The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-28 00:00:00

ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.

HALF-PAST 10 P.M.—Several engines are still obliged
to be kept in constant operation. Owing to the various
floors being saturated with tallow the fire continues to
bura under the timbers left standing, and it is question-
able whether the firemen will be enabled to get it en-
tirely extinguished during the night. All danger of any
fresh outbreak, however, is at an end, Mr. Cuthbert
informed tie reporter that the disaster originated in the
following manner:—A copper charged with tallow in
the basement was so constructed that the steam arising
during the process of melting, could pass through an
aperture at the back part of the brickwork, and be car-
ried away through the flue. By some means a portion
of the fat got upon some cinders, the moment the fire
touched them they blazed up, and the heat caused the
gas from the fat to generate very rapidly, so that a fierce
body of flame kept shooting forth. Mr. Cuthbert had
no doubt that he, with the assistance of his men, would
have been able to extinguish the flames, had it not been
for the effiavium emitted from the burning tallow. As
it was, they kept to their work, until most of them got
scalded or burnt about the hands, but the moment Mr.
Cuthbert saw the woodwork near the copper take fire
he desired his men to escape immediately. This they
did, and it was fortunate, for, had they remained two
minutes longer, they must have all lost their lives, the
greater part of the melting-house in that brief period
being covered with blazing fat. The firm do not believe
their loss to be so extensive as may generally be sup-
posed; they are of opinion that many casks of fat and
boxes of candle will be recovered from the several floors
only triflingly injured. Mr. Colf, the foreman of the B
district of the London brigade, is of quite a different opi-
nion; that officer informed the reporter that many of the '
casks alluded to, as well as the floorings, had fallen into
the ground story; if so, very little property can be ex-
pected to be saved. Fortunately, Messrs. Cuthbert were
insured in the Imperial, Hand-in-Hand, Union, and se-
veral other fire-offices.

LATEST PARTICULARS.—(THIS DAY.)
The following is the official report of damage, &c.:—
PATERNOSTER-ROW.
Nos. 42, 43—Messrs. Cuthbert, tallow-melter, pro-
perty consumed; insured in the Hand-in-Hand, Imperial,
and Unio❑ Fire-offices.

No. 46—Phelps and Sons, stationers, furniture and
stock damaged by water and removal; insured in the
Sun office. First-floor front room, occupied by Mr.
Joy, bookseller, some damage to property; insurance
unknown. First•floor back room, belonging to Mr.
Woollins, a bookseller, the same extent of damage; but
insured in the Sun Fire-office. Second-floor, March a❑d
Co , pocket-book-makers, the same damage; insurance
unknown. Third-floor, occupied by Timbury and Sons,
engravers, same amount of damage; insured in the Sun
office.
No. 46—Hitchcock and Rogers, linendrapers, serious
damage to stock by hasty removal; insurance unknown.
No. 4 Longman and Co., booksellers, contents
damaged by removal; insured in the Church of England
and other offices.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of
business.
The REbIESIBRANCER haring announced that amongst
the Bills just hi ought into Parliament was a Bill for the
removal of Smithfield-market, it was agreed that the said
Bill should be referred to the Markets' Improvement
Committee, and Mr. H. L. Taylor, the chairman of that
committee, promised that the best attention should be
paid to the project.
Mr. PHILLIPPS the chairman of the Navigation and
Port of London Committee brought up a report on the
reference respecting steam-boat landings at the Surrey
end of London-bridge.
The report, which relates to a great public conveni-
ence, stated that it was referred to the committee to in-
quire and report whether it would be fur the public con-
venience to afford accommodation for the embarking and
disembarking of passengers by steam-boats and other
vessels and boats at the east and west sides of the Surrey
end of London-bridge, and if
the
eemniitteethewyerperoe-f
opinion that such would be the case, that
cure and lay before the Court a plan or model, show.
ing how the same could be provided. The re-
port then proceeds—ln order to ascertain how
tar public accommodation night be affected by the
question under consideration, we received the evidence
cf several ge-ntlemen who were in the habit of using the
railways the termini of which are at London-bridge, and
the steam-boats which call at the stairs at the Surrey
end of the bridge. We also had evidence before us by
other gentlemen and tradesmen of the neighbourhood,who
were constant witnesses of the difficulty and danger of
crossing the carriage way at the Surrey end of the
bridge from the particularly crowded state of that busy
thoroughfare. The directors and managers of the steam-
boats afforded us further information in respect of the
numbers who avail themselves of the line of communica-
tion to which our inquiries were directed. The concur-
rent testimony of all the parties who appeared before us
has satisfied your committee that it would be very highly
conducive to the public convenience if the accommoda-
tion adverted to by the reference were afforded. Your
committee then proceeded to consider the other points
embraced in the reference, which directed us to obtain a
plan for effecting the objects contemplated. We there-
fore instructed Mr. S. W. Leach, the engineer, to prepare
a plan which might be suited for the purpose, and inter-
fere as little with the navigation of the river as circum-
stances and due security would permit; and two plans
were accordingly submitted by that officer.
A plan was also submitted by Mr. Dawson, a member
of your Hon. Court, proposing an arched thoroughfare
through the abutment of the bridge, and under the road-
way from the upper landing, on the west stairs, to the
corresponding landing on the east stairs. Previously,
however, to agreeing upon the recommendation of any
plan your committee invitsd the attendance of Messrs.
Fenning, the occupiers of the wharf next below the
bridge to the east, who had communicated their anxiety
to be heard on the subject. These gentlemen attended
with their solicitor and inspected the various plans, and
the obj.-ctions urged by them were duly entertained.
Your committee having carefully deliberated upon the
advantages and disadvantages of the respective plans,
have agreed to recommend as most suitable the one
hereunto annexed, the estimate of the cost of executing
which is 1,2201. At the same time your committee beg
to lay More the Court the suggested plan of Mr. Daw-
son, and to state their opinion that the same would be a
great public accommodation; and if such a communica,
lion were made the platform and brow on the east stairs
would be rendered unnecessary.
Mr. PHILLIPS having moved that the report be
agreed to,

