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LONDON, i‘IONDAY, JULY 12, 1841.

ATRAVELLER of considerable experiencr
well acquainted with DRAPERS, HOSIERS, UP-
HOLSTERS, &c., in the MIDLAND anti NORTHF.III\
COUNTIES of ENGLAND and SCOTLAND, is open to
an engagement., and will be g:pd to treat with any rest cctable
House, tequiriug a repretentatite. References of the highest
respectability cAn be Oeb, and security if required.
Letters, pre •pid; litiltessed A.8,C,, eare of Alestrs. West-
Wood and Sons, 16, Newgate-street. .

SPIRIT . of the PUBLIC JOURNALS
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF Tail PAY.
CHRONICLE.—The returns received up to twelve et eleek
last n►ktht were—

of the London Committee from acceding to the terms pro-
posed. Spanish agencies and Spanish commissions have
offices in the two metropolises. Why, then, may the three
per cent. interest on the five per cent. accruing on the five
years allowed to fall into arrear nut be obtained in London and
in Paris, as well as at Madrid. The Chronicle, with an affec-
tation of concern for the bondholders, recommends them to be
patient, and to receive with thankfulness from Spain whatever
they can get by way of an instalment, although it is no more
than Is. tid. on the 100/. bond, with 251. in interest due upon
it, for such is the momentous matter of which we are speaking.
To crown all, they are cautioned net to indulge in irreverent
language towards Spain, but to be ever modest, respectful,
end decorous in their allusions to that exemplary nation. This,
it must be allowed, is capital.
A further arrival of Buenos Ayres papers puts us in posses-
sion of intelligence from the Republic to May 2. or a week
later than that reeeived yesterday. No additional accounts
have been obtained from the interior relative to the movements
of Lavalle and his opponents, nor is any fresh view given of the
state of political affairs as between the Republic and Monte
Video. Reports were current that two vessels had arrived at
Las Chonchas from Paraguay, an that all persons who were
detained in that country had been released. Should this be
true, it was considered that there was every probability of
a trade being renewed between Paraguay and Buenos Ayres,
which could not but pi owe
.highly advantageous. The 'Ex-
-he can England was 20. to 3d. the i•aper dollar, .
chat.r,

Reformers. Tories.
English Boroughs... ... ..'.“.,., , 176 166 English Counties -
Ireland 2B 21
Scotland 27 20
-

' TO SILK HAT MANUFACTUREHS.
WANTED a SITUATION as MANA
GER in a MANUFACTORY or ACTING PART-
NER with a rerson who will ;Ounce the Capital to establisi
a business.

