The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-07 00:00:00

No. 16.295.

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1140NDON PROVIDENT INSTITUTION,
or Bank for Savings, Blomfleid-street, 1844.
Notice Is hereby given, that this Savings Bank will NOT be OPENED
after THURSDAY, November 14, until TUESDAY, December 3, in order
to compute the annual interest due to Depositors to November 20.
All notices, therefore, for repayments to be made on Thursday,
December 5, must be given by the Depositors on Wednesday, No-
vember 13.
Opened again on Tuesday, December 3, and then continued as usual.
By order of the Superintending Committee,
DAVID MARTIN, Comptroller and Secretary.
November 2, 1944.

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

THE DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT
OLDHAM.

On Monday last, at Devonport, Admiral -sir David
Milne, Commander-in- Chief, and Admiral Sir Samuel
Pym, Superintendent of the Dockyard, w ent on board
the San Josef, at that port, for the purpose of com-
municating to Barnes, late carpenter's mate of the
It(sistance, troop-ship, who remains there a prisoner,
having been sentencediby a court- martial to death for
striking the boatswain (Lee) of the same ship, and
who has since been dismissed the service by a court-
martial also, the decision of the Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty, in answer to the recommendation
to mercy made by the Court at the conclusion of the
trial. Their Lordships have been pleased to commute
the sentence to two year.' imprisonment, and the cul-
prit is to remain on board the San Josef until further
orders. _ _ _

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.

CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—From certain indications in the Money
Market it may be inferred that the new Banking Bill is
now exercising a decided infleence upon it, and that this
influence is of a salutary description. Every one who
has paid any attention to the matter, is aware of the
multitude of new and extended schemes for railways
which have lately been introduced, and of the eagerness
with which they have been sought after, not so much for
investment as fur the sake of the premium at which,
with scarcely an exception, they have been brought into
the market. From such beginnings, at many former
periods, panics in the money market have usually
arisen ; and could the means of aiding these specula-
tions have been furnished them, as they were for-
merly, in the shape of local notes, issued at discretion
and without control, there is little doubt that this
would now be the case. Luckily for the country,
the local banks situated in those districts where
such schemes are mainly encouraged and dealt
in have all or most of them reached the limit
which is permitted them by the new law, and
are sending up to London for supplies of bank-notes for
such of their customers as require aid, which must be
governed, however, by a very different principle from
that which might regulate their own issues; and the
caution thus induced, will soon check, without further
harm, all gambling in railway shares, and any purchases,
exc'pt for investment. No notion prevails that the
banks themselves regard this as an inconvenient restraint
upon them, as a prudent banker would be as scrupulous
in issuing his own notes as those for which he must give
sterling value, and his baving reached the limit of his
circulation is always a sufficient answer to those cus-
tomers whose advances he would think it right to stop,
but whom he would not venture to disoblige if they knew
he possessed the power of issuing without cost to himself.
The English Stock Market is taking a very firm
tone, from the increased operations of the Government
broker. Besides purchasing 15,0001. Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents. on account of the savings'-banks,
which exceeds his usual purchase by 5,0001., he has this
day bought 15,000/. Three per Cents. for the South Sea
guarantee fund. Similar operations were effected yes-
terday. As may be readily supposed, the circumstance
of 30,0001. being brought daily into the market has an
influence on the value of money, which is easy at 2 per
cent.

(Abridged from the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.)
In our last we gave such particulars as we could then
collect of this lamentable occurrence, by which the lives
of no fewer than twenty human beings have been lost.
It will be recollected that at that time fourteen bodies
had been discovered, and six others were then missing.
Of these, five were found during Friday night and Satur-
day, but that of Whitehead was not discovered until
Sunday morning, though it subsequently appeared that
the labourers employed in the search had repeatedly ap-
proached within a brick or two of where the body was
lying, outside the walls of the mill, and near the chimney
at the north-east corner. It is conjectured he had been
struck down by the falling building as he was crossing
the yard. We are sorry to learn that one of the sur-
vivors, Hannah Taylor, who sustained a compound
fracture in one leg—the limb being broken in three
places—besides other severe injuries, is scarcely ex-
pected to recover. The others, we understand, are all
doing well. The local authorities convened a public
meeting, which it was intended at first to hold on Satur-
day evening, but was subsequently fixed for Monday
evening, to originate a subscription for the relief of the
many industrious families thus suddenly plunged into
great poverty and distress by their bereavement of their
natural protectors. The surplus of a fund raised for the
relief of the sufferers by the fire at the Union Mills
some time ago, and which we now learn amounts to about
2001 (and not 400/., as at first stated to us), is likely to
be appropriated to this kindred object. The greatest
sympathy and commiseration have been manifested by
the inhabitants generally towards the unfortunate suf-
ferers, and the melancholy event has cast a deep gloom
over the whole town.

VATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUI
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, COIN HILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The steady success and increasing prosperity of the Soc!ety has
enabled the Directors, at the htst annual investigation declare a
second Bonus, avera:-Ing 60 per cent. on the amounts Love eel on each
Policy eiTecte.l on thTz Profit scale..

WINTER OVER COATS, WRAPPERS, &c.
Messrs.BURCII and LUCAS (late J. Albert) respectfully
invite gentlemen to view their new and fashionable assortment of
PA TENT and BEAUFORT BEAVERS, FANCY VESTINGS,
TROUSERINGS, &c., for the approaching season ; the style and cut
of every garment are guaranteed equal to any of the first houses at
the West-end, at prices In unison with the economy of the times,
feeling confident that gentlemen who may do them the honour will
be perfectly satisfied with any garment that leaves their establish-
ment. A large assortment of Great Coats kept ready made in all
the different and most approved forms, agreeable to the prevailing
taste ; being made under the superintendence of the proprietors, they
are enabled to speak confidently as to their superiority over all gar-
ments of a slop description, the which aro entirely excluded from this
establishment.
52, King William-street, London-bridge, opposite the Statue.

The Clarence, advance ship, at Devonport, had her
masts, bowsprit, and anchors, put on board on Tues-
day last, and will be taken to her moorings.
The Goodwill, lighter (Pledge, master), sailed from
Devonport on Tuesday morning, with stores for
Sheerness and Chathain.

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The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in De-
cember of the present year.
This institution offers many important and substantial advan-
tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of his interests to meet other conveniences or necessity. Assurances
for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, See.

UNITED KINGDOM
lJ COMPA
8, WATERLOO-PLACE, P
Established by Act of
HONORARY P

LIFE ASSURANCE

'ALL-MALL, LONDON.
Parliament in 1834.
?RESIDENTS.
Earl Somers
Lord Viscount Falkland
Lord Elphinstone
Lord Belhaven and Ste.aiton

Earl of Errol
Earl of Cottrtown
Earl Loven and Melville
Earl of Norbury
Earl of Stair

-- -- ------
JAMES STUART,
lIANANEL DE CASTRO,
Samuel Anderson, Esq.
Hamilton B. Ayarne, Esq.
Edward Boyd, Esq., Resident
E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., Assistant-

Esq., Chairman
Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Charles Graham, Esq.
F. Charles Maitland, Esq.
William Railton, Esq.
John Ritchie, Esq.
F. 11. Thomson, Esq.

