The Sun.
London, England, 1831-12-26 00:00:00

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN LIVERPOOL.

(From the Liverpool Advertiser.)
A fire more extensive and destructive than any we remem-
ber in Liverpool, and which is compared by those who can
recollect that event, to the great fire of the old Goree ware-
houses, broke out on Thursday night, in Fenwick•street,
and is now, at the hour of sending this account to press,
still in its subdued or exhausted state, an object of no little
terror, as it is beheld illuminating the extensive ruin
which it has caused. Our readers in Liverpool are pro-
bably well acquainted with the locality of this conflagra-
tion. From Water-street, on the west side of Fenwick-
street, along nearly half the extent of that street towards
Brunswick-street, was a vast pile of warehouses, once
entirely occupied by the business of the great house of
Lowndes and Co., and now, or before this fire, divided
into tenements. This entire range of buildings, with the
valuable property stored in it, and the books and papers of
several of the parties occupying the premises, have been
consumed. A part of the exterior wall only remains erect,
tottering over the scene of destruction, and prohibiting
approach. How the fire originated is unknown. About
ten o'clock at night it was first observed, and the
alarm-hell was immediately rung. The fire was be-
lieved to proceed from Livesey and Co.'s warehouse, but
the respectable agent for that concern assures us it did not
originate in that part of the building, but in a higher room
or office ; and Mr. Pringle being able to rescue his books
and other property from the danger is a confirmation of his
statement. However, it was in that part of the pile of
building occupied by him, as the agent for the paper-works,
that the fire was first seen to burst forth with violence.
The alarm bells soon brought a crowd of parties to the
spot, as well the interested and the useful as others, and all
was done that could be done, by exertion, to arrest the pro-
gress of the fire. The Mayor was entertaining company at
the Town-hall. He and the company rose from table, and
his Worship immediately proceeded to give such assistance
as lay in his personal power and authority to afford to the
means taken to preserve property and stay the progress of
the destructive element.
(From a Second Edition of the Liverpool Journal, 5 p m.)
A report having been circulated through the town that
several men had lost their lives, a few hours since, amidst
the ruins in Fenwick-street, the public, perhaps, would
wish to know the particulars of the fats! accident.
This morning workmen commenced taking down the
walls of the warehouses, and by one o'clock they had
levelled them all. The place being thus clear, Mr. Barn-
well's porter proceeded to ascertain whether his master's
safe was secure. He was assisted by two others, and
they had began to remove the rubbish from the spot where
it was, when the side wall of the warehouse, which had
been left standing, and which overlooked the yard behind,
suddenly fell in with a dreadful crash, and melancholy to
relate, the unfortunate man was under it. He was killed
upon the spot, and an inquest will be held this evening
on the body. His name was Thomas Doran. One of
his assistants bad his leg fractured, and another man was
much bruised ; but no further accident occurred. At
this moment the West of England engine is playing on the
recently fallen ruins.

LORD BROUGHAM.—Lord BROUGHAM has
set out, we understand, with his brother, the Member for
Southwark, on a visit to their mother in the country,
where they will remain for the Christmas holidays. His
Lordship cherishes the greatest possible respect and love
for his mother, who is a lady of very superior mind. It is
related of her, that when she heard of her son's elevation
to the Peerage, she wrote to him thus, " You are
wrong—as plain HENRY BROUGHAM you were a great
man, but as a Peer you will be comparatively nothing ;
and Lord BROUGHAM is stated to have exclaimed to a
friend, on reading that part of the letter, " By —,
mother, you are in the right." Mr. WlLLialt
BROUGHAM, the Member for Southwark, is a great
favourite with the CHANCELLOR, who treats him more as
a soa thau as a brother, which may be explained by the
great difference of years.—Court Journal.

The Right Hon. THOMAS ERSKINE, now
Chief Judge of the New Bankruptcy Court, is the second
,on of the late Lord ERSKINE, and the only immediate
descendant of his Lordship brought up to the bar. Mr.
ERSKINE, married, many years ago, Miss MAIL, a lady of
great wealth and accomplishments, by whom he has a
numerous family.

