The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-05-10 00:00:00

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iiitovit..—Rn away Accident—An accident, which
fortunately was unattended with any serious conse-
quences, occurred on Friday morning to the express
train which is due at Pen Mill station at 7 o'clock.
When within about a mile and a-half of the station a
long-continued whistle was heard. Several minutes
elapsing and the tnun not making its appearance,
suspicions were excited that something was wrong.
&nue of the officials walked down the line, and juxt
through the cutting the train was observed, the
driver endeavouring in vain to move the engine. It
was discovered that one of the piston rods had broken
off near the stuffing box, and after a delay of about
an hour the engine was again *ot into order, and the
passengers proceeded on their journey.
Cl 4 A RITi oN HOB ILTHOR After a sermon
preached in this church by the Rev. J. F. S. Pim-
oayn, vicar, on Sunday week-- the day appointed
for a general thanksgiving—the sum of tl 138.
was collected on behalf of the Officers Widow and
Orphan Permanent Fund.

TEMPLE CAMIL —iioUSehreaking.- - On Wcilneob
day night last the dwelling•house of Mr. Worthy,
was burglariously entered through a haek window,
whilst the inmates were asleep. The thief or thieves
succeeded in finding, and getting away with some
booty, consisting of a silver watch and about £lO in
wild and silver coin. The money they obtained
by breaking open a bureau, the drawers of which they
carried out into the garden attached to the house and
there left them. The watch, which had been left
over night upon the bureau, was the one usually car•
ried by Mr. Worthy, and had a yellow chain and
key attached to it. As yet no clue has been oh.
tamed to the depredators, although the police have
been making active search after them.

ILmINsTKR.—On Monday week, the Lord Bishop
of the Diocese arrived for the purpose of consecra-
ting the new cemetery. A service was held at the
church at o'clock, after which • procession was
forn.ed to the ground, composed of the burial board,
the vicar, church-wardens and a large number of the
local clergy, with the bishop and laity. On arriving
at the cemetery, the form of service used at con-
secrations was gone through, and his lordship having
signed the necessary document, and concluded with
a benediction, the proceedings terminated. The
buildings and burial ground occupy a site on the
Langport road, commanding a beautiful view, but
are a mile distant from the market-place.
BATH. —General Guyon, sent by the Emperor of
the French to support the government of the Sove-
reign Pontiff, and to protect the Pope, at this
critical period, is a relative of the late General
I :uyon of this city, whose services in the Hungarian
war, and at Paris, were recorded in an interesting
memoir by A. kinglake. Esq., of West-m
-super-mare.

