Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-06-10

course Of the next week ot!ic! actS Wou'u NC H''
and then he shoulc aeufess 'he eiid"'o'i "
their veri,alc charac'cr
Thc General DISCUSSION being closed, the ChamDe!
ntoce,t.d 10 the discussion al the articles
The Chamber adjourned al quarter past hre.
The PARIS journals, without exception, ah''c'Pa0
r,. I,,yccn Enrand and America, unless that enc OF
The other give way, aud private letters iehllo"
tc,s winch would appear coniirnaory oil mat an''e'
r,,,on These facts the drtnltve resolve OF 'he
French Government not to aty the treaty OF 'he Su
Dcobe, lSI2 for tine suppression OF the slave trade
as President Tyers appreciation Of all that The Ame
80. Munster in Paris General CassD has written on
IA. suh;ec, Our correspondent nevertheless, writes
nnd- ~ b.Iec that danger OF war between The TWO
exss and, in the postscript oil ms e'ef, as
ne that the dispatches of the French Aln'ster ut
u.sh;,g,on M Bacourt,) received by The oreai
ws,.rn eyprcssed an expectation that the question
r,la be amicahv arranged before the month oil July
ner, as, confident is N. Bacourt Of that result says
w co,r,s,oulci 'iiat he has applied 10 his Cont iof
leave OF absence
=, =, Il.lua died at Passy Monday last.
n, IN, l7,h NJ. Gnzot had declared that the treaty
vnnid ,ot BE- raaEed. He repeed the idea, that the
(.rorrmeu, wou.d bc EoIe ready to ratiy alter the
l;ol,,,, oi the Chambers and concluded with these
words: 10TH,
avn ~ rai,,siur to ray the treaty will equally pursue
l,an ,. doors Of this building closed and IN the
ac,u,l state Of things, conceive that shond arl IN
| fl,,lv
Tho following remarks OH the refusal OF france 10
r,,;ry The treaty are from the London Sum-
$50 far hen as regards France, there is an end oil INC
o,-ovsrsy During Tie life of tie present generation
France will Iatiy the treaty, nor Will the u STATES
adopt ii. IA
cnrce the Treaty alone aud, # resisted declare war
arains, France and the United States: Heaven iofbd
that We should be guilty of such madness!
ave have already expended more blood ana urea
bau
and the happiness of the African race would warrant
SIR Powell Buxton in his recent clever book on The
subject distinctly states that VIC have gwen all inipe
tus to The slave trade, by our expensive, but DUN
deriny -drected efforts 10 suppress IL.
at may be asked, what we would recommend Tue
British Government 10 do in The present emergency:
we answer distinctly, abandon the treaty altogether.
FIRE IN HAMBURG.
The details are most d'stressns-'he loss ue ,n
Gous The fire broke out soon alter ndnisht on "cu
nestay May Ith at house IN the DechstraSe, one VI
the nar;owcst streets in the old part OF The tow"' pun
as much of wood other materials; and II passed rom
honse to house until entered square court, surround
ed bY large warehouses, and unappToacha"'e ~ tne
street warehouse o! spirils caignt he, anu no" 'e
flames be-an 10 threaten every thing tar aud near IL
was nearly tour ocloc the Senate was called tosethc
and To- arrest the spread CT the fire, 1t was proposed 10
pull down houses but that refused as needless sa
cricc of property The Burgher Guard was caiieu OUT
bu, the services of body twenty thousand strong were
and when it was too late, few houses were ordered
10 lie pulled down.
