The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-06 00:00:00

PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 5.

(FROM A CONSERVATIVE CORRESPONDENT.)
The Conservative cause progresses very favourably in this
town. John Fleming, Esq. of Stoneham Park, has been joined
since my last communication to you, by Henry Combe Comp-
ton, Esq., of Manor House, in this county, and they have been
personally canvassing the electors since Wednesday morning,
with what success I leave you to judge from the fact, that at
the last election the numbers polled for Mr. Fleming in this
district were very little more than half the number polled for
either Palmerston or Staunton ; but the canvas of Wednesday
and Thursday has not only disposed of the majority against
Mr. Fleming, but skews a very considerable majority for both
him and Mr. Compton. This is true. A very crowded and
respectable body of the electors assembled last evening at the
Committee Room, Old Rope-work, Portsea, to meet their
respected candidates (D. G. Hewett, Esq., in the chair),
when a resolution was passed, by acclamation, to the following
effect :—" That Messrs. Fleming and Compton, in respond-
ing so promptly to the call made on them by the constituency
of the Southern Division of this County, are entitled to our
warmest thanks and united support ; and this Meeting, while
they congratulate these gentlemen on the very great success
of their canvass, as far as it has gone, pledge themselves to
use every exertion, individually and collectively, to ensure
their return to Parliament, in case of a dissolution." Several
very excellent speeches were made, during the evening, by
various gentlemen, but more particularly by Messrs. Fleming
and Compton themselves.

MONEY MARK ET.—The rise in the funds at a
time when the value of money is declared, by the late proceed-
ing on the part of the Bank to be one per cent, higher than
at this period of last year, seems to justify the suspicion ex-
pressed yesterday (Friday) of unfair dealing by the directors.
In fact, the belief is now becoming general, that while the
public are charged four per cent. for the accommodation of
loans, on the best security, during a very limited period, a
great capatilist is permitted to enjoy the same advantage for a
longer term, and at an interest of three per cent. only. The
transaction is covered, and that but superficially, by the pre-
text that it is the money of the East India Company which is
thus lent, and that the bank is only the medium for employ-
ing it ; but it in effect as much an issue of paper as any other
transaction of the establishment, and a piece of favouritism by
the Bank towards the party having the advantage of the loan
in question. The amount is understood to be 1,500,0001.,
for six months. The bad management of the Bank in this
transaction is hardly less remarkable than the unfairness of it.
As the East India Company receive probably not more than
2 or 2+ per cent. on their deposit, it would have been as well
for the directors to have availed themselves of it to keep their
Exchequer bills, which pay about the same rrde of interest,
not to mention that by the sale they have suffered a great loss
in the premium. Again, they might have kept this sum in
hand afterwards, and lent it to the public at four cent., but
they suffer it to come into the market at a lower rate, and
raise a competition again',i themselves, calculated to destroy
arl the advantages of :,heir own measure. The Bank Direc-
tors, therefore, incur the charge of having either acted with
Improper vie7i, or improvidently for those whom they repre-
sent.— lifurning Paper.

On Friday morning, between 2 and 3 o'clock, a
barn in the occupation of Thomas Fletcher, in Isleham Pitts,
was discovered to be on fire, and was destroyed, with a stack
of clover, together of the value of about 1001. Owing to a sud-
den change of the wind, and the people being up in conse-
quence of a parish meeting being held very late (so that the
engine was brought out immediately), the mischief was pre-
vented from extending any further, or the consequences might
have been dreadful, as the pit contains no fewer than 78 cot-
tages, chiefly thatched, with a population of 400 people hud-
dled closely together. It is horrible to add that all these poor
creatures were placed in this state of peril by an act of ma-
lice. A man was apprehended on swpicion of having set fire
to the property, but after an examination of several witnesses
he was discharged. Fletcher was partially insured.—Cam-
bridge Chronicle.

On Friday night, about a quarter before nine, a
most destructive fire broke out in the farm-yard of Mr. James
Baldry, at Lidgate, Suffolk. Mr. Baldry had not returned
from a parish meeting. His bailiff, who had just gone to bed
(having previously looked round the premises as usual), was
alarmed by the light, and running down without his clothes
let the horses and stock out of the stable and yard. At this
time the barn was enveloped in flames, and the wind being very
high they rapidly extended to four stacks of wheat, one of
hay, some haulm and straw, and all the other outbuildings.
They soon after reached the dwelling-house, and also five te-
nements (four of them belonging to the parish), and a house
in the occupation of Mr. Sollinger, shopkeeper, the whole of
which were destroyed, not a timber nor a spar being left of
the greater part of the buildings. The quantity of corn de-
stroyed was nearly 400 coombs. A part of the furniture and
shopkeeper's goods were preserved, but many of these were
stolen in the confusion. The greatest fears were entertained
for other property contiguous to the fire, and it was only by
the most praiseworthy exertions of his labourers, directed by
himself and his family, with pails of water, wet blankets, &c.
that the extensive premises of Mr. Pawsey were preserved.
Flakes of the fire fell continually on the thatch of the build-
ings and straw in the yard, and one actually descended a chim-
ney of the dwelling-house, and set fire to a bunch of straw in
the flue, which fell into the room in a blaze, just as Mrs. Paw-
sey providentially entered. We lament to add that no doubt
is entertained of this dreadful calamity being wilfully occa-
sioned.—Cambridge Chronicle, 1

FIRE AT ANLABY.—SEVEN HORSES DE-
STROYED.—We regret th state that a lamentable casualty oc-
curred on Wednesday evening last, in the village of Anlaby, a
short distance from, this town. The following are the parti-
culars. The so:vant of Mr. John Clarke, farmer, of that
place, had been engaged for about an hour in the stable, by
the light of a candle which was placed in a skeleton lamp.
Having finisb.ed the work he had been employed about, he re-
moved the rJandle into a close lantern and proceeded with it to
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the house.
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about,, six o'clock. At eight he re-
the stable,
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the stable, in company with another man, for the
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the horses. On opening the
stable door the place was discovered to be full of smoke, and
flames Ixdrst forth on the air being admitted by the opening of
the dr,or. It was presently ascertained that seven very va-
luaVie draught horses were dead from suffocation, lying one
ov,,r the other. Adequate assistance was procured as soon as
*Ale alarm was given, and the fire which had already extended
to the roof of the building, was shortly got under, without
further damage • most providentially, as in an adjoining shed,
separated by only a slight partition, were sixteen fat bullocks.
Mr. Clarke's property, we are glad to say, is insured. On
examination, the fire appeared to have been caused by the
candle, while in the skeleton lantern, having been suffered to
burn without snuffing for a very considerable time, and on the
man removing it into the close lantern the snuff had fallen
amongst the litter, as the fire was found burning most fiercely
under the place where the open lantern had hu
readers will recollect that about a twelvemonth ago, a wheat
stack was burnt on the premises of Mr. Clarke, the individual
whose property has been again destroyed by the 7nelalcll9l7
event now related.