Teetel 233 322
The Reformer§ liaVe and the
sin a Welsh ceunty, and Repel-ref in Stoteh county
;n are in
[cries have gained sixty-five seats, of whieh eigh,
tneettes. In
Lhe English t unties, and three in the Scotch cant
which we
Scotland the lit fel Mere will gain some counties
R°enfeshire.
thirfeeive seats, one of which
lid not calculate, A Tory: Will be turned out of
lin
means
Indeed, the coenties, the farmers seem
ooy
1 rray, the
al county',
Liberal candidate tip:high epeosed by the Earls
of
11 "4
b
, for
t day 5 - ' votes,
nr
iagmhot
ient,
ttatet_e
iClettnn-11;isc.
tllAhr r;
stieni
rk
nd
Galloway, had. at flit, efia,el the firs
while his opponent mad enly Ne•
self favourable to the fixe-; eeese it. In
iiidiculed the idea of agriculture teirg in dane, ' Lutkes
another agricultural county, Roxburghshire, though the
of Bum:Muth and Roxburgh, the greatest landholders, fa-
voured the Tory candidate, titid Eniet himself withdrew
from the contest, the farmers generally voted for the Weer.
end the Tory had only 82 votes timee than the Liberal, the
numbers being 810 to 748. The, accotints froth South Lieocoine
-hire represent the election of Air, Hansln as 0 bait tetteire
The Standard and the Time; have been disputing 'tith
pert to the majority with which it would be possible " fur Sir
tv Mouflyiinai(s•
Robert Peel to carry on the Government.' The Standard
maintains that fewer than sixty will be insufficient. In the ba-
;ance of gains the Tortes het only 30, and as they have little
more to gain in the English counties, eati forth a tolerable
estimate of the state of things after the Stet& atittlrish re,
turns are c...inpleteti. 'fhb Tories Witi have fipthing I mac
jority of 60. In fact, their proknt gaing %ill rH'.itiell.tettief
than increased. It would seem from the Standard that z-ir
Robert Peel has a stilling scale for morals as well as for corn.
HERALD.—Never did louse of the Constitution hold
on its triumphant coarse, in Mil country, with more animating
energy, than is witnessed in the daily edvance of Conservative
principles, as now developed at successive elections, Every day
brings with it some time acid sighal manifestatien /If the inten-
sity and the extent in which these are cherished throughttut thtt
land. Large trading and commercial communities not lees than
districts approptiated exclusively to the pursuits of agriculture,
are returning to Parliament men who will uphold those insti-
tutions and establishments which are still dear, still sacred to
the vas: majority of Englishmen. Happily for themselves, and
'sappily for the world—they will not permit these
ritances, and all the sacred interests which are
bound up with them, to he Milked by reckless
political agitators, and unprincipled gamblers in legislatiOn
egeinst the glittering and specious promises of free trade, the
voluntary principle, Vote by Ballot, Universal Suffrage, and
every other innovation which of late years it has been proposed
to engraft on our commercial, Mara', and religious systems.
The humbh st classes of our yeomanry and fetmers, ih the
counties,—and numerous electoral bodies composed of thole
very " operatives" or workmen whom such inoessant activity
has been exerted to mislead and to prejudice on the subject of
the Corn laws. have followed the example set them by the
great " mother seats" of learning in the kingdom. The vast
majority cf the most enlightened and patriotic Members Of the
aristocracy have made common cau.e with the smaller free-
holders and the moreopulent gentry. Even the Globe is compelled
to hazard some admissions which, if they are meant to prove any
egi he,
antiitmi
thing, must be meant to prove that this tendency of opinions is all
but universal in the classes which it. names, The Globe ad-
mits that, " in the counties Toryism is generally too well
guarded to fear any incursions upon its territories.' And
when it proceeds to designate as those who in all country
places are inevitably enrolled is the Conservative ranks, " the
Clergyman, the Squire, the Magistrate, the Attorney, the old
Dowager, the Apothecary"—one is rather at a loss to guess
who, in his own estimate, are really excluded from ranks which
comprehend so much good company. It is clear that the
farmers must be comprehended within the same category t
and to exclude military and naval officers from it would be to
challenge a fact too notorious, and too sore a subject of com-
plaint with the so called " Liberals," to be gravely disputed.
Who, then, upon the Globe's own showing are not Conserva-
tives? When this writer has made a present to their party of
" law, physic, and divinity" at one swoop,—of the Magistracy
and Squirearchy, at another; when, though he has not
"given ' he cannot withhold from the same section, the army,
the navy, and the farmers both on a large and a small scale ;
what class, connected with the property or intelligence of tho
country, can be said cot to be represented by the Conservative
party?
POST.—After the great Conservative victories which we
had the lively gratification of announcing on Saturday morning,
we presume that none but the most frantic can deny the reason- .
ableness of Government passing into the bands of Sir Robert
Peel and the party that acts with him. Wherever there is any
respect for the deliberate judgment of the people upon poltical
questions, that respect must had to the conclusion that a party
honoured with such unequivocal approbation by a majority of
British electors, as the Conservative party is now proved to be, I
.ought to be at once entrusted with the Government of the
country. As to the Whig- Radicals, they have received their,
dismissal from the people. Every hour that they remain in
office is a defiance of the people, and an expression of
contempt for the constitutional controul of the electors
of the kingdom over the administration of the public
affairs. The late House of Commons censured the Whig-
Radical Ministers for their conduct, and declared that in con-
, tibuing-to hold office they were acting at variance with the
spirit c f the Constitution. The Ministers appeal from that
decision to the electors of the House of Commons. The judg-
ment of the electors has already been delivered, and, so far
from disapproving of the censure passed by their representatives
in the late Parliament, they have sent a large number to the
new House of Commons holding the same opinion as that
against which the Ministers appealed. The confidence which
every loyal man ought tp have in the constitutional principles
of the Sovereign can leave no doubt that her Majesty will
cheerfully acquiesce in the wishes of her people as ex-
pressed •by the eleeelors of the House of Commons,
and place the seals of office in the hands of those
whom her Majesty's people think most worthy of that
trust. The nation looks with eager • anticipation to that
Government which it now rationally deems to be in-
evitable—namely, the Government of 'Sir Rebert Peel and
the leading men of his politiGcalvseernntmiments in both Houses of
Parliament. The people at large are well aware of the diffi-
cualto broughteircu the afra
circumstances into
of whicho the Woig-
t,
especially as regards
the state of the public finances, anda3 u
an extrication from those difficulties through the exertion of
ith
qualities for Government very different from those of the pre-
hrrß elaadtiioen al s Ministersw
tthe
United States of America and with China; but they hope fore
have
pre-
sent Ministers. 'the Whig-Radical Ministers have been
chietty distinguished for a certain species of dexterity which
men generally possess in pi °portion to the looseness of their
principles. They have skown themselves "cunning of fence
in some small matters, and in great matters they have sub-
mitted to pressure from whatever quarter it might come, and
have acknowledged themselves the obedient servants both of
Conservatives and Destruct ives, rather than encounter a strug-
gle which might eneanger their continuance in office. With
I all this the people have evidently become dissatisfied. They
lave become weary and ashamed of the mean scramble which,
hr sonic time past, has taken the place of Government.

