The Sun.
London, England, 1847-04-05 00:00:00

rnent have ddvotad all their energies to the improvement
of Ireland. Night after night the Legislature has
been occupied almost exclusively on Irish affairs.
Matters of the deepest interest to this country have
been postponed, while immediate and attentive consi-
deration has been given to any question relating to
Ireland. An addition of eight millions of pounds
sterling has been made to our national debt, the

whole of which has been devoted to Ireland. The

representatives of the people have unhesitatingly
sanctioned the enormous expenditure, and by so doing
have deprived themselves of the power of even asking for
a remission of many of the taxes that press on the na-
tional industry, and their constituents have invariably
approved of their conduct in so doing. More than
400,0001. has been collected by voluntary contribu-
tions, in addition to large sums that have been pri-
vately distributed in the afflicted districts. Vessels
of war have been freighted with flour, meal, and bis-
cuits, in the preparation of which relays of men have
been engaged, without intermission, night and day in
the public victualling yards. Nothing in reason has
been omitted or left undone for the people; and yet
their pastors, men who profess to speak their senti-
ments and to direct their opinions, have dared to
speak in the following terms of their benefactors,
viz. :

" That no language at our command can sufficiently
express the horror we feel at the conduct of the
present bungling Government in striking off the public
works simultaneously, on Monday last, vast masses of
the most destitute of our respective parishioners, who
had no other earthly means of support for themselves
and their families ; that the cries and shrieks of those
famishing creatures, which have been incessantly ring-
ing in our ears since that fatal day, are enough to move
even the most obdurate to sympathise with those poor
outcasts, who have been thus sacrificed by the ruthless
policy of those monsters, who, as it is well known, are
anxious to rid the country by any means of its super-
abundant population.
"That Government, by thus, cruelly, recklessly de-
priving thousands of their only means of subsistence be-
fore the machinery of the new Relief Bill had been ready
for operation, are unquestionably responsible for all the
terrible consequences which must inevitably follow in
the interim from such a dangerous experiment, and are
accountable before God and man for the lives of those
forlorn creatures who are now doomed to die of starva-
tion in this unfortunate locality."

And again—
" That we cannot separate without pointinc, attention
once more to the painful subject which we endeavoured
to press upon the Government at our last meeting en
the 9th instant, namely, that tillage in this district is
totally neglected ; that combination" still continues
here, and must continue as long as the Government and
the Legislature close their ears to the cries of the Irish
people, as they have hitherto done; and, as for the Lind
lords, so far are they from troubling themselves about
helping their tenants to get seed, that, on the contrary,
ti.e generality of them, quite regardless of the fate of
their tenants, chuckle with un-Christian deltht at the
hippy prospect of soon having their lands to themselves."
None have spoken more violently than those
very persons themselves against the retaining on
public works the quantity of labour that should be
engaged in agricultural operations, and in making due
preparation for the ensuing harvest. No sooner is
the cry attended to, and a certain number of those
best able to support themselves, and most likely to
obtain work from the farmers, set free, than a new
howl is set up, and a still stronger condemnation ut-
tered than before. It is hard to characterise this conduct
as it deserves ; the term " mania" has been already
applied, and it is the most charitable way of account-
ing for it. The most_ strenuous advocate could
scarcely set up any defence, save that of "insanity,"
for those clerical agitators. We are happy to say
that few participate in the sentiments to which they
have given expression. Men of all parties in other
Farts of Ireland, however widely they may have
differed from the Ministerial policy, have invariably
given the members of the Cabinet credit for the
best intentions. They have admitted the extraordinary
difficulty of their position, and have spoken of them
in the language of gratitude, for the anxious desire
they have exhibited, not only for the temporary relief,
but for the permanent welfare of Ireland. It would
be hard, therefore, to visit on the country generally
the fitting punishment for such impropriety, to make
the innocent suffer for the guilty. The resolutions,
therefore, should be received with the profound con-
tempt and scorn they so richly deserve.

