The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-25 00:00:00

TRI7STEES,

The Right TTonourable the Lord Tac4;tint Drumlanrig, M.P., P.C.,
Comptroller of her Majesty's Household.
Major-General Sir W. Clayton, Bart., 79, Gloucester-place, Port-

man•,cuare.
-ir Charles Price, Bart., Banker, London.
\lee-Admiral Ayscough, Prospect House, Southampton.

CHAIRMAN.
The Right Ron. the Lord Viscount Drumlanriz. M.P., P.C., Comp-
troller of her Majesty's Household.

CONSULTING ACTUARY.
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THE. EQUITY COURTS.—It is understood that on Satur-
day, at a meeting of the leading members of the equity
bar, a resolution was agreed to, confining the Queen's
counsel to practise in one particular court, and not to
receive briefs in any other.
FIRE IN BARBICAN.—Last evening, about 8 o'clock,
a fire broke out in an extensive pile of premises—occu-
pied conjointly by Mr. Plumner, a wadding manufac-
turer; Mr. Matthews, cutler, of Fleet-street; Mr.
Phillips, a braid maker ; Mr. Clarke, an ivory turner ;
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Mr. Hall, a scissors finder ; and Mr., Bentley, a saw-
mill
Barbican,soa proprietor—situate
factory
extending
Cubitt's-court, Golden-lane,
in
one
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large
and various houses of Golden-lane.
Before a single engine had
flames had seized upon a considerable portion of the
premises. Fortunately, an abundant supply of water
was procured, from which the engines were set to work.
Mr.
The flames eventually seized the sawmills of Bent-
ley, from which they extended to the braid factory Mr. Phillips, and the premises of Mr. Matthews, ofd
n
those of Mr. Clarke. After two or three hours' hard
working the firemen got the flames extinguished, but
not until Mr. Bentley's sawmills were destroyed,' and
considerable damage done to the factories of Mr. Phil-
lips, those of Mr. Matthews, Mr. Clarke, and Mr. Hall.
ESCAPE OF PRISONERS FROM HORSEMONGER-LANE
GAOL—Yesterday morning, a little after 8 o'clock,
Thomas Richardson and John Clark, two convicted
prisoners, contrived to escape from the above gaol in a
very singular manner. Both prisoners were tried at the
December sessions for Surrey, and convicted for robbe-
ries with violence ; Richardson was sentenced to six
years', and Clark two years' penal servitude. The pri-
soners
cutting s
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itin .
bundles,
prisont
o be
chiefly
insold
among the shopkeepers. At eight o'clock, while the
turnkeysytii were
the a
reait breakfast,
of
kfast,the prison,thetw
ocsoendviscotseegeeodteodvieor
the
making their escape. They had by some means con-
trived to make a ladder with the pieces of spun yarn and
wood. A large stone was affixed at one end, and thrown
over the wall where it got attached to the coping-
stone. The prisoners having climbed that, let themselves
down into Mr. Fellowes's rope walk, and crossed it un-
perceived by the workmen. A lad named Dunn, how-
ever, saw them, and pursued them as far as Lock's-
fields, but he was obliged to give up the chase, and the
convicts made their escape. On examination of that
part of the gaol, it appeared that they had forced their
way through a water-closet into the inner garden, and
by that means got easy access to the outer wall.