The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-02 00:00:00

THE DREADFUL FIRE AT DEVONPORT

LATEST PARTICULARS.
West of England Conservative Office,
Tuesday Evening, 10 o'clock.
this day conversed with Quick, the dock-yard
.A3ll, who first discovered the fire. He was at North
rier jetty about four o'clock, from whence he says he saw
ke issuing apparently from the head of the Minden. He
,diately ran to the sentry on duty on the jetty, astern of
linden, and told him to tire. The sentry had not per-
' the smoke, neither had the policeman at the joiner's
which is the nearest point, to tne Talavera.
"estigation has proceeded during the day. It is
`'culars have transpired, not only affirming that
' but also affording a clue to the detec-
We understand that a boy named
-u, belonging to the ordinary, has been ex-
.,d it is reported that his evidence goes to this ef-
at he overheard some men at Torpoint planning the
of the dockyard and other buildings. We un-
tfiAt a gentleman of Torpoint is to be ex-
who, it is believed, will depose to the

of the perpetrators

.. Letter was sent to a highly respectable gen-
Leman residing near Torpoint, a short time since, by the
fc of a labouring man, warning him that her husband and
-a who were Chartists, enraged at the annihilation of
hopes, had resolved on tiring the Dockyard,
Wharf, the house of the gentleman addressed,
”etrate other mischief. We do not vouch for
-se reports, though they have reached us from
we should implicitly rely, in a less trio-
-atolls matter. But we are fully aware, that something of
very serious nature has transpired in the course of the in-

their pc

quarter on

vestigation.
Mr. Partridge, the Admiralty messenger, arrived here
from London this evening, by the mail ; he returned at 11
o'clock to-night.

DRINKING BEHIND THE DOOR.—The old charge agains
the Turks of " drinking behind the door, to use an expres-
sive vulgarism, is illustrated in the following anecdote :—Al_
though the Turks are thus strict in their outward observance
of this fact, yet it is but an observance of the eye. I repeat-
edly asked Turks during the Ramazan to have a glass of punch
with me in the forenoon, and they never refused, it the glass
of punch could be got and drank off without any other Turk
knowing of it. Nay, one of their elfendis actually drank
three glasses of punch one day in my presence. 1 met him
in the street, and after the usual salutations asked him if he
would take a glass of punch, as the day was cold. He said
no, he durst not, because it was the Ramazan. I replied

that nobody would know, and he said, "-in that case, as you
are a good man, I %mill go with von, if you are sure we won't
be seen." I ass,red him on this point, and he followed me
to the private door of a Frank cafts. On entering, he instantly
took his seat in the darkest corner, where he could not be
seen. The punch was produced, and, as usual with the
Turk, drank off in one mouthful. He then treated me to a
return glass, taking one himself afterwards. We played a
game at dominoes to decide who should pay for a third glass
for each. The third glass was brought in, drunk, and the
dominoes played. I then asked him how he, a Mussuliatain
dared drink punch, and gamble, during the Ramaxan ? Ils,
answer was, that the crime did not consist in doing so, but
in being seen doing it.—Reid: Turkey and the Turks.
Private George Bennet, of the Ist Dragoons, is about to be
discharged. lie is the last man left (except the quarter-
master) out of 450 who served with the regiment at Waterloo,
where 97 of his comrades were killed and 98 wounded. He

was born in the regiment, and wears four rings for good
conduct.—United Service Casette.

MOVING PANORAMA

Ir AI DLAIPS well known and universally admired moving
PANORAMA of a Sail up the Bay and a Visit round
the City of NEW YORK, is every day and evening exhibited
in the large new Building erected on purpose, Newington
Bridge, !war Bold-street, and next to the Clarendon Hotel.
The interior of the Building is tastefully decorated. Day
Exhibition, punctually at One o'clock ; in the Evening at
Seven, and again at Half-past Eight o'clock.
Admission—Boxes, ls. 6d. ; Pit Is. Children, Half price.
Gallery, 6d. each person.
The views of the Huddersfield, rescuing 116 persons from
the Huskisson, as also of the late Fire of York Minster. and
the Rock and Bay of Gibraltar are exhibited along with the
Panorama of New York.