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

FIRES IN LIVERPOOL.

FIRE IN Sr. GEORGE'S BAZAAR.—On 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 en4L 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
I 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 £I,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 promptly 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 each 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 au addition might
be Made to the stall-rents as would enable the former to'
effeettinsurances on the goods of 'the latter, and thus ren-
der them so far safe, in the event of such calamities
occuring.—En. L. S.]

DEZTIVICTIVE FIRE.—ANOTHEZ WIND AND STEAM-
MILL RIARNT.—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'reeorded last week, was thiven.partly by wind
and partly: by steam-power—the portion to which the
steam-powervras applied being five, atidthe other eight
stories high;. The premises in this instance were closely
surrounded I.'y 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, prior to itvkliscevery, it had obtained-suoh a hold of
the premises asto-preclude the possibility of saving them.
The fire-engines and other apparatus belonging to the fire-
brigade, together with a large number orthemen, were
speedily on the spit, but all eftbrts to save:the steam-mill
were so obviously useless, that their exertions were mainly
directed to extinguish, the flames which hacl:been .commu-
nicated to the windmill, and save the adjoiningpremises. In
the latter attempt their endeavours were fortunately suc-
cessful ; although, vea regret to add, the attempt to save
the windmill proved' entirely futile. The fire 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 comblistil 1.
was entirely. consumed.- At about twenty minutes past
eight o'clock the huge .and ponderous sails of the windmill,
having first swayed air' if about to fall across the tower,
fell with a dreadful crash towards the outside dill° build-
ing,. carrying with them a large mass of the+richwork.
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 fbrenran had been standing only a
few minutes before. No lives were lost ; but wa regret to
add' that one of the polica,constables (No. 733, Smith) was
severely injured by some.nf the brickwork falliug_on him.
Front the moment the windmill sails fell, all apprehensions
of immediate danger were at an end, and thefiremen's
efforts were directed to eonfining the conflagration within
the ruins, in which they happily succeeded. There were 9
pairs of grinding-stones employed in the mills and the
total loss in premises, machinery, and grain and-flour, is
estimated at about .E 9,000. £5,000 being consideredabont
the value of the premises• an& the machinery, while the
&Am-and grain are estimated at £t,ooo. The•stock be-
longed to Mr. Martin, enlivens) we believe, insrred hr the
West of England Fire-office to the extent of &POO.- It
is also. stated that the lossal the Messrs. Rawstlibane was
so far covered by insurance 3-. 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 of flour was, we understand, saved by the
neighbours and millers before:the arrival of the fire-pollee.
The-whole of the machinery had, only a short time. ago,
been renewed or extensively repaired, and the mill: was: un-
derstood to be in excellenti workiir, order. Hew the fire
originated has not been discovered.
F tan Ix MANESTY-LA'NE.—On Wednesday, abut; noon,
a fire-broke out in the ceiling- of one of the toptyooms of
Wright's sugar-house, Mimesty-lane. The premises being
insured in the West of England office, intelligence was.
immediately conveyed to, the station in Mounttpleasant,
and:the- engine was at once sent. The fire brigade also
attended from Temple-court, but the services- of neither
were-required, the flaraeslaving been extinguisked.with a
fewhuekets of water. The. damage was very trifling.
Bina .IN A TIMBRE.4MUM-0B Thursday :afternoon,
about three o'clock, a fine.broke out in a tireher-yard be-
longing to Mr. Bellgro-ie; situated near the Bmmley-Moore
Deck, The fire brigade succeeded in extingnishing the
flames The damage does not. amount to more than zap.

TITE HOE. H. T. LIDDELL,. M.P., has added his. name
as a-subscriber to the flverpooi special fund, athoSociety
fertPromoting the Employment of Additional Curates in
Papulons Places.
GREAT CIRCLE StrILING.-A meeting of„cthe• Literary
and Philosophical Society of Liverpool was held last night,
at the Royal Institution, in Colquitt-streets. Mr. Yates in
the chair, when Mr-. J. T. Towson delivered: a lecture on
great circle and 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,. hononr of its
invention, inasmuch as it was as old,. as the principle
of Mercator's projection. He also explained the claim
admitted by Lieutenant Maury, who bad 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 saitirg, which had been successfulky adopted by
Capts. Boyce, Forbes, Godfrey, andbthers, in their rapid
voyages to andaom Australia. Qn,account of the late-
ness of the hour, tbk further consideration of the subject
was adjourned watil another meeting, after a vote of thanks
to the lecturer.

THE QuTEN Alsn Puncen, with the royal children,
accompanied: by the Duke and. Duchess of Brabant, left
Windsor on. Saturday, for Osborne.

RUN ONaTIR DUBLIN SA.virm4-J3Alcx.--There has been.,
a " run" upon one of the savings-banks in Dublin, which,
has continued all the week. Same idea of its extent may-
be learnt from the fact that,. since-Wednesday, the "calk.' -
have amounted to £40,000.
Axignicmg CoxusrExcr,—By a recent decree, the.
black Emperor of Hayti admit .Protestant Bibles, Testa-.
meats, 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.—Chronicle..
Tux NEW TESTAXENT.—Is the whole of ex . New
Testament to be met with, in the writings of the first
three centuries ? " Well," said Lord Hanes," thatiques-
tion quite accorded, with. my antiquarian turn of 'min&
On returning home,. as I knew that I had all the writers
of those centuries, 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, and other 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."
Wnx ARE EYES like coach-horses ? Because they are
under lashes.