The Sun.
London, England, 1851-10-23 00:00:00

23,

THE GREAT EXHIBITION.
The work of removal goes on apace. Nearly half the
British exhibitors are gone, and in two or three weeks
more the western halt of the building will have been
swept clean to the doors. Same of the foreign contri-
butors will probably linger on the scene of their triumphs,
but they also appear to be actively on the move, and
earnestly bent on getting away. Tunis, Switzerland,
and Rome, are in the act of departure, if they have not
already gone. Messrs. APeracken, the Russian Custom-
house agents, have sent off the things belonging to tho
Emperor which were exhibited; and Messrs. Mijor are
busily engaged in preparing for reshipment the Turkish,
Austrian, and other collections for which they were
concerned. In about two months hence the Crystal
Palace will be loft alone in its glory, and when the pub-
lic are once more admitted within its spacious precincts,
and have time to admire in its unadorned grandeur the
gigantic shell of the Great Exhibition, we shall be s:ir-
prised indeed if they allow it to be pulled down. The
full effect of is acres of ground under one roof without
a single partition wall, with the light of heaven pene-
trating every corner of it, and the whole coca at a
glance, has never yet been thoroughly realized. If to
that attraction the contractors add those of balls and
promenades, the success that must be achieved thereby
would tell powerfully upon the fate of the building when
discussed in Parliament.

CONFLAGRATION AT ENFIELD.
Yesterday (Wednesday) forenoon, about half-past
:en o'clock, one of the moot extensive fires that has
occurred for some years past in the parish of Enfield
broke out in the premises belonging to Mr. A. Paris,
known as i'lumridge Farm, about four miles beyond
the Barnet station of the Great Northern Railway.
From inquiries made on the spot cur reporter
gleaned the following particulars. Before, however,
it is necessary, in order that the reader may correctly
understand how it was that the fire made such fearful
progress, to state that the farm-house stood in a
direct line with the carriage road, whilst a number
of brick and timber buildings used for depositing
corn, seeds, cattle, &c., ran in a kind of circuitous
form a considerable distance, and again approached to
within a short space of the first-named building. The
space between the various erections was literally
studded with wide and lofty stacks of corn, hay, and
other farm-produce. Some of the ricks towered so
high that there must have been between 200 and
300 loads of material in them. Between the ricks
and the buildings a number of sheds stretched across.
The fire commenced in a small shed, through the
carelessness of one of the men employed on the estate
heating a pot of tar. Whilst attending to the fire
the contents of the vessel boiled over, and in an in-
stant the combustible liquid became ignited, and ran
like a sheet of flame over the Placer of the building, so
that in less than five minutes the flames rushed out of
the property and seized upon everything near. The
men employed on the farm, as well as many of the
neighbours, hastened to the spot to render assistance,
but in spite of their exertions the work of devastation
continued with frightful rapidity.
With as little delay as possible three engines of the
parish went down, but by that period a large barn,
between 80 and 100 feet long, and containing up-
wards of 150 quarters of corn, and a smaller one,
about 40 feet long, and a number of sheds, were in
flames. All chance of saving any portion of these
premises appeared perfectly hopeless ; every endeavour
was therefore made to save the ricks of hay and wheat
contiguous ; but so fiercely did the flames extend that
very quickly a large wooden building nearly 70 feet
long became fired, and but few minutes elapsed before
the whole structure was enveloped in flames. The
various persons at work at this conjuncture, on seeing
the conflagration travelling so fearfully, were com-
pletely bewildered. A great many directed their ser-
vices towards stopping the fire from reaching the
stacks and ricks standing hard by, but even in that
they wese to a certain extent disappointed, for rick
after rick of corn and hay, to the number of eight,
became ignited in rapid succession; and the flames
being wafted by rather a stiffish breeze, extended
their ravages to the stables and some carriage sheds.
Nothing short of the complete destruction of the
whole of Mr. Paris's property could now,be expected,
more especially as a lofty rick of hay or corn, contain-
ing nearly three hundred loads, was in flames. The
men, however, in a most praiseworthy manner, re-
sorted to various expedients to save from total destruc-
tion this stock, well knowing, if they could not, the
bailiff's house and five other ricks must share the
same fate as the others. Fortunately, by scattering
the water and cutting the rick round they succeeded in
saving the interior of the stack, and thereby cut off the
the further spread of the flames in the direction of the
bailiff's house and other valuable property. The
fearful element continued to rage, and so threatening
an appearance did it at length assume that it was
deemed advisable to send a mounted policeman, and
also to employ the electric telegraph to give the ne•
cessary intelligence to the London fire stations, so
that additional aid might be obtained. The moment
the news was received in London, Scott, the head en-
gineer of the Farringdon-street-station, started with
one of the brigade engines and a powerful body of
firemen. Mr. Connorton, the superintendent of the
West of England fire brigade, followed soon after,
and on their arrival they beheld a fearful scene ; for
at the least computation they found property covering
half an acre of land in a tremendous blaze. The bri-
gade engine was forthwith taken to a pond of water,
and its contents were pumped into the parish engines,
for by that means alone could a continuous jet be
thrown upon the fire. Fortunately, the firemen by
eight o'clock succeeded in getting, as far as appear-,
ances went, command over the fire, that is, to stay its
further extension, but at that hour the country for
miles round was most brilliantly illumined, and it
was the opinion of the firemen present that they
would be unable to get the fire completely extin-
guished before late this (Thursday) morning. To
give anything like a correct estimate of the damage
done would, at the present time, be impossible ; we
can however state with certainty that up to eight
o'clock last night the large barn, with 150 quarters
of wheat, the smaller one 40 feet long, another
building 60 feet long, a vast number of sheds, the
stables, and eight stacks of corn and hay were com-
pletely destroyed, to say nothing of the damage done
to the surrounding property. Mr Paris, who is uni-
versally respected in the neighbourhood, was insured
in the Sun Fire-office.

