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The following is the amount of insurance effected 1 JBrooklnn ak. ReporUd for the Brooklyn Eagle. City Intelligence. 113 Among tho great number of tenements now ance. The indefinite character of this last appeal brought a great many thousands to the all willing and anxious' to render assistance," but only to find themselves gruffly ordered back" by the military.

We suppose, however, that this Was in 03" WHEREAS, The City of Now York has been visited by. a great calamity, in the destruction of'proporty hy Fire, and tho amount of losses sustained by tho Insurance Companies cannot be ascertained for several days. And whereas Policies to a large amount on the property of our citizens aro From Ctpt. Otborae'i Court and Camp. Xiife Tritbout Respiration or Food.

The monotony of our camp was broken this morning by the arrival of a vary celebrated character in the Punjaub, a person we had all expressed great anxiety to Bsc, and whom the Maha Rajah had ordered oyer from Umrutscr on purpose. He is a takiriy name, and is held in extraordinary respect by the Sikhs, from his alleged capacity of being able to bury himself alive for any period of time. So many, stories were current on the subject, and so "many respectable individuals maintained the truth of these stories, that we felt curious to see him. He professes to have been following this trade; if so it be called, for some years, and a considerable time age several extracts from the letters of individ. uals who had seen the man in the upper Provinces, appeared in tho Calcutta pupers, giving some account of his extraordinary powers, which were at the time, naturally enough, looked upon as mere attempt at a hoax upon the inhabitants of Calcutta.

Capt. "Wade, political agent at Ludliiann, tnld mt that he in the different offices the most of which, it is thought, will be paid. It will be seen that the' ag. grsgato covers about four fifths of the estimated loss: Firemen's, $150,000 North American 100,000 Equitable, 240,000 Mutual Safety 612,000 Conlribiitiunahip, 125,000 Trust Fire, 30,000 National, 28,000 Protection Ins. Co.

Hartford 60,000 jEtna, Hartford 75,000 General Mutual 100,000 Howard 150,000 N. Y. Fire 75,000 Williamsburgh 15,000 Guardian 175,000 United States, 150,000 Columbus 10,000 East River, 200,000 City 72 000 Merchants' Mutual, 300.000 Sun 400,000 American, 350,000 Ctolun 35,000 General Mutual, 75,000 Jefferson, 100,000 Alliance, 100.000 Pelican, 50,000 Mercantil 110,000 Merchants' 300,000 300,000 jEtna 110,000 Manhattan, 250,000 North River 100,000 Bowery, 60,000 Greenwich 40,000 Long Island, 26,000 Brooklyn 201000 We do not think it worth while to give a list of the buildings destroyed. Suffice to say lhat about four fifths of them were stores, from three to four stories in height, and that the dwelling houses were among the best and must costly in the city. Tho Waverly House was the only large hotel burnt the Mansion House and the Atlantic Hotel being saved by the heroic exertions of the boarders, who covered their roofs with blankets, which were kept thoroughly saturated with water taken from a Croton fountain in the court.

The beautiful house, No. 17 Broadway, defended by massive lions of basalt, or something else, is completely gutted The following list of accidents is copied from the True Sun being the most complete we have seen Occurrences During the Fire. Although the number of fatal accidents is not so great as might have been anticipated, when we consider the extent of the calamity, yet there can be little doubt that the loss of life has been considerable. Mr. Groning, the partner 01 Mr.

1 avenslaclt, lo. 4a Broad street, (two doors from the saltpetre store of Crocker Warren, where the explosion took place,) went into his store with a Mr. Court, and Henry, tho porter, to get out the books when there was not a particle of fire in it, and a few moments afterward the explosion came, blew down down their store, and all three perished in the ruins. The firemen aro digging for their bodies. Yesterday at half past one o'clock, two men, ene white and the other colored, were carried to the dead house in the Park, by some firemen who had found their bodies buried in tho ruins, at or near 40 Broad stteet.

Mr. Johnson, a porter in a store in Broad is lost in the ruins. Mr. Deram was very badly injured, and his porter was killed in tho building when it fell. A Mr.

Johnston, living close to the South Ferry, died from injuries received. A man's head was found by the side of engine No. 22, just after the explosion. Owen W. Brcnnan, assistant engineer, Bavs he is pretty confident that a man 2nd his wile and five children, were buried in the ruins of a house in Exchange Place.

In a house in Greenwich street, at the back of the Mansion House, a chest of drawers was thrown out of an upper window, and killed a boy passiug by at the time. Mr. Augustus L. Cowdrey, a member of No .42, son of the late Samuel Cowdrey, was in one of the buildings in Broad street when it fell he has not been heard of since. A reward is offered for bis discovery.

