1 DECEMBER 1832, Page 4

At an early hour on Tuesday morning, a manufactory belonging

to Mr. Turrill, coachmaker in Long Acre, took lire ; from what cause does not appear. The manufactory abutted on that Street; and in

half an hour after it had caught fire, the upper story of four was in a blaze. We have never witnessed a sight so grand yet so awful as the burning building exhibited about four o'clock. At that hour the roof had been destroyed, but the walls stood entire, while the volume of flame shot up from them fifty or sixty feet, at one time perpendicular like a vast pyramid, at another, according as the light breeze inclined it, waving backwards and forwards, and licking the surrounding buildings as if it had been the fiery tongue of some supernatural monster seeking to swallow them up. The light was so intense, that to persons walking in King Street, Covent Garden, it appeared to proceed from the im- mediate rear of the houses there; and some kind individual, on the supposition that the inmates were in actual danger, took the trouble of sounding an alarm, which in a few minutes sent the greater number of them to the upper windows and the leads to gaze on the terrible scene. In Hart Street, the alarm was of consequence greater; and many of the people there, who were far removed from the danger, began busily to pack up their goods with a view to removal. The fire spread with a rapidity proportioned to its violence. It broke out about twenty minutes before three o'clock ; and by twenty minutes before six, it had entirely destroyed fourteen houses, and greatly damaged eight more. By hall-past five o'clock, the manufactory of Mr. Turrill was entirely consumed ; and Of the walls, though built apparently with great soli- dity, there was not one brick remaining on another, save a small por- tion of the south-west corner, which fell down about nine o'clock. It was exceedingly fortunate that the fire broke out in a building in

which there were no inmates, and that time was thus allowed for the inhabitants of the' dwellinghouses that became a prey to the flames, to

escape, not only with their lives, but with the greater part of their little property. It was reported Let an aged female had perished in the fire, but this appears to be incorrect. A number of persons were bruised by the falling bricks, but none dangerously or severely. The property destroyed is estimated at 15,000/. ; the greater part of the loss of course falls on Mr. Turrill. The ruins were still smoking during

the entire of Tuesday, and even emitting. now and then a random jet of flame. There were at least twenty engines present on the occasion, and apparently they were well served.

A Wall twenty feet high, belonging to the Gas Company's works in Great Peter Street, against which an immense load of coals and coke

had been piled, suddenly gave way on Tuesday, and ninety feet in length was tumbled into the street. The fronts of two houses on the opposite side were beaten in by the falling materials, which completely filled the street. No one has been ascertained to be hurt by the accident.

A lad employed at Messrs. Havves's soap-work in the Borough, fell the other day into one of the pans. Fortunately it bad not been heated for some time, and he was but little injured. He is now doing well. The premises of Mr. Hickman, jeweller, St. Margaret's Hill, in the Borough, were entered on Wednesday evening, and about 4001. worth of property abstracted.

Mr. John Graham, landlord of the Two Brewers, in Vine Street, Hatton Wall, hanged himself on Monday morning. It appeared that his son had enlisted in Don Fedro's army as a private; a circumstance which had preyed on his mind very much.

The body of a female was found on Thursday morning, close to the wall in one of the unfinished houses in Green Street, Stepney. It proved to be that of a woman named Fowler. She was quite dead, and must have been so for some hours.