The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-01 00:00:00

IMPORTANT TO EMIGRANTS.

Just published, price 6d., neatly T;;;;edinClemYBvo. double
columns, embellished with a Lithographic Sketch of New
Plymouth.
INFORMATION respecting the SETTLE-
MENT of NEW PLYMOUTH, in NEW ZEALAND,
from the Testimony of Eye-Witnesses ; together with; the
TERMS of PURCHASE for LANDS, Regulations for La-
bouring Emigrants, &c. &e., compiled under the Direction of
the West of England Board of the New Zealand Company.
Parties may be supplied with Copies, by post, on addressing
a letter to the ' Secretary, New Zealand House, Octagon,
Plymouth," enclosing ten postage stamps, or by any Country
Bookseller through their London Correspondents.
The recognized Agents of the Company will be supplied with
the Pamphlets, fur distribution, without the Lithograplek
Sketch, at 255. per hundred.

" This is a faithful picture of Nevr Plymouth, from the tes-
timony of eye-witnesses, and of eye-witnesses too who could
have no interest in misstating, many of them being emigrants
of tie labouring class. A labouring emigrant's letter, now be-
fore us, calls the site of New Plymouth a fine place,' and Mr.
Petro'• testimony is also greatly in its faveur."—New Zealand
Journal. •
London : Smith and Elder, Cornhill. Edinburgh: Charles
Smith, Princos-street. Devoripoit : W. Byers, Fore-street.

GREAT FIB*. IN. THE
TOWER OP --LONDON.
-------As,
Aboukhalf-past ten on , . ;tkey night, a fire broke
out in the Tower, which, ern egret to state, has beets
attended with great loss of proPerty. The flames burst
forth, according to some accounts, from the house of the
Paymaster-Sergeant, next door to the Queen's Head
public-house ; and, as soon as seen by one of the senti-
nels,
fe l
thes the
firemen drums i beat,n the riverthe
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gtslevhpeaeceeiltnee,eiNdiodqnlo.yusra,ite:aftienn-lagdytia.hit.tuieleinlesiwlplaevteasilziiteele of the soldiers in garrison were
.hnttd,h
iAn express had been despatched to the brieeide force,
`and Inspector Brardwood and e•
g down, and in a few mounts they had commenced a
well-directed play of their heee on the flames. The public-
houee otthe Queen's Head now caught the flames, and
tbe .scene inside the gates became terrific.. A guard was ,
placed at the western entrance, and the most rigid ex=
"elusion :prevailed. Egress and ingress was denied tO
every olio but the soldiers, :the police,
and h
and
the
ee
tfietraelm(leln
The flames now reached the armoury,
otructibn of the. north-east end of the. building seemed
inevitable. The exertions of the fire brigade and the
soldiers were beyond all praise. The screams of women onti
side the gates, jeho had relations within, vas most lieart
rending, ; and a great number of persops of the first re:
epectability, to 10 made the most urgent entreaty to b 4
.admitted, Iveee repulsed. - At half-past one a battalion ,
of the Foot Guards arrived, to render further aid ; and'
as they entered the north gate a terrible rash took place
to obtain admission with them, but the public were
again. repqlsed.
Aeseprdifig 42 other accounts, the flee broke out in a
wolvi,sTop occupied by persons engaged in the finishing
4.4' f armoury, and in,a very short time it spread over an
• immense Villae in.- of 342 feet long and 64 wide. Aftee
e -
'-elic Alta was given, 3lr. Pearse, the thiperintendent or
...theft division
,of police, with a strorree.body of consta-
bles, arrived:ean the spot, and used eeeely effort in their
power .to renieve the property that vvite• likely to fall a
sacrifice to the flames, vdich by this time had gained a
most eltraotclinary ascendancy, but eyeing to the scarcity,
of water from We ordinary pipes, their efieirts weekeein
availing, and }it a short time the whole exenge of heng
was one entire mass of flames. At this time the Crown
jewels, whicli Are estimated at the value of 100,0001, be-
came an-ribjedt of peculiar consideration', and Mr. Pearse
and ethers—ler-gad ..- the proprieereoreer-oniovinee - these'
upon Mr. Swift, the person appointed to have the
care of them ; Dee their removal wits a task much
more difficult than ordinary persons could irnegine.
It may be in the recollecti:on of those who have vieieed
the Tower, ancrlarticularly the Jewel-room, that they
were separated' efeein the precious amid valuable baubles
by a very strong iron railing, behind which the jewels
were placed, and were . described beethe female who
usually, went round with the visitors.- Mr. Swift, the
master of the Jewel-room, occupied thi outer key to the
Jewelroon), but the inner Iwy was ill..the possession of
her Majesty's Chamberlain, and t4ere:ore a mast formi-
dable difficulty presented itself in reaching the diamonds
through theoetrong iron. mil*. Such., h4lVeVeri wag-the
'urgency of the occasion, that It was decided on to force
or break open the bars, and take out the diamonds.