he Cornwallis, 72, Captain IL Richards, with the
flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adams, has arrived
at Portsmouth, from the East Indies. Whea off Tor-
bay, a bottle, containing a letter addressed to the Ad-
miralty, was thrown overboard. The bottle eventually
drifted on shore, and was picked up in the bay and
the letter forwarded to the Admiralty, where it was
received the day before the Cornwallis arrived at
Spithead. Admiral Parker arrived at the Admiralty
on Tuesday evening. The Cornwallis has been in
commission between three and four years, and is to be
paid off. She remains at Spithead wting for orders.
The Fair Rosamond, 9, Lieutenant-Commander
Bulman, which recently returned from the West
Indies, is to be paid off at Portsmouth. She has
gone into harbour for that purpose.
The Vesuvius, steam- sloop, Commander Ommaney
which arrived from the Mediterranean on Saturday,
is to be paid off at Woolwich. She left Portsmouth
for the river on Monday. The Vesuvius has been in
commission nearly four years.
The Locust steamer, recently paid off at Ports-
mouth, is to be brought forward for commissioning
immediately. Her late officers state her to be a most
excellent sea boat.
The Cleopatra, 26, Captain Wyvill, has captured
several slavers off the south-west coast of Africa.
She arrived at the Cape from Mozambique the day
previous to the Cornwallis leaving it. The other
vessels lying at the Cape at the time the Cornwallis
touched there,t were the Winchester, 90, Captain
Eden, with the flag of Rear-Admiral the Hon. Josce-
line Percy ; the Isis, 44, Captain Sir John Marshall ;
and the Thunderbolt steamer, Commander Broke.
The Cornwallis and the Isis left the Cape together
on the 31st of August, the former for Ascension and
England, and the Isis for Ichaboe.
We are happy to state that, previous to the Corn-
wallis leaving Ascension, the inhabitants of that island
had been relieved from their state of suffering from
the want of water, as the continued drought had at
length given place to heavy falls of rain, which
caused a plentiful supply.
The Scourge, steam sloop, is to be launched, or
rather floated out of the dock in which she has been
built at Portsmouth, this day. She will be brought
round to the river to be fitted with her engines, which
are being made by Messrs. Maudesley, and are to be
of 420 horse power.
The Firebrand, steam-frigate, Captain Corry, which
left Portsmouth with the experimental squadron of
brigs, and touched at Plymouth on her passage
down Channel, has answered the expectations that
were entertained of her. During her passage she
proved herself to be a fast and an excellent sea-boat.
The Basilisk ketch is ordered home from the Pacific
to be paid off, as she has been in commission consider-
ably above her time. This is the vessel in which
Queen Pomare took refuge during the recent occupa-
tion of Otaheite by the French.
The experimental brigs, when they have com-
pleted their trial cruise, will be dispersed to different
stations to relieve such vessels of their class as may
have been in commission above their time.
Woomicu, Nov. 6.—The Vesuvius steam-frigate,
Commander Erasmus Ommanney, arrived at Wool-
wich yesterday evening from Portsmouth and the
Mediterranean, and is to he paid off here after a
period of service extending to four years and four
months on the Mediterranean station.
The Amphion, 36 guns, building at Woolwich
Dockyard, is ordered to be completed by March next.
She is to be fitted with engines and a screw propeller,
and her bow is to be lengthened according to a plan
submitted to the Lords of the Admiralty, by Mr.
White, of Cowes.
Messrs. W. W. Chilcott and G. W. Watton, second
class engineers, from the Victoria and Albert, are
ordered to be borne as supernumeraries in the William
and Mary yacht, at Woolwich.
Commander Beadon has received their Lordships'
permission to study at the factory in Woolwich Dock-
yard.
The Gladiator, steam-frigate, has been coppered,
previous to her being taken to Blackwall to be fitted
with her machinery, by Messrs. Millar and Raven-

Resident
Charles Downes, Esq.
Surgeon--F. Hale Thomson, Esq., 48, Berners-street.
DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG THE ASSURED
This Company, established by Act of Parliament, affords the most
perfect security in a large paid-up Capital, and in the great success
which has attended it since its commencement in 1834, its ANNUAL
INCOME being UPWARDS of 72,0001.
In 1841 the Company declared an addition to the Shareholders of
one-half of their Stock, and also added a Bonus of 21. per cent. per
annum, on the Sum Insured to all Policies of the Participating Class
from the time they were effected.
The Bonus added to olicies from March, 1834, to December 31,
1840, is as follows :
Sum Time Sum added Sum Time Sum added
Assured. Assured. to Policy. Assured. Assured. to Policy.
£5OOO 6 yrs. 10 mths. £683 6 8 £5OOO 4 years £4OO
5000 6 years 600 0 0 5000 2 years 200
The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and
only one-half need be paid for the first Five Years, where the Insur-
ance is for Life.
Every information will be afforded on application to the Resident
Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., of No. 8,
Waterloo-Place, Pall-mall, London.