A German merchant named Aldrich is said to bs missiug About noon, a fireman, apparently in the aronies of dealh, was lying on tho steps of tho Bank of commerce, surrounded by physicians and friends. Neither his name nor the cause of the accidtnt, could be ascertained. List of persons sent lo the Hospital by Dr. Quack enboss Peter Quinn, 27 yoars old, fracture in the arm. Rebecca Mile, 45 years old, contusion in the face by powder.

This woman lived opposite the house where the explosion took place in New street, which was blown up with two women and one child supposed to have been lust. Rodolph Schmaltz, 49 years old, burned in the face and both arms, from explosion of brandy, passing basement of store 48 Broad st. Jacob Banker, sailor, 45 years old, severely woun deo by powder, in the face. A woman was seen in Cedar street, with her nose blown One of the most miraculous escapes that wc have heard of, occurred at the saltpetre store, corner of Exchange place and Broad street. Francis Hart, of engine company io.

HZ, was on the roof of the building, playing upon it lo prevent its taking fire. He stood with one foot on the roof and the other in the scuttle. While thus engaged, the fire communi. catcd with the lower part or the building and ignited the saltpetre. As soon as the first barrel exploded, thero was a cry to ihe men working the engine in front to fall back, which ihey did.

Explosion after explosion took place the building fell in with a tremendous crash the engine was smashed, and several firemen injured one head, as wc have said, was found beside it but Francis Hart, who was appa. rently in most imminent peril, descended wiih the roof with small injury his shin being, we understand, only scratched, and he sustaining otherwiso only a few bruises. He told a gcnllemanwith whom he spoke some short lime afterwards, that it was the easiest settling down he ever had. A Mr. Cox and Mr.

Edward Johnson, who had been slaying at the Waverly Hotel, were dreadfully mangled in trying to escape with their clothes to the opposite side of the street; they had once left tho house with part of their thingsand returned a second time, when Ihey were stopped by the flames on the main Blairs, and all chance of escapo for some moments appeared cut off hut in a few minutes afterwards, by the assistance of a ladder, got down from the second story, but not until they had been much burned, and Mr. Johnson's shoulder dreadfully mangled from the falling of a beam. A member of the Southwark Fire Comnnn blown at the lime of the explosion, upwards of twenty yards down through Exchange street, and others of the same company were more or leas injured. In fact, nearly half the fire department loem to have suffered. Between 5 and 6 o'clock two men were brought into K.

B. Daly's wine and spirit warehouse, one" of them having been employed in the building of some houses adjoining bolh of them had received severe contusions from the falling of the house adjoining the new buildings at the corner of Marketfield street; one has been taken to tho hospital, but the mason has sine died, and been taken to his friends in South Brooklyn. James Kelly, belonging to engine No. 22, was severely cm in the side in passing through a window at the lime of the explosion. He was sent horns in a cab, by the other members of tho company.

A Swiss in No. 7 of the North Building, was badly bumed while helping to move some goods in Broad street Also a German, lying in No. 3 of the Marine building. A female is also st the Hospital, who had received injuries from being thrown across a room by tho concussion, caused by the grand explosion. On Saturday JIayar Haverneyer issued his proclo maticn calling out troops for tho protection of the district, and requesting all persons to tender assist in progress of erection in Brooklyn, there are few but what are denominated, in the cant of capitalists, first class residences." The thoroughfares in tho newer portions of our city are lined with lofty ranges of buildings, which are more imposing to look at than comfortable to dwell in.

The apartments are gWomy and barn like, nor can they be made to as sume an appearance of comfort unless the occupant spends a small fortune in furniture to fill up with. There is a class of people who imagine that the great end and aim of human life is attained when they aro ensconced within one of these cheerless castles, where thev can look down with sovereign contempt upon neighbors less able te plume themselves for such an oerial flight. It would seem as if a league existed between property owners to continue this system of building to the exclusion of all persons except of a certain stamp devote ths most eligible portion of tho city to the upper ten thousand," create yuarrers and drive the poor out into the faubourgs, whence they can emerge only to hew wood and draw water" for their privileged patrons. The cry seems to be: the poor are vicious they should not, in these days of high Christian civilization, pollute by their presence the abodes of virtue and refinement there, fore; hustle them out let them have a place where they may rot in their poverty and filth, and the noisome atmosphere breed pestilence and crime without stint a St. Giles, or Five Points is so necessary, in order that Brooklyn may have a resorting place for rapine and murder.

And this, too, must be the inevitable result of the present style of building. The great demand is for small comfortable residences, where the lessee can have the exclusivo right to enjoy his feelings, tastes and habits, without interruption and this demand is about as little provided for as if it did not exist. The consequence is that people with small means are obliged to huddle in large houses two, three, four families and up wards together, according to their condition a system which is productive of a low grade of public morals, and tho petty disputes from which swell the calendars of our lower courts lo repletion. All the houses to let" arc adapted to the condition of the minority instead of the majority, and go off heavily while ths smaller tenements arc tenaciously retained, at exhorbitant prices; and if there wore twenty times as many they would be readily disposed of, and the payment of rents, as a general thing, surer. The explanation of this is, that many genteel" persons would not be tempted to contract obligations of this sort which they are unable not unwilling to fulfil.