-Mr. H. L. TATion. said the accommodation might,
for what he knew, be a great public convenience, but he
disapproved the sudden expenditure of 1,2001. upon an
improvement which was as yet unintelligible, at the
same time that the Court did not know how far it might
interfere with the interests of the tenants of the corpora-
tion in the locality.—(Bear, hear.) He moved as an
amendment, that the report be printed and circulated
amongst the members.
Mr. Deputy STACEY referred to the plan suggested by
Mr. Dawson, as likely, it carried into effect, to give im-
mense accommodation to the public independently of
the convenience afforded to the steamer passengers, at
the same time that it would present the advantage of
security to life and limb, which were constantly endan-
gered in the existing state of the traffic in the neigh-
bourhood of the bridge.—(flear, hear.) He wished to
learn whether the plan proposed by Mr. Dawson was
practicable.

Mr. DewsoN said the opening at the abutment sug-
gested to the Court would prove an accommodation of
the greatest importance, for the attempt to cross from
one side of Lilo street at the bottom of the bridge was
dangerous in the extreme, and he had known ladies to
be detained several minutes by the fear of being over-
whelmed by the ponderous and the rapid vehicles which

never cease- to pass in the busy hours of the day.—(Hear,
hear.) A professional friend of his estimated the ex-
pense at SOOl, and no doubt the cost would ba a mere
trifle in comparison with the accommodation, which
would, in fact, obviate the necessity of putting the city
to the expense of a pier.
_ _ _

Mr. ANDERTON doubted that the person who esti-
mated the exi.ense at 600/., would undertake to make it
for 1,000/.

Mr. Deputy HOLT placed implicit reliance upon the
judgement of the Navigation Committee, and agreed
with the report.

Mr. Deputy OBBAAD did not approve of Jr. Dawson's
plan, and said that the danger incurred by ladies at
present in crossing the street was not likely to be so
great as the (larger they would incur in making their
way through a dark and crowded passage, in which in-
sults might be very easily perpetrated.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. BOWER saw no more difficulty in crossing Lon-
don-bridge than there was in crossing Cheapside and
other populous neighbourhoods, and thought the Court
ought to take care bow they incurred a large expense
merely for the benefit of steam companies.
Mr. BENNOCH was afraid the project would increase
the number of nuisances in the ♦icinity of the bridge.
The report was then, i❑ accordance with Mr. 11. L.
Taylor's amendment, ordered to be printed.

