4 DECEMBER 1830, Page 6

EssEx.—About five o'clock in the afternoon of Wednesday last (the

24th), a fire broke out in a: earn upon Theateds whieh

consumed the barn with its contents. The satisfactory manner in which the labourers in that division of the county have been employed for the last three winters, and the fair wages they have been paid, preclude all suspicion that the fire Was the act of any malicious person. There is every reason to suppose that a cat, upon the back of which a lighted coal was seen to fall, ran into the barn, and thus caused the conflagra- tion. The poor animal was found burned so dreadfully, that it was ne- cessary to kill it.