On Wednesday night last, ...
The Times, 1824-04-19T00:00:00

un iv ednesdlay night last, about eleven o'clock, a most alarming fire broke out in the extensive oil and warc mills of llIr. Joseph Illedley, a; Crown Point, in this town, and notwithstanding the prompt attendance of the engines from the Sun, Norwich, and Phwinix Fire-offices, and the great exertions of the men, the build. ing in which the fire originated was burntto a shel!. AU the ma- chinery and from three to four hundred quarters of rape and lin- sced, and a considerablequantity of dyc-wares, were destroyed; but eve are glad to have to state that the principal oil-mill, thc steam en- gine, and a large range of warehouser, nearlv contiguous, were by great exertions preserved from the effects of the conflagrntion. We are happy to learn that the bulding and propertv are fully insured in the Sun, Norwich, Pheenix, and Imperi3l offices. It is a verv singular coincidence, that nin. years before (within a single day) the same premises were destroyed in a sitnila manner. There is no reason to suppose that the fire wvas any other than accidental, though the precise mode in whiclh it originated has not been ascertained. No accurate estimate can yet be formed of the extent of the loss which has been sustained. The buildings are the propertv of lMessrs. Dennison and Wilkinson. In the sameeveningadreadfdl fire brolie out in the extensive woollen-inanufactorybelonging to Messrs. Gandy and Son, a, Kendal; the progress of the flames was-not to be ar- rested by anv exertion whicheould bemade, and in three hours this irnmense pile of buildings presented the appearance of a mass of ruins. The damage is said to exceed 15,OOOl._Lcefr Afereury. STOLEN HORSEs.-It is with pleasure we announce the recovery of one of the numerous.horses which have of late been stolen from this neighbourrhood. Alr. Chereley of Boyton-hall, Roxwell, wuho iost a horse on Sunday night last, 3espatched rersons in various directions, and among others, Mlr. Winm. 8arrington, ronstable of Brick Chignell, who went to London, where, by perse- verance and good luck, he recovered the animal;, anl at the same time di5covered a system which is now cartied on in verv remote parts of the capital, which, if not put a stop to, the kreatest enms- ragement will therebv be given to the contitination of this secies of theft, whiclh it has afwayti been the most difficult to provide'against, and will continue so to be as long as sucb receptacles as those called boiling-houses are allowea to afford so ready and so appavteatl safe m rnarket, by the almost instantaneous destruction of the aninmals. Our readers wiU learn with indignation, and with feelings of horror, that in three of these boiling-houses, established iR the r[eighbour hood of Wrhitmchapel.road, actording to the confession of the.ownes, dn less than-20D horses are killed in a week- It wasin a&ondtmnred Lell belonging to one-of thiese receptacles, kept by a man narned iMiatthews, that Alr. Cheveley's luxre wvas found ; and notwithstand- ing she is sound. withlout blemish, not over aged, and upon i-fall tstimation worth 121. to 141., she Ihad been purchased at 21., and had been condemned to die within an hoer of the disco- iery ! ! It is in such places, we have reason to fear, a most unwar- rantable carnage of the lost mnimals has been carried on, where the horse worth 501. and that of 204sL valut have shared the same f4te ; even mares heavy with foal, hielI in iU g rebabihity iu the bighiest estimation by their owners were seen to havebeen butchered bv the remorseless and of such abettors in the crime of -horse,steailng, Mr. Cheveley's mare, when discovered, was said to belong 'tp one Sparks, who proves to be. latthews's foreman, and he-very ingeni- ously accounts for her coming into his posse5sion in' the followiing improbable manner:--" WiUiam 111ingay, EsqR a Frenchman, of Chigwell.row. beingabout to quit England forlrance, detired John BrowvF, his scrvant, to take themare to a boiling-house, and see her killed with his own eyes ! I !" Bow -John Brown performed his trust is clearly exp6sed. Harrington visited four boiling houses in the vidnity of Smit'ti'leld, where he saa 50 hones, several of them dead, and othees waiting only for the strokce of the executioner. It appears that the horses are afl killed as- they arrive ; their entraiLsi taken outandthebodiesmad asdryas possible to preserve them untila market for the flesh can be found. Mr. Zheveley was dllow ed,to t,ke his mare withoutt the least egposition. On 'Wednesday night a horse-was stolen from the Rev. ; i,ntter; -ectot of Gr6eat Warley. A man, who formerly lved seryant with .UMr. Cheveley, has been apprehended on strong s.mpit7ion of being the iperson who stole the mare,-Chedmsford paper,