The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-02 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the
Prince of Leiningen, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the royal
suite, and the domestic Household, attended divine service yes-
terday morning, in the Chapel Royal, Buckingham Palace.
The Hon. and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated and preached
the sermon.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred,
the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, were taken airings
yesterday in the royal gardens of Buckingham Palace.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert rode out on horseback on
Saturday, attended by the Hon. Miss Kerr and the Equerries
in Waiting, Lord Charles Wellesley and Colonel Wylde.
Her Roy al Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty
on Saturday.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince
of Leiningen, honoured the Italian Opera with their presence
on Saturday evening. The Royal suite included the Countess
of Mountedgeenmbe, Hon. Miss Kerr, Lord Byron, Captain
the Hon. Arthur Duncombe, Lord Charles Wellesley, and
Colonel Wylde. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
attended by Lady Fanny Howard, and their Royal Highnesses
the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Lady
Augusta Cadogan, also honoured the performance of the Opera
with their presence.
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Vivount and Viscountess Palmerston with his company,
Saturday evening, at their residence on Carlton House-te oe:
A deputation on the subject of the Scotch Banking Bill,
consisting of the Duke of Hamilton, the Duke of Webfoot*
the Duke of Montrose, Lord Bellhaven, Sir Hugh H. Cam,.
bell, Bart, M.P., Mr. Bannermann, M.P., Mr. Forbes, M.
and Mr. Webster, had an interview with Sir Robert Peel on
Saturday, at his otEcial residence in Downing-street.

The Earl of Limerick had an interview with Lord Stanley
on Saturday, at the Colonial-office.
A deputation on the subject of the improvements recom-
mended by the Government Commissioners for the Port and
Harbour of Limerick, had an interview with Sir R. Peel on
Saturday. The deputation consisted of the Marquis of Lans-
downe, the Earl of Devon, the Earl of Clare, Lord Monteagle,
Lord Adare, Mr. A. S. O'Brien' M.P., Captain Bateson,
M.P.. Mr. John O'Brien, ALP,. Mr. Henry Watson, High
Sheriff of Limerick ; Mr. S. Dickson, Alr. Francis W. Rus-
sell, Mr. M. Barrington, and Mr. James Harvey.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a meeting
on Saturday, at the office in Whitehall-place. There were
present the Bishops of London, Winchester, Bangor, Ely,
Lichfield, and Salisbury; the Secretary of State for the Home
Department ; the Earl of Besborough, the Right Hon. H.
Hobhouse, the Right Hon. John Nichol), and the Dean of
Westminster.
Lord Ashley had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-
street.
A deputation from the Provincial Bank of Ireland had an
interriew,;on Saturday, with Sir Robert Peel.
Dispatches were sent off on Saturday evening, from the
Colonial-office, for the Governors of the West India Colonies,
and also for the Governors of Australia and Van Diemen's
Land.
The Dukes of Wellington and Rutland, and the Duke and
Duchess of St. Alban's, attended the early service yesterday
in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rev. Dr. H. Dakins
officiated. Archdeacon Todd preached the sermon. His Serene
Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Duchess of
Sutherland, the Marquises of Salisbury, Anglesea, and
Huntly ; Ladies Wilton, Erroll, and Sydney ; Lords
Bandon, Sandwich, Cawdor, Fortescue, J. O'Bryen,
Palmerston, Cantilupe, Belhaven, Vivian, and Ebring-
ton, attended the daily service yesterday. The prayers
were read by the Rev. Dr. H. Dakins, the lessons by
the Rev. Dr. Knapp. The Bishop of London, and the Rev.
Dr. Sleath officiated at the Communion Service. The Sermon
was preached by Archdeacon Todd. The Anthem was " Sing,
O Heaven" (Kent). Sir G. Smart presided at the organ.
The Rev. Dr. Hook will preach at the Chapel Royal on Sun-
day next.

lIO3ICEOPATHY AND DR. CURIE.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin—Dr. Curie has at length found leisure to reply to
the extraordinary conduct of the jury and their
Coroner, Mr. Wakley, on the case of the late Mr. Cord-
well ; his pamphlet is really deserving of further atten-
tion; it is neither long nor tedious, and it is written in
good temper. He does not condescend to be angry, even
with the Coroner. It appears to be " a round, un-
varnished tale," in which nothing is extenuated, nor
" aught set down in malice." All those who, from the
misrepresentation of the Times' correspondent, may have
allowed their confidence to be shaken, will do well to
read this clever book, and I think, after doing so, they
will arrive at the conclusion to which I have come—
that the science of homeopathy must progress against all
the prejudice that has been industriously put forward by
the medical profession. It needs only to be more gene-
rally known, and when it is, I conscientiously believe
our medical friends the Allopathists will be found in
plentiful scarcity, and calomel, blue pill, black draught,
and bleeding, will be placed for ever in the tomb of all
the Capulets. FAIR PLAY.

