The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1876-08-22 00:00:00

FATAL FIRE AT BRISTOL

Between eleven and twelve o'clock on Wednesday
night a disastrous fire broke out on the premises of
Mr. Thomas Skinner, hat manufacturer, of za, Castle.
street, Bristol, and unfortunately resulted in the lows of
three lives. The fire originated in • factory at the back of
the shop and dwelling-house. In the sleeping apartments
in the front of the house at the time were Mr. and Mrs.
Skinner and two of their children, and in • room over the
second floor front was • smaller bedroom, in which was
sleeping a nephew of Mr. Skinner, a young man named
Hewlett. The whole ef the family had gone to bed, and
Hewlett, who had been keeping • lamp burning in his bed-
room • short time wig about to extinguish it when he
suddenly heard his aunt, Mrs. Skinner, give an alarm of
fire. There was • window leading to the roof, and through
this Hewlett succeeded in pulling Mrs. Skinner. By that
time the people in the streets below had noticed the fire,
and • young man named George Rubery, gaining access to
the roof through • neighbour's house, approached the
window of the attic just u Mrs. Skinner and Hewlett had
got out of it. He was trying to enter when he saw Mrs.
Skinner and Hewlett standing on the roof, and he said to
them, "For God's sake tell me how I can get into the
bowie." He then heard moaning and crying. end Mrs.
Skinner begged him to save her husband and children who
were in the bedroom on the second floor. Just then the
smoke came up in such • dense volume through the
window of the attic that all attempts to enter it were
fruitless. Meantime, while Mrs. Skinner and Hewlett
were making their way along the roof to a place of shelter
in • neighbour's house, the crowd in the street heard the
screams of the husband and children in the second floor
room, in which the reflection of flames could be distinctly
seen playing on the window bland. The crowd had seen
some one apparently escaping by the roof, and when •
ladder u as hastily procured and placed sufficiently close to
the window for those who ascended it to dash in the
windows no further respone came and it was hoped that
all had escaped. The Fire Brigade, several of whom were
kept for nearly half an hour without a supply of water
from the principal main, then poured copious supplies of
water upon the burning premises. A messenger now
arrived from the house in which Mrs. Skinner had taken
refuge and informed the police and the Fire Brigade that
Mr. Skinner and the children had not escaped and were
still in the building. The Brigade now redoubled their
efforts. The flames were driven back stall further, and •
fireman, amid ths cheers of the crowd, ascended a ladder,
and dashing his way through one volume of smoke which
at the moment rolled off the frontage, be entered the
room. This brays fellow named Welsh, was followed by
others, and soon near the window where • bystander had
asserted that he had seen some one throwing his arms up
just after the flames first burst through, was found the
body of the unfortunate Mr. Skinner, and near it was that
of a child. These were lowered to the streets. The fire-
men, risking their lives at every step, were joined by Mr.
Superintendent Brown, of the Royal Insurance Brigade,
and he with others who had not been exposed so
much as their comrades to the suffocating fire, made
further search and discovered on the partially burnt bed
the body of another child, • boy of 14, Harry Skinner.
The little fellow had buried his face in the bed clothes,
and his legs, as he lay on his face, were contracted up-
wards. All three bodies were lowered to Use street, and
about an hour and • half afterwards the fire ivu com-
pletely extinguished. A third child of Mr. Skinner's was
found at. neighbour's house, where it had been staying
for the night. The lack of • special fire brigade, acting
under • responsible chief, was never more shown in
Bristol than at this fire though the individual firemen
behaved with great bravery. The certainty of people
being in the front room ought to have been ascertained
within five or ten minutes of the outbreak.

OUR STATE PENSIONERS.
THE %V tT THE MONET GOES.
