The Sun.
London, England, 1835-11-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONI)ON, "MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1835.

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,Yiscount Melbourne will give a grand official d
kto the heads of the public 'departments to-morrow, in
otb-street.
41.1 s Excellency Reschid Bey,' Ambassador from the
.I,,,nuule Porte to the Court of Vienna, returned to the St.
rests Hotel on • Thursday, from a tour to Brighton,
ortbing,- Portsmouth, &c.
eTile Hon. William Thomas Spencer., Fitzwilliam,
il:ldest surviving son of Earl Fitzwilliam,will not, it is
the erstood, take the title of Viscount Milton until after
"eecuchementi of the young Viscountess, who is now
11,2, with her sisters,. the Ladies Jenkinson, at Fife
.se. Whitehall-yard. The Fitzwilliam family received
ytii4st accession of propety on the death of the last Mar-
.s,f Rockingham.
11,4. Hummeleur the Austrian Charge d'Affaires,
-ihs returned to the embassy in Chandos-street, from a tour
th • • •
, e provinces.
114 We rejoice to find ;that the Honourable Miss Fox
44', recovered from her late indisposition. This amiable
f4,7.llilieli respected lady entertained a select literary and
if_ttionable party yesterday (26th) at her residence, Little
~,°!Lind-house, Kensington, Lord Lansdowne, Mr. R.
O''th, Sir James South, Mr. Bunbury, Colonel Michell,
valienel Fox, and Mr. Faraday. the celebrated and unri-
d master in the field of chemistry of the present age.
4,1 t believed that previous arrangements will pre-
the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel from accept-
11° ,tlle invitation of the Marquis of Londonderry, Lord
ibci"en, and other distinguished characters, to a public din-
`r at Derry.
Th
e late Duke of Beaufort possessed very exten-
t: Church patronage, having the right of presentation to
t:'tY nine livings. The first Duke of Beaufort was a na-
t. al son of John of Gaunt. His descendant became Duke
t
Somerset, who being beheaded after the battle of Hex-
'lll-1, left only a natural son, Charles, who took the name-of
t:terset. The Marquis of Worcester was of great service
King Charles the First and his son, during and after the
ry
b." wars. After the restoration he was created Duke of
eaufort. Charles the Second granted him that extraordi-
nCtY patent by which he was empowered to create peers
tTself, without reference to the King, and which he was
]'red to resign at the demand of the House of Lords.
l
6, J:IIE LATE LORD MILTON.—A letter of condo-
( we hear, was forwarded to Viscountess Milton, in the
names of the Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria, on her
ladysiiip's afflicting loss.
41--ady Milton set out froth Wentworth House, for
'Llt•ion, with her father, Lord Liverpool, and Lady Char-
ttte Fitzwilliam, on the morning after the funeral,—there
he confined. Earl Fitzwilliam and the rest of his family
'"3O left Wentworth for London on Thursday. Lord Mil-
tosP sunk. very rapidly under the attack of fever. His con-
itution was weakly, and his spirits were quite above his
4t‘
rength, so that his medical attendants and his family were
„,..4411entiv
Th ree or four of the apprehensive of the consequences ,of his over-
•younger daughters of Earl
kit
zwilliam were attacked, with fever, but all have rt.-To-
ered, as have also some of the domestics who were ill of
'the'saille. Earl Fitzwilliam was .indisposed, but not with
the fever, and he is now recovered. The Hon. Thomas

Fitzwilliam, the second son, is twenty years of age,, and is a
young man
.of bigh.spie't and of -stronger constitution than
his deCeased brother. The title of Lord Milton remains in
abeyance.till it is seen whether Lady Milton shall produce a
a son or daughter.—Doncaster Gazette.
The Duke and Duchess of Bedford have arriv:::'. in
Belgrave-square, from Woburn Abbey.
