The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-29 00:00:00

FIRES IN LIVERPOOL.

FIRE IN ST. GEORGE'S BAZAAR.-011 Tuesday even-
ing, the St. George's Bazaar, in Queen-square,—a similar
establishment to the old Pedlar's Market,—was destroyed
by fire. The place was closed, as usual, about ten minutes
past eight o'clock, and, in a few minutes after, it was dis-
covered to be in flames. The fire
.appears to have origi-
nated at the St. John's-lane end. It was first noticed by
the reflection seen through the glazed openings over the
door in Queen-square. Intelligence was immediately for-
warded to the fire-station, but before Mr. Hewitt could
arrive with his brigade and reel-carriage, some persons,
anxious to save the property inside, forced open the doors,
which caused such a draught of air through the building,
that the flames were fanned into an ungovernable fury.
When the hose were brought to play, and also a hose from
the West of England Company's engine, which was early
in attendance, the fire was soon quenched, but the con-
tents of the bazaar were already entirely destroyed, with
the exception of a few articles in one or two of the stalls
at the Queen-square end. The building was the property
of Mr. Leigh, of Shaw-street, and was insured in the Sun
Fire Office for about £l,OOO. The poor tenants of the
stalls, about 30 in number, however, lose everything, for
they were not in a position to insure the trifling articles
they dealt in ; and a subscription has been commenced for
their relief, the furtherance of which, we believe, has been
acquiesced in by several members of the Town Council.
The loss to the tenants, it is considered, will amount to
about £l,OOO. Over the St. John's-lane end of the bazaar
there was a bedroom, part of the premises of the Manches-
ter and Birmingham Hotel, occupied by Mr. Cross, which
also sustained considerable damage, but it was fortunately
insured in the West of,England office, and Mr. Cross's
claim for damage was proniptly settled on Wednesday
morning. The origin of the fire is still a mystery. The
person who has charge of the bazaar asserts that all was
quite safe when he locked it up and turned off the gas ;
but one of the tenants stated that a person in passing
through the bazaar a few minutes previously threw a
lighted portion of a cigar on the floor.
[The occurrence of such cases as the above, in which
numerous poor parties are suddenly, and with little, if
any, fault of their own, deprived of their only means of
subsistence and thrown destitute upon the sympathies of
the charitable, suggests the consideration, as to whether
some arrangement could not be entered into between the
proprietor and tenants, whereby such an addition might
be made to the stall-rents as would enable the former to
effect insurances on the goods of the latter, and thus ren-
der them so far safe, in the event of such calamities
! occuring.—En. L. S.]
DDSTNTICTIVE FIRE.—ANOTHER' WIND AND STEAM-
MILL 13.YRNT.—At a few minutes past five o'clock on
Wednesday evening, a fire was discovered to have broken
out in the mill situated in Limekiln .lane, belonging to
Messrs. Rawsthorne. This mill, like' the one whose de-
struction we recorded last week, was driven partly by wind
and partly by steam-power —the portion to which the
steam-power was applied being five, andthe other eight
stories-high, The premises in this instance were closely
surrounded by houses, chiefly occupied by the humbler
classes. The fire, when first discovered, was in the upper
floor of the-steam-mill, and immediately over the engine ;
but, priarto. its discovery, it had obtained.. such a hold of
the premises as to preclude the possibility of saving them.
The fire-engines and other apparatus belonging to the fire-
brigade, together with a large number of the men, were
spedily on:the spot, but all efforts to save-the steam-mill
were so obviously useless, that their exertioxs,were mainly
directed to extinguish the flames which hadbeen commu-
nicatedto the-windmill, and save the adjoining premises. In
the latter attempt their endeavours were fortunately suc-
cessful ; although, we regret to add, the attempt to save
the windmill. proved entirely futile. The fine rushed ra-
pidly upwards-in the windmill tower, and, having burst
through its roof, raged and roared with the fury of a blast
furnace, till everything within it which was. oombustills
was entirely consumed. At about twenty minutes past
eight o'clock the huge and ponderous sails of the windmill,
having first swayed as if about to fall across the tower,
fell with a dreadful crash towards the outside of, the build-
ing, carrying: with them a large mass of the:brickwork.
In falling the sails came in contact with, and entirely de-
stroyed, the roof of a cottage situated in the mill-yard, on
the roof of which the forenian had been standing only a
few minutes before. No lives were lost ; but we regret to
add that one of the police-constables (No. 733, Smith) was
severely injured by some of the brickwork falling on him.
From the moment the windmill sails fell, all appsehensions
of immediate danger were at an end, and the firemen's
efforts were directed to confining the conflagration within
the ruins, in which they happily succeeded. There were 9
pairs of grinding-stones employed in the mille-; and the
total loss in premiles, machinery, and grain and flour, is
estimated at about £9,000, £5,000 being considered about
the value of the premises and the machinery, while the
flour and.grain are estimated at £l,OOO. 'r .stock be-
longed to Mr; Martin, and was, we believe, insured in the
West of England. Fire-office to the extent of £2,000. It
is also stated that the loss of the Messrs. Rawsthorne was
so far covered by Insurance ; the building to the extent of
£3,400, in the Leeds and Yorkshire, and the machinery to
the amount of £7OO, in the Yorkshire offices. A consi-
derable portion.orliour was, we understand, saved by the
neighbours and millers before the arrival of the fire-police.
The whole of the-machinery had, only a shout time ago,
been renewed or extensively repaired, and the. mill was un-
derstood to be in excellent working order. How the fire
originated has not been discovered.
Flue IN MANSTY-LANE.—On Wednesday,.about noon,
afire broke out ita the ceiling of one of the top rooms .of
Wright's sugar-house, Manesty-lane. The premises being
insured in. the West of England office, intelligence was
immediately conveyed to the station in Mount-pleasant,
and: the engine was at once sent. The fire- brigade also
attended from Temple-court, but the services of neither
were required, the flames having been extinguished with a
few buckets of 'water. The damage was very trifling.
Fiats IN. A. TIMBER-YARD.—On Thursday afternoon,
about three o'clock, a fire broke out in a timber-yard be-
longing to.Mr: Bellgrove, situated near theßramley-Moore
Dock. The fire brigade succeeded in extinguishing the
flames The damage does not amount to more than £2O.