There is sometimes another end besides gain in the investment of money and tho operations of trade, which is a vioral one and its cause would be most effectually subserved by breaking up, as far as practicable, the abominable custom of double, triple and quadruple sub leases of houses and by this means tiie self respect of a large portion of Ihe population would be preserved, which is the first step towards respecting the persons and rights of others. Ico has advanced about one hundred per cent, in price during the past week, owing to the hot weather. 113" The Mayor yesterday detailed several officers to prevent the fast driving through our streets which is so rife on the Sabbath, and the congregating of rowdies upon the corners, vho are generally so lavish of insults to ladies We dn nut hear that any three. minuters" were arrested possibly becauso tho officers were not long legged enough to overtake them. Rumor says that an electro magnetic telegraph is to bo erected between the City Hall and the Ferry, in order to give notice before the offenders have time to escape by crossing.

Look out, ye bloods On Saturday evening about quarter of 1 1 o'clock, Mr. 8. N. Burrill, undertaker, in Fulton street, this city, was knocked down in Water street, near Beck man, New York, and robbed of his pocket book, diamond breastpin, He was attacked by three men, one of whom had a club, with which he struck Mr. B.

a severe blow over the head, which felled him to the ground, jumping upon his body and kicking him in a most brutal manner injuring him to such an extent that his life was despaired of. Evelina an Irish Sonnet. The following truly beautiful sonnet, translated from the Irish, is said to have been written some time in the 12th century It was on the white hawthorn, on the brow of the valley, I saw the rising of day first break the young, the soft, the gay delightful morn it kissed the crimson of the rose, mixed with her smiles, and laughed the season on us. Rise, my Evelina soul that informs my heart, do thou rise, too, more lovely than the morn in her blushes, more modest than the rifled ruse, weeping in her dews, pride of the western shores. The sky's blue face, when cleared by dancing sun beams, looks not sercner than thy countenance the richness of the wild honey is on thy lips, and thy breath exhales the sweet apple blossom black are thy locks, Evelina, and polished as the raven's smooth pinions the swan's silver plumage is not fairer than thy neck and the witch of love heaves all her enchantments from thy bosom.

Rise, my Evelina, the sprightly beam of the stin descends to kiss thee without enmity to me, and the heath reserves its blossom to greet thee with its odors! thy timid lover will pluck thee strawberries from the awful crag, and rob the hazel of its auburn pride, the sweetness of whoso kernel thou far ex cecdest let my berries be as red as thy lips, yet milky as the love begotten fluid in the bridal bosom. Queen of the cheerful smile shall I not meet thee at the moss grown cave and press to my heart thy beauties in the wood of Iniscother? How long w.it thou leave me, Evelina, mournful as the lone son of the rock telling thy beauties to the passing gale, and pouring out my complaints to the grey stone of mo valley Ah I dost thou not hear my song Oh, virgin thou shouldst be the tender daughter of a meek eyed mother. Whenever Ihou comest, Evelina, thou approaehest like summer to the children of frost and weleomo with rapture are thy steps to my view, as the harbinger of light to the eye of darkness. JTIAltlUliD. At the Central Reformed Dutch Church, at 11 o'clock, this morning, by the Rev.

Dr. Broadhead, tho Rov. Win. Lyall, to Sarah Ann Parish, of this city. MED.

In this city, on Sunday morning, the 20th inst. Clarence, son of tho laic Cornelius S. Barlow, in tho 17thyearofhis age. The relatives and friends of the family areinvit cd to attend the luncral, from the residence of his grandmother, Mrs. C.

Wright (Bridgo, near John, son streot) this afternoon, at half past 4 o'clock. Funeral services in Calvary Church, at 5 o'clock after which the remains will be taken to Greenwood Cemetery. LOST III1LDBCNI Andrew Oakes, Coroner, having kindly of fered to receiveintohis family and take careof Children who may nave strayed lrom ineir names, so ub ia en able Parents and Guardians more readily to recover them THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE to all persons into whoso hands lost Ciijldren may come, that the offer has been accepted, with thanks, and it is earnestly requested that aurh may be taken to tho store of Andrew Oakrs, No. 63 Fulton Street, that they may be taken rare of. Bv order of Common Council.

o30 2aw itION DAY EVENING, JULY St. meeting; of Citizens. It will be seen, froth OierMnyor's Proclamation, that a meeting of the citizens will be held this evening at the Exchange Buildings, corner of Fulton and Cranberry street, for the purpose of taking soms action in regard to the recent disastrous firs in the city or New York. We think the course suggested by his Honor of appointing a night patrol, for the double purpose of protecting tho property of our own citizens and preventing the depredators upon that of our neighbors from bestowing their plunder here entitled to consideration. A fire occurring in Brooklyn at the present time would bo liable to do more damage than at any other period within the last three years The cisterns, both public and private, arc nearly exhausted and the utmost precaution should, therefore, be taken to guard against such a disaster.