Prince Esterhazy is still at the Imperial Court at roorr
.' housc,
Vienna, and no time is mentioned for his return to resume
'
his diplomatic functions here. The family of his Highness
has been' placed in mourning by the premature demise, at.
the Castle of Lichtenstein, of General Count Vincent Es-
terhazy, a very distinguished officer, who died in the flower
of his age, and who, in the spring of the present year, was
on a' visit to his relation, the Ambassador, at Chandos-
house. The Count has left a widow, daughter of the reign-
ing Prince John of Lichtenstein.
Two splendid equipages, manufactured cxpreSsly in
in this country for the Russian Count Demidoff, one of the
richest subjects in the dominions of the Autocrat, were
shipped last week for Calais, to be forwarded to Paris,
*here the Count chiefly resides.
Mr. Rothschild, the eldest son of the wealthy Capi-
talist, was thrown from his horse -whilst following the King's
stag-hounds last week, near Aylesbury ; his face was much
disfigured, and he received a severe contusion, but no bones
were broken..
The veteran Lord Lyndoch has been visiting at
Holkham, and we are happy to understand, that notwith-
standing his advanced age (we believe the venerable Gene-
ral to be in his 92d or 93d year), lie enjoys the diversion of
shooting, and sees well enough to kill a hare as she runs
by him from the coverts. Perhaps this is the most extra-
ordinary instance of such power at such years to be found
in the United Kingdom. Mr. Coke joins and directs the
battues with the same health and energy lie has done for
many years.—Norwich Mercury.
Lady Caroline Neeld, whose separation from her
husband, the wealthy Member for Chippenham, caused so
much conversation in the fashionable world three or four
seasons ago, haS returned to England with her noble friends
the, Earl and Countess of Warwick, from a Continental
tour.
RILIAGE- IN HIGH LIFE.—The Hon. John
Duncan Bligh (brother of the late Lord Darnley), Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Majesty
the King of Sweden and Norway, is about to be united to
the lovely and accomplished daughter of Thomas Gisborne,
Esq., M.P. for North Derbyshire. •
Sir C. S. Hunter has announced iris intention of
resigning the Ablermanic gown of BasSishaw Ward. - Mr.
Tegg, of Cheapsi de, the publisher, has announced hiniself as
a candidate for the vacancy. Sir Claudius Hunter
re-
move to the sinecure ward of Bridge Without, Southwark,
which is at present vacant also by resignation.
By the Earl of Dalhousie, Captain, Neil of the
Robertson. of Greenock, received at Quebec rather an ex-
traordinary and unexpected document, which had been in-
closed in a bottle on the 12th of August, 1833, and thrown
overboard when about 400 miles from Greenock on the
voyage to Quebec, and was picked up at Scourie, o 1 e
west coast of Sutherland, on the 12th of November, 1833,.
and had been kept as' a curiosity by the finder, whose letter
is dated the .2th of August, 1835. It contains the names
of the- following cabin passengers :—" Mrs. David, Mrs.
Hervey, Miss Torrance, Hiss Hervey, Captain Neill, Mr.
Colville, Mr, Thomson, Mr. David, Mr. Ralstone, Mr.
Grahame, Mr. Cameron, and a little baby."—Scotch paper.
The Jewess has drawn more money than any at-
traction at Drury-lane Theatre since the memorable debut
of Mr. Kean 25 years ago.
BRA HAM'S NEW TREAT RE.—The splendid ceil-
ing and front decorations of the boxes, painted and embel-
lished with a profusion of tasteful ornaments' by Messrs.
Crace and Son, of Wie-more-street, in the florid style of
Louis Quatorze, were finished on Saturday. The interior
will resemble the theatre in the palace of Versa'illes, with
a fess prOdigality of golden columns. The inside of the
boxes will be lined with crimson silk. The workmen and
artists are expected to complete the entire Theatre by Wed-
'nesclay, and the houses and the front entrance by the end
of the week. Although the building proceeded with un-
common rapidity, the walls are all of a massive thickness,
and calculated to endure " all time."
