The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-18 00:00:00

GREAT FIRE IN PARIS.

On Saturday morning week, while the Workmen of M. Per-
rotet, bookbinder, No. 14, Rue du Pot de Fer, Paris, were gone
to'breakfast, at about half-past nine 'o'clock, a most. frightful
body of flames suddenly issued from a part of the buildings in
which was the drying room, and where an immense number of
sheets of diffei eta' works- were hung up. In a few minutes the
whole building was enveloped, and presented a'' most awful a's-
ert. At the very 'first alarm the students of the seminary of
St. Sulpice hastened to render assistance. In ten minutes the-
firemen'arrived, and the premises and their envirorrs Were sur-
rounded by troops. ' Unfortunately the conduits were frozen,
and it was some time before a supply of water could be obtained.
The exertions of the men were also impeded by the crowds of
the inhabitants of This 'populous neighbourhood, who were re-
moving their property out of the reach of danger. It was not
till half-past twit o'clock that thellames could be got under, and
this onlv so far as' to prevent their communicating •to the ad-
joining houses; fur at eleven at night they still continued raging
and presenting a mbst awful spectacle. - The shops and ware-
houses,contained a multitude of works belonging to many of
the booksellers of' Paris, the whole of which are consumed.
At the extremity of one of the warehouses was that of M. Jouy,
a wholesale grocer;•which caught 'fire, and was destroyed; •but
most fortunately the firemen succeeded in preventing the destruc-
tive element frinn extending to another contiguous building,
in which' were many tuns of oil and spirits of wine. At one
time the roof of the house No:12 had c=aught, but-the fire was
promptly extinguished, or the neighbourhood to a considerable
extent might have been involved in a general conilagrition. It
is believed that the fire was occasioned by some of the sheets in
the drying-room being hung too near the Rue of the'stove,
which was overheated. Happily no lives have beet' lost,'nor
has any very serious personal injury been sustained.by any one.
The loss of property is said to amount to the enormous skim
.of
1,500,000 f.; according to some, to 3,000,000f.;' the former sum,
however, is more likely to be correct.' Several Of the victims,
it Is stated, w'-re not insured.- It is also statekthat Mari); co-
pies of the law-book, intitled " The Journal du Palais," esti-
mated at 150,000 C, are destroyed; likewise the fine edition of
Sir Walter Scott's' works, publishing by Messrs.' Gosselin,
Fume, and teitrotin ; and, finally, the sheet's already printed.
of Lacenaire4lleinotrs are said to have been totally consumed.
A subscripticin' for the relief of the sufferers by this terrible cala-
mity has been opened at the Mayory of the 11th Arrondisse-
ment, No. 10, Rue Garanciere;

