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and a splendid dessert service, value 700 guineas, , was | various vac cinators, under the Vaccination Extension | ing the proprietors to li ht thei 
presented by his fellow-count rymen, to th ioe Secre- Act, besides an outla ch of 200. for re re gister and certificate | exhaust all the gas they paniky jaren Cen. iim ereby 
tary for Ceylon. Sergeant Murphy, M.P., presided, books ; 25931. was men, under the command of their several = 
v. Dr. Croly filling “the vice- i Dwarkanauth | trars, and 65/., as l utlay for register, offices, bo ooks, | exerted themselves to the utmost, and by extraordi _ 
Tagore, the Indian Prin nee, was pre: sent ; a re ames and other Domh expen a s, under the pro- es they succeeded in arresti ae 
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and aaga characters. An pain e the Parochial Assessments Acts (for surveys, valua- | premises. By 7 o’clock the fire was safely extinguished 
read by R. Bell, Esq. „and feelingly scknoatedged by tions, &c.) and loans repaid under the same, amounted nevertheless, it was found advisable to keep a number 
the distinguished guest. to 5287; the payments towards the county-rate to | of the engines at work during the night, lest Pete 
The British Museum.—On Monday, pursu 50,8467. ; and those towards the county and local | outbreak should occur. e amount of property re 
structions from the Trustees, the = portion of as old police forces, 92,319/. The money expended for all stroyed was very considerable; at a moderate estimate 
useum, formerly known as Montague-house, was sold | other purposes amounted to 31,2507. ; the total pa- | it cos ex nee a several thousand te = Upon e 
by auction, in order to be yc away for the site of | rochial rates, &c., 357,7247. For medical relief there | exami y fou 
the new front. This consisted of the centre building | was an outlay, during the same period of 12 months, of the aa. in whieh the fire ori ‘eluded, together With | 
with the lofty dome, the entrance hall, the grand stair- | 6273/. in the above parishes, which are not pease rely destroyed : _ opposite pre. 
case, with the various painted c ceilings in the different | under the Poor Law Amendment Act. oil prea are likew extensively in. j 
apartments on the ground- ates about 20 tons of lead, Destructive Fire in Blackfriars.—On Tuesday after- perry and ty are the buildings bel ei to the M j 
the old library, show-rooms, brick-work, &c. The lead | noon, between the hours of 1 and 2 2, a fire of a most | Hoppe, coal merchants. Several barges belonging to the 
fetched 3547., the brick-work 3427., and. r whole real- | fearful character, „attended with a large dest truc ction | same rege nd two the property of Mr. Nowell, of Paul's. 
ised about 13007. The who le e building must be cleared y damaged, and the floating-engine has 
away in 28 wor! rking days, n the new ston ll roke out upon the well-known premises be- | likewise received extensive i injury. Sir C. Price’s firm 
s the walls are already erected. | longing ki Sir Charles Price and Co., oil and colour | are fully insured ; the premises are the property of the 
Tn the interim the ublie will be admitte ays, | merchants, situate in illiam street, Blackfriars, The | Bridewell Hospital Corporation. On Thursday an in. 
gma s, and Fridays, at a ecard yr ce to | sri were of immense extent, and: spreading from | quest was) held on the body of the fireman, who was 
the west of the large gates. Wi lliam-street to the water-side. The fire originat ed, identified 1 by his friends on the previous day. After a 
_ Disappearance of Tom Thumb.—A French pap in that iry, the Jury returned a verdict of “ Acei. 
ted at Nant d the turpentine warehouse, a ae | doa ‘death, caused by a fire, but ho ow such fire origi. 
