The Sun.
London, England, 1840-06-10 00:00:00

WINDOW DUTY.

A Return of the Duty on Windows assessed for,the
Twelve Towns in England.which contribute the largest
Amount :--

. AMOUNT OF DUTY.
1837. lB3B.
Bath £18,432 411 18 648 4 8
Birmingham 7,607 7 11 7.762 4 8
Brighton
Bristol .
Cambridge Town, &e„, 3,991 5 8 4,058 10 9
Cheltenham 5,395 14 7 5,312 8 8
Clifton . 5.10 t 4 1 5,213 311
Leeds

Liverpool 21,789 17 3 22,277 15 11
4,841361 3 6
34,6864,8
194 101
Portsmouthrich ...
9 Manchester
No
12 4
THOAAS LIGI-112FOOT, A. and C. G.
Account and Comptroller-General's Office,
Stamps and Taxes, May 30, 1840.

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RICHMOND
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ROYAL DISPENSARY FOR DISEASES OF THE
EA R, DEAN-STREET, SOHO-SQUABS.—The twenty-fourth
given directions for a series of
wv.Layie,hanhdadthbeeeanppwraolalceidi annual general meeting of the Governors of this Institution was
The Duke of Richmond h
going on, conducted with equal good held on Thursday last, Lord Fitzalan, V.P., in the Chair, sup-
repairs, which are nowbt3
iptain Hampton, the Seneschal of ported by the Earl of Dartmouth. The report congratulated
the Governors on the success of the Charity, and the support
mpraonbacbiflytabste.erwreisllerrvejeodicfreoti;
which it received from many distinguished individuals, as well
up wi li the exception
of
alated rubbish of ages, is now laid as on the unabated confidence of the classes for whose benefit it
obstructed by the accunroi:st,
sttate. Itnhetipie aluistetatilat destructiont
perfect specimen- of Norman for- was established, as shown by the fact that upwards of 1,000 poor
The tower, the ,
is
open.ow restored to its former
the castle were discovered, the patients have been admitted during the past year. The report
o.fnttohe excavation. tho remains of. .the attributed much of this to the circumstance that all violent cur-
state. castle. The entrancey t
along with a plate of copper gical operations are avoided I,y the medical officers of the Dis-
Original great
fees I 'oh which is now restoring to its original • '
, and his Seneschal. A low pensary so much so, that although it was the first institution in
-osmtlaiell kteloeop;
foundation, re-erected, various •
‘icieiresedoe::::di‘ tower, popularly called "The
of England where the catheter was employed, yet that that instru-
height.ment was never used except in cases of emergency, on account
t ai
sidesa 'ti
energy,
HeartyL g
remainingnys Linder Ne and skill
oii ln' d' luroP.
e'
"
the present reign
of the of the danger which often attends its use. The experience of
peen pointed out by ancient tradition
date of the repairs, with the names
owners, snake several additions to the remedies for diseases of the ear.
the bye-gone' year has enabled Mr. Curtis, the surgeon, to
archedG oHall,.,had long
door-way
Theof creosote in cases of deafness, attended with defi-
asrecording the
eiene usein the secretion of cerumen ; of valerian, in tinnitus
tZe entrance of a subterraneanopfassage.leadisng tol St. Mar-
atineYm, and iodine for deafness depending on atony of the
tin' • nom on the opposite side the riveF w
.a e. To de_ annum,
and muscles of the ear, were particularly mentioned.
terms ipne this interesting question severaloa spiritedinhabitants of
A vote of thanks was passed to the medical officers, and Mr.
the approbation
exploratoryC,itain Hampton, contri- ,
Richmond, with Curtis briefly returned thanks. The list of subscriptions in-
sagebuted to a fend for making
tthe e; xteavation.s. A pas-
eluded the names of the Queen Dowager, • King Leopold, the
has certainly been found, b termination has not
Dukes of Norfolk, Buceleuch, and Rutland; the Earls of Hare-
been ascertained ; several workmen are now employed for that
wood, Surrey, and Tankerville ; the Chairman, the Lord
purpose.— Tyne Pilot.
CoAL.—On .Mayor, &c.
1' RUG FOUND IN Wednesday
DEATH OF DR, CALVERT, WARDEN OF THE
George Ross- and James • •
ine as two colliers,
~, . Gardner,
COLLEGIATE CHURCH.—In our obituary will be found re-
mtorrn in one of the room; of the !Ad Mutrfield pit, at Gargies-! corded the death of the Very Rev. Thomas Calvert, D.D.,' for
were
tht y found a living frog embedded in the solid seam of•.
the last 17 years " Warden of Christ's College, Manchester "
coal, at least- twe:ve fathoms beneath the surface,of the earth. and head of the collegiate body,' and also of the clergy of this
The niche in \V Ile I• 11 it had lived was perfectly smooth inside, of, ish The warden was in his 60th year. During, the night
the exact shape of the frog, and without crack ar -
. a or crevice' to opf Sunday week, the 24th nit., at his residence at Ardwicke,
give adinittanee to air. The hind legs of the animal are at, he- was seized- with parafyis ; and, notwithstanding prompt
least a third longer than usual, the fore legs shorter, the toes medical aid, the system was unable,to recover from this attack;
longer and harder, and its general colour is of a bronze shade. and ultimately sunk under it on Thursday morning last, about
It leaped briskly about the moment that it was expiated from; eight o'clock. It is somewhat remarkable, that the• Warden's
it -narrow cell. How many centuries it has been shut out; predecessor was also seized with sudden illness on a Sunday,
from light arid air, and entombed in its dreaty dormitory, it 151
, which proved fatal in a few days. Dr. Calvert was the eighth
possibleim to certainsay_ it is, that although diminutive ,W warden, under the last foundation of the college, that of
in n with grlliancy of eye, it has a most antedi-'
i CharlesJ. in
, 1635. The right of presentation to the Warden-
luviao aspect.— Edinburgh Cotenant. . ~ .
I ship is in the Crown.—Manchester Guardian.

