The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-26 00:00:00

BY FIRE

PARTIAL DESTRUCTION OF YORK MINSTER

The following appeared in a Second Edition of the STAN-
DARD of Friday last. We copied it from a pecond edition
of the Bradford Observer of Thursday, with which we had
been politely favoured :--
At an early hour this morning, a report reached the town,
that that noble and venerable ecclesiastical edifice, York
Minster, the pride of Yorkshire and the admiration of Eng-
land, was destroyed by fire. This report was not however
credited. People are not generally ready to believe bad news.
But as the day advanced, parties who arrived from Leeds
confirmed the sad story, and at length on the ariival of
the York mail at eleven o'clock, all doubt was set at rest.
A great number of letters have come into the town from
York, but all of them necessarily short. One lying before
us says, " Our beautiful Minster has been on fire. The
whole of the tower which contains the bells, and from
thence to the great tower is one mass of ruins. It is
still burning (one o'clock, A. M.); but we hope soon to
stop the devastating element." ur correspondent writes
us word that he will send further particulars by ex-
press, but they have not reached us. In the absence of pre-
cise information, it is of course impossible to tell how.far the
reports in circulation are to be believed, but all seem to con-
cur in stating that the fire originated through the careless-
ness of some workmen, plumbers, who neglected to put
out their fire and candles. The fire originated in the
tower at the west end. It was first observed about ten
o'clock last night ; the wind being high the flames spread ra-
pidly, and before any effective assistance could be rendered
the beautiful roof of the nave, constructed of carved oak',
ignited and communicated with the great tower. So quickly
did the devouring element accomplish its work, that in
little better than an hour and a half after the fire
was discovered, one of the towers at the west front fell
with a tremendous crash. We hear that several individuals
were buried in the ruins, but have no authentic intelligence
that the calamity, great as it is, is aggravated by loss of life.

