The Sun.
London, England, 1842-05-11 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNINVT, MAI( 11, 1542.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL .NEWS

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CliY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The principal feature in the English Market, has been the
delivery of the 100,0001. stock sold on ,Fiiday last ; this has
flattened the market, and rendered money dearer, which is
now worth 3to 4 per cent. Consols are 92i 924 for Money,
and 9-2 k 94 for the Account ; three per Cents. Reduced,
91i91i ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 99i 994;
New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1001 1004 ; India Stock,
249 2491; Bank Stock, 167/ ; India Bonds, 19; and Exchequer
Bills, 39 41 prem.
The intelligence from Hamburgh has effected the price of
Dutch Stock, which is 52i for the Two-and-a-Hair, and 1008
for the Five per Cents. ; Brazilian is 68.
Railroad Shares at e firm, but the extent of business is, how-
ever, small. York and North Midland, 93; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 54i; Bristol and Exeter, 44; Great Western, New,
644 ; South Western, 64 ; South Eastern and Dover, 30;
the Scrip, 73/4 ; Eastern Counties, New, 51.45. 2d. ; Brighton,
364 • the Loan Notes, 8.
The quotation of Mexican has been but slightly altered to-
day, being 35k.
Spanish only appears in the list of the Bonds of insolvent
'States, the quotations being 224 for the Five, and 22 for the
Three per Cents.
The details of the melancholy fire at Hamburgh engross the
larger proportion of public attention. Business in consequence
is almost wholly suspended, and doubtless will remain so until
more accurate information be received ; the intimate com-
mercial connexion between the two cities precluding opera-
tions until the amount of the loss be better ascertained. Large
quantities of goods were warehoused there on British account,
and especially from the merchants at Hull, and although in-
sured to a great extent of their value, few are sanguine
enough to hope that the insurance will be wholly recovered.
It is conjectured that the offices here will be severe
sufferers, but, as fir as they can at present learn, it is supposed
that the loss will not be so great as is imagined. One, for in-
stance, has a policy of nearly 200,0001. on goods at Hamburgh
and another city, and the quantity fortunately, at the former
place, is very trifling. Thus, although the risk may at first
appear large, the claims under it will be scarcely anything.
The rema;nder of the East India mail, via Falmouth, has
been delivered to-day ; but the most important part of
the intelligence has, of course, been anticipated by the way of
France. 'I he cultivation of cotton from America seed Lad proved
completely successful in the presidency of Fort William, al-
though the experiments made in those of Bombay and Fort St.
George, had signally failed. It was conjectured that the result
in these two provinces had arisen from gross mismanagement,
and it was, the more regretted, inasmuch as it :was clearly
proved, that the soil and climate of India were generally favour-
able to the growth of this description.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. = Paid. Per Share.
Bristol and Exeter........ 7O ..... 44

Eastern Counties ,
Ditto New ...........2!. 6s. Bd.
Edinburgh and Glaggew
Great Western
Ditto New
London and South Western 3Bli 64 to

South Eastern and Dover b- 3O ...... to

Ditto Scrip 5 ...... 7i...... to
York and North Midland
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MAY 9.
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock 99. ; Grand Canal Stock
Ditto Reduced ...... ... --- 1 Ditto llebs. 6 per cent —

Ditto New 1830... 99* Ditto 4 per cent
3k per Cent. Debs.
Intelligence brought by the Hull :steamer has just been
received at the North and South American Coffee-house that
the progress of the the had been partially arrested on Sunday
evening.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MA RIC ET MAY 10.—Continued steady,
and 4,000 bales were sold on previous terms, of which expor-
ters took 300 American. The sales included- 50 Pernams, at
7d. ; 60 Maranham, 6d. ; 500 Surat, 3id. to 4d. ; 3,390 Ame-
rican, 4d. to 61/id.
LivEstroor. SHAKE MARKET, MAY 11.—With the excep-
tion of South Eastern and Dover New, which were in biisk
request, there was little inquiry. The sales were confined to
Eastern Counties, 9i ; New, 5 1-3 ; London and Birmingham
paid up 32/. Shares, 60i ; Manchester and Leeds Quarters,
6k ; Paris and Rouen, 17k ; and South Eastern and Dover
New, 3*.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 10.—The market
continues steady, with more doing in Manchester and Birming-
ham Shares. Manchester and Birmingham, 29 29a • South
Eastern, New, 2k prem. ; Brighton Loan Notes, 8 ; Northern
and Central anks, 4/. Ils. 3d. ; Manchester Assurance, 9i.
BOUKSE—PARis, MONDAY, MAY 9.

1. irst Highest Lowest last
Price Price. PIM, Price.
French 5 oer Centi ll9 8,1 ... 119 80 ... 119 70 ... 119 70
4 per Cents lO7 90 ... 107 90 ... 107 90 ... DP 90
&per Cents. ... 102 ... 102 ... 102 ... 102
Sank of France
Lattitte hank I.ooof. Shares 1140 ...1940 .111411 ...1940
5.09('( Shares 5057 50 —.5060 . 50.7 50 ...5060
Belgian 5 per Cents.
5 per Lent,., 1840 105% ... 103% ... 105% .. 103%
ipanish Active :5% ... 2514 ... 25% ... 2,5%
?wive 4% ... 4% ... 4% -.. 4%
Dutch 25% per Cents.
Neapolitan
R i.itan 194 ... 104 ... 104 ... 104
RAILWAY SHANE.S.
Versaillcs.ll. P.
• L. 8.165 «. 182 50 .« 175 ... Isii
Britten 552 50 ... 552 50 ... 552 3'l ... 552 50
tqleans
Strasburg to 8a1e....