The Emperor of Russia has issued a ukase inter-
dicting the circulation of the Polish coin, even in
any part of Poland, and forbidden all the public
offices, from May Ist, to receive any such coin in
payment of public dues.
We learn from Munster (Westphalia) that on the
129th ult. the Bishop of that diocese, while walking
in the corridors of his cathedral between six and
seven in the evening, was struck with apoplexy, and
died in a very few minutes. His last words were,
"My hour is come. 0 God! have mercy on my
soul !" He was raised to the see only on the 10th of
December last.

Madrid papers of the 28th and 29. h ult. have
arrived.

The Gazette of the 28th contains a decree removing
:he Duke DE SOTOMAYOR and his colleagues from

office and another appointing their successors. These
decrees are countersigned by Senor ROCA DE To-
GORES, the Minister of Commerce of the Sotomayor
Ministry. The following are the new Ministers :
M. Pachgco, President of the Council, and Minister
for Foreign Affairs ;
M. Salamanca, Minister of Finance ;
M. Benavides, of the Interior ;

General Maziarredo, of War ;
General Sotelo, of Marine
M. Pastor Diaz, of Public Instruction and Com.

merce.

The portfolio of the Minister of Justice was offered
:o Senor ARRAZOLA, and refused. The portfolio of
War was offered in the first instance to General

MANUEL DE LA CONCHA; had he accepted it, General

MazzattuEno would have been nominated Minister of
Marine. The Chamber aat on the 29th, and the new
Premier, PACEIECO, made an official announcement of

the change of Ministry, and declared that the new
Cabinet would act upon liberal but moderate prin-

ciples. He made an appeal for support to the
patriotism of the Chamber, and requested a suspen-
sion of the sittings for a few days, in order that the
Ministers might examine, with a view to approval or
rejection, the diferent Bills which had been pre-
sented by their predecessors. Alluding to the foreign
policy of the new Cabinet, M. PACUECO said that it
would not permit the throne of the Queen of Fos-
TUGAL to be placed in peril. Of the domestic feeling
he said that it should be founded on the principle of
legality, and that, if any event should occur contrary
•to the hopes and expectations he entertained, to render

it necessary to suspend for a time the constitutional
laws, the Ministry would immediately after the resto-
ration of order abolish all extra-legal measures, and
call upon the Chamber for a Bill of indemnity
for the suspension of the laws. Some of the

Deputies brought forward a proposition to the

effect that M. SALAMANCA, the new Minister
of Finances, having held contracts with the State,
should now, in consequence of his accession to
office, give in his accounts, and pledge himself to
abandon all financial operations of a private nature. M.
SALAMANCA stated that, in accepting office, he had
made all the necessary arrangements for relinquish-
ing personal speculations, and repelled in warm
terms all insinuations against his probity. Although
the feeling of the majority of the Chamber seemed
to be with him, the authors of the proposition in-
sisted upon going to the vote, when they were de-
feated by a majority, the numbers being 134 against
56. The Progressists voted with the Ministry. It
was supposed on the 29th that the Cortes would be
prorogued for ten or twelve days to enable the
Ministry to complete its arrangements. General
SERRANO made his appearance on the 28th before the
Procurator Fiscal, in obedience to the summons
issued by that functionary, but it was understood
that the prosecution against him would be imme-
diately abandoned.
Accounts from Barcelona in the Alkdrid journals
state that the Montemolinists aro severely pressed by
the QUEEN'S troops, and that General PAVIA has issued
orders to his soldiery not to molest the people of
towns way, but to render them all protection
and assistance
A Madrid letter of the 29th ult. says—" The
in any
change of Ministry has produced a powerful effect
in their power.
upon the funds. The Three per Cents. have risen to
say this has
SprA:f.eAsms siNocrkeg;lbrautittahse a
strong friends
trong
31i. The partizans of the late Cabinet
been the effect of some financial combinations by M.
publict
confidence." oifndtiheeatineonwofC

