The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-27 00:00:00

OATMEAL PORRIDGE.

We happened to be conversing with a person in
Manchester the other day who has some knowledge of
said
apy ser as-
tonishment, nis
the state of the poor, and allusion was made to the
difference of a penny in the price of some commodity.
" Oh," said lie, " with a penny they are able to procure
moeame alwithiapovete then heard
n nttyoC makewe aid withe nn some
t,P for
ra we had n
Pais
ley
who i
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single meal, but for all the meals they
tlh." me' ' A
n
np
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tr
sobtaintheomnesirnieniyfora day. " And of what
penny
;
doesherringtlre mieta 1
,o
,con-
sistt
no,
buy a pennyworth of
hich
oatmeal, and make it into porridge ; such is the food
oatmeal," y
saidprocure
he. fora
~
They
of many thousands."
Now we do not doubt but that oatmeal porridge may
be both nutritious and wholesome, if varied with other
more subqactial food ; but whilst it will be sounded
forth, " Oh, all the foreign wheat is coming out of bond
yldwonSrintohe of Oatmeal pays a
at a chiding duty, it is unnecessarypteoncaelt,etrhetldreutCyobrnei
laws," let it ,be recollected that.thetdbuetypoono:
ccitauravritnegr
hiwonaregl aofpvaeetecistrin'i assyletnfirti for the nttegthelinfeorsrohellali firstill-sint meal-tax. cost
ntn'
It will probably be right
for the Daily Bread Society to have part of their in-
vestment in oats instead of wheat ; they will obtain a
much larger quantity for the same outlay, and the tax
on the oats will be nearly a hundred per cent., whilst
that on the wheat will temporarily be very low.—Bread
Eaters' Advocate. 1

A GREEN OLD AGE.—On August 23d, Mr.
w. Pusey, who completed his 102 d year in May, worked
as foreman, in the parish of Pidminster, Taunton, as
reaper, with four nephews, from two t n the afternoon
until seven in the evening, and repeated his labours on
Tuesday. He joined in the festivities of harvest-home,
sung a song, and walked home i COMpany with his wife,
aged eighty.—Salisburg Herald. n .

