Star.
London, England, 1830-04-19 00:00:00

DREADFUL FIRE AND LOSS OF LIVES.

iletween ono anti two o'clock yesterday ino..aing a fire
broke out :in the house of Mr. Grant, a baker, of No. Si, F. Ifer-
lan; Holborn, which, from the mac of night, sod the tiantri, of the
pre.e.iser, struck the greatest tenor throughout the whole neighbour-
' how!. The fire, from all accouters, broke out in di : lower tof
the front of Mr. Grant's house, which, in a few minutes altio: its
first discovery by the watchman, burst forth with great fury a* the
shop door and windows, w the immanent danger of the lives M no
less than 18 or 80 human beings, who. including Mr. Grant's fa-
mily, inhabited she house. It was most distressing to see the in-
mates in their night-clothes only, at the different upper wit:dotes,
screen:Mg for assistance. Ladders were procured as soon as poet.
ble, Ly which some escaped with little injury. Others. seven or
eight in number, threw themselves out of the windows, Lcu two of
them were carried, in a dreadful state, to the hnspitul ; one of whom,
a female, died at St. Bartholomew's iehout six o'clock yes:erday
morning. The fire next communicated to the house of Mr. Wright,
the eating-house-keeper, No. 83, which, as well as Mr. Grant's,
and Mr. Smith, the grocer's, of Nc. 8.5 (a/I built of wood),
were on fire at the same tic e. The families and .:igers of
Mr. Wright and Mr. Smith had time to save themselves. without
Utll4l3': ing any injury; but we are sorry to say that an eld. rly lady,
named Ewins, about 80 years of age, who had lodged i.: 31r.lirates
house fur nearly 30 years, perished in the flames, as nett as an infsnt
about fmir years old. Their babes were dug out of the ruins sb-iot
II o'clock yeetertiay, and carried ins shell to the house of Mr. Hos-
- ell, the undertaker, in Fetter-lane. All the assurance-office engines,
and a resit number of firemen, were promptly on the spot, and their
e‘ertioni unquestionably saved the houses (all of wood) between
Mr. smith's and the White Horse Inn and Tavern. from destruction.
The houses of Mr. Grant and Mr. Wright, and a stable belonging
to 31r. Jones, the optician, in Holborn, are completely destroyed.—
Mr. Smith's house is greatly damaged. Ihe fire burnt backwards
to the party wall of Barnard's Inn, Holborn, which however escaped
with lit:le damage. The strong pasty wall of the large distillery of
Messrs. Anderson and Co. of Holborn, saved their premises tract
reet•ivin4 much injury. We have heard that the property of
Mr. Grant, Mr. Wright, and Mr. Smith was pattly insured,
but it is acid that Mr. Grant bad about one hundred pounds in
Cash in the house when the fire broke out, which is lost in the ruins.
The thieves upon this calamitous occasion mustered in great force,
and plundered the unfortunate sufferers of the few things a hi-1.
were sewed, with the greatest impunity, puttitt the few watch
and constables in attendance completely at defiance..

FURTHER PARTICUL %RS.
since the foregoing was written, we have learnt, by calling zt
the Hospital, that three persons, an elderly matt, and a so.)
act daughter of the unfortunate Mts. }wins, w re carried the :•e.
yesterday morning. We are now enabled to state, t'
they were emainly all alive about seven o'clock yesterday eve: .
ing. The old man, anti the daughter of Mrs. Ewins, are,
however, so dreadfully burnt, as to render their recovery hopeless.
The case of Mrs. Ewins's son, although dangerous, b. not RO bad
as that of hts sister and the unfortunate old m:.n. A man s-d
woman, lodgers in Mr. Grant's holm. are said to be still missing.
Their ladies were being searched for among the uini during the
whole of yesterday.

The utmost revenue the whiskey trade of lr.•l:u an-
der the old and high duty since 1821 was 923,3041. It
yielded under the new mitigated duty over half a million
more than this. It amounted in the last year to 1,30.5,0641.
Whiskers, a check shirt, a jemmy whip, high stays,
and a small hat, covering a head destitute of brains, are
the essentials necessary to form an exquisite or modern
dandy.—Brighton Guardian.
AN UGLY PICTURE..—Th;_sre seems to be somethimr
so radically base in the mind of men, that ooe would
think there was no need for a divine revelation to teach
us the doctrine of original sin—although, perhaps, the
obviousness of the truth does not suggest itself till after-
wards, as was the case in that easy and natural nay
taught by Columbus of making an egg stand on end. To
torment is the favourite occupation and delight of boy-
hood, whether a fly or a playmate be the object; but as
the boy prokresses towards the constitution of manhood,
he Ws, at every step, that to tear the lower animals
limb from limb,—at least, with his own hands—or to
point the finger and halloo at the follies or misfortunes of
his neighbour, would subject himself to many an elon-
gation of the nose, and many a sound and exemplary
kicking. The lessons of humanity are thus inculcated
through the medium of fear and self-interest, which folio
no inconsiderable portion of what is called the light of
nature ; and as the same sort of process takes place in
favour of nearly all the social virtues, we need not be
surprised to see, in process of time, the individual whose
youthful recreations were those of devils, acting the pert
in society of a kind master, an attentive husband, and
an obliging neighbour. His mind, however, is still the
same, for the miracle of a second birth cannot be wrought
by this world ; and the old instinct of cruelty, in the ac-
commodating spirit of Hudibras's dagger, has only
changed its occupation:—

"It was a serviceable dudgeon
Either for fighting or for drudging :
When it had stabbed or broke a head,
It would serape trenclms or chip bread--
Toast cheese or bacon,—though it wens
To bait a mousetrap, 'twould not ease."
The most trivial circumstance or coincidence in human
life, and the meanest individual of the human race,
gest an employment and a victim. Beauty is no availing
intercession, virtue no shield, and poverty and humility
no refuge. The nod, the wink, the cough, the sigh, the
up-turned glance, the " if," the hint, the meaning
tion, the treacherous defence, the qualified asiertions, the
round, plump, direct, deliberate, undaunted lie, all follow
in succesesion more or less rapid and regular, and all me
the ministers of that solitary Demon of Cruelty, without
whose dominion in the human heart one half of the Lan
and the Prophets would se a dead letter.— The Game uf
Lift, by Leitch h'ittbif.