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NEATH. THE BltlTONFEltRy IRON COMPANY have discharged lea persons from their employ lately. FIRE.-Between four and five o'clock on Friday morning 0 a cry of fire was heard, and it was discovered that the house occupied bv Thomas Evans, shoemaker, in Wind-street, was in one mass of flame. Mr. Evans had gone to bed the pre- vious night, and left as he thought everything perfectly safe. About four o'clock he was aroused by a smell of burning tllel on proceeding to his shop, he discovered it to be on fire, Rill had only 'ime to escape with his wife, an infant, and a tel'nmt, in their night-clothes only, not having been able to 'Jiatch up any other article of clothing and in this situa- tion they had great difficulty in reaching the street. The Unfortunate man had F,100 worth of leather, £70 worth of ihocs, his clothes, and all his furniture consumed; he had 1so about f,60 in gold, £ 53 of which he had since met with 14, siftiiig the ashes. The whole of the house was destroyed, Hud the fire was prevented from extending by the active exertions of Mr. Hopkins, engineer, with the Neath engine, ^taeh was in a very effective state Evan Evans, Esq., of the High-street brewery's engine, which plied in the rear of the premises under the able management of its worthy pro- prietor and the Neath Abbey engine, together with the police and the inhabitants, who used their utmost exertions. There was also a plentiful supply of water, and the morning 0 being calm, all circumstances combined to stop the progress of the devouring element, and confined it to the original house, otherwise the consequences must have been dreadful, *8 it is in the centre of the town, a id connected with a groett many other houses. A subscription is now making of lothes and money for the unfortunate sufferers. Evans, who IS a sober, striving man, has by this lamentable circumstance Kven reduced from comparative prosperity to poverty. His case occasions great sympathy.

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