John Noble—l live at '24, Old-street, and and .3nl a
baker. At ten minutes to two o'clock on Sunday
morning, I was coming down l'aternoster-row, and heard
a cracking of wood in Ivy-lane. I went up to sec what
was the matter, and saw a fire under the window
of Mr. Price's house. Same Police came, , and
we all knocked at the door, and a Man and woman and
child appeared at the secon&floOr windows. They threw
up the windows, and got out and hung fdr some time.
One of the policemen held his great coat out, and one
of the children was thrown safely oqt into it.. The
man.and woman afterwards safely got- out; by getting
on the ledge and dripping-therefrom. Afterwards I
saw Price in the street, lamenting and crying that his
wife was lost in the fite. I first obs,rved the fire in the
cellar through the grating under the shop Window. It
afterwards burst ny through the floor of. the - shop. I
came out .at.thii Window above the door. In about two
Minutes after it appeared n the first floor windows,
and shortly after the engines came, and I moved away
up the street. I saw nothing of any others _coming out
of the Hduse. I broke the window over the shop door
-by knooking'at the door.
--By the Jury-I should say a quarter of an hour
.elapsed between the time I discovered the fire, dud
the time that the woman escaped from the window. , I
should say the fire %a% in the front part of the" e'elar.
The policeman asked the man if there were any more
people in the house. and said, there were five. •No one
seemed to know where. the fire.e.capes were. The police
said there Vi'erenot4 nearer than Holborn-bill. Ilad
fire-escapes been -there,' I think' all might have been
saved. - A great number. of: policemen were there very
soon after. I gave the alarm, but: none seemed to
know where the fire-escapes were.

Cooper, the policeman, recalled—Said that the
engine had been worked for some fine only by feu,
men, and, that many persons refused their assistant
or
The order 3 to the police are to apply in case of fire at
the nearest fire station.

• Henry• Morris, the errand-boy of Mr. Price, proved
the names and ages of the deceased perscni.
One of the Jury who knew the premises explained the
plan of them, from which it appeared that a light on
`the back shop floor, when seen from the street, would
appear to come from the cellar.
J. Jackson—l am ward beadle of St. Faith. Iha I,
posse.sion of the fire. ladders. I was called üboutat
past-two. I had no time to procure ladders. he))

take me a quarter of an hotryjskact the ladders. I
three locks to undo, end to 'drag the ladders forty feef,
down the church-yard.

Mr. Burrell had possession of the ladders of Chris.
church. He Went to hydane,- and when he arrived
there hp. was. told that all the persons had escaped.
Mr. Braidwood, recalled; said that if the police had
keys of the fire-ladders they would be got at more easily y
but those long ladders were of no use at the back of a
house. The best ladder to be used was a scalintlaticktr.
as used in the a! my.
Mr. Steill, a Juryman—lf the present ladders, instead
of being fstcned by lock and key, were kept suspended
upon books would they not be more easily got at?
Mr. Braidwood—Of course they would, but l should
suppose the parish officers in that ease would be afraid
they might betaken away and used for other purposes.
The qoatoNrOnquired if there was any further
evidence, and being answered in the negat4l4
proce.dcd to sum up the evidence, and recommended
.that L very- house should be provided with a fire escape.
Mr. Braidwoud, at the cooclusiOn 'Of the summing- up,
s tid that at the fire ~stations -ladders were kept as
well as engines. •
The Jury having consulted together a short time, re-
turned a vcrd et of " Accidental Death."
By this dreadful calamity Mr. Price, in addition to
his domestic -bereavement, has lost everything he pos-
sessed, as his property was uninsured, acd he is now at
the house of a friend homeless and destitute, and nearly
bereft of reason. A subscription, we understand, has
been set on foot for hiS

