The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-21 00:00:00

NORTH DERBYSITIRE ELECTION.

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The polling for the northern division of the county of
Derby was opened at Bla.kewell on Tuesday morning
last, and a very spirited contest was carried on during
tho day. The following are the total numbers at the close
of the first day's Polling
Thornhtli 1,647
BvarA 1,138

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ued the following day
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well on Saturday next.
Owing to the number of votes polled for Mr. Thorn-
hill, Mr. Evans sent the following note to Mr. Thorn.
hill's committee :

" Committee-room, July 19, 1853.
"Gentlemon,—l have at length received returns from
the polling-places, and, as I find a majority against me
amounting to about 480, I beg to inform you. that I do not
intend to go to the poll to-morrow.—l am, gentlemen,
your obedient servant,
Mr. Thornhill's Committee." "T. W. EVANS.
Intimation was speedily conveyed to the different
polling stations. The deputy sheriffs were instructed to
keep the polling-booths open for an hour on Wednesday
morning, as a matter of form. This instruction having
been complied with,, the poll-books were closed, and the
election terminated in the return of Mr. Thornhill.
DISTURBANCES AT GLOSSOP.—On Tuesday morning a
serious disturbance broke out at Glossop. Several per-
sons were severely beaten, but fortunately no loss of
life occurred. Several carriages, containing voters for
Mr. E vans, were stopped by the mob, and then broken,
and the windows of the Norfolk Arms and Albion Inns
were also broken. The riotous proceedings commenced
at i o'clock, by some of the factory hands of Mr. Sum-
ner,, who were out of employment, and those of Mr.
Wood, who ceased work at breakfast time. A telegra-
ph:to dispatch was sent to Manchester for a reinforce-
.mt of police, which could not be obtained, and the
nn igistrates had to swear in special constables. They
wt 're not, however, called upon to act, as the place had
be.zouhe quiet, and continued. so up to yesterday ulorn7
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STATE OF TRADE.

(From the Manchester Guardian of yeeerday.)

MANCHESTER, July 19.—There is nothing in the Ame-
rican advices respecting cotton to stimulate prices on
this side ; neither is there anything to diminish the pre-
sent tendency to look for a continued firmness of value.
The tone of confidence, however, in which Lord Claren-
don last night expressed his belief that the Russo-Turk-
ish question would be settled without a resort to war,
has exercised a slightly favourable influence upon
both the Liverpool and Manchester markets. We have
bad a more cheerful day than for some time back, with
an increase of inquiry, and, to some extent, of business
also. The Germans have ventured to do rather more in
yarns; but the home buyers continue to be the prin-
cipal operators. The general tendency in prices is there-
fore still to harden ; and some kinds are quoted rather
higher than they were last week. As regards goods, we
may state that there has been a more general inquiry than
we have had for the last three or four weeks. For some
foreign markets there is a steady demand, and a large
businessis doing in the home trade. Prices are well sup-
ported. The departments that must be excepted from
this favourable statement are those of yarns and goods
particularly adapted for India and China. These articles
are certainly not improved by the accounts which have
come to hand this week ; but no offers are made which
can test prices, and the quotations, therefore, are the
same as those of last week.

ROdUDALE, July 18.—To-day has been the quietest
market we have had this year. Very few pieces have
been sold, but prices have undergone little or no change.
In wool there has been very little doing ; the manufac-
turers appear unwilling to purchase except for immediate
Use.

HALIFAX, July 16.—The trade in our piece hall, as
well as in the warehouses, is still exceedingly limited,
as, in consequence of the unsettled state of our foreign
' relations, there is scarcely any disposition to enter into
any engagements, either for wools, yarns, or pieces.
BIRMINGHAM, July H.—The reduction of 20s. per
ton, declared by the last resolution of the iron
trade, has by no means satisfied the cravings of
cheap customers. During the quarterly meetings just
concluded the same feeling of dissatisfaction has still
prevailed—the same withholding of orders--the same
clamouring for further concession, and the same restriction
of purchases to the supply of urgent necessities. Manu-
facturers have, however, at length learnt that a
series of continued reductions, while they are unable
to obtain any advantage. in the cost of production
or increase of demand, is rather a dangerous game
to carry too far ; and as the large margin between
declared prices and undersellers' quotations has been
reduced to such an extent as to be more than covered

