The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-09-06 00:00:00

FIRE IN CHESTER.

MR. PARRY'S COACH 31ANITFACTOHY A FOURTH
TIME DE:FaIt()V ED.
The extensive building occupied by Messrs. Parry and Truss, as
coaclimakers, in Foregate-street, in this city, has been again de-
stroyed by a fire, as rapid in its ravages as any we ever recollect.
It appears that on Wednesday night some of the workmen were
employed on the premises in finishing a carriage fur a neighbouring'
gentleman, and that they left the shop apparently perfectly safe,
about nine o'clock. On the tidlowirg morning, about half-past
three o'clock, one of the domestics belonging to 31ra. Hold's man.
siun adjoining observed a light in the factory, and we understand
she immediately gave the alarm. It had broken out in a room oe.
cupied for the saute purpose as that in which the fire in February,
1823, originated, and spread with amazing quickness into every
part of the building. The engines were promptly on the spot di.
redly after the alarm was given, but in the onset there was a defi-
ciency of water. This circumstance, however, was of little
consequence, as the progress of the fiery element was so quick as
to baffle all attempts to check it. The attention, therefore, of the
firemen was chiefly directed to the safety of the premises adjacent,
Mr. J. Jones, jun.'s brewery, a large stack of bark belonging to
Mr. Long, &c. which they succeeded in preserving. About half.
past four the rout fell in, and by five o'clock the whole was a heap
of ashes. A great number of carriages are destroyed, and the loss
sustained is of course very considerable. Fortunately the premises
were insured to a large amount in the Sun, West of England, and
other olfices.—Chesfer Paver.

Tits II aavesy.—lt is said that the corn harvest in this,
country generally occupies three months of the vear in ga-,
dieting, beginning from the south and extending to the
highlands of Scotland ; and the observation may be true
iu ordinary years ; but from the advanced state of the crops
in every part of England and Scotland, we venture to pre-
' diet, that should the weather continue as favourable for a
month to come as it has been for the last fortnight, the
three months' harvest will he abridged one-half, and by
the end of the first week in October there will scarcely be
a shock of corn left unhoused in either England or Scot-
land. In Yorkshire the harvest tide is just coming to its
flood, and the crops are transferred daily from the fields
to the stack-yard. There have doubtless been years of
greater abundance, but in point of quantity the supply is
isv no means deficient, and the quality must, in such a
season as this, be excellent.
Mnsititoom C•TSCr.—The edible mushroom is the
basis of the sauce called mushroom catsup ; a great pro-
portion of which is prepared by gardeners who grow the
fungi. The mushrooms employed for preparing this sauce
are generally those which have not found a ready sale in
the market, and arc iu a putritied state ; for no vegetable
substance is liable to so rapid a spontaneous decomposition
as mushrooms. In a few days after they have been gathered
from the dung-bed en which they grow, they become the
habitation of myriads of insects ; and, if even the fresh
mushroom be attentively examined, it will frequently be
found to swarm with life.

AMITT•TION OF THL LLO OF A Cow.—Last week, near
Exeter, a cow belonging to Mr. John Edwards, farmer,
broke the lower bone of the fore leg—a compound fracture.
—Amptuation was supposed by the veterinary surgeon to
he the only thing to save the animal, and as she was a va-
luablentilch cow, the farmer requested it to be done. The
operation was performed, and a most ingenious wooden leg
constructed, by which the auinul will be able to walk toler-
ably well.
:fit AkMING FIRE IN THE STRAND.—About five o'clock
on Sunday morning, a tire broke out in the house of Mr. Martin, a
sausage-nusnufacturer, No. 446, Strand, and immediately comm,...
Ideated to No 447, kept by Mr. Hatfield, a porkman. The fire
burnt with great force. the houses being built or wood. Fears were
entertained for the Hunch of Grapes public -house, kept by Mr.
Davies. and the house next to Mr. Hatfield's. occupied by Mr.
Simmons (as they also were of wood), as well as Old and New
Hound Courts, close behind, and built of the same materials. The
exertions and activity of the tiretnen, however. prevented the de-
touring element front destroying any but the houses of Mr. Martin
and Mr. Ilattield, which are reduced to ruins, and the two houses
adjoining them are considerably il..maged. Captain Huller, with
• party of the Coldstream Guards, was on the spot, and cleared the
way for the engines and their men, and preserved front plunder the
little remains of property saved front the lire. It is a singular sir.
curnstance, and worthy of remark, that within these four months
Mr. Martin's house had been twice before on tire, previously to its
total destruction yesterday morning. No lives were lost, although
some of the inmates of the premises destroyed were obliged to make
• speedy retreat in their nightclothes. It is (under late circum-
stances) but justice to say, that use this uccasioa the supply of!
water was plentiful,