The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-16 00:00:00

CONFLAGRATION AT THE NEW
CROSS RAILWAY STATION.
One of the most fearful fires that has occurred in the
neighbourhood of the metropolis for many years took place
at a late hour on Monday evening, at the works attached
to the station of the Dover and Brighton Railway, at
New-cross, resulting in the destruction of property to an
enormous amount, the principal buildings and works
being totally destroyed, and vast damage done to the
adjacent property.
The spot in which it commenced was a loft imme-
diately over a large octagonal brick building, used as a
store-room in the engineering department. This store-
room was fitted up as a painters' shop, and was upwards
of eighty feet in breadth, having in its centre a lantern-
roof, upwards of seventy feet in height. It occupied a
large area, and stood westward of the station, being ap-
proached by a gateway on the London side. Beneath
was a repository for the locomotive engines and car-
riages, and it contained at the time four or five of the
former (each of which, at a rough estimate, is valued at
1,8000, and also a number of tenders. The works were
all shut up, and the interior of the station was in a state
of animation in consequence of the approaching arrival
of the King of the French, he having signified his
intention of proceeding to Dover by this route. There
were present Captain Charleville, superintendent of the
Dover Railway ; Mr. Howell, deputy superintendent of
the same line ; Mr. Cubitt, the engineer ; with several
others. While the workpeople were engaged erecting
the tent on the platform for his Majesty's reception,
they were startled by cries of " Fire," which subse-
quently proved to come from the watchman. On turn-
ing toward the octagonal building they discovered to
their astonishment the flames kindling in the upper part,
among the paint stores. A general alarm was instantly
raised, and on admission being obtained, the fire was
found to have attained such a hold of the combustibles
contained on the floors that it was morally impossible to
prevent it from consuming those departments. The
police, of whom there were a large number present, both
of the company's and metropolitan forces, directly
exerted themselves in every possible way to prevent the
flames extending. Unfortunately, although the
company have but recently been visited by a similar
calamity, there appeared to be no provision made in
cases of another emergency of the kind ; and the con-
sequence was, that when their engine was got to work
there was not sufficient hose to reach the part in
danger. From that moment the conflagration was
fearfully rapid. The flames rushing through the sky-
light into the lantern, from whence they burst forth with
increased fury. Before there was time to send informa-
tion of the outbreak to the engine-stations, the ascent of
the flames had completely illuminated the whole of the
metropolis,causing a complete turnout of all the engines.
Long before any of them arrived, although not a mo-
ment was lost, every portion of the " octagon" was in
flames, the floor and the roof had given way, and fallen
upon the locomotive power beneath, which also speedily
fell a scrifice, notwithstanding its almost fire-proof con-
struction. Previously attempts had been made to extri
cate this valuable property, but unfortahately without
the least beneficial effect. The railway police and work-
people, seeing that there was not the least chance of
saving anything this building contained, directed their
efforts to preventing the flames from reaching another
building, termed th fitting-house and carpenters' shops.
These, although under one roof, were more extensive
as regards depth and length than the other. They
were upwards of one hundred feet long by nearly forty
wide, and were contiguous to the warehouses and
other buildings attached to the line. Although
every person exerted himself to the utmost, the
fire continued pro ress and defied all human efforts to
stop it. The consternation now created was indeed be-
yond description, for it could be too plainly perceived
that the last building would share the same fate as the
previous one. About this time an engine belonging to
her Majesty's dockyard at Deptford arrived, attended by
a detachment of Marines, under the command of Major
Hamilton and other oficers. The men were of great
assistance; conjointly with the work-people and the po-
lice they sealed the walls of the warehouse adjoining
the octagon, and got through the windows, and removed
a vast quantity of materials used in the engineering de-
partment. Whilst these operations were going on, Mr.
Henderson, the foreman of the southern section of the
brigade, arrived with his engine from the Southwark-
bridge-road, and was followed by Mr. Connortt n, with
the West of England engine. Both of these, as soon
as possible, but with the greatest difficulty, were brought
alongside the burning property to two well holes, out of
which they were got to work. Subsequently arrived the
brigade engines from several other stations, under the
spperintendence of Mr. Braidwood, as also the County
engine, with Mr. Garwood, the foreman. The
whole of the force had reached the scene before ten
o'clock, the fire having broken out soon after nine. The
firemen at first appeared to be completely bewildered—
the flames were rushing out of the roofs, and through
nearly every window in the octagon and fitting
departments, and were roaring with an awful
sound. At the same moment, the molten lead
was running from the cornices round the blazing
property, thereby exposing every one to great
danger. Nevertheless, every man exerted himself with
the greatest intrepidity, and by that means, a long range
of premises, used for the erection of carriages, was
saved. There was a spacious tank between the two
buildings ; but the fire was so extraordinarily fierce,
that it completely reached over it, and almost set the
roof in a blaze. It was indeed truly distressing to see
the valuable lathes and splendid machinery in the
fitting-house falling a sacrifice to the fury of one of the
most alarming of all elements. There was no alterna-
tive ; the whole was quickly destroyed, or rendered
useless. The loss in this department is also said to
amount to several thousand pounds. On each side of
this fitting-house, or, more properly speaking, the
factory, stood, on the east the platform of the station, in
the opposite direction, the remainder of the works,
stretching along to a considerable distance. Fortunately
there was a large space between sufficient to admit the
firemen and others engaged in their arduous operations.
For two hours and upwards the fire continued to rage
with awful violence, although its progress had, to a
certain extent, been stopped. The immense mass of
inflammable material that the two buildings contained,
with the heavy floors and roofs, caused the conflagration
to be of frightful extent, the flames rising to such great
altitude as to be seen from many miles distant, attract-
ing some thousands of persons to the spot. An unusual
assemblage of police was at the scene almost as soon as
the alarming discovery was made, on account of their
being on the way to attend upon his Majesty the King
of the French on his arrival at New-cross. These were