by the difference in quality, a stand has been made,
and-further giving way refused. On Wednesday, at Wol-
verhampton, there was a numerous attendance, and the
settlement of accounts appeared very satisfactory—
little . beyond was attempted. On Thursday the un-
usual inclemency of the day kept away many from
our Town Hall, but the assemblage included manu-
facturers and merchants from all the districts in
the kingdom. Towards the close of the day the
determination to adhere firmly to present prices became
better understood, and at once produced a favourable
effect. Afterwards considerably more business was done,
and on Friday and Saturday a still better feeling was
evidenced. In the pig trade a very wide difference of
price exists, but not more than the equivalent in quality.
Best Staffordshire and Shropshire pigs are bringing 51.
per ton, while the inferior sorts are to be had at all
prices as low as 3/. It is greatly to be regretted that such
large quanties of cinder and rubbishy ore from other dis-
tricts are now being introduced ',into the composition of
some of the Staffordshire makes. The high character for-
merly enjoyed by our iron is justly losing ;3-round, and its
trustworthiness is rapidly declining, so that unless our
first-rate houses will more decidedly discountena:m? such
qualities pf pigs, the advantage which has been hitil'erto
enjoyed in the market will soon be lost. In ironston::

litheitone, and coals no corresponding reduction ofp
has taken place, and the demand for each continues so
far beyond the supply, especially for the latter, that
when the winter country trade again sets in, which it
usually does about Michaelmas, there appears every rea-
son to anticipate an advance rather than a reduction in
that article.

SERIOUS EFFEOTS OF THE FLOOD.—OXFORD, JULY
10.—The valley of the Cherwell, and also of the Isis,
has been much flooded during the last few days, to the
very serious injury of the farmers occupying the mea-
dows adjoining. Yesterday and Sunday the rain fell in
Oxford and the adjacent neighbourhood in exceedingly
heavy showers, very considerably adding to the floods
already on these low-lying districts. On the banks of
the Cherwell hundreds of tons of hay have been swept
away by the sudden swelling of the water. In the im-
mediate neighbourhood •of this city great damage has
been done. One farmer, Mr. Greaves, of Elsfield, has
lost the whole of the Produce of 14 acres of land ; while
Mr. Saunders, of Water Eaton, Mr. Chillingworth, of
Marston, and others, of Water Eaton, have suffered
considerable loss. King's Weir, on the Cherwell, and
within half a mile of Oxford, was 'on Sunday and yes-
terday completely blocked up with an immense quan-
tity of newly-cut hay, the growth of several meadows
between that weir and the village of Islip, so much so
that Cox, the occupier of the weir, thought it worth
his while to employ something like a dozen hands to
get it out of the water. The blockade of the stream
in the rear of the weir was so complete, that per-
sons could walk, without the slightest difficulty, on the
top of it, right across the stream ; the embankment
thus formed being, from the bottom of the liver to the
top, upwards of 8 feet. 'The quantity that Cox has
already secured is something like 30 tons ; independ-
ently of this, an immense quantity has been washed over
the banks of Cherwell, and gone in other directions.
We regret to say that the hay is not the only produce
of the farmer that has suffered injury in this locality by
the late heavy rains. The wheat, barley, and oat crops
have been so knocked down that it is doubtful if they
will again be able to stand erect. The potato disease
has also unmistakeably made its appearance: The large
tract of land belonging to the freemen of Oxford, known
as Port Meadow, and which at this season of the year
is generally stocked with something like 600 head of
cattle, is virtually covered with water. The reports
from the various villages in this and the adjoining county
of Berks, through or near which brooks flow, are simi-
lar ; the meadows and fields are inundated, and the hay
is swimming away. The weather to-day is delightful ;
no rain has fallen here since 9 o'clock last evening, and,
consequently, the floods are rapidly subsiding.
MONEY-ORDER OrncE.—The profit on the Money-
order Office for the year ended the sth January, was
12,7201., from which was to be deduotod 1,9694. loss in
irejud, loyiDa Ur) prdt 11,0134.