(From a second edition of the York Courant of yesterday.)
It appears that about a quarter before nine o'clock on
Wednesday night several persons observed a small light in
the south-west tower of this magnificent pile, but did not
take any particular notice of the circumstance, being aware
that the works connected with the clock had been undergoing
repair. In a short time, however, it appeared that the tower
was in flames. The alarm was given, and two powerful
engines were soon on the spot ; but, unfortunately, full
twenty minutes elapsed before a supply of water could be
obtained. The flames spread with astonishing rapidity, and
by about eleven o'clock nearly the whole of the roof of the
nave had fallen in. The Lantern tower was, with great
difficulty, preserved. About half-past twelve, the whole of
the roof having fallen, and two additional engines having
arrived by railway from Leeds, the flames were gradu-
ally surmounted, and between one and two the danger was
over. The south-western tower, with the noble nave are,
however, a mass of ruins. Every pillar in the nave is
more or less injured, and one of the windows near the west-
ern entrance was partially destroyed. The great western win-
dow was, however, entirely preserved, and the others sus-
tained but trifling damage. No injury was done to the screen
or organ. though they were at one time in imminent danger.
The belfry was reduced to a mere shell, and the fine peal of ten
bells fell to the ground. No estimate is given as to the amount
of damage, and nothing is known as to the cause of the fire.
It is supposed to have originated in the carelessness of the
persons employed in repairing the clock. By a singular co-
incidence the south-western tower is that on which the in-
cendiary Martin made his first and unsuccessful attempt to
fire the cathedral on the 2d of February, 1829.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.
(Ftoin the Leeds Intelligeneer of Saturday.)
It is again our painful duty as public journalists to record
the partia destruction of York Minster by fire.
This disastrous event occurred on the night of Wednesday
last. The flames were first observed about nine o'clock,
bursting forth from the belfry tower at the South Western
corner of the Cathedral. The alarm was rapidly spread
throughout the city, but the citizens were to a great extent
incredulous of the fact, considering the rumour as a mere
invention to impose upon them. A glance at the sky, how-
ever, quickly dispelled their doubts, for a bright red glare
soon overspread the firmament.
The Minster engine was speedily got out, and the engines
of the Yorkshire Insurance Company and of the North of
England Assurance Company were promptly brought to the
spot, and put into full play by the firemen attached to those
establishments, the engines being supplied with water from
the neighbouring pumps and cisterns until the engine at the
York Waterworks was got into operation to furnish a supply
from the river Ouse.
The Lord Mayor of York (Wm. S. Clarke, Esq.), Sir
John Simpson, James Barber, Esq., and other city func-
tionaries, with Sir John Lister Lister Kaye, Bart., the Rev.
D. R. Currie, B. Hague, Esq., and others of the County
Magistracy, were early in their attendance, and by their ju-
dicious arrangements contributed much to the preservation of
order, and the prevention of danger from the over-pressure of
the crowd. Expresses were immediately sent off to the Bar-
racks for a detachment of the military, and for the Barrack
engine : also for the engine kept by Lord Wenlock at Es-
crick Park. A special train was also sent off by the York
and North Midland Railway Company, as soon as the steam
could be got up in one of their locomotive engines, to fetch
the fire engines from Leeds.
As the night advanced, the streets and eminences com-
manding a view of the conflagration became densely crowded
by spectators, many of whom had been spending the evening
in the Festival Concert Room, at a tea meeting, given by the
York Operative Conservative Society.
The fire burnt with great rapidity, notwithstanding the ef-
forts of the firemen to arrest its destructive progress. Long
before ten o'clock, though the precise time has not been
stated, the bells in the tower began to fall. The descent of
each was indicated by a hollow sounding crash, and the stir-
ring of the burning embers, which sent forth volumes of
sparks, presenting an appearance to the spectators almost at
alarming as it was grand.
By this time the flames had communicated through one of
the lower windows on the north side of the tower to the roof
of the nave, which burnt with astonishing rapidity, the tim-
ber forming the principal partof the roof being extremely dry,
having stood there upwards of five hundred years.
The wind, which in the morning was rather high, had be-
come calmer as the evening approached, blowing chiefly from
the north-north-west, from which about midnight it veered
a little to the southward. This peculiar direction of the wind
was at one time thought to endanger the safety of the lantern
tower and the choir, but providentially both escaped.
The rapidity with which the fire spread through the roof of
the nave was really terrific. The height was so considerable
that it was with difficulty the water could be thrown upon it;
but as all the engines were in excellent order, and were very
energetically worked, they succeeded in forcing up a consi-
derable volume of water, though their operations were occa-
sionally delayed by the bursting of the pipes.
A little before twelve o'clock, the roof of the western end
of the nave began to fall in, and as one wooden arch after
another succumbed to the devouring element, the increased
volumes of flame, augmented by myriads of sparks, presented
appearances which may be not inaptly described as awfully
sublime. The stained glass windows, many of which escaped
almost scathless from the threatened destruction, displayed
their bright and variegated transparencies to great advantage,
and formed a melancholy contrast to the destruction that was
going on around:
By the time that the roof began to fall in, the fire in the
tower appeared to have almost exhausted itself, vet at inter-
vals it exhibited something of its pristine force, especially
when the heavy beams from which the hells had been sus-
pended, were burnt out in the centre, and the ends fell down
upon the promiscuous mass beneath. These were followed
soon afterwards by the mullions and other parts of the stone
frame work of the windows, portions of which fell outwards
and carried along with them in their descent various orna-
mental or projecting parts of the tower.
To many of the spectators it was not a little interesting to
witness the bewildered gyrations of the jackdaws and other
. birds that have long made the two western towers their rest-
ing places; scared from their nests by the light and heat they
flitted round the burning temple, ever and anon disappearing
amongst the clouds of sparks.
When a portion of the roof of the nave had fallen in, two
of the smaller engines were conveyed into the interior of the
edifice, and continued at work, in the northern aisle of the
nave, in the hope of staying the further progress of the de-
vouring element ; but one by one the several arches gave way,
until the entire length of the nave, from the western end to
the lantern tower, was open to.the skies. As the fire thus
progressed from arch to arch, and from window to window,
great fears were entertained that it would extend beyond the
central tower to the choir, and thus reduce the entire edifice
to one common mass of ruin. Fortunately, those fears were
not realised. The firemen, many of whom had mounted the
lower roofs over the northern and southern aisles of the nave,
exerted themselves diligently, often placing themselves in
positions of imminent peril, and towards one o'clock their
efforts seemed to be attended with success, for the falling of
the last burning arch of the nave, appeared to cut off the
chance of any further danger to the eastward of the transept.
Considerable apprehensions of mischief in another direction
were,_bowever, felt. Most of our readers who may have
visited the Minster will remember the huge figure of a dragon
that projected over the fifth arch of the nave, on the northern
side, opposite the statue of St. George. That figure was con-
structed of wood ; and the immense volume of flame which
arose from the burning embers after they bad been precipi-
tated from the roof to the floor of the nave, communicated
to the celebrated dragon, and as it was known to be attacked
to the woodwork of the side aisles and galleries, it was feared
that if its destruction was not stayed the side aisles would he
the next to suffer. The efforts made to extinguish the flames
around it were successful, and the dragon's head still re,
mains, as erect as ever, though somewhat shorn of its fair
proportions.
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of the fire through the several portions of the Cathedral that
have fallen a prey to its ravages. Before we proceed to de-
scribe more particularly the nature and extent of the damage
sustained, we must notice two or three incidents that occurred
during the conflagration.
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in their stable dresses, with swords, and a detachment of the
4th Dragoon Guards were mounted. They remained on duty
till three in the morning, when the crowd having
the major part of them were marched back to
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between the southern entrance and the south western
tower, the wills proved in the Exchequer and Prerogative
Court of York are kept, and when it was discovered that the
flames had communicated with the roof of the nave, appre-
hensions began to be entertained far the safety of those do-
cuments, and measures were immediately taken for their re-
moval to more secure custody. Carts were provided, into
which the immense mass of papers were hurriedly thrown,
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caution, the vergers removed the books, cushions, and other
valuable articles from the choir, and the music books from
the organ loft, into the vestry. •
When the bells had fallen, and the rafters from which they
had been suspended were also precipitated almost reduced to
charcoal, followed by the mullions of the upper windows of
the tower, great fears were entertained for the safety of that
corner of the edifice. The space on the south, between the
Minster and the Church of St. Michael-le-Belfrey, was kept
clear of persons, and many of the residents in Petergate were