BLICHFRIARS-BRIDGE.
Upon the motion of Mr. B. L. TAYLOR, a report re-
commending the payment of expenses incurred in works
at Blackfriars-bridge, amounting to 1,7001., and the ex-
ecution of other works, was agreed to, and referred back
to' be carried into effect.

A report was agreed to recommending the payment
of the sum of 7001. for the repair of the Navigation-
barge.
_

A voluminous report on the reference on the petition
of D. T. Alston, respecting the holdsmen to the deputy
oyster meters, was ordered to be printed.
Mr. Deputy BEDFORD presented a petition from the
vestrymen of the parish of St. Sepnlchere, "to secure
the rates of the parish, which may be effected by the
improvement of Smithfield-market, especially during the
progress of the works."
Referred to the Markets' Improvement Committee.
Upon the motion of Mr. BENNOCH, a sum of 52/. 10s.
was voted in aid of the 8 widows and 36 orphans of the
Worthing fishermen who lost their lives o■ the 25th

of November, while gallantly attempting to render as-
sistance to the Lalla Roukh, a ship in distress.

FREE ADMISSION INTO ST. PAUL'S.

Mr. CLARKE moved that it be referred to a committee
to confer with the proper authorities upon the desire-
ableness of opening St. Paul's Cathedral for the free ad-
mission of strangers visiting the metropolis during the
Grand Exhibition this year, He considered it, he said,
disgraceful to the country that so magnificent a national
edifice should be shut, as it had always been, from public
inspection except upon certain conditions.

some discussion took place, and Mr. H. L. Taylor's
opinion that the matter ought to be left to the "Exhibi-
tion Committee" seemed to prevail in the court, for the

previous question was carried.
The Court then adjourned.

RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS.
THE GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—(MiIes in work, 236.)
-Return of Traffic for the Week ending Feb. 16, 1851:
Passengers, parcels, carriages,
horses, dogs, and mails ... £4,304 18 0
Merchandise and minerals ... 3,555 18
Cattle ... ••• 255 8

Total £5,126 4
Corresponding week, Feb. 17, 1850 (143 miles) :
Passengers, parcels, &c. £1,153 7
Cattle ... 1,487 11

Total ... ... 2,640 18 4
EASTERN COUNTIES AND NORFOLK RALLlVAT...alliffie
return for the week ending Feb. 23
Passengers, parcels, &c. ... £5,775 10 7
Merchandise, cattle, and cartage 6,505 9 7

Total ... ... £12,281 0 2
Corresponding week of IESO ... 0,849 17 1
CHESTER AND HOLTHEAD RAILWAT,•••Trilffie for the
week ending Feb. 23:
MAIN LINE.

Passengers
Parcels, _
H. C. and V. ...
Goods, cattle, &C. ••••
Mails ••• "'

... £BB3 0 7
... 72 11 8
... 387 9 0
575 0 0

Total

MOLD.

... £1,868 1 3

„usengers ••• ••• ••• £29 2 7
S• C. and D.
2 6 4
Goods, cattle, &c.• 79 14 7

Total

..• ... ... Xlll 3 6
STEAM-BOATS.

Passengers ••• •••
Parcels, H. C. and D. ...

£99 2 10
12 8 -4

Total

... £lll 11 2

THE RIOT AT YARMOUTH.—On Monday the per-
sons (17 in number) who had been captured during the late
riot were brought up for examination before a full bench of
magistrates. The seamen's committee engaged Mr. Cartes
Cooper, bartister, of Norwich, to defend those of the prisoners
who Were seamen. Twelve of the men were charged with the
minor offence of obstructing, assaulting, and misting the
police in the execution of their duty. Of these three were
discharged,fromlOs.
imprisonment
to azni.d,
including
remainderuding
all
costs;w e were
and,fine di
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default
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pay-
ment, they were sentenced to terms 9
varying
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charged month
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committed for trial at the next quarter
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Sessions.
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Treasury the claims of the
fore the House.
for receis ing and exhibiting
.the collections, has been laid be-
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maintain itself worthily "as the Feet national depositoq or
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