Young Mathews will appear, for the first time, at
the Olympic Theatre next Monday, in a little drama written
by himself. On the same evening he will perform in a two-
act Farce, by Mr. L. Retie, in which Liston will personate
an old ,Coachman, and previously speak an Address, for
the purpose of introducing on the stage the son of his old
friend. The character assigned to young Mathews, by
himself in the first drama, is intended to represent a Gen-
tleman, as usually pourtrayed in modern comedies, and the
second character in Rede's farce, a low comedian, under
the denomination of a Tiger to a Gentleman's cab. The
report that Mathews assumes the profeSsion of an actor,
contrary to the wishes •of his late father, is untrue. He
was educated for an architect, and, to improve his studies,
made a tour in Italy ; and only during that period his father
endeavoured to dissuade him from pursuing the stage ; but •
in the extreme ycuth of Charles Mathews, and afterwards,
when his father discoVered that nothing was to be got by ar-
chitecture, lie was most anxious to encourage hiS son's ori-
ginal propensity.
The infant son of the Rev. T. S. Stewart, of Be-
verley, was last week smothered in bed by the carelessness
of the nurse who slept with it.
PerearineTwsnley, Esq., of Burnley, has announced
his intention of offering himself for North Lancashire, in
opposition to Mr. Wilson Patten, the present Tory Mem-
ber. Mr. Townley served the office of High. Sheriff a year
or two since, and was the first Catholic who enjoyed that
dignity after the passing of the Emancipation Bill. Mr.
Townley is a consistent Whig.—Halifax Express.
The official list of voters for the borough of. Hurl;
dersfield has just been printed, and contains 778 names,
being an increase of 107 above the regiSter of last year.
A few days ago, one of the boats belonging
coca r.
Garth, of ,Poulton-by-the-Sands, secured at on ch
18,500 herrings..
The return on the Leicester municipal lists con-
tains the names of only 1,939 burgesses ; there are more than
600 notes of objection, and 300 claims. More than 70
Tories arc objected to, on account of having Sir -Thomas
White's loans ; the words of the ninth clause are
." no .per-,
son shall be so enrolled who within twelve calendar months
next before the last day of August shall have received paro-
chial relief, or other aims, on any pension, or charitable al-
lowance,..from any fund entrusted to the charitable trustees
of such bOrough."—Nottingham Review.
MUNICIPAL ELECTORS.—An able address to the
Municipal Electors, published by a provincial Contempo-
rary, contains some well-ti Med and exceedingly judicious.•
remarks, directed to the praiseworthy purpose by securing
a wise and efficient exercise of those important and- newly-
acquired rights which the Municipal Corporations' Reform
Bill, notwithstanding the mischievous mutilations by the
Lords—itivests. every elector, in every • corporate town
throughout the country. The first election is of infinitely
greater importance than any subsequent one can possibly
be. "In the first election," says the Lincoln Gazette ad-
dressing the electors in the first election, " you will have to
choose the whole body of the councillors, and they whom
you choose will have to choose the whole body of the alder-
men. You are not again to be called upon to choose more
than one third of the number you are now called upon to
choose. The. leaven you 'now introduce will leaven the
whole lump for many a year. You will never again have
an opportunity, if you make a mistake now, of getting rid
of more than a fourth of the whole governing body.-. When
there are 18 councillors, six aldermen will be fastened' open
you of the political and party complexion of the majority
of those 18. If ten he adverse to'popular rights, they will
strengthen themselves by adding six more to their number,
making 16 .- against eight—n fearful majority, which you
cannot hope to destroy at the next election, when you will
only have the power of electing six new ones. The mis-
chievousness of this " amendment" of the Lords must now
particularly strike you. All the present property, the
means and the amount of local taxation, changes in the sys-
tem of local governMent, additions' to or substruction
from the facilities of trade and commerce in each borough,
will be in their hands. Whatever alterations are likely to
be made, will probably be determined upon during the first
year, and commenced. In after years if those alterations
be injudicious, they cannot be given up without great sacri-
fices. This first election, therefore, in every light in which
it is viewed, will be the most important of all.