under the direction of Superintendents May (A),
M'Lean (P), and Mallalieu (II) divisions, and were of

the greatest use in prevening the immense populace from
breaking into the station, which otherwise there is every
reason to apprehend they would have done, the pressure
being so great.
His Majesty the King of the French arrived at the
station about eleven o'clock. To get to the platform the
royal carriage had to pass over several lengths of hose,
whilst the engines were at work ; the scene at that mo-

ment was of intense interest. The appearance of the
troops who formed the royal escort, the reflection of the
flames upon their bright helmets and accoutrements—
the roaring of the engines working—the shouting of the
firemen, and the huzzas of the crowd in honour of th©

. . .
French Monarch, excited a feeling that can with-diffi-
culty be described. For some minutes the carriage re-
mained stationary, and his Majesty viewed from the
window the progress of the flames, which were within
100 feet of him. His Majesty on alighting expressed his
regret at the calamity.
One very fortunate circumstance was, that the wells
from which the engines worked were powerfully charged
with water, they being supplied by a steam engine on
the works, and to this in a great measure may be at-
tributed the saving of the remainder of the company's
property, for had it not been for this, nothing could
have saved the other portion of the station from being
consumed.

At one o'clock a great number of the engines were
still in full operation, there remaining a great body
of fire in the ruins. The hose of some were direct-

ing streams of water, from the warehouse and the
adjacent buildings, into the burning mass beneath,
whilst the firemen were stationed on all sides to

prevent the flames extending. Up to this period,
and an hour subsequently, several of the at-
taches to the King of the French, who were to follow
in another train after the royal carriage, were to be seen
mingled with tho police and firemen. Their dresses
wonderfully contrasted with those of the fire corps,
whose apparel was covered with mud, and their faces as

black as sweeps. In the course of another half-hour or
so the whole of the suite left the New-cross station in a