The finance accounts of the United Kingdom fur th
year ended the 314 of March last, just bistioil (ruin the
Treasury by Mr. W. 11. Smith, supply • detailed state-
ment of the amount issued from the Exchequer during
the year for payment of annuities and pensions charged '
on the Consolidated Fund. The lirst section includes the
annuities to the members of the Royal Family, each ~f
which has its special Act of Parliament as the authority
for its payment. The first of these, the annuity to the
Duchess of Cambridge, carried us beck to the fifty-eighth
year of George 111. and the last, the annuity to Prince
Leopold, brings us down to the thirty-seventh year of •
Queen Victoria. The sums thus paid are —The Crown '
Princess of Prussia, £B,OllO : the Princess Louis of niellaoh
a:6,000 the Prince of Wales, £40,000 the Princess of
Wales, £10,000; the Duke of Edinburgh, £l4OlO and
£lO,OOO, the latter amount being the sum voted "to mu-
vide for the establishment of His Royal Highness the
Duke of Edinburgh and Iler Imperial and Royal Highness
the Grand Duchess Made Alexandrovna of Russia, and
to aettJe an annuity on her Imperial Highness, although
the name of the Duchess does not appear, as that of the
Princess of Wales does, upon the official list ; Princess
Christian, £6,000 the Princess Louise (Marchioness of
Lorne,) LAURI; the Duke of Connaught, £15,000: Prince
Leopold, £15.000 ; the Duchess of Cambridge, £0,0011; the
Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelits (Princess Augusta,)
/MOO: the Duke of Cambridge, £12,000: and the Princess
of Teck (Princess Mary of Cambridge,) £5,000 ; making a
total of 1157,000. The next class of pensions is that for
military and naval services, which are divisable into
Into several sections, the first being hereditary, the second
to the first receiver and his immediate successor only, and
the third for life. In the first section there Is the annuity
of £4,600 to the Doke of Marlborough, originally voted in
Queen Anne's reign; Lord Rodney and Lady Rodney,
£l,OOO each ; Earl Nelson, £3,500, and Countess Nelson,
£1,500; Viscount Exmouth. £4,000 Earl Amherst, 3,000.
In the second section we find the Duke of Wellington
credited with £4,000: Viscount Comberinere,_ £2,00U;
Lord Seaton, /2,010 : Lord Keane, ROAM ; Lord Hardloge,
£3,000; Lord Gourds, .C 2,000 Lord Raglan, £4,000; and
Lord Napier of Magdala, /2,000. The life annuities are :
Vircount St. Vincent. £3,000 Lord Raglan, 4.4,0110; and
Lord Napier of Magda's. LOU./2, The life annuities are :
Viscount St. Vincent, £3,000; Lady Rubin, £l,OOO, Sir
W. Fenwick Williams, Bart /LUOU ; Sir IL M. llavelock,
Bart £1,000; and Lady Havelock. £l,OOO. The pensions
for political and civil services come next on the list At
the Dead of these stands the name of Viscount Eversley,
the ex-Speaker of the House of Commons, who has a life
pension of £4,600; and the Countess of Elgin and the
Countess of Mayo, widows of Indian Viceroy., who receive
ALM each per annum. After these species pensions are
three of the first class to Cabinet Ministers—Sir George
Grey, Mr. Milner Gibson, and Mr. Walpole of L 2,000 eacK
Mr. Diamili's being suspended during his tenure of office.
The annuities of the second clans are /,200 to Mr. C. I'.
Villiers, late President of the Poor Law (now the
Local Governmeot) Board, and LIES to the late Mr.
Ileadiam, Judge AdvOcate General, which was, however,
reduced by his receipt of other emoluments. In the
third class the only annuity is that of £4,300 to Lard
Clarence Paget as • former First Secretary of the
Admiralty ; and in the fourth clan there are two pensions
of £l,OOO to late second secretaries of the same depart-
ment -Admiral W. A. Balllie-Hamilton and Mr. W. U.
Romaine. These, with pensions of £1,200 to Mr.
I/ebony and Mr. Macaulay, ex-Commissioners of Audit,
bring the pensions for civil and political services up to
£19,06. Next comes • list of pensions for judicial
services in Great Britain, commencing with ex-Lord
Chancellor, which includes a moiety of £B,OOO paid to the
late Lord lit Leonard' to the day of his death, and
£5,000 each to Lords Chelmesford, Hatherley, and Mel-
borne. Lord Cairns's name is on the list, but lAA pension
Is suspended while he is in office. Among the other
pensions paid during the year, some of which have since
owing to the death of the recipients, we find
lrisdo to Sir W. Erie, £3,500 to Sir J. 'l'. Coleridim,
£4,8.50 to sir K V. William& £3,500 each to Sir J. B.