FROM THE DAILY PAYERS OF YESTERDAY.
TIMES.—If any person imagine that we could ever
be indifferent to such a calamitous occurrence as a war
between England and America, or that we could ever
indulge in such indiscreet provocations as by any pos-
sibility might chafe the Federal Government into a pas-
sionate and unreasonable temper, we can only say that
our recent strictures on the relative position of the two
countries have been strangely misunderstood, and that
the allegation that the Transatlantic Ministers are
capable, under any circumstances, of being twitted into
open hostilities by the free and fearless opinions of a
British journal, implies certainly a much severer reflec-
tion upon them than anything we have ventured to pen.
The fact is, we have never spoken disrespectfully of
the Central American Administration in any shape
or form ; and fur the very obvious reason, that, as
far as Mr. M'Lcod's case is. concerned, upon which
alone we can be supposed to have, piqued them, their
declared sentiments are in perfect unison with our
own. Of Mr. Welfster's letter to Mr. Crittenden,
demonstrating the utter impossibility of reconciling.
M'Leod's detention and trial with the principles of inter-
national law, we have repeatedly expressed ourselves in
the most favourable terms. Equally complimentary
were our remarks upon a speech to the same purpose,
delivered in Congress by Mr. John Quincy Attains.
Neither did we omit to praise the highly constitutional
doctrine contained in President Tyler's proclaination re-
lative to the recent conspiracies on the northern frontier.
On all the principal features of M'Leod's case, even as
regards the vital disability of the Republican Union in
not having invested itself with supreme power over its
subordinate States, the Federal authorities and our-
selves are completely agreed ; nor have we uttered
any reproaches against the refractory province of New
York, which the Washington Cabinet have not im-
plicitly sanctioned, if not in equally plain words (a
I,reedoni that could hardly ha,. expected), at 'least by
milder
,iiittniations too intelligilain,tralz be anyeauder'-.:
stood. But while we have uniformly made a just is-
tinction between the conduct of the Central Administra-
tion and that of the New York incendiaries, our animad-
versions upon the latter, abundantly sustained by reason,
have beyond doubt been given with a severity, not one
particle of which do we see it necessary to retract. The
persons who happen to have the dignity of that State in
their indifferent keeping have done everything that in-
sanity itself could suggest to plunge their country into
war. Never have we swerved from the opinion, that let
them do what they will to appease their irrational ven-
geance against M'Leod, the life and liberty of our in-
jured countrymen are perfectly safe in the hands of
the upright Federal Government, with whom alone
Great Britain is concerned for the maintenance of
her national honour. The circumstance that Mr.
Fox has so long consented to remain at Washington
without demanding his passports is to us sufficient
evidence that, happen what may between the Cen-
tral Administration and the State of New York,
the eventual liberation of M'Leod is absolutely secured.
If any war shall arise from that, person's treatment, it
will be a war, in the first instance, not between America
and England, but between the Washington Cabinet and
the insubordinate authorities of New York. The Pre-
sident of the United States and his responsible col-
leagues in the General Government have assured this
country that no consideration on earth can induce them
to sanction the sacrifice of Mr. M`Leod., As far as con-
cerns the•T:cstion of peace or war between the two coun-
tries, this solemn declaration on the part of the Ameri-
can Government is quite enough for us. What the fussy
dignities of New York have thought fit to do, in the way
of performing a judicial burlesque at Utica, we care not
a pin's foe. All the array of evidence they can muster
against theprisoner—all the mock solemnity with which
they can invest their proceedings, either by the rejection
of jurors who scruple about capital punishments, or
by prolonging the trial with innumerable examina-
nations and dignified adjournments for dinner—all the
stern abjurations of the dreadful Attorney-General—and
all the elaborate impartiality of their presiding Judge—
may be very satisfactory to their own vanity or vindic-
tiveness, but cannot be viewed at Washington and
London with any other feelings than these of supreme
contempt. . Even the inhabitants of Utica seem to be
well aware of the farcical nature of the prosecution, for,
instead of that intense excitement which it was expected
to awaken in the town, few people have had the curiosity
to attend the trial ; and instead of there being any
necessity to protect M'Leod from the mob, he is daily
proccssioned, at one o'clock, from the Court to his
mutton-broth amidst the huzzas of half-a-dozen urchins,
10 or 12 years old. These insicvnificant meddlers may
do what they like with M'Leod, as far as evidence or
sentence is concerned. With the perfect agreement sub-
sisting between the British and American Cabinets as to
the absolute necessity of preserving him harmless, it is
all one to Britain whether they find him guilty or inno-
cent. On these grounds we had read their proceedings
during the first three days of our countryman's pretended
trial without a particle of interest. Unless Mr. Fox
have grievously betrayed his trust, the American Go-
vernment is pledged, at all hazards, to secure M'Leod's
deliverance, and, therefore, off he must come in perfect
triumph, with the good leave of the New Yorkers or
without it. But, in point of fact,
,judging from the tes-
timony they have yet adduceiL which is probably the
strongest they are able to suborn, there is no direct evi-
dence vvhhtever to inculpate M'Leod at all. Only one of
their numerous witnesses has pretended to identify his
person ; and could we bring ourselves to analyse the
compound of hesitation and faltering assurance involved
in that deponent's hard swearing, we might without diffi-
culty conclusively show that his professed confidence is
unworthy of a moment's credit. But we do not choose
to take this trouble with the New Yorkers. We make