ABE RDE E N RAILWAY COMPANY.
Capital, 900,0001., in Shares of 501. each.
Deposit, 2/. les. per Share.
The Committee, finding that objections have been made to the
smallness of the shares (201.) as originally proposed, have resolved
to increase the shares to 501. each, and the allotment will be made
accordingly, securing to parties whose applications have been re_
ceived prior to this date a proportionate amount of shares.
No further applications can be received after the 15th inst., up
to which day they may be addressed to any of the undermentioned
parties, and from wham copies of Mr. Cubitt's report can be ob-
tained, viz.:--
The Provisional Committee, at the Offices of the Company, in
London or Aberdeen.
Mosssrs. Forsyth and Pritchard, It Scholes, and D. and J. B.
Neilson, Liverpool.
Moore and Gatliff, Huddersfield.
J. H. and G. Redsdales, H. and C. Beardshaw, William Walker,
and George Heaps and Co., Leeds.
Banton and Son, Manchester.
W. H. Morrice, Blackburn ; and
Francis Stamp, Hull.
By order of the Committee,
ADAM and ANDERSON, Secretaries.
Aberdeen Railway Company, 2, Moorgate-street,
London, November 6, 1844.

POST.—According to sonic of the reports current, it
would seem to be the intention to have the whole French
loan of three hundred millions of francs, or say twelve
millions sterling, paid up by instalments restricted within
the very short period of three months. It is scarcely
possible, if that be the case, that a financial operation of
such magnitu le should not materially derange the money
markets of Paris and London, if not of other conti-
nental capitals. There can be no question that a con-
siderable portion or the loan is destined for disposal in
this market, and that, indeed, it would not be under-
taken by any firm which should not be backed with a
large subscripion list of English capitalists before pro-
ceeding to tender for it. The withdrawal of such a
sum as twelve millions from active circulation in the two
countries, and even in reference to this, might create
serious inconveniences. For it may not be lost sight of
that the French Government are under no exact pres-
sure for the money at present, as all the chief appropria-
tions for the current services of the year were supplied
by the Chambers in the last session. The
only I plausible reason assigned why the entire
remaining part of the loan authorised is now to be called
up, should such prove to be definitively the determina-
tion, is, that it would be most advisable to profit by the
actual easy state and abundance of money, and the ab-
sence of any disturbing political elements. As the loan
is realised, the proceeds will be paid, according to cus-
tom, into the Bank of France, there to lie till drawn
against. Some portion may be required for carrying on
the extensive fortifications, the construction and im-
provement of the arsenals, docks, dockyards, and other
public works, decreed and now actively in progress on
the largest scale, in several of the principal ports of
France, such as Havre, Cherbourg, Toulon, &c. But
France alone will receive the benefit of the portions so
required as put in circulation. As the execution of
those works, however, will be thrown over several suc-
cessive years, the proportion of the loan which shall be
returned into circulation cannot be considerable for some
time to come, and the mass would be lying dormant in

IIbRICE'S PATENT CANDLES are retailed by
MOOt of the respectable Dealers throeghout the Kingdom at
One Shilling per lb., at which price they are cheaper, taking into ac-
count the quantity of light given, than the commonest Tallow Dips-
They are beautifully white, and burn without snuffing more bril-
lantly than the finest wax.
The trade may obtain then' wholesale from EDWARD PRICE
and CO., Belmont, Vauxhall ; or from PALMER and CO., Sutton-
street, Clerkenwell.

URGESS'S NEW SAUCE, for general pur-
l. poses, having gained such great approbation, and the demand
for it continuing to increase, JOHN BURGESS and SON beg most
respectfully to offer thus their best acknowledgments to the Public
r their liberal patronage of the same ; its atility and great conveni-
ence in all climates have recommended i. to the most distinguished
oreign connections, who have all spoken highly in its recomm
sapenda-
tion. It is prepared by them only ; and for preventing dipoint-
ment to families, all possible care has been resorted to, by each
bottle being sealed on the cork with their firm and address, as well
as each label having their signature, without which it cannot be
genuine.
JOHN BURGESS and SON'S long-established and much-esteemed
ESSENCE of ANCHOVIES continues to be prepared by tkem after
the same manner that has given the greatest satisfaction for many

years.
Warehouse, 107, Strand, m_2!L2!_!f.o2,,oidos.

