The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-11 00:00:00

THE GREAT FIRE IN QUEBEC.

About one o'clock in the morning of May 24 the alarm
sounded from the box in the vicinity of St. Roch's Church,
which called the fire brigade promptly to the spot. Before
the water could be obtained the flames, fanned by a strong
easterly wind, had communicated to a number of houses
in Crown and Queen streets, and it became evident that
no effort could save St. Roch's from a conflagration
equal to those of 1845 and 1865. The people in the
vicinity commenced moving their furniture, &c., to places
of safety. The sight in some cases was most appalling.
Women with barely a stitch of clothing were met at every
turn, most of them carrying their children, and rushing
about in a wild and insane-like manner. As the wind
rose the flames gathered strength and intensity, leaping
from one building to another, sweeping before them
everything of a combustible nature. The wind blowing at
the time from the east directed the tendency of the flames
toward the Marine and General Hospitals, running-
through Queen and King streets, down as low as Prince
Edward-street, which is near on a line with the water's
edge, and at the time our reporter left, half-past three a.m.,
fears were entertained of the burning of the Marine
Hospital. In an upward direction the fire had
gained as far as Jacques Quartier Hall, and St. Francis-
street, and in this direction carried everything be-
fore it, up the street known as old Bridge-street. The
projecting eaves of the hall caught fire in several places,
but owing to their height a sufficiently strong pressure of
water could not he obtained to reach the spot where the
fire had caught. Ladders were spliced and hose raised,
but not before a great deal of time had been lost. When
we left this section the water was playing, and there re-
mained a probability of saving the building. At Old
Bridge-street, which runs from Vallier-streetto the river
St. Charles, a number of citizens, directed by priests, set
to work to tear down all the fencing, galleries, railings,
and small buildings that could be disposed of by hand.
The fire continued to sweep along with terrible force
through King and Queen-streets, where there were over
fifty houses burning at one time. It is clearly established
that the principal cause of the calamity is the failure of
the municipal authorities to carry out the law relating to
the construction of Wooden buildings. The moment the
fire commenced to gain headway it would exceed super-
human efforts to control or check it. The street in some
places exhibited an awful appearance. A perfect whirl-
wind of fire might be seen in every direction, there being
no efficient obstacle to offer as a barrier to the progress of
the flames. Rain began to fall about half-past four. The
military were sent down about the same time, and the
fire was at last checked. It is estimated that five hundred
buildings are destroyed. Loss, half a million. Baldwin's
large wooden building, in which two large vessels were
under construction' is burned, but the fire was prevented
from spreading to adjoining yards.

THE GREATEST OF ALL FUTURE
POSSIBILITIES.

The sun is beginning to be an object of great anxiety to
many scientific men. Spots on that orb are not at all
uncommon, as may be ascertained by anyone who will
take the trouble to look at it through a bit of smoked
glass. But these phenomena have of late assumed an
appearance which astonishes astronomers, and is calcu-
=lated to alarm that class which fancies it can detect por-
tents of the future in the heavens. There are great gulfs
now to be seen in she sun, each much larger than this
earth which we think of so much consequence in the uni
verse. They increase at a prodigious rate, and sometimes
seem destined to work a convulsion similar to that which
has undoubtedly overtaken other solar systems. Suns
as vast as that which lights and warms this
world have been shattered to pieces or dis-
appeared, and only the philosopher in his
roving glance over the sky has detected the
change. The inhabitants of other planets would not
notice the disappearance of the planet we inhabit, any
more than we can see a speck of sand carried off by the
wind on the sea-shore. It is not a mere theory, but an
ascertained fact, that the sun is always in a highly fluid
condition—as one recent writer describes it, "a hurricane
of flame, the disturbances of which might, perhaps, be
best represented to our imaginations by the occasional
explosion of a planet or two of nitro-glycerine." It is,
moreover, subject to "magnetic storms," produced, as
many suppose, by the movements of the planets around
it. The great disturbance which is now going on was pre-
dicted months ago by scientific men. That we are much
more concerned in the event than many people suppose is
quite certain. Self-registering magnetic instruments
have revealed the fact that whenever a spot breaks
out on the sun, the earth thrills under a mysterious mag
netic influence. In one case, a few years ago, it is upon
record that telegraphic machinery was set on fire, and the
" pen of Bain's telegraph was followed by a flame," at
the very instant a sudden burst of light shewed itself in
the sun. "In the telegraph stations at Washington and
Philadelphia the signal men received strong electric
shocks." In fact, the electric condition of the earth was
changed, though by what precise agency none can fully
explain. We are at once lost in a region of conjecture,
and can only feel that the fate which was foretold of old
for ,the earth may at any moment overtake it. The
forces are all in existence by which, in the solemn lan-
guage of Holy Writ, the "heavens shall pass away with
a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent
heat ' • the earth also, and the works that are therein,
shall be burned up." Once in every eleven years the sun
exhibits the stupendous phenomena which are
at present engaging the attention of philosophers.
In the year 1859 " chasms and abysses," simi-
lar to those which are now reported, wire
seen by many observers. Their recurrence was predicted
for 1870. Great disturbances in- the world have usually
accompanied these outbreaks, though why it should so
happen is another of the unfathomable mysteries of the
universe. In 1848 there were magnetic storms, and we
had the French revolution. Again in 1859 they occurred,
and we saw wars and rumours of wars in Europe. The
electrical condition of the atmosphere is thought to exert
a greater influence upon the
,minds of men and nations
than many are willing to believe, or than any one is able
to explain. The telegraphs denote the changed condition
of the earth, but they cannot indicate the extent of the
change. In the language of the astronomer whose de-
scription of the sun we have just quoted, " the pens of
our telegraphic wires may some day trace in flame a, hand-
writing more ominous of human destiny than was the
handwriting which, during Belshazzar's feast traced a
warning on the wall of'the fall of the Babylonian dynasty."
—New York Times.