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 11.--Wind this day at noon, westerly.
DEAL, MAY 10.—Wind S.W., light.—Arrd. Jamaica,
westward. Arrd. from the River, Reyal Admiral, Van Die-
man's Land; Oxford, Calcutta; Pene.ope, Quebec.
--Arr.
STANGATE CREEK, MAY 9. Arrd. her Majesty's ship
Daphne, Smyrna.
t 'FF DOVER, MAY 9—Maria Elizabeth, Uriborg; Surinam,
for Amsterdam ; Margeretta, Moss, Rio, for Antwerp ; Tam
O'Shanter, Teneriffe, for St. Petersburgh.
SOUTIIA3IPYON, MAY 10.—S1d. Matt h. Thompson, Quebec.
POOLE, MAY 10.—S1d. Brother, Flora, and William the
Fourth, Newfoundland.

TO11:11AY. MAY 9.—Sld. Mary /kidley, Calcutta; Premier,
Jamaica ; Haidie, Hobart Town ; Speck, Newfoundland.
FALMOUTH, MAY 9.—Wind N.N.W. to N.W. W., fresh
breezes.—Arrd. Invoice, Cadwallader, Port-au-Prince, sailed
Bth tilt. ; Great Liverpool steamer, Alexandria, left 22d ult.,
Malta 27th, and Gibraltar 4th instant ; Fame, Dunningham,
Ancona. Sld. Flizabeth, Jamaica ; Bon Pere, Archimedes,
Messina; her Majesty's ship Firefly.
PORTSMOUTII.—Arrd. off, Norval, Ancona, and sld. for the
Clyde.
Livzaroot., MAY 10.—Wind variable and light.—Arrd. Se-
lina, Africa, and Barbadoes, 12th ult. Sld. John Dugdale,
Singapore; Penang and Viscount Sandon, Calcutta; Santo,,
Valparaiso; Lehigh, Philadelphia; Bengal and Antoleon,
Boston ; Nor►h America, Northumberland, and Importer,
New York; Devereux, Mary, and St. Andrew, Quebec;
Aurora, Havannah. Arrd. off, Cornelia, Laguna. A brig
laden with mahogany and logwood, supposed to be the British
Queen, of London, was seen the 17th of April, near Nassau,
abandoned. The Frederick Young, Wattaee, from Shields to
Montreal, was spoken, 29th ult., in lat. 44, lon. 34, leaky, with
loss of boats, bulwarks, &c., and part of cargo thrown over-
board, by the Ritson, arrived here.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.'
CORN EXCHANGE.

There was a good fresh supply of Irish Oats, but not much
English Corn. The trade was dull for every article at Mon.
day's prices. There has been little done in flour this week.

NEWGATE AND LEADENHAII.

There was a good supply of Meat. The inferior kinds of
Meat suffered a small decline, but the good and prime quality
fully supported previous rates. Poultry in good supply, trade
brisk, and prices were fully supported. Eggs dull of sale at
4s. 6d. to 6s. per 120.
COLONIAL MARKET.

There was little business done, but prices were sustained for
must articles ; the imports still heavy.
TALLOW MARKET.

Higher rates were asked, but the business done was limited
at 475. on the si,ot, and 48s. 9d. for delivery in the last three
months of the year.

THE ROEHAMPTON MURDER.

The witnesses against Daniel Good, to the number of be-
tween fifty and sixty, went before the Grand Jury this morn-
ing, and a true bill for murder has been found against him. It
is arranged that the trial shall come on on Friday morning,
bcfure Lord Denman, who will tome down specially to try the_
case, and the prisoner;will not be called upon to plead to the
indictment until the sitting of the Court on that day. Nume-
rous applications have been made to the Sheriffs for
admission to Lear ' the 'trial, and they have resolved,
as in the case of Courvoisier and Oxford, to issue tickets of
admission, without which no'ono will be allowed to enter the
Court. Although there is so great a number of witnesses, it
is expected that the trial will be got over in one day, as a great
number of those witnesses merely speak to simple facts, such u
meeting the prisoner with the supposed deceased, and also his
being in different public-houses with her, and the impression
appears to be, that there will be no occasion to adjourn the
inquiry over the first day.

COMMON YJLEAS.—(r HIS DAY.)
The Court wu engaged the whole morning in trying the
part-heard case of Walton v. Bateman and others, which had
occupied the Court the whole of yesterday. It had not con-
cluded when we went to press.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY,)

