The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY FVENING, MAY 25, .157

gawal and Military inteingence.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, as
General Commanding-in-Chief, will inspect the
Guards to-morrow morning, at 10 o'clock, on the
Parade in St. James's Park, as customary on her
Majesty's birthday.
Yesterday, being the anniversary of her Majesty's
birthday, the Royal standard was hoisted on all the
naval and military establishments at Portsmouth
and Go.port ; and at 1 o'clock the battery on the
" King's Ravelin" at Portsmouth led off a Royal
salute, which was taken up by the flag and other
ships in harbour and at Spithead, all " dressed" in
honour of the day. Salutes were also fired by the
Royal Victoria Yacht Club battery at Ryde and
the Royal Yacht Squadron battery at Cowes. The
Queeu'a birthday will be officially celebrat,d.at the
same places to-morrow, when the ships will again
salute and the troops on either side of the harbour
will man the walls and fire a feu de joie.
Yesterday an order arrived at Chatham garrison,
directing the whole of the troops attached to the
Provisional Battalion who are available for em-
barkation this season belonging to the Indian re-
giments stationed in the Bombay and lied as pre-
sidencies to be held in immediate readiness to pro-
ceed to India to join the service companies of their
respective regiments. Immediately on the arrival
of the order the non-commissioned officers and men
of the 43d Light Infantry, 74th Highlanders, and
84th Regiments, the head-quarters of which are
serving in Madras ; and the 64th, 78th Highland-
ers, 83d, and 86th Regiment., whose head-quar-
ters are in Bombay, were medically inspected by
Dr. A. Maclean and the medical staff of the
Provisional Battalion at the Garrison Hospital.
The above depots will furnish an effective force
of about 1,000 bayonets for service in India.
The following officers belonging to the above
regiments are also held in readiness to embark with
their detachments—viz.:—Captain Mure, Lieut.
J. B. B. Elliott, Ensign H. C. Talbot, and Ensign
J. E. K. Morley, 43d Light Infantry ; Lieut. C.
H. Laprimandy and Ensign W. Morrison, 64th
Regiment ; Captain C. Venables, Lieut. R. E.
Deare, and Ensign F. Pavy, 74th Highlanders :
Lieut. T. Anderson, Lieut. W. W. Young, Ensign
E. J. Fitzimon., Ensign W. Thomson, and Ensign
R. P. Butler, 78th Highlanders ; Capt. W. Nott,
Lieut. T. P. Wright, Lieut. G. Dunlevie, Lieut.
0, C. Gore, and Ensign N. Pennefather, 83d Regi-
ment ; Capt. S. Hughes, Capt. W. Du Vernet, and
Lieut. P. Chute, 84th Regiment ; Capt. Welman,
Lieut. T. B. Hamilton, Lieut. A. N. Wilson, Lieut.
V. G. Coates, and Ensign G. S. Jackson, 86th Re-
giment. _ _

The Admiralty State yacht Osborne, Commander
G. H. K. Bower, Master R. N., will leave Ports-
mouth early to-morrow morning for Cherbourg, to
await the embarkation of his Imperial Highness
the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, and bring
him to Osborne to visit her Majesty.
The steam vessel Volcano, fitted out as a floating
steam factory for tb Crimea, and now refitt-d for
like service in China, Master-Commander Hockley,
proceeded to Stokes' Bay on Saturday to test her
machinery, after receiving her new boilers. The
department of the Portsmouth dockyard steam
factory were called upon during the preceding week
for the first time to inspect the machinery of this
vessel, and they reported the boilers as unfit for a
voyage to China and continued service there ; the
substitution of the new set of boilers has been ac-
complished in the short space of eight days—a fact
which reflects high credit upon the engineer de-
partment which executed the work.
The Hastings, 60, screw block ship, Capt. Mends,
C. 8., K. L. H., will leave the basin at Portsmouth
this morning, and proceed to Spithead after the
adjustment of her compasses.
The Brisk, 14, steam sloop, Commander' Curtis,
arrived at Spitbead yesterd-ty morning, from Ply-
mouth, and will go into harbour, after inspection, to
be paid off.
The Agamemnon anchored at the Great Nore on
Saturday evening, andyesterday morning proceeded
up the river Thames for the purpose of taking on
board her portion of the telegraph cable.
The Boscawen, 72, Capt. Fowell. flag of Rear-
Admiral Grey, was taken out of dock at Devon-
port on Thursday, and masted on Friday.
The screw steam frigate Doris, 32, is now receiv-
ing her machinery at Kej ham
.steam-yard, Ply-
mouth.

