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

DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.

FIRE AT MANCHESTER —On Saturday morning. a
little after ten o'clock, a stack of cotton was discovered
to be on fire in the spinning mill of ':trlr. 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 escape by
fastening the leather strap. together which gave motion
to the machinery, and suspending them from the win-
dows. o:tiers used c rds nos so thick as the little finger
One boy descended from the eighth story by a strap in
this way, and on reaching the end found he had miscal-
culated the depth by two stories, and from this height
kie dropped to the ground, escaping. however, with-the
sprain of one ankle. We believe this wss the most se-
rious accident which resuLed„ though. consithrit.g th-
height, and the small apertures in the windows tnrougn
whica the people got, it is surprising. The heads of
most people would turn giddy to look down from these
windows. Mr. Spaaktnan dispatched messengers for
the slanchester and Salford fire engines, and the mill
having fireproof floors, the fire was got out without
extending beyond the room where it originated. The
loss will probably not exceed 2002, which is covered by
insurance.

ANOTHER FIRE AT COTTENHAM, CAMBRIDGE
SHIRE.—Thia place, which has become famous 111 tty
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. About 3 o'clock a straw stack on the premises of
Mr. Kimpton, farmer and brewer, was found to be in
flames, which soon spread to the rest of the homestead,
and thence to other premises, and were not got under
till 13 houses and cottages, with a large quantity of

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term produce. had fallen a prey. Owing to a scarcity
(or, indeed, a total want) of water, the inhabitants could
do little but look on desparringly. The fire at last
stopped, after burning in a curious z'gez tg direction over
a twrtaxe measuring in length a furlong and a quarter
on the premises of Mr Freem in Goode, when-, singularly
enough. the last disastrous tire originated. The dam.ge
do a amounts to nearly 4,0001, and the names of the
sufferers are Kimpton, Tnuraton, Spackmati, see. and
jun., W. Ssuuderson, J. Moore. J. Chives, Watson,
and Goode, with the inhabitants of seven cottages in
addition. The last fire is attributed to an incendiary.
A fire, which might have been attended wi b most
disastrious consequences, broke out at eleven o'clock on
Saturday morning last, at Hurley house, near Win-
chester, the seat of Sir William Eleatbcote. The fire,
which originated in a fine, was first discovered by one of
the gardeners, when on giving an alarm it was found to
be raging between the ceiling of the servants' apart-
meats and
the extensive lead
leafiat which forms the roof
of thZehovinse,ts.tnlt was a most fortunate circumstance that
seat, once the residence early
the
discovered, or this magnificent
house, farm, and then ground, The labourers from the
been razed o
to the utmost f Oliver Cromwell, would have
,eaighbouring village exerted them-
selvesin at hand the fire was an abundant supply of water
engine from
Winchester,
sssoon extinguished. The bri-
gade and barracks, were onteli with those from the col-
legete spot within little more
was discovered, with plt-nty
than an hour after the fire
of bands to work them, ever
assistance. The feeling of every sympathy
to render
evening, about
and congratulAtion that no exi.eti:sitveYd honk
all
classes,
fireg, br ek
done, must be gratifying to the
Eleathcote, than whom no one is more. of .Sir William
universally be-
feeliossage hid been
, one-third
a moot destructive and eahttuttous
itrFlidele.i.NsesitaAndinNuciDlN "Oct Saturday
9 o'clock,
out at Harwell, a populous village shout sizentles,fre,
Abingdon and three miles south- west of the Didcot
in the course of an hour,
tidings and premised c nista •
farm with its ricks
he i in length nearly three furlongs,
jailed"'
by
which. in
offices, Ste., w,re reduced to ash„.
The line of fire strwe
Aand the force of the wind, blazed
-were c impose,'
..
Inge e.
impose,'
Were brought into opera-
and, from the nature of the materiels of which the build-
gine.
,cre
snd
the ro-ighbaur•
must Lion,
afinedreethlye.
6the fire, but with little
extinguish ,
hind did their best to but
fortunaiely insured,
effect. The farm premises were
peBo;leeraolfetrlhe vi.ll
W'alarm that even
their entire property.
the inhabitants of the more humble d
So great was the
.1,,,,
re-
-11113 ,3 have lost
those pers to who were comparatively out 4:Y d• ~. .
been
moved their goods. The fire is suspected to have
the work of an incendiary, and a boy has i:ieu taken
into custody on the charge.
FIREs ort Maas 'AND —Daring the lot four or five
day,' a large tract of land, several miles in extent., in
the parishes of Prescott, Bickerstaff, and Ortaiirk,
about nine miles from Liverpool, hes been on fire, which
at every increase in the strength of the breeze, breaks
oat into sheets of flame extending over several acres.
Four or five plantations have been destroyed ; larg,t
cp in itie3 ci! game, including pheasants,
partridges,
hares, have been burnt to death ; a great amount of
" oddislP has boo
_spoiled ; promising
tux
crops of corn