DIET OF CERTAIN ACTORS, GENERALLY, AND DOTING pEf -
FoRMANcE.—Kean took beef-tea for breakfast, and preferred a
rump steak to any other dinner. Macready used to eat the lean
of mutton-chops only when he acted, and hat now adopted ahnOst
exclusively vegetable diet. Brahain sustains his energies with
bottled porter. Mrs. Woods sings upon good draught ditto.
Incledon patronized Madeira. Wrench and Harley act through
a long night's performance without any refreshnient. Oxberry
took large quantities of tea. Henderson to'tk gum arabic and
sherry. Kean, Emery, and Reeve, cold brandy and water.,
Lewis would take oysters and mulled wine in the course of his
performances; and Gentleman Smith, Toffee. All pantomine
actors take barley water; some with the addition of rum, other's
-of sherry. Mrs. Jordan dissolved calf's footjellyin warm sherry.
The great Miss Catly used to take linseed tea, and Madeira af-
terwards. G. F. Cook sometimes took all sorts of liquors; at
others, abstained wholly during the evening. John Kemble
took opium as a sedative during one part of his career; and
many of Our heroines have excited their lachrymal propensities
by either. The reader will remember that where a performer
acts in play'and farce, upwards of six consecutive hours are pas-
sed in the theatre, aid the absolute necessity of some sustenance
to repair the waste occasioned by lond speaking, &c., will be ap-
T ---arent. Records of a Stage Teteran.—New Monthly Magazine.
WRECK OF THE NEVA CONVICT SHIP.--The accounts re-
ceived at Lloyd's yesterday, from Launceston, state that the
wreck of the Neva transport had been sold for £7 10s., which,
With £2 16s. deducted for charges and expenses, left the net
proceeds at only.£4 14s.
Lord Gifford, son of the late noble master of the Rolls, who
died in 1826, leaving a numerous family, has entered the army
as an Ensign, in the 52d or Oxfordshire Light Infantry Regi-
ment, commanded by Colonel Ferguson, C. B.
POLITENESS IN THE GALLERy.—Last week, as Mrs. Stirling,
a handsome and accomplished actress, was playing at the Bir-
mingham Theatre, in The Maid of Switzerland, with Mr Mad-
docks, (her supposed lover,) they have to partake of some re-
fretihraeut, which he did without taking off his hat. The'circum-
stance passed unnoticed to a very "crowded house, until a wag
in the gallery cried out, " Measter Maddocks, arn't you ashamed
of yourself to sit down with a lady with your hat On?" The
performer bore the rebuke with much good humour, and, bow-
in to the polite god; did as he was desired.
How ;to rm.,. AN AMERICAN.—I was sitting by my English
companion on a sledge in front of the hotel, enjoying the sun-
shine, when the Dilligence'droVe up, and six or eight young
men alighted. One of them walking up and down the road to
get the cramp of a 'Confined seat out of his legs, addressed a re-
mark toms in English: W e had neither of us seen him before,
but we exclaimed simultaneously, as he turnedawaY,
."That's an
AineriCan." " How did' you know he was not an Englishman?"
,tasked. "Because," said my friend, "as he spoke to us without
an introduction and without a reason, as Englishmen, arc not
in the habit of doing ; and because he ended his sentence with
"Sir as no Englishman does except he is talking to an inferior,
or wishes to insult you." And how did you know it?" asked he.
"Partly by instinct," I answered; "but more because, though
a traveller, he wears a new hat that cost him ten dollars, and a
new cloak that cost him fifty (a peculiarly American .extrava-
gance); because he made no inclination of his body either In
addressing- or leaving us, though his intention was to be civil;
and because he used fine dictionary words to express a common
idea-;-which by the way, ton, betrays his southern breeding. Anti
it you'want other evidence, he has just asked the gentleman near
him to ask the condueteur something about his breakfast; and
an American is the only man in the world that ventures to come
abroad without, at least French enough to keep himself from
starving." We found afterwards that our conjecture was right.
His name and country were on the brass plate of his portmanteau
in most legible letters, and I recognized it directly as the address
Of an amiable and excellent man, of whom I had once or twice
heard in Italy, though I had never before happened to meet him.
Three of the faults oftenest charged upon our countrymen are
over-fine clothes, over-fine words, and over-fine or over-free
manners.— Willis's pencilling, by the Way. '
.MARRIAGR. EXTRAORDINARY OF TWO ROMAN CATHOLICS
IN A PROTESTANT CHURCH.—Married, on Sunday, in Ballina-
boy Church, by the Rev. Thomas Beatnish, Daniel M'Carthy,
of Balinabera, near Balinhassig, to Honora Canway, of the
same place, bath Roman Catholics. The happy pair were at-
tended to the church by many of their neighbours and friends,
who were highly delighted, and cheered them as they passed,
bestowing blessings on them for their spirited conduct on the
occasion, which forced them to this alternative, and thanking
the Rev. Mr.. Beamish, who published the bans three Sundays,
and married them gratis.—Cork Herald.
GRAVES OF GENIUS.—Mrs. Jordan sleeps at St. Cloud; Ast-
leys (father and son) in the Cemetry of Pere la Chaise; John
Edwin (the Liston and Matthews combined of his day) at St.
Paul's, Covent-garden ; Kemble (J.) Lausanne.; Suett, in the
ground of St. Paul's Cathedral; Kean, without a stone to mark
the spot, in Richmond church-yard; Elliston in St. John's,
Waterloo-road ; ,old Johanna at Bathwick (old) churchyard ;
Macklin lies under the chancel of St. Paul's, Covent-garden;
in which 'churchyazd his 'once boon companiOn, Torn King,
rests ; Tom D'Urfey in St. James's, facing the gate, in leyinva;
street; Joe Miller in the ground in Portugal-street ;IJohn 15a1-
mer, (the Joseph Surface) at Wootton, near Li'verpoOt; Quin,
at the Abbey Church, Bath; Wilks, near Macklin, not far from
the grave of Wvcherly, in the churchyard of St. Paul, CoVent-
garden.—New Monthly Magazine.
THE Warisaw SPEECH.—The following is given as a literal
translation from the Russian of an account of the Warsaw
speech, as circulated in St. Petersburg :—" Scarcely had the
spokesman motioned to begin his speech, and uttered the word
‘Sire,'—' Stop,' said the emperor, I know what you mean to
say, rather listen to me.' he deputy began to bow. Do not
bow—you bowed just so in 1829, and in a shameless manner
betrayed and rejected the ben'efits of Alexander, who, for your
sakes did not spare the riches of his own country. A precious
page in history you have left; You yourselves, for yourselves,
built this Citadel., Now one' dire. On the slightest commo-
.
tido, in twenty-four hours Warsaw ceases to exist, and it is not
I who will rebuild it a second time. Do not place your hopes
on Germans ( Nemtzee,' which is often used indiscriminately for
all foreigners) or Frenchmen—hope only from my mercy. ho-
nour the laws—loVe your Monarch. I assure you that only thus
can yoU hope for prosperity, and strive to give to your children
a different education from is hat you have yourselves received,' "
—[*A. Arced Polish loan was made for the building of the cita-
del, the sele object of which is to overawe Warsaw.—Translator.]
ABOLITION op OATHS.—By virtue of an act of the last session
of parliament, cap. 62. the Lords of his Majesty's Treasury have
directed that in lieu of every oath, solemn affirmation, or affida-
vit (oaths of office excepted) heretofore required to be taken,
relating to the office of Woods and Forests, Land Revenues,
Works, and Buildings, the War Office' the Army Pay Office,
the office of Treasurer of the Navy, the Accountant-General of
the Navy, or the Ordnance, his Majesty's Treasury, Greenwich
Hospital. the Board of Trade, or any of the offices of his Ma-
jesty's Principal Secietariee of State, or the National Debt
office, or by any official regulation in any of these departments,
a declaration shall be substituted.

