2 DECEMBER 1848, Page 11

It is stated that the late Mr. Jenny and Mr.

Rush had long been-engaged in litigation on a mutual claim to the Stanfield Hall property. Mr. Ruish'ss family is one of respectability and standing; and he claimed to be a nearer heir than Mr. &tiny to a common ancestor of the two families, named Preston, from whom the property has descended. Some eight years ago, Mr. Rush took forcible possession Of Stanfield Hall, and was only ejected by a military force called in to aid the constabulary.

The house of Mr. Sidney Powell, optician, in Gray's Inn Lane, was destroyed by fire on Thursday night; and two of its inmates perished. The flames were carried up the staircase on the bursting open of the door, and a woman who was escaping was driven back into the upper rooms. Her husband, who had got down stairs in his shirt only, rushed through the fire and smoke, found his wife, 41.'4 dragging her to a window tried to tome her out; but at the moment he himself leaped she was overcome by the smoke, and fell backwards from his grasp into the room. The husband was taken up nearly dead: on coming to himself he cried out for his wife, and again swooned: he was taken to a boa- pied, and died in a few momenta from the hurts of his fall. The with was seen no more at the window, and the house rapidly burnt to its walla. At f ur o'clock this morning, the poor woman's corpse was -found, uuburnt, on a small part of flooring which remained attached to the wall under the window whence her hus- band leaped.

The large Flax Mills in the Grove, Guildford Street, Southwark, were burnt to the ground last night; to the loss of the uninsured owners, Messrs. Chapman and Saddington, of some thousand pounds.