The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-06 00:00:00

ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE OF

MAILS.

SOUTIIAMPTON, JAW. 3.-Z--The Oriental Company's
steam-ship the Braganca, Captain Lewis, left the docks
at 3 P.IL this day for Constantinople, Athens, &c. She
has taken out the East India and China mails, which,
with her passengers, about sixty in number, she will
transfer over to the Iberia at Malta, by which vessel
they will be conveyed to Alexandria. The Braganca has
a full cargo of Manchester and other goods consigned to
her final destination.

The same Company's steam• ship the Queen, Captain
Russell, came into port at 1.15 sad. this day from Gib-
raltar, and landed the Peninsular and other mails, which
were forwarded to London by the two A.M. mail train.
Her dates are Gibraltar, Dec. 22, Cadiz, 23d, Lisbon,
28th, and Vigo, 29th. She had no communication with
Oporto. The Queen had ten passengers, and a small
cargo of fruit.

The Montrose steam-packet sailed out of dock yester-
day at 3 P.M., with the Peninsular and Mediterranean
mails, also twenty passengers. among whom were Lady
Granville Somerset and daughter.
The Royal West India mail-packet the Clyde, Capt.
Symmonds, left the river at 3 P.M. yesterday, for the
West Indies, taking out the South America and West
India mails, about forty passengers, 800 bottles of quick-
silver, and 8,0001. in specie.

DESTRUCTIVE FlRE.—Early on Sunday morning
last, the clothing factory, with fulling mill, belonging
to Messrs. W. and S. Rossiter, clothiers, of Frome, was
discovered to be on fire, and with the whole of the va-
luable machinery, clothing materials, wool, and cloths,
was in a short time destroyed. The factory being in a
lonely situation, near Corsley, and the hour of the fire
breaking out being soon after midnight, it was some
time before any one came to the assistance of the mill-
men, who resides in a house adjoining the mill, and
whose daughter, who was lying ill, was the first who
made an alarm. Great praise is due to this man for his
exertions ; he first took his daughter, who is quite help-
less, and laid her in the field that she might not be
burned, and then employed himself in removing what
property he could for kis employers, and succeeded in
getting out 14 pieces of cloth, besides some other articles;
working the whole time by himself, with only his shirt
on, not having stopped to put on any other article of
clothing. The amount of damage is supposed to be
5,0001. or 6,000/. ; and the property is only insured to
about one-half the amount. The most melancholy cir-
cumstance connected with the fire will be the throwing
a considerable number of workpeople out of employ.—
Wiltshire Independent.

THE flousE or COMMONS.—A great many work-
men are employed in constructing the temporary build-
ings intended as Committee-rooms for the approaching
session of Parliament. They are being built in what is'
termed the Speaker's court of the old Houses,. and are
about ten in number. These rooms have become ne•.:es-
sail- from the alterations made in the lobby of the anise
of aommons, which has been redneed at least one-half,
and the preparations are being made in the Speaker's
drawing-room and adjoining rooms, which were used
as Committee-rooms last year ; those apartments, as
well as the fine old dining-room, having to be prepared
for the extension of the building of the new Houses of
Parliament. The new Committee-rooms are so placed
as to afford every facility of communication, especially to
Members of the House, by a passage through West-
minster Hall and the cloisters leading from the lobby.
Some months hack we stated that Bellamy's refreshment--
rooms were required to be removed to make the neees•
nary alterations. They now occupy nearly the same
site as before the fire which destroyed the Houses of
Parliament. In the cloisters presses are being formed
for the papers of the journal-office, as a temporary de-
pository. The two large rooms in New Palace-yard are
intended as courts for the Vice-Chancellors. The
ancient apartment known as the Speaker's dining-room
is to be restored to its original architectural elegance ;
but the connecting buildings are being cleared away for
the building of St. Stephen's-hall. The beautiful Gothic
cloisters are also to be renovated, and are to form a por-
tion of the new Houses.

" THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS."—The parish of
St. Pancras is doubly blest in this foggy weather, for it
has its street lamps burning both night and day. We
counted last Friday, in the Hampstead-road, no less
than ten napthas flaring up (hilly one after the other.
Now could not this superfluity of light daring the middle
of the day, when its burning must be an insult to the
public eye, and a rank offence in the nostrils of every
political economist, be put by for the Kensington-roads,
and lent to them every night ? Naptha, it is true, is not
the moat brilliant light the metropolis or the age can
boast of ; but still Kensington will see, we are sure, with
half an eye, that naptha, dim as it is, •is better than ne
light at all.—Punch.
The following curious note, bearing no date and
giving no clue to ampler information, was written on the
fly leaf of some old records that fell into our hands by
chance. "On the grand deputation's return to Buda,
the Diet held a very stormy meeting, in consequenee of
which the following anonymous epigram was placarded
in the hall where they sat
•

Corruznpit omnia pus ; rodit omnia mus.
Destruit omnia fanatisrnus ; rapit omnia, nepotismus.
Infecit omnia egoismus ; trahit omnia magnetismus.
Depravat omnia magnatismus; stulta petit calvinismus.
Paria facit Lutheranismus ; sed stultior est Papismus.
Hie, midi crede, est Dietatis catechigmus."
A minute search into the history of the times might per-
haps throw some light on the origin of this singular
PhiliPPic.—The Pan