EXTENSIVE CONPLAGRATION.-GREAT LOSS
OF PROPERTY.

Yesterday morning between the hours of five and six,
, a fire, attended with a destruction of property valued at
some thousand pounds, broko out in the extensive pre-
, mises belonging to Messers. Castell and Brown, whole-
, sale confectioners, carrying on business at Nos. 44, 45,
and 47, Princes-street, Leicester-square. The premises
in question, independently of being of considerable
height, were so deep that they nearly touched the
houses in Rupert-street, and at one period it was
feared that the Three Tuns tavern, in the last-named
street, and several other houses adjoining, would have
been razed to the ground. The moment the police dis-
covered the fire they sent for the fire-engines and
escapes, and in less than five minutes afterward the
Royal Society's 'escapes arrived, as well as numerous
engines of the parish, London Brigade, and West of
England Insurance Office. Fortunately, the whole of
the parties living in the house in which the disaster com-
menced were enabled to effect a safe retreat, but so
furiously did the work of devastation spread, that the
whole of the warehouses on the second floor of Messrs.
Castell and Brown's premises became wrapped in one
immense sheet of flame. The heat was so intense that
very quickly the houses occupied by Mr. John Farrell,
No. 18, Rupert-street, Mr. Beaden, No. 19, in the same
street, and the Three Tuns Tavern, the property of
Mr. John Hodges No. 20 in the same thorough-
fare, became ignited. The firemen upon arriving,
at once saw that, unless the flames could be easily
conquered, a fearful loss of property must fall a
victim to the fury of the destructive element.
They therefore lost no time in setting their en-
gines to work, or in taking up the best positions around
the blazing pile, so as to cut off any futher extension
of the flames. Fortunately an abundant supply of water
was immediately procured from the firemains in the
neighbourhood, from which the firemain, under the direc-
tion of Mr. Staples, Mr. Connorton, and Mr. Wilkinson
(engineer), went to work in first-rate style ; but in spite
of their most strenuous exertions, the flames continued to
mount high above the surrounding houses. The firemen,
however, stuck to their work, and by dint of great per-
severance they succeeded before seven o'clock in getting
the mastery over the fearful element, but not until the
following damage was done :—The , second floor of the
warehouses burned out, the contents consumed, the
lower part of premises seriously damaged by fire, water,
&c. The stock and premises were insured in the Sun
and Westminster Fire-offices. No. 43, in the same
street, the property of Mr. Frederick Lane, baker ; 42,
Mr. Fitch, bricklayer, are also damaged by fire, water,
and hasty removal. No. 18, Rupert-street, Haymarket,
belonging to Mr. J. Farrell, 19, Mr. J. Beadon, (let
out in tenements), and No. 20, the Three Tuns Tavern,
the property of Mr. John Hodges, licensed victualler,
are also more or less damaged by fire, water, and
breakage. The origin of the misfortune is enveloped in
obscurity at present.
A short time before the above outbreak took place
another fire happened on the premises of Mr. Cooper, a
carpenter and builder, No. 111, Stanhope-street, Re-
gent's Park. It commenced in a range of workshops of
considerable extent, and at the time of the discovery
contained a vast quantity of work partially finished.
The eneines from the Albany-street barracks, several of
the London brigade, and that of the West ofEngland office,
were remarkably early in arriving, and plenty of water
having being procured from the fire-plugs in the vicinity,
the engines were set to work ; but, in spite of the exertions
of all present, they were unable to get the mastery
over the flames, until the workshops of Mr. Cooper were
levelled with the ground, the stock in trade therein con-
sumed, and the workmen's tools destroyed. Mr. Cooper
was only partially insured. The premises of Mr. Botts,
dairyman, in Augusta-street, and Mr. Saunders, carpen-
ter, No. 2 in the same street, have also sustained mate-
rial damage by fire, water, &c. The origin of this fire,
like the preceding one, is unknown. The police of the
S division, under Mr. Superintendent Fergusson, ren-
dered essential aid to the firemen by keeping the great
crowd of spectators out of danger.