VICTIM OF A TELEGRAM.
Mr. [Frederick Stripplin, lately a cotton merchant in
Vicksburg, Mississippi, is at present enjoying the pleasing
hospitality- of a solitary cell at the Central Police Sew,
quarters, under circumstances which, as far as known 3'
present, are decidedly of a peculiar and unusual character.
He arrived in this city in the latter part of last week,
it appears, with his wife, and took passage for himself
and the latter on the steamer leaving for Europe on
Saturday last, whither he was going on a business tril).
Scarcely had he got on to the steamer before two detec-
tives arrested him, took him before the Recorder at JersT
City—the arrest being made at the Jersey City wharP
where the steamer lay—and thence took him a prisoner
to
the Police Headquarters in New York, where he vie
locked up, and is still kept in close confinement. Tile
sole ground of his arrest was a telegram from Vicksburg;
requesting his arrest on a charge of embezzlement. Thi
telegram stated no amount of alleged embezzlement, or
the names of any party or parties from whom be
alleged to have embezzled. It was supposed that since,
the reign of King Kennedy had ceased the period since,
arbitrary and illegal arrests was at an end. Mr. Dou'P
A. Levien, jun., counsel for Mr, Stripplin, obtained.i
writ of habeas corpus in the case yesterday., and till'
morning the prisoner will be brought before Judge 133 r;
nard. His counsel claims that there is no ground
the arrest in the first place, and that in the second Place
it was wholly irregular and illegal, in the absence of spe-
cifications of the charge, and without proper requisiti4A
from the Governors, respectively, of Mississippi, Nell
Jersey, and New York.—New York Times, May 27.

NO KING FOR SPAIN.
By our latest advices we learn that General PI,
regards the declination of General Espartero to accept
Spanish crown as final, and recommends the consolidation
of the Spanish regency. As at the same moment °a
advices inform us that there is very serious objection',
inside and outside of the Cortes, to the confirmation ?!
plenary powers in the hands of Serrano, the inferencelo
that, quite in accordance with what we hinted some tiree
ago, General Prim himself may be the man of the future.
But there is more than this in the present tendencY.
giant
Spanish affairs. The Napoleonic dynasty rises like a g
refreshed with wine from the recent plebiscito:l
th
contest in France. Almost simultaneous w •
its success occurred the Saldanha revolution i°
Portugal and the suggestion of an Iberian union;
The Portuguese Deputies of the old Chambers
hwe separated with solemn pledges against
subordination to Spain, but not, it may be remarked'
against any union which should recognise the autonoraYd
cf their country while combining its strength for g?°11
results with that of their cousins beyond the Span'e
frontier, who are of the same religion, speak a. lang,llo4"
very similar to their own and have some traditions
common with them. The disorders in Spain and in
Portugal have recently afforded France nearly as g°'d A
pretext for interference as that which has called her trooP
the
to Italy, and should those disorders continue an
regency be found impracticable under certain conditions'
why might not the preponderating influence of France be
exercised in a peculiar way? Spain seeks for a leaded
and General Prim, in something of that capacity, has
frequent counselling at Paris. • Could he not preP3F'
the way for a plebiscitum in Spain which might result 11-1,
the selection of a Napoleonic prince to head the nathli
How would the candidature suit the idea of a politico
fraternisation of the Latin race? Stranger things th%
this have happened. A brother of the First NaPoleo
was once made Kin.. of Spain by force ; suppose that !,
cuusin of Napoleon 111. should rise to the same erainene`r
by popular vote, and that his rule should, in time, "c've
the entire Iberian peninsula? Would the latter rea.-,
lose thereby, or would the security and peace of Enree.
be any the worse off for an arrangement that would r,?
pose upon so many guarantees of strength and crdereo
This is a question which may have more significance 3,,s
be more nearly in accordance with the French EraPer°'
new map of Europe, bearing the ante-date of 1872, than
most people imagine. —New York Herald.

