymiarisitrt.hßerreowwner,eofsttohleenEohnnes. from Mr. Barker, and one more simple, and the circumstance is of frequent occur-The same night, some rence. But what is less common are some facts which pre- On Monday night, between ele!ven and twelve o'clock, a fire
be ii in bed asleep ;he was struck by the thunder-liolt and in the district about the Perth road. thieves broke into the chaise-house, the premises of Mr. Arbuthnot, • baker, residing in
76 0 killedthe at Slone Farm, belong- ceded this man condemnation. He was gaoler at the pri-
Brick-isne, Stratford, which threatened the destruction of a whale
ad !12on spot. The damage (lone, wherever the effects Yesterday morning, as Mr. . J.Cliapman, of the Waterloo- ing to the late Mr. Quire, and stole a tilt and a quantity of son of Poitiers, and had frequently in his custody able range of buildings, but, from the exertions of the fireman and the
6.3 of of the storm reached, was incalculable. A hog was struck road, was riding near the Obelisk Livery.stables. his horse harness, men, with whom he so well contrived freopient nocturnal inhabitants, was soon got under, after consuming the house d Mr.
---- and killed by the lightning at the Commune of Lapeyrouse, suddenly took fright, and precipitated him to the ground, On Friday night a deplorable accident took place at expeditions, that no one ever thought of seeking among the Arbuthnot and his ttext.door neighbour, Washt to add that
an 467 fa sod its proprietor had it opened immediately after the and trampled upon his head in so shocking a manner as Caller. A young man, named Ryan, presented a loaded prisoners in gaol the authors of roliberies more or less au- Mr. Arbuthnot had the misfortune to lose ew, a Ind sm.
who will storm had ceased ;nothing particular was discovered in the to leave little hopes of recover. Ile was carried, in a state musket at a young girl, daughter of a policeman, named dacious. At last the gnol-keePec was taken in the fact slope in the attic. It is
cell that theme mod from a
? All this
animal, except a strong fetid smell, wit ch is a fresh proof of insensibility, to a surgeon's in the London-road, and Dwyer ; the piece went off, the contents lodged in her neck, with his accomplices, anti condemned to twenty years' hard chicle
. being taken into the tar, which md shavings. and
which, from some acetdent, became ignited. The *ems ute
Maths sty of the rapid decompositicn experienced by animal bodies from thence to his own house, where he now lies in a very and her death was shunt instanlnnanimos-Linwrkk tabour. Th. Weirdly being acknowledged, he is sent back digging among the ruins, to the be of sow
Pe Wing the man of Um
struck by the electric fluid. precarious situation. Chronicle. to his post. unfortunate youth.
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