by the sudden disappearance of General Tom Thumb. brick building, about 60 feet long and, 50, feet _ wide, 
“The pigmy general wishing to attend the races at adful Explosion at calgon Arsenal. —— elan- 
Quimper, left Vannes, with his suite, at 60 o'clock, and Hoppe’ s extensive coal-yards on Pig’ s Quay W At Sig sald happened on Wednesday morning in the 
was pected to have soon ret nenian ria on the | Royal Arsenal, at Woolwich. "A Sw aliala before 10 
been previously engaged for him. His carriage wo: pie had gone to dinner. Fro m the combustible rt a loud "explosion was heard in the Laboratory 
down near | , a village situated a short Basses ure of the stock, the pere were ‘enveloped in a| Department. As soon as Pres could be obtained, 
from Quimperlé, inducing a very disagreeable elay. broad a heet Ls fame before the ate es could arrive. | a fearful spectacle presented itself. Immedia tely a 
The postilion refused ait the requisite time for the | The New Rive in the neig hboushood Lees a the door, crowded t 
necessary repairs, observing that his orderswere positive | good supply ng vtak, sia the different land engines at orehed bodies of five men = — boys. The buiding 
to return to Quimperlé at a particular hour, and vain | once took advantage of it, and Da large streams of bei run — the engines 
was all a change his resolution ; but he as- | water upon and into the burning Property ; but th aati, with the Sappers and 
sured them that he would inform his er, and | firemen were unable to a the leas t impression ae coms ct d Artileayy we were re speedily on the spot. The 
that another conductor should be immediately sent | the flames. Meanvhile g 
with fresh horses to continue their route. After waiting d bei diffi to the building, the roof of which had been already 
a considerable time, the conductor and horses arrived, | floating engine was broug nt up the river, ne iene blown off and some slight damage done to the roof of 
the repairs were completed, and General Tom SED manned by upwards of 150 men, it was also brou rge an adjacent building. It would appear, from what has 
mounted the iage. Scarcely had they drive into ation. ht team time the firemen continued | been gleaned in other parts of the same depart- 
league when the horses stopped suddenly, the conductor | working withou ting with any great obstacle, wifh | ment (for not one of the unfortunate beings in the 
descended ed, and perceiv ed an immense heap of billets of | the exception of sundry explosions, caused by the burst- | building has escaped to furnis any information), — 
wood ; at “the same instant four men, masked, seized | ing of oil 3 but towards 3 o’clock a | that the men and boys were at the time employed | 
and bound the driver, and Sos if he uttered a | fearful noise was heard to proceed from the promises on|in breaking up rockets, and through some friction — 
ery to shoot him. During this scene the general and | fire, porns aby the falling of ie floor of the ware- | the whole mass must have accidentally ignited. The 
his suite were locked in the öist Morpheus, One of house and the ignition of o „turpentine vats, | names of the persons who thus lost their lives are 
Seow masks mounted the seat of the Mr. John Crake, the foreman, aged 70, and one of 
drove rapidly to St. vv a Tt was only at th at this ‘place through the windows and ie th the swiftness at nie oldest servants in the department; Henry But- 
that the t his The carriage lightning, and mounted pa fect into the air. aged pam an with a large family, and his son, fi 
started St. a —to where i still unknown. | that t ployed working Mee He enry ng he = young married man ; Robert Bur- E” 
Amongst man many it is oe een that he is concealed in | the brigade engines alongside the fire, and peda escape | bage, and Mi a l Purtill. Four of these were what is — 
some inviolable domi ile. Others | affirm that a lady, i eet me fg many 0 ae the men had no alternative but to | called la laboratory men. In addition to these, o boys 4 
E I the Tham The turpentine and oil mixed | named Leonard and Henley lost their lives. 4 
reas of Guilligomach. The most likely Ton is, together A flowed out oft the aig from i ana was a labourer belonging to the storekeeper’s depart- 
that the four men in masks belong to the band of Zino, f liquid fire, t, and was e nga ged at the time in loading rockets, 
called Comte d’Avenal, famed for its audacity ait b between the two warehouses where the e engin FE aa nok te d, who was engaged with EP a 
