About two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, a fire broke out
in the workshop of Mr. Smith, carver and gilder, in Aylesbury-street, Clerkenwell ; which, from the nature of the premises (principally of wood), threatened the destruction of that part of the street, and of the adjoining houses in St. Johnstreet. Notwithstanding the utmost persevering exertions, the house in which the fire originated, and two adjoining were completely destroyed ; and four other houses besides were very much injured.
A fire broke outlast night on the premises of Mr. Gange,pianoforte-manufacturer, in the Horseferry-road, Westminster. Assistance was most promptly given, as ore of the Globe engines is stationed directly opposite the house, the upper part of which was saved ; the lower, and great part of the valuable stock, were consumed. Mr. and Mrs. Gauge received severe injuries in rescuing their childsen.
A fire broke out in a cottage in the village of Beccles, in Suffolk, out Tuesday week, which has been attended with serious consequences. A nurse and a child three years of age, died on Thursday, from the injuries they received; and the mother is not expected to recover.
DEATHS BY FtnE-Ames.—The provincial papers mention the death of a child at Balcombe, and another at Navestock, from the carelessness of relatives in leaving loaded fire-arms within their reach. A young man at Askant Bryan, near York, was killed in passing through a hedge, a twig having caught the trigger of his gun.
A little boy in Dumfries was sent up a chimney by his father, to sweep it : on his return he passed down another, at the bottom of which a fire was burning. He was dreadfully scorched; and when taken home to his mother, his only words were, " Oh ! mother, I wish I were dead." He died in a short time.
Last week a fine male child was devoured by a pig, at Loughrea. On Friday afternoon, two boys were drowned in a pond near Bath. One of them went upon the fast dissolving ice, to recover a ball : the ice broke under hirn,and he disappeared; and his playmate itt attempting to rescue him shared his fate.
On the 17th of January, a Mr. Hock, accompanied by his son and two other persons, set out from Rotterdam to skate to Amsterdam. Upon arriving near a mill the ice gave way, and the four disappeared under it. Mr. Hock attempted to swim, when his son clasped hint round the neck, and both sunk to the bottom. On returning to the surface, time father, remembering his wife andfamily, exclaimed, "Henry, if you do not leave hold we must botha perish." The son then embraced his father, bade him adieu, amid disappeared. A bystander threw a rope to Mr. Flock, and drew him to the bank. The bodies of his three companions were picked up about an hour after.— Golignani's Messenger.
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