MANCHESTER AND LONDON COACHES.—It is
a fact not generally koown, that the number of horses em-
ployed to work a• coach from London to Manchester is
nearly two hundred ; and that on an average these horses
annually consume the produce of 700 acres of land. A
contemporary, after noticing this fact, asks " should railways
at some future period, supersede stage coaches entirely,
what is to become of this produce ? " Now in the first
railway " experiment" on a large scale, as it might then be
called, the Liverpool and Manchester railway, much out-
cry was made as to the loss it would cause, not only to the
coach and horse proprietors, but to the agriculturist, as it
was calculated that there would be no more work for four-
teen coaches on that line of road, requiring each for one
journey twelve horses, and that consequently the produce of
as many acres of land as these horses bad consumed would
have no consumers. What is the fact ? That the horses
now required in connexion with the railway, for drawing
omnibuses, lorries, waggons, carts, &c., actually exceed the
number previously employed to horse all the coaches be-
tween Liverpool and Manchester,—Manchester Guardian.
On Monday evening last, about six o'clock, a Corn
Rick was discovered to be on fire, in the Rick Yard of Mi.
'John- Brown, of Piddington. Nothing has yet transpired
to fix suspicion on any individual.--IV Ord Journal.

FIRE AT lIATPIELD HOUSE.

• . .
DEATH OF THE MARCHIONESS OF SALISBURY.:
It is with feelings'of extreme regret that we .have to an-
nounce• the melancholy death, of the Dowager 'Marchioness
of Salisbury,
,which took place at dlatfield House on Friday
evening. Her Lady Ship was, left writing in her dressing-
at five o'clock byler' maid, who then lighted the
carmtes upon her table, and Went •down stairs to her tea in
housekeeper's room. About half an hour afterwards a
maid perceived a thick smoke on the staircase of the
crest wing of the house, • and gave,the alarm of fire. Lord
Salisbury instantly rushed to his mother's room,. but when:
he reached the door the, smoke was stifling, and the timbers
and ceiling were already burning, which rendered it utterly
impossible to enter. Ladders*ere sent for, in hopes of ex-
tricating her by the windows, but before they could he. pro-
cured the flames burst through .with such violence
that all
hopes of rescuing her were, at an end. It is-sup Posed that
the unfortunate lady must have set fire to her dress, and no
other apartment in that wing of the house being inhabited,
the dreadful catastrophe must have happened before any,
one was aware of it, as the fire had gained such head when
the alarm was first given as to baffle all attempts to get it
under. Engines were brought as rapidly as possible from
Barnett, St. Alban's, Hertford, and London. At one time
the appearance was terrific, and there was great reason
Io
fear that-the whole of this ancient. edifice would-have Olen.
a sacrifice to the flames. By almost incredible exertioni,
however, on the part of the assistants, aided by a provi-
denial change in the wind, the fire was finally subdued, with
the destruction of the west wing of the mansion only.
The library, with the valuable books and manuscripts, the
pictures, and many of the articles which were of value from
their antiquity, and the loss of which would consequently
have been irreparable, have been preserved.
The lamented lady whose death we have recorded, and
who is so deeply deplored by all who knew her,, was the
eldest daughter of Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, and
sister to the late Marquis of Downshire and to the Countess
Talbot (mother to the present Earl). She was born Au-
grist 16, 1751, and married, Deceinher 2, 1773, James,
first Marquis of Salisbury. She has left issue, the present
Marquis, Lady Cowley, and the Marchioness of Westmeath.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.