This was much easier conceived than executed, for after
hammering away for at least twenty minutes at the grating,
it was found that very little effect could be made
upon that portion of it which consists of wrought
iron, therefore the attention of those present ids
directed to a portion which was cast-iron, and in ham-
mering at it a sufficient apace was made, in about a
quarter of an hour, to admit Mr. Pearse, superintendent
of the II division of Police, and ho instantly laid hold of
the crown, and handed it out to Mr. Swift. He after-
wards handed out the other various valuable antique cu-
riosities ; and while doing so he was repeatedly called
to get out of the place as soon as possible, else the build-
ing would fall about him. He, however, with the ut-
most coolness, removed every article before he left ; and
Mr. Swift; guarded by the police, succeeded in removing
his precious burthen to the house of Major Elringtoa,
where he deposited them in perfect safety. By this time
the whole range of building called the small armoury
was one mass o flame. Such was the heat emitted from
the burning pile that it was impossible to remove any
portion of the property from destruction.
At one period of the conflagration it was supposed
that the destruction of the Jewel-office, the Qrdnance-
offices on the east terrace, from which a great number
of the maps and charts had been removed, as well as
that most beautiful arid antique portion of the ancient
fortress, the White Tower, must have fallen a sacrifice to
the-flames, but by the well-directed efforts of the firemen
they prevented this additional calamity, as they played
with their engines continually on those buildings. There
was another point to which the attention of the firemen
was directed, and that was the beautiful and truly an-
tique specimen of architecture, the church, at the south
end of the building then in flames, which was commenced
Just published, the Seventh Edition, price 3s. ; and sent free, in the reign of Edward 1., and finished in that of the
on receipt of a Post-office Order, for 3s. 6d., . late monarch, William IV. By the judicious manage-
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ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suf- Guards, it was preserved, and at five o'clock the fire was
fering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence, got under, being confined to the building in which it
Solitary Habits, or Infection; followed by Observations on the broke out, but which at this time was reduced to a heap
TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRHCEA, GLEET, of ruins. In addition to Mr. Pearse, the Superintendent
&c. Illustrated with Cases, &c. of police of the district, with Inspectors Donnegan and
By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY, Norman, and a large body of constables, there were Su-
Consulting Surgeor.s, London.
by Bailiere Medical perintendents M`Lean, of the 11 division ; Mr.. .Young: of
Published by the Authors, and sold
the K, with a number of his men ; Mr. May, of tne A divi-
Bookseller to the Royal College of Surgeons, 219,' Regent-
street ; Strange, 21, Paternoster-row, London ; Guest, Bir- sion ; and a number of the City police, with two of their in-
mingham ; Sowler, 4, St. Ann's-square, Manchester ' • Philip, specters. During the whole of the tinie,from half-past 11 un-
South Castle-street, Liverpool e Machen and Co., 8, D'Olier- ail two o'clock, the appearance of Tower-hill, the Minories,
street, Dublin; Duncan,ll4, High-street, Edinburgh; and to and Lower Thames-street, presented the appearance of
be had of all Booksellers, a bright day. The smallest print could be easily read so
This Work, a Seventh Edition of which is now presented to high up as-the Custom-house.
the public, ten thousand copies have been exhausted since its London; Southwark, and Blackfriars' bridges were
first appearance, has been very much improved and enlarged crowded with spectators, and from these spots the sight
by the addition of a more extended and clear detail of general was the ' most magnificent that can be well imagined.
principles, as also by the insertion of several new and highly in-
The flames were distinctly visible, and, the night being
teresting cases. The book, as has been already stated, is the
haiy, the whole horizon appeared a complete blaze ;
result of very ample and daily increasing experience in a class
of diseases, which, for acme unaccountable reason, have been every now and again a
body of fire shot upwards, as
either altogether overlooked, or treated almost with indiffer- though it were projected from the crater of a volcano,
ence, by the ordinary medical practitioner. The proverbial and again subsiding, it would sink into an apparently
and well known rapacity of unqualified practitioners, who sudden calm, but only to vomit forth its burning embers
traffic on the health and credulity of patients, has been en- with increased fury.
