The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

A NOSTRUM FOR THE NONCE.

The tincture of Tamworth, and Peel's patent pill,
Are medicines Britannia must bolt and must swill ;

While Morison's host is in raptures to see
A Premier like him--a quack doctor can be !
Oh, here is a recipe grand—universal :
" Misce argent. aurumque (to find these coerce all
The Commons) est bolus (this Latin will end us)
Beatus, et optimus, semper capiendus."
Edinburgh, August 6, 1841.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AND LOSS

OF LIFE.
CHATHAM, AUG. 7.—This melancholy event took place
on Friday afternoon. The fire was discovered about five
o'clock, and from the quantity of inflammable materials
on the premises they were soon a heap of ruins. The
building thus destroyed was an oil manufactory belong-
ing to Messrs. Chesson and Holding. On the premises
were erected three stills for the purpose of distilling oil
from ingredients known only to themselves ; and it is
supposed that the bursting of one of these occasioned
the accident whereby Chesson's life has been sacrificed.
The place presents an awful spectacle. The body of
Chesson was dug out of the burning pile about five o'clock
this morning ; it presented a most awful sight, the lower
extremities, legs, and thighs were completely burnt to a
cinder. One arm was lost off the body. The head and
chest remained whole, but burnt completely through.
There were on the premises about 120 gallons of oil and
22 cwt. of resin. The unfortunate man has left a wife
and three children, and the wife is near her confinement.
The awful news of her husband produced 'such a shock
upon her nerves that little hopes are entertained of her
recovery. The property destroyed is about 2001., and
not insured, beside the building, which, it is believed, is
insured in the Norwich Fire-office.

An inquest was held on the body on Saturday after-
noon at the White Horse public-house, Gillingham,
before Mr. Hinde, Coroner. and a respectable Jury.
Mr. Henry Holding, the partner of the deceased,
sworn, said, the deceased and myself manufactured and
rectified three descriptions of oils. I have frequently
cautioned the deceased not to work the still by himself;
as I considered it was not safe for him to do so alone,
and was not aware he had done so. I heard of the
accident about six o'clock in the evening of yester-
day. I went to the building immediately, and the
place was all in a blaze. The first thing .1 did was
to make inquiries for the deceased. The distil-house
was down. I could not learn anything about him. I
then went and examined the apparatus the deceased had
been working at, and found the side of the still had been
blown out, and there was a large hole at the bottom of
the boiler, which caused the ingredients to ignite, which
fired the building. The bursting•was owing to the still
being so thin. The danger in which I knew the still to
be in, it ought not to have been worked by the deceased
alone, and I have repeatedly cautioned the deceased about
the dangerous state of the apparatus. Our manufactory
was always kept a secret. My opinion is, that the de-
ceased finding the place on fire must have gone into the
great loft, and intended making his escape from the lower
gallery. The deceased was about thirty years of age.
Richard Cooper sworn, proved the finding of the body.
The Jury, under the advice of the Coroner, returned a
verdict " That the deceased was found burnt to death."
The Foreman and some of the Jury considered it
highly• necessary that the Coroner should severely repri-
mand the partner of the deceased for working a still of
so bad a construction, which was done.

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CHURCH EXTENSION.—The pans,
in Huntingdonshire, is worthy the attention of Sir
Robert Inglis. Its population is upwards of 500. It has
a resident clergyman. The tithes amount to about 500/.
a year, received by Dr. Turton. There is not a single
inhabitant who pays Poor-rates who attends the church
service I It is only a few paupers who occupy the
church land that attend. The parish is celebrated for
the virtue of its inhabitants. The poor are well attended
to, and peace and prosperity flourish. The Dissenting
minister of the neighbouring parish lives in the affections
of the people at Colne. Archbishops, Bishops, Deans,
Prebends, and all other ecclesiastics are useless and un-
necessary to the well being of this happy parish.
so many people at
EARTHQUAKE.—The shock of an earthquake
was felt on Friday at Abernethy, about two minutes past
tthlsoti'mcleoctkimien that there
is n
afternoon, o
groundand by
f?r deception. It
was a sudden and almost instantaneous vibration. Whe-
theri
t has been felt in other parts we have not heard.—
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Echnlrurgh Chronicle.