The Sun.
London, England, 1832-01-17 00:00:00

and with a patience which had however no other re-
sult than to remove an error, the two writings which
Nave been read were put together.

(TO BE CONTINUED.)

On Saturday last the Duke DE CRILLON
gave a grand entertainment in Paris, to which there were
upwards of 500 invitations, on the occasion of the mar-
riage of his daughter with the nephew of Count Pozzo DI
BORG°, the Rus-ian Ambassador, who, it is said, gave to
the bridegroom, formerly a Captain in the Ex-Royal Guard,
a fortune of 1,500,000 franca, with a promise of as much
more after the Count's death. The Ex-Captain engages
by his marriage•contract never to bear arms against France.
The venerable Earl FITZWILLIAM is ex-
pected to return to his mansion in Grosvenor-square in the
course of the present week, from Wentworth House, in
Yorkshire. Notwithstanding his advanced age (84), his
Lordship is in the enjoyment of excellent health and good
spirits, and during the holydays he kept open house at
Wentworth, where Lord MILTON and his eldest son, the
Ron. W. C. WENTWORTH, Lord and Lady DuNnAs, the
[lon. T. DUNDAS,M.P., and Sir C. WENTWORTH, have
been on a visit to the Noble Earl.

It is said that Ministers iatend to bring a Bill
into Parliament to authorise the taking down the whole of
York-street and Chapel-street, Westminster, and to build
a new street from the Broadway, to come out opposite
Emmanuel Hospital. This will be a great accomme da-
tion to the Members of Parliament who reside in the
fashionable neighbourhood of Belgrave-square. TheFe
improvements are to take place in consequence of York-
street presenting a disagreeable appearance to many of the
apartments in Buckingham Palace. Mr. BURTON, the
architect, has given in an estimate of the expence to the
Commissioners of Woods and Forests.

It is with pleasure we state that a gentleman,
high in office at the Board of Trade, has been for several
days in this town and neighbourhood, pursuing, on the
part of Government, an extensive and minute inquiry into
the state and prospects of trade, and the condition of the
labouring classes. From the known talents, judgment,
and zeal of the individual to whom this important task has
been confided, we have no doubt that Ministers will,
through him, obtain a body of authentic facts and infGr-
tnation, which will be exceedingly useful to them during
the coming Session of Parliament.—Manchester Guard.

HORACE Twlss, the Ex-Colonial Secre-
tary of State, and ALF., and now a practising Chancery
Barrister, has recently met with a famous windfall. It
will be remembered that Mr. Twiss had a portion of
ground assigned to him, which formed a part of Carlton-
gardens—the east end. On this he erected a ♦ery hand-
some house, which, to the present moment, has been " To
be let." The Commissioners of Woods and Forests, under
the late Government, disposed of the ground behind Mr.
Twtss's house to a person who has built stables on the site
of it. This being deemed a nuisance, Mr. Twiss imme-
diately applied to Lord LOWTHER, at that time Chief
Commissioner, for compensation, who, after various cor-
respondence, agreed, on the part of the Crown, to pay
Mr. Twtss 1,2001. The contract was on the point of
being closed when the Administration changed, and the
new Government refused to ratify the agreem-nt from a
suspicion that it had originated in a job. Lord DUNCAN-
NON, the present Chief, and Mr. Twiss, agreed, however,
to refer the matter to Mr. SMITH, the Surveyor of the
Crown, who, we are told, has awarded Mr. Twiss up-
wards of 3,0001 —Sunday Times.

HERNE BAY PIER COMPANY.—A Special
General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Herne Bay
Pier Company was held yesterday, at the King's Head
Tavern, Poultry, for the purpose of discussing a variety
of matters connected with the interests of the Pier, and of
tilling up a vacancy in the Company's direction. The
report of the Directors was read, from which it appeared
that the works had steadily proceeded at the rate of 200
feet a month, since the first pile was driven in July last, and
that the pier is now advanced a distance of 1,300 feet into
the sea, and planked to the extent of 1,000 feet. It further
appeared that the Company are making a parade of 50
feet wide, which will extend for a mile or more along the
front of the town next the sea, and which promises to
form a delightful accommodation for riding and walking.
The entire of the works are proceeding with amazing
spirit, and it is the intention of the Company that they
shall go on in the same manner, so as to enable passengers
to land in May next. The pier will be so constructed as
also to afford a delightful promenade, and to allow steam-
packets and other vessels to embark and land passengers
and goods at all times of the tide. It is fifteen miles nearer
London than Margate, and only seven miles from Canter-
bury A plan has been designed for regulating the future
buildings of the town, preserving wide streets, and also,
that several buildings, including a spacious hotel, are now
erecting. The vacant direction was filled up, and thanks
having been then voted to the Directors, the meeting
separated.