special train, on their way to Dover. In consequence of
the arrival of his Majesty and his subsequent departure,
very little could be gleaned respecting the origin of the
fire, the chief portion of the officials of the railway having
to accompany the august party to its destination. We
ascertained from them that the loss is partly insured in
two or three offices. It is impossible to conceal the fact
that some suspicion overhangs the origin of the fire. It
will be recollected that a month or two ago a consider-
able destruction of property took place on the same line
and near the same spot. On that occasion a long line
of shedding and several carriages were consumed. The
company entered into an investigation, which led to
no satisfactory result. One remarkable fact connected
with the present fire is the following :—That the work-
shops had been closed for some time previously, and no
light has been allowed to enter that portion of the pre-
mises where the flames were first observed. There were in
the workshops a large quantity of paint and other matter
which would ignite spontaneously ; but no doeunbts. a rigid
e
inquiry will this day take place as to the trueeemployed u
workpeople, it should be stated, who we
the premises, were in the receipt of excellent on
wages,
and there is no reason to believe that any of them have
been the cause of this immense destruction of property.
The ruins, particularly those left of the octagonal or
principal buildings, as the fire gradually subsided, had a
most remarkable appearance ; the upright walls of the
upper story, or lantern, which was supported by four

THE LEVIATHAN TELESCOPE.
The Earl of Rosse read a memoir of the construc-
tion of his reflecting telescope at the mechanical
section of the British Association at York, on Tues-
day last. A model of the telescope, on a small scale,
for the purpose of showing the plan of mounting and
of making observations, was on the table ; also a
model of the apparatus with which he ground and
polished the speculum. Lord Rosse commenced by
explaining; the objects he had in view when he
directed his attention to the construction of the
telescope, and the difficulties that had to be over-
come. Having determined, after a consideration
of the peculiar difficulties attending the construction
of refracting and of reflecting telescopes, to adopt
the reflecting principle, he was met in the outset
by obstacles that appeared almost insurmount-
able, and which nothing but the most ardent
and persevering efforts of ingenuity could have
overcome. In the first place, ordinary speculum
metal is more brittle than glass, and it is so
greatly expanded by heat that it is with the greatest
difficulty a large speculum can be cooled without
splitting. In Lord Rosse's first attempts, he made
one hundred castings without being successful. This
difficulty is avoided in inferior instruments by varying
the proportions of tin and copper, which form the
speculum metal, also by the addition of zinc, but the
brilliancy of the polish and the reflective powers are
thereby greatly diminished. An attempt was next
made to east a speculum of baser compound, which
would not be brittle, and afterwards to plate the
surface with the best speculum metal. This an-
swered the purpose tolerably well, but the unequal
junctions of the plated metal caused diffraction of the
light injurious to the distinctiveness of the image. It
then occurred to him that as the splitting of spe-
culum metal in cooling must be caused by the irre-
gular manner in which the:process could be regulated,
so as to make the metal cool gradually on one side,
that the difficulty might be overcome. To effect this
the lower part of the mould was made of iron, whilst
the sides were of sand ; by which means the heated
mass cooled below at a quicker rate than in any
other part, that being comparatively the only cooling
surface. By this means speculum metal of the re-
quired size would be cast without splitting, but there
was found to be a defect in the metal arising from air
bubbles rising through the metal. To overcome this
new difficulty the under surface of the mould was made
of vertical plates of iron placed closely together, and
through those lamina of iron the air escaped instead
of rising through the melted metal. The proportions
of which the speculum metal consisted were 58.9
parts of tin and 126.4 of copper. So many minutes
are required to be attended to, that even the composi-
tion of the melting pots was found to be essential to
the perfection of the process. In the ordinary iron
melting pots there are minute holes through which
some portions of the tin of the speculum metal flows
when melted, and deteriorates the alloy ; these holes
are prevented from being formed by casting the
melting pots in an inverted position, instead of
erect. In grinding the speculum, which weighs
three tons and three-quarters, and is six feet in
diameter, it was placed in a tank of water, in which
it was kept revolving, and the polishing tool, moved
with two eccentrics and worked by steam power,
was applied on the top. Lord Rosse minutely de-
scribed the contrivance for obtaining the required
form, which he illustrated by reference to the model,
and the required focus was obtained by observation,
not by measurement. The speculum, when com-
pleted, had a focus of fifty-three feet, and the telescope
was fitted on the Newtonian plan, the image being
reflected to a hole in the side of the tube, near the
top, into which the spectator looks, instead of looking
towards the object. The tube weighs six tons and a
half, and the joint and apparatus on which it rests
weigh three tons and a half. To support this weight
two high and massive walls have been built, and
moveable galleries are fitted to them to elevate the spec-
tator, and enable him to look through the eye-glass at all
elevations. It is fitted as a transit instrument, and has
scarcely any other than a vertical movement, as it is
intended for making observations when stars come to
the meridian. To compensate in some degree for the
want of a traversing motion, a reflector is used, by
which means any heavenly body may be seen an hour
before it comes to the meridian. In supporting the
tube so as to render it manageable, by one man, large
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actual weight to be moved, therefore, does not exceed
three hundred weight, and one person can elevate it
with great ease. The lowest angle to which the tube
can be inclined is ten degrees, and it may he raised to
four or five degrees below the pole. When speaking
of the power of this instrument, Lord Rosse observed,
that the principal advantage to be derived from it
was the far greater quantity of light which it ad-
mitted, for with the same magnifying power, objects
would be seen distinctly that would, in another tele-
scope of smaller aperture, be scarcely visible. By
using an eyeglass he had magnified the reflected image
three hundred times. He was able therefore to see
with great distinctness nebulae which, in other tele-
scopes, though the same magnifying power might be
used, would appear merely as confused patches of
light. It was the examination of the nebulous bodies
in the heavens that he principally had in view when
he commenced the construction of the telescope fifteen
years ago, and it was to one of those bodies that the
telescope was first directed when completed. llis
Lordship exhibited representations of several nebulae

