The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-07 00:00:00

THE GREAT FIRE AT FALMOUTH.

The Western Morning News, in its description of the
terrible fire at Falmouth, says : At about two o'c:ock on
Sunday morning the flames were discovered issuing from
stores at the . back of the premises occupied by Mr.
Harvey, grocer, Market-street, and as this part of the
premises was constructed entirely of wood and lath and
pla,ster, the flames rapidly spread. A dense fog prevailed
at the time, but fortunately the wind was very light. The
flames having obtained a mastery over several buildings
within a few minutes, messengers were despatched to
request assistance from H.M.S. Ganges, lying in the har-
bour, from the artillery at Pendennis Castle and the Pen-
ryn and Truro Fire Brigade, and shortly afterwards the
crew of the Ganges, under the command of Commander
Wilson, arrived with their engine. About twenty ar-
tillerymen, under the command of Captain Purdy, with
an engine, the Penryn Fire Brigade, with two engines,
and the Truro fire brigade withe two engines,
also responded to the summons, but in consequence of the
long distance the latter had to travel, and the difficulty
of obtaining eight horses at so earlyan hour, they arrived
too late to be of any assistance. Great fears were enter-
tained that the flames would extend to the opposite side of
the streets, where some hundreds of poor persons reside
in tenements in courts; but although the fire caught the
house once or twice a steady stream of water prevented
much mischief. The 'folowing property is entirely
destroyed --Mr. A. Geach, draper, house and shop ; Mr.
N. Fox, ironmonger, house and shop ; Mr. A. Webber,
confectioner, house and shop ; Mr. T. Webber, stores
and lofts ; Mr. Twiggs, stores ; Mr. Charles Skinner,
workshop ; Mr. T. :Dunstan, workshop ; Mr. John
Richard, workshop ; Mr. Henry Harvey, grocer, shop,
dwelling-house, and stores ; Mr. G. B. aohns, boot and
shoe warehouse ; Mr. Curtis, refreshment-house ; the
premises in the occupatson of Mr. Goodman, currier ;
Messrs. Kelway and Osborne, grocers ; Mr. E. T. Turner,
mercer and tailor ; Mr. Abel Travers, painter ; and Mr.
Chapman, hair dresser. Almost all the stock is also de-
stroyed. Many poor persons occupying small tenements
at the back of these premises have lost most of their fur-
niture. The West of England office will be the most
affected, and after that the County Fire Office. Policies
are also held in the Phoenix, Caledbnian, North
British and Mercantile, Manchester, and Scot-
tish Provincial. Altogether about thirty thousand pounds
worth Of property has been destroyed, and in this respect
the conflagration of Sunday proved more disas-
trous than that in April 1862, when thirty houses in
High-street were burnt. Only one accident occurred to
the assisters in extinguishing the flames. Mr. Jane, one
of the Falmouth Fire Brigade, was at work under a
burning house when a portion gave way and. fell upon
him. He was quickly conveyed to his home.

Lord Radstock is holding missionary services in
Norwich and neighbouring towns, and his preaching is
attracting large numbers of people.
Le Nord publishes a Board of Trade order at St.
Petersburg, by which vessels carrying petroleum are pro-
hibited entering the Neva under heavy penalties, unless
they hoist, a red flag as if they were laden with powder.
The harbour. master is then to take special charge of these
ships. _ _

A petition has been presented to the Irish Court
of Chancery in the matter of Mr. H. M. D'Arcy Irvine,
praying that a commission of lunacy might issue to try
the question of whether the party in the case was a
lunatic. The petition was filed by the brothers and
sisters of Mr. Irvine, who stated that the latter had an
only child, seven years of age, and that he was possessed
of a large property, without any agent at present to take
charge of it. The Lord Chancellor granted the applica-
tion.

At about midnight on Saturday a man named
Henry Yearley, in the employ of Mr. Reeves, horse
dealer, of Earley, was returning honie from Reading with
a companion, and, when near a gravel pit, met two men
named Blake, father and son. An altercation took place
between Yearley and the elder Blake. The son rushed at
Yearley with a large knife, and stabbed him in the throat
and in the groin. The wound in the throat is serious,
some of the arteries having been severed, but that in the
groin is not dangerous. The Blakes are in custody.

One of the missing vessels which was long ago
given up as lost has been reportCd to have put back to an
American port. 'lt is the Cerealia, which sailed for
Queenstown on the 14th of 'January, a fortnight before
the City of Boston left Halifax. A Norwegian ship, the
Lydia, which had been two hundred days in the China
Sea without being heard of, is also reported in safety in
Java. This news is interesting and important, as chew-
ing that a ship may be in the Atlantic for more than one
hundred days and not be seen by other vessels.

TIGER OPERATIONS IN INDlA.—Tiger hunting
goes on prosperously this year. In the Central Provinces
two or three gentlemen killed eleven in eight or. nine
days. Mr. Charles Havelock, writing to the Neilgherry
Excelsior, from Ma,al Koonhah, says :—"Afine tigress was
found dead near this ; shewas killed bygetting some of the
quills of a porcupine through her gullet; they must have
got there while the tigress was eating. one of these ani-
mals, I believe that both cheetahs and tigers often lose
their lives in this manner. I have the skull of the
tigress ; the skin was destroyed. A tiger near this a day
or two ago tried to drag a cow out of a cattle shed by her
tail ; much to the disgust of both animals the tail gave
way."

THE GREAT FIRE IN QUEBEC.—The Nilo York
Herald of May 25 gives a few details of the terrible fire
which occurred at Quebec on the previous day, though
the transmission of full particulars was prevented by the
cutting of the telegraph wires by the Fenians. The fire
first broke out, it seems, in a baker's shop
in St. Roche, a suburb of the city, and though
every effort was made to stay its progress, the
tropps being called out and houses blown up, it
destroyed more than 100,000 dols. worth of property. A
large number of houses of the better sort, which had
been rebuilt after the great fire in 1866, were unfortunately
destroyed, and from five to six thousand persons are
rendered homeless. These are being lodged by the corpo-
ration, but it is feared the distress will be very great unless
public aid is afforded. There were naturally many
accidents, and two men are reported missing. Two
ships on the stocks were among the property destroyed,