.=llcnry2l, Newiate Market. The
back of my, premises looks into the back' of:the prertiws
destroyed. I awoke• about halfltast one o'clock on
S'unilTly morning, and looked out and saw the skylight
inflPtice's shop with it light it, about the size' of a
gas-light. I heard a boy's voice calling, ." Master;
master, here's a fire ;" and the man's voice answered,
e‘ Put it out ;" and the boy said, " I can't," I then
endeavoured to get a light, a Id returned to the windox,
by which time the flames hid burst up through the sky-
light. I saw nothing of any persons escaping from the
house, being occupied in saving my own pm-
perty, and providing for the safety of those in my
own house. I have no doubt but that, when I first
saw it, the fire might have been extinguished by 'a pail
of water. I should think, within a quarter of an hour:
from the discovery of the fire, the persons must haw
been destroyed.

After the inquest Mr. Steil( read two propoiouti„
one of his tr.vn that the fire ladders should be kept
merely suspended by hooks, and not secured by lolts,
and locks, and that to prevent their being purloined
that they should be painted of a bright scarlet coFour,
and the name of the pa:ish painted .on them. The
other that. of the Commissioner of City Police, that the
police should have ke3 s of the ladders, and be answer,
able for their production.
At the close of the proceedings, a gentlentsn came
forward and said he WAS cocunissioned by Linficld ami
nis wife to express publicly their gratitude to the po.,
lieematiMorris,as it was owing entirely to his presenat of
mind and coGines that they were indebted inr the pre-
servation of their lives ; and he hoped that the matter
would be represented in the proper quarter, so that he
might be pre:noted.

J. Morris, policeman 222, was on his beat 'in St.
Paul's Churchyard, and smelt fire. Himself and an-
other policeman went down Ivy-lane, and saw nothing.
They shortly afterwards returned up Ivy-lane, and dis-
covered the premises of Mr. Price on fire. Witness
corroborated the testimony of the first witness as to the
escape of the three persons from the second floor win-
dow. Witness took his coat off to catch the child, and
sent the word on to the station•house. Witness knew
where the ladders were, but there was no time to send
for them. Witness asked the woman who hal escaped,
and she said' there were no others in the houSe, but she
was in a dreadfully excited state, and scarcely knew
what she was about. The instructions to the police
are, immediately on the occurrence of fire, to send to
the fire station, to the station-house, gad to the turn-
cock, -and to get the ladders. At the commencement
of the fire there was not sufficient force to send for the
fire -I ad dre rs.

The CoaoNEa recommended that it should be up re.
seined to the Committee of Aldermen.
An officer present stated tii4t the Chief Commissioner
had that morning given Morris a sovereign as a reward
for his good conduct on that occasion.
The proceediogs did not close until a quarter after
10 o'clock. The room was crowded to excess.

By the Jury—l could not have gone, as I was hold-
ing my coat to catch the people. Cooper, my fellow-
policeman, was despatched to thin station-bouse, and
returned in ten minutes. Macarthy, a private
watchman, asked me to go for the fire-
ladders. I desired him to go himself, as he knew
where they were, and I was watching to assist the
people who were hanging out of the whitlow. The lad-
ders are kept in Dutcher-hall-!•inc. No persons ap-
pe ired at the windows except those three. Macarthy,
the private watchman, took no active part at all in
these proceedings.

IIA.IIQUIS OF LONDONDEII:IY
AND THE BRITISH AUXILIARIES.

Frances Hampton--I live at 5, Ivy-lane, opposite to
Mr. Price's. A little before 4 I saw two lads, one Mr.
Price's son, and the other the apprentice, in t!ie
passage with a lighted candle. I think Mr. Price
shut the door about ten minutes after. I saw nothing
further until a quarter-past two, when the flames were
very bad. I first saw the front of the house on fire on
the first floor. I saw nothing of any of Price's family
attempting to escape from the house. The shop was
cloced at eleven,

The poliCeman being recalled said, that one police-
man is on duty always in Paternoster-row, and Ivy-
lane, atid one only. Policeman Cooper, 268, gave.
the alarm at the station-house in Giltspur-street, and
to the turncock. He did not give the alarm at the
London Fire Establishment, but the word was passedon.
Mrs. Ann Howell—l live at the Hope Tap, next
door to Price ; I was up at half-past one, and heard the
alarm of fire, and saw the whole of the back of Price's
house in filmes. I did not see any thing of his family.
Mr. Price came to our window, and said his wife was
in flames. I was so much alarmed, Ido not know how
he came.