so apprehensive of its falling in that direction that they re-
moved their families to places of greater security. Fortu-
nately, however, their precautions were unnecessary; the
tower still stands, and though it now presents a desolate and
shattered appearance, it seems likely to stand for a long time
yet to come.
When the steam engine at the York Water Works was put
in motion, it furnished a very adequate supply of water. All
the drain grates to the south of the Minster were dammed
up, and soon after all the water plugs had been removed, a
large pool of water was obtained and kept up, in which the
engines stood to play. It is stated that during the night no
less than 240,000 gallons of water were furnished by the Wa-
ter Works Company.
It is exceedingly satisfactory to be able to state that, not-
withstanding the length.of time the conflagration lasted, the
great number of persons who witnessed it and took part in
its suppression, the daring efforts of many of the firemen,
and the streams of molten lead that occasionally shot forth
unexpectedly from different parts of the building, not a single
accident of serious moment was sustained by any person
whatever.

We are rejoiced to be able to state, in the commencement
of our description of the nature of the damage sustained, that
the splendid organ presented by the late Right Hon. and
Rev. John Lumley, Earl of Scarborough, and built by Messrs.
Elliot and Hill, of London, has escaped uninjured, as like-
wise has the elegant stone screen on which the-organ stands,
and which contains the statues of. fifteen of the earlier Eng-
lish kings, beginning at the Norman conquest. •
The massy pillars which support the Central tower, or lan-
tern steeple, as it is sometimes called, from its having been
used as a beacon to warn the surrounding country during
periods of public danger, is also free from damage, though
greatfears were at one time entertained for its safety.
Most singular also is it to relate, that although the massive
great doors at the western end of the nave were burnt to so
thin a substance as to bend inwards like a lath, the large
stained window above them, which is said to be unrivalled
for the beauty and lightness of its ramified tracery, has like-
wise escaped without a single piece of glass having been bro-
ken, so far as we could observe. In the upper compartments
of this window, it will be remembered, are delineated the
figures of eight saints of the church, and below them are re-
presentations of the first eight archbishops of the see, as large
as life.
In like manner the grand window over each side portal at
the west end has been preserved intact ; and this is the more
remarkable, as that on the south side is but a short distance
from the belfry tower, beneath which the bells and burning
materials principally fell.
In the south-western tower there was a peal of ten bells,
erected in 1765. Not long after the fire commenced, they
were precipitated to the ground, and a quantity of other ma-
terials fell upon them. When our reporter left York yester-
day, the superincumbent mass, which was still hot and smok-
ing, had not been removed from them, so that, although
considerable anxiety was felt on the subject, it had not been
ascertained whether the bells were melted or broken. In
either case, it is understood that the cost of re-casting them
would reach about a thousand pounds. It may, perhaps, be
interesting to observe, that previous to the year 1765, there
was a peal of twelve bells, which being then found to be un-
tuneable, they were taken down by Dr. Fountayne, then
dean, the five trebles of which were exchanged for the three
bells in St. Michael's, Spurriergate, in which church they
now hang. They were replaced the same year by a set of ten
new bells, cast by Messrs. Lester and Pack, of London (the
same weight and dimensions of those in Bow Church, Lon-
don), and are allowed to be as complete a peal as any in the
kingdom. The following is an account of their weight and
description :
The first weighs 8 cwt. 3 qrs. 7 lb., and its diameter 2 feet
8 inches 1-4th.