The troopship Belleisle, Commander John Rodd,
at Plymouth, will embark the 93d Highlanders
during the present week, for service in China.
The screw storeship Buffalo, Master Commander
John Petley, sailed from Plymouth, for Woolwich
on Thursday.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Vesuvius, 6, Capt.
C. Wise, from Sheerness, arrived at Plymouth on
Wednesday, and went into Barnpool on Thursday
to complete her equipment before proceeding to
Spithead.
Two deep sea lead lines, of silk manufacture
(each on patent reels, to be affixed to the engine
fitting on board the Cyclops), have arrived at
Sheerness yard. They are each 2,000 fathoms
l)ng, and are of three-eights of an inch in circum-
ference. Thi Cyclops will have 19,000 fathoms of
sounding line and lines for slipping the cable
weights, each weight beino. 561 b. The slipping ap-
paratus is simple and cereain, several trials having
been made as to its efficiency.
The Cumberland, Capt. J. B. Dickson, was in-
spected on Saturday by Captain-Superintendent J.
J. Tucker. The Curnberla,ud and the Cyclops are
expected to leave Sheerness on Thursday morning.
The crew of the paddlewheel steam-frigate Gla-
diator, Capt. C. P. Hillyar, wore paid off at Ply-
mouth on Friday, and a portion embarked on board
the steam transport Dee, Master-Commander
Pullen, which sailed the same day with stores for
the Eastward.

The steam-tender Avon, Second-Master Palmer,
from Deptford and Portsmouth, arrived at Ply-
mouth ou Friday, and sailed on Saturday for Fal-
mouth.

The Turkish screw steam-frigate Geyvan Bahri,
42, Commander Mustipha Bey, sliled from Ply-
mouth on Friday for Constantinople.
In consequence of the third battalion of the Rifle
Brigade, under orders to embark for service in
bringlndia, considerably below its effective
strength, volunteering for that corps lia,s been opened
at Chatham from the depots of the 10th and
29th Regiments, stationed at Brompton Barracks.
The pensioners belonging to the Chatham dis-
trict, numbering about 500 effecives, have been
called out for training under Major R. Jenkins,
the staff officer. The men are to assemble for exer-
cise daily on Chathatnlines.
The 4th (King's Own) R->giment left Dublin on
Saturday morning, having been previously inspected
by Gen. Lord Seaton, for Kingstown, and imme-
diately on their arrival there embarked on board
the transport Lord Raglan, 1,952 tons register, to
replace the sth Fusileers, at the Mauritius, the
latter having already proceeded from that station
to the seat of war in China. The Lord Raglan is
fitted for the conveyance of 728 lank and file, 46
women, and 71 children, every attention to com-
fort and convenience being manifested in the
arrangements.

The following appointments have been made ai
the Admiralty

S. Strong, master, to the Cornwallis ; R. Brown,
master, has retired with the rank of captain, under
Order in Council, Feb. 28, 1855 ; H. H. Harris,
assistant-master, to the Cyclops ; C. M. D. Moor-
som, midshipman, to the Hastings ; G. B. Newton,
assistant-surgeon, to the Victory ; P. W. G-ovett,
assistant-surgeon, to the Impregnable ; Alex. M.
Black, acting-assistant-surgeon, to the Monarch ;
H. J. Howson, acting-assistant-surgeon, to the
Cockatrice ; F. Baddon, assistant-paymaster, to
the Hogue ; J. W. Coberd, assistant-paymaster, to
the Amethyst ; H. N. Scaife, secretary to Rear-Ad-
miral Wallis ; J. Ray, Secretary's clerk to Rear-
Admiral Wallis.