HORRORS OF THE SLAVE TRADE.—The
Fair Rosamond and Black Joke, tenders to the Dryad
frigate, have captured three vessels which originally had
1,100 slaves on board, but of which they succeeded in
taking only 306 to Sierra Leone. It appears that the
Fair Rosamond had captured a lugger with 106 Africans,
and shortly afterwards saw the Black Joke in chase of
two other luggers ; she joined in the pursuit, but the ves-
sels succeeded in getting into the Bonny River, and landed
600 slaves before the tenders could 'take possession of
them. They found on board only 200, but ascertained
that the rascals in command of the slavers had thrown
overboard 180 slaves manacled together, four of whom only
were picket! up with the irons upon them.—Scotsman.
An apparently judicious plan for the relief of
large families ham been adopted in a neighbouring parish.
For example, where a man has five children, and does not
earn more than 12s. a week, instead of granting him relief
in money, two of his children are received into a school,
established for that purpose. They go in the morning, are
taught, fed, and clothed, and return to their parents in
the evening. By this plan the parish ensure the applica-
tion of the sum expended in improving the condition of the
poor.—Essex Standard.

ALICE PAULET, BY THE AUTHOR OF
" SYMENHAM,"--" At every page of this Novel," says
the Scotsman, " we meet with tokens of an intimate
knowledge on the part of its author of the finest nuances
of fashionable society and fashionable feeling, t,f great
shrewdness of observation, and of a happy knack of
making that tell upon his story. The work, altogether, is
written in a sprightly style, and from the denouement
being so highly complimentary to the power and the fas-
cination of the lair sex, cannot fail to be a favourite with
the ladies."

LETIIAM.—Of all the means employed to
gain the love of the fair, there are few more queer and
laconic than that displayed in the following courtship :
Mr. APC— "Oh ! Miss D--, this world has no
charms, and it is void without you." Misc D— "Oh !
Mr. M'C--, if I thought you were in earnest." Mr.
AFC— " In earnest—there's my hand, and me
(puliing out his watch) I have just half an hour to stop.
Go, corhult your upon the. übject, anti return and ;
inform me of your determination." The lady obeyed, re-
turned within the time, accepted his offer, and the nup-
tials have been solemnized accordingly.—Montrosellevicw.

HADDINGTON, JAN. 12, 1832.—(Extract
of a letter.)-1n the immediate vi&nity of the filthy close,
in Iladdington, where the first ease of cholera appeared
(next close indeed), there was a great quantity of bones
collected, above 100 tons, bid up for the purpose of
bruising for spring manure. From this mass there was a
very disagreeable effluvia. The bones have been since
removed, and buried in a park. They were not brought
from a distance, but collected in and about Iladdington.—
Scotsma n.

ALARMING INCREASE OF FEVER.—We
that typhus fever is still increasing. In
flies six or seven members are seized. In the
medical men of long standing, there never was
Glasgow,°inne:linr'eyiitinftaofl say
' on any former occasion, so many cases of
fever. Although scarcely a street is clear of it, it rages
more virulently in those which are narrow, and in which
the poorer classes reside. In one of the wynds fever
prevails in every house of a large tenement ; but there are
numerous cases which never reach the knowledge of medi-
cal men, from the attempts of the patients to hide its
existence. In lodging houses this is particularly the case.
It is the opinion of the medical profession generally,
that the present remarkable diffusion of fever is
occasioned by the poverty of the working classes.
In the Old and Back Wynds the fever is raging to an
alarming extent. In one land in the Old Wynds there are
seven at present ill, and several people have already died
in it. To such an extent has fever spread in that part of
the city, that the ward officers dare scarcely venture to do
their duty in seeing cleanliness enforced. In the Great
and Little Dovehills the epidemic is also severely lilt—
whole families being ill, with scarcely one member able
to serve another. It has also greatly increased in Ander^
stop. The:fever hospital at Milend is now open for the
reception of patients, and a number of cases have been
adrnitted,-,, Glasgow Evening Post,

BRISTOL, MONDAY.