The second, 9 cwt. 1 qr. 5 lb., its diameter 2 feet 9 inches
3-Bths.

The third, 10 cwt. 1 qr. 22 lbs., its diameter 3 feet.
The fourth, 12 cwt. 2 qrs. 21 Ib*., its diameter 3 feet 2
inches 3-4ths.

The fifth, 13 cwt. 2 qrs., 22 lhs., its diameter 3 feet 5
inches.

The sixth, 16 cwt. 4 lbs., its diameter 3 feet 7 inches 3-4ths.
The seventh, 21 cwt. 23 lbs., its diameter 4 feet 1-Bth of
an inch.

The eighth, 26 cwt. 13 lbs., its diameter 4 feet 3 inches

1-Bth. -
The ninth, 33 cwt. 2 qrs. 16 lbs., its diameter 4 feet 9
inches 1 .8 th.
The tenth, 53 cwt. 25 lb., its diameter 5 feet 5 inches.
On Nos. 1,2, 3, and 4 there are no other inscriptions than
the founders names Lester and Pack.
On the sth, Music is medicine to the mind.
On the Gth, Our voices shall with joyful sound,
Make hills and rallies echo round.
In wedlock bands
All ye who join with heart and hands,
Your hearts unite;
So shall our tuneful tongues combine to laud
The nuptial rite.
On the Bth, Ye ringers all, that prize your health and
happiness,
Be sober, merry, wise, and you'll the same
possess.
On the 9th, To honour both of God and King
Our voices shall in concert ring.
On the 10th, J. Fountaine, Dean ; W. Cowper, W. Berd-
more, W. Cayley, W. Mason, Residen-

On the ith,

tiaries.