them perfoctiy welcome to any conviction, or to any ver-
dict they may happen to take a fancy for. In truth, we
have marvellously little respect for the New Yorkers.
Nay, if we have any wish whatever in regard to their
contemptible presumption, it is really the termagant one
that they may find M'Leod guilty. Our confidence rests
with unwavering firmness upon the prudence, justice, and
integrity of their betters—the Sovereign Government of
America—for which we entertain, as becomes us, the
most unfeigned respect.
CHRONICLE.—The proceedings upon the trial of
M'Leod, down to the middle of the third day, will be
found fully detailed in another part of our paper, from
the second and third editions of 'yesterday's Chronicle.
The only point fully established by the mass of evidence
published by the New York papers is, that the steamer
Caroline was undeniably a pirate boat, and that the ter-
ritory in the waters of which she was destroyed had no
more title to be regarded as " neutral," than had Navy
Island itself. As to the inculpation of M'Leod, not a
particle of direct evidence has as yet been elicited to
connect him with the justifiable expedition of the 29th of
December. The first witness examined was the owner
of the steamer, a Mr. Wells, who, from his own ac-
count, most richly deserved to have been drifted down
the Falls with his own " speculation." The charac-
ter of this fellow, and of the service in which he
. was engaged, have been the subject of correspondence,
we believe, between the two Governments—that of the
United Stites insisting that he was " a fair trader," en-
gaged in his regular and lawful traffic. Let us hear
his own story, which we shall endeavour to disentangle
from his prevarications, and put in a consecutive form.
It will be borne in mind that the Caroline was burned
on the 29th of December. " Upon the 26th of Decem-
ber," says Mr. Wells, " I was on Navy Island for three
or four hours. There were then about 250 men there.
I saw ten or eleven pieces of cannon. The cannon were
on wheels, some pointed towards the 'British side. Van
Ransellaer was there in command. I went from Schlos-
ser in a sail-boat. I do not pretend to say that I made
. a regular charge for passengers that day, but I received
eight or ten dollars fir passengers. I do not think I
received anything for the freight of the cannon.
I heard a good deal of firing there. I saw Van
Ransellacr, Mr. Chassin, and Mr. Flagg on the island.
I had conversed with them before about coming down.
I do not recollect what was said about my compensa-
tion. I believe they said I could make money out of it.
There was a " Committee of Thirteen" in Buffalo. It
was an Executive Committee to aid the Navy islanders.
Mr. Phelps acted as Commissary, I believe. Phelps
was the one I conversed with about going down with the
boat . . . There was a meeting at 'the theatre
in Buffalo, which I attended. The declared object of
the meeting was to assist the Navy islanders." Thus
far we have it—that on the 26th this Mr. Wells, who
had already attended the APlienzie meeting at the
Buffalo Theatre, went to Navy Island in a sail-boat
with a freight of cannon for the insurgents ; that he
there entered into negotiations with the chiefs of the
rebels, being well aware of the nature of the
service in which for " compensation" he was engaging.
On the evening of the 26th his bargain having been con-
cluded, the pirate returns to Buffalo to get the steamer
ready to fulfil his new engagements. The navigation
had already closed some time, and it was not for any
regular business of a trader the boat would at that
season have been cut out of the ice. She is cut out on
the 27th or 28th ; her proprietor "understanding
that a bond Tr indemnity was to be given." In fact the
boni was partly signed, five out of twenty who were to
be parties to it having signed." " Indenznity, ,for what,
Mr. Wells ? Is is usual to get bonds of indemnity from
political societies to cover fair commercial speculations ?
And yet this brigand had the coolness to " make
application to the Government of the United States
for payment for his boat," and he " does not un-
derstand that she will not be paid for if she was
engaged in the Navy Island affair, but the con-
trary." On the 28th, two days after the bargain on
Navy Island, the steamer is brought down to Schlosser
and took in her cargo. " Among the freight from
Schlosser was a six-pounder cannon on two wheels. All
that were there helped to get it on board. I took a horse
from Schlosser. There were provisions. There were
some muskets. I do not know how many. There
;night
have been a hundred." But it is needless to dwell fur-
ther upon this evidence. It establishes beyond all pos-
sibility of cavil or quibble the character of the boat, and
the guilty knowledge of the owner and crew. No principle
is more clearly established in international law than that
the rightlof neutral is forfeited if the duty of neutral
be violated. . Now,. the weight of this whole mass of evi-
dence goes distinctly to prove. that the whole of that part
of the American frontier in which these occurrences
took place was in a state of actual hostility with.
Great Britain.. Expeditions were fitted out. Men.
arms, ammunition, provisions were collected upon
.and,
transported from this territory for the use Of the ^rebels. 1