Bytes and Sir Samuel Martin, £3,150 to Sir 11. S. Keating.
/LUSO to Sir (1. IL Ileneyman, £3.500 to Lord Penzance,
Sir It. T. Kindersley, and Sir John Stuart, and pensions
of .0110 to £l,OOO to retired county court judges, bringing
up the amount on this head to /e.• k7lB. no pensions for
Judicial services in Ireland, including £3,892 to Sir
Joseph Napier and Lord O'Hagan, as ex-Lord Chancellors,
amount to .015,418. The pensions for diplomatic services,
smog of which are now charged to the Civil Service
Estimates, amount to £13,304, and include £1,796 to Lord
Stratford do Redefine, /1,700 to Earl Cowley, and £1,700
to Lord Napier sad Ettriko. Account is 'Loewe of titles
hereditary pensions, to the heirs of the Duke of Schein-
berg. £2.110 the Earl of Bath, £1,200: and the heirs and
descendants of John Penn, for ever, £l,OOO. The iniscel-
4 humour pensions consist of allowances to the survivors of
ad the establishments of the late Sovereigns, including the
ok, servants of Queen Charlotte, /35; of George 111.. gm;
.r,inl! and of Queen Caroline,
of /15 (this last annuity hiving
hiving-- vnao terminated on e sth April, 1'174 and pensions o
~, f
g £10,64 formerly on the Civil List of George IV. and
t eye, William IV. Tho mimiscellaneous perolionol for Ireland
include ./22 to persons who suffere.l by the rebellion in
mdcc the 170 S, and £2,671 formerly charged on the Irish Civil List.
Dungee

LORI) HUISELL.— Lord Sumell entered linen his 83th
year on Friday, having been born in Hertford-street
August 18th. 1791. The noble lord has been a inember of
Parliament since 1813, when he was returned for
Taviatock. He was raised to the peerage in 1861.
Sugx CANIL.—ARRIVAL oF THE New SEARON'S
TEAK—The choicest selections of these Tam are to be
obtained only of the Limns', Vicruammue Tr.a
AssocwrioN (lAmited), through its Agents, Licenaed
Victuallers and Wine Merchants, in every town, and
village throughout the United KingdonL—AuousTus
NOLICARD. Secretary.—Warehouses Southwark-street,
London. The Association is open to appoint Agent+
in iinreeyesented districts.
THE NSW IRON SHIP " Sew 118 H ligßO," took her
departure from Gravesend on Saturday evening, having
on board the following emigrants for Rockhampton,
Queensland, viz., 133 mingle men, 40 single women, 70
handed couple., 50 children between the Agee of 12
and 1, and W infants, making a total of 303 souls, equal
to 258 statute adults. The mingle girls are in charge of
Miss McAllister, Ds. G. IL Newell acting as Surgeon
Superintendent
A curious action canto before the iteemder and a common
jury in the Lord Mayor's Court A ',envoi named I:uktounid
had been in the habit of pawning on Monday, and redeeim
me on the following Friday, a gold Albert chain. upon
which he was lent regularly a sum of eight pounds. on
one occasion, however, he allowed the chain to remain in
pawn over twelve niontha. It was ail rertised for ask, and
the pawnbroker, Mr. Barker of Aidgate. bou,.-ht it in for
U
seven pound ten shillings. r. Barker brought an action
to recover the difference between the sum advanced and
that fur which the watch sold, as well as the
loot of
Interest and the expenses of sale, and he was awarded two
pounds ten shillings.
Wargns'a2tiiniss WINE for Sixteen Years has
been unive y admitted to be the best Tank known,
and a useful and agreeable accompaniment to Cod
Liver OIL "We can bear personal testimony to its
value as a Tonic. —Sea ask - Agenta for Weymouth,
Pzoozox and Sox ,e Grocers • ShaftesWry,
I KERMIT, Wine and Sit Merchant; Sher me,
I cnour, Wholesale,
laAaran and Elionr,742,lkaatChaapCbmrotrettn ; and Lawn;
09.„ Woyceeter.