The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-24 00:00:00

DENMARK.

The Weser Gazette has received a telegraphic
communication from Hamhurgh, dated the 20th inst.,
stating that the Ministerial crisis had terminated.
The Minister DE REETZ, CHARLES MOLZE, and SIM..
GER leave the Cabinet. These Ministers belonged to
the united Monarchy party. The Privy Councillor
BLumE has taken ad interim the office of Foreign
Affairs, and General FLEMBURG that of War.
The Hamburger Nachrichten says that it is autho-
rised positively to contradict the report that proposals
i.lve been made to the Duke of AUGUSTENDURG to al-
love him a yearly income of 80,000 dollars as an in-
demnity for his renunciation of the Danish Throne;
no such proposal has been made, and if made would
certainly be rejected. It is expected that the new Ca-
binet will present its programme to the Chamber
next week. The two most important questions will
be the Schleswig-Holstein question and that of the
saccession.

HOMAGE TO KOSSUTH AT DERBY.
The Derby Reporter states that on the telegraphic
dispatch, announcing the landing of Kossuth in Eng-
land, being received yesterday at Derby, the joy
bells of St. Werburgh's church struck up a merry
peal, and continued ringing at intervals during the
evening.

TRUC I IVE FIRE AP LEITH.-ME-
LANCHOLY LOSS OF LIFE.

On Wednesday night one of the most disastrous
conflagrations occurred with which Leith has for a
long time been visited—not only involving the de-
struction of a large amount of valuable household pro-
perty, but attended, we regret to say, with the death
of one unfortunate individual while engaged in the re-
moval of some furniture.

The scene of the diaster is an extensive range of
buildings near to the south side of the docks, forming
the corner composed by the junction of Coburg and
Dank-street. Four or five stories in height, and
comparatively of but recent erection, they were occu-
pied by the families of a large number of respectable
tradesmen and workpeople ; w bile the ground-floor
was devoted to shops, of which the two principal
were the spirit cellar of Mr. Drysdale, and the pre-
mises of Messrs. Pole and Peterson, provision mer-
chants.
The flames were first discovered about seven o'clock
/1 e
in the evening, when they where seen issuing with
considerable violence from a small apartment in the
second floor from the top,
believe.occu As yet the origin
to
pied by a woman who
resided alone—a widow,
we
a mystery be ascertained dur-
of the fire remains
jug the investigations by the proper
d authorities ; but it
is conjectured with a considerabl egree of plausibility
fire must have
that some clothes hanging before the
accicie. ntally come in contact with the flames
ig-
nited the floor. However that may be, certain n
that the' conflagration soon assumed a most formidable
appearance, appearavce, and on the arrival of the Leith fire-en-
gines and brigade, assisted by one from the Artillery
Fort, the work of subjection by no means appeared to
be a task of easy accomplishment.
At first, indeed, the flames were solely confined to
the floor :M which they first made their appearance,
and the firemen having, under the judicious directions
of Superitttendent Grant, concentrated their efforts on
this portio n of the premises, their further progress was
under a deluge of water—of which, by the way, there
°
was he ppilv a most abundant supply—speedily stayed.
No sooner, however, was this effected than they burst
forth withh redoubledatnonderingl energy in the roof ; while still
almost equal owdown, they there re-appeared with
spread violence.thvough, By this time the alarm had
the lurid g lave of tine whole quarter, and guided by
a consider), Lble mob eal!lames illuminating all around,
neral exaitornent was people had assembled. The ge-
prevailed, said with the added to by the confusion which
the danger, the various tenants proceeded
sod distracted rnah.ne.,cld articles in the most
the
creased in intensitY ; but, throughanwhile the
fistamhurried
and continued exertions of the well-directed
in-
confined to the root,
and highere firemen,
they ewcteerd
in g ; and, ultimately, by about peolrtions of the build!
were so far subdued that all further o'clock, the
appreh_.o 3' I
were allayed. -u.l ns
Long before this, however, the whole of the pre
-
n; bail assumed as dismantled and ruinous
anpoP-
peirauce as could well be imagined. The roof had
in thost places been consumed. The floors of the
upper stories were almost wholly destroyed and
covered with rubbish, while the lower portions of the
Prerpiatsl which had of course been prerioubly