William Jones is an apprentice to Mr. Price,
he is a bookbinder. I and the two children
went to bed at eleven on Saturday night, we slept
in the second floor back room. I am 17 years old.
The eldest boy woke me up, and said, William, the
house is on fire. The other children were all crying,
and they all ran up to their father and mother in the
back attic. I ran after them. The mother was scream-
ing, and the father calling " Fire, fire I" I scorched
my bands as I ran up. The children ran to the back
room. I ran to the front, and broke the window, and
got out on the parapet. I went back and called to the
children, but was obliged to return on account of the
smoke. I went along the parapet, and a man took me
in at his window. There was a way of getting out of
the back room where they were by a trap door, which
opened upon the roof, but before I went to bed, I
and James went o•/er to get some pens. We returned
and went to bed. I and Mr. Price were the last
persons in the shop that evening. We had a candle
with us ; this was at 10 o'clock ; there ar., shavings in
a tub in the shop. I cannot form any idea how the
fire began. The front shop is occupied by Mr.
Parker, a bookseller ;he shuts up at eight o'clock. No
gas was used in either shop. There was nothing in
tho cellar. No one sleeps on the first-floor. Linfield
and his wife slept in the front room of the second floor,
and no one in the front attic. I heard no conversation
between Price and any one else about the fire when
I went up. I did not hear him say, " Put the fire out."
The witness was much affected while giving his evi-
dence.

Linfield—l lodged at Price's. I. went to bed at
twelve o'clock. I slept in the second floor front. I was
awoke by my wife. I opened the window and saw the
flames underneath me. My wife and I, and the baby,
got out of bed. I opened the door and was driven back
by the smoke and heat. We afterwards got out of the
window. I can form no idea Low the fire began, neither,
I am 'sure, can my wife.
The CORONER suggested the propriety of examining
-Mr. Price, but several of the jury expressed a desire not
to outrage his feelings, as he could throw no light on the
subject,--;-and a gentleman present said he •.hail. been
with him almost ever since the occurrence, and that he
was not in a state to return coherent answers:to ques-
tions put to him.

George Barnes—l live in Ivy-lane, opposite to' M.
Price's, and was awoke on the night in question by the
alarm of fire. I requested the police to break open the
door of the next house, and go tip stairs, and open the
secondnoor window, so as to allow the people to walk
along the coping and get into the window, but they re-
fused. I consider there was great neglect in not getting
a ladder. I never saw any instrument in the hands of
the police with which they could break open the
It was twenty minutes after I saw the fire..hefore the
engines arrived. I did not know where the ladders
were. I saw nothing of Price's family.'
Thomas Wilmot—l live at Creed-lane, and was
in Newgate-street at a quarter before ,tyVO. j met a
policeman, who said there was a fire in Ivy-lane. I
Went to fetch the engine, and it came in a quarter of
an hour. When it came, Itinderstood all the lives had
been saved.
Richard Pacey—l am , a journeyman to Mr. Price.
I do,not hie in his house. I left work a few minutes
after eight on Saturday night. I cannot•ofrer any mtg..
gestion as to the origin of the fire..,, I left Mr. Price
and the apprentice in the shop when I left. It was
then Aay-light. • ' "
Mr. Parker, who occupied the front shop of Mr.
Price's premises, stated that he shut it up on Saturday

Mr. Cochrane, who has taken co prominent a part in
getting up the Meeting held the. Crown and Anchor
Tavern, on SAturday, the 2:3.1 inst., in btatalt of the
thitish Auxiliaries, who, as the public notice issued on
the occasion emphatically stated, " had astisted in plat=
-ing the present Queen of Portugal on the throne, and
in preventing the Cbccn of Spain from being dethrenciti!
had, by appointment, an inte.rview with Lord London-
derry, at Holdernesse House, Park-lane, on Wednes-
day last, on which occasion he was accompanied by threo
other gentlemen.

