The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY' tVENING, IstaVVMß.gg IASA.

Thursday next, there is scarcely any demand for any kind
of wool, and prices rule almost nominal. The stock of Colo,
nial is now 42,000 bales. No imports took place 14st Wtbit.

SHADE TREES QT H 2 BOULEVARIiS,
PARIS.

The whole length of the boulevards, from the
Madeline to the Porte Elt, Denis, will be replanted
this autumn. Most of the trees—if, indeed, not all
that we remember in our youth—were felled in
1848, to serve as barricades or ttl Mae ttisim for
trees of liberty, Which, somehow or another, never
thrived. The police are accused of having enter-
tained a mortal dislike to these unhappy members
of the vegetable kingdom, and evinced great
promptitude in removing theme The successors
to the trees of liberty filrtned a Motley gather-
ing. They had a mangy look, and soon withered.
Their premature decay was caused, according to
the authorities, from having sucked into their sap
the essence of anarchy and revolution left by their
13redecessors, and it has been discovered that it is
impossible for imperial plants to live in the soil
which nourished democratic poplars. To obviate
this inconveaience trenches three metres wide have
been opened on either side of the boulevards, along
the edge of the pavements, and all the democrati-
cally contaminated soil dug out and carted away to
make room for good vegetable earth brought from
the most imperial portion of French territory. The
trees of like origin are brought into Paris, holding
in their roots their native earth, and so planted.
Drain pipes are arranged round the roots and below
the pavement, for the purpose of supplying air and
water to the roots, which they cannot imbibe
through the asphalte. The same system will allow
of the application of liquid manure, in order to
develop the growth as rapidly as possible. In-
dependently of the revolutionary and anarchical
causes before mentioned, one of the chief reasons
of the trees perishing was the " pest stratum,"
formed by the infiltration of gas from the leakage
of pipes. To guard this each system of drain pipes
is seated on a foundation of concrete, and enclosed
by walls, and other drain pipes ar3 placed exter-
nally, to receive whatever gas may escape and
allow it to pa-A into the atmosphere. The trees
are all from 10 to 13 years of age, and 8 to 10
metres high. With that order and regularity
which flow from a perfectly centralised system of
administration. the boulevards are to receive dis-
tinct species of trees. There is to be no mingling
of classes, and none of 9,e laisser aller doings of
nature are tolerated. Thus the Rue Royale, which
has not yet h3en ornamented with trees, is to be
planted with South American sycamores or maple ;
the Boulevards de la Madeleine and des Capucmes
with planes; the Boulevard des Italiens with
Japan sumacs ; the Boulevard Montmartre with
elms ; the Boulevards Poissonniere and Bonne
Nouvelle with chesnuts ; and the space in front of
the Gyiruase with catalpas. The reader will re-
mark the exquisite adatio iin which the planta-
tions are effected; how the relative botanical value
of the trees are apportioned to ::23 social position of
the locality—from maples, sumacs, and planes,
down to common elm and chestnut. Next autumn
the plantations are to be continued up to the Bas-
tille, so that there will be a regular succession of
plants, all arranged in botanical order, from one
end of Paris to another. Whether the effect will
be as pleasing as if a little more latitude were
allowed, time will show.--Building News.

FIRE AT THE CASTLE MILLS, KENDAL.

A serious conflagration occurred on Friday morn-
ing at the Castle Mills, the premises of Messrs. J. J.
and W. Wilson, woollen mhnufaeturers. The build-
ing where the fire occurred is the frontage of the
mill, and behind it are extensive sheds filled with
the valuable machinery. This front building is
chiefly used for the stoving purposes of the manu-
factory, but there was at one end come machinery
for teasing the wool. Not a sign of anything
wrong was visible at 2 o'clock in the morning, but
between 3 and 4 a dense smoke was observed by
police-sergeant Hoggarth and police-constable
Cookson, who were on duty at the higher part or
the town, to rise from the neighbourhood of the
mill, and shortly afterwards the flames broke out.
The police officers hastened to give the alarm and
rang the fire-bell, and by this time the fire had
been observed by several other persons. The en-
gines were soon on the spot, but such was the rapid
progress of the fire that it shortly became evident
that the front of the mill must be either wholly or
almost entirely destroyed. By half-past three the
flames were bursting out of the roof, and, viewed
from the higher parts of the town, presented a
magnificent but fearful spectacle. The efforts of
the firemen were judiciously directed by the
Messrs. Wilson to save the engine-house, a new
building adjoining the north end of the structure
on fire, and to prevent the flames from pene-
trating into the large area or the sheds full of
machinery. Fortunately very thick iron doors
separated the sheds from the flames raging on the
other side of the wall, otherwise nothing could have
prevented a destruction of property tenfold more
disastrous than that which has occurred, and which
must have thrown all the numerous hands in the
mills of the Messrs. Wilson out of work for months.
As it was, the machinery hat a narrow escape.
The massive iron doors were red hot, and one of
them is much bent by the action of the fire. About
5 o'clock the flames were sufficiently subdued to
preclude any danger to the rest of the mill. The
fire must have had a very strong hold of the com-
bustible interior of the stoving rooms before the
flames became visible. The clock in front of the
building had stopped at half-past one, so that its
works had been subjected to considerable heat
long before that time. The machinery for
teasing at the north end of the building
was not much damaged, and as coon as the roof and
flooring can be restored can be again put into use.
Some of the tenters are also available. The total
damage, however, is probably not less than £1,200,
which we are glad to say is very nearly covered b
in
an insurance the Phoenix Fire-office. There will,
however, 9e som loss by delay in getting the part
of the mill which is destroyed in to working order.
A great number of people we on the spot after
the alarm was given, and active assistance was
given in manning the buckets. The supply of water
from the mill race left nothing to be desired on that
score. It is 19 years ago on Tuesday next since the
same firm sustained a considerable loss by their
warehouses being destroyed by fire in Stramongate,
which occurred Nov. 2, 1839. The present is the
largest fire—in fact, the only serious one—which
has occurred in Kendal since the destruction of the
Low Mills woollen manufactory in June, 1851.