In our paper of Saturday we informed our readers, that a
report had reached town that a destructive fire had broken
out early on Friday evening, at Hatfield House, the
princely mansion of the Marquis of Salisbury. We re-
gret to state, that this report has proved only too, true, and
thatin the fire which took place the life of the Dowager
Marchioness of Salisbury was unfortunately lost. From the
information which we *collected yesterday on the spot, we
ascertained that, in pursuance of her usual custom of passing,
the Christmas with her son, the Dowager Marchioness
of Salisbury had, on Thursday last, come down to 'Hat-
field-house, and taken possession of the apartments which
she had occupied in the West wing of the mansion ever
since the death of her husband, the late Marquis. These
apartments were on the first and second story of the build-
ing, and have formed her Ladyship's temporary summer
and winter residence for some years past. : We were
also informed, that though her Ladyship was labouring'
under some of those infirmities which are the concomi-
tants even of a green old age, she was still hale and
vigorous, considering her advanced period of life, and
that on her present visit to the scene of her early .plea-
sures she exhibited a flow of spirits which surprised even
those who were best acquainted with her usual cheerful-
ness. It appears that on the afternoon of Friday last, she
retired a short time before dinner to her dressing-room, to
write a few letters. At 5 o'clock her maid entered her
apartment and found her writing by the light of two can-
dles. Her ladyship complained of the dimness of the light,
and requested her maid to bring to her her own bed-candle,
alleging that she always saw better by it than by anything
else. The'bed-candle was brought according to her orders,
and the maid left her Ladyship, who wore a very lofty
head-dress, writing by these three tapers. It is supposed
that as she was stooping over her paper ber head-dress
must have caught fire, and that before she was aware of it
she - was enveloped in flames. But on this point all must.
be conjecture, as nobody saw her alive aftar her maid left
her to take her tea in the housekeeper's ram. It is further
supposed that, peralized by terror, on seeing herself in
flames, she was unable to resort to the bell or to give that
alarm which must, have called some of her attendants
to her assistance. About half-past 5 o'clock some fear was
felt by the female servants of the house in consequence of
the vast volumes of smoke which pervaded it, and of the
strong smell of burning which assailed the nostrils in every
corner of it. One of the housemaids, who perceived a dense
pillar of smoke hovering over the staircase of the left wing,
was the first to raise •the cry of fire. According to
one of the stories which we have heard, her Ladyship's
footman, and according to another, her son's confec-
tionary-man, was the first who, suspecting that the fire
might be in her Ladyship's room, made an attempt to
enter it. The attempt was unsuccessful. The alarm,
was then communicated to the Marquis and Marchioness
of Salisbury: Both these noble personage exerted them-
selves to the utmost to rescue their venerable relative from
her horrible fate, but in vain. Lord Salisbury attempted
to force his way into his mother's dressing-room through a
door, which opened into it out of a sitting apartment, but
it was locked ; and the implements to force it not being at
hand, his Lordship endeavoured to reach another door,
which opened into it from the domestic offices belonging to
that wing of his mansion. He succeeded in reaching that
door, but on opening it, found it so enveloped in flame and
smoke as to .render it impossible for any person to enter it
and live. The floor and ceiling of the room were then
blazing together, and with such terrific violence as to ren-
der all hopes of rescuing her Ladyship through the win-
dows utterly desperate. Every person with whom we con-
versed yesterday, expressed their admiration of the zeal-
ous but ineffectual efforts made by Lord Salisbury to rescue
his mother from the imminent danger _by which she was
surrounded ; and one account stated that his Lordship'
was only prevented by main force from endangering his
own life, in a desperate attempt to secure that of his mo-
ther. As soon as it was found that all efforts to save
the Dowager Marchioness were unavailing, the fire-bell
was rung, and its dull and sullen clang, and the rising
flames, soon announced to the neighbourhood the serious
peril by which this magnificent specimen of our domestic
architecture, in the reign of Elizabeth and James the
First, was environed. A crowd soon assembled on the lawn,
eager to give every assistance in their power to stop the
ravages of the conflagration. Engines shortly afterwards
arrived from Barnet, St. Alban's, and Hertford ; and be-
fore the fire was extinguished the engine of the County
Fire-office had arrived from London. • In spite of the
alacrity with which all the spectators endeavoured to
make themselves useful, some confusion prevailed amtnig
them at first, owing to the want of some competent
person to direct their exertions, and to turn their labour
to the best account. This evil was soon remedied by the
practical good sense which is always found in an assembly
of Englishmen. The flames, however, continued to rage
fast and furious, and the prospect of checking them aps
peared very remote, owing to the deficient supply of water,
which was experienced for some time.. A pond in the
gardens was soon exhausted, and as the water had then
to be brought from the more distant lake, which fills the
hollow in front of the north side of the mansion, it often
happened that, when the- fury of the fire was hottest, there
was for some minutes no means at hand to allay it. At
one time it appeared as if nothing could save this princely
mansion from entire destruction. .The part of the west
wing which looks down the noble avenue of trees by
which Hatfield-house is approached from the south was
speedily gutted by the fire. The roof fell in with a tre-
mendous crash, and by the fall of the partition between the
oriel windows on the first and second floors, an uninter-
rupted opening to the air was given to the flames,•whieh
were then crackling fiercely within that part of the building.