Dr. Curie's introductory remarks are as follow :
A few weeks back public attention was aroused by the
report of an inquest on a Mr. Henry Cordwell, headed
" The Homoeopathic System : " beyond this heading
there was nothing in the report which had any bearing
whatever upon homoeopathy, since although the de-
ceased gentleman had been under my care until the
three or four days preceding his death, and had
been treated by me according to the homceopathic system,
the propriety of that treatment was not in the slightest de-
gree called in question. ➢lr. Cordwell's case. however, was
one of that class which call not only for medical treatment,
but also for the exercise of the strictest care on the part of the
professional adviser, with regard to dietic and hygeic rules ;
and, the course which I had adopted in this latter respect
having been brought out in evidence, the jury unanimously
resolved that it was such as to awaken " the strongest
feelings of indignation and disgust"—expressions with which
Mr. Wakley, the coroner, himself a medical man, took occa-
sion emphatically to state his "cordial " concurrence. This
being aimed at an homceopathic practitioner, appeared, no
doubt, to the enemies of homoeopathy, amongst whom Mr.
Wakley has long been most prominent, capable of being repre-
sented as a severe blow against that system ; and hence the
wide use that has been made of it. No one, however, except
through ignorance, could adopt this view ; because homoeo-
pathy is simply a system of medicine, and stands as much as
any other system of medicine independent of any dietetic
rules which its practitioners may adopt.
It will thus be seen that the expressions of the jury must
be regarded simply as directed against the dietetic rules
which I presribed in Mr. Cordwell's case; and I think it
right, therefore, to lay that case fully before the public, in
order that a judgment may be formed of their propriety.
At the same time it may be mentioned, that I take this
step without admitting it can properly be required .of me ;
because I conceive that a medical practitioner ought not to
suffer prejudice in the eyes of the public, by any expression
of opinion which unqualified persons may put forth regarding
his prescriptions and orders in any given case, when such
persons have wholly neglected either to inquire of the prac-
tioner himself the reasons upon which he grounded his
orders, or to call in evidence from other medical men as to
whether those orders could be shown to be necessarily injuri-
ous and incorrect.

Dr. Currie then proceeds to relate the case of Mr. Henry
Cordwell, aged 29, affected with phthisis and chronic affec-
tion of the stomach and intestines. He commences as fol-
lows:
Mr. Cordwell first consulted me on the 19th of October'
1844. I had never seen him before.
He was of a nervous temperament, anxious and irritable.
He stated that he had never known sound health. After
giving a detail of the various diseases under which Mr. C.
had suffered, proceeds—during the long period of his ill-health
he had placed himself under several practitioners, but he was
unable to give details of their respective treatment. He re-
marked, however, that he had taken great deal of medicine;
and that, findingeimseif daily getting worse instead of better,
he had recourse to hydropathy, from which, not finding the
hoped-for relief, he came as a last resource to consult we with
the view of being treated homixopathically.
Dr. Currie then goes at great length into the history
of his treatment of the case, and of the attack of hemor-
rhage from the bowels. It appears that the last day Dr.
Curie saw his patient was on the 2d of March, and the
following is his history of the transactions of that day:-
2d March.—This morning the patient was found in a much
more satisfactory state. As soon as I entered the room he
said, " Doctor, I have not fainted since you left me." The
pulse was stronger, about 75, and the face less pallid, denot-
ing a much better condition. He had slept a little during
the night. The beef tea had not yet been given, on account
of a little oozing of blood from the anus.
Lachesis was to be continued at longer intervals. I or-
dered the patient to be cleaned without his being moved,
and I recommended rest of the strictest kind, and that no
visitor should disturb him. The beef tea was to be given as
soon as the bleeding had entirely ceased. The patient asked me
what time I should return. I promised to see him in the
course of the evening. When I again called, I found at the
door a note informing me that the most intimate friends of
the patient had taken upon themselves to call in other advice.
Thus ended my attendance on the case, and I heard no
more of it until I was informed by some friends that they
had seen in the newspaper that Mr. Cordwell's death had_
taken place three or four days after my dismissal. To my
surprise, however, on the evening of the 10th of March I
received a summons to attend a Coroner's inquest in relation
to it.