The Advertizer ha; had many years experience in Paris, and
has a French patent for the manufacture of silk hats, ;Isl
" mention honourable'. from the " Etpositiett Lotylte.°
Address, with real name, to A. 8., at AleFsrs. Charley
Chubbs and Son, 57, St. Paul's Church-yard, London.
Undeniable references ettn he given,

Gnuine FOREITED PROPERTY.

31-ESSItS. DEBENHAM and STORK
_IL will Sell, at their Rooms, King-street, Covent Garden,
on THURSDAY, July 15, and following Day, at Eleven,
An assemblage of costly JEWELS, valuable gold, silver, and
gilt watches, decks and time-pieces, modern and useful plate,
Sheffield plated goods, excellent guns and pistols, superfine
cloth, kerseymeres, buckskins, and waistcoatings, linendrapery,
rich laces, Chantilly and other vei-s, elegant shawls and scat fs.
ladies' and gentlemen's fashionable apparel, table and bed
linen, bed furnitures, window curtains, carpets, feather beds.
looking glasses, cutlery, writing desks, work-boxes, dressing
cases, and other effects, pledged in m'nths prior to August.
1840, with the following pawnbrokers, viz.:—Aldridge,
Orange-street. Bloomsbury ; Cotterell, Shoe-lane and. Ox-
ford-street ; Harmston, Ernest-street, Regent's Park ; Jones,
Toth ill- s tre et , Westminster ' • Muncaster and Warre, Skinner-
street, Snow-hill; Newby, Drury-lane; Notley and Beattie,
l'ortman-street, Oxford-street ; Page and Kennedy, Lower
Eaton-street, Pimlico; Townsend, Hunter-street, Old Kent-
road ; Tomlinson, Uppar George-street, Bryanston-square ;
Turner, Crown-row, Walworth-road.
May be viewed, and Catalogues had.

after
In the conrs.

PUBLICATIONS.

Mr. JAMES'S NEW WORK.

