The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-23 00:00:00

THE FATAL FIRE AT LEEDS.

The fatal fire at Mr. Mann's cap manufactory, Leeds,
was marked by some peculiarly distressing circum-
stances. The fire broke out in the room in
which the cap-boxes were kept, and the flames spread
with great rapidity to other parts of the building, in which
several women and girls were employed. A panic ensued,
many-of the girls preferring to leap from the third storey
windows of the building, rather than wait for a slower
descent by ladders and run the risk of being burnt to
death before they could make such means available. In-
deed, so rapid was the spread of the flames that the alter-
native to many of the poor women was either to jump
from the windows or to perish in the flames. The various
fire brigades in Leeds were telegraphed for and were soon
on the spot, but from a short supply of water their efforts
were of no avail. When the fire was got under the dead
bodies of two women, whose features were unrecognisable,
were found in one of the water-closets. Not being able to
muster courage to jump from the windows, as urged to do
they had evidently taken shelter there and met with the
most horrible death. Beds were obtained by some of the
neighbours for the women to jump upon, but such was
their haste to escape that many of them could not be per-
suaded to wait. The result, therefore, as might be anti-
cipated, was that several persons received severe injuries,
and one has since died, from the fall. The names of
those who were injured, so far as could be ascertained,
are Agnes Steel, a single woman (since dead), and
Maria Spence, both of whom jumped from the top
storey ; an elderly woman named Elizabeth M`Day, and
Ann Paley.

The rumour grows again that Cardinal Cullen is
not to return to Ireland as Archbishop of Dublin, but that
he is to be kept in Rome as a special adviser.
The Rev. Robinson Duckworth being about to
retire from the office of governor to his Royal Highness
Prince Leopold, the Queen, to mark the sense which
her Majesty entertains of his services to the prince, has
been graciously pleased to appoint him to the chap-
laincy in ordinary vacant by the death of the Rev.
Thomas Prothero.

THE KHEDIVE'S SON.—When the Crown Prince
of Prussia visited Egypt, after the opening of the Suez
Canal, he was received with the greatest hospitality by
the Khedive, who placed one of his own boats at his dis-
posal to make the voyage in Upper Egypt. The Prince
was very sensible of the attention shewn to him, and has
invited Mohammed Temfilo Pacha to pay him a visit at
Berlin. It is the intention of the young prince to proceed
to that city on his departure from Vienna. He will also
pay his respects at the Court of the Tuileries.
The Newcastle Daily Express says on Monday
night the village of Catchgate, situate about half a mile
from Annfield Plain was the scene of considerable excite-
ment, consequent on a report that a person named
McMoyle, a miner, had been murdered. Upon inquiry it
was ascertained that the deceased had struck the daughter
of an engineman employed at South Derwent Colliery,
named Robert Blackburn, and that Blackburn, who had
witnessed the assault, immediately came forward and
struck McMoyle, who fell to the ground and never
moved afterwards. Blackburn, who is in custody, is
said to be a respectable man.
STRIKE IN THE TIN-PLATE TRADE.—AII inef-
fectual attempt has been made to settle a long-standing
dispute in the tin-plate trade at Cookley, near Kidder.
The men offered to go in at 10 per cent. reduction, but
their employers declined to accede to these terms. New
hands have been imported from Wales, and the works are
guarded by a detachment of county police. The Welsh
workmen live in the works, and have not been outside
them since their arrival. Nearly all the old workpeople
are persons who have worked at the Cookley tin-plate
works from their youth, and the case is one in which arbi-
tration might be tried.
THE FIRE AT CONSTANTINOPLE.—A statement of
the number of persons left houseless by the late fire at
Constantinople, and sheltered by Government in tents on
the Armenian Cemetery, the Place d'Artillerie, and near
the Artillery Barracks of the Taxim, gives the following
classification :—Armenians, 6,447 ; Greeks, 1,722 ; Latins,
449 ; Italians, 285 ; Frenchmen, 47 ; Austrians, 40 ;
Englishmen, 25 ; Russians, 13 ; Turks, 6 ; making a
total of 9,034. The number who have been burnt out
and are provided with provisions by the Government
at the Taxim is 15,000, making an aggregate of 24,034.

The Mormons at Plano, Illinois, who claim to be
the true Church, do not recognise polygamy. They have
recently addressed a memorial to the President and to
Congreas, asking that they may not be confounded with
the " Latter Day Saints " of Utah in any legislation upon
the question of polygamy and disloyalty. The memorial
presents evidence to prove that the doctrine of plurality
of wives was rejected by Joseph Smith and Hiram Smith,
the original presidents, and that the revelation on the sub-
ject was not known until 1852, and was then announced
in Utah. The paper also contains an epitome of the faith
and doctrines of the Plano Mormons, in order. as they say
to place themselves right upon the record, both theo-
logically, socially, morally, and politically.

The Government of Paraguay has made a demand
upon Brazil for the surrender of Madame Lopez and the
large amount of treasure said to be in her possession. It
is said that Madame Lopez was the accomplice of the
Dictator of Paraguay in his cruelties and robberies, and
that the goods found in her carriage when captured were
the property of his victims. The Brazilian Minister,
however, refuses to surrender Madame Lopez, and says
that when she is released her accusers can take such steps
as they might think fit in the courts of law, and can
recover the damages out of the proceeds of the estates
belonging to her, which have been seized by the Provi-
sional Government of Paraguay. The Brizifian Minister
also states that the effects of Madame Lopez, seized in
her coach, were of no great value, as is proved by the
inventory of them taken by the ommittee of officers
on the Brazilian man-of-war at the port of Asuncion, on
which she is now held as prisoner.