It is said that ESPAATERO will be appointed to the
London Embassy, NARITA= to the French Embassy,

that OLOZAGA will be recalled, and a general
amnesty proclaimed.
MADRID BOMA, Alaucu 29.—The Three pr Cents.
closed at 311 for cash ; the Five pr Cents. at
191; the Debt without interest at 54 ; and the
Coupons at 17.

have received the Paris papers of Friday and

Saturday.
The change in the Spanish Ministry is the subject
of comment in almost all of them, and is attributed,
not to its true cause, viz , the natural repugnance of
a young and spirited woman to those who have in-
sulted, thwarted, and tyrannized over her, and have
ruthlessly sacrificed her happiness and her interests to
forward thoir own ambitious and avaricious views ;
hut to the iqtrigues of Mr. BULWER. The exhibition
of impotent rage on the part of CHRISTINA'S organ, La
Prose, is quite amusing. It says—

"In carefully considering the present circumstances
the events which are occurring contrary to all rule, the
proceedings of this Ambassador of Opposition, kept by
England in Spain to create anarchy, the language of the
Spanish journals which are notoriously under his de-
pendence, the still more significant language, in our
eyes, of the press of the Foreign-office, it is evident to
us that English diplomacy is labouring to re-sieze by the
most Machiavelic intrigues, the eroun I that it lost in
the affair of the marriages. The 'English policy does
not count much on the protests that it has made for the
future; it prefers to turn the present to account. It
seems to it, morcose r, a piquant thing to twist to its
profit an arrangement which it so uselessly combatted.
Mr. Bulwer, too, is there withhis vanity to be avenged
at the same time as the policy of his country, and to
every one who knows bow to read events, it is clear that
nothing is spared to promote that object. Thus a dis-
sension arises between a young Queen contending
against the difficulties of the Government, and her consti-
tutional Ministry supported by both Chambers; a Minis-
try falls at the very moment at which the two Chambers
give it a striking proof of their support; an endeavour
is evidently being made to obtain a dissolution of the
Cortes which have been just elected, and which no friend
of Spain could think of overthrowing at the commence-
ment of their first session; the partizans of the British
Embassy in the press and in the Cortes re-assume all
their audacity; the Queen-Mother, who maintained the
union of the Moderate party, has been obliged, it is said,
to quit Spain; Spain marches rapidly towards a crisis,
which may become lamentable; and during this time the
English press redoubles its invectives and calumnies
against France, against the Moderate party, against all
that can save Spain from the domination of England.
All these circumstances reveal a redoubtable cause of
action, to neutralise which too much dispatch cannot be
employed. We are convinced, therefore, that our Go-
vernment at this moment has something else to do their
to insult, in a Ministerial journal, the members of the
Conservative party who have remained faithful to the flag
under which the last general election took place. We
believe that they should not slumber in the setiefac-
lion of the indirect advantage obtained in the affair
of the Spanish marriages. The policy which ef-
fected those marriages is in danger of allowing itself to
be compromised. The cunning and shamelessness of
England threaten to turn the result we applauded to
her profit and the triumph of anarchy in Spain. It is
time to reflect more than seems to be done ; it is time
to retake the advantage that we are perhaps on the eve
of allowing to be wrested from us. England is morti-
fied, and it is only by opposing an incessant persever-
ance that we can struggle against her efforts. Why does
not M. Bresson return to his post? Why does he
leave the field free to Mr. Bulwer, who now dominates
in the secret counsels of Queen Isabella, who openly en-
deavours to effect the annihilation of the moderate
party, who ha.s already reversed the Ministry which re-
presented that party, the Cortee, and all regular in-
terests in Spin ? Can it be conceived that in a crisis
which may become so grave, when Queen Christina is
absent, France is not represented at Madrid ? Is it
desired then to lose all the advantage conquered six
months ago at the price of an alliance to
which great importance was attached ? Is it
desired to become the laughing stock of Europe? Let
our Government then become warned, and let It at least
exert itself in the circle of its legitimate influence! The
conclusion given to the marriage affair, in spite of the op-
position of England, undoubtedly assures it real advan-
tages, but at the same time imposes upon it a great re-
sponsibility. Let it not forget that for a single day !
And let Spain, too, think seriously upon it I A
malignant influence s: eks to dorainate tier destinies, and
its intervention in the complications which arise is only
too evident, The mind which dictated the famous in-
structions of the 19th July; the band which directed the
scandalous demonstrations which were made in Slain
and in England at the news of the conclusion of the
marriages; the policy which tries to compel Spain to dis-
inherit her Infanta, and to violate her constitution, and
which caresses the Legitimatist Pretender kept at London
as an object of dread to Spain—England, in one word,
menaces at this moment the repose of Spain. And what
aggravates the danger still more, this policy disposes of
a party in Spain, and finds an evident support in a frac-
tion of the Spanish press, which has not known how to
preserve itself from its action."
Here we take note of an admission in this