not by any the British party. The excitement created
by the trial does not appear to have been at all equal to
the anticipation of what it would be. The reporter of
the greatest alarmist of the press, the New York Herald,
writing from the court-house, says :—":Persons at a dis-
tance, who are wrought up to a feverish excitement on
this subject, will be astonished at the apathy felt here ;
but so it is."
POST.—The commencement of the trial of M'Leod
is now before our readers. It would be idle to offer any
opinion upon the effect of the evidence, that portion of
it which was to sustain the prosecution not having been
completed when the latest report of the proceedings was
despatched. It may have been reinforced subsequently;
and when we say that it required much reinforcement
before the prisoner could be in any danger before an im-
partial jury, we say all that the occasion warrants or re-
quires. The speech of the advocate for the prosecution
is certainly not discreditable either to the talent or the
temper of the American bar, supposing, what we are
bound to suppose, that the Learned Gentleman had
reason to believe his statement of the case as to matters
of fact would be substantiated by witnesses entitled to
credit. The only point upon which, in the present
state of our information, we feel warranted in expressing
an opinion diametrically opposed to his, is one which
relates not to anything done, or alleged to have been
done, by the prisoner at the bar, but to the actual state
of affairs in that portion of the United States territory
adjacent to Canada, and to the law of nations in its ap-
plication to the real circumstances. Mr. Hall says:—
" Mr. Wells saw in the circumstance of the excite-
ment and curiosity, which were drawing thousands to
Schlosser, of whom not one in a thousand went to the
island—he saw an opportunity of making gains by his
little boat, which was hardly larger than a ferry boat,
and which was lying idle at Buffalo. With this, and no
other motive than that of profit, he started from Buffalo
on the 28th of December 1837, to Schlosser. He stop-
ped at all the intermediate points cr landing places
where boats had heretofore stopped. After reaching
Schlosser, about two o'clock in the day, he went from
there to Navy Island ; he made two trips in the course
of the afternoon, carrying passengers and such articles
as were brought to him to be conveyed, and such as were
conveyed by other ferry boats. Amongst these articles
it will appear there was a cannon. Much stress has been
laid upon this circumstance ; and I therefore pause one
moment to comment upon it, so far that you may per-
ceive what force an act of this kind should have. it was
one of those articles which, when nations are at war,
neutrals are prohibited to convey, under pain of forfeiture
if taken. If a neutral undertake to carry arms and mu-
nitions of war, the vessel and articles so conveyed are
liable to forfeiture. But if a vessel carry such articles
to the destined point and land them, she cannot after-
wards be held' liable. The moment the articles are
landed she is no longer liable to be seized or molested.
This law applies upon the high seas, the common high-
way of all nations. In this portion of the territory it
would apply only in cases of seizure within the waters
of Great Britain, and it would not extend to them the
right of coming within our own waters."
The whole merit of the case rests upon this part of
the prosecutor's speech, and if this can be shown to be
erroneous in fact and in law, as we think it can, we are
entitled to conclude, not that the trial will terminate in
the acquittal of M'Leod, but that it ought to do so.
" When nations are at war," says the New York Attor-
ney-General. Ay, but in this case nations were not at
war. There was no war—there was a rebellion; find the
law of nations, assuming that he stated it correctly in its
application to the rights of neutrals in a war between
nations, is not, therefore, the law of nations in a case in
which rebel subjects are contending against their lawful
Sovereign. The sympathisers of the United States
found within the Canada frontier, abetting in arms the
rebel Canadians, m;ght lawfully, and in conformity
with the general usage of civilised nations, be hanged,
although the Swiss mercenaries to whom Mr. Hall
elsewhere alludes, fighting under the banners of
contending nations, are not exposed to so ignomi-
nious a fate. This is an important distinction which
the New York Attorney-General entirely overlooks.
But there is another and still more important distinc-
tion which cannot have been present to the mind of the
New York Attorney-General when he uttered his dictum
upon the law of nations as applicable to the case of Mr.
M'Leod. The conflict within the Canadian frontier was
a conflict of rebellious subjects against their lawful So-
vereign, and if the Government of the United States, as
a Government, Was not, as we suppose Mr. Hall will not
contend it was, cowardly and treacherous to the last de-
gree, in its relations with the Government of Great
Britain, the aid afforded to the Canadian rebels by the
sympathisers of the United States was aid afforded by
subjects in defiance of their own lawful Government,
and in rebellion against that Government. There was
rebellion on both sides of the river—the one rebellion
acting upon and stimulating and reinforcing the
other. The cannon of which Mr. Hall speaks
so lightly is not an insignificant circumstance. Where
did the sympathisers obtain this cannon? Had they a
foundry for cannon ? Are pieces of artillery articles of
sale and purchase at the fairs on the United States' side
of the St. Lawrence ? No ! The cannon had been

taken from an arsenal of the United States, and taken in
rebellious defiance of the Government of the United
States. Nor was this the only outrage which attested
the utter impotency of the Government of the United
States to restrain the rebellious excesses of its own sub-

jects. In reference to such a state - may be
affirmed with confidence that the right of self-defence
had superseded the ordinary law of nations, or rather,
that the ordinary law of nations in relation to the rights
of neutrals in a war between State and State was ut-