OLD COURt

JOU Groves, 15, labourer, was indicted for feloniously ut-
tering a forged order for the defivery of goods, with intent to
defraud John Betijamin Nevill and others, well knowing the
same to be forged.
The prosecutors are drapers residing in Maiden-lane, and
the forged order in question purported to come from one of their
customers, and directed them to send by the bearer, the pri-
soner, a quantity of pocket handkerchiefs and stockings- The
young man to whom the order was presented immediately saw
that at was forged, and gave the prisoner into custody.
The prisoner said in his defence that the order bad been
given to him by another boy, who was to pay him for his trouble.
The Jury found the prisoner guilty.—Sentence deferred.
The prisoner had been previously convicted.
Marta II illiams, alias Maria Wood, a respectable looking
woman, was charged with stealing plate to the value of 3001.,
the property of James Holden, Esq., her master.
The robbery was committed in a very singular and daring
manner. It appeared that the prisoner was cook to the pro..
secutor, and in the month of October in last year she bad
warning to leave. On the 20th of that month the prosecutor
and his wife were from home, and on their return they dis..
covered that the drawers in their bed-room had been
forced open, and that a number of silver articles, consisting
of coffee ewers, tea-pots, salvers, forks, spoons, gold rings,
and other articles to the value alt.gether of more than
three hundred pounds had been stolen, and that the prisoner
had also absconded. It was then ascertained that in the course
of the snipe day the prisoner left the house in a hackney-coach
carrying with her a heavy box, and it appeared that she pro..
ceeded to Dublin where she went to the house of a jeweller
named Bennett, and represented herself to him as a widow, and
stated that her husband had left her some plate, and that being
in difficulties she was anxious to diTose of it. She was
dressed very elegantly in mourning, with a widow's capon, and
Mr. Bennett having no suspicion purchased of her two hundred
and twenty ounce:, of silver plate fur which he paid her four an
eightpence an ounce. She afterwards said that she wanted
to raise more money, and sold here a quantity of jewellery.
The prisoner was subsequently apprehended at Cork. and on
the prosecutor arriving. and being confronted with her, she
denied all knowledge of him, and declared she had never seen
hire before in her life. _ The prisoner was then brought to
London, and on her way thither she made a statement tanta-
mount to a confession of the robbery, and asked the officer
whether it would be better for her to plead Guilty.
The Jiffy found the prisoner Guilty.
The COURT ordered the plate in the possession of Bennett
to he given up to the prosecutor.

The hexagon wood paving in the Old Bailey,
about which so many complaints have been made, is to be
forthwith removed, by order of the Committee of Sewers for
the City of Loudon, and the metropolitan wood paving sub.

MARLBOROUGH STREET.
(THIS DAY.)

Thomas Adams. and Charles Blaia, two fashionably-dressed
young men, were placed at the bar, charged as follows :
Police constable, No. 113, of theC division, stated that about
five o'clock he saw the prisoners, and ancther young man not in
custody, in company together in Regent-street, and suspecting
them, watched and saw Blain attempt to pick the pockets of
three different persons, the two others coveting him from ob-
servation; but they did not succeed in getting anything. They
then went into Oxford-street, and at the corner of Bird-
street, Grosvenor-square, witness, from the opposite side
of the way, saw Adams lift up a gentleman's pockets,
and Blain, as it appeared' to him, took something out, and
they all three then ran away together down Bond-street,
but presently returned into Oxford-street, when witness suc-
ceeded in securing the prisoners ; their companion, however,
effected his escape. On searching Adams, a silk pocket hand-
kerchief was found on him.

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The prisoners were remanded until Monday neat.

BURIAL OF THE DEAD.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—May I crave the indulgence of the insertion
of this note in a corner of your valuable journal. I
feel confident that, after having perused the statement
therein contained, y6u will consider that the circum-
stances of the case (which have produced a powerful
sensation among ,the inhabitants of Brompton and its
vicinity) fully warrant their being made public. A
few days back, a private of the 2d Life Guards,
ing to have his deceased child interred in Brompton
church-yard, and having paid.the accustomed fees fin.
opening the ground, &c., at the time appointed,
attended the remains of his child to the grave. The
coffin having been lowered, the father expressed a
desire to see the grave filled up, upon which a violent
altercation ensued betwixt him and the churchwarden,
who refused to comply with the father's request, en
the plea that he must wait till some more interments
had taken place in the same grave. Eventually, two
policemen were called, and they were ordered by the
churchwarden to take the' soldier into custody, which
they refused to do, and, after some more disputing,
the grave was filled up. Not long after, the funeral of
a private soldier took place, when
.the same scene was
repeated with the same churchwarden ; but the cor-
poral, who was left behind by the officer in command,
having firmly insisted nponseeing the grave filled up,
it was at length done, N'ow, Sir, it has come to my
knowledge since the time above referred to, that in
many instances (although the regular fees have been
paid for interment) the coffins have been low-
ered, a few planks placed over the top of the grave,
and, deSpite the noxious exhalation that must arise
from bodies so placed, the grave has been suffered to
remain in that open state till the churchwarden thinks
it is full enough,.and then it is filled up. These facts,
disgraceful to the authors of them, and which, in my
opinion, concern the public materially, hardly require
comment, but- which your many readers can com-
ment upon as they think proper. Apologizing for
thus troubling you, I am, Sir, your obedient Servant,
Knightsbridge, May 5, 1842. P.

