The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-29 00:00:00

EMPLOYMENT OF NATIVES IN INDIA.

The Hos. PROPRIETOR also gave notice, on behalf
of Mr. Sullivan' that he would move a resolution at
the next General Court, to the effect that it is advis-
able to substitute to a greater extent than at present
the services of natives of India, instead of Europeans,
in the civil service in India; that such a measure is
called for by justice and sound policy ; and that the
Court of Directors be requested to recommend to the
different Governors in India to appoint native Indians
to all offices which they are competent to fill.
Mr. MARRIOTT said, that he hoped when the Pro-
prietors gave notices of motion, for the future they
would bring them forward, and not postpone them on
account of the absence of certain persons who were
in the habit of supporting them. He (Mr. M.) had
come down fully prepared to go into the Sattara case,
and to justify and defend the proceedings of the three
Commissioners, and he would go into the question
at once.

The CHAIRMAN reminded the Proprietor that there
was no question before the Court. lie therefore
moved that the Court do adjourn.

The question of adjournment was put and carried,
and the Court adjourned accordingly.

LIVERPOOL FIRES.

The subjoined paper furnishes an account of all
those dreadful calamities, in the shape of conflagra-
tions, which, since Liverpool has risen into importance
as a town, have devastated it at different times.
One of the earliest fires in this great commercial
town we find to have been in the year 1770, when the
gaol was set on fire by one James Donovan, who was
capitally convicted for the same.
The next fire on record is that of the Liverpool
Exchange, which took place on Sunday morning, the
20th of January, in the year 1795. This building,
the noblest building of the kind, without exception, of
any in the kingdom was discovered early to be on
fire, and the inside of it was entirely destroyed in less
than two hours. With the greatest difficulty the
town records, regalia, mace, sword, &c., were pre-
served. Amongst others matters destroyed, in addi-
tion to one life, were two fine paintings, executed by
Martin, and presented by him to the Corporotion ;
they were " The Murder of Macduff's family," and
" Cleopatra arming Anthony." The present Exchange
was built by Messrs. Etherington and Grindrod, in
about three years and a half; the stone was laid on the
30th of June, 1803. It is a magnificent building,
and the cost of erection was upwards of 100,0001.
The destruction by fire of the first warehouse, or
large cotton factor*, occurred on the 17th of Sep-
tember, in 1796 ; it belonged to a Mr. Hervey, in the
Cheapside, Liverpool, and is supposed to have been
occasioned by the friction of one of the wheels of the
cotton machines. All its valuable contents were
c3ol7osouommede.asulrnes of
wheat,thelowerTetioonfgtihng to Messrs. Cor-
e warehouse were
rie, Gladstone, and Co., which, with a large quantity of
hides, rum, brandy, and other spirits, were entirely
destroyed. During the fire, the front part of the
warehouse fell into the street, directly upon one of the
fire-engines then working, which occasioned a scene
of horror impossible to be described. Three men
were crushed to pieces on the spot; ten more were
carried to the infirmary in a dreadful state, two of
whom died immediately, and several others were
subsequently found among the ruins.
In the February of 1797, an extensive fire entirely
consumed the warehouse of Mr. Walton,
near the
Old Dock, Liverpool, with the whole of its contents,
consisting of a large quantity of manufactured cotton
goods, in two hours.
The greatest fire in this town, with the exception
of that which has just spread such dismay throughout
Liverpool, was that which occurred on the 14th of
September, in the year 1802. On the night of that
day, the whole of the noble and extensive warehouses
fronting St. George's Dock, justly the pride of the
inhabitants, and the admiration of strangers, fell a
prey to the flames. The range of buildings from
Water-lane to Brunswick-street, with the correspond-
ing storehouses called France's, were, after eight
hour's burning, a prodigious mass of ruins. The
estimated damage of the property destroyed was—in
warehouses 44,5001., grain 120,0001., sugar 60,0001.,
coffee 8,5001., cotton 30,000/, sundries 60,000/.—
making in the whole a total loss. of 323,000/. The fire
was occasioned, as far as it could be traced, to the
falling of a snuff of candle among shavings in a por-
ter vault. It continued burning for three months.
About two-thirds only of the loss was insured.
On the night of the 21st of September, 1805, a
large warehouse in Lower Sparling-street was totally
consumed. The upper rooms were filled with cotton,
corn, &c., the whole of which, with other property
to the estimated amount of 30,0001., was totally
destroyed.
The last fire which ranks next in destructive effect
took place on the 14th of January, in 1833. It broke
out in a paint-store on the New Quay, Liverpool,
and the materials of oil, turpentine, tar, &c., among
which it originated, soon caused it to spread to the
large warehouses on the south and east. These were
filled with merchandise of the most valuable descrip-
tion, principally in cotton' grain, oil, and naval
1 stores. Fed as it was with immense masses of the
most combustible kind, it raged with quick destruc-
tion along Lancelot's Key,
Union-street, and the ew Quay. The front of the
spread into Oldhall-street,
warehouses in Lancelot's Quay fell forward : one man
was killed : Colonel Jordan, the inspecting officer,
had both his legs broken by the falling ruins, and one
of them had immediately to be amputated. Property
to the amount of 198,0001. was destroyed, of which
l50„000/. was insured. The damage separately
estimated was, in warehouses, of which there
were fourteen
28,0001. ; of dwelling: oen burnt,
168,0001
houses, of which there Were nine destroyed, 2,000/.,
and in merchandiseur
So intense was the
heat from the burning pile, that the ships in the
Prince's Dock were only preserved by incessantly
wetting their sails and rigging, while flakes of fire
were constantly threatening them with conflagration.
The presentrecorded. fire, i t
6
1;:n
largest
destruction of propertY may not be completed, so as
to allow us to fix the enormous total of loss. The
smouldering embers hare ignited and destroyed fresh
property, until half a million was
estimated as the
damage. ,

THE KING OF
PRUSSIA.—We well
abouttllat theo fearsadop to of tphoeuyPcrussian Jeivs venture to hope
(that their King is
adverse to the Jews) have
been somewhat exaggerated, when we see such sen-
timents of toleration professed and solemnly recorded
by that Monarch, on laying the foundation of a
0\
Roman Catholic Cathedral
k. 1 at Cologne.
In all charity, we commend so
admirable an ex-
ampleuniformity of sentiment
remember to t the
that
th
is championspri
IChurch. We
was especially selected as
ecclesiastical superiors
sponsor to the Prince of Wales, the future head of
above. As lovers of peace
that Church ;--that its poi
rcfees theen
tee Anglicanei
have openly professed a
and policy with that of the distinguished orator,
whose words are. given
among our Gentile neighbours, we hope to hear
no more danmatory denunciations against the
English Catholics, and other analogous Churches ;
and, instead of the Exeter-hall orators de-
manding a repudiation of their recent fraternization
with the ,(
Prussiancx,cli a result h
-y no means un-
likely, in consequence' of its head having helped to
build an altar to a worship proclaimed here as " ido-
latrous," or worse,) we commend to them a practice
of the excellent principles promulgated at Cologne,
bi so" eminently Protestant" a monarch.--Voice of
Jacob. _ _

The Russian Minister of Public Instruction, ac-
cording to a letter of the 13th instant, from Warsaw,
inserted in the. Post Amp Gazette of Frankfort, is
preparing new laws for Poland, which are to establish
a censorship, to give a new system of public education
with additional courses of examination, and as to ele-
mentary instruction at Loez•