the organ of Queen CHRISTINA, which proves the
truth of the assertions that have all along been made
by the patriotic party in Spain, and the falsehood,
the absolute and downright falsehood, of the denial of
those assertions so audaciously put forth by CHRIS'.
TINA and her supporters. CHRISTINA is and has been
an agent of France in Spain. CHRISTINA, although
holding no official appointment in Spain, although
only simple Duchess of RIANZARES and a Neapolitan,
has interfered in the Government, exercised the rights
of sovereignty, andoverrulecl frequently the will of the
QUEEN. Such were the assertions of the patriots,
assertions denied by CHRISTINA. and her organs.
What says La Presse " Can it be conceived that in
a crisis which may become so grave, wizen Queen
CHRISTI-NA is absent, France is not represented at
Madrid ?" If CHRISTINA does not interfere in matters
of state, as has been asserted, if CHRISTINA. is not
the agent of France, what difference can her presence
at, or absence from Spain, make to France? We thank
the Presse for this admission.
The National has the following on the subject of
the Spanish Ministerial changes :
" Our predictions of the inevitable return' of the
English influence at Madrid have been realised much
sooner than we expected. After a long resistance, the
Sotomayor Ministry has been vanquished, and fairly
turned out of doors by the Queen. Her wishes were
known, but it was necessary to find a Minister who
would consent to countersign the dismissal of the others,
and this was difficult. Th Minister of War, who was
the first to get weary of his position, had wished to re-
tire. This first breach caused the whole edifice to give
way. The Duke de Sotomayor, however, held his
ground, and reluoed te the end to give up hie port-
folioit;by was necessary,
force,
andi‘i.itcco
de
Togores consented to
become the executioner of his colleagues. The Queen
has appointed M. Pacheco President of the Csain-
cil, M. Salamanca Minister of Finance, and M. Pastor
Diaz Minister of Public Instruction. These three per-
sons occupy the first rank in the fraction of the Opposi •
tion, which is callel Puritan. Their three colleagues
are of a different character. M. Mazzarredo has the
portfolio of War, M. Benavides that of the Interior,
and M. Sotello that of Marine. This monster Ministry
has the head of a woman and the tail of a serpent. It
is called a cabinet of coalition. It should rather be
called a cabinet of transition between the Moderates
and the Progressists. We do not know, besides, whether
Mr. Bulwer will be much in a hurry to adopt the latter,
for we do not believe that he will find among them many
men of whom England would be so proud as she is of
M. Pacheco and his friends. It was with these persons,
and not with the Progressists, that Mr. Bulwer had an
understanding at Madrid, for the protest against the
Montpensier marriage. They were his legal support,
and the extra-legal support figured in his calculation as
an en car. We believe Mr. Bulwer has now four men
out of six of the new Cabinet; and now behold how, at
the end of six months, the influence of France is pre-
ponderant on the other side of the Pyrenii,s."
The Legitimatist organ, the Union M'onarchique,
says—
" A complete exposure of the little drama, somewhat
political but more of a private character, which preceded
the fall of the Sotomayor Ministry must not be expected
from us. It would require the boldness of a Latin pen,
and thank God we have not got one. So many scandals
are mixed up in this affair, so many mysteries are yet
hidden in certain parts of the palace of Madrid, that we
have not the courage to raise entirely the veil which
covers them. We shall therefore be discreet publicists in
confining ourselves to saying, that the caprice of a young
woman is at least for one-half in the Ministerial crisis
just accomplished. As to the other half, who has not al-
ready seen in it the work of English policy? Evidently
the last Cabinet has inaugurated by its fall a change of
preponderance; it gave way to that reaction which has
already mani'ested itself, and which in less than six
mouths has paralysed French influence, circumvented the
revolutionary throne of Isabella, and precipitated Chris-
tina in a new exile. T.o seek the last word of English di-
plomacy in Spain would be for the moment to seek the
solution of an insoluble problem. It is the impenetrable
secret of Lord Palmerston. No one can say, no one can
imagine today what he will ordain to-morrow in that
land conquered anew from French policy. What we can
affirm is, that this policy at the end of five months has
lost all the ground that it gained at the time of the double
marriages ; and that after having been tottering and
dying under the last Administration, our influence is
nothing more than a souvenir under the Pacheco Admi-
nistration; it vanished never to return with the phantom
Cabinet of the Duke de Sotomayor, with that Cabinet
miserably smothered between two secret doors, one of
which led to the apartments of Isabella, the other to the
hotel of the English Embassy. Let us resume in two
words the sad termination of this sad comedy : it is less
a Pacheco Ministry than a Serrano-Bulwer Ministry that
Queen Isabella has just given herself. These two names
will for the future weigh on Spain, and become the
symbol of English re-action. As to France, there re-
main to her nothing more than the sweet recollections
of the .double marriage, and of the pompous bulletins
drawn up by M. Bresson. Where are now the authors
of these marriages ? M. leturitz is in diseumfiture—
Christina is in a foreign land—and M. Guizot—oh ! as
to him, be assured that his complaints against the in-
gratitude of Isabella are not the least bitter !"

