The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-08 00:00:00

MORE ALARMING FIRES:

Yesterday afternoon considerable alarm was
caused in the neighbourhood of Bethnal-green, by
a fire, accompanied by an explosion, taking place
in the premises belonging to Mr. H. J. Simniol,
fusee manufacturer, carrying on business in Baker's
Arms-gardens. The disaster took place in the dry-
ing house on the ground floor, where a quantity of
fusees had been placed. Suddenly a loud fizzing
was heard, and some of the inmates went to ascer-
tain the cause. They became enveloped in dense
clouds of smoke, which had a suffocating smell of
sulphur and gunpowder. An attempt was instantly
made by some of the inmates and the neighbours to
extinguish the fire. One man named C. Wright
made a desperate effort, and in the attempt he was
severely injured. He was removed to the hospital,
where he at present remains in a state of great suf-
fering. Fortunately the building received no very
serious amount of damage, but a great quantity of
the stock in trade was destroyed. The owner of
the property was uninsured. Another fire also hap-
pened on the premises of Mr. B. Hart, of the St.
James's Tavern, No. 33, Duke-street, Aldgate, at
half-past 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon, which
caused considerable alarm. Workmen were engaged
in fitting up gas-burners, and by some means a bed
and bedding became ignited. The engines of the
London Brigade and parish were soon in attend-
ance, and the flames were confined to that part of
the premises in which they originated. A fire broke
out in the same house last evening from the same
cause, which was not extinguished until consider-
able damage was done. The sufferer, it is under-
stood, was not insured. Yesterday morning, be-
tween the hours of 1 and 2 o'clock, an extensive fire
was discovered in the premises belonging to Mr.
H. Itydon, brickmaker, situate at Stoke Newing-
ton. The flames were first seen proceeding from a
couple of hackstacks, each containing about 80 wag-
gonloads. Information of the fire having been sent
to the parish engine keeper, and also to the Brigade
authorities in London, several engines attended,
under the direction of Mr. Bridges, the foreman of
the A district. It was not until an advanced hour in
the morning that the fire could be extinguished,
and not before 160 waggonloads had been consumed.
As to the cause of the fire, little if any doubt re-
mains that it was the work of incendiaries, as two
men were seen to leave hurriedly just before the
flames appeared. They are described as dressed as
labourers, and the police aro doing all they can to
trace them.
The property destroyed was not in-
sured.

HER MAJESTY'S 'THEATRE AND THE VESTRY OF
ST. JAMES, WESTMINSTER.—Yesterday, at a special meet •
ing of the Vestry *of St. James, Westminster, held in Sack-
ville-street, Piccadilly, Mr. Churchwarden Box in the
chair, Mr. Buzzard, the vestry clerk, stated that in conse-
quence of Mr. Tritton, the collector, being unable to obtain
the arrears of poor, sewers, and general rates, duo at Mid-
summer last on her Majesty's Theatre, amounting to £3OO,
from Mr. Smith, who was the lessee of the theatre, an
execution had been put into the theatre. Sincead the man
had been in possession, he.(the vestry clerk) had
a letter from Mr. Lee, the agent to Earl Dudley, which
stated that the property in the theatre did not belong to
Mr. Smith, but to Earl Dudley, arid was only let to Mr.
Smith. After some discussion, the case was left in the
hands of the vestry clerk to take the usual course to sell the
property.

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THE BI,SROP 0/ NISMES AND COUNT

DR P.E.R,SIGNY.