The belfry presents the appearance of a shell, the interior
frame work being completely destroyed, and nothing remain-
ing but the skeleton of its former beauty. At intervals, small
fragments still continue to fall, and the soldiers and police-
men in the building strongly caution those who are admitted
that danger is still to be apprehended.
From the western entrance to the great lantern tower there
are seven pillars on each side, which form eight arches.
Those pillars are plain, and formed of a solid piece, to which
are attached three quarter columns, alternately larger and
smaller. The capitals and bases are simple, though the
foliage of the former was diversified, each capital being of a
different design ; but now the capitals as well as the groined
roof, are destroyed, and the lower portions of most of the
columns are much injured, as well by the burning timbers
falling against them, as by the columns themselves, which
are of limestone, having become partly calcined by the sur-
rounding heat, and in that state subjected to the action of
the water employed to extinguish the fire.
The clerestorial windows, adorned with imagery and coats
of arms, are all of them more or less injured, particularly
those towards the western end of the nave, but those near the
central tower are not much damaged. The windows of the
side aisles, sixteen in number, and all of them, with two ex-
ceptions, of painted glass, have escaped in much better con-
dition than might have been expected. The window in that
part of the south aisle, immediately under the belfry tower,
is almost wholly destroyed, but, fortunately, it is one of the
two that was glazed with common glass.
The roof of the nave which being of wood, was wholly con-
sumed, was adorned with large carved knots, above a yard
and a half in circumference, that were formerly ornamented
with gold, but in many cases these have been wholly destroyed,
and not one has escaped injury. We were much struck with
the highly carbonized state of the timber that lay about on
the floor : even those which might have been called the
heaviest timbers, were burnt to extremely small dimensions.
The nave, from the west end to the door of the choir, in-
cluding, of course, the breadth of the tower, is 261 feet long,
109 feet broad, and was 99 feet high. The side aisles are 18
feet broad, and the side arches, north and south, 42 feet high.
The foundation of the nave was laid on the 7th April, 1291,
by John le Romaine, then Archbishop, in the presence of
Henry de Newark, Dean, and Peter de Ross, Precentor of
the Church, and the rest of the Canons in their richest copes.
Archbishop de Melton finished the west end with the steeples,
about the year 1330. In this work he is said to have ex-
pended seven hundred pounds (a large sum in those days,)
of his own money. Contributions from the nobility, clergy,
and religious devotees of the age, furnished the remainder of
the funds required. It will be remembered that the Musical
Festivals of 1823, 1825, 1828, 1835, have been celebrated, in
this nave and the transepts. On those occasions the centre
aisle of the nave was filled with seats, backed and covered
with crimson cloth, capable of accommodating sixteen hun-
dred persons. In the side aisle were placed seats for four-
teen hundred persons, covered with green cloth. A gal-
lery was raised from the second pillars to the grand west
window, containing thirty-three tiers of seats, covered with
crimson cloth. The front was adorned with a species of
of gothic work, which added greatly to the magnificence of
the gallery, whilst the manner of its execution exactly com-
ported with the style of architecture pursued in the building.
In 1825 and 1828 galleries were also erected in the side aisles,
which were fitted up to correspond with the decorations of
the other part of the edifice; and in 1835, in addition to the
former arrangements, there was a gallery erected for the es-
pecial accommodation of the royal visitors who were present.
Only two or three weeks ago we announced that the inten-
tion to hold another Musical Festival during the present year
had been abandoned, and that arrangements were in progress
for holding a Festival on a grand scale during the next year.
We fear, however, that unless the subscriptions for the re-
storation of the nave and tower are unusually prompt, the
repairs will not be sufficiently advanced to admit of the hold-
ing of a Musical Festival there next year.
With respect to the actual pecuniary amount of the da-
mage to the edifice, it is exceedingly difficult to speak. Much
will depend upon whether it becomes necessary to take down
the belfry tower, which is certainly very much shattered and
shaken. 'lf that step should not be necessary, the expense
may not exceed from £20,000 to £31,000 ; but if the tower
be taken down the sum may be doubled. Perhaps it may be
in the recollection eff some of our readers that for the repairs
consequent upon the last conflagration, the sum of from
£50,000 to £70,000 was subscribd, and that sum proved
insufficient, although government presented a large supply of
teak wood for the roof of the choir.

The last is the fifth occasion on which the cathedral church
of York has been wholly or partially destroyed by fire. The
first time was in the year of Christ 741, when the church of
stone erected on the site of the wooden oratory built for the
baptism of Edwin, the Saxon Monarch of Northumbria, and
his whole court, at Easter, 627, was greatly damaged by fire.
In 1069, the cathedral was again reduced nearly to the ground
by an accidental fire during the siege of the garrisons in the
Norman castles. In 1137, the structure which had been re-
built in a superior style by Thomas, the 25th Archbishop,
was destroyed by a casual fire. For nearly seven hundred
years it escaped a similar calamity ; but on Sunday, the 2nd
of February, 1829, as our readers will remember, the interior
of the choir and chancel, with the roof, were destroyed by the
act of the lunatic incendiary, Jonathan Martin. The repairs
which that event rendered necessary occupied upwards of
three years and a quarter, and the cathedral was formally
re-opened for divine worship on the Gth May, 1832. Exactly
eight years and a fortnight afterwards occurred the fifth con-
flagration of this noble edifice, which it is now our painful
duty to record.