FOREIGN LOTTERIES.-It is a curious fact that notwithstand-
ing a Treasury notice was sent round to the London journals,
some months ago, cautioning them against publishing the ad-
vertisements of the Hamburg lo!tery; all the Treasury journals
have ever since continued to publish those advertisements.
Even the Globe, the immaculate and most moral Globe, the Globe
which the Treasury delighteth to honour—even the Globe pub-
lisheth the interdicted advertisement, nightly and every night,
in the most conspicuous part of its-columns I—Verily we are -at
a loss which most to admire—the efficacy of • a Treasury notice;
or the cupidity of the Treasury scribes.—Times.

• APPROPRIATE.—At a gin palace in one of the great northern
thoroughfares in Loudon, is the following appropriatenotice
" A burial club here; fees aro taken at the ban"- '
DR. BEATTIE'S METHOD OP TEACHING THE EXISTENCE OF
A DEITY TO HIS Sopr.--In the corner of a little garden,.without
informing any person of the circumstance,' I wrote in the
.mould, with my finger, the th'ree initial letters of his name, and
sowing garden creases in the furrows, covered up the seed, and
smoothed the ground. 'l'en days after this, he came running
to me, and with astonishment in his countenance, told me his
name was growing in the garden. I laughed at the report, and
seemed inclined to disregard it, but he insisted on me going to
see what had-happened. " Yes " said I, carelessly, on corning
to the place, "I see it is so; Cut what is there in this worth
notice? Is it not mere chance?" and I went away. He fols
lowed me, and taking hold of my coat, said with some earnest-
ness, "It cannot have happened by chance—somebody must
have contrived matter so as to-produce it!" "So you think,"
said I, "that what appears as the letters of your name cannot
be by chance?" "Yes," said he, with firmness, "I think so."
" Look at yourself," I replied, "and consider your hands and
fingers, and legs and feet, and other limbs; are they not regular
in their appearance, and useful to you?" He said they were.
"Came you then hither," said I, "by chance?" "No," he
answered, "that cannot be; something must have made me."
"And who is that something?" I asked. He said, "I do not
know." I had now gained the point I aimed at, and saw that
his reason taught (though he could not express) that what
begins to be, must have a cause; and that what is formed with
regularity must have an intelligent cause. I therefore told him
the name of the Great Being who made him and all the world;
concerning whose adorable nature I gave him such information
as I thought he could in some measure comprehend. The
lesson affected him greatly, and. he never forgot either it or the
circumstance that introduced it.—Beattie's Life.
SUDDEN INCREASE of FoRTUNE.—Tbe Salisbury Journal
states that there is not :he slightest doubt as to Mr. Thos. Gill,
the mail cart contractor between Salisbury and Warminster,
coming into possession of the estates belonging to the late John
Angel, Esq., of Crovvhurst, to the tune of £90,000 per annum.
A SNUG FAMILY PARTY.—A gentleman in Manchester ob-
served that he was constantly meeting one or the other of some
brothers who have a warehouse in that town. A few days since,
said lie to one of them, flow is it that lam always meeting
you or your brothers? how many of you are there?" "Only
-five in Manchester.' was the reply. "And how many snore
elsewhere ?" continued the querist. "Seventeen othe:s in Hod-
deistield," said the party questioned. This made in all twenty-
two sons all living, as well as their father, who is a strung bale
old man,r-Sitejjetd his.