Mr. M'Leod, which we subjoin to our report of trial,
terly inapplicable to the circumstances. Theltehteter of
will be read with interest at the present moment.
lIERALD.—We are now enabled to lay before our
readers the proceedings which have taken place in the
preliminary stages oflWLeod's trial. It is in a remote
town in a remote corner of the northernmost of the
United States—the youngest nation in existence which
can be said to have taken rank among the maritime
powers of the world—that, in the person of a private
individual no less a delinquent is arraigned than the
Imperial Majesty of Great Britain. It is in the nine-
teenth century—in the zenith of her power, in the per-
fection of her institutions, in the undisputed supre-
macy of her commercial capital, and her social pros-
perity—with no other interruption to the accumulated
trophies of a quarter of a century of peace (glorious
to herself and fortunate for mankind) but the laurels
newly culled by her victorious forces in the noblest coun-
tries of the east—it is in the full vigour of her political
existence, and in the plenitude of her grandeur among
the paramount empires of the old world—that Great
Britain has, by her Government, tacitly consented to
permit her own acts, in the extinction of a rebellion
among her subjects in one of her distant Transatlantic
colonies; to be criminally challenged and adjudicated
upon by a municipal rather than `a national tribunal of
those United States. It remains to be seen whether or
not she will permit those acts, after solemnly reclaiming
them for her own, to be punished, too, in the person of
that private subject, her accredited and recognised
servant. To the operation of what potent but
at present inexplicable causes, posterity may one
day attribute her submission to such indig-
nity and insult, it might be matter for curious
speculation to anticipate, did time or space per-
mit us to enter upon it. But at present
.all
that our duty as journalists exacts of us, in relation
to this matter, is to record the astounding fact that the
arbitress of nations in the old world—on a question
in-
volving the rights of her independence in. repressing
abettors of that revolt---has permitted
re-
volt among her own colonists and
peprtsinoinashsipnecigi foreignoirtehsseeloffto bo
of her outraged
cited, and, in the unfranchised
subject has actually appeared—before
Oyer and
e
Terminer—to plead to an indictme
pro-
vincial American Court—before Jul
however, to the task
do not trust ourselves, at present,
of discussing questions
toof be dealt with is one of
isttioefesmoufrder l
de-
gradation, when the case abstract political
o;f an illegal and indefensible
death—
under the assumption of
Criminal Court—of a British.
practical political reFults and of the life or
jurisdiction by a foreign es,
act which even if committed by
subject, .
an
the discharge of his duty to his
Sovereign, and on the responsibilityhlinivascslomorgomednwntliteid
. of his allegiance.
.)ftlicnature of the evidence, to which we shall more
particularly recur at another opportunity, we know not.
that wo can give a brief epitome, so far as it- has been
given, better calculated to convey to the resider our own

