The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-15 00:00:00

FIRE IN MONTREAL.

f From the Montreal Herald. )
MONTREAL.; SEPT. B.—Yesterday morning, be-
tween one and two o'clock, a fire broke out in Quebec suburbs.
When the alarm was first given, and a few of the neighbours
had assembled round the spot where the fire first burst forth,
it has been reported to us that a few buckets of water, judi-
ciously applied, would have completely extinguished it; but
such is the confusion incidental to occasions of this kind, at
least such is the apathy of the good people of this city concern-
ing fires, that neither buckets nor water could be brought to
bear upon the spreading flames. This unfortunate circumstance,
In conjunction with the combustible nature of the surrounding
premises, most of the houses and out-houses being composed
of wood, may be set down as the secondary cause of the dread-
ful conflagration which followed. It was not long, how-
ever, before the ringing of the fire-bells, and other instru-
ments of alarm, collected almost all the inhabitants of the city
round this scene of wo. But what could individuals do with-
out organization, system, or plan, destitute—disgracefully des-
titute as this town is of every institution calculated for pre-
-1 venting and extinguishing fires ? Nor was it until the arrival
of the 70th regiment, and some of the Magistrates, with a
party of policemen, that any degree of order was adopted
in arresting the progress of the flames, and rescuing the lives
and property of the unfortunate objects of their destruction
from inevitable ruin. As to engines, it was long before any
could be brought to act ; and of the miserable two that had
been brought up, one was perfectly useless for want of re-
pair. However, by the judicious interference of the Magi-
strates and the officers of the 70th regiment, among whom Co-
lonel 'Gregor, Captains 'rretlenick, ISlackay, and Kelsal,
and Lieutenant Jelf, were very conspicuous, much property
was saved, and every possible exertion made to stop the deso-
lation of the flames. But great as these exertions had been,
they did not prove successful until 49 dwelling-houses, with a
considerable part of their furniture, and about an equal num-
ber of outhouses of various descriptions, had become an en-
tire prey to the merciless and devouring element ; leaving
scarcely"a wreck behind," except the skeletons of some stone
houses and the chimnies of others, which looked, and still
look, like the trunks of so many withered and blasted trees.—
Houses demolished, 4 ; burnt, 42 : injured, 3 ; barn burnt, 1.
The number of persons burnt out amounts to 238, and the
ground which the flames ravaged extends to three acres in
length by two in breadth.—We have not been able to ascertain
the extent of the loss sustained on the present occasion, nor
how much of the property destroyed had been insured. The
total number of houses burnt is given in the foregoing ab-
stract; they belonged to 38 proprietors, of whom three only
I were insured.

'COAL MARKET, OcT. 14.
Adair's, 37s 3d—Burtlon, 37s 9d—Beaumont, 36s 6d—Dean's
Primrose, 36s 6d—Heaton, 39s to 39s 6d—Hebburn Main, 39s
to 39s 6d—Holywell, 37s 6d—Howard, 37s—Kenton West,
37s Gd—Killingworth, 385 6d—Liddell's Main, 35s—Pelaw, 36s
—Percy East, 36s 9d—Pontop Windsor, 358 Gd—Shipcote,
... 64.--Tanfield Moor, 39s 3d—Townley, 37.3 3d—Willing-
ton, 39s 9d to 40s 3d—Wylam, 37s—Walls End Bcwicke and
Co. 4ls 6d—Walls End Brown's, 38s—Walls End Burratoh,
38s —Walls End Green's, 37s 3d—Walls End Hotspur, 32s
Walls End Newmarch, 393—Walls End Northumberland, 398
—Walls End Riddell'. 40s fid to 40s 2d—Walls End Russell's,
33931;1 to 40s—Russell's Lyon's,
1 40s 6d to 41s 3d—Wallis End Walker, 40s—Lambton small re-
Us—W. E. Astley, 39s
FliNarw. EceltEMlgainin„ 37s ed—Bedworth worth Main,
I screened, 24s—Pell and Brown's small; 18s—Pelaw Trader; 36s
40s 9d—Rus.
—3EsdsFe o6nrdd 1
Main, Ayloa
6d—Lyon's,
:
sell's lietton's W. E.. 43s—Walls End Hetton, 43s—Walls
End Hutton's, 34s—Walls End Lambton, 43s— Walls End
Stewart's, 435---iliips at market, 1051—ShIps sold, 98k.

A NEwry.imyENTED- PLOUGff.—A peasant of
Moravia has recently invented a Plough by means
of which, though it is drawn only by one horse,
four furrows are produced at once. fie has been
presented with a gold medal for this invention
by the Agricultural Society of that country.
Cadiz has decreased so much in ppulatiou as
to render it necessary tosreduce to six the seven-
teen districts of police into which it was formerly
divided.

The -first woman hung in France, was executed'
in 1550. She was dressed in -a long gown, which,
was hound tight just below her knees. The
novelty of the sight attracted an immense con-
Course of people.
SECOND CHILDHOOD.-ft is a singular hut well.
authehticated fact, that Mary Ragsdall, Of Har-
rington, near Grantham, aged seventy-eight,
years, within the last three months cut three
double teeth.