On :Wednesday next, July I4th, will be published, in 3 vols.
ceown Bvo,

T lIE ANCIENT REGIME:
A Tale.

By G. P. R. JAMES, Esq.
London : Longman, Brown, and Co.

THOMAS DRUMMOND, Esq., Captain of
Engineers, and Under Secretary to the Lord Lieute-
nant of Ireland.
In the course of a few days will be publi<hed the above
PORTRAIT, engraved by Mr. Henry Cousins, from the Pic-
ture painted for the Boundary Crimmitlion by L. PICKERS-
GILL, R.A.
Proofs before IPtiers, 31. 3s. ; Proof=, 21. •_'s. ; Prints, 11. Is,

Colnaghi and Co., Puhlithert 'to her
Majesty, 14, Pall-Mall East.

FORSTEI'S COPYHOLD ENFRANCHISEMENT

_ ---
ACT.
This day is published, in I:Imo., price 6s. boards,
THE COPYHOLD and CUSTOMARY
TENURE, COMMUTATION, ENFRANCHISE.
MENT, and IMPROVEMENT ACT, 4 and 5 Victoria, c.
35, with an Introduction and Analytical Digest of the Act,
the Forms of Procedure issued by the Copyhold Commis-
sioners, and an Appendix, Notes, and Index.
By R. W. E. FORSTER, Esq.
Of Lincoln's-Inn, Barrister-at-Law.
London :—V. and R. Stevens and G. S. Norton, Law-
Pooksellers and Publishesa, (Successors to the late J. and W.
T. Cla-ke, of Portugal-street), 26 and 39, Bell-yard, Lin-
coln's Inn.

Just published, the Seventh Edition, price ss. , and sent free
on receipt of a Post-office Order, for 3s. 6d.,
31 ANHOOD: the CAUSES of its PRE-
MATURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for
ITS PERFECT RESTORATION; addressed to those suf-
fering from the destructive effects of Excessive Indulgence,
Solitary Habits, or Infection ; followed by Observations on the
TREATMENT of SYPHILIS, GONORRHEA, GLEET,
&c. Illustrated with Cases, &c.
By J. L. CURTIS and COMPANY,
Consulting Surgeons, London.
L'ublishrd by the Authors, and sold by Bailiere, Medical
Bookseller to the Royal College of Surgeons, 219, Regent-
street • Strange, 21, Paternoster-row, London ; Guest, Bir-
mingham ; Sowler, 4, St. Ann's-square, Manchester ' • Philip,
South Castle-street, Liverpool ; Machen and Co., 8, D'Olier-
street, Dublin; Duncan,ll4, High-street, Edinburgh ; and to
be had of all Booksellers.
This Work, a Seventh Edition of which is now presented to
the public, ten thousand copies have been exhausted since its
first appearance, has been very much improved and enlarged
by the addition of a niece extended and clear detail of general
principles, as also 11 the insertion of several new and highly in-
teresting cases. Ihe book, as has been already stated, is the
result of very ample and daily increasing experience in a class
of diseases, which, for some unaccountable reason, have been
either altogether overlooked, or treated almost with indiffer-
ence, by the ordinary. medical practitioner. The proverbial
and well known rapacity of unqualified practitioners, who
traffic on the health and credulity of patients, has been en-
couraged and aroused by this supineness, on the
.part of the
regular surgeon. In order to obviate the pernicious effects
sure to result from the practices of such pretenders, the
authors have fur a considerable time devoted themselves ex-
clusively to a certain class of diseases ; of the necessity of so
doing, they were further convinced by feeling that. tact in in-
vestigating the latent sources of many diseases, which arise
from certain secret practices, can only be acquired by an ex-
clusive and undivided attention to this department of medical
practice. The numberless instances daily occurring, whersin
affections of the lungs, putting on all the outer appearances of
consumption, which, however, when traced to their source,
are found to result from certain baneful practices, fully proves
that the principle of the division of labour, is nowhere more
applicable than in medical practice. We feel no hesitation in
saying that there is no member of society by whom the book
will not be found useful, whether such person hold the relation
of a Parent, a Preceptor, or a Clergyman.
The PARENT, who beholds his beloved child pining
away, and fast approrching to a premature grave, in conse-
quence of some disease, which, for want of careful investiga-
tion of its real cause, has been set down to the score of con-
sumption, will, on perusing this work, be astonished to find,
that in nine-tenths of the cases of young persons of both
sexes, who perish of what is called pulmonary consumption,
heart disease, tapes, &c., the sole and exclusive origin has
been the indulgence in certain destructive habits practised by
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,
by perusing this work, Le directei and very much
assisted in investigating and detecting the too often con-
cealed practices so often introduced into schools, whereby the
health and ultimately the lives of his pupils are sure to be com-
promised, unless the evil be arrested in proper time. He will
here find a clue to guide him through the intricate mazes of
this moral labyrinth, and a standard whereby to judge, when
delicacy of health should appear to attack any of his young
charges, what the real causes of such attack may be, and thus
he will be enabled to check the evil in its incipient state.
The CLERGYMAN, in whose sacred character is at once
concentrated the two-fold relation of parent and instructor,'w ill
here be directed as to the nature of those habits to which
youth is addicted ; he will also be enabled to point out the d s-
estrous consequences which are sure to follow from them if not
relinquished.
Messrs. CURTIS and CO. are to be consulted daily at their
residence, No. 7, Frith-street, Soho-square, London.
Country Patients are requested to be as minnte as possible in
the' detail of their cases—as to the duration of the complaint,
toe symptoms, age,; general habits of living, and occupation in
life of the party • the communication must be accompanied by
the usual Consultation Fee of 11., without which no notice
whatever can be taken of their application ; and in all cases, the
most inviolable secrecy may be relied on.