The Siede, in noticing the change of Ministry,
says—
" If ft pronunciamiento be desired, the affair is in good
har;ds, for it is Mr. Bulwer who now holds the strings.
England made the revolution of La Grarja,, and brought
about tho abdication of Valencia; but she was Afterwards
beaten in the person of Espartero and in the marriage
question. It is her turn now; and we may believe that
she is determined to take it seriously. We know full well
that whatever we might have done in Spain, England
would have counteracted us. France requires that Spain
should be powerful; England that she should be thrown
out of the path of her veritable political interests. An-
tagonism was inevitable. But what we deplore is that
our Cabinnt has not understood that the affinity of France
and Spain is by revolution, by democracy, and by liberty.
We ought to have taken in the Peninsula the position
that we have given to England."
_

Had the i?rench Government taken in Spain the
position which a Government, the off6pring of the
revolution of July, ought to have taken—had it
shown itself the friend of liberty and of progress,
England would never have sought to counteract its
efforts, and the entente cordiale would never have
been interrupted.
" The price of flour and grain," slys the Moniteur,
" continues to decrease in Paris. The rate at which
flour raid on Thursday reduces the price of the kilo-
gramme of bread to 55c., being a dhninution of 14
centiines per loaf of 2 kilogrammes."
The Constitutionnel of Friday has a long article
defending the conduct of COLETTI and the Greek
Government.

