FIRES IN LONDON.

From the registry of fires for one year, commencing Michaelmas 1805, it

appears, that there were 366 alarms of fire, attended with little

damage; 31 serious fires, and 155 alarms occasioned by chimneys being

on fire, amounting in all to 552 accidents of this nature. The offices

calculate on an alarm of fire every day, and about eight serious fires

in every quarter of the year.

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