The Sun.
London, England, 1836-10-27 00:00:00

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.

A terrific fire broke out last night in the very extensive
workshops of Messrs. Williams, Stanbridge, and Co., pa-
tent japanned tea-tray and Venetian-blind manufacturers,
in Lamb's-passage, which is in the centre between Chis-
well-street, Bunill-row, and Whitecross-street, and has
communications with all three. The flames burst forth
with prodigious fury, and cast a deep red glare over the at-
mosphere, that was visible all over London, and caused a
great crowd to assemble, and the numbers of police unhap-
pily being deficient, the firemen with their engines had great
difficulty in getting to the spot. The engine from French
Horn-yard, Holborn, had its lamp broken off and lost in
the crowd. The manufactory was of a peculiar description.
It was an economic improvement on the papier nzackce
tray, cotton wool being the staple used, which by pro-
cesses, all of which were performed on the premises,
was converted into a solid substance, and moulded to
the form required. A powerful steam-engine was on
the premises and assisted in the operations. The fire is
said to have commenced in the " tow-room," where the
cotton wool underwent its first process of manufacture
from the raw state. The workmen had left to get
their tea, and none but the boys remainded on the pre-
mises. The heedlessness of these in larking is understood
to have been the cause of the wool catching fire. The
flames spread with astonishing rapidity, and in a very short
space of time the whole range of buildings, which cove."
about a quarter of an acre of ground, and are brick-walled
and three stories high, ware one body of flames. The long
breadth of factory windows were soon broken by the heat,
and, the building forming two sides of a square, the wind
rushed through it, fanning the flames, and causing them to
burn and spread with amazing fury. About six o'clock the
roofs of the various workshops began successively to fall in,
when the flames mounted up high in the air. The alarm
was early given, and the engine from Whitecross-street
station soon was on the spot, folowed by the Jeffrey-square
engine, the Farringdon-street engine, Mr. Braidwood, the
superintendent, with the engines from the head-office, Wat-
ling-street, the French Horn-yard engine, and the Well-
close-square engine. In all 12 of the large engines of the
fire establishment with upwards of 60 of the firemen were
soon assembled on the spot, but, from the closeness of the
approaches, several of the engines could not be brought
into play, and the men were employed in various other ways
under Mr. Braidwood's directions, in cutting off communi-
cations and checking the spread of the fire to the conti-
guous buildings. One part of Whitbread's brewery was
close to the principal seat of the fire, and very great exer-
tions were made to prevent its spread in that direction.
The two engines kept on the premises were got in readiness,
and every precaution taken against the apprehended danger.
A large number of auxiliaries were engaged by Mr. _Braid-
wood to keep the engines in full and incessant play: By
eight o'clock the whole of the space within the exterior of
the walls of the factory had been reduced to a heap of
ruins, and although much fire remained within, it was evi-
dent the flames had exhausted their fury, and all danger with
ordinary care had ceased of their further spread. Still they
kept mounting up now and then, and the play of all the en-
gines on the burning ruins was indispensably necessary.
The premises were before on fire about six months back
but little damage was then done.
By nine o'clock all danger had 'leased, and several of the
engines were withdrawn, The fire at one time had caught
the stacks of timber in the yard of Messrs. Cartwright and
Co., whose premises lay on the Chiswell-street side of the
factory. The property here was of vast extent, and insured
in the Sun Fire Office for 12,0001. The utmost efforts were
made to arrest the flames, and the hose of several
engines were cerried up to the tops of stacks of
timber in the yard, and on to the roofs of the
adjacent houses, whence powerful streams of water
were poured down, which completely kept the flames
in check. The destroyed factory was insured in the North
of England office for 3,5001., but this is understood to be
very inadequate to the loss ; an application had been made
by the firm a few weeks back to increase the insurance, and
the morrow, at ten o'clock, was actually fixed for the sur-
veyor of the Company to go over the premises preparatory
to the execution of the additional policy. The insurance
was, on account of the great hazard, a special one. Be-
sides the patent manufacture of trays, &c., there was a
very extensive manufacture of a peculiar kind of mill-
board, made of silk and cotton wool, and called pelter,
carried on upon the premises. It was used for placing be-
tween the sheathing and coppering of ships' bottoms, for
which purpose it was saturated with tar. The cotton wool
was besides manufactured into many curious articles of do-
mestic use. By means of powerful presses it was converted
into tea-pots, tea-cups and saucers, and vases, and these
were glazed and painted ,and baked till they acquired an
appearance difficult to distinguish from fine specimens of
china. It was only by handling them and discovering their
lightness that the cheat became apparent. Several small
houses close by are severely scorched.

