PETERSFIELD.
A BARN AND HOUSE BURNT DOWN.—On Saturday afternoon about a quarter to four o'clock a fire was observed issuing from a barn known as "Copyhold" situate upon the Weston Estate, in the occupation of S. W. Seward, Esq., who at the time was fortunately in the wheatfield, separated only by a lane, where his men were busily employed in carting and ricking the wheat. No time was lost in hastening to the spot, when it was found the fire had communicated to a thatched cottage, at the back part by the direction of the wind, which from its dry and inflammable state was suddenly in a blaze throughout. Upon reaching the cottage, which could only be approached by the front, Mr. Seward rushed into the house, where the poor woman unconscious of her danger, was setting at needle work, with a young grandchild of about fove years old, who with the aid of his servant he seized and dragged the pair through a quickset hedge, the only way of escape, luckily in time to save them from destruction. The husband at the time was at work upon another farm. By this distressing calamity the poor cottagers lost the whole they possessed in eatables and goods, leaving them destitut of their whole, but the clothes which they had at the time on their backs. No corn was in the barn, but there was a horse thrashing machine, one of Wood's mowing machines, and a haying machine therein, which with the entire buildings were consumed; and what renders the sad circumstance worse still is that from no fire being in the house, or about, that unsatisfactory fears are afloat as to the cause.