The appearance of the fire at that moment was peculiarly
terrific. In its progress it reached the chapel ; but the un-
remitting exertions of the firemen prevented its ravages
from being very destructive in that quarter. The pews are
injured, but that, comparatively speaking, is a trifling loss:
The window of stained glass, which has attracted so much
admiration, has also escaped without much damage. It is
divided into 12 compartments ; of these only one has been
destroyed. During one period of the conflagration the
situation of the men employed in saving the chapel seemed
very. dangerous. Their object was to saturate the roof
and ceiling with water, so as to prevent them from catching
fire: In accomplishing it some of the ceiling was knocked
down by the violence with which the water impinged upon
it, and on its falling, the chinks between the timbers enabled
those who were below to see that the rooms above the diaper
and the furniture in them were enveloped in a general
blaze. The Marquis of Salisbury was the first to perceive
the danger impending over the honest countrymen who were
actively engaged in endeavouring to save his property ; and
immediately on perceiving it insisted that they should leave
the spot, as he would rather see the whole building reduced-
to ashes than hear of one of them suffering injury in their
struggles to save it. The men for whom the ,Noble Marquis
expressed this provident care displayed,in their turn, equal
gallantry. They refused to depart, and said that they
would stand there as long as they could, in opposition to
the flames. To this resolution they adhered,,with great
firmness, especially as they were inFortned by some builders
that the rafters supporting the roof, were sound and strong,
that the flames in the upper apartments st uuld ascend and
not descend, and that, in case of at: worst, there w 0 some
shelter for them under an open stack of cliiMnies, near
which they were working their engines. Their coarage
and perseverance were crowned with iucceas, The fire
was stayed partly by their unremitting efforts, and partly
by the emptying into the chapel of a reservoir of water
twelve feet long and three feet deep, situate upon the roof

tiffir pitrt -of the- mansion. When things were- at
_the
worst,-cit-ayasapprehended-that the-chapel,mustperish, and
the object of. the parties working the engines then, was to
prevent the flames from spreading- farther,- after they had
exhausted their rage upon the sacred edifice. The chapel
is not far distant from the library. They are situate on
different sides 'of. a gallery, and each has communication
with it by means of a door. To check the progress of the
devouring clement, preparations were made to stop up
these doors with solid masenry At the same time the
printed books, and • manuscript papers belonging to the
Cecil family, and illustrating its history and that of the na-
tion at large, were removed from the library into the grand
drawing-room from which, as Well as 'from -the other ban-
queting apartments; the valuable furniture • had been
transferred, first to the lawn in front of the mansion, and
afterwards t.O; places of greater security in the town of Hat-
field. Everything as also in readiness to take the window-
frames out of the draWing4oom, in order that the library
might be summarily ejected on to the egrass, in case the
wind, which blew in that direction, carried the flames into
the interior of the mansion. Fortunately these precautions
became unnecessary. About eleven o'clock the conflagra-
tion was got under ;• and by two o'clock on Saturday morn-
ing the inhabitants of the neighbourhood, who had signa-
lized themselves by their quiet but energetic endeavours to
save this noble pile, had the satisfaction of knowing that
the Work of destruction had not extended beyond the least
valuable part of it, and that the library, the pictures, and
the Cecil papers were all uninjured, They had also the
satisfaction of learning , the next day, that though much
valuable property had been exposed upon the lawn during
the night, no part of it had been lost, stolen, or damaged—
a fact which speaks volumes in praise of the honesty and
kindly feeling of the peasantry in the -vicinity. It is only
fair,•however, to mention, that towards the latter part of
the evening, when the ground was occupied by the St.