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aft, out into the Atlantic, till they lost sight of land.
Having at length reached the fishing place they drops
their lines. The first fish taken up was a large cod, whose
belly was distended to such an extraordinary size as to
excite the curiosity of the crew. They cut open the fish,
and to their astonishment found in it the self-same skin,
wool and all entire, which they had thrown overboard in
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EQUALISATION OF POOR RATES.

A public meeting of the ratepayers and inhabi-
tants of Hammersmith, convened by the church-
wardens, in pursuance of a requisition, was held at
the National School-room, near the parish church,
on Friday evening, for the purpose of considering
the advisability of petitioning the Legislature in
favour of an equalisation of the poor rates through- .
out the metropolitan districts, and to adopt such
measures as might be deemed expedient for the purs
pose of effecting the object proposed—the Rev. E.
E. Boyle, the vicar, in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said he bad been anxious for
some time past that the inhabitants of Hammer-
smith should join in the movement for an equalisa-
tion of poor rates throughout the metropolis. The
only objection he had heard urged against such a
course worth notice was that if you begin in the
metropolitan districts you are sure to advance to a
national rate at last, but if it should terminate in
that, which he by no means believed, he did not see
why it should prevent au equalisationin the metro-
polis, in some parts of which the present mode of
assessment was so injuriously felt.
Mr. AINSWORTH moved the first resolution :
" That the present law, by which each parish or
smaller district is charged with the relief and main-
tenance of the poor residing within its limits, ope-
rates injuriously and unfairly by throwing an un-
ctue proportion of the burden on the poorer parishes,
who are the least able to bear it, and almost ex-
empting those who have it in their power to con-
tribute towards the support of the metropolitan
poor." The question was a very simple one. The
laws as they now stood were unfavourable both to
the poor and the ratepayer—to the poor by driving
them from the richer parishes to the poorer ones,
and to the ratepayers from the consequent increase
of rates. That was especially the case with regard
to that parish, the rates of which had been for some
time past rapidly increasing. The rateable value of
property assessed to the poor-rate in the metropo-
lis was 10,000,0001.—the expenditure for the poor
600,000/. ; so that if the poor-rates were equally
assessed there would be an uniform rate of
Is. lid. in the pound. But the present rate
of assessment was most inequitable, inasmuch
as no two parishes would be found assessed
in the same proportion. The total amount
expended in relieving the poor in the parish of St.
George, Hanover-square, in the year 184, was
21,363 ; and in the year 1856 it was something
less than that. Whereas, in the Fulham Union,
to which the parish of Hammersmith belonged,
since 1852 the amount of relief to the poor had in-
creased upwards of 4,0001. per annum. Now, he
thought that was sufficient to show the injustice of
the present system, and the necessity for some
better system being organised. Nothing could be
more unjust than driving the poor from the neigh- '
bourhoods in which they were employed, with spe-
cial adVantage to those neighbourhood, to others
where they become a burthen in the event of want
of employment, sickness, or old age. In 1856, the
rate in the parish of St. George, Hanover-square
was lid. in the pound, whilst that of the Fulham
Union was 2s. 10/d. He contended that the pre•
sent high rate of assessment in some of the parishes
prevented the carrying out many good works much
required, such as baths and wash-houses, model
lodging-houses, dispensaries, and the Hee ; and the
poor in those parishes were deprived of those ad
vantages which, if the tax were more equitably
levied, they would have conferred upon them.
Mr. FITCHEW seconded the resolution, and re-
ferred to the enormous expenses connected with
the present law of settlement of the poor.
Mr. W. GILBERT, cha,rman of the Association
for Procuring au Equalisation of the Poor-rates,
also supported the resolution. He bad ascertained
from personal inquiries that the more the poor
were congregated together the greater was the state
of their demoralisation, and the accounts he had
received from the various London hospitals on the
subject were perfectly horrifying, and surpas-ed
anything that could be related in reference to the
sufferings in the Crimea, or the horrors of slavery.
The resolution having been further spoken to by
Mr. WARRICK, was carried non con.
Mr. CHESTER, a solicitor, moved the second re-
solution. The proposition which he should lay
before the meeting was self-evident. The state of
the poor socially, as between man and man, was
bad, but as between man and God it was worse.
(Hear, hear.) The conduct adopted by our wealthy
men was repulsive to human nature, for while they
enrich themselves by the labour of the poor, they
drive them from them in order that they may not
contribute to their support when they are no longer
capable of rendering, or when their service is no
longer required. Such a course of conduct was
manifestly opposed. to the first principles of Chris-
tianity, and he felt sure that the result of the pre-
sent agitation would be that the Legislature would
, take the matter up, and adopt such a measure as
that proposed. He moved " That this law, besides
being unjust to the ratepayers, is injurious to the
poor, forcing them to reside at a distance from their
employment, as particularly instanced in the case
of Hammersmith, or compelling them to herd to-
gether in other districts in a manner alike destruc-
tive of health and morality, and in both cases
placing them in a position where they cannot ob-
tain adequate relief."
Mr. BURGE seconded the motion. As the medical
officer of the district he bore testimony to the des
titution existing in that parish, the rates of which
were totally inaequate to the proper support of
the poor residing in it. In that parish at the present
time they were entirely unable to improve the con-
dition of their poor by means of sanitary institu-
tions, to say nothing of providing for their mental
improvement, in consequence of the heavy rates.
Mr. BLATCHFORD supported the resolution, which
was also carried.
Mr. VALENTINE STEVENS then moves " That the
poor of each parish of the metropolis are the poor
of the whole metropolitan community, and ought
not, therefore, to be a charge upon the particular
parish in which they reside, but should be relieved
and maintained by an equal rate, assessed upon an
uniform basis throughout the whole of the metro-
polis, and that petitions to that effect be presented
to both houses of Parliament."
The resolution was seconded by Mr. BERNARD,
and having been spoken to by several other gentle-
men, was also carried.
Petitions to Parliament were then acLpted em-
resolutions • and a vote of
tbohadilingstotthhee frerve,gelngautaan brought' the proceed-
ings to a close,