We ought, likewise, to prevent the eity, as far as may be, from becoming a depository of stolen goods. Xhe Second Great Fire. The destructive conflagration of Saturday last, in the densest and richest part of New York, is still the almost exclusive topic of conversation and thought. It srems impnssiblo to realise, that with an exhaust less supplv of water, in the broad light of day, and surrounded with all the appliances which ingenuity has devised for preventing such calamities, the havoc should have been so fearful and wide spread. Fom tico to three hundred buildings and five to six millions' worth of property consumed in eight hours Hundreds, but yesterday in the enjoyment of wealth, to day stricken with poverty, and some with utter ruin Widows and orphans, hose property was invested in stock or real estate, stripped of their all and families, heretofore comfortably situated, now literally without shelter These things, we say, are hard to be realised by those whose interests are not immediately concerned.

And yet, to how many do they present themselves with all ihe distinctness of actual and tangible things. Fortunately, however, the majority of the sufferers are in that sphere of life which commands greater facilities for beginning the world anew than most others They are chiefly engaged in mercantile occupations, are well insured' and, if they recover anything like a fair proportion of their policies, will soon re establish themselves in business. Tho aggregate amount of distress, properly so called, would have been much greater had one half the number of buildings been destroyed in the upper or more populous part of the city. As it is, the metropolis will not be seriously affected. We annex, from the Journal of Commerce, the following description of the burnt district: On the East side of Bioad way, every building from Exchange Place, commencing with the Waverly House, lo Marketfield is utterly consumed, also 3 or 4 dwellings below Marketfield.

The house on ihe corner of Stone and Whitehall sts, and two or three dwellings North of Stone street, remain comparatively uninjured. Thence to Broad street Stone street is the boundary. Through Broad street, from Stone to the public stores within two or three doors of Wall street, the buildings on both sides are all destroyed. A line drawn from the public stores to the Waverly House, is the limit on the Northwest. In Beaver street all the buildings on both sides art con sumed, from the Bowling Green to within five or six doors of William street.

On tho West side of Broadway the huildings arc all destroyed, from Morris at. to No. 13, occupied by Mrs. Barker as a boarding house this last included. The buildings on Broadway, North of Morris street, were saved by incredible exertions, in which the in mates of the Mansion House rendered themselves especially conspicuou The roofs of these buildings were covered with carpets and blankets constantly wetted with water carried up by hand.

Their safety is justly attributed to the fountain and reservoir in the Court of the Mansion House, whence the water that preserved them was readily procured. This is a romarkabc instance of that which was designed only for luxury and ornament, subserving a purpose of the highest utility. The extent of the fire is to be ascribed altogether to an explosion which occurred in the store of Crocker VVarren, soon after it commenced, and scattered dealh and destruction upon every side. The fore man of Engine No. 22, in a communication to the True Sun, affirms that not less than thirteen stores, in immediate proximity, were cither blown to atoms or set on fire by this disaster.

Besides these, every building in the lower part of the city was more or less injured by it and many, at a distance of one or two miles, were shaken as if by an earthquake The noise of it was heard some thirty five or forty miles up the river. It is idle, in our opinion, to im pute so tremendous a shock as this to saltpetre, in its original state and the conclusion is irresistible that it had undergone a transformation into gunpowder. Wc presume that an official investigation will be made of this affair, and tho aggressors brought to justice. The lives of the firemen should not be put in jeopardy by such infractions of law. We copy from the Journal, a summary of tho property destroy, ed, as follows Bird, Gillilan Co $300,000 Reiss Brothers Co 300,000 Fearings Ac Hall 3511,000 Post, Phillips Dale 100,000 Richards ciCionkiie 150,000 Hutchinson Ac Tiffany (rear 100,000 Barber Brothers 75,000 Rhodes Co 100,000 Mali Co 200,000 150,000 Hennequin 150,000 Gay Lussuc Co.

