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TUATFIEII PAITICULAIS.

The above fire was .aid to have been occasioned by the inuentiont
&ripping e a spark from a candle, in the closing of Mr. hind'.
shop, behind the counter, which communicating with she gas.
which, it is thought, we. not properly turned or. and thus caused
a destruction of property to nearly the amount, of 100,0001. The
family of Mr. Bond were out of town, and only two persen.
slept in the home, who escaped when it was almost entire.:
enveloped in flames; they got out of the up-stairs %intuit' .
over the roofs of the other houses: one of them, • leave:::
suffered dreadfully from alarm. Thr tiunilies of Mr. Matter..
and Mr. icshfield did not experience any injury. Mr. Hill, Oil
chyorist, wen ales from home; part of his slam was rirtitionet.
and apprattriated as an ollise for the purpose of publishing rite
Sunday aloof/or newspaper. Mr. Mattress vu unable to save cr.
thing. It was thought at one period that the church would bare
fallen a sacrifice to the devouring element. The Rector and Chne:t—
warden, Meters. Masan and /41.Dowe1l, were present during t.e.
whole of the time, and humanely soothed and promp.4 rendes.: ,
sesisesnee to the sufferers. A gme of wind blew tremendously front
S.S. W. slightly veering towards the latter quarter, at five ricks.,,
when all apprehensions for the Church hr.d subsided. The earltil
were so fanned and aided by the wind, that had nor e-ery
been made, the destruct:on would certainly not have hem cpri'llia..l
to the houses destroyed. The immense party walls of Mr. '.'hen. •
house were mainly instrumental in saving his fireman,. Tits
house, or Messrs. Pitman And Ashlit :dl, Dr. trill and al..
Matiress, caught fire nearly at the same time, and bum: Jos s-
wards, so that the families had plenty of time to escape,
save part of their fur:little. The family of Mr. Smith cousivuni
at nine persons, himelf, wife, mother, and six children; he ts.i
scarcely time to save the hitter, who slept in the attic, and was
obliged to rush through the dairies with two of them; he place.:
then in the Court, and ran hack to save his mother, and on LS
return missed his Youngest child. a girl about four years of :T.:.
who he was informed I:ad run back into the house. The ages: erv.:.
father fled again into the house, which was cti•ircle in Ratner, xi o.
found the poor child trying in the corner of the kitchen. A. Le
ascended the creekhng stairs with his daughter, pert of the niti;•:
fell, and he was ntarly suffocated in making his tray net ; rt.
however, succeeded; and during the whole of yesterday wn.e tat.
newel, front the effects of the exertion. lle, we are sorer to tsi .
is not insured, and his loss is very great indeed. The oat:: so' •
freers are partially insured in the I land-in./land, West of Ere -
land, Atlas, and Sun Companies. The walls of mine of tt
houses acre standing yesterday, but in a threatening and clanntrtc..
position. In the course of the dcy part of the ruins of Mr. Bond v
house fell into the street, hut no accident occurred.

The following are tbe narnei of the persona nhn are aufforrs--
Mr. Bond, Mr. Hill. Mr. Marriott. Mr. Mercier, Moms. Pure•.,
and AsWield, Mr. Smith, Mr. Brady, raid several other persons
whourre lodgera. . . . _ .

There were"upwants of twenty engines in attendance. ea tt.e
greatest credit is due ,o the firemen for their spirited exertions.
A lady was taken from en attic window of one of the houses
the rear, and, in a few momenta af:er, the roof fell in with a tie-
mentions crash. She was taken into the church, where she a.. 1
promptly attended by Att. Burt, the surgeon. of Dorset-meet.
we are happy to state, soon reeerered hum the (tight she had -
perieneed, which it was at tint thought %mild hare proved httv.
The cnctusion in Bride-court was dreadful. as it was innit.t u.
from the glare, that half Fleet-street c;111 on fire. at.d ranaons ws•e
seen running about in their night-clothes in the prcatest
and depositing their little pm; arty in the church. A ClifiV.l. c•- -
ennistunec in the course of the confusion took place: some at Cs:-
!ilea family tank refuge in the rhurcti, and placed ;Ulu there far et -
entity a glanuty of his iseistical pubic lions; the Age t 1 litaiu,z
was are a them. Tli;, circumstance drew some rernaiks. tram 4
leading geatterhal in the parish who happened to be preen

