Dreadful Fire In Edinburg...
(EXTnACT OV A LETTF.R.) " 21. Broaght -place, Edirburgh, June 24. " Al v dear Sir,-1 am sorry to inform you of another 1oeSt tre- menduons fire in rown. LAast ndght, at 12 o'clock, it broke out iti a3 small drinkiRg-shop by the cide of tbeentry to tsenewsplice-offce, H ighhstrect (late Royal Bank-ciose), and burnt the 'whole of that te- nement ta the ground; the whole walls fell to the bottom in one crash. Before the roof fell in, the heat was so great 1hutt4epeople could not stand ott the plain stones (foot paveelent); otbersidcof dhe street the panes of glass in the windows, by the side of the Royal Exceange, were broken in pieces, so great was the hbat: it then communicated to the next land-viz.. the large corner tenement, en- tering the Parlianent close, and proceeded along as far as the south end of John's Coffee-house. Such a scene, I believe, never was wnit nessed in Edinburgh, at nine this morning nothing 3as Igoked for but that destruction and devastation would be carried round the whole square; but, fortunatclh, by 12 o'clock, the fLames abated a little from Conitng to the gable beyoxsd Jobn's Cofbee-house; by this ani the playing ofthe enines fiovii the top of the church on the other sihe, its progress wast at iength retarded. Such a fire has pot been seen here these 10 years. The whole range, from the Bank-dlose roand so bevend S . John's Coffee-house, is totally burnt to the eround, not 3 vestige keft within the wals, nd al far way down the close. There are said to be G0 famnilis turned otit ItthOiut al- most ary thing w coter them. The furniture of the a ijogqsng honses, which was saved. is lodged in the churches, round the piz$.A in the square, and, in fact, wherever they could gel it into." "- geven o'ciock. Thursday evening. " The engines are still playing, and dare not leave the place. t?reat alarrn .s excited lest the wind should rise during the night; it is now very calm, and it is to be hoped will continue so; the mern are supplaed and clanged from the castle and Piershill barracks. our- old neighlbourhood I assure yoar, has been a completC scene of destruction and bustle to-d?y > all the sbops there have continued shut, and business enrirely stopped." The Bdinburgh papers of Saturday state, :hat no llves were lest; but aboat 40 famnilies are reduced to misy, Thedestrconofpro- pecrty has beens considerable DREADFUL. FlRR IN FINNRURGH.