The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-22 00:00:00

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PRICE 5d

day, and the rates were not so firm, Bills being takea as
follows :—Paris, 25f. 721 c. to 75c; Hamburgh, 13 to
104 i ; Amsterdam, 12 4i to 1 ; Antwerp, 12 3, to 4 ;
Frankfort, 1494 ; and Trieste, 9 50 to 52.
The following is the official return of the export of
Bullion from the Port of London for the week ending
Thursday last :
Silver Coin to Ifamburgh 125,040 oz.
..• Rotterdam 20,000
... Calais
Silver Bars to Ditto
••• Rotterdam 30,000
••• Hamburg:l

GREAT FIRE IN MANCHESTER.-
DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY TO THE
AMOUNT OF 30,0001.
MANCHESTER, MONDAY.—One of the most destruc-
tive fires broke out this morning which has been known
in Manchester for many years, the flames spreading
with such rapidity that within a few hours after the fire
was discovered, damage estimated at more than 30,000/.
was done.
The building destroyed is a warehouse situated in
Piccadilly, near the heart of Manchester, and was occu-
pied by Messrs. Patchett and Jones, who have for some
years carried on business under the style of " The Union
Carrying Company." Messrs. Patchett and Jones were
canal carriers, and the warehouse which was originally
built by them, but had been recently sold to Lord Fran-
cis Egerton for 11,000/. was erected, for the convenience
of their business, over the Rochdale Canal.
The premises were discovered to be on fire about twenty
minutes past twelve o'clock by come persons casually pass-
ing, who observed smoke issuing from that part of the
warehouse situate immediately over the Rochdale Canal,
and the alarm being given information was transmitted
by the police, and through several other different channels
at the same time, to the superintendent of the fire
police. That gentleman displayed his usual acti-
vity, and was on the spot with his first engine in
about twenty minutes after the alarm was first given,
and four other engines followed in quick succession. The
supply of water both from plugs in the street and the
canal was good, and the engines were brought into play
in an incredibly short space of time. Short as the time
lost had been, however, it was too great to leave a chance
of saving the property. The goods in the warehouse,
which were of immense quantity, and supposed to exceed
20,000/. in value, were of an extremely combustible na-
ture, consisting principally of cotton, corn, and groceries,
and the flames having, it is supposed, got well hold of
the cotton, which was in the lower part of the building,
when the fire was first. discovered, spread with a rapi-
dity almost unprecedented. The whole building was
wrapped in flames by the time the engines got into play;
and under these circumstances the exertions of the fire-
men were directed to saving the surrounding property.
In a few hours from the first discovery of the fire the
whole of this large pile of warehousing was a heap of ruins.
The eastern gable, in falling, carried away some portion
of the roof of Mr. Gibbon's warehouse, on the opposite
side of Auburn-street, and otherwise damaged that pro-
perty to the' amount of nearly 300/. The shop of Mr.
Brown, and the warehouse of Mr. Occleston. on the
opposite side of Piccadily, were several times on fire,
and received considerable damage also. The stock of
Mr. Holmes, commission-agent, and that of Mr. Hawks-
worth, saddler, were totally destroyed ; the latter not
being insured. The amount of loss has notbeen ascertained.
The value of property destroyed in the warehouse of
Messrs. Patchett and Jones, we have already stated as
estimated at over 20,0001. Whether it was insured we
have not heard, but there is reason to believe not, as the
property consisted of goods consigned to them merely
for carriage, on the understanding that all risk was on
the part of the consignees.
The origin of the fire is not known with certainty, but
we have already stated that the warehouse is built over
the Rochdale Canal, and in this tunnel was lying a boat
load of cotton. Here, it is most probable, the fire com-
menced, as the boat was discovered to be on fire at the
time the alarm was first given. The captain of the boat
his wife, and son, were all sleeping on board. and were
4 ^oused by the clamour in the
,streets adjoining. All
.; on being made sensible of their- danger, jumped,
almost h.• a state of nudity, into the canal, and were
got
ashore. 21),
captain was severely burnt while in the
of floating wool which was on
,
water, by a. qua._ rity
fire, and no dangerous state at our infirmary.
The ruins of va
I have choked up the canal,
now
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rehout:.
and its navigation will conseqbx,:ntly be impeded by it,
probably for several days.