The Sun. — 1845-01-10 (London, England)

FIRE AT CLERK ENNV ELL.—Yesterday morning, shortly before one, a fire of unusual fierceness was discovered by police-constable Nicholls upon the extensive i premse s known as the Princess Royal, in St. John'sstreet-road, at the corner of Corporation-row. When first perceived, the flames had obtained a strong hold of the bar and parlour, and they were bursting through the fanlight. Fortunately one of the fire-escapes, which was stationed in the vicinity, was taken in front of the flaming premises, and two females and a male were taken down the same. Several engines soon arrived, the supply of water was ample, and the firemen made great exertions ; but their efforts were in vain. The interior of the building was entirely destroyed, and even the walls are in a tottering state. At one time it was reported that a young man had perished, but it was subsequently believed that he had not returned home when the fire commenced. The origin of the calamity is unknown. The Foundling Chapel, which has been the source of attraction for the last eighty years, is now closed on Sunday evenings, and an afternoon service has been substituted.  " The Monitor seems either not to be cognisant of the fact, or carefully to conceal it—that this rumour was whispered about for some days, and that the calm-Jinjators of OW' land—those who would affix upon our noble, our generous people, the contemplation of a crime of de.paT die than -any wherewith our Saxon taskmasters ever sought to blacken the fair fame of our country-sought in vain to get currency fur their guilty lie, till a rasa clergyman, connected with Westland. row Catholic church, perhaps in mistalctu affection for the Must lice. Prelate whose name" was mixed up with this foul fraud—perhaps through over-heated zeal for the new doctrines lie has espoused, that the clergy should become the tools of the Castle, or, perhaps, to demonstrate the working of Cast!e connexion—was found en Sunday last to give publicity to the aspersions against his countrymen, which he, at least, should have inquired into before lie promulgated." The Dublin Evening Pust of this afternoon contains the following:— " A rumour has been bruited abroad, to the effect that a Tipperary magistrate wrot, to Archbishop Murray of a horrible plot that he had detected—the object of the conspirators being to murder his Graice, because he had become one of the Commi_ssioners under the Bequests Act. It is even said that tl,e matter was alluded to from the pulpit of one of the Catholic churches in this city. Now, we do not know that we should think it worth our while to allude to this matter at all, if we had not learned that Mr. Knaresburough, a magistrate of Cork, had sent a letter to Arcl:bishop Murray, enclosing an anonymous note, manifestly a fabrication, in which it was said that such a conTiracy was in progress. On this information, Doctor Mioray, as a sensible man, could lay no stress whatever. his Grace, we dare say, saw was a trick of the enemy. Why it was gotten ups.-whyt, such a flagitious libel on the country has been put into circulation—with all our knowledge of the characters of your little mischievous poloical folk with which the city is infested, we really cannot make out. That it is as Orange lie, we believe—hut, nevertheless, the Evening Mail, though the editor must have heard the rumour, gabby as it is and virulent, deemed it more advisable, for the present, to be silent. But we are wasting too much time o.) the • falsehood.' "