Of the many fires that annually occur, particularly dur-
ing the winter quarter, a very large proportion arise from
window curtains or bed furniture being set fire to throug

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carelessness with lighted candles. A mere dry' vu
would perhaps not operate so effectually as the ptbli,sing
the following list of eleven fires, which have all ocscu
within the last week, and all of them from want of due .cau-
tion in placing or carrying about lighted candles :—A..t. ,Mr.
,ution
rindJ. Smith's, 20, Lower Whitecross-street, Cripplegat e, he
Lel furniture in the second floor back room was thu's set
fire to, and the bed and furniture nearly destroyed. At
Mrs. Strickland's, 11, Lower Cornwall-street, St. Georg
in-the-East, a window curtain was in this manner set fie.
to, and considerable damage done to the furniture aod
decorations of the drawing-room. At Mr. Platt's, atto.r:
ney, 39, Southampton-buildings, Holborn, a bed and furibl-
ture on the second floor were much damaged. At Mr..
George Whitehead's, 6, Cross-lane, Newton-street, H ol-
born ,- by the wind blowing the window curtain to a candle
heedlessly placed near, it caught fire, and some damage:
and much alarm followed. At Messrs. Hamilton and. Sin-
clair's, tailors, Bolton-street, Piccadilly, a considerable da-
mage to the stock was thus caused. At Mr. Estree's, 7,
St. Andrew's-terrace, Waterloo-road, a quantity
of bed
linon was set fire to by a candle, and burnt. At Mrs.
Canter's, 12, Gun-square, Houndsditch, a bed and furni-
ture on the second floor were by this means burnt. In Mr.
Charles Key's apartments in the house of Alessrs, Breton
and Freeman, 24, Titchborne-street, Marylebone, .a spark
front a candle did considerable damage in the second pair
bedroom. At Mr. Farrell's, rag-merchant,
King...sx'reet,
Golden-square, some of the stock was set fire to and de-
stroyed. At Mr. Ramsay's, 6, Circus-street, New-road,
Marylebone, a curtain was set fire to, by which a child's
bed was burnt. At Miss Loft's, 13, St. George's-road,
Southwark, by a curtain catching fire, a bed and furniturewere destroyed, and some damage done to the building. it
is impossible for housekeepers to be too strict in looking
after lighted candles, or too frequent in their warnings Ito
their inmates to be extremely careful.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE•

VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT TILE CU

•
TOM-HOUSE, OCT. 26.
The Chieftain, Pritchard, from Hamburgh; Arita Maria,
Zeptuna, Rostock ; Emelie, Muscott, Calais ; Hero, 'Wickam,
Villaviciosa; Manchester, M' Kellar, Malaga and Cadiz ;
Margaretta, Monkmen, Cadiz; Ratcliff, Hygens, South.
Whale Fishery ; Etheldred, Hood, Jamaica ; Venus, Dailey,
Jersey ; Sophia, Tweeddle, Groningen ; Eucbaries,
Christiania.
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, OCT. 26.
The Queen Adelaide, Fox, for Havre; Anna Catherine,
Tamlander, Algiers; Montreal, Champlin, New York; Hope,
Boxer, Rotterdam • Louisa Bailie, Heard, Demerara.
CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, OCT. 26.
The Columbo, M'Kellar, for Calcutta; Charlotte', Wills°
Calais; Joanna, Rowland, Constantinople; Berkley, Mann,
Grenada; Brazils, Parker, New York; Harriett, Borrows,
Trinidad ; Ocean, Morfee, Antwerp ; Augusta, BLaisdel,
Baltimore.
CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, OCT, 26.
The Fanny, Thomas, for Terceira; Cornelia, Schoolen.
hoven, Workum Vivid, Butcher, Yarmouth and Iberie.

ARRIVALS AT LIVERPOOL, OCT. 25.
The Buoyant, Parry, from Pernambuco; Actif, Vander-
book, Ostend; Bolivar, Fenwick, Philadelphia ; Pauline,
Kraft, Dantzic ; Robert and Henry, Tregarthen, Havre;
Elizabeth Moore, Moore, Hamburgh ; Susan, Humble, Hon-
duras; Royalist, Fell, Quebec ; Betties, Truman, Newry.
ENTERED FOR LOADING, OCT. 25.
The Irlam, Dixon, for Barbadoes; Lintin, Gillman, Bom-
bay; Groot Lan.kum, Stuit, Harlingen; Euphemia, Brown,
Hayti; Traveller, M'Clear, Harlingen ; Dorothy Gales,
Moore, New Orleans; Thomas Battersby, Doyle, Pernam-
buco.

CLEARED OUTWARDS, OCT. 25.
The Superb, Cook, for Jamaica ; Laidmans, Hughes, Ja-
maica ; Hutchinson, Robinson, Trinidad ; Formosa, Mitchell,
New Orleans ; Litherland, Hawkins, Barbadoes ; Swift,
Thompson, St. Übe's.

