The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-08 00:00:00

LONDON FIRES.

During Tuesday night and Wednesday morning five fires
are returned to the Metropolitan Board of Works as
having taken place in the .London district. Out of that.
number two only are deserving of public notice. One of
these took place on the premises of Mr. Willcocks, music
and musical instrument seller, No. 32, Blackman-street,
Borough. The flames commenced from some unknown ca us
about the staircase, andthey rapidly ignited the two upper
floors, and broke through the roof, causing very great
alarm •to prevail in the neighbourhood. A strong body of
police was immediately draughted from the contiguous
station, and were' the means of preventing many of the
light-lingered gentry from Kent from pursuing their
avocations. Engines arrived in rapid succession, and
were set to work from an abundant supply of the South-
work Company's water, but, in spite of the exertions of
all present, the fire could not be conquered until the
premises were nearly destroyed, and the property of Mr.
Ware, solicitor, No. 33, and Mr. F. C. Holmes, tobacco-
nist, damaged.

Another fire took place whilst the above was raging in
the premises of Mr. W. Scott, a tobacconist, 148, Union-
street, Borough. As many engines as could be spared
from the first fire were draughted to the second one, and
the same turncocks, members of the Salvage Corps, and
firemen arrived, and plenty of the Southwark Company's
water was ready to allow the engines to be set to work,
and with the addition of Beek and Co.'s patent hydrants,
the flames were confined to the lower part of the
premises. The fire was caused through a light being
thrown down.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—One Shilling Day, Wane-
day, December 7th, 1870.—Admissions by season tickets
1,950 ; ditto on payment, 2,422 ; total visitors,4,372.

COLONEL REILLY.—Many of our readers will be
gratified to hear that Colonel Reilly, one of the Military
Commissioners with the French army, who had not been
heard of since the battle of Beaune-la-Rolande, has ap-
peared at the Headquarters of Prince Frederick Charles,
having been taken prisoner at the close of the action. He
will probably be sent into Germany and then set at
liberty. —Times.
The Royal Dublin Society have thrown open the
exhibition of cattle, sheep, poultry, dairy produce, &c.,
for the benefit of artisans, by gas-light, two nights this
week, from seven to ten o'clock. Tiokets were given to
employers at a very low rate for their workmen.
There is going about a report—as yet not risen
al)ove a whisper—that Mr. Home, the spiritualist, is
established at 'Versailles, much as Galeotti was retained
as astrologer to Louis XI. of France. That, is to say, the
spiritualist is all in all with the King of Prussia.
An Amorican correspondent informs the Church
Herald that meetings have been held of the clergy and
chief laity of no less than nine dioceses in the Protestant
Episcopal Church, at which resolutions condemnatory
of the co-operation of Unitarians and other heretics in
the revision of the English Bible were passed unani-
mously, and in some instances with enthusiasm and ac-
clamation. .

The Rochdale flannel trade during the month of
November has exceeded in amount the corresponding
period of last year, but manufacturers complain loudly of
its unremunerative character, resulting in a great mea-
sure from the unsatisfactory condition the foreign and
colonial markets. At the wool sales which have just
terminated in London about 170,000 bales passed the
hammer, and considerable spirit was manifested through-
out, but especially towards the close, when a more mate-
rial advance was established in most *saes of wool,
particularly in those sorts 404pted fur consumption in
this locality. English wools generally continue firm in
price, but loWvr 40.Tto:hiive 4tlvAncecl considerably.