DUBLIN, MAY 9.—The accounts from the country
proves that it becomes more disturbed. Tipperary is the scene
of frequent outrages, and Rockite notices have been posted in
the neighbouring county of Carlow. The Repeal Association
met to-day at the Corn Exchange-rooms, but no business was
transacted. The meeting was adjourned till to-morrow, on the
motion of Mr. O'Neile Dauut, who stated that a letter had just
been received from the Lord Mayor, announcing that the vio-
lence of the winds had detained him in Liverpool, but that he
would certainly be present to-morrow, where a numerous meet-
ing is expected.
FUNERAL OF THE POLICEMAN DALEY.—Yesterday
afternoon the remains of the unfortunate victim of Cooper were
buried in the churchyard of St. John's, Holloway, in the pre-
sence of several thousand persons. The corpse was preceded
by a plume of feathers and four police sergeants, with sashes
and hatbands, acting as mutes. The pall was borne by tour of
the decased's comrades, and his widow, supported by two po-
lice sergeants, followed, as chief mourner. On the arrival of
the body at the Islington station-house, between 400 and 500
of the police of the N and G di"isions,headed by Mr. Superin-
tendentJHl,nson, and Inspedtors Thatchlr and Jervis, joined the
procession, walking two and two, and the mournful cavalcade
again proceeded along the Upper -road, past Islington Church and
Highbury-terrace, to its place of destination.
NOTTINGHAM ELECTION.—Mr. Joseph Sturge, at
the request of a great.portion of the electors, has consented to
come forward as a candidate to represent this borough on the
following conditions : That no money be spent, or any impro-
per influence used, to bias a single voter in his favour ; and
that in the event of his return to Parliament, if he should find
from experience, that he could not conscientiously retain his
seat, and be more serviceable to the country by. resigning it,
he should be at liberty to do so. The great principle on which
he comes forward is the extension of the suffrage to every man
21 years of ale, who has not.been deprived of his rights of citi-
zenship by a verdict of a jury. The Chartists have joined with
the middle classes, and Committees consisting of six of the
former and six of the latter have been formed to manage the
proceedings.
Several letters. were 'received at the General Post--
_
office by the last Overland Mail, via Marseilles, bearing the
extraordinary postmark of Hong Kong, in China.
THE UNEMPLOYED.—This forenoon a body of the
unemployed workmen, amounting to nearly 100, walking three
deep, paraded several of the principal streets. A few of their,
number who had been selected, waited upon the shopkeepers on
each side of the streets through which they passed, to solicit
subscriptions in behalf of their destitute brethren, but we have
not learned the amount collected. The slow pace at which
they moved along, the haggard features, and the tattered
clothes, all bespoke the most abject poverty, and could not
fail to command the commisseration of their fellow townsmen.
Not the slightest symptom of disorder was manifested, and all
pa sed over in the most peaceable manner.— Glasgow Chronicle.
THE CASE OF MR. BANKES.—Our readers will
recollect that some months ago Mr. Bankes, once M.P., was
brought to Bow-street Police-court, charged with indecently
assaulting a soldier in the enclosed grounds of St. James's
Park, when Mr. Jardine, the Magistrate, held him to bail in
a very trifling sum, considering his rank and property ; that
it was afterwards found out that one of the bail was not the
person he represented himself to be, and the defendant was
again apprehended and ordered to enter into fresh recog-
nisances, which he immediately did; Mr. Bodkin, who
appeared as his counsel, declaring that his client was
most anxious to meet the charge and clear his character
from the aspersion that had been cast upon it. When,
however, the Old Bailey sessions commenced, the anxiety
of the defendant to clear his character had altoge-
ther ceased, and he was not forthcoming to meet
the charge, and the case was removed by certiorari
into the Court of Queen's Bench. The Judges who
presided at the Old Bailey ordered that he should enter into re-
cognisances, himself in 5,0001., and two sureties in 2,500/.
each, to take his trial in the Court of Queen's Bench. This it
Was not convenient for the defendant to do and he accord-
ingly set out on his travels, and is now resident abroad. In
the meantime his former recognisances were estreated, and the
amount thereof. (4001.) has been duly paid into her Majesty's
Exchequer. Government have resolved that offenders of this
description shall not be allowed to set the law at defiance, as
they have hitherto done, by paying the trifling amount in which
Magistrates have thought it their duty to hold them to bail.
Mr. Maule, the solicitor to the Treasury, has already taken the
necessary steps to outlaw Mr. Bankes, and on Thursday a writ
of distrtngas was levied at his residence in Palace-) ard. If
the defendant does not return to this country, and take his
trial, he will be declared an outlaw, and all the property he pos-
sesses here be forfeited to the Crown.— Sunday raper.
MR. ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.—Monday morning, at
the Central Criminal Court. the Clerk of Arraigns called upon
Mr. Allan Cunningham (who had been served-with a precept
to appear as a Grand Juror.) " I am here," shouted Mr.
Cunningham ; but you have summoned me in a wrong
name." The Lord May or invited him to come forward, and
explain. He did so, and said his Christian name was wrongly
spelt, and hoped the misnomer would operste in his favour.
The Lord Mayor said they
ycoouuldmroescttifgyo theinto
was
oor
b;oxbu;t
wehe
will chngreele "our would ask how old he was? " Fifty-seven." the reply.
Thie Recorder--"
name, Well,
Sir,and alter the panel list." Mr. Cu n-
a3.ro—sn'
m
ningham was then sworn, and the Court seemed pleased at
having so intelligent r. juror.
A TOWN TO LET.—The ancient town of Jedburgh,
which has long enjoyed the eminent distinction of being one of
the greatest strongholds of Toryism among the burghs of
Scotland, seems sadly affected with decay. The population
fell upwards of 900 'between the census of 1831 and that of
1841. Of late the decrease has been more rapid; and in per-
ambulating the streets, you behold almost every alternate house
ticketed `. To Let." The town is well situated for manufac-
turing industry, and yet the few factories which have been
- established are nearly all closed. Numbers of the working
classes are departing for America, and the whole aspect of the
place presents a very unfavourable appearance.— Gateshead
Observer.

