The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-29 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—Dtuing the dorms
of the prt year, the boats of the National Lifeboat Insti-
tution saved 417 persons from different wrecks on our coasts.
The Institution has also expended tittle 34. 3d. to the same
period on Its Lifeboat estabilahments, in addition to granting
LIAM 6a as rewards for saving 71k chi wrecked persons by its
Werra and other means. The Committee of the Institution
earnestly APPEAL to the public for AS3ISTANCL to enable
them to meet the continued try, demands on the Institution's
138 lifebrt establialtmasta _ _ .

Contribution, are reosiveil by Messrs. Willis and Co., Harries
and Co., Coutta sod Co., and by all the London and eonntry
bankers, and by the 8 oratory, Richard Lewis, Req., at the In-
aUtutlon, 14, John-street, Adolph'.

fIANDLES.-PRIZE MEDAL.
PARAIYINE.—Adopted by fret MOW, Gomeminent fee
the military Mations.
J. C. and J. HELD,
the miglnal manufacturers and holders of the DIM Prise Medal,
Caution ths public against may spurious imitations. Their label
is on nil packets and boxes. Solo op all dealers throughout the
kinslem, Wholesale and for exportation at the Worts, UPPER
MA Itsll, LAMBETH. LONDON. &, where also may be °attained
their c4ebeated United Sento* amp Tobias

ATEGRETTI and ZAMBRA'S One Guinea and
.LN Two Guises 71ILD GLASS S& and TILLSOOPLI ore wu-
nntod u unafrolled kw power and brintomy. En and an In
elkoz.==-1. theten-prden, BC. ; 10. Corolla LC.; llte,
1111. Floototreet and Crystal Poises.

'TORN BROODEN'S PARIS FIRST CLASS
ay and LONDON PRIZE. lllEDWL—llanalactoty, 16, Hen-
sietta•street, Covent-garden, London, W.C. Tlds aiabWhment
Is closed at 6, and on Saturdays at I *Week.

l‘f R. MILES'S (the ORIGINATOR'S)
_I. World famed lila THOUSBItH tea onty be bad at
73, BROOK STREET, HANOVER-QUA=
where "competition ts fairly distanced by lilies"
ALVILD WEBB 111LEL ESTABLISHED MIL

OVERCOATS. 106, STRAND.—Special
attention Is even in this establishment to WINTER
OVERCOATS, of which • select stook is always on hand to choose
trout.
HAMILTON and KIMPTON, Omecoabinakers,
106. STRAND (opposite Exeter-hall:.

REMEMBER! we wait Supper for you after
the Covent Garden Opera, at riLNS . Intl not

Ette enartui.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
advettitemente Intended for The Ingres' " London Evenlno
Paper, must he at the Office. 10, lonverleetroca, by Two
o'clock on the day of pahlieation.

EiA TMARETr._

Tare Emirs°. THE SUN AND THE W 1 D.—SUNNY
VALE FARM. Messrs. Bowe, Ferrer, Clark, Braid, end Ore :
Mesdames Beatrice, Snowdon, and Fitewaliant.-011 THE SLY.
Mr. Sucketene.—and MY atrawirra 01108 T. Mr. Clark.

PILINCISWIL

TIM MEM. DORM TO 6-00 D— MX. Mr. D. Manny.
And TIIE STREETS OF LONDON. Mews. Thing, I. W. Rat
D. Fisher, D. Mums, J. Nelson. IL Forrester, sat Z. Mellon
Mrs if. Marston. Mimes Bennet and Gwynne.

LYCEUM.

Mrs itrarnoo, NCRANYCirIeITWICD.—And TEI [MG%
BIITTZLTLY Masan. Feebler, Nyder, Wlddloomb, Charles,
Mclntyre, Raymond. Clldord, Collett: Mous C. Leclereq,
lienrade, H Larson, and B. Layman.

ints Thrums. UPSIDE DOWN. -4milas by 14. Albert
Steele. the Great ranee. end WILL Doett—lara Howard Paul ix
Garibaldi., with the Italian Uric, ^ some or Daith."—And THE
MOTHER 8 DYING CHILD. lira 8. Lena —Commence at al.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON-DREDGE
Tins D&T Morning, 112. tem....Afternoon, 4A. Gm.
Zo-itomow Morning, IL Erm....Afflemos, TA. tom

LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29.

WE have just had another of those river-side
conflagrations by which London is so frequently
alarmed. Again we are told of whole ranges of
warehouses destroyed, of immense sheets of flame
lighting up the whole of the metropolis and its
suburbs, of "the reflection seen by the Dover mail
" guard as far off as Folkestone," of the " powerful
" steam fire-engines producing no effect upon the
" conflagration," of " every ship in the Pool
" appearing to be wrapped in flames," and of
" the venerable Cathedral of St. Paul's appearing
"to be illuminated." The account of the fire
might as well be stereotyped, were it not for the
diversity of the place and hour of its occur-
rence. Readers have become quite familiar with
the details, including the heroism of the firemen,
and the exertions of the police. It always ends
in " a total destruction of the premises," in an
"enormous loss of goods," and in "nearly all
" the insurance offices in London suffering more
" or leas from the disaster."

The public are also invariably told respecting
these "warehouse fires," that "of course not the
lefat idea can be formed as to their origin."
That is • part of the subject, however, upon which
the public, and even the Government, may fairly
be invited to inquire further. On Friday after-
noon last a deputation went up to Sir Gsoacs
GREY to demand that some legislative precautions
should be taken against the construction o: powder-
houses in the neighbourhood of peopled localities.
It was within five hours after their interview that
Messrs. BARRY'S " MSTBOII-111hall " was on fire,
and that " the floors of the rooms in which the
" saltpetre was stored were becoming ignited,"
and that " loud and fearful explosions were taking
" place in rapid succession, blowing down heavy
" brick walls and lifting off the roofs of the ware-
" houses." Might it not be wo...th the while of
Government, when it is about to legislate as to
powder-houses, to consider the expediency of legis-
lating es to the storage of inflammable materiel
generally t
For the fact is, that all these warehouse fires
arise from the storage of inflammabte materials ;
and that they never can be, and never will be,
prevented until proper order is taken, and proper
provision made, for the classification and arrange-
ment of the contents of warehouses. At the pre-
sent time all the way from Greenwich up to Lon-
don-bridge the river is lined with buildings con-
taining hemp, flax, brimstone, cotton, rags, gutty
perchs, jute, oil, tallow, and resin, in the Oncost
proximity, if not absolutely in contact with salt-
petre. When Cotton's-wharf, in Tooley-street,
was destroyed by fire in 1861 there were stored
in the warehouses at that wharf
1,009 WS, of jute,
484 tons of saltpetre,
1,197 Mos of hemp,
23,461 bales of (*Atm, and