24 DECEMBER 1859, Page 10

A fire, involving the loss of four lives and injury

to several persons, oc- curred yesterday in Little George Street, Westminster. It so happened that the fire broke out in the lower part of the house. Mrs. Bilson first threw her child out of window, and then jumped out herself, falling on the spikes. Two women and child were coming down the stairs, when they broke under them. The servant leaped from the roof twenty feet down upon the back premises of Sergeant Wraiighain. Miss Chapman, Mrs. Chapman, her child, and Henry Bilson, were burnt to death. The houses were burnt down.