The Sun.
London, England, 1833-08-15 00:00:00

his former statements had been to show the
necessity of making the parish officers responsible to the
parishioners, for at present the vestrymen elected
each other, and the parishioners had no con-
trol ever them ; so that overseers and vestrymen
were irresponsible bodies.

The SPEAKER interrupted the Hon. and Gallant
Colonel (it being three o'clock) by leaving the chair.

SIMPSON AND CO., OR SIMPSON AND
HIS EFFIGY AT VAUXHALL.

On Monday night this phenomenon will prove
himself the greatest and most enlightened gen-
tleman in the kingdom. "An immense portrait
of myself," says he, " in its proper costume, in
coloured lamps, and measuring the immense size
of thirty feet, will be placed in the quadrangle
behind the orchestra." What a blaze of intel-
lect ! What a glorified Micromegas ! Conceive
a lamp-lighted Simpson, thirty feet high ; bowing
profoundly at an elevation of five fathoms ; his
sconce encircled with a " glory" like that which
surrounds the head of an Apostle, but which,
unfortunately, to a dim-visioned man who can
see no higher than his waistcoat, must be out of
sight ! How true is the scriptural adage, "he
that humbleth hin-Felf shall be exalted !" Simp-
son hath " humbled" himself—bath been the
meekest of the meek for years, and, lo ! he is
now exalted to a height that shameth all prece-
dent, and setteth all imitation at defiance. He
is become of stature sufficient to excite the envy
pf Sr. Paul's—to ogle the Monument—and pull
St. Duna'an by die nos.. He might even kiss
the Queen of Brobdignag without running up a
ladder. We propose on Monday night to go
up in a hallow, and look lion in ihe face. 0:
course we shall land the upper part of his head
somewhere above the limits of perpetual conge-
Leion ; but we are prepared to risk chilblains to
gratify our curiosil. For only conceive !
Simpson in gas-lamp shorts, with ilhuninated
stockings and shoes to correspond a
Simpson constellation, in short, all dazzle
from head to tail, thirty feet high, by
about ten round ! The idea is far too
good to be lost Mr. Carus Wilson should
instantly avail himself of it, and get up a joint-
stock company to illuminate him. More fortu-
nate than Simpson, he would have no need of
effigy, and could not fail to make his fortune by
the speculation ; for if we run far to see a Duke
or an Earl covered with stars, we should all run
twice as far to see a Simpson or a Wilson
covered with lamps, and reaching half way up
to the moon. We congratulate our worthy
Master of the Ceremonies on the brilliant attain-
ments he bids fair to develop on Monday night.
Should any of the children of Israel chance to
see him, they will of course mistake him for
the pillar of fire, that led their ancestors by
night through the wilderness.

FIRE AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE.

(From the Dublin Morning Register of Tuesday.)

During the entire of yesterday the fire-engines were still
engaged in pouring water upon the burning ruins of the Cus-
tom-house stores. From the inquiries which we have been
making upon this subject, we can, we believe, state with some
certainty, that the loss occasioned by the fire will not be so
great as was at first apprehended, and that it will fall principally
upon those, the solidity and solvency of whose establishments
render them most capable of meeting it. A considerable de-
gree of confidence has been restored to the great body of
merchants, by the discovery that the wines stored in the vaults
have, for the most part, escaped without injury. The archi-
tect by whom the buildings were erected, and the architect of
the Board of Works, having given it as their opinion that
the vaults might be opened, they were visited by some of
the merchants, who found the wine and spirit casks cool, al.
though surrounded by an atmosphere that appeared in some
degree heated. The discovery of this fact has checked in a
great degree the panic that first seized the mercantile classes of
this city.

Although notices are still served on the churchwardens, as
if the calamity was occasioned by malice, the notion is univer-
sally scouted that the fire was caused by an incendiary.

We have been informed that during the examination of the
vaults by the merchants deputed for that purpose, it was disco-
vered that three claret casks, in one of them, were completely
emptied. Portions of the casks towards the bottom appeared
to have been burned, and it is supposed that the fire commu_
nicated to them, but in what manner it is difficult to say, as no
aperture by which it could have been admitted appeared in the
roofing of the vaults. The place where those cask. lay is ad.
jacent to the portion of the stores above where the whisky was
deposited. It is singular that the casks which were over the
empty ones were uninjured.