The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-09 00:00:00

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING; JANUARY 9, 1836.

The Times, as old POLoxrus says of HAMLET, is
" still harping on my Lughter"—still keeping up the
stale clamour about the unprincipled coalition between
O'CoNNF.LL and the Ministers. " The NELDOURNE
Whigs," observes our Cotemporary," depend upon and
indulge him in everything which he yet deems it pru-
dent to require. Hence he gives them his disin-
terested' and generous'
.support. The price of it
is to be his strereme dominion over. Ireland—a bill
which has some time to run, though of enormous
value." Supreme dominion o.,•er Ireland, indeed I
What stuff and nonsense is this? Why, if Mr. O'CON-
NELL desired to strengthen and perpetuate his influence
Over the sister country, he would, instead of support-
ing the Whigs; do his best to opposc and eject
them from office ; for as it was the Tory policy that first
gave him power in Ireland, so it is the same perverse
system, no matter how subdued or modified by circum-
stances, that. would be the chief means of continuing
it. Mr. O'CONNELL'S " dOnlilli011" is the child of
Tory misrule. Do away with this misrule.; remove
the grievances which have made him what he is ; and
Ise nolonge: stands out as the Arch-Agitator, whose
word is all but .law, but falls back into the ranks of
peaceful citizens, and is lost amon, the mass. In this
O
enlightened spirit Ministers are now legislating to-
wards Ireland; and if they persevere
their reme-
dial system, Mr. O'CONNELL will in
a abort
time be no more than an active, industrious,intelligent
M.P. His vocation, as Agitator, and his influence as
Dictator, will be alike destroyed. None can be more
fully aware of this than himself; and none, therefore,

can be more justified in proclaiming that ths-support of
Governthent is as "generous" as it is " disin-
terested :" such an assertion is no boast, but the
strictest - truth. Were. Mr. O'CaNN ELL the selfish,
Factious, unprincipled demagogue, that his enemies re.,
present him to be, he would he the re:v last to oppose
the restoration of the 'forks to office.

We have received New York papers to the 22d of
December, from which copious extracts are given in
another part of The Sun. On the 16th an awful con-
flagration destroyed upwards of seven hundred houses,
warehouses, shops, stores, and public buildings. The
loss incurred is supposed to exceed thirty millions of
-dollars ! The fire broke out in Merchant-street, about
nine o'clock on the evening of the 16th, and continued
to rage, with almost unabated fury, till the evening of
the 18th. The Mercantile Advertiser of the 17th states
that several lives were lost, in consequence of the sud-
den falling of one of the walls of the Exchange, which
then presented a mass of smoking ruins. The fire de-
stroyed Wall-street, Water-street, South-street, Pearl-
street, Merchants' Exchange, Exchange-place, Hano-
ver-street, Front-street, Hanover-square, Old-slip,
Coenties-slip, and Governor-lane. The New York
Morning Nercs of the 20th, states that' " the confla-
gration was the most appaling and destructive with
which any city of modern times has been visited. If
we except the fire of London in 1666, the burning
of Moscow, and the great fire at Canton, we know
of no instance where the destruction of property
at all equalled that which occurred in this city on
Wednesday night. The richest section of our city lies in
ruins. Many hundred stores, filled with the costly
products of the labour and skill of every portion of the
world, are now, with their contents, mere masses of
stnouldering rubbish. Probably in no city in the
world could there have been selected a section of the
same extent, containing a greater amount of valuable
merchandise than that which was destroyed by the late
fire; and, certainly, never since our existence as a
na-
tion, has a calamity befallen this country so dreadful
and so extensive." Amidst such scenes of desolation
and distress, it is consolatory to find the inhabitants
vying with each other in endeavours to repair the losses
that have been sustained, instead of uselessly deploring
their occurrence. As early on the 19th as the extent
of the division of the City destroyed by the fire was
ascertained, a meeting of the merchants and influential
inhabitants was held, for the purpose of alleviating the
individual distress and remedying the public injury.
We subjoin a report of it :