A•zOTHFR It is not a little ITMatiable that.
the Fame hour. and in the lieinity of the above, another
conflAtzration took place, which for lOW time WIT. 3 Toy

alario;lig ainiret. This latter one 'occurred in the batik jai:
of Elm atal (u.'s fur warehouri, No. 1.5. Gostri:-,tratr•e•
The isiamditte attendance of two engine', wittch were
consitirretl auivriluous at the fire tbot mien( in The-
strcrt, suer... Aid in au;:preaWng the flames, r. however
befi. -e a coluliderable quits:tits, of r.ilualne furs IrWe
This is the amend tire that has takes th
i.Malern wienti a 'cu.:o r.hort
ACCII,X7':: AT PActoirs.-11".:
regret to-•:'e, teat George Avres. a you, 5 Man 10,9
;s:v;•rely bx al it( :he tiows at Mr. ti:ruris
rwtozy, died on t itutilay last, making tuned' ii pers.na
who have ,at their lire.• In conacqwmace of this torlanehte3
sweurrener.—.llai; 4.; iitardia 1.

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LAW miIi.I.IGENCE.

s or.L V. 10110

C4.IUST or CIIANCENV, S , Nov. 13.

alma V. alone.
The bill originally filed by the plaintiff in thin rattle was heard
bolero the Master of the Rolls. Four annuities. amounting to
4.41081., had been erented by the Marquis and Mareitioneer of
!leanings to th- viniallf. To redeem these, the llarquia and Mar-
c hieselet hail executed a bol4'. iu favour of hints. by which he was
ellewcd 'menet upon the sum of 4.900 J., anal Ridge, the defend.
breeue surety for the payment of that intereat. The bill was
bled by the plaintiff tor the encores-shut of this bond, but WI there
vas out sufficient proof of the execution of the bond by the Noble
al.olials, the bill was theinissed Previous, however, to its dia.
level an order had been made fur the traesference of the sum of
',Olt is. 4d., In the hand* of the Acrountant.tienentl, from the
Liaise of Ridgy v. Ridge. to that of Sims. v. Ridge.
be sot Ici?(.lt.(irx SAI. new moved tin an injunction to re.
sears the payment 4/ the can 14 1.0:91. 7s. al. out of the hands of
:Le Attountant.lietiend, notwithstimiting the diainiesal of ; .e bill;
aLit :dui to restrain Mr. Christi:Thee ;Ski Third Parker, from taking
say further proceeding in the limiter until the petition of appeal
was heard. The ground theretivre upon which this lecithin was
:rade wee, that an appeal from the judgment of the Master of the
dulls was about to be brought. avid that the money ought nut to
Lietaken out Unlit that appeal was decided.
Mr. Aunt', on the tuner sale, opposed the motion, contending
that, as the decree for duodenal had sat yet been drawn up, nn ap-
peal could be beineht.
The Lontr eerr.tion MA that the simple question for
hint to mauler was, whether upon a tvasonable time the plyment
..l this money ought to be resembled ? It was true, undoubtedly,
emit an appeal could be brought until the decree upon which the
a,.:••;1 at fiallithal foul been drawn up. He had learnt the in the
H 0.... herds, he might silty from hard experience, for he had
I...3lelitnt'S gone through the merits of a very difficult and compli-
cate:l cote, and after having spent ?lees and dips in considering it,
it Sc..• it, Love-rid that the decree had not been drawn up. The con-
• lee f while fair was to be heard ovvel),•aiti. If
with tearer to the element ease. Counsel would pledge themselves
to appeal (and it was due to the loomed 1 otiose! who practised in
ihis Court to go that leargthi, notice should he given that the trans-
it:tepee should not be tuittie Amid a certain day utter the appeal was
br.nretit. Ilia Lordship added —`r Itlien I may it iv dee to the
..,110,P, 114:1Cti,irg in the Court, le it be understood that free the
to the end of a muse, we hear of nothing but airlines
charges made; we hear I I eoninleint •Or the irrelevancy of mat.
ter ininisine.d into nnineersi; we hear eominually of vexatious ex-
ceptions tali a with regard to every pines dung to a cause. There
ri lev nail i. tit this Court already existing, which point out
boo, all thee, meten should be framed. anti the security which the
liivit Le who employs Counsel ; the security which the suitor has
in 1111 Coentiel are employ id the security which the
1..• tier ads r..ista in the honour of Counsel attending to
thew rules 316.1 Orden. I will lint believe that the. appeal will be
pree,•iiied, ratili•sit it ta thoiselit fir by those who are competent to
;,n1 ~e. I ileiore it to be tinders!, al, that it very often happens that
Connie:l may righteously and properly aihriae ail appeal upon their
earl lusll,,ment, where it levy sum mit that that ltelgment is
v. retie. here is no mtallibdae tit a Judge.—none in a Counsel I
and it this •rdsice i.e right (and I may lee Minified to say, if any
mat may ri v it, that &tiles hang foetid all cases) it is nut the
inieake of 0,141,1 that the clieit has a right 111 complain of, but
the party Mr whom the l'ou site, is concerned; meaimit whom he is
con, eracil the l'in•rt has a nyht to complitin ; if he tl,ws not (and
in tout of WO it Is dour) set with tumour ; and on this the
prevent and happiness of the suitor dep.:luta, and the Court itself
to litre:et &him."
Thr motion, then: or:. was allowed. and the paytnent of the
iined entil a fortn•eht after the appeal was lodged.