CUSTOMS DUTIP,S ON CURRANTS.

On Saturday a deputation, consisting of Messrs.
O. W. Martin, M.P., J. Vhatmln, M.P., H.
Wickham, M.P., G. Ridley, M.P., D. Nicoll, M.P.,
J. Ewart, M.P., and other members of Parliament
and gentlemen connected with the currant trade,
waited on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at
Downing-street, in order to urge a reduction of the
duty on currants.

Mr. CRAWFORD, M.P., opened the subject, and
said there was one point which they wished to press
—viz., the inequality •existing between the duty on
currants and the duty upon raisins. He was aware
that a deputation which had lately waited on the
ChancAlor of the Exchequer on the subject of raisins
had failed to produce a successful impression on
him, but a new circumstince had occurred which
gave additional weight to their arguments.. A new
tariff comes into force next month in the United
Stites which will reduce the duty on currants from
40 per cent. ad valorem to 8 per cent.; and by this
the Americans instead of accepting our currants
from Greece, will be able to take them to the United
States, on account of the low rate of duty. This will
place us at a great disadvantage. In former times
currants were rather a luxury, but now they are a
necessary of life.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—HOW can
they be considered as a necessary of life ?
Mr. CRAWFORD—When meat is dear the working
classes mix them with their bread. That practice
particularly prevails in the northern districts.
Mr. CLAY, M.P., said that in Yorkshire there
•was not a cottage or a hovel in which currants were
not mixed up, as a compromise for meat, when
meat was dear.

