31 DECEMBER 1836, Page 6

A fire broke out in the workshop of a cabinetmaker,

in Greenside Street, Edinburgh, on Tuesday morning about three o'clock ; and in the course of four hours destroyed an entire angle of buildings, formed by Greenside Street and Nottingham Lane. The damage done is estimated at 50,000/. ; and from sixty to eighty families are rendered houseless by the calamity. The wind blew a strong gale from the North-east..