SCENE IN ST. GlLES.—Captain Duff appeared at
Marlborough-street Police Court on Monday, to enter into the
usual recognizsuices, to answer a charge of an assault preferred
against him at the Old Bailey, by. a person of the name of
Cridland. The origin of this affair rs said to be of a rather lu•
dicrous character, and to have occurred throtigh that love of ad-
venture, termed seeing " London life," which is found to prevail
amongst certain class of choice spirits. In the aristocratic
region of St. Giles there is a public-house, known as Joe
Bankes's, at which a novel kind of tripe supper is given once
a week. Any one who has had the privilege of a " bellyful"
at one of these suppers is entitled to introduce one friend
on the next meeting night. The friend having been intro-
duced, finds a number of persons assembled, whom, as a
matter of course, he presumes to be waiting, like himself, to
feast on the anticipated dainties. The supper is at length
ordered, but instead of brooking viands, each of the guests,
with the exception of the novice, produces a
"flour bag," with
which he belabours his new companion. This joke having been
accomplished, the new comer is then privileged to " sell it " to
any friend who may have, like himself, more curiosity than
caution. In the instance of the Gallant Captain, who was not
disposed to receive the entertainment with perfect good humour,
when the flour bags were at work, he seized a tumbler and sent
it at the head of the complainant, who, be considered, was one
of the assailing party. The glass having cut the complainant's
face, a bill was preferred at the Old Bailey, and proceedings
adopted towards Captain Duff, which led to his appearance
yesterday.
A FEMALE MISER.—Yesterday evening an in-
quest was held at the Raven and Sun, Russell-street, Ber-
mondsey, before Mr. Carter, on the bot!Y of Elizabeth Barron.
67 years of age. It appeared by the evidence that the de-
ceased wasan inmate of the Bermondsey poorhouse; and that,
on Thursday night, about twelve o'clock, she left her bed in
Esther ward, where she slept, and precipitated herself from one
of the windows into the garden beneath, a depth of 24 feet.
On being picked up she was found to be quite dead. It was
stated that about nine months ago some persons at Green-
wich made application on her behalf to the parish officers
of that place for relief, representing that she was
in a state of extreme destitution. On the relieving officer
calling upon her, he accidentally discovered some money on
the mantelp'ece, and after further search being made, there-
were discovered 'in an old box, wrapped up in pieces of old
rags, 26 sovereigns in gold, 4 crown pieces, 101 half-crowns,
426 shillings, 125 sixpences, and twelve-pence in copper. The
parish authorities took possession of the money and invested it
in the savings' bank for her benefit, and' she was removed to
that • establishment. The Jury having consulted fer a short
titne, returued a verdict that the dedased died from concus-
sion of the brain, produced by•throwing herself out of a win-
dow, labouring tinder a delusion of mind at the time.
THE STORM ON MoNDAY.—Considerable damage
was done
.by the lightning on Mond y to some houses in
Soutbsuuptottaatreet; Clerjsepwell, but fortupately no person
WU injured

DESTRUCTION OF THE

CITY OF HAM BU RG

FRIGHTFUL LOSS OF LIFE AND

PROPERT Y.

The following appeared in our Third Edition
of last night :
By the arrival of the General Steam Navigation Com-
pany's boat Caledonia, off the Tower, last evening at five
o'clock, Captain H. Cheaseinan, news has been brought
of an immense conflagration which took place on 'I hurs-
day morning last, at one o'clock, in that city. The
district in which the fire broke out consists entirely of
wood tenements, chiefly of five and six stories high,
and covering an area of ground of about thirry to forty
acres. The whole of the buildings un this large space
have been totally consumed, to the number of (to our in-
formant's best supposition) more than 1,000. The fire ori-
ginated in the street known by the name ofthe Stein Twite,
in the warehouse of a Jew, named Cohen, a cigar manufac-
turer, and who, upon good grounds, has been taken up on
suspicion as the incendiary. The wind at the time blew a
stout north-west, which caused the flames rapidly to
spread ; and proceeding in the direction of Rodings-
market, and from thence to Deich-street, entirely con-
sumed the whole of the following streets, among which
is the Hopper-market and St. Nicholas Church, a fine
stone fabric, and the handsomest in Hamburgh .
Grutz Twite, Cressnon (back and end), Grosser Burstuh,
Muhlen Brucke, Alte BOtse, Bohnen Strasse, Mankedam
Twite, Altewall Strasse, Grosse and Kleine, Johannes
Strasse, Neuewall, (partially), Alter and Neuer Jung •
ferstieg Berg, Neue Berg Strasse, St. Petrie Kirke,
Kunigs Strasse, Geerhoff a Grasskeller (partially),
Rathhaus, Borsenhalle, Zuchthaus, Spinnhaus, and Dc-
tenwinshaus, Schmidt Wassenkunst, (Niue Bose), Zuch-
hauss Strasse, Kunst, Paulstrasse, Holzdam, Drill-
haus, Sperort, and Steinstrases. The flames were not
subdued till ten o'clock in the morning of May 7.
A body of one thousand Prussians were immediately
marched into the town, and waggons and ammunition
from the King of Hanover were brought down the
Elbe to blow up the houses and to stop the conflagration.
The principal houses and hotels, among which were
the Exchange, Strait's Hotel, St. Peter's Church, the
Post-office, the Bank, Spinnhauss's Hotel, and several
others, with their costly property, have not a wreck left.
The whole presents a mass of ruins, fallen into the
dykes which intersected the streets. Upwards
of 100 lives have fallen a prey. Owing to the inadequacy
of the engines, little could be effected, and the strenuous
efforts of the people themselves were of no avail. At the
time of its occurrence no water was procurable, owing to
the tide being low, so that the street-canals were dry.

(ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.)
HANIBURGH, MAT 6, EIGHT A.si.—A great part of this
rich and flourishing town has fallen a prey to a fearful and
widely-spreading lire, which hourly sweeps in volumes through
street upon street, with merciless fury. It burst forth at
about twelve o'clock on Wednesday night, and has so gained
up to this time, aided by high winds, in the midst of misdi-
rected efforts to extinguish it or arrest its progress, that it rages
now with increasedviolence, over a space so wide that I believe
it will yet require the sacrifice of nearly one half the remainder
of the town to place a sufficient gap to bar its continuance to the
destruction of the whole of this ancient city.
But I will proceed to as detailed an account as it is possible to
give you at present, in the mid-t of the confusion, alarm, ex-
citement, and danger of this frightful conflagration—men, wo-
men, and children flying in all directions from the burning
masses which have now driven them, with such of their fur.
niture and property as they have saved from the flames, for
32 hours, from point to point. All yesterday carts and carriages
loaded with persons and things have been proceeding to the
coun,ry, the more distan' and larger streets being also encum-
bered by furniture and bales of goods; this, however, does not
now suffice, as these streets are gradually embraced by the vo-
lumes of fire, and now the fields in the neighbourhood of the
town begin to be selected as the only secure deposits. God
only knows when and where this will end. It surpasses hu-
man calculation.
In the midst of the ten thousand reports as to the origin of
this conflagation, I will only mention to you the fact of i s
having commenced in the Deichsstrasse, ohe 74 the narrowest
streets of the oldest part of the city. The old houses of this
town are nearly as much built of wood as brick, rhe former of
which is as dry and inflammable as touchwood, from the effect
of centuries' use. The easterly winds which have chiefly pre-
vailed for the last three weeks and more, with the total absence
of rain, have also been prejurtcial, not alone in the general dry-
ness of all materials, but in the actual diminution of the water
in the canals to an unusual degree. It is said that the fire
commenced in a tobacconist's shop, by others in a public-house ;
but be the origin what it may, it quickly spread to the next
house, and from thence, by one o'clock, embraced nearly a
dozen houses, having penetrated to a square court of large
warehouses, forming a cul-de-sac utterly unapproachable from
the street itself, partly in flames; thus, no efforts to extinguish
these were possible. Mr. Ross's and Mr. Young's warehouses
are named as those which first caught, and were chiefly the
means of' spreading the fire beyond. Presently ass immense
warehouse, full of spirits, was in flames, these rising far above and
sweeping tar wider in their devastating effect than those of any
establishment then reached. It became by this time (between
three and four o'clock) quite evident that no effort could cir-
cumscribe the fire to its immediate locality, except by the de-
struction of the neighbouring buildings yet unscathed.
The Senate had been called together by tha terrific accounts
brought to its members from every quarter, to take such mea-
sures as were requited for the public safety. It is said that it
was proposed to them by many individuals to pull down the
neighbouring houses in the direction of the fire, but that this
was declined as an unnecessary and useless sacrifice of pro-
perty. 'the fact, however, is certain, that although the whole
tire• engine del artment and the entire burgher guard (upwards
of 20,000 men) were ordered for service, the value of such a
force became utterly unavailable towards the necessities of the
emergency, from the petty means, the really ridiculous attenir s
which were ordered to extinguish and arrest the fire. Instead
of a wide sweep of houses pulled down in the direction of the
fire, but one or two buildings imniedialely adjoining those ac-
tually in flames were ordered for des:ruction. Ere these were
well unroofed the fire gained on them and beyond, while again
the same system continued, with as copious a use of water as
the wretched engines would allow. This went on till about
three o'clock on Thursday afternoon, giving as a result the de-
struction of nearly a hundred houses, pre‘ty nearly in one con-
secutive I;ne. _

The rapid progress of the flames vas for a time partly ar-
rested here by the interposition of a wider space—the Hoffen-
market, when on a sudden smoke was seen to proceed from the
steeple of the Nicolai Church, upwards of 200 feet high. A
spark had flown upwards, and must have been for some time
smouldering in the capital above one of the columns, about half
way up the steeple. Before many minutes a number of fire-
men were hard at work in attempts to cut out the burning
part, and to cool the heated timber with water. They several
times succeeded in extinguishing flame, but the heat from the
burning houses below and around was reflected so intensely
against the roof within the columned basis of the beautitul spire,
that all their efforts proved vain—smoke again became flame.
It is impossible too highiy to praise the gallantry of these
men in their persevering and incessant efforts up to the very
last second, in their dangerous position. Upwards of 150 feet
from the ground, exposed to the fall of hurtling rafters from
within the steeple, and to the still greater risk, perhaps, of the
bottom of the tower, on which the whole superstructure rests,
catching fire, and thus rendering their retreat hopeless, did
these brave fellows continue to labour. At length the flame,
circling upwards in beautiful and graceful bend, evidenced,
from its momentarily increasing volume, that even could human
frame (endured to such oppression) bear the heat, that all
labour there was labour in vain. Not ten minutes after these
men had descended, the lower part of the steeple, and the tower
itself proved themselves on fire.
To convey anything like an idea of the magnificent, th e
singular, and striking effect of the burning of the toner anti
steeple of the Nicolai Church, is beyond possibility. The effect
was the more striking from its admirable build, of some centu-
ries' date, defying the whole power of the flames tearing it
within to find any outlet, except through the columned inter-
stice above. The steep 4., which had appeared made of wooden
materials, was soon set n to be sheated in copper, which be-
came nearly red•hot for a height. of about sixty feet, beneath
its columned portion, which proved of stone. Presently the
red-hot copper peeled off as the volume of flame, which was
gutting its wooden :nterior, gainLd strength. A large red-hot
ball of copper fell from above one of the columns, the fire en-
circling and playing around and up the whole extent, drawn
clear y against the sky for a considerable height; then the
upper portion, over the encolumned space, begin slightly to
wave, majestically inclining from the perpendicular, till its
descending weight hurled it down with impetuous violence
towards the roof of the Church, through which it broke with
a loud crash.