Alban's. yeomanry, under the command of Lord Grimston
and his brother, a parcel of
,ill-looking strangers, supposed
to be thieves from London, who had heard of fire,
came upon the preinisei. They decaMped, however, very
speedily upon discovering the careful vigilance with which
their motions and Lord .Salisbury's property were watched
by his tenants and neighbours.
It is singular that after so extensive a fire no one, with
the•,
•-exception of' the Dowager 'Marchioness of Salisbury,
whose body • has not yet been dug out of the ruins, has
received the slightest scratch or contusion. To avoid the
possibility of accident from the fall of the damaged walls,
orders were issued on Saturday by: the Marquis of Salis-
bury thaf nobody should have entrance into the grounds
without a ticket- signed by himself. This has produced
a double advantage,--it has checked the inquiries of idle
Curiosity, and has left the firemen at liberty to give their
undivided attention to the still smouldering ruins. About
three o'clock on Saturday afternoon some of the timber
again ignited, but was soon extinguished by the play of
the engines. In the course of yesterday afternoon the
ruins were still smoking, and although the rain fell almost
incessantly, it. was,found necessary to deluge them occa-
sionally with water. We may here add that Hatfield-house
and the furniture it contained are insured in the Sun Fire-
office to a reasonable value.
The appearance of -the ruins is at the present moment
frightful. They present a mere shell of lofty walls, con-
nected together by not more than two or three charred
and blackened beams. _ They seem tottering to their fall,
and from their cracked and dilapidated condition must be
taken down before the west wing can be rebuilt. There
appear to be old bricks enough in the ruins to case the
outside of any new. erection on the foundation of the old
one ; and this is a point of some importance, as it will
enable the Noble Marquis, in rebuilding his Palace, to
preserve that air of antiquity about it, which forms at
present one of its chief charms and ornaments.
The Hertfordshire yeomanry continued during yesterday
to post sentinels all round Hatfield-house, but this, we un-
dergand, is more out of respect to the Noble Marquis than
from any idea that their services are wanted. MoSt of the
furniture,. We have already stated, has' been ' removed from
Hatfield-house to different places in the neighbourhood.
Some of it is at the Salisbury Arms Inn. We saw there
a noble picture of Queen. Elizabeth taken from the life by
Znechero. It is considered, as a portrait, extremely worth
notice, not'only because it is the handsomest known to exist
of her, but also as it points out her turn:to-allegory and odd
devices. Pennant, in his description of Hatfield-house,
gives this account of it—" Her gown is close-bodied ; on
her head is a coronet and thick egret, and a vast distended.
gauze veil ; her face is young ; her hair is-yellow, falling in
twolono. tresses ; on her neck. a pearl necklace ; on her
arms" bracelets. The lining of her robe is worked with
eyes and ears, and on her sleeve a serpent is embroidered
with pearls and rubies, holding a great ruby in its mouth ;
in one hand is a rainbow with the flattering motto Non
sine- sole Iris. "
• We were infOrmed that if this lamentable fire, with its
still more lamentable catastrophe—the .destruction of the
Dowager Marchioness of Salisbnry, had -not taken place on
Friday ertning. a grand _banquet would have been held
there on Saturday. Among the guests invited was Lord
Strang,ford, who did not hear'of the calamity which had
befallen his noble friends at Hatfield until he reached the
Green Man at Barnet Saturday afternoon, on his road from
town, to share in their festivities. On learning it, he pro-
ceeded to pay a visit of condolence to his afflicted friends,
but returned the same evening to his residence in London.