Several of tbe Pi Irish journals again publish
articles on the Vappt s affair, but in presence of the
note published on the subject in the Dloniteur, they
have lost much of" their interest. Some of those
journals remark in s cc ere terms on a publication of
the Bishop of Nisme s a gainst the circular of Count
de Persigny on charileOle associations. The Con-
stitutionnel expresses itself in these terms :

" There was areport s ,ome days ago that several bishops
intended to make an appeal to the Minister of Public Wor.
ship against the measures adopted with regard to charit-
able associations, .and we have now be fore us a long letter
on that subject frolic the Bishop of Nisines to the Minister.
What appears to have most shocked the right rev. prelate
is that the Minister of the Interior, in :his memorable cir-
cular, placed the Society of St. Vincen t de Paul on the
same footing with Freemasonry. The I lishop of Nismes is
no partisan of equality, And has a most decided aversion for
what modern France call:; common law, equal for all. Was
it not this very prelate w ho, last Januasy, protested so
strenuously against the application of the stamp-law. and
the obligation to deposit episcopal writings for the
very singular .reason thiat such formalities were
humiliating and degrading to the bishops, whose pastoral
letters would thereby be confounded pell-mell in the pro-
fectoral archives with contemptiblo pamphlets and other
ignoble publications ? Now, as then-, equality in the eye of
the law is the point in question ; the law makes no distinc-
tion between associations, and legal authorisation is neces-
b.ary for all without exception. The Bishop of Nismes thinks
the- Law ought to have spoken out sooner 1 lie thus ro-
pro aches
the Government with a toleration which it has been
compelled to withdraw, and for which those who enjoyed it
never showed the least gratitude. It is evident, however,
that the Bishop is wrong in exclaiming against the common
law, for, eietest it as he may, he does not hesitate to take
advantage .of it. It can hardly be in his capacity of bishop
that the venerable prelate criticises the decisions of the Go-
vernment on matters which do not fall directly under epis-
copal cognisance. It is simply from his quality of citizen
that he derives the right to publish his opinions, concur-
rently wail. 'miserable pamphleteers,' who have never had
a sense of shame,' and who carry their ribaldry to the ex-
tent of placing Jesus on a level with Barrabas,' and of
even speaking, in the same article, of Freemasonry and the
Society of St . Vincent de Paul."
The Siecle also remarks on the Bishop's letter in
the following • mariner :
"If there wer e arty need-of proofs to establish that the
Society of St. Vin'cor it de Paul, as it was constituted before
the issue of the circular of the 16th Oct., had a political
object, we havo only to cast a glance in the vestries of
churches and in episcoi ,al palaces. Several prelates, it is
said, are proparing refut, ltions, protests , and remonstrances.
The Bishop of Nismes is already made public a letter ad-
dressed by him to the Mist lister of Public Worship. In this
epistle the prelate labours less to glorify the association of
St. 'Vincent de Paul than to attack Freemasonry. From
its very commencement, th is Order, if we can believe him,
was actuated by a bitter hat rod for all noble and holy things
and it now hates the Gospel, hates and curses the Church,
hates even its own members :
It hates it own membe rs,' says the bishop. Every
ono knows to what frightful i 'xritations they aro subjected,
the monstrous oaths imposed . pn them, the barbarous ven-
geance with which are menac. Id those who may venture to
betray the promises, or make kn ownthe secrets ot this hideous
family. Accordingly Rome, knc swing all these abominations,
has several times thundered ag: iinst this sect, hostile to God
and man, to Church and State, to the sacerdotal order, and to
Kings. Clement XII., Ben .cut XIV., Pius VII., Leon
XII., have issued formidable at usthemas against it, and Pius
IX. himself, summing up the c iondemnations of his preces-
sors, denounced it in his turn iii the first year of his glori-
ous Pontificate.'

What charity ! what ameziity ! The Bishops of
Nismes adds :
" More than one revelatiov obliges us to believe that
this Order has not degenerated, and that the lodges of tho
Grand Orient have not ceased to be a cavern in which in-
fernal tempests are prepared ar ainst social order and the
Church.

Never before, with so much audacity, were hatred
and contempt excited against an entire class of citi-
zens; never was the arm of calumny employed with
greater fury !"

COUN7.RY Ma' RKETS.

BIRMINGHAM—Nov. 7.

At to-day's market there was a short supply of English
wheat from the farmers, which found buyers at a slight
advance on this day week. Foreign descriptions were at
late prices. New oats rather cheaper. Beans, barley, and
peas a slow sale.