CORONERS INQUEST.—On Saturday an in-
quest was held before Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the Mar-
quis of Hastings, Ossulston-street, Somers-town, on the
body of Mr. William Boarder, a retired publican, aged
76, who was killed by a gentleman's cab under ie fol-
lowing circumstances :—Thomas Daniell, groom to
Gulielmo, Esq., of 181, Piccadilly, said, that on the
11 th of June he was behind his master's cab. His
master was driving, and there was no one else in it.
They had crossed Oxford-street from Bond-street, and
were just turning into Vere-street, when the deceased
crossed from the west side, and came in contact with thi
shaft of the cab, which struck him on the right side and
knocked him down face downwards. His master pulled
up immediately, and prevented the wheels from passing
over him. lie was picked up in a state of insensibility,
bleeding from wounds in the head, caused by coming in
contact with the stones, and assisted into a chemist's
shop at the corner of Bond-street. Ilis wounds having
been dressed, witness's master gave him his address and
two sovereigns, and then sent him home in a cab. The
occurrence was purely an accident, as they were going
very slow at the time. His master hearing that the de •
ceased was ill in consequence of the accident, sent him
his own surgeon to attend him, and 5/. towards paying
the expenses he had incurred.—Mr. Thomas Mullinger,
of 23, Clarendon-square, said the deceased lived in his
house ; he was very infirm, and hard of hearing. Saw
him on the 11th ult. As soon as be came home he com-
plained of a pain in his side, and said he had been knocked
down by a gentleman's cab, but, as far as he could judge,
it was accidental. Every attention was paid to him
during his illness, and Mr. Edwards and the gentleman's
surgeon were constantly in attendance upon him.—Ver-
diet, " Accidental Death."
THE MURRAIN AMONG CATTLE.—We are
sorry to learn, from various correspondents, that the murrain
is extending over large sections of Galloway, and the higher
parts of Dumfries-shire. A good many deceased cattle ap-
peared on our Sands on Wednesday last, and where the parties
were able to agree as to terms, found purchasers notwithstand-
ing-. One respectable jobber and farmer from the border selected
a few of the worst for the express purpose of communicating
the complaint to his own healthy herd; and the reason
he assigned was this :—" I know I am sure to catch it like my
neighbours ; I wish, then fore, to quicken the process, that all
may be right again before Brough-hill fair, on the 27th of Sep-
tember." Strange as the fact may appear, the reader may rest
assured it is strictly true ; and we lava since learn. d that the
practice is not so rare as we had at first imagined. In the back
end of last year, while the cattle of F. Lawrie became affected
at Tinwald-Shaw, they continued sound on his farm in Close-
burn. Accordingly, he st nt invalids float the one farm to the
other, and in two days the experiment had the desired effect._
Dumfries Courier.
SALE OF ESTATES.—ExAGGERATED PLANS.
—On Tuesday the Lord Chief Baron in the Equity Exche-
quer, sat to dispose of a few motions. In one, in the cause of
Pope v. Garland, which turned won the question whether the
auctioneer had deceived a purchaser by the plan exhibited at
the sale, his Lordship said he remembered a case of an action
brought by Lord Lansdown against a party for having misled
him by a false and overcharged description, and Lord Ken; on
directed the Jury to find for the plaintiff, adding, .4 I hope
this verdict will curb the luxuriant penmanship of auctionem. '

