The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-09 00:00:00

APPENDIX.

Cases Illustrative of the Su•
periority of the Author's
Mode of Cure over the Treat-
ment by the 'Bougie, Cathe-
ter, Lunar Caustic, and Cut-
ting Instruments.

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11ANHOOD : the CAUSES of its PRE-
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Solitary flabiti, or Infection ; followed by Observations on the
TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRHEA, GLEET,
&c. Illustrated with Cases, &e.

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DESTRUCTION of CAMBER WELL

OLD CHURCH BY FIRE.

(From our Evening Edition of Yesterday.)
Last night, a few minutes before twelve o'clock a light
was observed by a policeman on duty in the gallery of :he
above venerable structure ; and, supposing from the flick-
ering of the flame that it was thieves who had broken in,
he it the clerk, who resides adjacent to the church,
of his suspicions. The clerk lost no time in procuring the
keys, and on opening the church doors it was found that
the gallxy was on fire, near the organ. The flames, owing
to the sudden opening of the door, spread with greater ra-
pidity, and communicated to the organ, belfry, and the
other portions of the fabric. The clerk then secured the
books with the greatest difficulty, the smoke being so dense
as to nearly stifle him.
The policeman raised an alarm, and roused up the inha.
bitants residing near the spot. The engine was got out,
but no water could be procured to work it. An express
was then sent up to the different stations of the Fire
Brigade Establishment for the engines belonging to
them. The flames at this time burst forth from the
windows of the building, and had a most beautiful ap-
pearance, the whole of the interior being one mass of
fire. No water up to this time could be procured, and
the opinion among the Isystanders arid firemen who had
arrived was, that the fire must burn itself out. The
church is surrounded by a yard, and has a beautiful square
tower, with a peal of eight bells ; the whole of which,
together with the church organ, &e., have fdlen a prey to
the devouring ch meta. About two o'clock the peal of
balls fell with a loud crash, which were soon after fol-
lowed by the roof, and nothi3g is left standing but the
hare walls of this immense edifice, which was capable of
holding between 1,000 and '2,000 persons. N r water
could be procured, and out of six engines which had ar-
rived, two left, there being no appeurarce of any water.
The flames continued burning furiously for some time af.
ter, and at the time this account was written (half.past two)
the buildin7, was burning from one end to the other. On
making inquiries of the proper authorities, no account
could be obtaired of the cause of this sad calamity, the
clerk saying that e‘erything appeared safe when the
church was closed after evening service.

THE COPYRIGHT BILL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sin,—Though Mr. Sergeant Talfourd has lost his Bill,
he may yet introduce another, which, as I think, will be
useful both to the public and to authors. It is an Act to
rend r it imperative on publishers not to allow the true
date of the title-page and preface of any scientific work to
be al•ered, except when alterations are made in the body
of the work. Publishers should also be obliged, when a
work is stet eotyped, to introduce that word, and the year
in w .ich the plates were cast, in the title-page ; and
they should not be permitted to alter that date till a
gentr'ne new edition was produced.
Tue effect of these regulations would be to prevent old
works on sciences, which are undergoing almost daily
charges, from being given to the public as new editions
con'aining all the latest improvcmcnts, This would be a
manifest advantage to the public, while the frequency of
real new editions would bring some lit;:e remuneration to
the author, who is now often doomed, not only to see his
works passing, through several nominal editions, and in
consequence selting extensively, without his deriving the
slightest advantage from them, but to be blamed for errors
and omissions which he has no power to correct or supply.
I remain, Sir, &c. J. C. LOUDON.
Bayswater, Feb. 6.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT CHERBOURG.—A fatal
accident occurred at Cherbourg a few days since. Sixty
sailors were passing over some planks, laid from the Fried-
land of the line to the quay in the dockyard, when this
temporary bridge turned over on its side, and all were pre-
cipitated into the water. Some of their comrades from
the ship immediately plunged in after them, and there
were about 150 men struggling in the water at one and the
same time. Just at this moment the planks from above
slipped from their ropes, and fell on the men in the water.
On the roll being called over six n►ce were missing, and
it is supposed were drowned. Three corpses had been
found.

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