as they appeared through his smaller telescope
of three feet diameter. From these drawings the
nebulous bodies appear to consist of clusters of stars

with one or more larger luminous bodies among
them ; and in the drawing of the nebulous cluster
examined through the great telescope, the stars com-
posing it appeared as large as stars of the first mag-
nitude, though the whole cluster of them when seen
through a moderately good telescope, appear only as
a white patch in the heavens. In most of the nebula
are seen filaments of light issuing from their sides,
and Lord Rosse conceives that when he brings his
great telescope to bear on these filaments, they will
be found to be composed of stars. In this manner his
Lordship will be able to verify the ideas of astrono-
mers, and not limiting his discoveries to new satellites
or planets, he will make known the existence of
suns and of planetary systems, compared with which
our celestial system is but a speck in the universe.

TIIE CLOWNS' SAILING MATCH.—The third of
;hese, what at one period was considered to be an under-
aking of very great novelty, that of a person being
milled or drawn down the river by means of four geese
Ring attached to a washing-tub, came off on the river,
between the Red House, Battersea, and Vauxhall-bridge,
on Monday afternoon. As this was the third within a
fortnight, undertaken by persons connected with Astley's
Theatre, something of the novelty had declined, when,
for the purpose of exciting the taste of the public, it was
announced that upon this occasion A. Nelson and Twist,
the pantaloon and clown, would each make a voyage in
different washing-tubs, drawn by their respective teams ;
this announcement, accordingly, drew together a large
assemblage of persons at the Red-house, when, after a
lapse of half an hour, the two aquatics, in full dress,
namely, their theatrical costume, took their seats, and
having picked up the reins, they each fired a pistol, when
the medley procession started. They were accompanied
by about 20 boats, which formed a kind of circle round
the geese and tubs, and having gained the middle of the
stream, they floated down to Vauxhall-bridge, which was
reached by half-past five o'clock. After getting about
200 yards through the bridge, the two washing-tubs
were brought up to a barge, when Nelson and Twist got
out of their craft, and each putting on a great coat, were
conveyed to Lyon's-yard, Stangate, where they were
landed. On the passage down the water was very rough,
and as the tubs were passed by the above-bridge steamers
certain
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ing their eyes to catch a glimpse of the washing-tubs,
geese, and buffoons.
HIGHWAY ROEBERY.—Between the hours of ten
and eleven o'clock on Saturday night, a man named
James Isherwood was knocked down near the Manches-
ter and Bolton Railway station, in Bolton, by three men,
supposed to be Irish labourers, who stole from his per-
son while he was down a patent lever silver watch, toge-
ther with about ss. in silver. The police are engaged in
endeavouring to trace the robbers.