couraged and aroused by this supineness, on the
.part of the During the progress of the fire, cabs and vehicles of
regular surgeon. In order to obviate the pernicious effects every description were employed to convey documents to
sure to result from the practices of such pretenders, the various places of safety, and these were guarded by de-
authors have fur a considerable time devoted themselves ex-
clusively to a certain class of diseases; of the necessity.ef.so tachments of soldiery and police. The scene altogether
vas one. of the most stirring and intense interest, and
doing, they were further convinced by feeling that tact en in-
fvreosmt i geaetri ntegi
certain
eeelatent r a
es
toiuerecse,diseases,
acquired
whbiny
hanareixse_
ntheectecycluvmithstaentcter obfistthbericoaldle.rsetcbolulielcdtiinbgn in London con-
s being about to
scan manyonlyb e
elusive and undivided attention to this department of medical fall a prey to the destructive
_element, gave a pang of
practice. The numberless instances daily occurring, wherein severe regret to the bosom of the most indifferent *pee- 1
affections of the lungs, putting on all the outer appearances of tator that surrounded the Tower. Indeed, the feeling
consumption, which, however, when traced to their source, Was unlike that we ever saw or felt on a similar occasion.
are found to result from certain baneful practices, fully proves
with particulars received
It appeared as if every spectator had said to himself—" I
that the principle of the division of labour, is nowhere more have sustained a personal loss in the destruction of this
applicable than in medical practice. We feel no hesitation in
saying that there is no member a society by whom the book up to a
will not be found useful, whether such person hold the relation (neltsioonTaHlEbßuillicn.ctu,NT,
late hour last night.)
of a Parent, a Preceptor, or a Clergyman.
sorrow
ot
frwoorp of
tol
hi
rse
of the small armoury in the
The PARENT, who beholds his belayed child pining It is with feelings of the deepest regret we have to re-
away, and fast approaching to a premature grave, in conse- cord the total destruction
quence of some disease, which, for want of careful investiga- Tower of London, a loss which we regret to state is a
tion of its real cause, has been set down to the score of con- national one, and which will be severely felt from one
the
em asl no
swse
haari
nel early
gumption, will, on peresine this work, be astonished to find, end of the country to the other. When the report was
that in nine-tenths of the cases of young persons of both
sexes, who perish of what is called pulmonary consumption,
frarttehe national monuments of the
hour yesterday morning, it was generally disbelieved;
heart disease, tubes, &c., the sole and exclusive origin has
when the reality broke upon the inhabitants but one
been the indulgence in certain destructive habits practised by first circulated throughout tohfreasboml
youth much more frequently than it is at all suspected.
The PRECEPTOR, also, who holds (temporarily at
least), the relation and responsibility of a parent, will, country, a loss which is i_ pa A
feelingtoe, al d ePs tr
by perusing, this work, be directed and very much were used in the wars of Queen
rendeotiineinn predominated,
ed;leteh.
age the
under Marlbo-
assisted in investigating -and detecting the too. often con- rough, in Flanders, Fonteney, and Blenheim, and which
cealed practices so often introduced into schools, whereby the raised the military glory of England to such a pitch, are
health and ultimately the lives of his pupils are sure to be corn- totally lost, and upwards of 100,000 stand of arms are
promised, unless the evil be arrested in proper time. He will buried in the ruins, while all that remains are the naked
here find a clue to guide him through the intricate mazes of outer walls of the building' n which those records of the
this moral labyrinth, and a.standard whereby to judge, when , s
nation' greatness were deposited. Shortly after the out-
delicacy of health should appear to attack any of his young
charges, what the real causes of such attack may be, and thus break 'of the fire up to the peri d o when it was got
he will be enabled to check the evil in its incipient state. under, :our Reporter was present, and from being
The CLERGYMAN, in whose sacred character is at once an eye-witness, as well as from the inquiries which
concentrated the two-fold relation of parent and instructor, will were made upon the spot, from the officers of the
here be directed as to the nature of those habits to which Guards and Artillery, and wardens, the following par-
youth is addicted; he will also be enabled to point out the dis- titulars of the melancholy catastrophe may be de-
estrous consequences which are sure to follow from them if not pended - on. That part of the Tower which had
relinquished. fallen a prey to the conflagration, is situated opposite the
Messrs. CURTIS and CO. are to be consulted daily at their White 'Tower, and was joined on the' western end to the
residence, No. 7, Frith-street, Soho-square, London. - •
Chapel; while, at the eastern end, was situated the Jewel-
Country Patients are requested to be as minntd as possible in ce'
...
m • the back abutted on what is termed the Old Mill
the detail of their cases—as to the duration of the complaint, '3
toms age, general habits of living, and occupation in
the symp , Barracks, thelength
inthe building being
of
life of the party ; the.communication must be accompanied by depth, and which, i feet, and 60 or 80 feet
_. from the
the usual Consultation Fee of le, without which no notice band of the Regiment of Guards stationed in the Tower
whatever can be taken of their application ; and in all eases, the • performing on a Sunday afternoon, was a place of consi-
most inviolable secrecy may be relied on, • i derable resort to the inhabitants of London and its envi-