entirely clea: red of their furniture, were deluged
in all qua: Ins by the constant stream of
water whict t fell copiously through every floor
in succession . In the midst of the operations a
cry was rais, ?d that a man was missing. He had
been busy in the earlier part of the night in removing
his furniture, and now his unaccountable disappear-
ance was first noticed by his wife, who, with three
children, had with the rest been disinhabited by
the unforeseen calamity. Apprehensive of what,
alas ! was soon verified to be the result, two
firemen were dispatched through the building
of him ; and after making an en-
trancethe room he occupied, the in se search of
un-
fortunate man was discovered in a bed-closet, with
life entirely extinct. He had a German clock in one
hand, and had evidently been making his return from
what, judging from the desolate appearance of the
room, might have been his last visit, when overcome
by the smoke, he speedily fell a victim to the stifling
agency. The attendance of two surgeons was pro-
cured without delay. The body was carefully removed
to a safer part of the premises (where it remained
during the rest of the night, his wife being still kept in
ignorance of the occurrence), but all efforts to restore
animation proved unavailing. He was named Watson,
was a man of about 40 years of age, and was em-
ployed in connexion with the engine at the sugar
works in the vicinity. The room in which he was
discovered did not seem to be much devastated by the
flames, and it had been entered by some of the fire-
men in the course of their ordinary operations previ-
ously ; but the fact of his having been overpowered in
the bed•closet prevented his being discovered till too
late.
Several of the people who have sustained any loss
from the destruction of furniture, &c., were insured,
but most of them, we believe, were not, and are more-
over of a class little able to bear it. The building is
principally owned by Mr. Hampton, cooper in Leith,
and most unfortunately for him his insurance expired
only a few days ago, and has not since been renewed.
The damage to house and property is altogether
estimated at little under I,oool.—Caledonian Mercury.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

At the Court at Windsor, the 23d day of October,
1851, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council. This day the Right lion. Edward Adolphus
St. Maur (commonly called Lord Seymour) was, by com-
mand of her Majesty, sworn of her Majesty's Most
lionourblo Privy Council, and took his place at the
Board accordingly.
At the Court at Windsor, the 23d day of October,
1851, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council. It is this day ordered by her Majesty in
Council, that the Parliament, which stands prorogued
to Tuesday the fourth day of November next, toe further
prorogued to Tuesday the fifteenth day of January next.
At the Court at Windsor, the 23d day of October,
1851, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty
in Council. Whereas by an Act passed in the session
of Parliament held in the second and third years of her
Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act for regulating the
Police Courts in the Metropolis," it was amongst other
things enacted that it should be lawful for her Majesty,
with the advice of her Privy Council, to alter the num-
ber of magistrates appointed to any of the said Courts;
and whereas it was declared by an Order in Council,
dated the eighth day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty, that it is expedient that the number
of magistrates should be reduced to twenty, as vacancies
among the said magistrates shall occur; and whereas by
the same Order her Majesty, b'Y and with the advice of
her Privy Council, was pleased to order and direct that
a vacancy then existing at one of the said Courts
(that is to say), at the Southwark Police Court,
,hall not be supplied ; and whereas it has been
found that the number of the police magis-
trates cannot be reduced as is proposed in
the said recited order without detriment to the police
service, and her Majesty has been advised that the va-
cancy at the sad Southwark Police Court should be
filled up; her Majesty, therefore, is pleased, with the
advice of her Privy Council, to order and direct, and it
is hereby ordered and directed, that the said Order in
Council, of the eighth day of January, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty, reducing the number of the said police
magistrates, be rescinded and repealed.
And the Right Honourable Sir George Grey, Bart.,
one of her Majesty's principal secretaries of state, is to
give the necessary directions herein accordingly.
Wm. L. BATHURST.