The evidence tending to indicate that the cho-
lera is commmunicakd from individual to individual
through contagion continues to accumulate. In the
family of CA RR, in Stamp's-lane, where the mother was sei-
zed after having bad intercourse with her infected relations,
the daughter contracted the complaint apparently from
sleeping with the mother, and she died. Another child
has since been carried off, and yesterday the father was
seized, and he died also. The pestilence has been chiefly
re,tricted to the east parts of the town, and it has prevailed
in the streets along side the barrack, yet of the 400 men,
and a considerable proportion of women, who reside in the
barrack, not one has been attacked. The barrack owes
nothing to its site in thus escaping. It is situated in the
very worst part of the east-end—a flat. moist, and dirty
locality. Neither the men nor the women, however, are
permitted to hold free communication with the people of
the town ; the gates of the barrack are kept shut, and all
suspected persons debarred entrance.— Times.
EXTRAORDINARY WIFE! ! Streatham
church is the following singular inscription :—"
ELIZA-
BETH, wife of Major-General HAmivrorr, who was mar-
ried 47 years, and never did one thing to disoblige her
husband."

THE WOOL TRADE.—The attendance o
the manufacturers and others from the Yorkshire and other
clothing dis'ricts has been very great during the last week,
in consequence of several large sales of wool being an-
nounced. In all, about 2,200 bales and bags were off,red,
viz., 1,610 bales of Van Dieman's land and New South
Wales wools; 190 bales of Spanish wools; 40 bales of
Cape wools ; and about SO bales and bags of Cape, Ger-
man, and Italian wools. The first mentioned descriptions
were purchased with great briskness, and some of the
samples were the finest that have ever come from our co-
lonies—some Sydney wools fetching 2s. 11d. per lb.—
the inferior qualities obtained from Is. sd. to 2s. 4d. per
lb., and low wools from ls_ to Is. sd. per lb. The wools
were well cleaned in most instances. The Van Dieman's
land wools also fetched good prices—low qualities from
Is. .to Is. 44., and better samples from Is. 4d. to
101 d. per lb. Of these two growths about 1,600
bales were sold. The Spanish wools, of which there were
190 bales, went off at full prices, from Is. lib to Is. 5.1.
for the low, and Is. 6d. to Is. 9d. per lb. for the better
samples. Cape wools went off low. The German ob-
tained good prices for the quality. The arrivals of wools
from New South Wales and Van Dieman's land are nearly
closed for the season. The Company's wools from the lat-
ter were in good condition.
ANOTHER VAGARY.--Four boys were
charged by the New Police, with selling about the streets
prints, representing a half denuded boy, with a cat in his
bands.—Mr. Milasttur.r. said, " he thought they were
very indecent; he should commit the boys for pnbliatiing
obscene prints in the streets; and ordered Mr. CHUBB
(the publisher) to find bail ; his object was to stop the
circulation of such an infatnons publication." We have
seen this terrible picture, and we will wager five pounds
on the brains of a Magistrate—long odds !—that there is
scarcely a lady's ulbum in the metropolis, no, nor a
Bishop's library in the two kingdoms, whicit does not con-
tain a dozen prints of a more exciting nharacter. A child,
of about three years old, a kitten in its petti-
coats, and in tip.% aa raises them about as high as an opera.
dancer commonly does in the execution of a pirouette, this
inflames the blood of the Justice, and sets 14in prattling
of obscenities. We would not trust oqr grandmother among
the antiquities of the British Museum, or to turn over the
chaste pages of Sic WILLIAM HAMILTON, with any elderly
gentleman of similar susceptibilities.—Examiner.
SUSPECTED CASE of :MURDER.—A ‘eiy
aged gentleman named BROMLRY, possessed of consider-
able property, residing in a cottage clt 'otteridge, Hert•
fordshire, died suddenly in the latter end of November,
and was buried ; but circumstances have since transpired
which lead the inhabitants to believe that he had been
poisoned. It appears that a system ea' piondee had bees
carried OR previous to his death, by some one resident in
the house ; and, 00, an officer going down to inquire into
the circumstances, he apprehended a man and his wife,
named BRICE, and MARX Llrw, the deceased's house-
keeper. He found, in their possession fifty-three dupli-
cates of property belonging to Mr. BROMLEY, and they
little% e
boy,
son committed
to forth
e psistrial fonir the,r D robbery.
morning of the death of My, !,-I,i.OULEY he was sent by
his mother to meet SABAH BRIE, who had gone for
gsoi;ei.ilauhdiamn,l;arifs.
his
Themothboeyr
iw,aedntto,l4b
z 137,, aitt:::awesoqfuuolertnl tAinYlorat.
stated that on the
BROMLEY, to make him slr!ap, BRIC has since admitted
purchasing the laudac,,nin, and taking it to the residence of
the deceased, The Res;. Mr. LYNPO,N, a magistrate,
came to town upon the subiect, and after an interview
with some of the Loodun magistrates, it was determined to
have the dem:AO disinterred, and, if passible, at this
lengthened period, to examine the contents of the stomach.
The body was exhumed on Sat,urtiax.