FORGERY.—C AUTION.— Some unprincipled
persons are advertising spurious Teas under a forged title, in
the hope of passing them off as Captain PIDDING'S TEAS. Pur-
chasers of his H0W11114.11 Teas will observe that all genuine packages
bear his signature thus—" Captain John Rhodes ridding, lion. Com-
pany's Servige." The advantages possessed by Captain ridding—
among others, the having secured for himself the exclusive importa-
tion of these Teas—are the result of eight voyages made to China,
and five years spent in that country.
Captain ridding has only two agents in London—Verret',
229, Re-
gent-street, corner of Hanover-street ; also 3, Pall-mall, next the
Haymarket ; awl T. Littlejohn and Son, 77, King William-street, City.
For country agencies, address to Captain ridding, College-hill.

hill, Blackwall. -
Vessels in Harbour—William and Mary yacht,
Black Eagle, Lightning, Monkey, and Vesuvius
steamers.
In the Basin—Daedalus frigate, Widgeon, Rattler,
Beaver, and Gladiator steamers.
In Dock—Tremendous frigate and Avon steam-
vessel.

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SILVER-PLATED DISH COVERS.
n• gii-VORYand SONS, Manufacturing
.A4grsipiths, 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of
A• • -0t forte in their Plate rooms, many Patterns of
England, WAIL. -. DISH COVERS, of Sheffield Manufacture,
SILVER-PLATED -..;nem the se,, viz. -
from Fifteen to Twenty b,. 1 The —Melon Pattern.
Double Dome Pattern.
Size. .£ s ^i
d. Sige.l. a. d.
sh Cover, 90 in. 5 17 0
fated Dish Cover, 20 in. 513 6 I Plated L... - 0
ver
Dish Cover, 18 in. 47 6 1 Dish ,:, Ip.
'ILu u In. 4 6
14.
.0
Dish Covers, l 6 in. 512 6 2 Dish Covers,. :
----..-.
Per set £l5 13 9 Per set ........ .. £6 17 5
The above have silver handles and mountings, and silver shields
for .iigraving the crest or coat of arms.
A Price Current, illustrated by Drawings, and containing every
Information relative to the purchase of Silver or Sheffield Plate, may
be had on application, or will be sent into the country, frea of
postage, in answer to a paid letter

ALARMING FIRES.
This morning, at two o'clock, a most alarming fire
burst forth from the first floor of the house, No. 75,
_ _

Wells-street, Oxford-street, in the occupation of Mr.
Weedon, furniture broker, &c. By the judicious con-
duct of police-constable C 67, the doors were pre-
vented from being opened, and th@ flames confined
from the action of the current of air, and before the
fire had extended to the staircase so as to cut off the

usual communication, the family were able to escape
over the leads, to the house of Mr. Littlewood,
butcher, at the corner of Castle-street, almost in a
state of nudity, and in the utmost alarm and fright.
A plentiful supply of water being readily obtained
the fire was soon subdued, but not until much damage
was done to the building, stock, and furniture. How
the fire originated could not be satisfactorily ascer-
tained ; neither could it be learned whether the occu

PATRONISED BY HER MAJESTY, HIS ROYAL HIGH-
NESS PRINCE ALBERT, THE ROYAL FAMILY, AND
NOBILITY, AND THE SEVERAL SOVEREIGNS AND
COURTS OF EUROPE.
OWLAND'S MACASSOR OIL, for the
Growth and Preserving and Beautifying the Human Hair.
Price Si. 6d., I's., Family Bottles (equal to four small), os,
and double tint size, 21e.
CAUTION.—The words " Rowland's Macassar Oil" are engraved
on the Wrapper of each genuine bottle ; and on the back of the
Wrapper 1,500 timer, containing 29,028 letters. Without this,
" None are genuine."
ROWLAND'S KALYDOR
or Improving and Beautifying the Skin and Complexion. Price
4a. 6d. and Bs. 6d. per bottle, duty included.
ROWLAND'S ODONTO,
or PEARL DENTRIFICE, renders the Teeth beautifully White,
and preserves the Gums. Price 2s. 9d. per box, duty included.
CA UTION,
Unprincipled Shkeepers, ter the sake ef gaining a trifle more
profit, vend the mopost deleterious compounds as the "genuine"
MACASSAR OIL, KALYDOR, and ODONTO. It is therefore
necessary on purchasing either article, to see the word " ROW-
LA ND's" is on the Wrapper. For the protection of the Public from
fraud and imposition, the Honourable Commissioners of her Ma.
jesty's Stamps have authorised the Proprietor's Signature to be er.
graved on the Government Stamp thus :
A RO WLAND & SON 20, HATTON-GARDEN ;
which is affixed on the KALYDOR and ODONTO.
Sold by them and by Chemists and Perfumer..
•• • All others are FRADULENT COUNTERFEITS.