ESCAPE OF AN ITALIAN REFUGEE TO
LIVERPOOL.

By the screw-steamer Arno, which arrived at this
port from Italy last week, we had transported to our
shores an interesting refugee, in the shape of a mere
boy, sixteen years of age, whose name, for obvious
reasons, we are not permitted to mention, who literally
had "to run his country to save his neck." Half an
hour before the Arno left Leghorn, he was brought on
board concealed in a sack, and placed for safety among
the provisions in the lazaret. The person in charge of
" the parcel" paid its passage money to England, and
thus far was all Captain Harem knew about the mat-
ter at the time. On getting clear of the port, how-
ever, it turned out that "the sack," like many of
those occasionally dropped in the Bosphorous, con-
tained a living freight; and a dark-eyed boy made his
appearance to claim the protection of the commander
of the vessel. His only credentials were an appeal
to the sympathies of human nature in assisting a
fellow-creature in distress, and a letter of introduction
to Messrs. M'Kean, M'Larty, and Co., of this town.
It appeared that this young gentleman and a number of
other precocious spirits had formed themselves into a
secret society or club, for the printing and circulation of
religious and political works, among which the distribu-
tion of the Bible, and pamphlets on the " Freedom of
Italy," formed a prominent part. The authorities hav-
ing got wind of their proceedings, several of the mem-
bers were arrested and summarily shot, and to escape a
similar fate, our hero was embarked on board the Arno.
His parents knew nothing of his connexion with the
affair until startled by the appearance of the soldiers to
demand the person of their son; and for a couple of days
previous to the Arno's arrival at Leghorn, he had been
removed from house to house in the suburbs of the city
to escape deteotion.—Liverpool Standard.

COUNTY CoußTs.—ln the recent rules issued for
the regulation of county courts there is one declaring that,
" On or before the Ist of January, 1852, the judges shall
appoint the days and hours for holding each of their courts
during the month of January, February, and March in the
said year; and on or before the first day of every month
after the said month of January, the judges shall appoint
the days and hours for holding each of their courts during
then month next following the three months previously ap-
poited, and a notice of such appointments shall forthwith
be put up by the clerk in some conspicuous place in the
court-house and in the office of the clerk ; whenever any
day so appointed for holding the court shall be altered,
notice of such alteration and the time when it will take
effect shall be put up in some conspicuous place in the
court-house and clerk's office, provided that the judge may
from time to time hold additional courts besides those
hereinbefore required to be appointed. Two courts shall not
be held before the same judge in one day." It is to be hoped
that the time when the courts are to rise each day will be
stated, which notice would benefit all parties, and prevent
late sittings.
AN IRISH MONARCH IN HENRY THE SECOND'S
DAYS.—In one fight, early in the war, they cut off three
hundred heads, and laid them before Mac Murrough.,who turned them every one up with his hands, rejoicing, ci
com-
ing to one which was the head of a man whom
and tore off
much disliked, grasped it by the hair and ears,
judge
from this,
the nose and lips with his teeth. You may
in those times was.
what kind of gentleman an Irish King
horribly treated ,
lie had very
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and casting them into the sea
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ycanueswed great consternation.--Ilerald.
The privilege of selling newspapers and books at
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the railway stations belonging to the South-Western Rail-
way Company has,it is stated, been leased to Messrs. Smith
and 50; the news-agents of the Strand, for 1,009/. a year.