According to the Journal des Chemins de Fer, the
Ministry contemplate introducing some measures for
the relief of the railroad interest. _ _

The squadron of evolution is to sail from Toulon in
the beginning of April.
The Courrier de Marseilles of the 30th ult. con-
tains the following:—.
" The Infante Don Enrique, brother of the King of
Spain, who arrived on Saturday morning at Marseilles.
intended to sojourn some time in our city, for he had
hired, for a month, an apartment in the Hotel Beauveau.
In the course of that day he was visited by Lieutenant-
General Hautpoul, by the prefect of the department, and
the Consul of Spain ;" and the cordial reception he bad
experienced confirmed him in his resolution to pro-
long his stay at Marseilles. A diplomatic decision,
however, soon upset all his projects. To the great
astonishment of every body the Infante was immediately
ordered to quit Marseilles and France. The order, which,
no doubt, r( ached by the telegraph, was notified to him
at nightfall, with an injunction to depart before day, fur
Nice, and thence proceed to Naples, At four o'clock un
Sunday morning a poatchaise arrived at the gate of the
Hott.l Beauveau, and the Prince, without giving any
explanation, took his departure for the Sardinian states."
The Three per Cents. closed at 781. 75e.; the Five per
Cents., 1161. 70c.; the Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,278 f.
15c. ; Rouen, 8651. ; Havre, 6751.; Great Northern, 6301. ;
Avignon, 7921. 50c.; Vierzon, 565 f.; Bordeaux, 516 f. 25c.;
Boulogne, 415 f. ; Troyes and ilontereau, 3001. ; Basle, 2101.. ;
Dieppe, :338f. 75e ; Paris and Strasburg, 4301.; Tours and
Nantes, 4251.; Paris and Lyons, 4421. 50c. ; Lyons and
Avignon, 4601. ; Cette, 447 f. 50c.; Spanish Three per
Cents., 34h.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON s.rocrk EXCHANGE, Amu, a.

Boulogne and Amiens, 16q—butch Rhenish, Vii—Orleans and
Bordeaux, 6}4—Paris and Lyous, 5;1, —Tours and Nantes, 2 —ll'cst
Fianlers, 41A.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
(THIS MORNING.)
Shortly after three o'clock this (Monday) morning,
one of the most extensive water-side fires, since the con-
flagration at Topping's Wharf, broke out upon the pre-
mises known as the Kent end Sussex Wharf, on the
Southwark side of Lendon- bridge, the property of Mr.
Alderman Humphery.
The north frontage of this range of building faces the
river Thames within a few feet of the bridge, the dis
tance from the one to the other being filled up by the
Hibernia Wharf, which is tenanted by Messrs. Alder-
man Humphery, Messrs. Gold and Co., wholesale
grocers, and Messrs. Mann and Skinner, cider mer-
chants. The south front of the Kent and Sussex Wharf
faces the basement story of the Bridge-house Hotel,
while on the western side it is adjoined by the wharf
denominated " Mann's Wharf."
The ground plan of the building forms a parallelogram,
the depth of which is about 180 feet, and the breadth
nearly twenty feet. The premises were lofty, with four
floors, and a double connecting roof stretched in a con-
tinuous line from the northern to the southern gables.
The fire made its appearance, in the first instance, in
the front facing the water's edge, from the windows in
which the policeman on duty upon the bridge observed
a strong glare of light, and immediately a huge body of
flame burst from the lower part of the wharf, and rushed
upward with uncontrollable fury. Information of the
circumstance was instantly dispatched to the several
engine-stations, the police stationed in Montague-
place exerting themselves most judiciously in preventing
any persons from forcing in the doors before the arrival
of the engines. Mr. Henderson, the foreman of the
Southwark section of the brigade force, arrived with his
engine, followed by the one from Tooley-street station;
Mr. Braidwood, with the Watling-street engine and
firemen, and others from more distant stations. The
West of England engine and that of the County were
also very.early at the scene. At the time of the arrival
of the earliest engines considerable difficulty was expe-
rienced in obtaining assistance, and a sufficiency of
hands not being found until the several policemen
scoured the neighbouring beats, and knocked up parties
known by them to belong to the labouring population.
Orders were given by Mr. Braidwood, as soon as the fact
of the outbreak was made known to him, for the un-
mooring of the floating engine, and consequently the
gong was sounded to call the hands together required
to row the vessel from its station near Southwark_
bridge, and for hands to work it when it reached
the fire. Upwards of half an hour elapsed,
however, before a sufficiency of men could be obtained.
As soon as possible the engines on shore were got into
full play, two of them being stationed on London-bridge,
the hose being led over the Hibernia Wharf, whilo vast
bodies of water were poured upon the burning pile from
engines stationed in Montague-close, and the floating
engine moored immediately in front of the wharf. For
some time but little impression was made upon the fire,
but by a judicious appointment of the appliances at hand
the flames were confined to the wharf, and the adjoining
property and party walls kept as cool as possible. For-
tunately there is, between Kent and Sussex and Hibernia
wharves, a passage or water-way about six feet in width,
the side walls are of great thickness, while the party
wall cn the west side is of an excellent character. The
fire, consequently, was kept within the area of the wharf
in which it originated. By six o'clock, however, the
flames were got under, and by seven nothing could be
seen of the fire except the smouldering embers and the
bodies of smoke which arose from them, and the deplor-
able havoc the conflagration had occasioned.
How the fire originated it is not possible to explain.
An investigation it is expected will ti fo
ellow the r calfor the
amity,
to be instituted by Mr. W. Payne, corone
City and the borough of Southwark.
LATEST PARTICULARS.
ELEVEN O'CLOCK, A.M.—The tire by this hour is
completely extinguished, and the firemen haring gone
over the ruins as far as practicable, and with the several
parties belonging to the property consumed or damaged,
Mr. Braidwood has been enabled to lay thus early the
result of the catastrophe before the several insurance
offices.