I.::.4I:.(IIANCELLOWS COURT. SATUIDAY, Nov. 13.

The VI •I lAN CELLOS dt !MAO the Judgment of the Court,
dircet.sig dedsration according to the prayer of !the bill. The
obiect wn-, to ,!cilare Mrs. Ninl and Mrs. l'hinitree entitled to
divide stunt of rowiti. which was originally intended to
Aprorthm, d in roriA pens to his three •13ughteri, two of whom
were th/.,e, ;Alt., but di. t ht.l oinughtrr, Lathy Edward 4 Vitrien,
i.t eon' i et her tonriage motion of 1tt.011411. assigntd
I. t:1: :o r. I. r her ontlerc•i 411:ie in the 15,6011. which was
origir a:ly n. tine- her,l divided between the three ladies. The will.
however, reiler thee were fit inh,g-it this propetty having
beer mole before the menage of Lolly ►taftva:d O'Brien. mid the
aftervrards attached to the will being obscurely constructed,
the question trine. whether. notwithstanding the marriage portion
of be: Ladyship, A.: ens not still entitkd to her third part of fif-
teen thousand pounds, upon her father's death ? lie was of
opinion. from an esatnination of the will, the nolicil, and theasaign.
ruent, that the !artier did not intend Lady O'Brien to panicipate in
the division of the 14,0001. after he had paid her the marriage por.
, and the canclosion which he drew was, of course, that the
viher two ladies. Mrs. Noel and Mrs. Plummy might, actsoling
to ti,e prover of the prestnt bill, divide the Ifi,ooln. between
them.

COCKT OF KING'S BENCH, SATURDAY, Nor. 13.

THE LINO V. THE HULL DOCK COMPANY.