Adjoining the Nicolai Church were several old buildings,
and another part of the town, yet free from danger, which now
became menaced, and soon actually commenced burning with a
dreadful and astonishiog rapidity. The buildings were, if
possible, of more inflammable materials than the others, and
there was a freer current of air. 'The loss of propel ty along
this line, which blazed consemitively nearly a quarter of a
mile, is incalculable. The whose of the buildings, consisting
of large warehouses, were all loaded with merchandise. These
lay on each side of the Catherinen Canal. Let it be borne in
mind that the warehi using or bontl-system does ❑ot exist is
this free city ; that on the arrival (San expected cargo, the ship,
or a barge laden with its contents, immediately proceeds op.
posite the merchant's warehouse, where the gourls are dis-
charged. The warehouse of one merchant alone (whose name
I cannot remember at this moment) had British manufac-
tures to the value of 120,000/., which I learn were insured in
London insurance offices. . . _

I may as well mention here that it is supposed the loss of
property up to this time is so great that the Hamburgh insur-
ance houses cannot meet their liabilities. The Phoenix, Sun,
and Globe seem to be the chief English houses concerned. A
great extent of property is, however, uninsured.
But to continue. It now became known that Messrs.
Thompson and Lindley, the latter gentleman here from Lon-
don, for the opening of a railway to run eight miles from this,
had been by the Senate entrusted as engineers, with the direc-
tion of the concentrated means of the towns of Hambargh and
Altona, the latter as well as the country having supplied their
engines and every disposable means. It was resolved by these
gentlemen to abandon the whole of that portion of the town in
the direction of the wind to the flames, and to cut off their
contact with the other parts of the town, by the destruction of
a long line of buildings adjoining the part given up. This
plan then was attempted about six in the afternoon, and an-
nounced to the inhabitants by explosion succeeding to 'explo-
sion, as well as here and there by the sight. of hundreds of
workmen unroofing house upon house ; but the wind changed
at about eleven or twelve at night, and from that hour the
town became evidently doomed.
The Senate and the engineers seem equally to have lost
their heads; instead of at once proceeding to pul down several
hundreds of houses in the direction of the wind, so as to leave
a clear spate beyond the reach of the flames, within a given
period, the whole night has been lost in useless waste of time
and labour by confining these operations to a few houses, close
to the burning buildings, which they ordered to be pulled down.
Before this, however, could be effected, the flames reached
th m, and stretching beyond were thus rather facilitated in
their spread. Such has been the system pursued up to this
moment. The fire is now approaching fast to the new Bor-
senha!le, a magnificent exchange, containing also a library of
:10,000 volumes, many of which are rare and valuable works.
An Engliinman this morning, at about five o'clock, went up to
the Senate and informed them that unless they at once made
up their minds to sacrifice several hundred houses, by pulling
them down, so as to arrest the flames at a given point, the
whole of the town within the wind's direction, then towards the
Jungferstieg, would be consumed, is well as the valuable li-
brary. Ile was, lam told, informed that Messrs. Lindley and
Thomson were authorised so to do if they thought fit, but no-
thing of the sort had been attempted up to seven o'clock, when
the fire had reached within 20 houses of the Bursenhalle. which
will thus, I fear, most certainly perish. The Jungferstieg and
the streets adjoining it are the hand,omest and newest portions
of the town. The loss of their destruction, should it be the
result of the fatuity and imbecility which guides present opera-
tions, will tell most largely in the immense items of loss,