" We have inspected the shattered remains of the un-
fortunate boat which was lost in the fearful collision with
the Dublin steamer. The bow is broken, and, towards
the stern, the bulwarks on either side, together with the
seats and the upper stern-board, are swept away. The
most probable exposition of the manner of the occur-
rence is, that the gig ran bow on to the larboard bow of
the Iron Duke, accounting for the shattering of her bow ;
and that, brought round parallel, to the side of the
steamer by the collision, she was carried stern foremost
under the paddle-floats, accounting for the extensive
damage near the stern. The remnants of the boat may
be seen at the south-end of the Prince's-dock, outside
the walls."

THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—HiS Serene Highness
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, who arrived on Mon-
day last at Witley-court from town, left on Wednesday
for Windsor Castle, having received an invitation from
the Queen to meet the King of the French. His Serene
Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philipsthal, after a
hasty visit to his illustrious relative the Dowager Queen,
at the invitation of her Majesty, repaired to Windsor
Castle, in order to join the circle assembled to meet
Louis Philippe. The Prince has since returned to
Witley-court. Earl Howe and Lady Georgiana Curzon
arrived on Thursday from Gopsall-hall, Leicestershire.
Viscountess Barrington has succeeded the Dowager
Lady Clinton as Lady in Waiting on the Queen Dow-
ager, and accompanied by the Noble Viscount, arrived
on Tuesday last from Beckett-house, Berks. Sir A.
Barnard is prolonging his attendance. On Friday last
the Queen Dowager and party stayins, at Witley-court
went to Malvern in three carriages. It was about eleven
o'clock when the royal party departed, relays of horses
being provided at Ilenwick. Her Majesty left Malvern
shortly before four o'clock. It is uncertain when her
Majesty goes to Belton-hall, the Earl of Biownlow's.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—On Monday, at St.
• George's, Hanover-square, by the Rev. Mr. Dickenson,
Anna Horatio Caroline, only daughter of the Rev. .1.
and Mrs. Sanford, to the Hon. Frederick Paul Methuen,
eldest son of Lord Methuen. The ceremony was at-
tended by the following distinguished parties :—Ladv
and the Hon. Miss Methuen, Sir Percy Shelley, Bart.,
and Mrs. Shelley, Hon. St. John Methuen, Lord William
Leanox, Hon. Leicester Stanhope, Sir Watkin William
Wynn, Mr. and the Misses Craven, Mr. and Miss Mor-
gan, Messrs. Gage, Bailey, &e. The bridesmaids were
the Hon. Miss Methuen, Misses Apthorp, Seton, and
Morgan. After the ceremony the party adjourned to
Mrs. Sanford's residence in Connaught-place, where they
partook of an elegant dfjeuner. The bride was grace-
fully attired in a dress of guipure over a rich white silk ;
a veil of Brussels lace, wreath of orange flowers and
geranium, and ornaments of pearl. At eleven o'clock
the happy couple left Connaught place for Corshane
Court, Wiltshire, to pass the honeymoon. Lord Methuen
was unavoidably prevented attending by indisposition.
ANECDOTE OF LOUIS PHILIPPE.—Some thirty years
ago his Majesty the King of the French, then Duke of
Orleans, was, with the other members of the Royal
Family of France, a resident of Cheltenham—occupying
the present Cambray Pavilion. At that time his Royal
Highness entered familiarly into the society of the
place, visiting and being visited by many of our then
residents, who were uniformly received by him with
marked courtesy, when, as the invited guests of Louis
the Eighteenth, they appeared at the weekly breakfasts
given by the exiled Monarch to those whom he honoured
with his friendship or acquaintance. The Duke of
Orleans also patronised most of the public amuse-
ments of the day, and wa ith his uncle, the
Count d'Artois, a frequent nt at the Bazaar
sales, when these took pl e old Assembly
Rooms—the premises now o as Messrs. Hum-
phris's ironmongery stores in t gh-street, but thirty
years ago one of the fashionable lounges of Cheltenham.
We well remember being there one day when their
Royal Highnesses were present, and attracted consider-
able notice : the peculiarity of their costume—the little
cocked-hat and long picric generally arresting the im-
mediate attention of strangers. On this occasion a pair
of plated telescope candlesticks were put up for sale—
the fluent auctioneer expatiating, according to custom,
upon their excellent quality and manufacture. There
were several bidders—the Count d'Artois was one ; and
the Duke outbidding his opponents, the lot was knocked
down to him for lOs. ! Handing over payment for them
in the silver tokens of those days, his Royal Highness
received his purchase from the porter, and putting a can-
dlestick in each pocket, walked leisurely away, appa-
rently well pleased with his bargain.—Clieltemkana
Loohcr-on.
DARING ESCAPE OF A SOLDIER.—A private of the
Royal Sappers and Miners, named Thomas Field, has
just been tried by a general court-martial at Bermuda,
and sentenced to transportation for fourteen years for
the following offence :—He was in the prison of St.
George, Bermuda, under the sentence of a court-martial
for being drunk and riotous. In the company of two
privates of the 20th Regiment of Foot, he broke out of
gaol, and seizing a boat, the confederates made their
way to sea with the intention, no doubt, of escaping to
the coast of America. The loss of their rudder, how-
ever, compelled them to put into St. David's Island,
where they were recaptured, and having been again tried
by a court-martial, are now awaiting their punishment
without a chance of a second,escape.
REMARKABLY QUICK VOYAGE.--That -splendid and
fast-sailing barque, Lord Mulgrave, Captain Lickiss,
sailed froze this port on the 25th of July, for Miramichi,
with a general cargo, and arrived back in the Humber
on Sunday last, with a cargo of timber and deals,
thus accomplishing the long voyage in and out in the
almost incredible space of two months and twelve days.
‘lre believe that this is the quickest sailing voyage of
the same distance ever made from this port.—Htdi
Packet.