The flames no longer dealt with few houses: they
were arrested for a short time b. reaching the wider
space oil opfenmarkt; when suddenly IN the afternoon
smoke bgrs, from the stecpie of the Ncolai church
Accumulated in the large body of the church, the heat
set fire 10 new quarter and the warehouses on the
Cnbarinen canal were soon blazing for quarter 81
nile Mr. l.ndley, an English gentleman, VINO was
engaged by the town in the construction OF ra'ifoao
,olra nIu
mn should be RACED: and the attempt was begun al SIX
o clock on Thursday evening; but 1t was nethcieniy
carried on. The quarter Ia be saved was orer'akrn uy
the tide OF FIRE, which shifted hiher and thIlher WIN
the wind; and for the next three DAYS 1t eboea ana
noYed IN uncontrolled fairy. The Town house, the
Rorsonholle the Post Office the Senate house, and
other public buildings, successfully destroyed The
masses Of buildings in the intervals being swept away
In the mean time the town like one IN state OF
sieve rs each quarter took FIRE, the inhabitants hastily
abandoned it, Some hurried away 10 The country DINERS
brought their property the streets and there IN the
o,r,c left It. and It served as fuel to the flames, which
thus found reader passage across the crowded streets
The poor, driven from house and home ana destitute OIL
means assembled in the streets which were yet Tree
from the flames; and many more o al! classes poured
out into the fields, where they collected the'r
and household ware One Of The sufferers, wiring on
Sunday thus describes the scene speaking. apparently
Of Friday or Saturday:
after taking few short hours Of rest and some lit
tie refreshments left my friends house in The country
about one English mile from the Damthor Gate, and
proceeded in his company TO have minute inspection OF
the whole scene Of destruction before u.s. ana whcn
presented most awful spectacle. About nan past .
clock F. NJ, arriving in the immediate vcinliy OF
the Daml!or, observed some hundreds oil iam'iies
encampcd and engaged IN the same operation, ana sur
reminded ~ their weeping families and relations Some
portion os their furniture accompanied lew, and othels
arain were lamenng their late IN being deprived
by so sudden and xpected calamity, IN 80 short
space of time, all they probably possessed IN Tue woiu
Myself and friend gentleman long resident IN nam
bnrr and to whom am in great measure not only m
deed for nv present home, but for the assistance he
rendered me in making good my retreat from The cry oe
fore my house completely burnt down, alter taxing
has,v survey Of all could outside the city, enteieu
the Damthor Gate and proceeded along the Damlnor
Srassc and The Esplanade far as the Jungiernsteg
Wherever we passed nothing was 10 be seen but loaded
warons and carriages with furniture, and amies ou'
SLY employed i'll packing and handing out their proper
w. amidst the most fearful solic;udc and anxiety iof
their safety The streets were literally crahimed VIII
them and i, took considerable tine and great eau
ton 10 make good passage through the mass o!
unfortunate bengs presenting the picture oil despair
ami fearful certainty that The worst was 10 come
At length energetic measures we're taken-the troops
were called out-others, Russians, were summoned
from Mardeburr--artillery sent tor from larburg
IN Hanover and runpowder from Glnckstadt and the
S,aGe-and cannon were brought to bear in cutting oil
the path OF the namcs--by which means, on Sunday
nigh, the confagration was brought under command
and by Tuesday il was entirely extngu'shed' bat
onar,er Of the rreat and wealthy city is Gone-one
Who wei to look for TIE safety of the Senate house
could no, find the spot Little reliance can as yet be
placed on tie statistics ot The calamity but II helps td
shape the idea Of it when II is tod that nearly the
whole of the public buildings and churches are destroy
ed with IS or three thousand houses and the number
Of the streets entirely destroyed is computed at forty
six The new exchange escaped unhur,, through the
yertions of Mr.. Smith.
The number ofihosc who lost their lives is estimated
At $50 to 80: 5u, the real number will probably never
he known. Surveyors have already been engaged IN
the hopeless task OF estimating the destruction oil pro-
perry The local fire Offices understood TO he quite
unequal to meet The burden thrown upon them The
London Offices, has been sa:d will all suffer severe
ly: and it wss supposed that the Sun. the Royal Tx
change and the Phrnix Gre Officers were, IN the aggre
gate, liable to the amount of fi,00o,GO0, but para
graph in the daily papers denies that the London off
GERS bad insured any "bniIdng The estimate Of the
Joss has varied greatly, the latest and highest bein!
t. ,C0o,Go Although the Bank Of Hamburg was de
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