THE HoN. H. T. LIDDELL, M.P., has added his name
as: a. subscriber to the Liverpool special fdad of the Society
fen-Promoting the Employment of Additional Curates
.in
Populous Places.
GREAT CIRCLE SAILING.—A meeting of the Literary
and Philosophical Society of Liverpool.was held last night,
at the Royal Institution, in Colquitt-street, Mr. Yates in
that chair, when Mr. J. T. Towson delivered a lecture on
great circle aid composite sailing, and their late advan-
tageous application in connexion with,Australian voyages.
He explained in detail the principles; of the theory, and
denied that he had ever claimed, the honour of its
invention, inasmuch as it was as, aid as the principle
of Mercator's projection. He also, explained the claim
admitted by Lieutenant Maury, who. had denied the value
of the application when it was disputed to belong to him ;
but he (Mr. Towson) claimed the credit of the theory of
composite sailing, which had been successfully adopted by
Capts. Boyce, Forbes, Godfrey, and others, in their rapid
voyages to and ftom Australia. Ori account of the late-
ness of the hour, the further consideration of the subject
was adjourned until another meeting, after a vote of thanks
to the lecturer.

THE QUEEN AND PItiNCS; with the royal children,.
accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Brabant, left
Windsor on Saturday, for Osborne.

RUN ON THE DUBLIN SA‘v,iN,GS-BANK.—There has been
a "run" upon one of the sayings-banks in Dublin, whiall
has continued all the week.. Some idea of its extent may
be learnt from the fact that,, since Wednesday, the "calls"
have amounted to e. 40,000.
AMERICAN CONSISIENCY.—By a recent decreei the
black Emperor of Hayti. admits Protestant Bibles, Testa-
ments, and books, into,his island free of duty. Yet,Hayti,
which has shown a Protestant liberality in this respect,
cannot get her sovereignty recognised in any manner by
the United States.—Chrouicle.

THE NEW TESXANLVSY.—Is the whole of the New
Testament to be met with in the writings of the first
three centuries ? " Well," said Lord Hailes, "- that ques-
tion quite accorded with my antiquarian tucn of mind.
On returning home, as I knew that I had all the writers
of those centuries, I began immediately to. collect them,
that I might set to work on the arduous task as soon as
possible." Pointing to a table covered with papers, he
said, " There have I been busy for these two months,
searching for chapters, half chapters, ' and sentences of
the New Testament, and have marked down what I have
found, and where I have found it ; so that any person
may see and examine for themselves. I have actually
discovered the whole New Testament from those writings,
except, ten or eleven verses, which satisfies me that I could
discover them also. Now," said he, " here was a way in
which God concealed or hid the treasure of his word, that
Julian, the apostate Emperor, andother enemies of Christ,
who wished to extirpate the Gospel from the world, never
would have thought of, and, if they had, they never
could have effected its destruction."
WHY ARE EYES like coach-horses ? Because they are
under lashes.