PETERSFIELD.]—On Tuesday last, about mid-day, a hay stack, belonging to J. Whicher, Esq., at Steep, caught fire, through the carelessness of a female, carrying some burning embers from the dwelling house to the field adjoining, to fire some couch, and had it not been discovered by a gentleman passing by at the time, the whole of the buildings, with three or four more stacks standing close by, must have been wholly destroyed.