STANDARD.—ShouId the United States Attor-
ney-General succeed establishing the allegations
contained in his address (and we agree with the
Morning Herald in dissenting from the estimate which
has been formed of the tempei and animus of his
speech by some of our Contemporaries), be has no
case on which an honest and intelligent Jury ought to
convict. The various counts comprised its the indict..
ment differ, not merely in the description of the weapon
employed in effecting the imputed murder, but in
the especial identity of the presumed criminal. One
recites that be was shot with a gun ; another with a
pistol, discharged by Alexander M'Leod ; " whilst
others affirm that the shot was fired by one John
Mosier, and that M'Leod was aiding and abetting
him." As eur Contemporary has shown, by an
extract from " Blackstone," "a precise and suflicic;nt
certainty as to the identity of the person • must
be indicated by the indictment, which must set
forth the Christian name, surname, and addi-
tion of the state, degree, registry, time or place,
and tho country of the offender, and all this
to identify his person ;" an authority which ought
to have the more weight with the Utica Jury, seeing
that the whole argument of the counsel for the prose-
cution professes to be based upon British law. With
regard to the temper and animus of the speech of the
American Attorney-General, we confess we look in
vain for the passages on which such qualities hay
been attributed to it. In the excited state of mind
in which the American public bas been kept, and
after the flood of falsehood and misrepresenta-
tion which has been poured upon it, in reference
to this case, there was surely no necessity
for the Attorney-General to call upon the Jury, if he
did not " press the cause with the vigour essentia ho
the development of truth to redouble their own vigil-
ance, lest truth should be crushed by error." No reluc-
tance to see matters in the most unfavourable light need
hate been anticipated on such an occasion, nor was it
likely to avert such a verdict as the Learned Counsel
thus significantly prayed for. He tells his auditors in
effect to mistrust their own judgment, in the event
of any inference favourable to the prisoner, and
impute to his (the Attorney General's) weakness or
misapprehension any impression which his statement
of the case may lead them to entertain of his inno-
cence. Surely there is little either of generosity or
justice in such an appeal. If, however, the allega-
tions contained in the address alluded to be not much
more effectually supported- than they were by the first
three days' testimony for the prosecution, a legal
conviction will be impossible. However this may be,
it seems perfec ly understood on all sides that
the life of Mr. M'Leod is in no sort of jeopardy. If
found guilty, the reversal of .his sentence is certain,
notwithstanding the exposition of the law entered into
by his prosecutor. Whether he was or was not a party
to the death of Durfee is of comparatively trivial im-
portance. We were assured, however, a few days ago
by a gentleman who assisted at the cutting out and de-
struction of the Caroline, that M'Leod was neither
present at, nor aware of, the exploit, until the morning
after its achievement. We presume that there will be
no difficulty in satisfactorily establishing this fact.
COURIER.--The evidence adduced on M'Leod's
trial, which apeeared iri eztenso in yesterday's Courier,
establishes beyond the reach of cavil or doubt, the pirati-
cal character of the Caroline and of its owner and crew.
Irrelevant and forceless as it is regarding the question
really at issue, namely, M'Leod's alleged share in the
valorous and perfectly justifiable enterprise, which re-
sulted in the destruction of the " Navy Island steamer,"
it is irresistibly conclusive as to the predatory nature of
the service in which it had been engaged. Upon
this point, we believe, a controversy was kept up for a
considerable time between the two Governments, and
much ingenious casuistry expended, the American Go-
vernment insisting upon the lawfulness of the service in
which the steam-boat was employed, and for which she
had been " cut out of the ice" a day or two before,
while the British authorities all along maintained
that the Caroline had been in the employment
of the rebellious and maurading horde that had.
invaded and taken possession of Navy Island, and,
being se, richly deserved the fate she met with.
This was the very first question raised between the
two Governments—the American authorities having
had the modest effrontery to demand compensation for
the loss of the Caroline ! Well, we suppose after thp
admissions that have been wrung from its owner,, on
the subject of his steam-boat speculation, that the
Federal Government wilt resort to no more offensive
quibbling as to his having been engaged in regular and
lawful traffic. As between the two nations the charac-
ter of the transaction has been irreversably established,
the Caroline in being sent adrift down the Falls
met only with its deserts ; the brave men who
inflicted upon it so frightful a doom, baying evinced
tie utmost forbearance in allowing
its feeebooting
From,t the
owner and crew to escape a similar doom.
fellow's own evidence we have. it that he bad been on
is
the 26th of December, just three days before the
icandaro-
line was sent adrift, with the rebels a
there
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we
have
indemnified by
the American Government.

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obtain a Post-office money order above .5/ ,
that amount for cash. The bankers, little
twelve shillings," upon their London
Mulkey and Co.; but it has since he
thea a
trap matter
thus o f
set,P e
agents, Messrs.
a "y" was added to the word "eiht"
ascertained that
the figure ." 8," and 80/, 12s. drawn f and and a“ 0" to
of 721. upon the speculation. This or it, leaving a profit
make the parties come to the is almost sufficient to
friend Paul, ' never to do resolution, like our old
Tire London bankers, we agood-natured thing again."
Essex Herald. hear, are the real sufferers.-
1?
...IRE IN LONG-ACRE. 03
at twenty minutes before n Monday morning,
one
destructive fire broke out o'clock, an alarming and
Mutty, landlord of the King's
the premises of Mr. John
Castle-street, Long-acre. ing's Arms public-house, in
discovered by the police, The fire was fortunately early
from their beds, had and the family, being aroused
down a back staircase onlyin their
time, to effect their escape
firementheir night-dresses. By the
prompt exertions of the
extin-
guished, but not before the the fire was
tap-room, parlour, bar, and
its contents were destroyed, and the upper rooms con-
e fire was eaiiied by some lighted
tobacco falling,
unobserved, amongst the saw-dust in
the
tap-room.