At the inquest, it appears that Mr. Wakley said there was no
charge made against Dr. Curie by the medical men who had
been examined, and therefore he should advise that gentle-
man to be be silent.

Dr. Curie said, " as no charge had been made, he certainly
had no desire to trouble the Court with any remarks."
The Doctor then continues—After this the jury delivered
their verdict (involving certainly not a tangible charge, but
a condemnation which could only have been fairly put forth
if a charge bad been made and proved) when
Mr. Wakley remarked, with considerable emphasis
"If I were a juror, I have no hesitation in saying that I
should most cordially agree with the observations just read."
From these reports it will be seen that the jury and Mr.
Wakley, the medical coroner, did n,A enter into any inquiry
regarding the circumstances which induced me to order the
abstinence, but based their expressions of "indignation and
disgust" solely on the fact that ten days' fast had been or-
dered. If these expressions had come merely from the
jury (although the injustice of using them against a practi-
tioner without first asking him for an explanation must in
any case have been apparent), they would not perhaps have
been wondered at, because, to persons altogether ignorant of
the details of medical science, ten days naturally seem a serious
period for any one to be kept without food ; but that a medical
man should have fallen into the error of supposing this to be
an unexampled and necessarily an undue abstinence cannot
fail to excite the strongest feeling of surprise. It is well
known that abstinence for a much longer period is often
essential. Andral, in his great work "La Clinique
liedi-
cale," quotes a number of cases of fever in which the total
abstinence varied from a few days to several weeks.
The Doctor then quotes a list of well-anthenticated
cases, in which total abstinence from nourishment had
been enforced for a much longer period than it had been
in the case of Mr. Cordwell, and in which the patients
had recovered, in all probability, in consequence of such
abstinence. He thus concludes— _

These authorities would seem amply sufficient to justify
a practitioner in enforcing strict abstinence in cases where it
appears to his judgment to be necessary ; and notwithstanding
the new authority arrayed against them in the person of Mr.
Waklev, supported by an unprofessional jury, I believe they
will still be received with deference.

The Doctor then relates several cases of abstinence,
from his own practice, in which the greatest benefit ap-
pears to have been derived from the practice. These
cases, a 5 contributions to the science of medicine, are
very valuable, and well worthy the attention of the pro-
fession and of the public.
The following is from his summing up of the case:—

From what has been now laid before them the public will
be able to trace the strict propriety of the treatment which
I adopted in Mr. Cordwell's case. They will perceive that
the post-nio-tem examination confimed, to the minutest
point, my original diagnosis, and that the withholding of
food was not only in conformity with the highest authorities,
but also with my own abundant experience in similar cases.
At the same time I may assert that no practitioner, with
the exception perhaps of Mr. Wakley, will venture to in•
sinuate that the hmemorrhage in this case was produced
by abstinence, because such an eflect would be totally against
all experience. It is well known that towards the subsi-
dence of fever accidents of that kind are especially to be
dreaded, and that what chiefly renders caution so essential
in returning to food and to the general exercise of the
ordinary functions is the danger of producing them.
The necessity of avoiding every source of general ex-
citement at that time is particularly insisted on by
all medical writers, because just before the period
of convalescence the whole powers of the system are
at their lowest point, and the various tissues of the
parts principally affected are liable to give way under the
slightest increased action. Hence it is that these authors
most strenuously enforce the removal of all disturbing causes,
and urge in a way which shows their sense of its critical im-
portance, the most guarded course even as to the slightest move-
ments. That a h wmorrhage in a person so especially liable to that
accident as was Mr. Cordwell, would prove at this stage
almost an inevitable result of a fit of " passion" will be readily
understood ; and there is every reason to suppose that the
irritation to which he was exposed may have been con-
siderable, when we look at the disturbing influences by which
he was surrounded. That the presenpe of undigested food
against this larrtypteatlonhwaidil hr.aertdrlyetbuernasodseritietto
w9u.lil have rendered the system better able to bear up
dition to other proofs"
thoroughly satisfied with my i
That the period
the
eundantly shown, and in ad-
of the hcemorrhage was abundantly
that the patient was
Ousive Dio starving manlookattendance may be held as con-
with a contented eye upon

