The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-26 00:00:00

DREADFUL FIRE IN SLATER-STREET.

About half-past five o'clock on Sunday morning a dreaxt-
ful lire broke out at theeerrner of Si ter. street and .Wood-
street, conti4uous to the Music-ball, which caused the
destructijn of property to a very large amount.
The premises, which have now to a great event been
reduc'd to a heap of rains, were toe property of the late
Mr. William Calloway,. painter and paper-hanging manu-
facturer, of 26, Brownlaw-street, who died a few weeks
since, and who willed them, we believe, to his widow.
They were erected five or sis years ago on the site of the
old Deaf and Dumb School and Eye and Ear Institution,

and formed a very spacious budding, extending, along
Slater-street and Wood-street a considerahle way, and
being four stories in height from the level of the pave-
agent.
The shop at the corner was occupied by Mr. Calloway.
TVri adjoining shops in Slater-street were tenanted by Mr.
John Hunt, a gas-lamp-nriker, and Mr. Dodd, a dyer;
and there wa: a third shop also adjoining, which was un-
tenanted. Over the whole of those shops in Slater-
street, and extending back to Mr. James Edmund Lee's
house, in Wood-street, ran the first floor of the building,
which was occupied
_by William Porter Dreaper,

piano-forte-maker, of told-street, as his show-rooms
The third and also the fourth stories were used by Mr.
Cs.noway as paint-rooms and places where his business as

a paper-banging inantif

• V 0, 0
The fire seems to have been first discovered in that part
of Mr. Calloway's third story which looks into Wood-
street, and is on a line with Mr. Bunt's shop, but so ra-
pidly did it extend, that the whole of the upper part of the
premises was in a blaze when 'Mr. Hewitt, with the en-

ales qu:

y communicate(

wards with the fou►th story and the roar, and downwards,
Les°, with Mr. Dreaper's show room ; and for some time
the fire threatened the most alarming consequences to the
surrounding property. _ _

„ .
It wa. eight o'clock before the fire could be said to be
completely subdued, and long before that time the entire
of the roof had fallen in, and the beams and flooriogs of

the second and third stories, as well as the frames and
sashes of twenty-six of the windows, had been completely
burned away. Five of the pianos and all the stained paper
in Mr. Calloway's shop were preserved, but the property
saved hears very lit le prop rth:n to the glantity lost.

Mr. Dreaper's loss must have been vr ry considerable.
His show-rooms contained between sixty and .sevenry
pianos, some in rosewood cases, and all very valuable, and
not one of this vast number, with the exception of the five
as escaped destruction. Ile is at pre-

already mentioned,
%put in PAri, and

by any means

fully inured. Mr. Call ,may is insured, but, we believe,
not to the extent of drunage which the buildinc has sus.
tained,es.burried at be:wrrn £2,000 and £3,000. and the
loss he has suffered by the destruction of irno.euse quanti-
ties of stained raper. co,tly moulds used for the purposes
of his trade, oils, varnishes, &c. The origin of the fire is

The va!u" of the game killed upon the estates of Mr.
Clifton, o' Lytham l'all, in Lancashire, la.t year, has

laves atiC

hares at 2s G.I. eacn,,wculd amount to £875. and 14,(.00
rabbi a, at 2s. per couple, would an.,ount to £700; t0t,.1,

—,-.
SELECT VESTRY. On Tuesday, the usual weekly
rneetit;g of the Seh et I'estry was hell at the Parish Of-
fice. The pmetedit gs of the Woarboue Committee
contained a re trence to the crowded stale of the lunatic
ward. The owter was rc hared to the overseers. The
Industrial Scho,l Con:water trported that thrte of the

ht allrg. (I

s the esuse of Ilia it re,,igoation

that the ut the beli, ols wa. I i'etionable

uoilt e ii s d wale inywrics !too the truth of
ati.d 14 fluid tiro JtAin,t, n complaintd

that the t achers were not re! mute,
of the house. Giles st:tetl lhat he
Air. Cur

d been reported by

‘t lur Lot taihkir.g

leeetwe s we-re e+ett

A later

was ',tad from 51r I mow r, ti-elitrog tte honour of the

ci,ticy was ordered to he filled up at the next meeting.
The Sub catonii tee of the Workhouse recommended
that the ralary of Mr. Heatlicote, keep er of books and
counts, be reducrd frcm £l5O to £l3O per annum;
salary of Mr. clerk to the chaplain,

Radel.fle, surgeon, next month, only two nindical nificers
be coniinusd in the house. l!e at ailed Linmelf or the
present orpo,tuni'y in contr.:diet a report which had been
circu!at, d, that the t crl.ll, use Committee aid the lin-
norarq• NI, dical Board were not on good terms, and 'hat
the Wm kin.use Committee Irusttalt d the I honorary Me-
dical Board. Thsre was not the slight..st touidet•on fcr

141 r. Hard moved, as an amendmini, Ihht
's salary rtnadin as at present, £l5O per

the report
r. llratliCo!t

- DUCK (20M MITTF E, THURSDAY.—PIans for a new basin
and t.lip for the sratth eh(' of the decks w, re r•nbrnitted,
atrd ordered to lie on the table tor a we. k fr.r the inr=pee-
twit ot the cournti,tee —Plans of the new gracing docks
at the north er.d, with tiles dtorecs;or,s. &c were also
()nit red to lie on the table till lox& Taursday.—lt was

ordered that Mr. Pt ter Cato should repair the damage
done to the Quten light-ship by dry rot. at an expense
es,ircated at About 759.—A s)nopsis of the Jules and
regulatiot.s lor the Alton Dock were submitted, and the
dlscussion upon them at!joutt,ed till next wt ek.—A letter
recd from the Officers of customs, ow leg that it would

be prop r•ed

t the Kin

.elditions at the wareiAtus s Dock were
n.ade. A cory of this !titer was ordered to be sent to
the Antutieati 1 hantbrr 01 C, nimeree, who petitioned the
comit,t.tee to creel the wale I owe at the ninth end. The
Secretary stated that the old warehouses. when the alte-
rations are comp eted, writ hold 194 00 hhds , a, d that
the greatest stock ever held here ass 17,01A.1 bhds.—A
police report if the fire at the Brunsaica Dock, en Sa-
turday, wa, the n lead. 'lie chairman regretted that men
alto aorke.i the male es received so poor a re muiteration
fcr their labour. Tht y only cot Is. for the first hour end
61. etch hour afterwar. s. Some conversation took place
upoti this point, but it was th-cidcd the committee crud
not interfere, as the matter rested with the Watch Corn.
ntittee.—Thomas Stitzaker, ko eper of the Crosby 1 Ott-
flip, was attvcinttd picr-master at Clarence Duck. at a

The solicitor reported tha the conveyrinee of