The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-17 00:00:00

SERIOUS CONFLAGRATIONS—Tats DAY.

This morning Captain Shaw returned to the
Board of Works the number of fires that had tiken
plaee yesterday, up to 6 o'clock a.m. to day, which
amounted to eight. One was at the General Post
Office, St. Martin's-le-Grand. By some means the
roof over the stamp room became ignited, but the
firemen managed to get the fire out, only about 10
feet of the roof being destroyed. A fire, which
destroyed the fine organ, bell tower, and most part
of the roof, and severely damaged the galleries,
happened in St. John's Church, Bethnal-green.
Owing to the exertions of the Salvage Corps and
the firemen the ground floor was saved. The
church was insured in the Imperial Fire Office. A
fire likewise occurred in the premises of Mr. G. H.
Barcharn, an oil and colourman, at No. 166,
High-street, Camden-town. It commenced in the
shops, which were, owing to the iflammtnable nature
of the contents soon in a blaze. The fire was not
extinguished before the whole of the stook in trade
was nearly destroyed, and two floors in the pre-
mises of Mr. Shepperd, a chemist, next door,
seriously damaged. Fortunately, Mr. Barcham's
books were all saved in one of the Reliance safes.
The origin of the disaster is unknown.

Another destructive fire broke out in the ware-
house of Mr. IL Rolls, also an oil and colourinan,
No. 621, Old Kent-road.
A lire also took place in Slee and Co.'s vinegar
brewery, Church-street, Horsley-down. It was
caused by the friction of machinery, and before it
could be subdued the malt stores were destroyed
and the brewery severely burned.

ALTERATIONS IN STREET NOMENCLA-

TURE.

The Metropolitan Board of Works has directed
the following alterations to be made in metro-
politan street names :—High-street, Kingsland,
from Dalston-lane to Shacklewell-lane, on the
east side, and from Ballspond-road to Cock and
Castle-lane on the west side, is to he renamed
Kingsland High-street; Park-road, Stoke Newing-
ton, is to be renamed Clissold-road ; the name
of Bishop's-road is to be applied to the whole
of the thoroughfare between Harrbw-road and
Westbourne-grove ; Johnson street, St. George's-
in-the-East, is to be called Chandler-street ; Park-
road, Peckham, is to be named Peckham-park-road ;
Park-terrace, Fulham, is to be renamed Far-
rell-street ; Loughborough-park-road, Brixton, is to
be renamed Loughborough-park. The houses in the
above districts, and the following places to be
renumbered and the subsidiary names abolished :
—Wellington-road, Stoke Newington ; Church-
road, Homerton ; Oriel-road, Homer ton ; Portobello-
road, Kensington ; Fitzroy-road, Regent's-park ;
Highgate-road, between K.-ntish-town-roal and
Gordon-house-lane ; Loughborough Park-road and
Loughborough-park ; World's-end-passage, Chel-
sea ; Tavistock-road, Kensington ; Manor-road,
Upper Lewisham-road ; Bostock-road, Old Gravel-
lane ; and Green-bank, St. George's-in-the-East.
The houses erected by Mr. D. H. Junes, in Queens-
borough-terrace and Inverness-terrace, Bayswater,
to bo numbered in continuation of the number of
houses in those thoroughfares.

WAR OPPOSED TO NATIONAL LIBERTY.-A
PROOF IN GERMANY.

A popular writer remarks :—" It is sometimes
said that a military spirit favours liberty ; but how
is it that nations, after fighting for ages, are so
generally enslaved? The truth is that liberty has
no foundation but in public and private virtue, and
virtue is not the common growth of war." The truth
of this observation has been abundantly confirmed
in all periods. Even in the present century the wars
of France have resulted in a remarkable prostration
of the popular liberties. So, too, in Germany.
The attempt of the " unificatiouists" to secure a
" free and united Germany" by rallying around
the warlike banners of Bismarck has resulted not
merely in the conquest of Austria, but also, to a
great extent in the prostration of the liberties and
will of the whole German people at the feet of Berlin
absolutism. Of what account now is enlightened
public opinion in Hanover, Saxony, Bas aria, Bruns-
wick, Darmstadt, and the other States, in compari-
son with the authoritative decisions of the military
powerof Berlin? That Power now dominates the very
people who united in strengthening its hands for
the war of 1866. The Germans and Prussians, in
their enthusiasm for that war, have welded the
chains of their own liberties—chains which they
are now beginning to feel very galling and oppres-
sive. They must liberate themselves by a wise and
persevering course of constitutional resistance, of
which there are hopeful signs. But it is very hard
to pull down armed despotism, though too easy to
establish it in times of popular and thoughtless
military enthusiasm.

CANADIAN NEWS.—It is announced that a bill
will bo passed at the next session of the Dominion Par-
liament to construct a Canada Pacific Railway, and it is
thought the Home Government will guarantee dividends
on the stock.—A railway from Woodstock to Riviere du
Loup, through the St. John Valley, is projected.—The
total amount of shipping now owned in St. John, N. 8., is
estimated at over 200,000 tons, representing no less than
seven or eight millions of dollars.—The Cautt-,ian Papal
Zouaves, whose terms of enlistment have expired, will re-
turn to Canada about the sec rnd week in April.—The last
election in British Columbia resulted in the return of the
Hon. Mr. De Cosmos, a strong advocate of Confederation.
He was defeated last year in consequence of his advocacy
of Confederation. This year, in the second electoral dis-
trict of the colony, he has obtained his election by a ma-
jority of nearly 3CO. A telegram from Toronto, dated
Feb. 3, says :—" The Newfoundland Legislature was
opened yesterday. A motion of want of confidence in the
Ministry was carried by 21 votes against 8, the majority
being opposed and the minority favourable to confederates
with Canada. The House then requested the Lieutenant-
Governor to call upon Mr. Charles Fox Bennett to form a
new Ministry." Mr. Thomas White has left for England
as Special Emigration Commissioner from the Province of
Ontario, with the object of promoting the emigration of
practical farmers and agricultural labourers. A telegram
from Toronto, dated last Thursday, says the Lieutenant-
Governor of Newfoundland, having remonstrated with
the House of Assembly for having committed a breach
of constitutional usage by nominating Mr. Bennett
as a proper person to be sent for in order to form a
new Ministry, the House of Assembly in that day's
sitting, while quoting a precedent for its act, has
withdrawn the name, and passed a resolution assuring
his Excellency that no infringement of his prerogative
had been intecded. The Ministers were present at the
sitting, and will retain office. Prince Arthur, who had
just been warmly welcomed at Montreal on his return
from the United States, visited the skating rink to wit-
ness the performances of Mr. Curtis, the American cham-
pion skater.
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