(plate glass) 240,000 2,220,000 280,000 Silks and other dry goods 2,500,000 14,000 bales cotton at $30 420,000 20.000 packages tea at 25 500,000 3,500 hhds. sugar at $60 210,000 1.500 boxes do. at 30 45,000 8.000 hags of coffee at glO 80100 Molasses 22,000 Wool 100,000 2,500 bales American hemp, worth 23.500 auu an Manilla do do 8.500 lo.tJUU boxes Malaga raisins, do 33,000 1.200 bbls. Zante Currants 1 0,000 baskets and cases salad oil 40 cases Genoa citron 2 600 100 casks nutmegs 40 qoq 300 cases Bordeaux prunes 4500 300 packages cloves 7 50Q 200 bales almoi.ds qdq SUl.HRK.Rnn 200 buildings at 7,500 $1,500,000 Total $5,558,600 Among the goods consumed were 14,300 bales of cotton, 20,000 chests of tea, 4000 hhds. and 15,000 boxes of sugar, 9,000 bags coffee 1 200 pieces of carpeting, 2000 lbs.

and 6000 hhds. molasses iuu.UUu bbls of fleece and pulled wool, and 300 bales Smyrna do. The greatest sufferers sre the domestic goods factors the jobbers escaped. Notwithatan aing all this, there arc goods enough in the city to supply customers, as usual, and mote will bo forth coming as soon ns places of deposit can. bo.hnd for tnem.

conformity with" orders. Tho U. S. Troops from Governor's Island and a large detachment of sailors and marines from the Navy Yard, under Capt. Hudson, were present, and did good service.

The North Carolina also sent hr men in boats for shore duty. The Brooklyn firemen, as also thqso from Williams, burgh, Jersey City, and other places in the vicinity, were speedily on hand, and several of them were more or less damaged which shows that they must have been pretty. active All, in fact, exerted themselves nobly, and are entitled to tho gratitude of the citizens. Yesterday we visited or rather, tried to visit the ruins, but were unable to see much for the smoke which hung over them, and the rigidity with which every pass was guarded by the military. The bouu liful Croton was still throwing its jets over tho burning piles, and the atmosphere was charged with an oder which vividly recalled to mind the disaster of '35.

The steps of the Custom House were crowded with an eager throng of men, women and children, all gazing in the direction of the fire, but without getting more than a bird's eye view the roofs of the neighboring buildings contained their quota, and tho srrcets were pretty well choked up. What a pity that folks were not as anxious to repair the damage produced by such means, (or any other in fact) as they are to contemplate it. On tho whole, we have no doubt that the Croton has saved, in this particular instance, an amount of property sufficient to cover its entire cost, and we trust lhat the hint may not be lost upon other cities which, with abundant resources, are yet quarrelling about the particular form in which they shall be developed. Foreign News. The steamship Britannia, Capt.

Hewitt, ariived at Boston, on Saturday, after a rough passage of 14 1 2 days, and with 104 passengers. Among the latter is a bearer of dispatches to our Government. The steamer Cambria arrived out from Boston in 10 days and 18 hours being feur hours less than the shortest passage ever beforo made. There is not much news by this arrival. The cotton market is brisk prices having advanced Jd.

per lb. and business in tho manufacturing districts is good. Subscriptions for the sufferers by the great fire in Quebec have been commenced in the principal towns throughout the kingdom. Parliament is expected to be prorogued about the middle of August. The press of applications for railroads is enormous.

Sir Wm. Follct, Attorney Goneral of England, died on the 28th ult. The ship Virginia, Capt. Coiling, was destroyed by fire on the 5th of May, about 25 miles south of the Calcutta light. She had a cargo of saltpetre and linseed, and was insured in Boston for $106,700.

All hands except the supercargo took to the long boat and were saved. N. P. Willis has recovered from his attack of brain fever. A Paris correspondent of the European Times is sure that the United States will get the whole of Oregon partly by inactivity in negociating, and partly by filling up the country with emigrants.

We shouldn't wonder. Frightful murders continue to take place in Ireland, and conflicts happen almost every day between the police and the peasantry. LATER. The Great Western, Capt. Mathews, arrived this forenoon from Liverpool with intelligence one day later.

She brings upwards of an hundred passengers. Mr. O'Conhell had retired lo Dublin, being unable to shapo the new Catholic Collegiate bill to his liking. The battle of the Boyne was celebrated by the Protestants of Ireland with great pomp. There is nothing else worth noticing.

CnuRcir of the Pilgrims. We understand that it is thought necessary to remove the roof of this building in order to give it a stronger foundation than it has at present. It was supposed, by practical builders, that this would have to be done bu the architect overruled them, and will, we suppose, have to suffer the loss. The walls aro now shored and braced to prevent accidents. The society in tended lo take possession of their house in a week or two, but will probably be prevented from doing so five or six months.

A New Crop of Attornieb. Four dozen and seven young gentlemen underwent on examination at Ulica on the 17th. Of these, two dozen and six were admitted to practice, as attornies, in the Supreme Court one dozen and three were ordered to be re examined, and three quarters of a dozen (one oblored) were incontinently rejected. The Galvanic Rings. Our readers will perceive that Mr.

James W. Smith, corner Fulton and Cran berry street, has been appointed agent for Dr. Crisler's galvanic rings and magnetic fluid. The certificates regarding the efficacy of this discovery aro of the highest character and well worthy attention. Mr.