COURT MARTIAL—A NEW ONE TO
Le held on CAPTAIN WARRINGT OA:

The Court-martial assembled again to-day to receive
the instructions of the Commander-in-Chief. It was
nearly eleven o'clock before the President (Sir H. FANE)
and the other members entered and took their seats.

The audience part of the Hall was by this time very
well filled. Immediately
The PRESIDENT rose and said that he had communi-
cated with the Commander-in •Chief relative to the late
melancholy affair, and that he had received a letter in reply
which he should read to the Court.

The letter was addres,ed to Sir Henry Fane, and the
substance of it was as follows :

" That your letter has been communicated to the Com-
mander of the Forces, and that his instructions to you are
to dissolve the present Court-martial immediately."
This Court, therefore, said the President, is dissolved.
The letter further stated, that the members of the pre-
sent Court martial should hold themselves in readiness to
form another one, for the trial of Captain Warrington of
the 3d Dragoon Guards—that the charges again Captain
Warrington should be forwarded to the Court, by Mon-
day's post—that the Court should immediately forward
copies of the charges to Captain Warrington, and allow
him a fair and reasonable time to arrange his defence—and
that these things being done, the day for the trial should
be fixed without loss of time.
The PRESIDENT then said that the present Court would
dissolve so soon as the minutes of its proceedings were read
over and signed.
The sensation caused by Colonel Brereton's death has
not yet subsided, and the feelings of the people continue
to vent themselves in the most unmeasured terms of the
conduct and proceedings of the corporation.
Great efforts are making to save the lives of the unfor-
tunate men who have been condemned to death, and Vie
petition to the King on their behalf is receiving signa-
tures very rapidly.
To-morrow morning the members of the late Court-
martial again meet, to receive the charges from London—
to constitute the new Court—to communicate with Capt.
Warrington on the subject, and to furnish him with
copies of the charges.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE and LOSS of LIFE.

(From the Glasgow Evening Post of Saturday.)

