The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-04 00:00:00

GREAT FIRE IN HULL.

A terrific fire is raging near the Victoria Dock.
Sisson's saw-mill caught fire about 8 o'clock last
night, and the flames spread to the adjoining deal-
yard, which is four acres in extent, and covered with
deals. These, which were in piles 20 feet high, were
on fire at one time, and the police could not put out
the flames, but they prevented them from spreading
to the adjoining deal-yards. The shipping in the
docks took fire, and the damage is estimated at from
£20,000 to £30,000.

The Queen will leave Osborne to-morrow for
Windsor Castle.

The Prince of Wales is holding a levee to-day at
St. James's Palace on behalf of the Queen. The presenta-

tions are numerous.

A meeting of the members of the Cabinet will
take place on Saturday next at Mr. Gladstone's official
residence in Downing-street.

The House of Representatives h'ts passed a reso-
lution granting a pension of $3,000 per annum to Mrs.

Lincol

The Inns of Court or "Devil's Own" Rifle Volun-
teers will furnish a guard of honour of 100 men to the
Princess Louise at the ceremony of the opening of the new
Inner Temple Hall on the 14th inst.

The adjourned meeting of the Governors of Christ's
Hospital wets held yesterday, the Duke of Cambridge pre-
siding, but the question whether reporters should be ad-
mitted was decided in the negative.

About two and a half acres of land at Stoke
Newington, with a frontage to Albion-road, were yesterday
sold by auction at the Mari, by Messrs. Debenham, Tewson,
and Farmer, and realised an average price of £2,200 per
acre. It was understood that the property was purchased
by the proprietor during the present century at about £lOO
an acre.

The Midland Counties Fine Arts and Industrial
Exhibition is to be opened at Derby to morrow by the Duke
of Devonshire.

We have to announce the safe arrival at Quebec,
on Monday the 2d inst., of the steamship Medway, with 520
of the emigrants of the British and Colonial Emigration
Society—the first party sent out this season. The Medway
left Gravesend on Good Friday.

The Lord Chief Justice is suffering from an attack
of bronchitis.

The Pall Mall Gazette denies the rumour of Mr.
Bright's resignation.

Mr. Basil Cane has succeeded Mr. Farnall as Poor
Law inspector in the Yorkshire district.

The Naval Court of Inquiry convened by the
Americans as to the loss of the Oneida has been dissolved.

The troops to take part in the Red River expedi-
tion, yesterday commenced to rendezvous at Toronto.

It is announced that Lady Lambert, widow of
Admiral Sir George Lambert, K.C.8., has joined the
Church of Rome.

A deputation from British Columbia to arrange
terms for joining the Canadian Confederation is now on its
way hither.

The writs for the Mallow and Mayo elections have
been received by the Sheriffs of Mayo and Cork, and the
elections will take place in a few days..
Returns have been published chewing the number
of gallons of proof spirits distilled in the United Kingdom
and the duty paid thereon in the year ending-31st Decein-
ber, 1869.

The Scotsman says that two smart shocks of an
earthquake were felt at Comrie the other night, as also at
Strowan. They were accompanied with a rumbling noise.
The vibration was from west to east.

The parishioners and friends of the Rev. Dr.
Durnford, Bishop Elect of Chichester, yesterday presented
him with an address and a service of plate on the occasion
of his severing his connection with the parish of Middleton,
where he has officiated for thirty-five years.

The latest accounts respecting the destruction of
cotton mills by fire near Bolton and at Bacup shew that
in the former case the damage is not less than £30,000. In
the latter no estimate is given, but it must be enormous,
as two mills are entirely destroyed.

The Empress of the French has just given a fresh
proof of her sympathy for the suffering poor by going to
the workroom for young girls, established under her
Majesty's patronage in the Maison de Picpus, and visiting
the numerous patients attacked there with the small pox.

The " selling off of Government property is pro-
gressing. The Admiralty have instructed Messrs. Bayley
and Ridley, of Cornhill, to dispose of, by private con-
tract, the Admiral Superintendents' yachts Royal
William and Plymouth, lying in the Royal Dockyard,
Devonport.

Official returns of emigration from Liverpool show
that the total number of passengers who have sailed from
Liverpool during the month of April last has been 24,152,
against 27,038 in April, 1869, shewing a decrease of 2,886
in last month as compared with the same month of last
year.

A document signed by the Archbiships of Dublin
and Armagh has been published, reminding the Protest-
ant community that next year the Church commences to
be supported by voluntary contributions, and pointing
out .that its sustentation should not devolve only on
the wealthy.

At a meeting of the Enniskillen Town Council
Messrs. Brothers, of London, proprietors of the Ennis-
killen Gas Works, were fined one-fifth of the quarter's
accounts for an insufficient supply of gas; and it was
agreed to advertise for a new gas company to supply the
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