As there are many historical associations of deep inter
rest.connected with Hatfield house, we make no apology
for extracting the following account of it from Pennant's

Journey fiviii Chester to Londoit.:--
" The small town of Hatfield is prettily seated on a gen,
tle ascent. Its Saxon name was Haethfield, from its situ,
ation on a heath. The important synod held during the
hcptarchy, at the instance of Theodore, consecrated Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, in 668, in which the most interesting
tenets of Christianity were declared and confirmed #, is
generally supposed to have been held at a place of that
name in Yorkshire. Hatfield was part of the revenues a
the Saxon prig ;es till it was bestowed by Edgar on the mo-
nastery of Ely. At the time of the conquest it was found
to be in the possessiop of that great house, in which it con-
tinued till the abbey was converted into a bishopric, in the
reign of Henry I. It then became one of the residences of
• the prelates ; for which they had not fewer than ten palaces
belonging to the seat, and from that circumstance was
called Bishop's Hatfield, to distinguish it from other places
of the same name. • It probably fell into decay during,
the long wars between the Houses of York and Lan-
caster ; for I find that it was rebuilt and ornamented by
Bishop Moncton, in the reign of Henry VIII.
Among the shameful alienations made from the bi-
shopric- of Ely by Queen Elizabeth (by virtue of the
imprudent statute which gave. her the power of exchanges
:over all) must be included the manor of Hatfield. The .pa-
lace had at times been an occasional royal residence, not-
vithsttinding it was the property of the church. William,
the second son of Edward lll.,was borne here in 1335, and
Was called from that circumstance, William of Hatfield.
Queen Eliiabeth resided here many years before she came
to the crown, and on the death of her predecessor removed
from hence, on the 23d of November; to take possession of
the throne. This place did not continue long a part of the
royal demesnes. .James 1., in the sth year of his reign, ex-
changed it for Thcobald's with his minister, Sir Robert Ce-
cil, afterwards Earl of Salisbury, who built on the site of
the palace the magnificent house now standing, and inclosed
two parks, one for red, the other for fidlow deer. At the
bottom• of the first was a vineyard, in being when Charles
I. was conveyed there a prisoner to the army.
" The building is of brick, and of vast extent, in the
form of a half H. In the centre is an extensive portico of
nine Arches. Over the middlemost rises a lofty tower, on
the front of which is the date 16-11, and three ranges of
columns of the• Tuscan, Doric, and Composite orders. Be-
tween the second are the arms of the family in stone:
" In the chapel is a small ancient organ ; a fine window
of stained glass, in 12 compartthents ; and a gallery, on the.
front of Which were painted the 12 Apostles."
Pennant then proceeds to give a catalogue of the valuable
paintings which adorns the walls. of its different apartments.
We have not room for a list of them at present, but it is a
satisfaction to know that they have received little or no
dainage in the tumult and confusion which prevailed ou Fri-
day 'light. Among them are original paintings of the cele-
brated Earl of Leicester, " that honest statesman, who never
kept his word ;" of Francis de Coligni, the leader of the
Hugunots ;• of Gondomar, the Spanish Ambassador, who
used to speak false Latin to King James, to let that prince
of pedagogues and pedagogue of princes have the plea Sure
of correcting him ; of Lord Burleigh and his two sons, the
first Earl of Exeter and the first Earl of Salisbury ; of
Henry VIII. ; of Philip and. Mary ; of Queen Elizabeth ;
of Mary Queen of Scots ; .of Charles I. ; of the Due. de
Guise, assassinated by Henry 111. ; of Charles XII. ; of
Peter the Great, and of several ether Royal and illustrious
characters, wkese names we have neither room nor leisure
;o notice further at present.
Bedßen rtl c 1.811.7, p, 160. Beds had been an eleve of
;he venerable Archbishop.
t Bentham's Ely, 163.

On Saturday last John Ray and Joseph Lingwood,
while employed in sinking a well at Standard Hill, near
Northallerton, the residence of 'Malilas Grainger, Esq., the
former, when at the depth of twenty yards from the surface,
lost his life by a swislen explosion of foul air, and the other
(nutthiuki4tg of the danger) immediately went down to him,
and unfortunately shared the same fate. Ita3.' has left a
widow and five children, and'Lingivoed with one child and his
••
widowlll a state of preplanCY. It is remarkable that dur-
ing the first day's excavation they met with some ancient
relics of the battle of " the Standard," fqught there 22d
August, 113 :s!—GiasaowCuurici.
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