The following letter has appeared in the York
Courant:—" Letter from Mr. Handley to the Secretary
to the London and York Railway Company.—Culver-
thorpe, Oct. 5, 1844.—5ir,---I have observed that, in
some recent advertisements, you have re-printed the list
of the original Provisional Committee for promoting
Mr. Walker's line of railway from London to York, in
which my name appears. From the year 1836 to the
present, I have most anxiously desired to see Mr.
Walker's line through Lincolnshire carried out. It was
therefore with great regret I heard that, through the in-
delicate interference of a member of the committee,
that gentleman was compelled to resign his appointment
as your engineer ; but being still more anxious for the
completion of one of the proposed lines through Lin-
colnshire, I acquiesced with my neighbours in confiding
the selection to Mr. Locke. That gentleman made his
final report, doubtless with his acknowledged ability ;
most certainly with impartiality, for he was singularly
successful in giving equal dissatisfaction to the three
principal towns Stamford. Newark, and Lincoln.
llowever, his reputation filled your share-lists,
and raised your shares to a premium in the market,
From some unexplained cause, Mr. Locke, like Mr.
Walker, found it impracticable to act with your com-
mittee ; and at the eleventh hour you again abandon
your engineer,your line, and (I must add) your good
faith to the County of Lincoln, by removing your rail-
way westward, to Newark and Tuxford. Ceasing to re-
cognise in your line of to-day (what it may be next week,
no man can foretel) a railway through Lincolnshire, and
feeling a conviction that, under such mismanagement as
that to which I have referred, no project can succeed, I
am compelled to look once again to the union of Cam-
bridge and Lincoln as the most practicable, economical,
and least competing line, and the one to which I be-
lieve Parliament and the public will ultimately give their
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sequence of engagements contracted by him in COAZIOC.
tion with the Temperance reformation in Ireland. We
trust that the friends of temperance generally will come
forward promptly to the assistance of one who has made
so many sacrifices in that good cause, and as shown him-
self in every action of his life a thoroughly disinterested
and devoted philanthropist. —lpswich Express.
A " MONSTER" CABBAGE.—This week another
cabbage, of extraordinary dimensions, has been exhibited
at the shop of Mr. Ilidgw ay, hair-dresser, of Lowgate,
the superintendent of the llesslc-road allotments, assigned
to operatives by Henry Broadley, Esq., M.P. This ve-
getable curiosity, the Daniel Lambert of the vegetable
world, was produced on the allotment of James Wincup,
the grower of the one recently alluded to in our columns;
it weighs four stones ; its circumference is two yards and
eleven inches ; and one of the leaves measures two yards
and nine inches round. It was grown from seed procured
by Mr. Ridgway, from Stockholm, and had been indulged
with guano mixed with refuse of hops.—Hu/IPachet.