The Sun.
London, England, 1871-02-03 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, FEBRUARY 2.
The Queen drove out this morning, accompanied by
Princess Louise.
Prince Leopold and Princess Beatrice went out walking.

THE NEW GOVERNOR OF QUEENSLAND

We hear that the Marquis of Normauby has been ap•
pointed Governor of Queensland in the place of Colonel
Blackall.— Globe.

FIRES AND LOSS OF LIFE IN LONDON.
A serious fire took place on Thursday morning on the
premises of Mr. Hill, Willows-street, Regent-street,
Westminster. The place was gutted before the fire could
be got under. It was then discovered that a girl twelve
years of age, a daughter of Mr. Hill, had been burnt to
death. Her remains were found on the bed in which she
had been sleeping. A destructive fire also broke out on
the premises of Messrs. Castle and Brown, confectioners,
George-yard, Princes-street, Soho, by which much property
was destroyed.

THE MURDER IN NEWCASTLE.
CONFESSION OF THE MURDERESS.

The woman Barbara Sample, who was suspected of
murdering the old woman named Elizabeth Matthew, in
her house in Blenheim-street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on
Tuesday morning, was apprehended on Wednesday.
From the fact that Sample, who had been engaged
as housekeeper in the service of the deceased, had
disappeared from the neighbourhood, the police at
once naturally suspected that she must be the
person who had murdered the old woman. On being
charged with the crime, she replied that she killed
the old woman with a coal-rake early on Monday morning
when she was asleep; and she further stated that the
old woman had asked her to kill her. The prisoner
belongs to a respectable family, and her father held the
position of harbour-master at Berwick-on-Tweed for
about fifty years. For some time past she has been
very intemperate, and there is no doubt that she
committed the murder in order to procure money to buy
drink with. A great many things have been taken from
Matthew's house, and about forty,pawn tickets have been
found.

GREAT FIRE AT BURY.
FIVE LIVES LOST AND £50,000 DAMAGE.

On Wednesday a fire occurred at the spinning mill of
Messrs. J. P. Ede and Co. Elton, Bu►y, which resultedin
great destruction of property and the loss of five lives.
The mill was situate close to the river Irwell, and
formed two sides of a square ; the old portion was built
about 1857, and the new part about 1864. The length of
one side of the mill was 30 windows, and the whole of

the building was four storeys high. The cotton spun was
all fine counts, and there was a large stock of the raw
material on the premises. The fire broke out about
ten minutes befOre noon, in the muleroom, on
the third storey ; it originated from a spark pro-
duced by the friction of two coupling wheels. One
of the men employed in the room saw the spark fall and
instantly ignite a quantity of cotton. He ran to give an
alarm, and he and other workpeople had barely time to
escape, for so rapid was the progress made by the flames
that in about a quarter of an hour the roof of the older
mill fell in, and floor after floor was rapidly destroyed,
the debris of one floor breaking through the floor beneath.
In about an hour after the fire commenced both parts of
the mill were completed gutted and a great portion of
the walls of the older part had fallen. Directly opposite
the mill was a row of cottages, and a little further on was
the Wellington Cotton Mill, only just cut off by the width
of a narrow street. Both the cottages and the mill were
fired more than once, but the Improvement Commissioners'
brigade soon extinguished the fire at the cottages ; and
the workmen at the Wellington Mill, by means of buckets
of water, wet sheets, &c., quenched the flames as soon as
they took hold, and both blocks of buildings were
preserved. Unfortunately, some of the workpeople
at Messrs. Ede's mill were unable to escape.
Five are missing. Three bodies were recovered
about five o'clock, but they were so fearfully
burned--nothing but the trunks remaining—that they
could not be identified. The list of the missing is as follows:—
Thomas Stacey, bookkeeper, son of manager, aged 20
years ; John Grundy, mule looker, 48, married, and
having four children ; Thomas Hughes, mechanic,
widower, about 50 ; William Southern, rover, about 48,
wife and five children ; James Heap, carder, about 45.
The damage to property is estimated at between £50,000
and £60,000.—Manchester Guardian.