The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-14 00:00:00

The Great Fire in the Minories.

It is only by degrees that the full extent and the
loss and havoc caused by the destructive fire at the
goods depot of the London and Noe rAtibin-loNrreiesst, is
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Railway Company in Haydon-square, ,ulr ,
being disclosed. In the immense warehouses which
have perished it is estimated that there were about
4,000 bales of wool, mostly, if not entirely, Aus-
tralian, and of the best quality, ;which :at £25 a
bale would make the loss in that commodity alone
amount to £lOO,OOO, less the salvage, which it is
said will be considerable. There were in addition
about 350 casks of whisky destroyed, of the pro-
bable value in all of about £lO,OOO, and the build-
ings which have perished were worth about £20,000,
thus making the entire loss, roughly estimated,
amount to £130,000, exclusive of eight railway
trucks, which, with the goods with which they were
laden, have been burnt, and with their contents
would be worth about £lOO each. Yesterday again
the men employed by the salvage corps, recently
established in the interest of the insurance offices,
were hard at work excavating from the ruins such
of the wool as was only partially injured more or
less in the conflagration, and of which there are
large quantities. Beyond question the fire origi-
nated in the top floor of a warehouse in the occu-
pation of Messrs. Gooch and Cousens, wool ware-
housemen, but how is still a mystery. This is the
time of year when the great wool sales take place,
and when the wool warehousemen and merchants em-
ploy an extra number of hands, and it is supposed
that the fire began in an act of carelessness by some
one animated by no sense of responsibility. About
11 o'clock iu the evening, when the night watchman
of the railway company made his customary round
of the premises, all appeared safe, and about an
hour and a half afterwards the fire made its ap-
pearance and spread with alarming rapidity. The
company have in the station an enormous hydrant
of 150-horse power, by which all the hydraulic
cranes are worked, and connected with it are hose
extending all over the premises to be used in case of
fire. A number of these were promptly brought
into action by the officers of the company before the
engines and men of the Fire Brigade arrived, but
with little apparent effect, and 10 or 12 of the most
powerful of the steam engines belonging to the bri-
gade had played for hours upon the blazing mass
before the fire showed any signs of slackening in its
fury, From two o'clock in the morning, when the
roofs had fallen in, and the floors had given way one
after another, the fire continued to rage like a fur-
nace ',in the great gulf it had made, and it was not
until six or seven hours had elapsed that it was
brought under control. Over the front entrance to
one of the large warehouses which were destroyed
was a clock. It perished in the flames, except the
dial, and yesterday the hands were seen pointing to
a quarter to two, thus indicating the exact time it
had ceased to go. With other parts of the building
the office of the manager (Mr. Cannon) has been
entirely destroyed, as have all his books and corre-
spondence, but the whole of the goods to which they
relate in the care of the company preparatory to
shipment or delivery in the metropolis have been
saved. Of these some are Manchester commodities
and fabrics, worth £l,OOO a bale. During the fire
a ponderous castiron,girder which fell with one of
the floors snapped in the middle, and lies in two
pieces embedded in the ruins. Messrs. Chaplin and
Horne, the carriers, had about 50 horses on the
premises at the time of the fire, 13 of which were
for some time in danger. Messrs. Pickford had an
equal if not greater number of horses there, but
they were housed at the opposite end of the station
to that at which the fire took place, and were never
in any jeopardy.. Yesterday the upper part of a
wall in the ruins fell but without doing any harm.
All the remaining walls are more or less in a dan-
gerous condition. Some idea may be formed of the
business done at this great entrepot of the London
and North-Western Railway Company when it is
stated that about tsoo tons of goods are being re-
ceived there and delivered daily, and the operations
go on much as usual notwithstanding the disaster.

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Visit of the Volunteers to Belgium.