the person under whose orders the starvation is enforced ;
and although the expression, " Does it not relish ?" when a
spoonful or two of beef-tea was given to him, may seem to
show that food was needed, the fact that the patient " threw
it up all again" will afford conclusive evidence that the
relish was the relish of taste and not of natural appetite.
Although the verdict of the jury was thus, obviously,
reckless and unjust, I feel that it was the result of ignorance
(and I use this word not offensively, but merely as regard
their fitness to dogmatise in medical cases), and that it
was not in the slightest degree based on any feeling of
personal malignity. Their prejudice against abstinence in the
abstract was a very natural one, and in the absence either of
ability or of willingness on the part of the Coroner to cor-
rect that prejudice, it was equally natural that it should
find expression. But as regards Mr, Wakley, the case is
very different. It will be observed front the report of the
Morning Post, that at the conclusion of the examination of
the witnesses, Dr. Epps kindly suggested that I might be desk:-
ous of explaining to the jury the reasonsby which my treat-
ment had been dictated; that Mr. Wakley Old in reply, that
no charge had been made against me, and that he advised me
therefore to say nothing ; and that I then contented myself
by observing that as no charge had been ntada, I was, of course,
perfectly satisfied. It will be seen that after this the jury
came to their verdict with its condemnatory addition, and
actually sent forth- to the world their expression of
indignation and disgust toweide a person against
whom no charge had been made, and lvio their
presence had actually beau led by the judge on that
account to believe, that all expianatron or justification on his
part was wholly unnecessary; and fine*, that that very
judge joined, "with considerable emphasis," in the intents
perate denunciation. Mr, Wakley, therefore, may be held
to have reaeoued thus :—" There is no chencre openly
made against Dr. Curie, but the evidence, to my mind.
is such as to create, if it b 2 left without remark, a strong
feeling of indignation and disgust, arta which, I pre-
sume, will be slie.red by the jury. For reasons best known
to myself, I desire that no attempt should be made to remove
this impression, and although it in my duty, both as a judge
and as a man, to advise Dr. Curie to act as I would act my-
self if I knew such a feeling to exist against me, namely, at
once to offer a justification Ow conduct, I will lead him to
believe that we are perfectly/ eetisfied, and that
wider Such circumstances it would look as if he himself
had misgivings., if he were to enter into any remarks. All
danger of explanation rereoved, I can then make my assault,
and when Pr, Carle discevers the 441) that has been laid,
and attempts either by himself or 1* frien4 tp protest against
it, I can put him down by the anthority of my office, and de •
Clare the Court to be closed."
In conclucziOn, I would remind the public, as an homcoopa-
thic practitioner, that the dispute which now divides the
medical world into liomosopathists and Allopathists is hardly
likely to be settled with advantage to the cause of truth, by
referring it to the decision of either of the parties interested;
and that, although It may be in the power of a partisan
coroner to damage those of the opposite practice by summon-
ing inquests, not merely on all who die under their hands,
but on all who after being under their hands may die
under the treatment of their opponents, the real
question at issue must remain to be decided by fairer
means,—namely, by a comparison of the mortality occur-
ing in an equal number of cases of any given disorder under
the homoeopathic and the allopathic treatment. The value
of the dietetic doctrines of Alr.Wakley, in contradiction to my
own and to those of the authorities whom I have quoted,
may be tested by simpler means. If those who are called to
watch by the bed-side of persons suffering from inflammatory
disorders, will observe the effects that usually follow
the administration of food in the absence of appetite,
and before the period of decided convalescence, and will
communicate these observations to their friends, and,
as far as practicable, to the public, all doubt upon the
question will speedily be removed. For my own part,
I believe that, amidst all the consequences of injudicious
treatment, there are none more fatal than those
which arise from this cause; and, entertaining that
belief and recognising that no earthly authority can absolve
me from my responsibility, faithfully to act up to it, my
course will be calmly to meet all the opposition it may occa-
sion, and to trust to time for my justification.