PRICE 5d

DREADFUL AND EXTENSIVE
FIRE, IN ILIGH-STIIEET, DEPTFORD,

At about five and thirty minutes after three o'clock, on
Saturday afternoon, the inhabitants living at Deptford,
and its surrounding neighbourhood, were thrown into a
state of indescribable excitement by the outbreak of a
most tremendous fire in High-street, near the terminus
of the railway, which burnt with dreadful violence for
several hours, and, we regret to state, occasioned the de-
struction of property to the extent of some thousands.
The premises in which the calamity originated are the
property of Mr. Knottreauctioner and builder, and were
situate on the west side of High-street, opposite the
Brown Bear Inn. They comprised several buildings,
the dwelling-house (which was three stories high), with
work-shops adjoining and at the back, a large timber-
yard, and in the rear-of that a long range of other work-
shops ; the whole covering an area of about one hun-
dred and twenty feet in depth, and upwards of sixty in
length. They were adjoined by the oil and colour ware-
house of Mr. Blake, the printing establishment of Mr.
Brown (which was burned down about 18 months ago),
and numerous dwelling-houses. From inquiries insti-
tuted on the spot, shortly after the commencement, it
appears that when the alarm was given, which was by
some females living in one of the houses adjoining the
fire, it was found raging in the workshops, in the rear
of the timber-yard ; and, on some persons rushing into
the premises, they discovered some of the work-people
endeavouring to suppress the flames ; but they were
obliged immediately to desist, for the destructive ele-
ment was gaining a rapid ascendancy, and very shortly
" burst forth from the roof with great violence.
of a few minutes a great crowd had col-
-morons houses_ being thrown open.

