The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-04 00:00:00

Alarming Fire.

Late last night (Sunday) a very alarming and
destructive fire, nearly attended with fatal conse-
quences to a woman and four children, took place
on the premises belonging to Mr. Barnes, a blind-
maker, situate at No. 5, Belvidere-place, Cam-
bridge-road, Bethnal-green. The discovery was
made by a female living in the house, by finding
flames rushing up the staircase with such fury that
neither she nor her four children could make their
escape by the regular means. The whole of
the endangered persons made their appearance
at one of the front windows, and some of the
neighbours having procured a table they got
upon the top of it, and pulled the woman and chil-
dren out, and they thereby escaped a horrible
death. Conductor Edinburgh arrived with the
Royal Society's escape, and he entered the front
and back rooms in search of other parties missing,
but fortunately the whole had effected their escape.
The engines of the parish and London brigade
quickly attended, as well as Shand and Mason's
land steamers, and plenty of the East London.
Company's water having been procured, the fire-
men went to work under the directions of Mr.
Gatehouse, the foreman of the district, and they
happily succeeded in confining the flames to the
building in which it originated, but the fire could
not be extinguished until the house and contents
were nearly destroyed. The origin of the fire is
unknown.

THE LIVERPOOL COTTON SALESMAN AND THE
BALLET GlRL.—Francis Reginald Stathan, who was re-
cently committed by the local magistrates on the charge of
embezzling £2,500, the money of his employers, Messrs.
Rylands, cotton brokers, of Liverpool, appeared on Satur-
day before the recorder, at the Liverpool sessions, and
pleaded guilty. The girl Hastings (the companion of his
flight), who had been discharged by the magistrates, but
since rearrested, pleaded not guilty to the charge of re-
ceiving and harbouring." The jury, however, brought
in a verdict of guilty. Sentence on both prisoners was
postponed until to-day.

AMERICAN WORKS IN ENGLAND.—Among the new works
advertised by Messrs. SAMPSON Low and Co., Ludgate-
hill, we notice " Transatlantic Sketches, or Sixty Days in
America," "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table," new
illustrated edition with 24 engravings ; also a now popular
edition of the same work, price one shilling ; "The Pro-
fessor at the Breakfast-Table," published at throe-and-six-
pence ; " A Walk from London to Land's End," by Elihu
Burritt, published at twelve shillings ; and "Dr. Beecher's
Life and Correspondence," edited by his son, two volumes,
with illustrations, price twenty-one shillings. Messrs.
BELL and DALBY have announced the following works :—y
"Little Foxes," by Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, published
at three-and-sixpence, popular edition one shilling ; a new
edition of " Webster's Dictionary ;" " Washington Irving's
Life and Letters ;" "Longfellow's Prose Works," illus-
trated; Washington Irving's whole works in sixteen
volumes ; Nathaniel Hawthorne's works, popular shilling
edition ; " Agassiz and Gould's Comparative Physiology ;"
Longfellow's complete works, in one volume, at three-
and-sixpence; Washington Irving's "Life of Washing-
ton," in four volumes ; and " Irving's Sketch-Book," and
" Tales of a Traveller," published at one-and-sixpence
each. Among the books announced to be ready shortyare Longfellow's " Song of Hiawatha" and the "Golden
Legend," and Longfellow's "Spanish Student" and later
poems.