the coffers of the Paris Bank.
The loan itself, by the abstraction of so much capital,
might prove an awkward obstacle to the progress of
railway enterprise in this country. It may b supposed,
however, that the subject has not escaped attention in
the highest banking quarter, where it should naturally
excite some solicitude.
S IJN.—Consols closed at 1001 for Money, and 1001 for
Account. Reduced Three per Cents. touched :998.
Bank Stock closed at 204.
The Foreign Investments were dealt in to a moderate
extont. Spanish Five per Cents. left off at 24 to 1, and
the Three per Cents. at 351 Colombian were 14 to 1;
Chilian, 101 ; and Brazilian, New, 84 to 1. Portuguese
Converted advanced to 55 and 56. Belgian B)nds
were 101 f.
The additional transactions have been these :—Cam-
bridge and Lincoln were ; Chester and Holyhead, -1 to
I ; Ely and Bedford, ; Great Southern and Western
(Ireland), 51 • Great Western, 63 ; Ditto, Fifths, 13f ;
Lancaster and Carlisle, 3,1 ; South-Western, 338 ; Lynn
and Ely, 11 ; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarter, 3 ;
Newcastle and Darlington, 28 ; Northern and Eastern,
111 ; York and North Midland, Scarborough Branch,
28 ; Ditto, Selby Scrip, 59 ; Orleans and Vierzon, ;
Orleans and Tours, 31 ; Paris and Lyons, f ; and Paris
and Orleans 198 premium. Eastern Counties have
been 111 4- discount. London and Westminster Bank
Shares were 6i premium.

