THE OXFORD-STREET BAZAAR—Mr. Wright, who had the management of the
Bazaar, applied to Sir Richard Birnie, on Tuesday, to have affidavits sworn denymg that the fire was caused in conseeuence of " the too free use of turpentine and other inflammable materials used in order to give increased effect to the re
resentation of the burning of York Minster." Messrs. Stanfield and Roberts, the scene-painters, and other artists, were sworn to the fact, that no combustible
atter whatever had been used, either at the exhibition, or in any other part of the premises. The only lights used within the Bazaar were oil-lamps. The fire occurred in the room where the view of York Minster was ; but if the cause of the calamity be known, it was not stated. Though Mr. Hamlet, the praprietor, tf insured for a large sum, he will lose nearly 7000/.
A public meeting was held on Thursday in the great room of the Bazaar in Ox'oed-street, the only part of the building that escaped, to adopt measures for reitvieg those who have suffered by the fire. The Rev. Dr. Chandler took the :hair. It was stated by the Secretary. that the losses sustained by females who lad stands at the Bazaar amounted to 2341/, and by males to 3592/. The Cornnittee had examined the cases of seventy-five females, who had lost their only means of subsistence. Lord Radstock, Sir Anthony Carlisle, and several other :entlemen expressed their sympathy for the sufferers, and urged the necessity of . subscription. The Marquis of Cholmosdeley sent 25/. to the meeting, and seveed other smaller sums were received.
Fiees.—The season continues quite remarkable for burnings. On Saturday Eght, a new house in Roupell-street, Cornwall-road. was reduced to ashes, and .i adjoining one greatly damaged. The London Institution, Finsbury-circus, was im danger of being consumed on Monday : the outhouses were destroyed, and the hailding itself much injured. On Wednesday night, a fire hurst out in the sugarnanufactory of Messrs. Friend and Roden, Fieldgete-street, Whitechapel, which :writ for three hours with great fierceness. The interior of the building, to ehich the flames were confined, as well as the stock, has sustained considerable :jury. Some of the engines were called away frotrethis tire to aid in a similar isaster which had occurred in a haberdasher's shop at Poplar.
To these have to be added five similar disasters which occurred on Thursday.
fire in the premises of a greengrocer in Petticoat-lane was attended with cond erable loss of property ; a man was nearly killed by the falling of a beam ; nc I four cows were burnt to cinders in a stable. Orange-street Chapel, Orangeri met, Leicester-fields, has been materially damaged by a fire which broke out 1 -a cellar underneath ; and it was only by great exertion that it was saved from it er destruction. A house in Rochester-row, Westminster, was on the same veining partially damaged by a fire in the attics. A fire also broke out in a room
Cowper-street, Broadway, in which were two children. Both were taken out ; ut the eldest a girl seven y9.rs of age, was so much burnt that she died in a few Minute's. The flfih disaster 'occurred in Middle-row Holborn, and was attended with considerable loss.
An accidental fire, which broke ourat Leigh-upon-Mendip on Monday week, destroyed fifteen dwelling-houses in three hours, with almost all they contained,— leaving fifteen families Of fifty-four souls destitute.
The house, No. 106, Pall Mall, lately occupied as a chib-house, was to be taken. down. On Wednesday, three men who were employed hi the work, on the third floor, overloaded it with rubbish: the floor gave way, carrying before it the two floors beneath. Three men were buried under the ruins; two of them were dug out dead, and the other was very seriously hurt. On Friday afternoon, a young boy, son of Mr. Hanson, Brewer-street, Golden. square, having been incautiously left by the servant at the first-floor window, fell into the street, and died in two hours.
On Thursday, a young girl, servant to a gentleman at Letheringset, near Holt, Norfolk, was killed by a horse. She had gone to the middle of the road to , n etch a child away from the danger it might incur from the animal, which was coming furious v along: The hoihe's feet crushed her forehead, and she was motionless. A respectable woman who had come up, said to the rider, who hail turned his horse's head round,—" Do you see, you have killed this dear young woman ?" " Oh, I don't mind killing fifty women!" responded the unfeeling wretch. The child, who was lying within a few inches of the deceased, was wounded in the leg.
Last week, a child in Dover had her eye forced from the socket, by an oyter. shell thrown by a playmate.
On Friday week, Mr. Leeson, brother to the Earl of 51iltown, was drowned while fishing in Belvedere lake. The boat in which he sat upset as he turned round to speak to his Lordship ; and Mr. Leeson never rose again. Two attendants saved theniselves by clinging to the boat. 'Lord Miltown's servant plunged on the instant into the lake, and swam about the spot a considerable time in the vain hope of rendering assistance. The body was discovered within an hour, but life was extinct.The deceased was about twenty-seven years of age.
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