merity. One fact is certain, that the general has not|and which an instant before had been covered wiak | minutes before ae a very narrow escape. would fe 
been seen or heard of since his departure.” firemen. One or two firemen still lingered, » hopin ing to | appear that when the occurrence took — the unfit ha 
The New District Asylums. —The i for erect- | quench the flames with the water that fi t e hesi Ei 
ing asylums for the houseless poor in several parts in | from the branches; but the fire irresis ire ly spread tunately the door opened inwards, an 
and around the metropolis has met with tein opposi- | across the whole spaee, » and in a moment broke t f the chief officers vol sae estab lishmest Ra 
- tion in Marylebone and Saide A meeting of the ttribut ir destruction. By the side of the fer d 
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` Week for the purpose of opposing the project, and = warehouse was fall of er D aen mat- | blackened corpses were found. Their clothes, and even 
pointing mutations to wait Be the Poor-law Com- | ter, and so rapid was the devouring cag that a their boots, were either wholly or partially cot 
missioners. In the first parish 24 g ere ap who he wareho their bodies literally roasted, and the flesh in many & 
Pointed to wait apa the pina ca but the latter ir a eo ay second “devastation. At a end of the cases deeply incised ; every vestige of hair was — 
to such an imposing array. Th r | wharf, near the river, now covered with a burnin sco off their heads, and their features so disfigured as to 
_ Was sh xecineed pe eight, and this body, headed by the | str e | render their identification almost impossible. As! 
Rector, Dr. Spry, had an interview with the Commis. | to o the river many Pople pro- as the fire was subdued, a party of Sappers and ee d 
n Thursday, an eir cpitatad pater dy be a burning turpen under th f Colonel Barney, one of arw ain 
roposed measure. "The Commissioners declined any n falling into the arg it | of the department, proceeded to pull down the 4 
ssion on the subject, but —— t d I swag tog: in six or seven | ing parts of the shed, many of which were in a pes ae : 
reeeed pe in a few days. The same result happened in | eg tke. scene at that moment was of a most] ous state. The rem ains of a dog w ere discovered it 
regard to the Greenwich deputation, and on Wednesday | agonisin E akiok. At a moderate calculation, there | one corner of the buildi ew 4 
sent their answer to yw latter, stat- | must ne ee nearly 100 persons et upon the Metropolitan Improvements: —On Monday the ba E 
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‘ ma meega Union?” A meeting of the eeri was | but they even then bee: Spuctus. 3 wik gard ante iahag prin with the continuous rt 
ari held, and after a le i in | number of small boats quickly put o off to a assist. | thoroughfare, now named Bloomsbury-street, prov for 
whieh every member of the board took phar a sidan ance to the ie fellows, and s Plum-tree and Charlotte-streets, were thrown vaesired a 
baes made, that this board do now proceed to the elec i Blackicars in ena Ae > the shore. The scene from | the passage of vehicles, thus giving the lon and g 
on, which was met by an amendment, that cn i dire 2t ine of communication hatwaen the no er a 
do adjourn for a week. The amendment bein; uthern parts of the metropolis, it being now paren Dy 
: pea! Mi Bowditch were unanimously te bers ai al to ote toa to gel my and beings, an road over Waterloo bridge, from the Elep fa 
ry Carter, ex-officio managers fi e | the bona and the horror of the sce ne was | and Castle to Ham 
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ker of the Por i = Middlesex.—The appendix to the | their jorde òn board venia h bargos The pro- aceon ae the pog ight ascent of the workse 
annual re of the Poor Law Commissioners of the fire was now so n greah, $ E the gucr be- | in Mai Coronation. balloon, with a oy 8 fire oon took 
contains, among ind yelimi, one relating to the | fore spoken of as standing beside Hog blazing building = weather was most propitious, and the : 
oe ‘of money levied and expended for the relief | the firemen were unable K draw away, and on the flames Re direcho on, descending in Surrey. 
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un- | river, become fixe ai a wo a wooden and in that|and daughter, about five or six years previous 
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paid to the to most of the large establishments in the city, mit request. | and 
