The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-26 00:00:00

THAMES-POLICE.

On Friday a weather-beaten sailor was brought be-
fore Mr. Ballantine, to account for his being found in
the Thames at a very late hour on Thursday night.
Reuben Webb, a policeman, said a waterman gave
the prisoner into his charge, and said he found him
floating in the Thames at Blackwall. The sailor was
very drunk, and could not stand.
The sailor said his name was Henry Holmes, and he
belonged to the Royal Mail steam-packet Tweed,
which arrived in the river, from the West Indies, on
-Wednesday night, and he afterwards came ashore.
Mr. I3ALLANTINE—You were not ashore when you
were picked up ? The Sailor— I will tell you how
that was, your Honour. You see, I came ashore to
see a friend, and gets a precious sight too much grog.
Well, I rolls down to Blackwall-stairs, and pays a
waterman to take me on board my ship, the Tweed ;
and when I gets alongside, they would not lower the
gangway ladder, and so I climbed up the paddle-box,
and fell off, and the waterman picks me up, and takes
me back to the shore. I could get no one else to con-
vey me back to the steamer, so I determined to have a
swim for it; and so here I am, and I don't how how.
Mr. BALLANTINE—You would never have reached
ship; and i you had not berm picked up by a water-
man, you must have been drowned.

The Sailor----The liquor was too much for me. If
Jr( I will let me go, it shall not happen again.
Mr. BALLANTINE—If you are picked up in that way
again, I will send you to the House of Correction.
Get back to your ship as fast as you can.

DREADFUL FIRE at LIVERPOOL.
(FURTHER PARTICULARS.)
Great as the destruction is, the result may be con •
sidered as a fortunate escape, and the town owe the
credit to the fire-police in particular. No accident,
happily, occurred to life or limb, so far as we could
learn, though one man had a fearful and narrow escape.
The first estimates made of a loss are generally
much exaggerated, and for this there may be some
excuse. The loss, we believe, will be found (in
place of 70,0001. to 100,000/0 to be, in all, from
45,0001. to 47,0001.—chiefly in the following articles :-
7,000 to 8,000 quarters of wheat,
1,400 bags of cotton,
50 casks of madder,
100 barrels of tar and turpentine,
30 to 40 tons of dyewood, &c.
About 91 tuns of olive oil, worth about 5,0001. (not
included in our estimate), are yet in the cellars of the
eastern warehouse (called " Crane's"), but every hope
is entertained that it will be saved. The western
warehouse is called " Guyton's." The fire was so far
suhdued by one o'clock, the flames being reduced to
the vaulted cellars under the west yard, that little ap-
prehension was entertained of its spreading to any of
the adjacent property, much of which was long in
jeopardy.
The two warehouses were both of great height, and
covered an area (together) or 1,460 yards. One con-
tained principally grain, wool, and some brimstone; the
other cotton, grain, fustic, and tallow.
During the early part of the fire, Lieutenant But-
ler, in command of 11.M.5. Etna, sent his marines on
shore, in charge of Mr. Wright, chief officer under
him; Captain Cumming, of the 16th Regiment, from
the barracks, Duke-street, without requisition, also
brought up his men, and rendered efficient services, in
maintaining order and keeping ample space for the
firemen, until their services were gratefully dispensed
with.—Liverpool Stamdard.