The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-14 00:00:00

PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the returns made in the week ending November 10,
1846 ,is 35s 01,4 d. per cwt.

The extensive and eligible estates of the late Wil-
liam Crowdy, Esq., the eminent solicitor of Highworth,
in Wiltshire, have been for some time announced in our
columns for sale by auction by Mr. George Robins, at
the Goddard Arms, Swindon, on Monday, the 23d inst.
The property includes the family residence at High-
worth, with lands and houses in all directions, which
from their excellence and position, will no doubt excite
much competition, especially the lands, approximating
upon the Swindon station of the Great Western Railway.
There are also farms at South Marston, Lechlade, and
Letcombe, which offer excellent investments, and cannot
fail to command the attention of capitalists.
NARROW ESCAPE OF AN AGED FEMALE AND
THREE CHILDREN FROM BURNING.—On Thursday fore:
noon a fire broke out at No. 1, Crown-court, Great
Trinity-lane, City, occupied by Mr. Thomas Lane, which
was nearly attended with disastrous consequences.
During the absence of the mother, three small children
were left alone, in a room on the ground floor, when they
commenced playing with the fire, and set the bed and
furniture in flames. The discovery having been very
opportunely made by some of the neighbours, the chil-
dren were rescued; but the flames having obtained such
a strong hold, it was found necessary to send for the en-
gines, and the fire was soon extinguished. The smoke
that was caused by the burning of the bed was so dense,
and of such a suffocating nature, that an aged female at
the top of the house, was prevented from descending the
stairs, and she had just got to one of the upper windows,
and was in the act of throwing herself out, when she was
laid hold of by Morris, one of the firemen, who carried
her down stairs, and thereby saved her life. Mr. Lane,
unfortunately, was uninsured.
FALL OF THREE HOUSES AT OLD BROMPTON,
AND:LOSS OF LIFE.—On Thursday evening, between the
boars of five and six o'clock, the utmost excitement was
created in the neighborhood of Pelham-square, Old
Brompton, in consequence of the sudden falling of three
newly-erected unfinished houses, situated on the south
side of a recently formed thoroughfare, known as Alfred-
place, Pelham-square. It appears that about a quar-
ter of an hour previous to the occurrence upwards of
twenty men were employed on the premises, but in con-
sequence of the approaching darkness not permitting
them to continue their work, they, with the exception of
three, left the buildings. James Hashey, William
Monney, and Patrick O'Sullivan were the names of the
three individuals left at work. They were engaged at
the top of the premises preparing some scaffolding,
when they were called upon by a fellow-labourer,
named Mullingford, to come down, for the house was
falling. The men, however, unfortunately disre-
garded this warning, and merely replied that
made fools of. O'Sullivan was
they were not so easily
then about to descend a ladder, but before he had
reached the bottom the house fell in with a loud
crash, immediately' followed by the fall of the ad-
joining house on the left side, and also the partial falling
of that on the right. The workman who was descend-
ing the ladder was pitched heavily forward, by which he
sustained numerous very serious wounds, likely to re-
sult fatally. His companion Monney by some means
escaped almost unhurt, but Hashey was buried
in the ruins, and from the nature of the fall was doubt-
less instantly killed, and it being quite dark by this
time, the street being but indifferently lighted with gas,
no efforts could be made to recover the body of the de-
ceased. Shortly after eleven o'clock last night several
persons, fancying they heard groans proceeding from
the ruins, ventured upon them, and were about to raise
some of the fallen timber, when another portion of the
already half-demolished house gave way, and fell with
a heavy crash, and a brick falling on the head of a la-
bourer named Hawkins, he was knocked down and very
severely wounded. The deceased Hashey, about two
or three weeks since, while employed on the same
works, met with an accident of such a severe nature as
to confine him in St. Bartholomew's Hospital up to a
day previous to his melancholy and violent death. The
Property thus destroyed belonged to Mr. Holmes, an ex-
tensive house owner in that district.
RAILWAT BRIDGE OVER THE TWEED.—We under-
114114d.thinat the contract for building the bridge over the
withl the Newcastle and Berwick
Railway, has just connexion
neasset to Messrs.
i M'Kay and Black-
stock for 180,0001. 11 Kay and Blackstock are
the contractors for a portion of the Newcastle line in the
neighbourhood of Belford,
given great ?tind?rstand that their
ts The bridge
works there have
Tot bt... a ligltre"elegant satisfaction.structure, its
, height 120 feet,
t iftE arches 2.7=in number, and we nee scarcely say
that it will be one cif the noblest architectural objects i
Vie _kingdom. The works, we believe, will be c,,rnn
isiencitd swithout delay.—Edinburgh Evening Post. 6:
I enabled to. contradict the report circulated
ibrOugh 'the;" medliun. of the German journals, of the
dangeronalPiiess,,4the Earl of Westmoreland, in Berlin.
Betond a Crifiiug c9ld the Noble Earl is in the possession
-of goad healtfi. s