The Sun.
London, England, 1830-04-21 00:00:00

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THE LATE CALAMITOUS FIRE.

Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held before
Mr. PAYNE and a respectable Jury, at St. Bartho-
lomew's Hospital, upon the bodies of the following
seven individuals who lost their lives in consequence
of the dreadful fire which took place in Fetter-lane,
on last Sunday morning.
John Howard, aged 55 years, Nvho (Ned in the
hospital.
Charlotte Burgen, 16 years of age, who died in
the hospital.
Margaret Syrett, aged 79 years, wLo was dug
out of the ruins about eleven o'clock on Sunday
morning.
Mary Ann Burgen, .50 years of age, who was
dug out of the ruins on Monday even;ng at seven
o'clock.

William Howard, 'l4 years of age, Mary Ann
Howard, 48 years of age, and Mary Caney, 70
years of age, who were dug out of the ruins before
four o'clock yesterday afternoon.

The bodies of the last five individuals were
viewed by the Coroner and Jury nt the house of
Mr. Russell, the undertaker, of No. 51, Fetter-lane,
after which they returned to the hospital to receive
evidence.

Mr. John Grant, of No. 84, Fetter-lane, the
house where the fire broke out, said that his bed-
room was on the first floor back room. He retired
to bed at half-past eleven, and heard the alarm of
fire about half-past one o'clock on last Sunday
morning. He found his room full of smoke, and on
openinr; the door the flames rushed into the room.
He got to the front room of tile first floor, and
found some of his lodgers there. The window was
open, and he thre,A. himself out of it. There were
a mail, his wife; and three children lodging on the
first floor. Mr. Wade and his wife lodged on the
ground floor. Mrs. Syrett lodged in one of the
front rooms on the second floor. Mr. Howard, his
wife, and son slept in a back room of the same
floor, and Mrs. Caney, Mrs. Burgen, her son and
daughter, occupied two of the attics. The house-
keeper of the witness, and William Henderson his
journeyman, slept in the other two attics. lie
thought all the lodgers were in bed when he retired
to rest. Ladders were brought, but he thinks the
lodgers who escaped did so through the windows
before the ladders arrived. A ladder was placed
at Mrs. Syrett's window, but too late. On his
getting outside, the fire appeared to burn the
strongest in the shop and front parlour. The wit-
ness had only one gas-light in the house.
Mrs. Mary Lawson, a lodger of Mr. Grant's, on
the second floor, went to bed at eleven, and heard
the cl'y of fire at half-past one o'clock. She opened
the loom door, and the flames came up thereto, but
could not say whether from the cellar or the parlour.
The witness escaped at the front window of her
room by a ladder, and she does not know how
the fire originated. She knocked and called loudly
at Mrs. Syrett's room-door, but received no an-
swer.

Jame Tarr, the watchman, at half•past one on
Sunday morning, saw smoke issuing from the shop-
door, and from the shutters of the parlour windows
—he knocked violently at the door, and sprung his
rattle. The first person he saw was a woman, who
threw herself from the first-floor window, and he
caught her in his arms, in her night-clothes.
Thomas Bennett, a waiter at the White Horse
Inn, Fetter-lane, confirmed the watchman's testi-
mony, as to seeing the fire break out, and said that
he saw three persons throw themselves from the
front windows.

Henry Wade, who occupied the parlour on the
ground floor of Mr. Grant's, said, that he and his
wife slept there. They went to bed, on the night
in question, about half-past eleven. They were
awakened by the oppressive heat of the room, and
by dense smoke; he opened the door, and found the
back cellar, the storehouse over it, and the passage
leading to the staircase all on fire. The witness
means Mr. Grant's cellar, where coals, wood, and
shavings were kept. He and his wife escaped at
the front door. He did not shut it after him, but
by means of a spring lit shuts itself. Some of the
lodgers were going up and down stairs till twelve
o'clock at night. The witness and his wife es-
caped in their night clothes only, but they dragged
a trunk and writing-desk out of the house.
Samuel Howard came forward and identified the
three Howards,—his father, mother, and brother.
Other witnesses identified all the seven bodies.

Mr. Barrett, the Foremsi: of the Jury, stated to
the Coroner and his fellow-jurors, that upon his as-
sisting in taking the body of Mary Caney out of the
ruins, he found in her pockets fourteen sovereigns
and a half: for the present they remain in his pos-
session.

At a quarter to eleven o'clock, the CORONER, at
the desire of the Jury, adjourned the inquest till
Thursday afternoon, in order to examine further evi-
dence, and to trace the cause, and what part of th(:
house the fire broke out.

[ln a previous account of the above dreadful ca-
tastrophe, the name of Mrs. Ewins is given instead
of that of Mrs. Syrett.]

STATE OP TRADE.—We are happy to learn
that trade is progressively improving in Oldham and the
neighbourhood; we believe more so there than in the cir-
cumjacent towns and villages. Indeed the great mass of
the population consists of the various hands employed in
the manufacture of hats, and the prices paid to the work-
men in that branch of business have suffered no diminu.
tion during all the recent depression in every other trade.
Manchester Mercury.

BURCKHARDT.—The new work by this cele-
brated traveller, entitled " Notes on the Bedouins and
Wahabya," may now be shortly expected. It will com-
promise, we understand, not only an enumeration of the
Bedouin. tribes, and a statement of their various local
establishments, numbers, and military force, but an account
of their extraordinary manners, customs, and iestitutions;
of their arts and sciences, and many other interesting par-
ticulars. The second part of the volume will contain a
history of those Mahommedan sectaries and fierce enthu-
siasts, the Wahabys, tracing them from their earliest ap-
pearance as reformers of the last century, through all
their wars with ether Arabs and with the Turks down to
1816, that year in which the author returned frosn Arabia,
the scene of action, to Egypt, where, not long after, a
premature death terminated his career, and prevented the
accomplishment of many other important designs.
ANOTHER CASE OF MEDICAL POISONING
AT FINCIILEY.-Much excitement has been created at
Finchley for some days past owing to the following cir-
cumstance, so nearly resembling the melancholy case of the
late Mrs. PHILLIPS :-A Mrs. GEARY, the wife of a
poor labouring roan residing near the church, was attended
in her acceuchernent by the apothecary on Thsrsday week
and by him safely delivered of a female child. The nurse
was told a draught should be sent, which was to he given
Mrs. G. as soon as it came; and about four o'clock a
bottle arrived accordingly, the contents of which were
given to her. Half an hour afterwards the appearances
left no doubt that some mistake had been made in the medi-
cine, and they sent off immediat.sly to the doctor, who ar •
rived between six and seven. In the meantime the poor
woman showed the most distressing symptoms of baring
been poisoned, and the greatest exertions were used to
keep her from sleeping, by pinching her, &c. &c. She
felt she was dying, and took leave of her other children.
The doctor, having brought a stomach-pump with him,
extracted the contents, and continued to inject and ex-
tract warm water, &c. for about three-quarters of an hour,
arid ren.tined with her all night and the following day, al-
lowing her only to sleep ten minutes every four hours.
On Monday little hopes remained of her recovery, and five
doctors continued with her all night. Although she now
remains in a precarious state it is thought she will recover.
It turned out that the bottle contained two ounces of pure
laudanum, and only for time prompt exertions of the nurse
death must inevitably have ensued, the quantity being
about thirty times the usual dose given in such cases. It
should be stated there was no label or other writing sent
with the bottle. Mr. PARBERAY, of the Queen's Head,
has
used every endeavour to mitigate the misery which their
poverty would otherwise have aggravated.-111 i orn ng
paper.