The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1854.

FIRE IN RED LION-STREET.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Sun-office, half-past Two.
Last evening, at seven o'clock, a fire took place in
Red Lion-street, Holborn, at the house of Mr. Arnold,
and the one adjoining, in which Mr. St. Clair Jones and
family resided. The engines were on the spot shortly
after, but no fire escape. On searching for Mr. Jones'
family it was found that his wife and child, Alfred
Jones, were burnt in the room, the latter to a cinder.
Mr. ones is well known at Covent Garden and Drury
Lane as a bass singer in opera, pantomimes, &c., and is
engaged at Mr. Moreton's, Canterbury-hall, West-
minster-road. Poor Jones bas lost music, plays, books,
cloaks, and everything in the world. A subscription is
on foot for the sufferers, for the funeral, &c., and, ever so
trifling, will be thankfully received lsy Mr. Smith, st age
door, Drury Lane Theatre.

THE HEAVY GALES AND THE MAILS.

The heavy gales last week to some extent impeded th e
regularity of the mail service between Dover and Calais,
as we fear they have been tke cause of much loss of life
and property on the south coast. It has blown terrifi-
oally from ESE to ENE, but the difficulties with respect
to the mai service have been greater on the French than
on the English side. On Thursday night the English
mail packet made her passage, and the return mails
to Dover were brought across by the English steamers
with their accustomed regularity up to Saturday, when
it was impossible to leave Calais until eight o'clock in
the morning, consequently the mail was late in reaching
London. On Friday morning the English mail steamer
reached off Calais ; but the sea was running as high as
the cliffs, and she dared not attempt to go in for five
hours.

On Saturday the French packet did not leave Dover
at her usual time, two p.m. The English mail steamer
had everything ready to start on Saturday night on the
arrival of the mail train at Dover, but a submarine
telegraph was sent over from Calais to say it was useless
to attempt the passage, for nothing could land through
the heavy sea at that port. She remained, therefore,
until yesterday morning as did also the French and Ostend
mail steamers. In the course of the night the swell was
very great in Dover harbour ; and yesterday morning,
as the Onyx was about to get away, the violent raging
of the sea snapped her hawsers as if they were
twigs, and drove her so violently against the quay
that she sustained some slight damage to her
paddle-box spring beam. It was deemed advisable
not to run any risk in sending her, and accord-
inglr another of the squadron got up her steam,
and in the course of an hour the heavy mad, and 70 pas-
sengers, were en route to Calais. The French mail-
steamer came over yesterday, but did not return.
The sea at Dover made clean breaches over the quays,
across the parade and the road, and on to the Pent, but
no damage has been sustained. It is much to be re•
gretted that whilst it is in contemplation to carry out the
Admiralty pier at Dover some 1000 yards farther into the
sea at a vast expense, the harbour itself should be so ne-
glected, and should continue so inconvenient and unsafe.
Had there been ingress for the steam-packets to the inner
harbour by a good carriage swing-bridge, like the bridge-
way on the entrance to the Pent, the mails and pas-
sengers could have been embarked with comfort, conve-
nience, and perfect safety. As it is, there is only a rude,
shaky wcoden-bridge, with an almost tumbling down
narrow gateway, too narrow even to admit steamers so
small as the mail vessels—leading from the outer to the
inner harbour.
The South-Eastern Railway Cltaspany's steamers did
not attempt to run to and front Calais and Dover OA
Saturday or yesterday.

PATRIOTIC FUND.—BURY, LANCASHIRE.—A. meeting
in aid of this fund was held in the Lecture Hall, Bury
Athena:inn, on Saturday evening last, Nov. 18th, 1854 ;
the Rev. E. J. Hornby, Rector, in the chair ; when a
committee was appointed to solicit donations in the town
and neighbourhood. The sum of 652/. 4s. 6d. was sub-
scribed at the meeting. Further subscriptions will be
received by the Bury Banking Company, and at the
branch bank of the Liverpool and Manchester District
Company.
EXCHEQUER BONDS.—It was mentioned on Saturday
last that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had made an
arrangement with the Commissioners for the reduction of
the National Debt, under which they would take the last
2,000,00001. of Exchequer bonds remaining to be issued,
and that, in order to carry out this transaction, they had
effected some sales of stock, but not for any important
amount. An impression which has had an adverse in-
fluence on the market seems subsequently to have be-
Fame prevalent that these sales are being continued and
11:icrea,ed. Such, however, is not the case. It is be-
lieved that no sales of stock by the commissioners are at
present going forward, and, as it is also understood that
1,600,0001. of the bonds in question have already bees
taken up, the utmost amount, apparently, for which the
commissioners could under any circumstances have to
provide, supposing their ordinary accumulations to prove
insufficient, would be 400,0001.
LORD GEORGE PAGET ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE.—
A Staffordshire man, in a letter dated Oct. 30, referring
to the disastrous charge of the light cavalry on the 25th
says : " There was Lord George's regiment (Lord George
Paget), the 11th Hussars, 13th, 17th, and Bth Hussars,
all cut to pieces. Lord George's regiment is cut up ter-
ribly ; but he has escaped as yet. He has proved him-
self worthy of being called the Marquis of Anglesey's
son. He fought at the head of his regiment. I was told
by an old soldier that got wounded by his side, that
Lord George waved his sword, saying, `Now, my lads,
for old England ! Fight—conquer or die ! ' and led his
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