New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-15

How SIRE FrLL.-Few people who have NOD
visited England can understand the affection with With
the Ieople II minor cathedral town view the eccssi.
e,ial edifce which is the principal ornament OF tner
place and which chiefly attracts strangers The eehe'
oral towns usually very qie', elean-rather sleepy
Der Of cergymen and little choir boys, and, excepting
on MARIE; days. they the mos, prominent indydu'
ais in the place. There is daily service ia the ealhe'
drs To he sure mob ody but the clergy and he organ
ist ard the choir boys ald few eunous s.rangers
attend but then IL very gratifying 70 too towsioik
70 know that everything l. gog On right. Their love
for the cathedral il latent in prosperous tines bat once
lee the old edihce into trouble and tbey will mako
lively demons of heir esteem For instance, at
York & few years ago. mamie set hTe 70 the cabe-
dral. and ,hs richly carved woodwork of the stalls
WIS de,troyed. Tie owr stolx at held meeting
aud subscribed enough ts replace the ehershed orna
ments
Ia this country Burlington, New-Jersey, With Ito
81. Mary Church and Bishops residence, cones the
TO cathedral town; aud we are free TO cay
that sll tho Burlngt0nlans would feel deeply
grieved should the handsome spiIe Of ST. Mary's
some day tumble 20 the groUpd.
Such y misbap has, however, recently occurred 70
tie English town 0. Chichester. The cathedral there
though by no means among the finest OF England, waa
old and interesting IL was begun some eight hundred
years ago. The tower was built about the year
1900 and the spire placed in tie center Of the bd-
ing, rising to hight o. two hundred and seveny-our
feet, and surpassed IN altitude BY only two other
spires III the kingdom, added about tie yesr l40I
Now spire erected nearly a century before Colum.
bus set oos On American coil is entitled Venera.
ton, and therefore its fail Is worth chToiiclng Tor
fell 1t did, and thst Oh the 18th Of February last
IL appears that tho tower bad for some time shown
symptoms OF danger, and during recent repsrstions
made ir The interior arrangements Of the Cathedral,
was discovered that this danger was much more serious
than at irst supposed On the l4,h ult, crseks ard
crevices appeared in The PIERS Immediately after tie
Sunday services gu the Eth, bodies OF kmen took
possession Of tie church. aud by day and night worked
TO Strengthen The tower But che immense weight Of
the stire was too great terrific storm occurred on
the night of Wednesday the Goth, which shook the
tower bur the efforts Of sixty workmeD appeared stllI
to orsr some possibility Of ultimate success when,
at 81 In the morning, they left tie building At day.
light they returned 20 the task bat now the srire tot.
tered. At l.! p. the wormep were all ordered out
Of the Cathedral and quarter of an hour later the
tower and spire fell 10 the door with but little pose
forming nass II 6000 tuns OF run In the center
Of the church and carrying with about twenty feet
IN Length o. the nave, and much the transep and
choir: Ibe spire les fall" says an eyewitness,
at frrt inclined slightly the southwest, and ten
salk gently into the center Of the building The APP
peaisnee OF the fall was that Of large ship quietly
rslidly laundering ut sea."
fortunately no one was injured by this estsstroPhs,
put The people Of Chichester nconsoabe over then
architectural Ices. Evening Poes.