Fn MAT NIGHT, Eleven o'clock.
The public bniNings destroyed last night wen- the Town-
House ( Itaihhatts ) and the 0 d tiorsentialle ; the Bank has
foilutiatelv been saved, I must say more by the chaoge ut waid
than the ;kill of operations. The Town-House was blown up
to save the Bank, which &joins to it.
I have but a few minutes ere I must close this letter. At ten
o'clock this morning the streets towards the Jungferstieg com-
menced burning; the Post-office, the Stadt House, and other
public bu Wings in this portion of the town are burnt to the
ground. At two o'clock, and at two o'clock only, did the en-
gineers (it is said in consequence of a mee ing of the Senate
at eleven, to consult on the continuance of to frightful a cala-
mity) commence the destruction of buildings some distance off
the lire, so as to meet it in its advance with a clear space. They
had to commence by Sti eit's Hotel, in the Jungfer3tieg, and
11, Heine's hou e, toe great banker's, adjoining to it. These
wei e blown up, the whole of the finer portion of the Jungferstieg
being already, up to the London Hotel, in flames. At three
the London Hotel was burntto the ground.
The wind has again changed ; it has been south-west, east,
north, and it is now again east. A new portion of the town is
in flames, and is burning rapidly. I tear this will not cease till
scarce a vestige of what was once the great, the free, and
flourishing city of Hamburgh remains.
I cannot conclude without one word of the people; their
conduct is most admirable, most praiseworthy; quiet, docile,
and or,erly, but with deep despair and agony on many a coun-
tenance, as their whole existence vanishes befot e them in flame.
The last two days have witnessed continual departup es to the
country of carts, carriages, barrows, people loaded with furni-
ture, and all they could save of their property. The whole
town is now empty ing its population. The fields around Ham-
burgh are covered with furniture and household ware. Whole
ol:1 and delicate women, little children, and the sick,
have no cover but the canopy of heaven. [hey are sleeping
thus in the fields—rain is at length come—but now only to add
to their afflictions. There is no lodging now to be had any
where for love or money.
(ANOTHER ACCOUNT.)
On the sth inst., at one a. m., a fire broke out in the
Deichstrasse, which •continues up to the present moment (the
evening of the 6th) with unabated fury, having now completed
the destruction of at least one quarter of the whole town ; and
the loss of property, it is thought, may be estimated, at the
least, at from 2,000,0001. to 2,500,0001. of British money.
One of the principal churches has fallen, and others are each
moment expected. All the gunpowder in the place has br ea
expended in blowing up the different houses and parts of stree a
which engineers think may in any vv”, help to arrest. the
alarming progress of the fire. Everything is-at a stand-still ;
everyboey's attention is engrossed by this fearful 't:::•.•3-ster. It
will be many a day ere Hamburgh, the capital of the Harises.tlc
provinces, rears herself from the ashes and ruins which sur-
round her.

Gunpowder is anxiously looked for from Gluckstadt and
Stade.

Subjoined we hand you a list of the principal streets in ruin
up to the present moment, three p. m.—viz. Deieh-strasse,
Hopfen• markt, Beeker-strassc, Neneburg, Johanni-strasse,
Monekedam, Gortwicth, Dreckwall, Trasse, Bahrstah, Rheine,
Nenerwall, Jungferstieg, Grasse Bleichen, Bodings-market,&e.
How the loss will be sustained is yet a matter of the greatest
uncertainty ; the principal part of the damage will fall upon the
companies here, who, it is much feared, will be unable to meet
but a very smal! part of the risks.
The mail is in from England, but the Post-office authorities
will not allow it to be delivered.

HISTORICAL NOTICES OF THE
PRINCIPAL BUILDINGS DESTROYED AT

ITAMBURGII.

A calamity similar to that which has just befallen the town of
Hamburgh has not occurred in 'any portion of its history, with the
exception of that which it suffered in 1813 when the troo?s of
Napo.eon, driving 40,000 inhabitants from the city, set tire to
the dwellings of about 6,000 person., in the nearest environs,
which consumed them with such rapidity, they being, as in the
present case, chiefly constructed of timber, that the poor
people could only escape with their lives. Many other
minor conflagrations have occurred, among which an his
torian has deemed it worthy to record the following, all
of which have been incendiary. In 1606 a number of
houses adjoining the Cathedral were destroyed by fire : and in
1615 an incendiary set fire to the street, called Knochenhaur-
strasse, which consumed the whole of the two sdea, containing
twenty-five extensive houses. lo 1676 an incendiary fire broke
out in the street Cremon, and destroyed thirty warehouses, with
all their merchandise, amoun'ing to upwards of 400,000 crowns.
That part of the city destroyed resembles, in its general
features, the state of London before the great fire; it consisted,
like most of the old towns in Uermany, of narrow, irregular,
and dark streets ; the houses old fashioned, awkward and cum
brous. The only exceptions were the modern handsome houses
erected in some if the streets.
THE CHURCH OF ST. MICHAEL.
The Chinch of St. Michael, which has bee. destroyed, was
a noble and stately,building. It was begun to be built in 1751,
and after five years labour, wns comeleted in 1762, with the
exception of the spire, which was not erected till 1778. It was
built by the celebrated "architect Sonnin, and was regarded by
all travellers as the pride of Hamburgh ; it was capable of ac-
commodating 2,000 persons ; the height of the steeple was said
to be 456 feet, which was 50 feet higher than that of st.
Paul's in London • it was for members of the Lutheran per-
suasion, and was often used, and moreover peculiarly adapted,
for astronomical observations.
THE SPINN- El A US, UR HOUSE OF CORRECTION.
This edifice was founded by a Senator of the name of
Peter Rentzel, and was intended for criminals of the win st de-
scription.
THE ADMIRALTY. •

The public Admiralty was built in 1623, and its code of ex-
cellent msri ime rules established in 1639. It was erected by
the Bourgeoisie of the town to regulate the commerce, which
was then beginning to grow extensive, and to prevent the da-
mages nemiened to merchants and seamen, who then infested
the ports and seas thereabout.
THE CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS.

The inhabitants, in the course of the sixteenth century, aug-
mented greatly in the quarters between the gate of the Schaal--
thorn to the Gause-market. Up to this period theyhad only
small chapels among themselves ; but in 1602, the church of
St. Nicholas was built, and, subsequently, in 1605, the smaller
chapel of St. Michel, on the site of the old Ziegel-feld4 or Tile-
field.
THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION, OR WERK-UND
ZUCHT.HAUS.

• This building was principally for the reception of minor
criminals, bankrupts, and beggars. It was constructed is 1614,
but was burnt down in 1666. In 1670 it was again rebuilt-
-1842. again finds it in ashes.