The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-15 00:00:00

EXTENSIVE FIRE.

CONFLAGRATION OF SIR C. PRICE'S TURPEN-
TINE WORKS AT LIMEHOUSE.
Yesterday evening,- at an early hour, these extensive and well-known
works, situated at Mill-wall, Limehduse, were totally destroyed by fire,
with all their contents. They were the most extensive in the metro-
polis, and occupied ground to the extent of seven or eight acres, the
storehouses fronting the river. On the arrival of the engines the dis-
tillery (a building of upwards 70 feet length, 50 breadth) was wrapped in
one sheet of fire. From cOriVeration with the persons who were em-
ployed in the distillery it appears that when the fire broke out there were
upwards of forty men at work, and such was the tremendous rapidity of
the conflagration that they were obliged to le..ve the building in.
stantly, and were almost suffocated. Several of them were in a
most deplorable condition. The distillery contained six boilers,
all of which were full charged and at work. There were also
four large stills, which were full of liquor, ready to be boiled off.
On the stage of the distillery were two hundred and fifty barrels of tur.
pristine ready to be removed to the storehouses, The calamity was soon
known in the neighbourhood, and thousands of persons were in a short
time exerting themselves, endeavouring to suppress the flames, but their
efforts at the powerful engines had not the slightest effect upon the fire.
The persons employed in the West India Dock, immediately on receiv_
ing information of the fire dispatched the Dock engines to the spot, and
they were instantly got into operation. At half-past five o'clock the
devouring element had a very terrific appearance, and the anxiety for
the safety of the storehouses and warehouses of the firm was very
great. The distillery is divided from the premises just mentioned by a
narrow road, known as the Ferry-walk, but they are connected to.
gether by a tunnel under the road. On each side of this passage
were barrels of turpentine, piled in heaps, and the outsides ha!,
by the time in question, been scorched by the flames, which were
completely blown on them by a strong wind from the N.E. A most
excellent plan was adopted by the firemen and the workmen in the
employ of Sir Charles Price. They, on seeing the danger, at the very
risk of their lives (which conduct, it is to be hoped, will not go in.
noticed), commenced digging up the earth, and before the turpentine
in the barrels had ignited in the tunnel completely blocked it up, form.
ing a barricade, and to this circumstance alone may be said to be
owing the preservation of the entire establishment. During these
operations streams of liquid fire flowed into the tunnel ftom the lower
story of the distillery, placing those at work in great danger, and it
was only by earth being thrown on it, that it could be extinguished,
The devouring element continued to burn till about seven o'clock, by
which period every timber and material of a combustible character was
consumed; after that the flames gradually sank within the pile of ruins.
The distillery and out houses adjoining are totally destroyed, nothing
remaining but the blackened walls and chimneys. In the rear of the
distillery and outhouse, was a beautiful garden, which contained several
valuable trees, beds of plants and flowers. It is entirely destroyed by
the falling of the walls and the trampling of the firemen and the in-
habitants. The cause of this dreadful calamity is at present involved
in mystery; it is alleged to be the negligence of the individuals em-
ployed in the distillery. It was understood that the premises are in.
sured in the Imperial and Phcenix Fire Office to a sufficient extent to
cover the destruction of the proporty by fire.

Another, and for this year a final meeting of dele-
gates is summoned to take place in London, on Saturday next, the
15th instant, to second Sir Eardleyltuat'S renewed attempt to oh.
tain immediate emancipation for tics negroes. We trust the summons
will be universally and zealously answered.—Leeds Mercury.
DEATII OF DU. WATSON.—Watson, whose con-
uexion with Thistlewood, &c., is unforgotten, expired at New York on
the Uth of February, aged 72, He had suffered for some time very
severely. He endured many vicissitudes whilst in America, living, at
different times, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Flo.
rida, Charleston, B,c. His widow was at St. Louis, unaware of the death
of her husband, who died in the New York Hospital, and was followed
to the grave by a few friends on the 14th of February. His son, who
was suspected of shooting Platt, on Snowbill, during the riots of 1819,
died two years since.

ANTI SLAVERY.—This Committee, at their meet-
ing yesterday, resolved on sending delegates to London, to attend dur-
ing the debates in the House of Commons upon the motion to be made
by our county Member, Sir Eardley Wilmot, on the 22d. The gentle
men nominated were W. Boultbee, Esq , R. T. Cadbury, Esq., the Rev.
T. M. M`Donnell, the Rev. J. A. James; Samuel Lloyd, Est.„ the Rev.
_____ _ ........ Thomas Morgan, the Rev. W. Moesh, Captain Moors".o, R.N., Mt. e notice with regret the death of Mr. Zachary
L-,
William Morgan, and Rev. *urge, Esq. 1111:t.lends of they. in Macaulay, which took place at his house in Clarges-street, yesterday,
aulyideearrthie titles
all parts of tha eaotry, are likely to send rAp a numerous It Idly of dele- Mr. Macaulry took an early and prominent part in the question of sla.
gotes,nd we earnestly wish thet kh,i, present effort ill l'arliament may very abolition, and, like Mr. Wilberforce, lived to see his effort&
be successful.—BirminghaA ..7purnal.
crowned with complete success. He was father to Mr. T. D. Macaub4y.
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ELIZA DAVIa.--Sollle conversation has taken now on his return from India.
and thin title,
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place ill the s.;eighbourhood of the late barbarous murder of the unfor- ago a
lunate PiZa Davis, Wilt) Was found with her throat cut in the bar o. Society was
the Ring's Arnie, Laxtort...place, Frederick_street, Itegent's-park, arts- the object of which was the promotion of the moral a
ing out, oillrcurrtetances which have brought into recollectson the events terests of females generally ; but the els chiefly 1
c'n'oalir.g the atten.
some i‘ li
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individualsb ° Ut
of that IterrW transit tion. A gentleman of the name of Edmund Fry, tion of the Committee was " that of fallen women lei-
- do professed an
win) possessed considerable property, and lived a short distance from the anxiety to abandon the paths of vice, but baut sought '-ri vain for a way
above-named tavern, died soddenly at his apartment, and it transpired of escape. The managers establishedsince
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• -°:°a` ..onary house, which
last year,
at the inquest, that this individual was the last person who spoke to the was opened in January4tlien it has received 78 in-
murdered girl, bidding he
---r good niaht, and wishing her pleasant dreams, mates, from 20 so 95 being acdcom,ir.r.,dated,
at a time. Two district
11141434 s to the Anornint (lithe disepee.ry of the horrid deed, It farther asylums ha ;,r also been °YL4:,' 'no i'a Carnden_two. the other at
appeared that his decease occurred on the same day twelve months, at the ',,-,,,st_erid, each of which
,tas received 12 women from the pro.
aliollt the sante hour that the inquest vite lteld Au the same day twee' . . , houo, The fnre:ates of the latter are kept constantly eas-
oationary-
-“, - . ine wasl'..,n .or house months, and that the inve!tf,g4mi,i, ws,- VoeievAed with at tiles- •ed in -ew -, g, work, and their conduct in' m
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