THE OFFICIAL REPORT.
" Easter Monday, April 5, 1847. Fire at Mr. Alder-
man Ilumphery's wharf (Kent and Sussex), Montagu-
close, London-bridge (late Bush and Duman's), the pro-
perty of J. Humphery, Esq. Call police; water ob-
tained from the Thames and the Southwark mains.
Damage:—building and contents nearly destroyed
Building insured in the Phasnix Fire-office. Contents
unknown; cause of the fire unknown. The wharf was
filled with hops, hay, wood, wool, and other goods for
shipping.
"Hibernian Wharf (jointly occupied)—partially in-
jured. Insured.
" Mann's Wharf—slightly damaged, and two doors
broken open."
The stop was well effected: about 200 auxiliaries
were employed by the London Fire engine Establish-
ment for the purpose of aiding in extinguishing the
fire.

DEATH OF Joins CUUWOOD, ESQ., THE OLD
BAILEY BARRISTER.—The death of this venerable
member of the Old Bailey bar took place unexpectedly
at Hendon, on Wednesday last. Mr. Curwood's name
has been for more than thirty years familiar to the
public a; a leading practitioner at the Metropolitan
Criminal Court. At various periods his forensic
abilities were exhibited in leading trials of interest ;
amongst others was that of the King v. Thistlewood,
in which he was retained for the defence. The deceased
gentleman retired from the profession about eight years
ago, at least his name has not since appeared in con-
nexion with any case. Mr. Curwood was called to the
bar by the Hon. Society of the Middle Temple in 1796,1
having for some time previously acted as a special
pleader.
D CATIr OF THE RIGHT REV. DR. MURPHY, ROMAN
CATHOLIC BISHOP OP CußK.—lt is Our painful duty to
record the death of our venerated diocesan, at the ad-
vanced age of seventy-five years. The career of this
distinguished and exemplary prelate terminated at four
o'clock. this (Thursday) morning, The malady of which
he and under 1-1-iicl-1 he hes for n length of tune
suffered, was water on the chest. The Reverend Pre-
late had presided over the diocese for thirty-two years.
Cork Reporter.