TIRRIFIC FIRE AT BRISTOL.—Since the memor-
able riots in Ital, no conflagration has occurred in
Bristol equal in extent or fury to a fire which oc-
curred on Saturday, at the sugar refinery of Nlewirs.
Fuidge and Tnpp. These works consisted of
several large store and boiling-houses, with numerous
,imailer buildings attached, which had been erected
at various times in a somewhat irregular manner, as
the business required increased accommodation.
The older warehouses stood partly at the stone
bridge over the river Froom, at the point where that
stream was formerly connected with the floating
harbour. Another large and more commodious
block of premises was connected intermediately, and
a third and still more extensive warehouse, ten
stones in height, joined the latter. The whole of
the buildings were recently thrown open on their
north-eastern front by the covering in of the Froom ;
and the creation of a new street called Rupert-
street, in commemoration of a charge made by Prince
Rupert in the immediate locality during the Civil
War. The back portion of the works extended to
Host-street, a narrow thoroughfare, containing a low
and densely populated class of houses, and a wooden
bridge formed a connection between the Rupert.
street works and another extensive range of ware-
houses running up the hill towards Steep-street. At
about half past II on Saturday morning an alarm was
qiven that a lire had broken out in one of the filtering
houses in the older portion of the works. These houses
were fitted with cylinders and other apparatus em-
ployed in the process of refining sugar, and the
origin of the devastating calamity which ensued is
said to be that a carpenter, employed on some wood-
work connected with some of the cylinders, in•
cautiously set down a lamp near some felt packing.
An ignition took place, the flames instantly commu-
nicated with the calcined charcoal in the cylinders,
and the work of destruction commenced. There
were on the premises nearly a thousand tons of this
bichly inflammable article, and the fire spread from
cylinder to cylinder, and from floor to floor with
frightful rapidity. The engines of the police force
and the squeals fire offices, with their brigades, were
quickly in attendance, and with an unlimited quan•
city of water (for the ready supply of which much
credit is due to Mr. Bell. engineer of the Bristol
Water-works Company) endeavours were made to
arrest the progress of the flames. These efforts were
comparatively of no avail. By a little after I o'clock
the entire range of buildings, which were upwards of
200 feet in length, and in breadth varied from 30 to
100 feet, were raging with lire. Floor after floor
fell in with a tremendous crash. and volumes of smoke
and fire belched forth as if in defiance of the attempts
which were being made to subjugate the flames.
The warehouses of Pickford & Co., the well-known
carriers, which adjoin those of Messrs. Fuidge and
Fripp were considered in so much peril that all the
goods were removed. The bakery of Mr. Merry, in
Host-street, was three times in flames, but was, after
all, preserved. The heat from the burning man was
so intense that it will difficult for a spectator to stand
within a hundred yards of the scene of the conlla-
wstion ; and the rain, which fell heavily about mid-
day, steamed off the apparel of the lookers on. The
extensive bedding manufactory of Messrs. Johnstone
and Co., situate on the opposite side of Rupert.
street, had to be kept saturated with water, and the
streams poured on the walla of these premises hissed
off in caftans of steam ; so excessive was the heat.
The fire had reached its highest point at about half-
past I o'clock, at which time the scene was grand
and appalling. The whole mass of buildings were
wrapped in flames, which shot forth from every
aperture and ascended high up into the air with a
fury that was magnificently terrible. At half-past
2, the block in which the fire originated fell in, and
in another hour one of the walls of the most recent
and extensive erection, also gave way. Then the
fury of the lire was expended. but not extinguished.
Throughout the whole night and all flay Sunday the
firemen endeavoured vainly to plat out the flames, and
front the nature of the stock it is eipected that some
days will elapse before the fire is utterly extinct.
Rupert-street has been barricaded, to prevent injury
to passers-by, from the expected falling in of the re-
mainder of the walla. The loss of property is estimated
at about .ClOO,llllO. There were upwards of -500 tons of
raw sugar stored on the premises, the whole of which
was burnt. Of charcoal the stock was Aland 1,000 tons.
only 15 of which were saved. Messrs. Fuidge and
Fripp are, it is understotul, fully insured. About
200 workmen will be thrown out of employment by
this untoward event. It was not till Friday that
the fire which broke out on Saturday last at the
sugar refinery of Messrs. Fuidge and Fripp was outn•
pletely subjugated. Throughout the week the mains
of the Waterworks Company have poured continuous
streams open the smouldering ruins, and the various
fire-engines have been in attendance. A local con-
troversy has sprung up as to the efficiency of the
brigades and engines of the fire-offices in Bristol who
have either, and po_pular feeling seems unfavourable
to the offices. On Friday afternoon operations were
commenced for palling down the huge walls which
remain standing. 4 memorial to the civic authori-
ties against the re-erection of the refinery in the
locality i. in course of preparation.

THE SUSPECTED DI vicuna AT BRISTOL—There
has been an inquest at Bristol on the body of ?.jr.
Butler, whose remine were found under arcum.

stances leading to the belief that he bail been mur-
dered. Mr. Andean, of the Swan Inn, Broad Aleut,
at whose house the deceased was last seen alive, de-
posed that he was in .oissl health when he left, and
although witness did not see him with any cola-
siderable sum of money in Ins possession, he heard
him say that he had several sovereigns about him.
Mr. Goo Were Vere Cieqier, one of the surgeons of
the Bristol Royal Infirmary, deposed to the ap•
iicaranciai disclosed by the body upon examination.
re were bruises on the face, and a wound under
the chin ; it was a jagged unclean wound ; there
was i.ko a wound penetrating right through the left
hip ; sonic oil' the teeth were knocked out, and one
of them which had been broken off was found under
the nostril. 'rhe wounds did not appear to have
been caused by a knife. They might have been
caused by kicks with a boot or by a fall against an
iron bar. The wounds were not the cause of death,
but there was also a displacement of some of the
upper vertebne which had caused pressure and effu-
sion on the brain. Other witnesses were ex-
amined, but as their testimony failed to char
up the mystery, the inquest was adjourned.
At the adjourned inquest the girl, Ilarriet
Evans, who was found in the act of robbing
the corpse, was present in custody. The evidence
as to cries of" Murder" having been heard by a
custom-house offictr on duty at the quay on Wednes-
day night WWI followed by that of a man named
William Bruton, a waiter at the Swan Inn, Broad•
street, who had waited on the &sawed at that
inn almost immediately before his decease, who said
that when the deceased paid him fur some refresh.
melts he had had, he observed that he had gold in
his purse. IVitness last saw him to notice him at
about half-past eleven o'clock at, night, but did not
see him quit the inn. Harriet Emma deniel all
knowledge of the manner in which the deceased
Mille by his death. She mid she hail herself been
drinking, and on going down the steps from Hort.
street into Z Alley she raw a man lying on the
ground, as she supposed, drunk and asleep. She
took up his umbrella, pushed him with it, and tried
to arouse him ; and as he did not answer her she put
her hand in his pocket and pulled out his purse and
some halfpence. She had scarcely done so ere the
policemen was upon her. The jury found. "That
deceased was found dead in Z Alley. having dis-
located the third vertebra of the spine."