pier is insured.
Shortly after one o'clock this morning a fire, the
light of which was distinctly seen from the City
bridges, broke out in the extensive premises belonging
to Messrs. Smith and Co., cabinet and chair-makers,
Francis •street, Tottenham-court-road. Without
delay the police communicated the information of the
circumstance to the several engine depots, and in a
very short space of time, engines from the western,
northern, and City stations were upon the spot. Mr.
Braidwood having arrived before two o'clock, he
directed the hoer to be led through premises in
Vrancis-street, and also along the extensive buildings
in the occupation of Messrs. Collard, Collard, and Co.,
the eminent pianoforte-makers, in Tottenham-court-
road, whose manufactory was at one time considered
gota in great danger. Fortunately, through the exertions
of firemen,
to work, but the volumes of water
poured
flames subdued them most effec-
yby two o'clock, when the further ex-
tension of the fire was stayed. The damage done is
considerable. How the fire originated is not known,
t uoa
nor could we ascertain whether the firm is insured.
ried not
upon oi nal ly pthepolice, and strangers, the several engines
were
s
Yesterday afternoon, shortly after five o'clock,
much alarm was occasioned in the vicinity of Hanover-
square, owing to the outbreak of a serious fire at the
niansion of Sir Samuel Brown, situated at No. 4,
lianover-street, and which at one time threatened the
most devastating consequences. It appears from in-
quiries made of the fire brigade authorities, that her
Ladyship had occasion to go into her bedchamber,
a front room on the second-floor, with a lighted candle,
and through some unfortunate circumstance fired the
drapery attached to the bed. She immediately en•
deavoured to tear the curtains down, so as to extin-
guish the fire, but eve she could accomplish that de-
sirable object the whole had become ignited. Her
Ladyship instantly ran to the head of the stairs and
alarmed the domestics, who forthwith attempted to
subdue the flaming property, by throwing a quantity
of water on it. It had, however, gained too great an
ascendancy for,stheir feeble efforts, and fortunately for
the preservation of the mansion, the brigade and their
engines from the King street station, who were called
by some of the neighbouring gentry, were prompt in
their arrival, and eventually succeeded in pre-
venting the destructive element extending from the
apartment in which it originated. The damage ef-
fected, both by fire and water, is rather heavy, but
Sir Samuel is fully insured in the Imperial Insu-
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not, could not be ascertained ; if she was not, her es-
eapo ruciy be considered a most providential one.
The Earl of Aberdeen has left his seat in Scotland,
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The inquest was held on Saturday last, at two o'clock
in the afternoon, at the Black Swan Inn, Mumps, before
Mr. Molesworth, Deputy Coroner, and a respectable
jury. The inquiry was held on the bodies of Jo-
-eph Tweedale, Robert Tweedale, James Tweedale,
Susannah Wright, George Taylor, Mary Ann Hussey,
.James Ridgway, Ann Buckley, James Kershaw, Sarah
Watmough, William Mannock, John Kershaw, William
Butterworth, Edward Winpenny, Ann Ogden, Hannah
Slater, Ann Hulme, Elizabeth Smethurst, and Daniel
Dunkerley—in all nineteen, William Whitehead not
having been found. There was a report in Oldham on
Saturday that he had been found alive beneath an arch,
and that he had been supplied with a little wine, to re-
store his exhausted strength, till the excavators could
rescue him ; but we ascertained that there was no foun-
dation for this report. Immediately after being sworn,
the jury proceeded in an omnibus to view the several
bodies, at the various homes of the deceased ; and next
proceeded to the ruins of the fallen mill, and there in-
spected the construction of the building, with its prin-
cipal beams and cross-beams, cast-iron pillars, and brick
arches, as shown in the part of a bay left standing
throughout every floor, as if it were a model transverse
section. They also examined several of the beams, and
fragments of beams, lying in the yard, especially with
reference to the " luggs" or " eats" at the ends of the
beam, and the iron straps or " clips," put round them to
bind or grace the ends of two beams together around
the pillar.
On the return of the jury, sifter some conversation, it
was agreed to commence with evidence as to the identity
of the elder Tweedale's body.
A witness named William Mills, living in Pipe-row,
North Moor, being confined to his bed by his injuries,
his evidence was taken at his own dwelling, in the course
of the round taken by the coroner and jury. He stated
—I am a bricklayer, and was working at Lower House-
mill, Messrs. Samuel Radcliffe and Sons. One of the
arches in the flooring of the top story had given way
about five inches in the crown; and I pulled a third of
it out, and put it in again. This was on Tuesday last.
I took it out on Tuesday night, and on Wednesday it was
got ready for me, and I put one length (of a third part)
in on Wednesday night, and wo just then had the middle
part out. It was flagged over the top, and the flags of
the next bay had given way, and I showed it to the mas-
ter (Mr. Wrigley), and one of the master's sons. One
of the ends of an iron beam had broken—l mean the ear
where the clip goes on, and I showed it to Mr. Samuel
Radcliffe, and ho said it was a pity they broke that way.
One had broken before. The beam had only lost one
ear, and had not lost all its bearing on the pillar. I had
but just pulled the middle length out when I saw the
gable end fall. One of the men working near the end
(Thomas Mellor) ran, and before he could reach it, it
went down and him with it. It went bay after bay, the
roof following the floor, beginning with the gable (west
end), and coming towards me, and I saw it going bay
after bay, for perhaps a minute, and when it came to me,
down I went with it. My head was badly cut, but I was
never insensible. My leg is badly bruised and swollen,
but not broken. The flags had not broken, but the
joints had sundered a little.
By a Juror—The joiner only said that the bedding of
the flagging had given way. It was about the fourth
bay from the gable end where the arch had given way.
I think it was the pressure towards the gable, and to
resist such a pressure the gable should have had strong
buttresses. The gable was the only thing to keep it up.
The arch had only an inch rise per foot.
Mary Tweedale, of Lower House, widow of Joseph
Tweedale, the overlooker, stated, that oae of the bodies
lying at her house was that of her husband ; he was
forty-four years of age. Another body lying in her
house was that of Robert Tweedale, her son, aged seven-
teen years, a twister-in ; and the third body lying there
was that of James Tweedale, a younger son, aged twelve
years. He was a reacher-in. The poor woman sobbed,
and was quite overcome.
After some further evidence, the jury adjourned until
Monday.
On their re-assembling they were sworn in the case of
William Whitehead, the last body missing, which had
been found the preceding day. They then west to view
that body, and also to inspect the mill again. The fol-
lowing are the particulars as to William Whiteheal, of
Fouleach, engineer, who would have completed his 22d
year at Christmas next. He had been in the employ of
the firm twelve years. He was unmarried, and lived
with his mother, who has six surviving children, of
whom four are under twenty years of age ; namely, two
girls of eighteen and twelve years, and two boys of six-
teen and ten years. The deceased's body was found
about ten o'clock on Sunday morning outside the build-
ing, in the yard, near the chimney, under a heap of
bricks ; so that lie had evidently been struck down,
crushed, and killed, while passing along the yard, endea-
vouring to escape.
On the return of the jury to the Black Swan, Mr.
Wiliam Fairbairn, C.E.. and Mr. David Bellhouse,
builder, both of Manchester, were requested to be pre-
sent during the remainder of the inquiry. The Rev. T.
S. Mills, magistrate, was also present. The first witness
called (the inquiry being so far limited to the death of
the elder Tweedale) was—