Smith's store is the only place in Brooklyn at which Ihe genuine rings and fluid can ba obtained. ET The police offico was this morning thronged with an unusual amount of business arising from numerous cases of assault and battery, disorderly conduct and vagrancy uninteresting and disgus. ting for detail but showing the cfl'ect of some indisposed excitement through the community, probably that of tho great fire. D3" If, as our reporter says, the Mayor detailed officers yesterday to prevent furious driving through Fulton street, we should advise him not to repeat the eaution. Wo were never half so muoh annoyed in church by Iho incessant rattle of carriages before.

A man named Antoino Ycllel was arrested on Saturday, charged with stealing a silver watch from Chas. Schmcger, corner of Sands and Jackson street. He pawned the stolen article for three dollars in Reade street. He was committed. XT This morning at 4 o'clock the wind blew a perfect hurricane and tho weather was cold enough for flannels but at noon the thermometer got up to 83 notwithstanding.

Naval. Commander Frederick Eugle has been appointed to the command of the United States steamer Princeton, in placo of Caplain Stockton, who. will roinain at home to attend to the repairs and alterations of the United States frigate Constellation. Col. Humphreys, United States Chief Naval Con.

structor, arrived at Norfolk on Monday. The Beacon learns that he has hen ordered to report lo the N.vy Di'parfmrnt in relation lo the proposed met: aurosf converting the United States frieate Constel lation into a steamer. 1 held against the several companies who hare sustained such and who may be unable to respond if our city should be visited by a like cala mity. And whereas, there is reason to believe that the greater portion of our fires are the work of incendiaries. Now, therefore, Thomas G.

Talmage, Mayor of the Cily: of Brooklyn, do most respectfully and earnestly invite the Citizens to attend a Public Meeting, to be held at Hall's Buildings, corner of Fulton and Cranberry streets, this evening, July 21st, at 8 o'clock, to make suitable arrangements for the formation of patrols for the protection of the property of our citizens, and the detection of those who may desire to carry their plunder from Now York to our shores. T. G. TALMAGE, Mayor. Mayor's Office, Brooklyn, 21st July, 1845.

ST THE BROOKLYN F.RE INSURANCE CO. will continue to insure buildings and merchandize against loss and damage by fire in this city and New York, at their office, upper corner of Fulton and Front streets, near the Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn. The capital of this Company is unimpaired by the recent calamity. WM. ELLSWORTH, President Alfred G.

Stevens, Secretary. Dated Brooklyn, July 21, 1845. jy21 2w 03" THE LONG ISLAND INSURANCE CO Capital 200,000 Office, No. 41 Fulton street, Brooklyn. This Company are prepared to take risks in the City of New Yolk on favorable terms, having lost by the recent fire, only about 10 per cent, of their capital.

The losses sustained by this company will bo paid on liquidation. E. B. FINN, President. E.

Finn, Secretary. jv21 lm NORTH AMERICAN FIRE INS. CO. The recent fire has not affected the solvency of this Company they have at least two thirds of their capital left, be ides a large surplus; they have raised the premium on all storehouses dwelling houses same as before. They continue to re.

ceive applications for insurance at the Agency Office, No. 18 Fulton street, Brooklyn. jy21 tf Office of the Long Island Ins'e July 1, 1845. IT The Board of Directors have this day de clar.d a semi annual dividend of four per cent, on the capi al stock, payable to the stockholders on and after the fifteenth of July instant, until which time the transfer books will be closed. Jy2 E.

C.FINN, Sec'y. LONG ISLAIVU COAI, YARD. ETRE MO VAL. The subscriber, feeling thankful to his friends and the public for past favors, would inform them thatowing to the rapid increase of his business, he is forced to remove to a larger Held for his operations. He has taken the ground on the corner of Prospect and Pearl streets, where he would be happy to serve his friends with all kinds of COAL, of the best quality and at the most reasonable prices.

J. G. YATES. Brooklyn, May 3d, 1845. my3l) tf JOHN GREENWOOD, SUPREME COURT COMMISSIONER For Kings County, Having the powers of a Judge of the Supreme Court, and of the First Judge of the County at chambers; also, those of a Commit sioner of Deeds.

Office, 3 Front street, Brooklyn, JSL (up stairs GOODS FOR rRESENXsT AT FORSYTH'S, 99 Fultonstrcet, willbe found the largest assortment of Gold Pencils, Thimbles, Spectacles, Pins, Rings, Lockets, Bracelets, Chains, Keys, and Brown's and Bagley's celebrated Diamond pointed Gold Pens, in tuis city. Also, Silver Card Cases, Spoons, Forks, etc. and some very elegant patterns of Cake Baskets, Silver Plated Urns and Castors, Britannia Tea fers, Trays, with a variety of other goods, all of which willbe soldfor Cash at less than the usual prices. O. C.