Lard Londonderry received these gentlemen with the
greatest urbanity, and entered into a detailed account
of his movements on behalf of the British Legion, and
concluded by stating that, if the expectations of a
speedy adjustment of' the claims of the unfortunate
Auxiliaries held out bi Lord Alelbourue should not be
realized, he should, in this case, move, on the 4th of
June, an Address to her Atijesty, to give directions for
proper steps to be taken for their immediate settlement.
Upon Mr. Cochrane asking his Lordship to explain what
be meant by "proper steps," Lord Londonderry replied
that he bad no intention whatever of ca:ling on the Bri-
tish Government to pay the claims, but to adopt such
proceedings with the Spanish Government as to, enAree
the payment qf them. He further stated that his rno,
tion had reference to the claims of the officers almat..
and not the men, who, he understood, had been alt paid
in full. His Lordship next alluded to the existence of
two Committees—to the disunion which prevailed be-
tween them, whilst both, he said, agreed in disapprov-
ing of the present visit.

Mr. Cochrane said in reply, that it was his know-
ledge of these unfortunate differences, which had in-
duced him to convene the public meeting anonymously,
in the hope of thus producing harmony and co-operation,
but that he had unfortunately received such proofs at
the public meeting, as well as afterwards, of a want of
unanimity, as to induce him to decline the responsibility
of appearing before his Lordship in the character of a
deputed authority ; and his sole motive in waiting on
his Lordship was, that, having solicited the present in-
terview, and the same having been most courteously ac-
ceded to, he was bound in honour to keep the appoint-
ment. Mr. Cochrane then stated, in his character
of a private individual, the result of his application the
day before (Tuesday) to the Lord Mayor for raising a
public subscription, as well as to get up a public hall, et
the Mansion House, or Guildhall, in behalf of the Bri..
tish Auxiliaries late in the service of Spain and Portugal,
1 in order to provide them with temporary accommodation,
until their claims were fairly paid. He said that the Lertl
Mayor had kindly consented to receive public subscrip-
tions in their behalf, whilst he recommended that the plan
of the public ball should be welleonsidered, with refereneo
to its practicability. Mr. Cochrane then invited Lord
Londonderry to lend his co-operation in support of the
proposed measures. HiS LOrdship said, that he would
willingly do so, on condition that the subscription and
ball were
,in behalf. of the officers of the
British Legion. His Lordship then mentioned that
Mr. Feetor; late Member for Dover, had invited him
to assist in getting up a subscription in behalf of the
Carlists now in this country, when Mr. Cochrane as-
sured his Lordship that if he would promote a subscrip.
tion in favour of ,the British claimants, he would have
no objection to .subseribe in.behalf of the Garliets, as' he
viewed their present situation,as sone of suffering huma-
nity alone. The subject was, however, allowed to ter-
minate without leading to .any` degniiive result, Lord
Londonderry merely observing
that he was open to ba
spoken to hereafter upon it, when the !conference tar-
,
minated.
It may be -proper to observe that the particiiiarS .
the above interview have been obtained from"a gentle-
'of
man connected with the press; who, happening .by mere
accident to be passing 'by when the gentlemen,. coroppi,
ing the :Deputation were going 16 enter HOldernesse
to attend the interview ; he
.said lievvould coosentb, upon
.
oHnans
eand, tieing recognised by one of thernoVals invited
condition,' that of being permitted to mention to
Lord Londonderry that ,fielornied no part of the 'De:
putation, and that
.his meeting with them was 'pureli
accidental. ' This being agreed to, he accompanied thin
enmen,-and upon mentioning to , Lord Lowlander,
.riy.
in whattle ,
character he appeared before him; Lordship
gentlemen,
very politely observed that . he' was :always happy to
receive any gentleman connected with the press, :era
that hshede wished the paiticulari of this interview. to 4e
publi. , - , • • lt, ~

: I' r 111

. . .
A word to the. Libor Ms .4 aadnorshire. Let.
them not be discouraged—if there be a man after their own
hearts ittthe.prineipality, that man iS General 'Sir L. P. Jones
Parry--open-hearted, manly, benvVelepti, tolerant—in a word,
he practises 'as well as preaches the motto—" Live and let
live," notonly as a landlord, but in all the moral, politkal, and
social relations of life. Let the gallant General .and the Libe-
rals take aleaf oat tcif SiroJdlin Walsh's booklet them prepare
themselves for the next election, which may not be very distant.:
Certain it is, that if the Liberals of Radnorshire set alAuti
these preliminaries; and keep ut' their interest in the thousand
little ways which Sir, John Wilslilias.done, they mayaggfil
plant the glorious standard of Reform in the election field of
Radnorshire.—Hereford Times.

The f'ubli•ation of the Evening Edition of TH. Sox coin-

meneed at 10 minutes after Three.