Thomas Mellor, of Hey Side, in Royton, bricklayer,
who stated:—On Thursday I was at work on the arch
in the cockloft at Lower Route Mill. We had taken
one length out, and keyed it, and had taken another
length out, and I had taken a springer out (the spring
course), and was talking to the man working with me
(William Mills), when I saw the beam in the bay snap
eat the collar, at the pillar; and I said, " Billy, its aw'
going!" and I set off as fast as I could to the door. I
saw the arch next Greaves's factory drop in (the second
bay from the gable end). It was the centre beam of the
three principal beams between the second and third bays
that fell; dropping in. The different bays dropped as I
quitted them till I reached the last bay but one, next the
old factory, when it fell witk me.
By Mr. Fairbairn—l can't tell whore the bearers for
the scaffolding were. (The foreman said the joiner had
explained that point on Saturday.) I was never insen-
sible. One arm was fast, and with the other I got some
stuff from my head, so as to breathe more freely, till I
was rescued.
By Mr. Fairbairn—When the beam fell I saw the
arch of the fifth bay from the old mill (the third from
the gable end) give way and drop. The stage we stood
on dropped with it. I jumped off the stage, and ran
t wards the old mill. The beam did not spring at all,
bat it snapped off at the collar, and fell straight doa n.
I heard no previous noise. No arch had given way,
except that which we were repairing, and which had
previously dropped or sunk, just four inches. The arches
had a rise of twelve inches.
By a juror—The men, it was said, had not put the
arches in close enough, and our master (Mr. Wrigley)
was blamed for their not being closely keyed.
By Mr. Fairbairn—The arch that had sunk or flat-
tened four inches, was keyed with brick, and " caulked"
with slate. Everywhere between the bricks the spaces
had been " caulked," or wedged in with pieces of slate.
Three of us took out the bricks from that arch, and there
were pieces of slate between the bricks.
By the Foreman—l cannot tell why the arch had
sunk four inches. I think something must have given
way, but I cannot say what. None of the tie-rods or
stays were broken.
After some farther evidence of a similar character, the
inquiry was adjourned until this afternoon.
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CLERKENWELL IMPROVEMENTS.—Yesterday 30
houses were sold by auction by Mr. Pullen, which are to
he taken doWn for the new street which is to be from
Farringdon-street to the back of the Sessions-house,
Clerkenwell, thus making nearly 150 houses which have
been disposed of, the sale taking place by direction of
the Clerkenwell Improvement Commissioners. There
was a very active competition for the property, which
fetched a high price, though many portions of it had been
built almost a century. The bricks alone produced
between 4501. and 5001. The whole went for above 7001.
A Parliamentary grant of 25,000 i, with 13,0001. leviable
from the parishes on the poor-rates, on the increased
value of the property, for thirty years, in addition to
MOW borrowed by the Commissioners, is the amount
obtained for the purchase of the property. A new sewer
is in the course of formation, which is, constructed in an
entire circle of diameter of about 13 feet. It will be 600
feet in lcp,,th, and is intended to turn off that distance of
the River Fiietl or what is called Meat Ditch,