The Sun.
London, England, 1834-10-08 00:00:00

FIRE IN TRINITY-STREET.

On Saturday night, or rather on Sunday morning, a fire
broke out in the house in Trinfty-street occupied by Mr.
Nolan, publican, by which the interior of the premises were
reduced to heap of ashes, and nothing left remaining but
the mere skeleton walls. It appears that, at about half-past
five o'clock on Sunday morning, peace-constable Thomas
Stevens, of the Head Police-office, was passing down Tri-
nity-street, when his attention was attracted by a body of
thick smoke issuing from the windows of the public-house
at the corner of the street. He immediately set about alarm-
ing the inmates, which, after some knocking, he effected.
rl he only inhabitants in the house were two boys, who with
some difficulty made their way into the street. Stevens,
when he had succeeded in his first object, with very com-
mendable activity hastened to College-street police office,
from which the most prompt assistance was immediately fur-
nished. Messengers were dispatched for the different fire
engines in the neighbourhood, which were on the spot within
about twenty minutes from the first discovery. Meantime,
however, the fire, which appears to have originated in the
lower part of the house by the bursting of a gas pir, was
forcing its unrestricted passage upwards, and had already
communicated with the "spirits" which were in some large
vessels in the cellar. The conflagration produced by the
ignition of a large quantity of such inflammable material
, was appalling. The flames rushed upwards with irresistible
I fury, and quickly reached every part of the building. Such
was the terrible intensity of the fire, that the walls seemed
every moment as if about to burst asunder from the force
and fury of the terrific conflagration that was mingling
every thing within in one mass of ruin. Several engines
were on the spot, and though plied with unremitted ac-
tivity, and furnished with a plentiful supply of wate-, they
availed not, in the smallest degree, in checking the fury and
fierceness of the fire. When this was found utterly hope-
less, every exertion was used to prevent its spread to the
contiguous buildings, and with the most fortunate success.
A party of military, we believe from the George's-street
Barracks, soon arrived at the place, and, together with the
police, did all in their power to render every assistance.
The house, with the exception of a portion of the walls,
was reduced to ashes, and, at a late hour yesterday even-
ing, was a mass of smoking ruins, upon which some of the
fire-engines were still playing. We fear that none of the
property was saved. We have not heard whether the loss
was extensive, but, we understand, the premises were in-
sured. Considering the violence and fury with which the
fire raged during the combustion of a large quantity of
whiskey contained in the vaults, it is most fortunate and
providential that its dreadful and destructive progress was
prevented from extending to the neighbouring houses.—
Freeman's Journal.

EVIL EFFECTS OF SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS.

In every country in the present age spirituous liquors are
indulged in to a blameable excess. This reproach applies
to every class of society, and perhaps indeed more to the
higher than the lower orders. The tables of the rich in
modern days are almost always laid, out as if debauchery
alone was to preside there. Classes of every shape and
rich decanters crowd the board ; and we should perhaps be
accused of want of taste, if we refused to overload the sto-
mach with the most inflammatory liqueurs. The medical
world have repeatedly deprecated this murderous system,
but in vain ; vice, and our passions, more powerful than
their counsels, have perpetuated this highly injurious habit.
Many old people may attribute the indisposition which tor-
ments them to this pernicious use of spirituous liquors. If
they are useful in very cold and dry warm countries, by sus-
taming the strength and stimulating the vital powers of the
stomach, they are very bad in such climates as ours, inso-
much as they derange the sensitive system and affect the
cerebral functions. They give rise also to cutaneous and
and stomachic disorders, contracting, drying, and hardening
all the living solids, and inducing premature old age. Per-
sons of a sanguine and sedentary habit, who have been ad-
dicted to their use and abuse, are particularly liable to pains
in the back and loins, caused almost always by the exist-
ence of stone. Old persons, annoyed by bad digestion or
flatulency, foolishly imagine that spirituous liquors alone
can rid them of these inconveniences. Let them only them-
selves examine into the consequences : a very short time
will have elapsed before they will discover that the result is
not what they anticipated. If these liquors do appear at
first to strengthen those who fly to them for relief, it is but
to bring them at last to a state of weakness almost incur-
able.—Rules for the Health of the Aged.

DUBLIN AND KINGSTOWN RAILWAY.-011
Saturday the first trial of the steam-engine " Vauxhall," with
a small train of carriages filled with ladies and gentlemen,
was made on the line of railway from Dublin to the Martello
Tower, at Williamstown. It was eminently successful, not
only as to the rapidity of the motion, ease of conveyance, and
facility of stopping, but the celerity and quickness with which
the train passed, by means of the " Shunts," frcm one line of
road to another. The distance was over two miles, which
was performed in a very few minutes; and the ease with
which the train was brought from the most rapid motion to a
complete stop was the surprise of every one that witnessed it.
—Freeman's Journal.
SLATE AND FLAG QUARRIES.—Thc quarries
now working on the Knight of Kerry's estate at Valentia, are
proceeding prosperously. The slate is as good as any in Great
Britain, and the flags, in size and quality, superior to any
hitherto discovered in Ireland, and in such demand that largo-
oantities of them have been exported to the West Indies.—
Cor-lt Southern Reporter.
A serious and afflictive accident occurred on Out
river last Saturday. As one of the numerous fishing smacks
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which are constantly passing between this port a
ame in nd the sea,
was hurrying up the river with the tide, ts mast c con-
tact with the bridge, and as the water was very high and
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were left
floating on the water. One of them an old man nearly seventy
was rescued, after being carried some way down the stream,
and another by strong swimming soon made to the shore ; but
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the third, a boy about thirteen years of age, went down and
has not yet been found. The smack is a complete wreck by
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the accident, and thus the poor men in addition to the loss of
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renders it extremely dangerous, as the above fact displays, to
approach the bridge with themast • or rigging up.—Stanjord
News.
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