r was a case reserved from the V orkshire Sessions, for the
opinion of the Court, upon certain objections aisle by the defen-
dsnts to a rate nude tnr the relief of the poor of the township of
If u!l. We understood there were three objections to the mode of
ratirg adopted by the guardians of the poor ; first, that in cases
where occupiers fed been excused their poor-rates on account of
u-shilitr to pay. the guardians had omitted to impose the rate on
t.,e isridlord, which it was insisted by law they ought to have done;
s-cend, that they had neglected to being within the rate three
c:asses of persons possesed of personal property in the town—
resulents. oecupiera of warehouses who were not residents,
and minors who had neither dwelling nor warehouse, but were pos-
sessed of pettier*, property in the town. such as shipping, Ac. ;
and, died. that the defendants themselves had been over.rattsl in
respect of the annual value of their !tacks, to the amount of (4101.
The sissiors, on appeal, had ainfirmed the rate, and front the
inatentent of the came it appeared that they were anxious to hare
i!.e opinion of the Coup upon the abstract question, whether ship.
.ee ass rateable in the hands of sole or part owners? It scatted
that formerly the practice bad been to tate such property to the
re.tet of she !um of ll^ township, but of late years it had been
d.acontinued.
r. M aid Mr. rot? ai AN, in support of the order of
3,14:14111.1, adriresed themselves principally to the first two tow/Mona
StKPie mentioned. First, they contended that there wee no audio_
rt in law to justify the liitardiana of the Poor, in case of the in.
ah lily of a person rated as an occupier to par rates. in shifting the
berth.% upon the landlord of the premises rated. It y the statute
azel Ifihnsbeth, cilantro 2. the rate was to he made and levied upon
int, occupier, of the subjects of rate therein mentioned, and the
i,shility could not be shifted to a different claas of persons. Se.
• aridly, they Insisted that personal property in the town of Ilull
ass cot rateable, either under the 41•1 Elisabeth, or by virtue of a
kcal Art poaaed to the reign of James I. !Undoubtedly there was a
uley-iiity in the latigitige of thug two statutes, in the one the
chorchwaniens were directed to raise the rates "by taxation or
turfy inhabitant, parson, vicar, and other; and of every occupier
of lands, booms, tithes tinpropriate, proportions of tithes, coal
ni:ross, or rideable nnderwood ; in the other, the provision was pre.
enr.ely the same. tr:erpt that it minid saleable uoderwood," and
•iabstituted .• and al! stocks and estate' in the said town." This
ssnation. however. in the words of the two statutes, they car-
ttct,wl matte no diflerenee, because both were to be construed in
per: ~feria. reesonal property was dearly not rateable under
4 statute of Eli:she:h. acrd it would be difficult to make 11/11, that
au* mammy wail rateable under the local act, because two things
swore emend 41 to make such property rateable; lino, that the party
pos,essing it must he resident in the place where it is—and, ra.e.or.d,
gist it must prolticitte of profit. Now here it was clear that
two ChM A of persons fit !lull were not resident, and consequently
*add not be rated ; and, in the next place, there was nailing to
xritiw that the personal property which they had in the town was
productive of profit. They then addressed (herniates to the
amount of the rate, as it ree.ectial tl.r defendants, and contended
Jost it was jos anti equitatile. The defendants had been rated at
tree shillimer in the pound *moo 8,00 M., which was estistimed to be
this annual value of the docks in their 1143,14; but they insisted
that, inasmuch as the doeks would let to a tenant at sly
Mee ought to be rated upon the latter valuation only. This, how-
ere. it riot submitted was um a tenable proposition.
Scmil.IFTT, Mr. Tt oars.. and Mr. A me. ti 1104 it, contra,
cioopinded, to answer to the argument upon flu first point. that
bosh the wort and occupier of rateable property ought to he
:mod, in order to protect the township from lots, in ease of any
*ability on the part of the tenant to pay the rate. Unless all
resold- properly was mad, to contribute, the borate,' of the poura'
rats would fall unequally upon the parishioner's l'he principle of
tor poor rate was to make the property, and not the person, of the
nomoMer liable If, then, the occupier lonisc.lf could not pay the
'Mo. sorely the person beneficially interested in his ocetipatim:
(mein to pie. Siripose a landlord should, by exacting an esor..
Want r r.t ham his tenant. disable the latter from paying the poor
rate w ore was dm injustice in niskiitg the landlord lay that r .ii•
wild;h the Imam would have been enabled to pay were his rem
roduc:d ? %Vs. the landfall' to absorb the whole of the tenant's
moue, and live the parish to its remedy by imposing an unequal
i.e....0ut upon solvent occupier.s llpon this principle, and the
tied r,nre of the thing. the parish ought to have a remedy n t rust
.re the tenant was unable to pay the r.te. Thi-
• wird he err rt..l by putting both into the assessment. Then, apse i
U..sewnd r.iot, they engaged that it was periectli clear, from th•
laseguagr of the local Act of James I. that die legislattire intruded
that. all personal. property should he Ii title to contribute to the
pones' rate. 'l'M+ was manifest trio.' the words, •• swats and es.
tome which ware substituted for " saleable underwo.id." on the
mates, 43 Ehasheih. 'Flue perandde of the former showed dia-
wslly
that both one not to be construed in p,ni ntriet Li. Then,
tpallpi as to the amount at which the defendants were rated,
tb•pi 10114tRI that the trot criterion of value was the stet amount
win& the defendants 11109111 receive front the thinks if let to a
idalmit, Intros the amount of rate which the haunt would hare w
that they were summoned
to the Exchequer Chamber,
judgnsant to day in this ease,
doubt upon the question.
acting to the argument for the
be made liable for the ;more
I his fps that if suc'i a dou-
e effect of driving poor per-

sons from their habitations altogether. The rtsult would he, that
landlords would rather level their houses to the ground, than let
their telbellittliA to juror persons, at the risk of ps)iog rates. As to
the statute James I. he said the whole Court wen• of opinion that it
was not to be construed its per I atate►ie whit the• 411 of Elautlettlr
it being obvious that the legislature intended to take the WWI) of
Hull out of the general operation of the hurt. statute.

" occupicr.
-theas
Coors intimated, at one o'clock.
I rrl:re the Jokes' of the other Courts 0
ides titseroittrs;
ether, sr tinkl
wa.eiy not
Iffizr
Jim
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Loan en oestd taws fez, advent
ddllonlo its, that the landlord ought co In
all A Jettollt of the tenant. einem, A h
ems : mug tu prs.vail, st would bate th: