The Sun. — 1844-12-20 (London, England)

LIVERPOOL.—About two o'clock on tla4llY morning last, two police-officers, named FairAark(,B), and Price (88), were. on duty in Toxteth alld went into a brothel for the purpose of sup';',.ng a disturbance among the inmates. After they tit,:eoeeded in their object, and when they were again ail i 5 (111 duty on their respective beats, a fellow, named Whi,itto Jones, 'followed them from the brothel into held-street, where he made a fierce attack upon 110,4 with Et large poker which he brought from the retie Fairclough closed with him and attempted to 146"e1i the poker from his grasp, but in the attempt the a1,..41 Struck him a blow with that deadly instrument tfiri,,eh fractured his skull, caused the brains to protrude Ar•"atb the opening, and laid him senseless at his feet. lishiet in endeavouring to render assistance to his c0ma4,21, also received a blow of the poker, which tik—C,t'ed off a part of the bone immediately above his eyebrow ; but he was enabled to call for assist• and to punt out to the officers, who speedily aria'f', the brothel to which Jones had returned after litantl "ing the blows. The door of the place was ina„,Y broken open, and the fellow was arrested and „ off to bridewell. Fairclough was conveyed to the %()tl Hospital, where he died yesterday. The pri• -tea,-L• r'as been brought before Mr. Rushton, and will be ~.eated for trial to-day, on a charge of wilful murder. e'er/1001 Albion.Vrt,,,ltlaAanin FIRMS AT LYME REGlB.—lntelligence lia,;"ivad in the course of Wednesday at the several fire ti,„;''aneu-offices in the metropolis, of two most destrucnikVres having taken place at Lyme Regis on Sunday occasioning a serious loss of property. The out-" itral‘ happened between 11 and 12 o'clock, when on the b • tiai„, tang raised it was found to have originated in an ttithabited house in Church-street, and from circumfsiCee6 which have since transpired, it is too sadly a.txteti that it must have been the work of some incen-107. Owing to the roof of the building being thatched, 61 most of the rest in the town, and a strong S.E. wind 141"Tg at the time, the flames raged with extreme fury, ip thgred the adjoining houses. The engines stationed borough were quickly drawn to the spot, and as liii(lalttlY got into active operation ; but so firm a hold it ei.," ,qe destructive element of the property, that before 1ic,„"41 be in any way mastered, four of the adjacent by des had fallen a sacrifice. One of them was tenanted tos," of the name of Lynn, the oldest person in the that a, who being bedridden, it was generally supposed es„pha had perished amidst the flames. It was, how-01 6; afterwards ascertained that he had been carried out Nne burning building. Scarcely had the inhabitants :treattaitvied b... vexed from their alarm before they were again the bursting forth of another fire in the same the w, about 60 yards higher up, on the opposite side of The Y, at a house in the occupation of a Mr. Garland. tq 14-tremen and their engines were almost immediately ta,;:eadance, and notwithstanding the most strenuous ti0,..-"°nt on their part, they were unable to stay the to 6,ll:ess of the flames until three buildings, in addition Thc:e one tenanted by Mr. Garland, were destroyed. some 3econd calamity is also said to have been caused by Wasaliacreant intentionally. The town during the summer and 116ited by a fire which consumed tie Custom-house I,llPwards of 40 houses. 14,11" PATRONAGE or