AMERICAN NEWS.

ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA.

The steam-ship Hibernia, Captain Ryrie, from Halifax
and Boston, reached the Mersey at half-past one o'clock
on the afternoon of Saturday. She brings letters and
papers up to the 16th inst.
The news, although it contains nothing official as re-
gards the Oregon question, is, on the whole, of a pacific
character, and warrants the belief that the United States
Government are friendly to the cultivation of peace, and
that the President is anxious to settle the disputes be-
tween American and this country, without resorting to
warlike operations. In that desire he is joined by the
reasonable portion of all classes of his fellow-citizens. It
is said that Mr. Calhoun will be sent over as a special
ambassador to England to settle the Oregon question.
Others assert that he has declined the office. The
misunderstanding between Mexico and the United
States was not settled, although the breach had not
been widened. Privateers offered their services on be-
half of Mexico should they be wanted.
Santa Anna's case has not been denided on, his libe-
ration was offered if he would submit to voluntary tran •
spoliation for ten years, an offer he will not be likely to
refuse.

The Montreal papers come down to a late date. They
contain nothing of importance or interest. Canada was
quiet, and the Provincial Parliament stood adjourned
till the 19th of June.

The annexation of Texas occupies a large portion of
public attention in America. A proclamation had been
issued calling on the Texian Congress to assemble on the
16th of June to finally consider the question. There
seems but little doubt that the Texans will accept the
propositions of the Government of the United States
and that the annexation will take place at the next
meeting of Congress in December.
Repeal has got a damper in Baltimore. The re-
pealers there have dissolved their association, owing to
the abusive tirades of Mr. O'Connell against the Ame-
ricans and their institutions.

A great public horse race had taken place between
two celebrated racers—one called Peytona, a southern
horse, and Fashion, a mare from the south. Upwards of
seventy thousand people went to witness the national
contest. Peytona was the winner.

The following are extracts :
(From the New York Express.)
" In regard to the Oregon question, we are assured, by the
official organ at Washington, that the President of the United
States, so far from desiring to put an end to present negotia-
tions, is anxious that they should go on. We further under-
stand also that negotiations have been resumed by the present
Secretary of State just where they were closed by Mr. Calhoun.
" The cooler portion of the American people are very ready
to admit that the settlement of this Oregon question is
attended with great difficulty. They who know the least
of the merits of the question are the most noisy in stating the
only terms of settlement. We apprehend that whenever the
question is settled at all, it must be done with a disposition on
the part of both governments not to claim what is not their
own, or, if unhappily disagreeing as to their own rights, to
submit the question fairly to the judgment of persons or parties,
powers or ministers, representing the true interests of those
governments. Everything depends upon the spirit and temper
of the negotiators.
" We doubt not the desire for peace is as great among wise
and patriotic men of England, as it is in the United States,
among those who only would prefer war to dishonour. The
best opinion here is that the question, with all its difficulties,
may be amicably settled ; if not upon some new basis, still
upon those before offered and declined."
GREAT RISE IN THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI. Advices
dated Galena, 3d instant, report the Mississippi higher at St.
Peters than it had ever been before.—New York Sun.
THE DROUGHT IN FLORIDA. -- We learn from the St.
Augustine Herald of the 6th inst., that the corn and tobacco
crops are suffering for want of rain.—New York Sun.
Duellists have been deprived of the right of citizenship by
the Constitutienal Convention of Louisiana; the same Con-
vention has decided in favour of adding a clause to the consti-
tution against chartering or rechartering banking institutions.
—Nex York Sun.
NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, MAT 14.
5,000 Ohio Sixes, 1850 971
3,000 Ohio Sevens lolf
5,000 Ohio Sixes, 1860
10,000 Kentucky Sixes
5,000 Illinois Sixes 3Bl
2,000 Pa. Fives
250 Farmer's Loan
25 Housatonic 3l
450 Morris
200 Long Island Railroad s6 m 73%
50 New Jersey
50 E. Boston
100 Erie Railroad
100 Reading 50%
250 Canton
50 Nor. and Wor.
100 Ston. b3o 381
48 Mch. and Tra. N 0 61

EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION

AND LOSS OF LIFE.