SAILED.
The Champlain, Richie, for Canton ; Roscoe, Delano,
New York ; Richard, Blakely, Trinidad; Comala, M` Feill,
Calcutta; Palmer, Francis, Messina; Eagle, Barnes, Mes-
sina ; Mexico, Winslow, New York ; Fairy Queen, Welsh/
Syria.

TELEGRAPHED.
Wind at Holyhead, N.W.—Off Holyhead, inward bound,
the Cornelius, B. B. Off Holyhead, outward bound, the
Richard Watson, Bahia ; Winwick, Newfoundland.

EAST INDIA.
Arrivals at Bombay.-The May, June 27, from Liverpool;
the Castle Huntley, June 22, from London and Torbay ;
Majestic, June 24, from Liverpool ; the Hindoo, June 25, from
Liverpool ; the Paskfield, June 28, from Liverpool ; the John
M'Lellan, June 28, from Plymouth; the Sir Charles Mal-
colm, from Plymouth and Ceylon; the Charles Grant, July 9?
from London and Plymouth ; the Inglis, July 9, from London ;
the Adelaide, from Portsmouth ; the Prince George, from
CarDowns;Rio;"
natic, June 25, from the Mauritius ; the Royal Tiger, Jun
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28, from Adoomate Aroll ; the Psyche, June 29, from Muscat
the H. C.'s survey ship Benares, June 30, from the Alaldiva
Islands; the Eleanor, June 24, from the Cape; the Hindu'
June 25, from Rio.
Departures from Bombay.-The Lord Castlereagh, Jun©
18, for China; the Cleveland, June 19, for the Clyde; th°.
Soujee Family, for China; the Julia, June 20, for China,i;
the Upton Castle, June 29, and Lord Lowther, June 30, Int"
for China ; the William Ron, July 1, for Liverpool • the linn„.
Company's ship Shannon, July 2, for the Persian dulph •
John Bannerman, July 2, for China ; the Mary White,'Juv
3, for Liverpool, the Recovery was to sail for London July 7, ;
the Blenheim and Lord William Bentinck, for London, Jun'l
10 ; the Indus, for the Clyde, July 7 ; the Ann and Anat.':
mache, for London, July 25 ; the John M'Lellan, for London'
Aug. 1 ; the Adelaide, for London ; the May, July 7. fob
Arrivals at Calcutta.-The David Scott, June 12, ttn-i..
London, the Cape, and Madras ; the Orestes, June 10, Ott;
Bristol ; the Ncrbudda, from Eunone and Vizagipatami
Thetis, June 14, from China, Singapore, Malacca, Emu
e-
nang ; the Minerva, June 15, from Sydney, Batavia, and SI";
gapore ; the Prinsep, from Cochin and Madras ; the Jo°. „e
Turcan, June 18, from Greenock ; the Daniel Wheeler, Ju"
20, from Liverpool. and
Departures from Calcutta.-The Jane, Matilda,
Eleanor Laidmans, June 12, all for Liverpool ; the Tall%
lane, June 12, and Dapper, June 13, for London ; the -1(74
Hepburn, for Moulmein and Rangoon ; the Bengal Petri',
June 18, for London ; the Abberton, Hecla, Lysander, " •
Liam, Asia, Blakely, and Exporter, were loading for Loncln
the Hindoo, Falcon, Bridget, and Daniel Wheeler, for Lve:.
rool ; the Victory, Biden, Diana, and Lonach, for Chin
ths. Boadicea and Swallow, for New South Wales.

THE RECORDER'S REPORT.--Yesterday after;
noon the Recorder of the City of London made his ree:.
in Council to his Majesty, at St. James's Palace, of the Pril
soners confined in Newgate under the sentence of de her
;
and who were capitally convicted at the last Septerp.obed,
Sessions of the Central Criminal Court—viz., George
wards Peacock, aged 30, for' forgery ; Jonathan Walconly;
15 ; John Beek,l7 ; Joseph Lonfrhurst 17 ; John Meh°P,':
15 ; James Davis, 21 ; Thomas Lucas, 25, for burg.larily
Thomas George, 25, for robbery. All of whom his gaJesre,
was graciously pleased to respite during his Royal pieta° 01
The steam-ship Perth, in going through the Ilbe
yesterday, was put on shore, where she remained for a
tide, but without receiving the slightest injury, the gr°unf
being level. The accident arose from the jcroyv;ded etatie:te
the passage at that part of the river, and shows the abs
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necessity of keeping the fairway clear. The space there
feet, feet, now provided for by law, is not sufficient when
are many arrivals and departures

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