The Sun.
London, England, 1828-02-11 00:00:00

DREADFUL FIRE-LOSS OF LIVES.

We regret to have to record another destructive fire,
attended with the loss of several lives, which took place
this morning at about twenty minutes past two o'clock, at
a low public-house in the rear of Clare-market, near the
passage leading into Portugal-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields,
called the White Horse, and kept by a person named Hum-
phries. The house has been built nearly two centuries, and
has been for many. years in a very dilapidated state, al-
though every room in it was occupied by poor labouring
people and their families. About two o'clock a woman
named Griffith, who lodged in the third floor, arose
and went out washing to the house of Mr. Sentance,
the grocer, in Clare-street, at which time, she says,
there was not the least sign of fire, but there was
a light to be seen in Mr. Humphries' bed-room,
on the first floor. Mrs. Griffith had not been away
above twenty minutes, before the intelligence reached
her that the house was in flames, so that it would appear
beyond a doubt that the fire originated in Mr. Humphries's
chamber. The watchman, on perceiving the flames, pro-
ceeded to arouse the inmates, in which they succeeded, and
a scene ensued that baffles description :—*omen and their
children were seen at the windows imploring most pite-
ously, the assistance of the persons in the street, but alas
none could be rendered, as the devouring element was
spreading its ravages with alarming rapidity around
them. Mr. Humphries, the landlord of the house, upon
being awoke, leaped out of his bed-room window, a
height of thirty feet, luckily without sustaining any in-
jury; he then with great fortitude stood tinder the burn-
ing pile, and called upon his wife, who was standing at
the window with her child in her arms, to throw the babe
down to hint; this she did, and the little innocent was
fortunately caught by its agonised parent, and'saved from
the ravages of the conflagration. Mr. H., with great pre-
sence of mind, and at the risk of his life, rushed up
stairs again, and catching his wife up in his arms,
succeeded in extricating her also, and took refuge
in . a neighbour's house. The next that escaped
was the pot-boy, who rushed through the flames
into the street, in which act he was very much
scorched. The different fire-engines arrived on the spot
in aheut half art hour, and commenced playing upon the
flames with great activity, and the fire ladders of St. Cle-
ment Danes were raised to the second and third floor win-
dows to assist the unfortunate lodgers in their escape, but
we are sorry to say only a few were enabled to escape by
them ; others jumped out, by which they received many
severe injuries. One young woman, named Fenus, who
lived in the third floor front room, and who had a child to
nurse, first threw the infant into the street, and then
jumped out herself. We are sorry to say she was killed
on the spot. The infant escaped with a slight contusion.
About twelve o'clock another body of a female, who wax
called Irish Mary, was picked out of the ruins, burnt to a
cinder.

The following persons lodged in the house, and are now
lying at the workhouse :
rederick Price, aged 52, much contused.
Ann Hutchins, 51, slightly injured.
Jane Hutchins, 19, threw herself out of the thiud-floo:.
window, and her life is despaired of.
Mary Hutchins, 9, escaped in a state of nudity, much
injured.
Ann Griffith, 14, broken leg, and otherwise much
injured.
Win. Richards,- 6, and Ann Richards, IS, were rescued
in a state of nudity.

An infant, which has not been owned, is much hurt.
There are several others so seriously injured that their
lives are despaired of.
No cause for the sad catastrophe can yet be formed. We
hear that Humphries is insured.

A large mansion, With extensive grounds, in
the vicinity of Worcester, has been recently purchased for
occupation as a Convent and Roman Catholic Seminary,_
Firmingliam Journal,
A soldier, having served the usual Period in
the army, returned lately to his native place, a few miles
west from Perth, bringing with him a second wife, having
heard while abroad that his first partner, whom he left at
home when he joined the army, had died in bit absence.
lie had been scarcely settled in his old quarters, whenhe
was astounded by a visit from his first wife, alive and living
like, accompanied by a 'member of the legal rofession,
enforce her claims to the loan of war. These weretoo
strong, however, to be denied or disputed ; and little of the
p
to
6oldivr was to be seen in the looks which he east alternately
upon his better halves; when his wife, No. 1, relieved him
frern much of his anxiety and embarrassment, by the
avowal, that as she was of a peaceable disposition, and felt
for the situation of No. 2, a stranger in a strange land,
~ohe 7" will. ing to compound her claims upon a suitable
~ money in
made her. The soldier having saved a little
' inopey in the wars, and his second partner having brought
cram the consequences of
.it' lir° a small dower,
joyfully offered 201. to be discharged
...
This sum being his first matrimonial engement.
scorned by No. 1, he was necessitated to
put a higher value upon himself, and eventually fifty pounds
was fixed as the price of his release. This amount was
accordingly paid, and all parties appeared satisfied, until
::10. 1, in tali jug her departure in company with her lea-ned
counsel, recollected to mention that " as she had read in
the papers that his regiment had Leen a' kilt, and ne'er
',oaring frae him to the contrar, she had nae doubt he was
gale wi the rest, and like himsel' bad married a second
time !” —Perth Courier,.

NEINGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. -
At per stone, by the Carcass.
s. d. to s. d. s, d. to s. d
Beef 310 4 2 Veal
Mutton 3 4 4 (5 Pork