The National Register.
London, England, 1822-12-01 00:00:00

extmetion of no less Own ',ix mileepny men, all the
',rime of life, and some-tit them eel.) panic, Mho held f'or•
Jetted all claim to lure el,. Tenn uaot"s were—Ed teas
111'Willienes, William Reeding, Samuel Greenwood, John
?Ober's, Frank Pentium, end W einem Weibull', alias
Cor-
bett, all for 'ebbe' its. 'fint enema was untchltrrater
than on Monday e 4444 nein, and Mete WAS 511
her of *omen al this most tee aide exhileitime.—'llie
.ntettnietataie men romlat•ted themselves with great fulti-
and seemed perfectly resigned to their tate.

DLSIMUCTIVE FIRE IN HOLSOKII...—Ott Saturday
night, at about a qu4rier of an hour before .welve o'clock,
all alarm of•lire was given by the family of Mr. NValker,
fruiter bed and mattress manufacturer, Go, litah-Htil-
horn, two doors above 11.1nd-court, and next door to M
Taylor's architectural libr,ry. At the time the faintly,
consistiog Oddly of females, threw op -rs the shop door
and rushed out tutu the street in great ciisorder ; a shower
in slinks were seen lonia without tailing down the stairs
at toe back of the shop from the fires floor in great shun-•
dance, and it was evident that tile interior of the Amuse,
flow the first to the second ttior, was even enveloped in
a body of Me. A passenger ininiedinely ran to obtain a
Aire etignie. -In less than two minutes alter the family
escaped, the smoke, which Issued in volumes Ir tit:•
nom, Nat so great as to 'nevem any one (ruin saving the
property, witicii was iii a blaze lactate 'he engine arrived.
—rite initial a of the adjoiimag houses reeenctl a Mot ly
alarm but the progress of thefire was Ma rapid, that NI r.
Taylor's architectural Irtnary was ou 'fire and in a bIIJL.•
benne any of the highly taluable scientific books and
drawings which it contained could be gut not. The
house tut she other aisle of Mr. \tialker's, No. tit, was
before it in the same situation, and twitting, as we are
informed, of any value, was sated Irmo eitt.er. In a
ninnue or two after the arrit al of toe Eagle lire etigthe
tile rows of two of the houses fell in, and the turee front
butts. a were Soon in such a comlition that the firemen,
wan the other engitaes that followed, thought only of
directing their effoirs to preserve the adjuitiont premises.
Toe tire had caught the tiii!.cr not); u. Alr. Tale's tile
baker, at the corner of hood-tourt. bdt by splitted
efforts by the firemen it was subdued, and by vigorous
working. the mil-sitop, No in, was saved. Although
the fire was checked in trout, it gained ground greatiy
behind; and as there was a keen tvitill blowing in a
_North-westerly direction, the flames wets con tttttt hicalett
rapidly 10 the. back preilllSeS or Ole adjoi.litig houses its
]laud-court, and two houses there were speetaily iu
flames; the them o, however, soon presented a further
progress. About two u'elot kin the min niug.. tieniti.uus
motion in Lie limn walls g ve ouiice to the firemen,
and the by slanders in the street, to get mat of u e
way, and in a minute alwr the Jima u: Mr Walker's
bit ,sl, and that 01 :Nil. 61, 1',..11 in with a tremendous
Tite lire 01.1:1e very little progress alien that time.
Mr Jnutlt, t,ie occupier of the wuue.vaulls, adioittiog
tit ;Lod tour, had beet) for bottle lithe unwell, but the
shock given to him by the ititelligetice of the danger WWI
sit great, that he expired in the anus of some persons
%%be were eonsecuib him tip the court to a place of
stife.y. that .:tant.tutia arAtririgice we rltttld of