1ee1e.,4, and the
eryw shortly the buildings ere
they entefed !them, and :T
*h :,-di was securely depo-
stripped of theft' fneieiture;
Cnot2t had a most
sited beyond reach of the, feeetes. Mr.
to his bed-
narrow escape of his life : he no confiiieu
room with the gout, and in the tnielst of tht con-
fusion was forgotten, and it was not till tie,"
timber -yard ' -ettrid dwelling-houses had catiOt
the he: was thought of, when one of -Me-
do:nestles fttshsfd into the premises and succeeded in car-
rying him out into the street. Within a quarter of an,
hour after the discovery the information was received by
the authorities of her Majesty's Dock-yard and the Vic-
tualling-office, who instantly ordered the, engines con-
fleeted with those establishments to the spot. Those of
the Omit-yard were taken in charge by the Police of the
R division, Meter the .direction of Inspectors Field,
Perkins, and Blahe, itiad these of the Victualling-yard
were likewise under the control of a detachment of sol-
diers belonging to the 15th Regiment, commanded by
Major Smith. By the time they had arrived, the flames
had reached an enormous height, having enveloped the
whale of the work-shops, both back and front, the great
stock of the piled timber in the timber-yard, and were
blazing forth from the different floors in the dwel-
ling-house. The premises were then past saving,
and in the course of ten or fifteen minutes the roofs
fell in, and all was destruction. Unfortunately no water
I could be obtained for a considerable time after the en-
gines arrived, and this circumstance increased the ex-
citement and confusion to a vast extent. The police
finding it impossible to check the ravages of the flarnee
despatched a messenger by a special train on the Green-
wich Railway, to give intelligence to the brigade force
in London, and this arrived at the Southwark-bridge-
road station in less than twenty minutes after leaving
Deptford. The firemen on duty lost no time in horsing
the engines attached to the station, and immediately
galloped off to the fire. Other engines belonging to the
brigade followed quickly after, from the stations belong-
ing to Morgan's-lane, Watling street and Waterloo-road,
accompanied by thirty firemen under the personal super-
intendence of Mr. Braidwood, and the whole reached the
scene at about four o'clock. By this time the conflagra-
tion had communicated to the five brick buildings adjoin-
ing, occupied by Mr. Merklitun, carpenter and cabinet-
maker, Mr. Richards, house-agent, Mr. Cockerell, of
the Seaman's Hospital Ship, and the printing office
and dwelling-house of Mr. Brown, chief portion of
which were in a blaze. The dwelling-house tenanted by
Mrs. Bele next caught, and consequently it attained that
alarming height that the destruction of the entire row
of houses on the west side of High-street appeared al-
most certain. The instant the engines obtained water
they were brought to play on the burning premises
with great vigour in every quarter, the Dock-yard and
Victualling engines playing in High-street, and those
of the brigade working at the back from the gar-
dens, over the ruins of the workshops and other pre-
mises. For upwards of half an hour there appeared
no abatement in the fury of the flames; but ultimately,
after the most incessant exertions, they were prevented
from extending further, though no fewer than eight other
houses sustained serious injury, two of which were com-
pletely unroofed. It was past six o'cloCk before dan-
ger- was ut an end, but the fire continued to burn
fiercely amongst the ruins till half-past eight. Amongst
the houses that have received injury, in addition to those
above-mentioned are thefollowing :—On the west side of
the street, Mrs. Wilson, straw bonnet-maker ; Mr. Wells,
master of a ship ; Mr. Currie, linendraper ; the Royal
Oak public-house, opposite (slightly), and others, most.
of whom are insured. Respecting the origin of the fire
nothing positive could be obtained. A report had last
night gained circulation that it was occasioned through
the carelessness of a boy employed on Mr. Knott's pre-
mises, in leaving a heap of shavings near a heating
store in the workshops, and that a pot of varnish being
on the fire, it boiled over, and the flames reached the
shavings. Up to a late hour on Saturday evening. the
engines were playing on the mass of ruins, which
emitted volumes of smoke and tire, and the firemen were
eeelvely engaged in collecting the numerous damages in the
neighbourhood, and likewise the amount of the insurances;
Most part of the property is insured in the Kent Fire-
office, and the loss that that Company will sustain by this
disastrous event is supposed to be between 6,000/. and
74000/. The total loss, however, is stated to be far
greater than that sum. The military, during the height
of the flames, conducted themselves highly to the appro-
bation of the inhabitants living near the scene of devas-
tation. They were drawn across the street in two places
to prevent the immense crowd pressing upon those en-
gaged assisting at the engines, and also the operations
of the firemen; while others were arranged the full
latigth of the premises destroyed at the back, and they
were not withdrawn from the. spot till half-past seven
o'clock.. The police, ae well as the inspectors, exerted
themseisve in a manner highly creditable to the force.
Several of the:2l
were drenched to the skin, and were as
black as sweeps. .Fire are happy to
to state that no lives
meth)? night the walls of Mr.
were lost. Late on Stu., very lofty, gave way,
Knott's premises, which near, and no serious
but, being expected, no one was .
consequences occurred.