Mr. CRAWFORD continued—The present duty of
153 9d per cwt. bears a larger proportion to the ori-
ginal cost of the article than is the case with any
other commodity. The price in bond is 40s. The
reduced American duty will be 3s 3d per cwt. In
France it is ss, in Holland is 10d, and the duty is
greatly reduced in Russia.
The CHANCELLOR of the ExertEQuErt—The con-
sumption in those countries is not large.
Mr. OrtAwFottn—lt is not so large as in England,
but the high duty will cause that trade in England
to be lost, and the carrying trade will be lost also.
A duty- of ss. per cwt. in England would in the
long run amply repay any loss incurred by the re-
duction in the first instance, and therefore they
now ask that the duty be at once reduced to 10s.
per cwt., and ultimately to ss.
Mr. EWART said that in the northern districts
currants were a necessary nutriment, and Mr.
Gladstone bad said that the blight alone compelled
him to retain the duty on currants, and that when
that obstacle was removed the duty should be equi-
valent with that on raisins.

Messrs. PEASE, M. P., SCHNEIDER, M.P., and
other gentlemen having spoken,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had
no doubt that currants promoted the comforts of
the bumbler classes, and were at times a necessary.
Nevertheless, the consumers had not manifes-ted
any great felling in favour of a reduced duty. The
movement cbiefly originated with the trade. He
did not see how the American reduction to 3s. 3d.
per cwt. could meet •the objecti'ins which he had
raised, and unless our duty were at once reduced
to as. the position of the English importer would
not be improved. But he could not see how we
could be said to compete with America, for Ameri-
cans are consumers as well as ourselves. If both
ce.untries were joint producers he could understar.d
the argument. But that was not s,). The United
States have very small naval and military establish-
ments, ours were large, and therefore we must sub-
mit to high duties. If we were to take the Ame-
rican tsriff for our guide, we should go a long way
beyond currants. We should go to tea and sugar,
for instance, the • American dwy thereon being
much lower than our own. No doubt some in-
creased consumption would follow reduced duty,
but a redUction to 10s. per cwt. would cause a gi eat
loss on the year's revenue. As the process of in-
creased cultivation, in a half-civilised country like
Greece, must be very slow, it had never been in-
tended that the duty on currants and raisins should
be different, bat that was considered as only a tem-
porary state of things. This is, however, an un-
favourable moment for reducing the duty on raisins,
as the cultivation of the vine is at present very
limited. However, he admitted that the subject
was a fair one for consideration, but he could not
hold out any hope of an alteration in the law.
Several gentlemen said that the proposed reduc-
tion would lower currants one halfpenny per pound.
They were now sevenpence.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he was
, quite familiar with the subject, but would not un-
dertake—at all event in this session—to make any
alteration in the rate of duty. The deputation
I then retired.

BRUTAL ATTEMPTED MURDER OF A
WIFE.

