26 MARCH 1836, Page 8

On Thursday evening, about six o'clock, a fire broke out

in the gas- manufactory attached to the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, on the Ux- bridge Road ; which contained at the time 650 inmates. The flames soon reached a building in which garden-seeds and implements were kept; but communication with the main building was prevented by cutting away- the roofs of some intervening passages; which was done by order t:ir William Ellis, Governor of the Asylum. By ten o'clock the fire was got under ; and all the inmates, whose alarm had been excessive, retired to rest : none of them made their escape during the confusion. The cause of-the fire has not been ascertained.