CARDINAL ANTONELLI'S SPECIAL EXPOSIT

TION TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
His Eminence Cardinal Antonelli accorded an inter;
view to one of our special correspondents in Roe
a few days since. The Cardinal Secretary of St n•
is a worker in the world attentive, c°
,a
tinuous, and close. He has studied mankind, ,53,5
although he has passed the greater portion of his utis
within the walls of the Vatican, he has, owipg to 061
extensive, vast means of information, and in the keen 3 it
practised eye and ear of an able propagandist seen, pot
were, the world, “.which is a curious sight, and
.Iclio
at all as some good people write it." Progressive in id
be the rule of his school, Cardinal Antonelli Pay
great attention to American affairs. He has studied the
broad T oransatlantic field of the future, and is evidenV.
happy to glean information from the labourers onits,
He anticipates the democratic asylum of the tiara, the
home of the Popedom, when the Old World centr.emi
unity shall have crumbled to the dust and the reLig',.al
builders of the West be called upon to complete the graelf
Christa:n edifice the foundations of which were so secur oj
laid and consecrated by the men of the East. Cards
Antonelli has consequently informed himself as to
materialistic condition of America—our wars, our!deb',"of
system of finance and diplomacy. The climate a
the American Continent has also been considered
in all its varying phases of temperature,and
solstice heats by the divine—a fact which gives us tw„,l
tional reason to believe that the members of the SC—g• •
College have been reflecting seriously, perhaps debatinv;
the original assertion of the Herald, uttered many Ye:ici
since, to the effect that the seat of the Popedom ~vo al
eventually be transferred to American soil. The Cardini
who was evidently in a genial mood towards our spe.c_lte
writer, may also have been considering how appoprP,
and kind at the time was our first tender of Ameriel.
hospitality to the first emigrant Head of the Church,
our offer • to make his Holiness as comfortawe
as possible after his first landing. When the
then wrote the Italian element controlled t
College of the Propaganda to a very great eltenr.
We alluded, consequently, at the time, to a strange a
The aspect of the question of the succession has altereot
considerably since. The American Episcopal elena.r,us
has become a great power in Rome. The tiara may
come to us. This does not by any means alter the int'f
of our original feeling towards the bearer of the Si_et'uot
the Fisherman individually. Should, however, the bathe
of the conclave settle the call of the Holy Spiripxa-
" ascending and descending," the Anabanointos an dims
tabanointos of the Holy Scripture on the head of Car'bio
Giacomo Antonelli, none shall rejoice more sincerely teo
ourselves. The utterances of his Eminence to our sPe
correspondent prove that he is progressive and will c
at
sequently be the "right man " in the place, if chose
least for a period, and to tide time still onward tooled
the day when the universal Church shall be reconsenr3"
in accordance with the inspiration of the Sermon on
Mount. —New York Herald.

THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE BILL. tiov
Cairns will move the following amendment on the ra° t of
that the report of the committee on the High Co
Justice Bill (on re-commitment) be received : . r of
this House, while entirely approving of a consolidatilZtigh
the Superior Courts of Law mid Equity into one
Court of Justice, and of the fusion of the principles, _,
procedure of law and equity, is unwilling to delee 0
oil,
is done by this Bill, to a committee of the PrivY t'°•ll,itlefr
powers which are in effect legislative, and of /-raiti
nite extent, and which, by their exercise, dges,
infringe on the independence of the courts and iteas;
and may introduce, without a parliamentarY
sion, most important changes in the existing Ju,ed-
system • and this house therefore desires, before pro and
ing further with this measure, to have laid before it,rovi
incorporated in the bill, the most material of the I?„,se4
sions intended to be made by virtue of the prop del
delegated powers, and especially the provisions inte
to define the procedure in the High Court of Justice
the divisions thereof. voo
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