FORSYTH, d24 tf 99 Fulton street. sTfvuElmLltc Qtr PERSONS LABORING UNDER DI ARRHCEA, DYSENTERY, or similar Complaints of the bowels, will find it to their advantage to call on MRS. HAYES, No. 139 Fulton street. Brooklyn, where thoy can obtain A REMEDY, which will have the desired effect in a few hours, and warranted as such, if taken according to the directions given.

It can be administered to the infant with as much safety as to the adult, being very agreeable to the taste, and perfectly harmless in its composition. Mrs. Hayes can re 'or to over 2,000 respectable persons in New York and Brooklyn, whose names can be seen at any time, wiih certificates from per. sons who have experienced its good effects in mi. nv cases which were honnlpRR nnrf HuoirtA nl.

siciansas beyond the reach of medicine. xi is now iwcniy nve years since Mrs. Hates first introduced ht.r invalimbla BnJ t. saved many lives, old and young, and has never failed. Sold at her residence in this city.

Price 50 cents per bottle. Also. Mr u' i.ol,.l, .4 r.l VT7 A Trn i J.J tj 1, a sure cure for sore and inflamed eyes never known 1 ia. rriuu zo cents. jeo 4m CUNNINGHAM HARRIS, DISTILLERS AND RECTIFIERS, Are at all times prepared to furnish to or.

dcr, at their establishment on Front, betw. Min and Washington streets, Brooklyn, PURE SPIRITS, WHISKEY, GIN, BRANDY, ON TNE MOST REASONABLE TERMS. Orders left at their store. 184 Front Hires, New York, will meet the same attention. d27 HATS OF ALL FASHIONS finished to order, at the store of WILLIAM II.

PECK, 114 Fulton, opposite Sands street ol0 OS! A Lady's Bracelet, blue, enameled in gold, with a light amethyst stone, close linked chain, The finder will be suitably rewarded, and receive the thanks of the owner by leaving 11m same wnn jonn v. rritico, da ulton st. jylU rpHKEE DOLLARS REWARD Stolon or Slravcd from the Riihsnriher. nn ths 4th nf July, a wide bodied yellow Cow, with a rope around her horns, and a little white on her bag, with a wart on her foremost tit, hort horns, a little blunt on the top. Any person giving information as to whore she may bo lound, will get the above reward from THOS.

McGLINN, grocer, corner of Court and Dean street, Brooklyn. 3t THREE COWS AND ONE OX 22SL TAKEN UP Taken up Yesterday, 17th instant, Three Cows, two of thim are large red, and one red and white. Also, one Brindle Ox, with short tail. The owner is requested to prove property, pay charges, and take them away. Apply to 1.

C. Church, E'ort Hamilton. July 18, 1845. jy)83t FURNITURE Just received from celebrated 1 To i.i.n l4 Bedsteads, Divani and Ottomans, 1 1 1 oieguu, piumi unu nair cioin rocKing chairs, spren. didfull French and Grerinn nuhn.i...!,.:,.

of which wil' be fold at extreme low prices, at lujjjj'ti Auction Store, my30 88 Fulton street. was present at bis resurrection after an interment of some mnntns; general veniura Having Duneo mm in the presence of the Malm Rajah, and many of his principal sirdars and, as fur as I can recollect, these were "tho particulars as witnes. ed by General Ventura: After going through a regulnr course of preparation, which occupied him seven flays, anu the details of which are loo disgusting to dilate upon, the fakir reported himself ready for interment in a. Vault which had been prepared for trio purpose by order of the Maha Rijali. On the appearance of Runject and his court, he proceeded to the final preparations that were neces.

sary in (heir presence, and after stopping with wax his ears and nostrils, lie was stripped and placed in a linen bag; and the last preparation concluded by turning his tongue forwards, and thus rinsing the gullet, lie immediately died awny in a kind of lethargy. The bag was then closed, and scaled Willi Run jeet's seal, and afterwards placed in a small dc.il box, which was also lucked and scaled. The box was then placed in a vault, the earth thrown in and trod down, and a crop of barely sown over the spot, and sentries placed round it. 'I he Maha Rajah is, however, very sceptical on the subject, and twice in tho course of tho ten months he remained under ground, sent people to dig him up, when lio was found to He in exactly the same position, and in a state of perfectly suspended animation. At the termination of the ten months, Captain Wade accompanied the Maha Rajah to see him disinterred, and slates that he examined him personally and minutely, and was convinced that all animal ion w.is perfectly suspended.

He saw the lock opened and the seals broken by the Maha Rajah, and Ihe box brought into the open air The man was then taken out, and on feeling his. wrist and heart, not the slightest pulsation was perceptible. The liist thing towards restoring him to life was the forcing his tongue back Ui its proper position which was done with some little difficulty by a person inserting his finger and forcibly pulling it back, and continuing to hold it until it gradually resumed its natural place. Captain Wade described the top of his head to have bt en considerably heated all other parts of the body co'il and health in appearance. Pouring a quantity him constitutes the only further measures for his res in two hours' time lie is as well as ever.

