The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-29 00:00:00

PORTICO.—The Theatre Lazary, after a tolerably successful
season, is about to close. Next Monday will be the last
night. The entertainments are of the most innocent nature,
and extremely amusing and curious. Those who wish to pay
these ingenious contrivances a visit must lose no time.
Mr. Henry Russell, who appears at the Royal Assembly
Room to-night, is the composer of several very beautiful
ballads. He has made a considerable impression in London.
We have been informed that he possesses a fine voice, and
that his style of singing is very original and effective.
The Cork Constitution of Saturday says, that at the late
examination in Trinity College, Mr. Thomas Waller Evans,
only son of Eyre Evans, Esq., of Kiltnalooda, in Cork
County, distinguished himself by obtaining a first rank pre-
mium in classics.—[We believe the young gentleman is a
near relative of Alderman Evans, of this town.]

FREE TRADE TEA PARTY.—Last night there was a small
tea party in the large room of the Albion Hotel, Woodside, j
in aid of the £50,000 fund of the Anti-Corn-Law League.
Only about one-third of the number who were expected were
present. Mr. Lawrence Heyworth, who presided, addressed
the free trade ladies present, in a speech of more than ordinary
dullness; and he was followed by Mr. Bentham, a local
quaker, Mr. John Bright, another quaker imported from
Rochdale, and an Irish barrister named Moore. The affair,
we should think, would hardly pay its expenses.
THE FTTNDS—SATURDAY EVENING.—The government
broker was a buyer of stock to-day ; the extent of his deal-
ings was not positively known, but from their effect on prices
being only temporary, it is presumed they were of a limited
nature. Consols for money touched 94k, and closed 94a;
the account price left off 95 to I. There were no other bar-
gains of interest. Three per Cent. Reduced closed 94 ;
Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Reduced, 1002 to ; New
Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1012 to i; Long Annuities,
121 to 9-16; Bank Stock, 171 to 173; and India Stock, 265
to 267. Exchequer Bills were marked at the lower price of
545. to 565. premium. More confidence was displayed in
the purchase of foreign securities, and the result was a much
firmer position for prices. This applies to the market gene-
rally. Mexican was done at 302, and finally closed 30k to
3111 ; the Deferred was 8/ to ; Spanish Actives left off at
the better quotation of 18+, and the New Three 'per Cents.,
222 to i; Portuguese Five per Cents. were 37+ to ; ditto
Three per Cents., 22+ to al- ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 522 to 53; Dutch Five per Cents., 1011 to ; Da-
nish, 83 to 84 ; Brazilian, 651 to 661; Colombian, 21:1
and Belgian, 1021.
FIRES LAST NIGHT.--Yesterday evening about half-past i
five o'clock, a fire broke out in the upper part of the premises
of Mr. Chapman, jeweller &c., on the west side of Castle-
street, nearthe Exchange, and excited for some time. consider-
able alarm, though happily the damage was eventually but
trifling. The fire broke out in a bed-room on the third story,
and fronting the street. A. boy had been sent up stairs to
bring some article of dress from the apartment, and a spark
from the candle which he took with him, had, no doubt,
fallen amongst some of the clothing and ignited it. The en-
gines were speedily on the ground, and hose being taken up
stairs the flames were subdued in a few minutes, the only loss
being a small quantity of clothing.—This fire was no sooner
extinguished than the alarm reached the fire-station that
another fire had broken out in Limekiln-lane. The engine
in Castle-street was immediately driven off to the spot, and
others were dispatched in a few minutes afterwards from the
fire-police-station, together with a strong body of the fire-
police. This fire had broken out in the paint, colour, and
turpentine works and sheds of Mr. William Glover, near the
top of the lane on the east side, between the two high wind-
mills, and occupying an area of about 40 yards by 15. The
materials were of the most combustible nature,—namely, oil
paints, varnish, grease. tar, turpentine, &c. ; and the erec-
tions—of one story within a wall—were almost entirely of
wood. The men had been at work after dark, with a light,
rolling in casks of turpentine. About a quarter before six
o'clock a blaze of fire was observed to issue from some of the

turpentine and close to the wall that bounds the premises on
the side next the street. There are two gates:one at each end
of the wall, and efforts were made to extinguish the frames,
by the men employed on the works, and a number of others,
but without effect. The first engine came up about 20 mi-
nutes past six, and others immediately followed. The fire
had, by this time, gained such a head that it became evident
that little or nothing in the works could be saved, and the
exertions of the firemen, under Mr. Whitty, Mr. Hewitt,
and others, were diverted to the extinguishment of the flames,
in order to save the adjoining buildings on the north, east
and south sides, including the two mills at the extremities,
Miss Burrow's house on the north, and other premises, in
which their efforts were happily successful. After great ex-
ertions for about 40 minutes, the fire was so far subdued, that
lamps were required to enable the men to complete their work.
The whole of the sheds and works were destroyed as well as
nearly the entire stcck—what little is saved being so much
injured as to be of trifling value. We regret to say that Mr.
Glover had not insured any portion of the property, and the
loss will be to him a severe blow. Owing to the neighbour-
hood being densely populated, and the fire becoming known
at the time when the workmen at the docks are let loose
from labour, the crowd that• had collected in the street—
which is very narrow and long—when the engines came up,
was immense. No accident, however, occurred. At one
time, during the early part of the fire, the public-house im-
mediately opposite the spot where the fire commenced was
in great danger of ignition, the paint of the window-shutters
being scorched off, and the glass in the gas-lamp over the
door broken by the heat. Luckily the wind was from the
south-west, and tended to confine the body of the flames to
the area of the premises where they originated ; and the dan-
ger was further averted by a number of workmen, who car-
ried and threw water upon the woodwork. The next house,
on the south, was also in considerable danger, but also es-
caped. At the back of the burning premises—which soon
resembled an open yard, strewed with half-burnt boards—
stood several tea-vans, three of which were burnt, and ano-
ther much damaged. A horse was also burnt to death, and
others had a narrow escape in some stables on the same side,
which sre approached from Titchfield-street. By eight
o'clock the fire was entirely subdued.—About half-past
twelve o'clock this morning, another alarm of a fire was
given, which had broken out in West Derby. We could not
learn particulars, as we were on the eve of going to press.