Star.
London, England, 1828-01-24 00:00:00

PURTHIR PARTICULARS.

The tottering state in which the front of the bona of
Mr. Cain stood, put at defiance all inclination on the
part of the persons present to ascend into those parts of
the ruins where it was supposed any portion of the bodies
might be found. About nine o'clock, Free, deputy
foreman of the L indon Assurance Office, and C. West-
wood, of the Note ich buion, resolved to attempt the
pl Icing a rtrpe round a portion •of the 'Pali Qf the
house,. in order to pull it down, and thus enableirre
firemen to obtain access to the bodies, now confidently
slid to be six in number. A ladder was siecordiaigly
procured, the object obtained, and, melancholy
two more of the unfortunate persons were disco,
vered : these eventually were got out, andproiecholso
both females. The ladder was then • reatoeed i inn
scarcely had this been done, %shed the portion of
the wall at which it had been placed fell in.
Had this happened a few minutes prior, the' livts
of the humane men we have named must have lams
a sacrifice to their praiseworthy conduct. The wit
effort was to bring down the remainder of the front,
bet it unfortunately fell inwards, and the consecrience
is, that no hopes remain of extricating the bodies this
day, as the firemen must be kept continually playing on
the ruins to cool them. From the best information we
can obtain, there were thirteen persons in the house.—
Of those, only six can be accounted for, viz. Mr. and
Mrs. Cain, their son, the two young men who were
saved with Mrs. C. and the poor man Williams, who
now lies in the ht,spital. The remains or Mi. Cain's
daughter,-and the two bodies taken out as above stated,
have since been conveyed to the Poor-house, where they
await the verdict of a Coroner's Jury.
Another fire broke out about one o'clock, at the
house of Mr. Robins, currier, Houndsditch, which was
fortunately got under, but not until it had done very
considerable damage.

PORTSMOUTEL—In all the recent gales, even. i, the
tempest of Sunday week, which spread devastation on
our coast, and carried its ravages into the usually /till
waters of Southampton (where several fine brigs were
wrecked, and even the vessAs alongside the quay re-
ceived great damage, narrowly escaping destraction),
not a boat here was injured.
id TAM SAMSON'S Daan."—Shortly after Burns had
finished his inimitable poem of " Tam Samson's Elegy,"
he was one evening engaged in reading it over at a ta-
vern in Kilmarnock, to a select party of friends, among
whom was Mr. Thomas Samson himself', who " was na
fon, but just had plenty," and who seemed to regard
the poem as an official in•imation of his demise, for, at
the close of each verse, as Burns read—" Tam Samson's
dead," Mr. S. with increasing earnestness and vehe-
mence, exclaimed, " I'm no dead, man—l'm no dead, I
tell ye; for Guidsake dinna put that in the sang." The
poet, however, lead on to the close, without noticing
the repeated interruptions of his friend, and quitted,the
room, as he insinuated, for the purpose of transmitting
the manuscript to the Hinter, but in less than ten mi-
nutes returned to the carousing company, and speedily
quieted Mr. Samson's apprehensions, by reading aloud
the mollifying " Per Contra," which he had composed
during his brief absence from the room, viz.
Gae, fame, and canter like a filly, •
‘, Through a' the streets and sleuth •ta' Kittle,
" Tell ev'ry social, honest bill&
" To cease his grievin,
" Foe yet, unskaith'd by death's gleg gullie,
Tans Samson's &On."
di Aye, that's it ; that's it noo I" shouted Mr. Sam-
son, "Od, I though', Robin, you didna mean to kill
me after a, but it looked a wee like it when ye said it
sasaften !"—Burns used often to relate this incident
afterwards, which uniformly raised a laugh at the
t expense of Mr. S. in which be always good-naturedly
joined.—,Correspondent of &Wigs JoiMeal.

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