On Sunday morning, shortly after one o'clock, a very de-
structive fire broke out in the lower part of the premises of
Messrs. Robertson and Satchell, hatters, No. 158, Fenchurch-
street. From inquiries made of Mr. Robertson, one of the
partners, it appears that lie was sleeping on the third floor,
and was awakened by the cracking of glass. He instantly got
up, and upon opening his bed-room door, he was nearly suf-
focated by the issue of an immense cloed of smoke, and large
sheets of fame up the staircase. He immediately shouted
" Fire," and having succeeded in knocking at his partner's
door, he made his retreat on to the roof of the building, where
he was shortly afterwards joined by Mr. Satchell. After
some difficulty they succeeded in making their escape from the
building. Upon his recovering from the fright, Mr. Robert-
son informed the reporter that Mrs. Satchell and her child
were missing.
The parish engines, with those of the brigade from Wat-
ling-street, Jeffrey-square, and Farringdon-street, were soon
at the scene of conflagration. These were set to work under
the superintendence of Mr. Braidwood. By that time,
however, the flames had obtained possession of the whole
building—every room being enveloped in the destructive
element ; the flames at the same moment were breaking
into the premises of Messrs. Varley and Chalcott, No. 59, Fen-
church-street. The firemen, seeing the great danger to which
the adjoining property was exposed, at once set to work, and
threw the water upon the premises of Messrs. Varley and Co.
Whilst so engaged they were alarmed by the sudden issue of a
large sheet of flame from the third floor window of Mr. Brick-
man, packing-case and bedstead manufacturer, No. 20, Lime-
street, almost at the rear of the above house.
The West of England Engine, with Mr. Connorton, by this
period had arrived, and was followed by several other Brigades
and the County Office engine. By a judicious arrangement oa
the part of the firemen, a stop was almost immediately put to
the flames in that direction.
The following is the substance of Mr. Braidwood's report of
the damage done :
Lime-streek—No. 21, Willis, greengrocer, damaged, in-
sured in the Union ; 23, 24, and 25, Messrs, Heaton and Co,
provision merchants, as also the offices of Messrs. Smith arid
the latter insured in the Kent Fire-office Brickmann,
trunlcmaker, in the Phosnix.
Fenchurch-street.—No. 158, Messrs. Satchell and Robert-
son, all destroyed, and two lives lost ; 159, Mr. Kiss, soLeitor ;
Champion and Co., London Shipping Company ; Varley,
bootmaker ; Chilcott, tailor; Ansel, merchant; Duncan,

wine i nerchant ; Pickerel!, Brothers, shipowners ; and J. W.
Gordon, merchant, more or less damaged by fire and water.
The buildings insured in the West of England Office
for 2,0001. and stock insurance of 1201. The loss is estimated
at least at 5,000/.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Long before the arrival of Mr. Braidwood and his "brigade"
the flames had attained a fearful ascendancy, and all hope was
in vain that any property could be saved. The attention of
the firemen was consequently directed more especially to the
cooling of the party walls, with a view to prevent the extension
of the flames. Alleanwhile, Mr. Satchell and his servant
had effected their escape, leaving Mrs. Satchell and her
child in bed.

When the lady became aware of her perilous
position, she appeared at the window, with the child in her
arms, supplicating, not with her voice, for that was drowned in
the tumult that prevailed, but by her gestures, for assistance.
With a bravery that does them infinite credit, the fire-
men belonging to each corps strove, at the risk of their own
lives, to sace their suffering fellow-creature. It was, however,
ptherwise ordolied, and the poor woman, suffocated by the
smoke, and encircled by the games, uttered her last. shriek,
fell down, and died. After striving until five o'clock, the fire-
men succeeded iu subduing the games so far as to enable them
to reach win} their ladders the second-floor window. Proper
materials baying been obtained, the firemen wrapped up the
mutilated remains, and conveyed them to a building connected
lth St. Dionis church, where they will remain until an loves-
li.cta';ou into the sad affair shall have been commenced by the
Cp:'ol".pr.

. .
Language would fail io describe the frightful appearance pre-
sented by the bodies. That of Mrs. Satchel' was literally a
mass of cinder—every feature undistinguishable, the legs burnt
off from the trunk. The baby was egmdly disfigured. It was
clasped in the parent's arms, the affection of the fond mother
for her child being unsubdued even in the midst of tl horrors
of such a frightful death,