One of the most destructive fires that have ever taken
place in Glasgow within the memory of man, occurred
this morning in Queen.strret, where a court of three
sides (Queen's -court) of great extent, occupied chiefly as
warehouses, has been burnt to the ground. The pi e-
mises consisted of two large lands fronting the street, five
stories high, with garrets above ; the street floor being oc-
cupied as shops, and the other flats as warehouses ; be-
hind, there were also two large lands, of equal extent, one
on the north and the other on the south side of the court,
while a wall ran across the upper end, separating it from
the premises occupied by Stirling, Gordon and Co., and
other proprietors. These back buildings consisted also of
warehouses ; and the whole property, back and front, is
now one mass of ruins. How the fire originated is a
mystery that has not yet been explained. It was first dis-
covered shortly after one o'clock, by a smell of burning
in the adjoining street, and shortly after flames were
observed issuing from the premises. No appear-
ance of fire was at that time perceptible from Queen-
street, but from Millar-street the flames were seen
issuing from a back window of one of the warehouses on
the second floor. The watchman in Queen-street could
not at first get admittance to the court, the iron gate bring
locked ; the alarm was, however, instantly conveyed to
the police office, and a porter who kept the key of the
gate was soon found, and admission obtained. The fire
now began to show itself in front of the building, and by
the time the first engines arrived, one of which was at the
scene of the conflagration a few minutes after the first
alarm was given, the flames were issuing fiercely from two
of the front windows to the south of the entry to the
court. A good supply of water was at hand, and one of
the pipes was led up the front stairs, and played upon the
fire. The strength of the flames, however, was so great,
and had made such alarming progress in the interior of
the warehouses, that the water produced no effect. The
cotton yarn and goods with which the building was
stocked presented materials but too apt for conflagration.
The devouring element burst out in every direction with
awful rapidity, and communicated to the other warehouses
in a time incomparably short. All was now a scene of
bustle and alarm, and every thing that could be done
to save the goods in the warehouses was tried by the
few persons who had collected together. The extensive
warehouse of Messrs. Wingate and Sous, which was
stocked with an immense quantity of silk goods, situated
on the first floor, was entered by several people, and a
great deal of valu role property, with the books, taken out
before it was reached by the flames, but in that, as well
as in the other warehouses, the destruction of property
was immense. The fire ran from warehouse to ware-
house, and from flat to flat, with surprising rapidity, and
the most zealous efforts of the firemen were completely set
at defiance. The whole front of the extensive building was
at last enveloped in flames issuing from about fifty win-
dows,theconflagration,
court presenting a spectacle the most awful and im-
wpoesriengoexthtastocbajootnbeed imagined.
the
ravages
and the whole court may be said to have been in one
to
sheet of flame at the same time; the engines placed be-
hind, though wrought with all the energy for which our
fire department is so remarkable, were as unsuccessful
as those situated before, and produced an effect scarcely
greater than a drop of water thrown into a furnace.
Part of the roof of the first building at last yielded, and
tell with a tremendous crash, and was soon after followed
by the remainder. The spectacle at this time was aw-
fully sublime ; a dense cloud of dust and smoke rose from
the fallen ruins which, for a while, nearly obscured the
brilliancy of the flames, but as it rose over the burning
ruin a wide sheet of fire was seen blazing to an unparal-
leled height, brighter even than before, and illuminating
the whole sky, while the surrounding streets were almost
as light as mid-day. A good deal of the property in the
shops below had been saved ; but we regret to say that a
promising young man, Mr. D. N. Penman, about twenty-
two years of age, fell a victim to his activity in endea-
vouring to save property from the shop of his father, Mr.
Penman, bookseller. He entered the shop along with
one or two others ; and while there the floor above fell,
and completely obstructed all passage to the street, even
upon the supposition that he was not instantly killed by
the falling ruins. So far as has yet been learned, the
others escaped ; and a fireman, who was inside at the
time, was only saved by the shop window being broken
down, and he drawn out by the people outside. But
for this timely rescue, lie would instantly have fallen
a victim to the fl imes, as a few minutes longer would
b .ve placed him beyond the reach of the bystanders. An.
other fireman, at a later period of the morning, was killed
in a way which made the spectators shudder. He was
standing in the back part of the court, on a ladder about
two stories high, when it fells and precipitated him upon
the spikes of an iron railing, where he was completely
transfixed—the spikes having pierced him through the
lanes anti bowels. The whole of the buildings were now
completely gutted by the flames, and the walls were tot-
tering to their foundations. The front wall, which was of
great extent and height, threatened several times to tumble
down, and at last that of one of the lauds fell with a crash
that for a while stunned the spectators, and paralysed every
exertion. It was moon after followed by the other with a
similar crash, leaving exposed the back walls, and the
gable, though the wide range of ruins behind were still
hidden from the view. The sudden fall of the front walls
excited a considerable degree of astonishment, though the
circumstance is easily accounted for when it is considered
the shops on the first floor were all supported by cast-metal
pillars, betwixt which and the atones above were blocks of
wood ; the wood was of course soon consumed by the fire,
and the connection between the pillars and the immense
weight above being removed, the overthrow of the walls
was inevitable along the whole extent; besides, there was
one separating wall in the front range ; and the other
ranges were separated only by the staircases. The north
and south walls of the north side of the court, fell nearly
at the same time, and crushed a large portion of one of
the rangei of workshops in Convener AlTellan's coach
works ; but the most:valuable of the property in them had
been previously removed. The gables of the front range,
the stair cases, the gable of the north side, and the gable
and part of the walls of the south side of the court, being
all left standing, towards the afternoon showed symptoms
of falling ; Bailie Smith instantly procured the aid of
several tradesmen of experience, who proceeded to take
measures for pulling down whatever seemed dangerous.
The value of the property destroyed is estimated at
150,0001., but it is understood most of it was insured.
The only property saved was from the warehouse of Messrs.
Wingate and Co., and from the shops below. There were
from 30 to 40 tenants in the property, which was rented
at about 2,000/.
Some idea may be formed of the intensity of the fire,
when it is stated that the iron safes formed no protection
to the books locked up in them. They became red hot,
and for two hours after the walls had fallen, flames were
seen issuing from the safes, which were all placed in the
gables at the extremities of the building ; the iron 49911