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No doubt is entertained by the Volunteer Com-
mittee that a satisfactory response will be made by
our Volunteers to the invitation of La Commission
de l'Association du Tir Beige. During the last
Wimbledon Meeting about 150 of the Belgian rifle-
men were received at the camp, and the hospitality
shown to those visitors seems to have made not only
a lively but an enduring impression upon the minds
of all daises of the Belgian people. The occasion
has been commemorated in a brochure entitled Les
Beiges en* Angleterre ; a national anxiety is mani-
fested to see our Volunteers represented at the
forthcoming Tir National ; and, besides the prizes
to "all comers" offered by the King, the Govern-
ment, and the Garde Civique, special prizes open to
British Volunteers only have been provided by the
Belgian riflemen who visited Wimbledon in July,
by the Chasseurs Eclaireurs of Brussels, by the 2d
Legion of the Civic Guard of that city, and by other
bodies. Among these prizes are some very elegant
silver cups. The King has several times made in-
quiries as to the progress of the preparations for
receiving our Volunteers, and expresses much in-
terest in their visit. Not only will his Majesty
honour the Tir with his presence, but he will also go
to the Grand Opera at the Theatre de la Monnaie
on the night when seats are to be reserved for our
riflemen. Baron Chazal, the Minister for War, has
given instructions that they are to be shown over
the fortifications of Antwerp;' and M. Vanden-
Peereboom, the Minister of the Interior, is so anxious
the visit should be a success that he has charged M.
le Major de l'Eau d'Andrimont to take such measures
as may be thought desirable for the accomplishment
of that object. The receptions, balls, and concerts
to which the Volunteers are invited will extend over
a week, and the shooting matches in which they are
to take part will be continued even longer. There
was some report of a public excursion to Waterloo ;
but no such thing is in the programme, nor would
it have been in good taste, seeing that the rifle
contest at Brussels will be an international one,
at which French, as well as English, Swedish, Swiss,
and other foreign riflemen will meet in friendly
rivalry. The English entries are being made at 79,
Basinghall-street, where Lieutenant Furley, of the
29th Kent Rifle Volunteers, one of the hon: secre-
taries, attends daily. From the applications already
received it is expected that, at least, 400 of our rifle-
men will enter the lists. It may be as well to remind
intending competitors that, in order to take a part in
the contest, each Volunteer must be provided with a
ticket, which is to be signed by his commanding offi-
cer. These tickets will be issued at Bashinghall-
street up to the 20th inst. One of the hon. secre-
taries will be in Brussels from the beginning of next
week to give Volunteers any local information they
may require. The official reception of the British
Volunteers is to take place at the railway station in
the Belgian capital on the evening of the 22d. Num-
bers of them will have arrived a day or two previ-
ously ; but whatever the route they may choose, or
_ the time at which they may arrive, it will be neces-
sary for all to assemble at the Place des Nations, in
front of the railway station, at 7 o'clock in the even-
ing of the 22d. On the morning of Sunday, the
23d, the Volunteers will attend Divine Service at
the chapel of the English Embassy. This service
will have concluded at half-past 10 o'clock. At 11
there will be a Grand Mass for the dead in the
Cathedral of St. Gudule, in memory of the Belgians
who fell in the revolution of 1830. This is an annual
commemoration at which the Belgian riflemen will
attend. After the ceremony in the Cathedral the rifle-
men will proceed to the Tir. A running deer has been
constructed for the shooting similar to the animal
which does duty at Wimbledon, but travelling at a
somewhat more rapid pace. The distance from which
shots are to be made at the deer will be about 80
yards. The long ranges are to be established on
ground about 10 minutes' walk from the TirNational,
and for those ranges it is probable the Wimbledon
pattern target will be adopted. The committee have
received numerous letters from Volunteers who
wish to bring ladies with them, inquiring
whether volunteer privileges will be extended to such
fair visitors. The committee have been obliged to
reply that the reduction in fares and the invitations
to the amusements in Brussels apply strictly to Vo-
lunteers in uniform. M. Itogier, the Belgian Minis-
ter of Foreign Affairs and Marine, is most hand-
somely supplying the boats for the transit of the
Volunteers between Dover and Ostend, so that the
land journey is all they have to pay for; but the Bel-
gian Government could scarcely be asked to find
boats for all the lady friends of our riflemen. Again,
as the balls and concerts will be attended by the
riflemen of various foreign nations, as well as by
large numbers of the Belgians themselves, the com-
mittee could not think of asking the authorities at
Brussels for anything more than they have so gene-
rously offered. At the same time, ladies who accom-
pany Volunteers will be sure to meet with every con-
sideration in Belgium; and the English committee
will make suitable arrangements for such hotel ac-
commodation as Volunteers may require. It is ex-
pected that the English railway companies will issue
return tickets at reduced prices to Volunteers coining
from the provinces on their way to Belgium. On the
journey up from Ostend our riflemen will be met at
Ghent and Alost by the Garde Civique of each of
these towns, who will offer them refreshment.