The Sun. — 1846-10-30 (London, England)

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT LIMEHOUSE.—Last even ing, between six and seven o'clock, a fire broke out in the extensive cooperage, belonging to Messrs. Gordon and Son, in Church-lane, Limehouse. The flames were first discovered issuing through the roof of the cooperage, a building nearly 150 feet long by 50 feet deep, which contained a considerable number of casks and staves. There were about twelve compartments in the premises, which were used as separate workshops. With such fury did the fire extend, that in less than ten minutes after the first alarm was given, at least one half of the spacious building became encircled in flame. The engines quickly attended, but by the time they could be set to work, the whole of the cooperage was on fire, and for some time it was feared that the houses in Churchlane and Oak-lane would become ignitod, the heat being so intense, and the burning flakes were sent flying over the parish church. By half-past eight o'clock the fire was at length subdued, but not until the premises in which it began were reduced to a mass of ruins. The stock in trade destroyed is also considerable. PUMPKINS FOR Cows.—The South Australian Re. gister says:—" Many a colonist who had the gsod fortune to call in at Teneriffe or Rio de Janeiro on the passage from England, will remember the long-keeping or melons elAonssipmuitlaorn bsuoaprpdlyfoorr tnhnetrmitiilcveh cows, if atp i statede-me i o nsw itPnhuemfrodim rePdkwe erse ahas been successfully resorted to by a colonist,judicihotiteshheents i wnhtoo smallhas laid pieces,by a a nstore v gives sf intervals to his cows, by which this change of provender is devoured with avidity. This artificial method of increasing the quantity of milk, when the natural pastures are parched and scanty, has been found to answer so well that in all probability the example will be extensively followed. We heed hardly intimate to our rural fellow-colonists what immense supplies of such kinds of food might be grown even upon sandhills or spots of ground hitherto considered barren or unprofitable. The pie-melon will keep in high perfection from season to season, or even during a voyage to England. FATAL FlGHT.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. William Baker held an inquest at the Bricklayer's Arms, Charlotte-street, Curtain-road, on the body of Francis Lee, aged 29 years, a baker, residing at No. 7, Mills-court, Curtain-road, who died on Monday last from injuries he had received in an affray with a man named George Tomkins, in East-road, City-road. It appeared from the evidence that on Tuesday, the 20th inst., the deceased had been elrinking, with several companions, at various public-houses. Towards the evening he became very much intoxicated, and entered the Three Crowns, in himtell w assistanceith several g r great vai to violent no tl nnbocl teo:we blows. man, wmaene:t Tomkinsmt e wE aa ss t 13rionagd , opaCnisilelt pillow being eoaifannodgr. and nl-dmldeaheenerwdwTee while Tomkins. theileitaanoinsindn. ed wt Tot:aafahsptehprpeoaf(oola.i pains iiaoimo nnfn.dhtti wohrhi scfefered to fight any one present, and divested himself of his coat. Tomkins, the pottnan belonging to the house. artsuhcebkyleeding most profusely, and To rose from his seat, sal stated tilaptt,ehdaenyt'dh aret bothmthaei fought.nfeet there home to his lodgings, ert the Trd.eeerCsael Alfredeaf aoscene minutes,deceased edeceased ee a ewdh eswnt procuredforms, stomach.l d Re continued to get worse, hwßvTei.hyaosedewm:dnb out, Tomkins,ache cehaa disfigured,s witheende nefdae surgeon,tdan falli and expired on Monday afternoon laos ft . a Ileb l(( r Brown) attributedabdomen,men, eelsenatshed,to ntoh ed oubt. bursting table. The jury returned a verdict of I,l44jauasgtiaefirianbs, "Justifiable homicide." theht  TArr's MAGAzum.---We hear that this popular periodical has now become the property of those enterprising booksellers, Messrs. A. and C. Black; the original propri(Aor, Mr. Tait, being about to retire from business. —.Edinburgh Witness,