The most difficult part of our duty remains still to be per-
formed that of tracing out the precise cause of this lamentable
occurrence. At present the affair is still involved in mystery.
Various were the rumours that prevailed on Thursday
morning, with regard to this painful subject.
The animated controversy which has recently taken place
and between the friends of the York Operative Protestant So-
ciety,the Roman Catholic body, coupled with the fact
thatthefriends of the Protestant Society had appointed
Wednesday evening for a public tea party in the Festival
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private one, we are unable to give an outline of the
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ings • but we understand that the principal person examined
was Mr. William Groves, turret clock-maker, of Leeds.
Mr. Groves had been •employed to repair the Minster clock
which stood in the south-western tower, and also the time-
piece (or dumb clock) which is fixed above the southern
entrance. He stated that he had been employed on this
business on the Wednesday, and for that purpose had as-
cended the belfry tower. The only other person engaged
there was a carpenter, who had assisted in fixing some new
apparatus to the striking machinery of the clock. For that
purpose they had ascended above the ringing chamber into a
sort of attic or low room below the chamber in which the
bells were suspended. This place was seldom entered, per-
haps never, except for the purpose of repairing the clock, at

SUGAR BEET.—Mr. Josiah Lee, an enterprising farmer
of this county, was induced to make some experiments on
this article, and last year raised 140 bushels from less than
one-eighth of an acre. His cows are fed on the beet alone,
without any grain, and the butter produced is of the most
superior character. We hope the farmers of Berks will think
of these things, and attend to a matter of so much impor-
tance. Seed may be procured in this town, and the best is
easily cultivated.—Berks and Schuylkill Journal.
CHURCH EXTENSION.—A handsome new church is about
to be built near the extensive works of Messrs. Garnett and
Horsfalls, Low Moor, near Clitheroe, where there is a dense
population, and no place of worship. This will make the
fourth new church built within the parliamentary borough,
within these few years.

REMARKABLE LONGEVITY.—The village of Pawtuxet,
with a population of between 700 and 800, contains 95 per-
sons, or more than 11 percent. of the whole population over
60 years of age ; of these 52 are between 60 and 70 ; 34 be-
tween 70 and 80 ; 7 between 80 and 90; and 2 over 90. Ten
of these are revolutionary pensioners, and several others are
claimants but have not yet had their claims allowed.—. Amer-
ican paper.

CATEurnLAus.—The berry trees in the neighbourhood
of Bat nsley, have become infested with caterpillars, and in
many instances whole trees are stripped of their leaves by
this destructive insect ; our correspondent informs us on the
authority of Mr. Wilkinson, florist, &c. that by dredging
helebore powder over the trees it will completely destroy
them, as will also black pepper, which is about half the price
of the former. Gardeners will do well to pay attention to
this.—Leeds Intelligeneer.

VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING.

(SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.)

EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, c.
Helen Stewart, D Stewart, 419 Manila, Bold & Starkey
Wm. Lockerby, 334 Calcutta, Imrie & Tomlinson
WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA.
Royal Mint, W Seawright, 309 Jamaica, J B Yates &Co
Rochdale, T Shepherd, 191 St. Vincent, J Cropper

SOUTH AMERICA.
Thomas Battersby, J Leitch, 323 Santa Martha and Carthagena,
J Poole & Co

UNITED STATES.
Eleanor, Pemberton, 292 New Orleans, G Brown &Co
Europe, E G Marshall, 615 New York, Galt, Barff &Co
Maria, Whedon, 450 New York, Waddington, Holt & Co
Cyrus, J Clark, - 247 Savannah, J Gordon & Co
Potomac, J Drew, 284 Baltimore, W Stuart
Brunette, 0 Robinson, 335 Boston, Focke & Boult
Commerce, S M Read, 234 New York, Roskell, Ogden & Co
Grace Brown, J Duff, 447 Virginia, Brown, Shipley &Co
Ganges, J Jones, 376 Hampton Roads and Charleston.
Lodge, Prichard & Co

BRITISH AMERICA.
Angora, B Salsbury, 185 Sydney, C.B. J Holford &Co
Jessy, J Harvey, 81 Newfoundland, T& W Earl & Co
Wm. Herdman, W Michael, 347 Quebec, W Michael
Catherine, G asson, 448 Quebec, Langtrys &Co
James, Owen, 216 Halifax, N.S. M'Cahuont Brs & Co
Visiter, G P Lock,
Souter Johnny, T Little, 102 Labrador, C& E Bunt &Co
362 Montreal, W Fisher & Son
Christiana. S Simpson, 777 Quebec, Amey, Catto & Co
John Bull, J Rodgers, 436 Quebec, G L Jackson & Sons
Harmony, , 343 Quebec, NV C Wright
Adolphine, H Martiny, 70 Lubeck, C G Weber & Co
Leo, J M Kendall, 230 Montreal, W Fisher & Son