The Sun.
London, England, 1852-04-26 00:00:00

DESTRUCTIVE FIR.ES.

FIRE AT MANCHESTER.--0a Saturday morning, a
little after ten o'clock, a stack of cotton was discovered
to be on fire in the spinning mill of Mr. W. Speakman,
Brown street, Salford. A strange and exciting scene
resulted from the panic which spread among the work-
people employed in the upper stories, who, alarmed by
the dense volumes of smoke ascending from the third
story, in which the fire took place, sought escapa by
hastening the leather straps tog*ther which gave motion
co the machinery, and suspending them froin the win-_
ions. o,hers used c .rds not so thick as the little finger
One boy descended from the eighth story by a strap in
~his way, and on reaching the end found be had, toiscal-
culat..d the depth by two stories, and from this height
qe dropped to the ground, escaping, however, with the,
,Drain of one tinkle. We believe this W 43 the m ist Sc-

r;ous accident which resuled, though, considt-ring th
rieight, and the small apertures in the windows through
which the people got, it is surprising The beads of
nost people would turn giddy to look down from these
windows. Mr. Speakman dispatched messengers for
the Manchester and Salford fire engine;, and the mill
having fireproof thors, the fire was got out without
.xtendlng beyond the room where it originated. The
loss will probably not exceed 2002, which is covered by
insurance.

ANOTHER FIRE AT COTTENHADI, CAMBRIDGE
SHIRE ['his place, which has become famous in tile
annals of fire—arising from the fact of two of the most
extensive agricultural fires known in this country having
taken place here—was again visited on Thursday after-
noon. Abut 3 o'clock a sira.v stack on the premises of
Hr. Kimpton, tarmer and brewer, was found to be in
flames, which soon spread to the rest of the homestead.'
sod thence to other premises, and wore not got under
till 13 houses and cottages, with a large cpanticy of
.arm produce, had fallen a prey. Owing to a sca,citv
(or, indeed, a total want) of water, the inhabitants could
do little but look on despa,ringly. Tne tiro at last
stopped, after burning in a curious a'gz direction over
a surtace measuring in length a furlong and a quarter
on the premises of Mr Freeman Gnde, whet..., singularly
enough, the last disastrous fire originated. The damsge
do, e amounts to nearly 4,0001., and the names of the
suffsrcrs are Kimpton, Tonraton, Spacktnan, sen. and
jun., W. Ssuoderson, J. Moore, J. Chivers, Watson,
and Goode, with the inhabitants of seven cottag.-s in
addition. The last fire is attributed to an incendiary.
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A fire, which might have been attended vri h mot
disastrious consequences, broke out at eleven o'clock on
Saturday morning last, at Hurley- house, .near Win-
chester, the seat of Sir William Lleathcote. ; The fire,
which originated in a flee, was first discovered by one of
of thaerehowuasie.thlt was
. a gardeners when on giving an alarm. it was found to
esi raging between the ceiltng of the servants' apart-
ments-and the extensive lead flat which forms the roof
seat, once the u
the
been razed a most fortunate eircutnstane,. that
earl discovered, or this magnificent
toresidencen of Oliver Cromwell, would have
house, farm, and the ground. The labourers from the
etngnhhouring village exerted them-
selves to the utmost,
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wfire n and
an abundant
nwuenixtdntai 'anti ensi9sseptiptildryo.
from the
The w acbtoreilr.:
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legs and barracks, were on the
spot
within little .more
than an hour after the fire w„ lace overed, with pi=ntsof hands to work them, every un
eger.atuTlahtieonfeetlhinagt-noof.extensiveYdaTam
sympathy .to render
all -classes,
3,, ZI:Ill Seet:°rin must
Eleathcote, than whom no one is more uni, w.. 11 art,
ersany be-
loved. , .
FlttE NEAR- AI3INGD . n . —On iqSaturday:evening, a
g 6 nut
a mcnit destructive and catatuitoos fire brake
out at Harwell, 3 populous village about six miles from
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6-
ii- t
o o'clock,
miles south• west of the I) f .
ofan h . " 9s't
by which, in the course our, one-third
junction,
(-4 building!, and premises constitutil',
Abingdon
or the h',u-es an,. _es,_ c ,
three furlong;
& were reduced to altst 4a
and three m
farm, with its ricks, offices,
. 1 of 'fi. b thib "ti'
he raster-la s vt, to .(,-et ( -
and, from the nature of t
of the w'rld, blazed
and the force ,
The line of fire sr.(
inks were c ,mponcl a .
eichei in length nearly
were brought into Opera-
fllo,,,,t fiercely. S' veral engtne
uki the neighbour
lion, and-the:people of the village
fire. but with little
hood did their best to extinguish the
el iusured,.bui
effect. The farm premises were fortune,
t. Y ,
es, 103 t
the inhabitants of the more humble dwel(ings D
even
their entire property. So great was. the aie.eau the,r
re-
those persona who were comparatively r.,ut 01 11t1g_
0,
moved th,ir goods. The fire is suspecttal torhave be.
the work of an ineendkry, and a boy lips been taltt,o
into- custody on the charge.
FIRES ON M-SS LAND —Daring the lest four or five
days a large tract of lend, several mile in extent, it
the parishes of Prescott, Bickerstaff, and Orabkirk
about ninepin's from Liverpool, has been on fire, which
Fat every increase in the strength of the bre, ze, breaks
out into sheets of flitne extending over t:eVvtal.rter.P:
v'our or five- plantations have beau destroyed; larg
qu,ntities of game, including pheasants, p srtridgee, ant-.
ihares, have been burnt to d•atti.; , a- great amount o:
" eddiali" has. been gpoiled ; promising crops of corn