On my return to rSimla, accident placed in my hands the appendix to a medical topography of Lud hiana by Dr. of the horse artillery, by whose permission I hive extracted the following ac count of the former interments and resurrections of the fakir: A fakir who arrived at Lahore engaged to bury himself lor any length of time, shut up in a box, and without cither food or drink Runjeet naturally disbelieved the man's assertions, and was determined to put them to the test. For this purpose the fakir was shut up in a wooden box, which was placed in a sinal apartment below the midcle of the ground: there was a folding door to bis box, which was secured by a lock and key. Surrounding this apartment, there was the garden house Ihc door ol which was likewise locked, and outside the whole a high wall, having its doorway built up with bricks and mud. J.n order to prevent anv oncftom approach ing the place, a line of sentries was placed and relieved at regular intervals.

The strictest walch was kept up for the space of forty days anil forty nights, at the expiration of which period the Alalia. Raja, attended by his grandson and several of his sirdars, as well as General Ventura, Captain Wade, and myself, proceeded to disinter the fakir. The bricks and mud were removed from the outer doorway the door, of the garden house was next unlocked; and lastly, that of the wooden box containing the fakir tho latter was found covered with a white sheet, on removing which the figure of Ihe man presented itself in a sitting posture his legs and arms were pressed to his sides, his legs and thighs crossed. The first step of the operation of resuscitation consisted in pouring over his head a quantity of warm water after this a hot cake ofotta (wheat flour) was planed on tne crown of his head a plug of wax was next removed from one of his nostrils, and on this being done, the man breathed strongly through it. The mouth was now oprned, and the tongue, which had been closely applied to tho roof of the uiouih, brought forward, and both it and the lips anointed with ghee (clarified butter.) During this part of the proceeding.

I could not feel any pulsation at tho wrist, though me temperature of the body was much above the natural standard of health. The legs and arms being extended, and the eyclies raised, the former were well rubbed and a little ghee was applied to iho latter; the eyeballs presented a dim suffused appearance, like those of a corpse. The man now evinced sijrns of returning anima tion the pulse became perceptible at the wi ist. whilst the unnatural temperature of the body naturally diminished. He made several ineffectual efforts to (peak, and at length uttered a few words, but in a tone so low and feeble as to tender them inaudible.

By and by his speech was re established, and he recognized some of the bystanders, and addressed the Maha Rajah, who was seated opposite to hint, watching all his movements. When the fakir was able to converse, the completion of (he feat was announced by the discharge of guns and other demonstrations of joy. A rich chain of gold was placed round his neck by Runject, and car rings, bandies, and shawls were presented to him. However extraordinary, this fact may appear both to the Europeans and natives, it is difficult, if not impossible to explain it on physiological principles. The men not only denied his having tasted food or drink, but even maintained lhat he had stopped the function of respiration during a period of forty days and nights.

To all appearance this long fasting had not been productive o) its usual effects, as the man seemed to be in rude health, so that digestion and assimilation hart apparently proceeded in the usual manner but this he likewise denied, and piously asserted, that during the whole time lie had enjoyed a most delightful trance. It ia well known that the natives of Hindoostan. by eon practice, can bring themselves to exist on the smallest portion of fond fur several days, and it is equally true, that by long training, ihe same people are able to retain thu air in their lungs for some minutes; but how ihe functions of digestion and respiration could be arrested for such a length of lime, appears unaccountable. The concealment of the fakir during the performance of his feat, so far from ren dcring the latter more wonderful, serves hut to hide the means he employs for its accomplishment, mid unlil be can be persuaded to undergo ihe confinement in a place where his actions may be observed, it is needless to form any conjectures regarding Death of Ma. and ilns.

Noble. Considerable tenement has been caused by the sudden dealh of Mr. and Mrs. flioblc, in this village, within a few days A. inquest was held upon the body of Nohlft On 1 ,,,01 me jury were unanic to v.

ogree upon a verdict at that ailc adjourned t0 next day when they again and decided upon a.verdict, as we learn, that the do, eased came to his death in consequence of his intemperate use of ardent pints. On Monday, within about twcnly rour hours after flit above decision, another jury was summoned lor the purpose of deciding upon the cause of the luys lcriou death of the wile. Mrs Alice Noble, who died suddenly. Her skin was discolored, and some sup. posed that she was somewhat swollen a rumor Imd gone abroad that her death had been caused by the of laudanum, or some other poisonous substance.

After a laborious investigation of nearly three hours, rendered the verdict that her death was oc qoned by a fit of apoplexy. Noble kept a porter liouso in Grand street, between 'sddFattttii Gar. of Wed hesday..