An attempted murder of a most appalling and
brutal character took place on S kturday evening,
at the house No. 7, Little Russell-street, Cevent-
garden, immediately opposite the stage door of
Drury-lane Theatre, and wi hin a few yards of the
Scotch Pre4hyteriaii Church if which the Rev. Dr.
Cumming is the minister. The hack roem of the
second floor in the house alluded to was occupied by
a young couple named James Geary, aged 23, and
Emily Geary, aged 19, who were married on the
4th of this month, just three weeks since, and
to all appearance lived happily toge her until the
night on which he made so determined an attempt
on her life. Both James and Emily Geary were
originally silk spinners, but lately the husband has
filled the situation of porter to a furniture dealer in
Great, Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn. On Saturday
afternoon the newly married couple paid a visit to
the mother of the wife, and during their stay there
occurred no hing which le I to a suspicion that there
was or had been any disagreement between them.
On their way home, however, there was some dis-
pute about going to a concert-room, the result of
which was that they parted, and the wife went home
to Russell-street. At half-past 10 o'clock James
Geary returned home, and, as appears from the
statement which has been made by the unfortunate
woman in the prospect of death, bhving dashed his
cap on the ground, went to the cupboard and took
out a dessert knife. He then rushed at his wife,
knocked her down, and cut her throat. She strug-
gled with him, screamed as loudly as she could, and
exclaimed more than once, "Oh, dear ! oh, dear !
Don't murder me." These cries were heard by Mrs.
Emily Baylis, the wife of police-constable 85 fe, who
occupied apartments in a higher part of the house.
She ran down stairs, and having communicated the
facts to Mrs. Evans, the landlady of the house, they
went up together to Geary's room. On opening
the door they saw Geary and his .wife struggling
violently with each other on the floor, Geary hav-
ing the knife-in his hand, and the woman bleeding
from the throat. Mrs. Baylis and Mrs. Evans
were horrified., and ran down stairs with a view
of obtaining assistance. At the street door
they met Baylis, the police constable, who was just
returning home from duty. He went up stairs and,
found Geary and his wife struggling on the hind-
ing of the second floor. The brutal fellow had his
wife down, with her head on the bottom of the
flight leading up stairs, and directly he saw the
officer he stuck the knife into his wife's throat, and
worked it about. The woman exclaimed—" Tor
God's sake save me ! " Baylis at, once seized him,
and drew the knife from the woman's throat. . At
this time Geary had inflicted three slight wounds
on his own throat. assistance baying
been obtained, Mrs. Geary was conveyed on a
stretcher to King's College Hospital, where her case
was at once attended to by Mr. Charles Heath, the
house surgeon. He found on the right side if the
neck, about an inch below the jaw, a wound three-
quarters of an inch long, communicating with the
windpipe and with he ae.ophagos. Above and leow
this were twosuperficial cuts, and immediatelybelow
the right ear was a ragged Iv, uud ext,- nding under
the skin for nearly an inch. Immediately above the
collar bone, on the same side, was another
superficial cut. On the left side of the neck, mid-
way between the collar bone and jaw was a trans-
verse cut one inch long, penetrating three-qua+ ters
of an inch into the neck. Close to the left ear was
a superficial cut. On the back of the right hand
were three superficial cuts, each about a quarter of
an inch in length.
Immediately after the attempt on his wife's life
Geary was conveyed to Bow-street station, where
the wounds in his throat were dressed by Mr.
Snitch, the divisional surgeon. They were found
to be very :light. The prisoner remainsin custody,
and will be placed before the magistrate for exami-
nation this morning. He is very resarved, and
' does not appear to be in any way affected by a
recollection of the fearful crime he has committed.

Yesterday morcing, at 4 o'clock, Mr. Inspector
Mackenzie having been informed that the unfortu-
nate woman was sinking, conveyed the prisoner to
King's College Hospital, and in his presence the
statement of his wife was taken down. He ap-
peared to Le quite unmoved during the recital of
the horrible narrative. .

The mother and sister of Mrs. Geary visited her
yesterday at the hospital, but the interviews were
very brief, in consequence of her critic•+l situation.
Hopes are entertained of her ultimate re-
covery. Sbe is described as a careful, persevering,
industrioug. young woman, very peaceable in her
disposition, and one who was unlikely to offend her
husband by any misconduct on her part. In some
quarters it is said that Geary was jealous of his
wife; but there do not appear to have been the
slightest grounds for such a suspicion.

