Star.
London, England, 1815-11-17 00:00:00

TIM TWO WIXIIERS.

Hare killed—Cenerai Du tlas's Spring beat Lord Chief Darota's
Spanker, and gained the Ci.p.

We are informed there are now growing, and
neatly ripe, Strawberries in the open garden of the
Green Man, Blackheath.
Late on Saturday night, or rally on Sunday morn-
ing, the house of . Mrs. Middleton, on Nottitillill.
Kensington, was broke open, and rubbed of sCvcr.il
articles of plate and other prnperty.
Cotta-EXCHANGE, Nov. 17.—We had a few fresh
arrivals of Wheat this morning, but the.demand was
not very brisk, yet Monday's prices were obtained.
The supply of B irley was tottrably large, and prices
are is. per quarter lower; but at that reductiou neatly
the whole has been taken off. Beans, Peas, and Oats
fully maintain Wednesday's prices.
SMMIFIELD MARKF. r, Iit:NEWER 17.

reef 41 0 w 54 Veal 1:, 0 1 to 7s 41
Murton 4. 03 to Si 5.1 Pork 5, O 1 To tls 03
a.
Beasts 840—Sheep and Lambs 5,1c0 —C. 1s:ot .03—Pigs 4N
Mradow HAT 41 Or to 51 0: j CloyLr 51 Os to G 1 Gs
Straw £1 120 to £1 Hi«

CitIASFROPIIE IN WELL•STRBEL

CORONER'S INQUEST.
Yesterday afternoon an inquisition was taken at
the Star Tavern, before G. UNWIND Esq. Coroner,
upon the bodies of Mr. Arthur G. Spear, aged 15,
Robert Laing, and William Bligh, who met their
death by explosion and suffocation, on Wednesday
morning, in the premises of Mr. Constadt, Well-
street, Wellclose-square.
Peter Leroi .lepased, that he was a Frenchman,
and was employed as a labeiner in the sugar bake- I
houses of Mr. Constadt. He remembers the morn.•
ing of the accident; went to wet: as usual between'
Circe and four o'clock, v' en :Le fires were first
lighted. Mr. Hague, the engineer, came also that
morning. some time before the explosion took place.
Tie hailer was determined to be wed, and large fires
()Rioted. Mr. Constadt was also there, and
helicv:a bit of.j.:cted to the trial as well as the fires.
Knew the deceased Robert Laing, who was the prin.
cipal velson making the great tire; two men were
supplying him with fuel, and he was heaping it on.
Ile was remonstrated with about so dangerous an
experiment as that of increasing the heat of the fire,
•and witness himself noticed an alarming rise in the
thermometer ; the deceased, however, persevered,
and about halt past ten o'clock the explosion took
place, and the deceased Robert Laing was buried in
the ruins. Witness was of opinion that the explosion
was occasioned by too great a body of heat, and the
pressure or overloading of the safety valves. Wit-
ness knew the deceased Mr. Spear, who was, a few
moments previous to the explosion, in the Old Count-
ing-house, and whose body was found about half-past
four in the afternoon. Knew the deceased William
Biigh also ; he was a labourer, and had a wife and
three children.
J. George, a Clerk in the house of Mr. H. A.
Spear, of Broad-street, deposed, that he knows Mr.
L. H. Constadt, whom he believes to be the sole
prarietor of ti.e concern in Will street. Knew the
deceased Mr. Spear : he was the son of his employer,
and was in the premises of Alr. Cot:welt on the day
of the accident, merely as an agent to his father,
whe had sent in a gteat quantity if sugar to be ma-
nufacturtd. The deceased was but fifteen years of
age in Octlser last. Witness hearing of the acci-
dent, wet to the premises about eleven o'clock, and
remained there all day. About four in the afternoon
'saw the body of Mr. Spear taken out, but no life
whatever remained. His arms were broken, Iris body
burned, and his face blackened from suffocation.
Alexander Gibson is in the employment of Messrs.
Hague and Tnpliam, the Engineers. He also had
heard of the accident, and went immediately to the
premises, where he endeavoured, by working with a
nunin,a of others, to extricate his fellow-workmen,
Bligh and Laing, frier the ruins. In this task they
were employed from twelve to three o'clock, when
he perceived Laing, and soon after .Bligh, who lay
beneath his shoulder. The former was discovered
with his head open, and a piece of timber lodged iu
the brain. They were of course bath dead.
David Cnisan was employed in the concern: was
there previous to the accident on Wednesday morn-
ing remembers Mr. Hague, the Engineer, being
there, and also Mr. Constadt, having objected to the
trial of the boiler, eke. saying it would do no good,
and early in the morning desiring the fire not to be
lighted. A person named Collins, however, one of
Mr. Hague's men, recharged the pans, and the ex-
plosion took place by hall-past ten o'clock.
This was all the evidence adduced; and the Coro-
ner having briefly addressed the Jury, observed, that
in order to determine upon any other verdict than
that of accident, they must be well convinced of an
evil intention, or gross and wilful neglect. •
The Jury, after deliberating tor some time, retur-
ned a verdict—that the deceased persons came to
their death accidentally, casually, and by misfortune.

We stated yesterday, that another sugar-house,
be-
-1 to Mr. Constadt (whom we are now assured
has no partner) adjoining the concern which has
been destroyed by explosion, had been stripped of tt.e
party-wall, and was in a falling condition. About
eleven o'clock on Wednesday night, however, the
ruins of the former place being so far removed as' to
permit an effn:-.ion of flame, the fire, which had
caught the works of the engine and boiling machi.
net y, and which till then had been smothered, burst
tcrth with irresistible fury. The timbers and other
iii&rnmable articles strewed about the ruins imme.
dial ly caught fire, and communicating to the diffe-
rent floors of the building, the whole was shortly en-
veloped in flames. It would be impossible to de.
tribe the raging fury of the element ; and, notwith-
standing the timely arrival of nearly twenty engines,
.v.•hich continued to play throughout the night, the
building was totally demuli.hed; the law ior falling
:tit° a condensed heap of ashes upori the ruins of the
.7;ir)t hquse, leaving only a few and totterioz fragments
ut the walls. _

In tins additional calamity, we are happy to state,
dial no lives have been either lost or any person in
ante'.; though it may easily be imagi►ed the increa.,
distress end misfortune it must have heaped upon
the proprietor. The• adjoining houses and neigtitwur-
hood, we are enabl.ed to say; have escaped ir:jury,
and the effects of the liquid explosion of water, sugar,
itc. from the boiler and pans, dashed' upon the adja-
cent buildings, and suffused tit:ckly upon the trees in
Wellclose-square, are the only circutnstances worth
o'nervation, beyond the destruction of the premises,
the loss of so many lives, and the unfortunate injury
°tin:Ts.

To the catalogue of sufferers we yesterday recor-
dqd, we regret it is not in our power to make a re-'
oliciion; we learn, on the contrary, that six human
perished in the dreadful casualty. It has cow
IleCll a,c,:rt..inetl that twenty-one petsons were em.
1,1,,yed in the concern at the time; nine of these were
irom thence in a lacerated stme, six have been
recognized as having escaped, and six, consequently,
are concluded as having been suffocated.
It appears also, beside the extraordinary escape of
Mr. Constadt and Mr. Wigue the Engineer, who
were actually beneath the machinery at the moment
of the explosion, that Mr. Spear of Broad-street, and
t.:ts.er of the young gentleman who perished, was
a few yards of the engine, on the lower floor,
:11.1 bearing the explosion ran towards a window,
which he was shortly dragged by a gentkman
:II the neighbourhood, of ahem be instantly inquired
•:,; Lite 01 1113 5011.