The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-07 00:00:00

FALL OF A BURNING HOUSE•

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A fire took place lastight in the premise-
Mr. G. Hassen, a furniture dealer, of No. 137, 5%;
mour-street, Euston-square, and was not Put °Ol
until the back workshops were burnt out, the 1.", e
destroyed, and the upper part of the dwelling-hIo
consumed. All of a sudden the whole front of 'll,
building fell, and nearly covered Engineer Huts
ings and several firemen. They all managed to 1:5
away, and just in time, except one fireman, Who "03
so seriously injured that he was obliged to be reulov
to the hospital.

THE POPE ON NEWSPAPERS.
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The Vatican gives us the Pope's opinion on
he
newspapers, as expressed in a recent audience V1"IY
granted to sundry Venetians. The Council said 100
supplies newspapers with their materials. Falsetbe,
exaggerations, good or evil, nothing comes amiss to Titer
Happily, he added, we have good journals, which ofil„ Ist
act the evil wrought by the bad ones, and he won' the
as to pay Italy the compliment of having 00
largest proportion of good journals. Yet there t de'
people who wished to silence the Catholic press, ,thitrcii.
Glared it to be the cause of all the evils in the (-J"
The Pope's answer to an appeal to exercise his authorll
to this effect deserves to be rememberogved
political as well as religious intolerance. y 0
willingly, gentlemen ; but on condition that tber4
will pledge me your word for it that henceforth den'
shall not be a single anti-Catholic journal." " The,i
sce like
tlemen," remarked the Pope. in conclusion, "wow
the
to shut the mouths of others, that they may keep 3;ou
conversation to themselves." We fear that inclina,"
not restricted to the Italian opponents of the press-

LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND Ala'itl ter
W
The Atheneum has the following :—Sir JO,
Scott wrote sermons, and so we need not be 0,4°1 eter'
at a novelist who appears in a new chare.3o
but it is with surprise, as well as great pleasure, t „L' cieV
hear the next volume of the new series of "
Classics for English Readers" will be " Cmsar,".ntof'
Anthony Trollope.—Readers of Mr. Laurence OliP, Of,
" Piccadilly " must have been amused with his t.As",,ta,7",
tion of the character of "spiritual medium :" " The 'time
were penned under an impulse which seemed at the get
irresistible. I found myself unable, by any eonseir
of volition, to control either the plot or the style. be P"
with his farewell to the world :—" I can ,
no way affected by the fate of the book,
is it likely I shall ever see or hear the criticisms of
,cli!';
it may be the subject." As usual, the etern.--a isstW
proves a most transient adieu. Escaped from his cf,,
retreat with Mr. Harris on the bank of Lake Brlnts of
Oliphant is learning, in Pall Mall, what society thy,si
" Piccadilly."—The readers of the Glasgow Hate so
for a long time entertained with a series of graP tipite4
gossiping articles on men and manners in the "sty,
States, by Mr. David Macrae. A selection of the it-,
them, in two volumes, will be published imniedi,hee titit
" The Logical Method of Political Economy" is resOf
of a volume on which Mr. J. E. Cairnes is at oe
engaged.—We regret to hear that it is the intends the
Miss Marie Wilton to retire from the stage as soonres'A
run of " M.P." is over. We trust that in the inter
English comedy, which can ill afford to lose so OA sti!'i,
mate an artist, this decision will be reconsidered. ,f;',7o
of money subscribed in Germany for presentano the
Baron Liebig has, by his request, been devoted and
foundation of a prize, to be called the Liebig 31e1tions
to be given from time to time for scientific investlg,if
in subjects connected with agriculture.—A monkelhl'
order of La Trappe has invented a new potatl6oollr
machine, by means of which a man can easily Pee 16
of potatoes per hour. 401
thoti- es)
The Musical Standard says :—A ship of a `',/ bee
tons burthen, christened the Gioachino Rossini, has
launched at Genoa,. This is the first known ins etileo
such an honour paid to a composer.—A bibliogrioo,
musical curiosity has been recovered to the Belletic
the shape of a complete collection of certain Pr°...th Geo
by Belgian composers of the fifteenth and sixte9.,e
tunics. Both words and music of many of
according to the Guide Musicale, long. been sougnovi;lo.;
tiquaaians, and the musical ; their interest for tiloPa
readers, depending upon the recollection that
.I.,tivos_n
days Flemish musicianship was of a highly eou'reultin
order.—Not satisfied with "the anvil chorus ',Ol, coos
to to the " Harmonious Blacksmith ") our American perlo
hay.e introduced the triangle as an instrument 0 piv
sion in one of the musical interludes during
service.

Many of the men who have been, or 83:(',.bei
employed in Chatham Dockyard, are about to psi:oll6og
selves of the offer made by the Admiralty of 0651.0e0
them tclemigrate to Canada at the end of the P
month or the beginning of June. .
For the fifth time- the offer of the
Middleton has been refused—on this occasion by the
eod
of Egham (Dr. Monsen) who pleads his advance 4 The
the unsatisfactory health of a raember of his fainilP
living is valued in the clergy list at £950 a year. 030
Le .Nord says :—" It is stated from ma,drlavor
General Caballero de Rodas Captain-General of 0103
nali, has discovered that .the English Consul-Oette,ecret
that island has been from the commencement the "
agent and intermediatory of the insursrents."

Mr. Punch in Fleet'

li's last effusion I'2;
th a sort of eboro
3al lines have Or
—whether here
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Ist lovingly hanalej
!nightly, where diet
of rapture by 11.'

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shape of a ghastil
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Irdiki, in 1812, bi
, through the ratir
herwise A.thanasitis

pen of Mr. Cashel
Won, is attributable
last number of le
tively, " Reis°

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acku'ood. Scar Cell
3 at Trieste en roliN
Charles Lever, tiles
tarry Lorrequer
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which 11°
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west shores of 11le
ro years bedriclaell,
length, sunk tolue'

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ms curious thats
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tgazine to Lis
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incident, agaiu,'
Cher widely perallir
utly gone in for
audience.
tzine, and Harrison
tsd family publicly
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Ice of the days

ONE BOY 13

aged 15, was Ail
r-road, Edinburgh'
gasfitter, and '135
d got opposite 111!
a youth, 100 11,1'
a pistol bebiudll°
few minutes after
years of age; the

HOUSE

n the pretniseo of
of No. 137, Seri
was not put of
urnt out, the ra°
he dwelling-Was°
whole front of he
Engineer fititcjil:
Il managed to rep,
fireman, who 0,5
iged to be remove'