The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-19 00:00:00

FIRE AT THE BANK OF IRELAND.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEURAPII.)

DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING,

At 5 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in
the Bank of Ireland, and after raging for about
an hour and a half was got under ; not, however,
before the accountants' and bookkeepers' offices
were seriously damaged, and a great number of
bpoks totally destroyed.

The morning is fortunately calm, not a breath

of wind blowing.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
(By British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph

DUBLIN, MONDAY,

A fire broke out in the bookkeepers' offices in
the Bank of Ireland this morning, at four o'clock.
The entire office, and all the furniture in it, is
consumed, but fortunately all the books and other
valuables were in the strong rooms. With the
assistance of 300 soldiers and a number of fire
engines the fire is now (at nine o'clock) quite got
under.

BERNE, JAN. 17,

The Procureur-General is setting out for
Neuchatel to arrange the formalities necessary for
abrogating the law proceedings against the
Royalist prisoners. He is the bearer of their
passports.

Tho Paris correspondent of the Morning Pose
(second edition) says :

" The Prussian Government has signified its
willingness to permit a Conference of the repre-
sentatives of the Great Powers on the Neuchatel
question ; but I understand the bases for the said
Conference are not yet arranged."

The Paris correspondent of the Times (second
edition) says :

"As thediplomati sts will endeavour to settle the
Neuchatel question before the Conference meets,
it may be well to state what the future policy of
this Government is likely to be. 1. Should the
King of Prussia issue the order for the ' mobilisa-
tion' of his forces, Austria will do all in her power

to prevent their march through the Federal terri-
tory. 2. The Austrian Government will employ
all its influence on the Berlin Cabinet to induce
it to renounce its claims on Neuchatel. 3. If
Prussia should propose that a Representative of
the German Confederation shall have a seat and
voice at the Conference this Government will not
second the proposition, as the Bund has
hitherto always been represented by Austria
and Prussia when questions of European impor-
tance have been discussed by the Powers.'
4. If the independence or non-independence
of Neuchatel is to be determined by vote, Austria
will, in all probability, go with France and
England. 5. Any hostile demonstration made
by France against the King of Prussia would be a
political blunder, as the Emperor Francis Joseph
has a very high sense of his duties to his Federal
Allies. It is not yet settled where the Conference
is to meet, but probably in London, as the Pro-
tocols were drawn up and signed there in 1852.
This government would certainly not object to
the British metropolis, but I could not speak so
positively should the French capital be proposed."

A private letter from Naples of the 12th men-
tions that fresh arrests have been made there,
which were supposed to have connection with a

secret society in correspondence with a Mazzinian
Club in Genoa and Turin. Pieces of money are
also said to hare been discovered, newly coined,
and stamped with the effigy of Lucien 1., King
of the Two Sicilies. Some of the parties arrested
were subsequently released ; the others are still
in custody, and an investigation is going on.