Crisp, of Rugeley, soon after which Brown made a
full confession of his guilt, which was taken down
by the iesdector, and to which he affixed his .sig-
natu••e. We ate informed that he :iiiarges his ac-
complice ,Idcke,e with being the one who knocked
the deceased down first, and also with being: the
min who gave him thy- blow which took his life, a
dreadful fracture of the skull and side of the-face of

the deceased showing but too clearly the fearful
blow aimed to destroy him.
Soon afterwards a rigid search was made by
Etheridge on the premisea where each of the pri-
soners live, and on removing the hutom of an old
hayrick, on Jackson's premises, Mr. Charlesworth's
purse was found, containing about 101. in gold and
silver. The prisoners were taken to the Utroxeter
police-station, and placed in separate .cells, where
they will remain untl the magistrates meet in petty
es,ion on Wednesday next. The prisoners are
both young men, and have nothing about their ap-
pearance to lead any one to suppose them capable
of committing such an atrocity. Jackson is but
20 yews of age, and is a labourer ; and Brown is a
groom or gentleman's servant, and had hut left the
service of Mr. Fletcher, surgeon, of Uttoxeter, a
fortnight ago.

DESTRUCTIVE AND FATAL FIRE AT
THE CAEGLAS FARM, LLANDOVERY.

THREE PERSONS AND A HERD OF CATTLE
BURNT TO DEATH.
• BRISTOL, SUNDAY.
Yesterday a shocking catastrophe occurred at the
Caeglas farm, parish of Cilycwn, Llandovery, by
which a very large amount of property and cattle
was destroyed, and the farmer, Mr. David Williams,
and two of his children, David Williams, aged nine
years, and Thomas Williams, aged seven years, lost.
their lives. For some reason connected with the
domestic arrangements of the farm, which has not
yet transpired, the two children have been allowed
for a short time past to sleep in a sort of loft which
overtops the cow-shed, which is under the same
roof as the dwelling-house, and at one end of
which was a quantity of hay. Between ten and
eleven o'clock la-t night they were sent to rest as
usual, a larithorn being given them for the purpose of
lighting themselves into bed. There was a lighted
tallow candle in the lantern, but it was protected
by a horn outer case, through which its light was
reflected. At about m dnight Mr. Williams, their
father, fancied that be smelt fire, and his alarm was
speedily increased by finding that a large quantity
of smoke had penetrated into and filled his dwel-
ling house. It at once occurred to him that some-
thing must have h tppeoed at one of his out-build-
ings, and ou looking out he was horrified to find that
the loft to which his two children had retired was
completely wrapped in one mass of flames. His
fir-t anxiety was for the safety of his seas, whom
he resolved at all hazards to make an attempt to
save. Notwithstanding that the fire burnt with
th greatest violence, and the em ike issui-d from
the burning buildings in dense and suffocating
volumes, he hol ily ru-hed towards the loft, and
unhappily perished in the attempt. He was never
seen alive afcerward.s. An alarm was given, and
the neighbours immediately hast-ned to the spot,
and used the most praiseworthy exertions in en-
deavouring to arreetthe progres,, or the conflagration,
but it spread with resistless fury. A daughter of
Mr. Williams was so much pained by the groans and
me aucholy cries of the cattle, that she made a
desperate attempt ta penetrate let°
.a parr. of the
out-buildings in which were six valuable cows and
a favourite calf, but her efforts proved unavailing,
while she was herself so seriously burnt that con-
:-iderable apprehension is felt respecting her ulti-
mate recovery: Notwith.tanoing all the exertions
so gallantly used, the fire could not be got under
for several hours, nor before some stacks of hay
and corn, a number of cattle, the barn, cowhou-es,
stables, &c., had been reduced to a heap of smoking
ruins. The dwelling house connected with the
farm was only saved by an act of judicious fore-
thought, which induced some of the parties to pull
down a portion of the roof which connected it with
the out-buildings. This morning a search was made
for the missing bodies, which were found by a
police-constable named Joseph Davis amongst the
ruins ; that of thA unfo4unate father was found on
a wall which divided the cow-house from the
stable. It had been burned literally to a cinder.
Of the poor children nothing but a few charred
fragments could be found, and those were picked
up amongst the remains of the cattle almost imme-
diately underneath the spot in which they had been
sleeping.
The deceased farmer had a large family, and h,"
left a widow and several children. It will readily
be supposed that so dreadful a catastrophe has Pr°-
duccd a melancholy sensation throughout the
neighbourhood.