The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-29 00:00:00

FIRS AND LOSS OF LIFE AT DOC:MEAD.

A fire, attended with a great destruction of pro-
perty, and unfortunately with lose of life, took Owe at •
tow misname before 12 o'clock on Saturday night, is the
premises beloegleg to Mr. Wm. Smith, a tailor, carrying on
Weiser at Dsokbeed, near the catholic cathedral, Bermosd-
sej.lt appears that Mr. and Mn. Smith retied to rest about
12 .'alecks and Mr. Smith, finding the gas light in the bed-
ISM WOO elatairr than he expected, west down stairs to
taw the gm lower. Upon entering hie cutting room he
famed a Me of paper minims on fire. Bang unable to
estkennialt the flameembich spread rapidly, ha tea up stairs
to reeve his wife and family, and meeting his servant and
ow of hit Waren on the stairs, the throe escaped by a back
winker, sot having been able to reach the top room
of the Mew. Mrs. Smith, who was la the bedroom,
and usable to desimad, on account of the flames,
to saw her own life, was obliged to rev ea fast
as she was able to the attic window, whence
with 'stigma peril and difficulty she mowed Leto some ad-
joining poeMiom It was supposed that all the children bad
escaped, lingoinsmards it was found that we was mineMj.
After tics wine wan cooled, the body of the poor child was
found lingagknoet to a tinder.
The tallsalos is Mr. Braidwood's official report :—" Mr.
Smith's No. 3, Dockhead, destroyed, the imamate
eonaamed, sad • ;AM 18 motto old burst to death—in-
sured la the San Firoraltee. Mr. Hillier, No. 2, in the
smote tbsisghlare, praselida and °octants partially destroyed
—issausil la the Bea fiss-allos ; Mrs. Wills, first-floor,
enseIiMMISID MM. 111 hinibare, itc.—net insured ; Mr.
iffigere, segeMeffiele Moe, nearly burnt out sad great
ismaP by arMralallassed. Mr. Cedes, baker, front of
/soda bent to contents sad (anthers by
Are sad water=fitill: Minds Fire office."
Three other fits. abets* Owe in other parts of Lendon,
but the damp tlass at ma may be termed. inconsider-
able.

SUSPECTED MURDER OF A RAILWAY SIGNAL
MAN.

OLOU C ESTE R. SATURDAY.
A mysterious ocenrrenoo hie happened on the
Bristol and Birmingham branch of the Midland Railway, at
Haresfleld station, about six miles from Gloucester, which
has ended in the death of William Taylor, a railway signal
men employed at that station, and ea inquest has been
opened on the body before J. G. Ball, Esq., one of toe coro-
ners for Glonosetershire.
The evidence is of toe voinesioons a nature to report in
alma°, but the following is a brief summary of the facts
deduced from it:—On the night of Thursday the 18'h inst.
the deceased was found, shortly after twelve o'clock, lying
upon the platform at the Haresfield station, in a pool cf
blood which had flowed from a frightful wound in his heed.
He was at first supposed to be dead, bat it was discovered
that life was not extinct, and surgical aid was promptly
obtained, but the deceased never sufficiently re.
covered to be able to spear, or to give any amount
of the eircamstasee which bad led to the catastrophe,
and he died four days afterwards. His brother, Daniel
Tsylor, who had been drinking with the deetheed, and with
Mr. Fry, the Haresfield station master, that evening, was
bringing more beer to the station, when Le discovered the
deceased lying as already described. He at once accused
Fry of the murder of his brother, and west to Fry's house.
He knocked him up, and the station master appeared much
alarmed at the men', threatening m , and bid himeelf
behind a goods train, which happened to arrive at that
moment, and by which train he travelled to Stoaehouth,
the neat station on the line, where he procured the melamine

of a surgeon.
The whole affair is enveloped in mystery. The surgeon
describes the wound on the head to have been caused by a
blow from some blunt heavy instrument, and Daniel
Taylor stated to a witness, after the discovery of Lis bro-
ther, that he bad founds piece of iron on the line covered
with blood, but this statement be hes sines denied. The
evidence of several drivers and Bremen on the railways—
the Midland and the Great Western Dottie, which run aide
by aide at this place—went to show that they pissed the
Rarmaeld station just before and at 12 o'clock, and that
they then found the signals all right, sad saw a man at the
signal poet signalling them, but they amid not swear that
this man was the deceased. At a quarter to 1 o'clock, whew
a down Midland train approached the station, it was stopped
by a danger signal which bad been turned on by Daniel
Taylor (the deceased's brother) for the purpose of obtaining
saustanee, so that the'murder, if such it be, must have been
committed between 12 o'clock and a quarter to 1. There
are no indications that the deceased had been knocked down
by a train. Had inch been the ease, his body would have
been worse mangled, and would have been found upon the
railway.
The MOIST decided, in the present state of circumstances,
• to adjourn the farther inquiry to Tuesday neat.

HIGHWAY ROBBERY AND ATTEMPTED MUR.
DER NEAR WELLOW, SOMERSET.

Two men, named John Whittuck and William
Lye., have been remanded by the county magistrates for tho
following dating highway robbery and attempted murder
committed on the turnpike arced near Wellow. A man named
James Posru, whose income is chiefly earned by buying
and seUisg sheep and pigs, attended on the Thursday at
Wallow fair. for the purpose of carrying ou his business.
Daring the day he wee in and out of the New Inn, where
also were the prisoners and acme other rains drinking, and
it is thought that the latter must bars noticed the tut of
Pearce having a good many sovereigns in his possesoloo. At
sight, having completed all his business, Pearce proceeded
on the road towards his home, but he bad not got very far
•em the inn when three or foes men rushed out upon bins.
Os. 14 them knocked him down, and another throw himealt
ape him, sad after beating him till be wee insensible, they
ro►bed his pockets of fifteen sovereigns, two half sovereigns,
and a quantity of loose silver. In the outset of the affray
Pearce appreheading that they intended to injure hiss, cried
" Murder," sad his cries were heard by amen named Jacob
Pewee, who rill to the spot, and found the injured
man ma the ground, sad scow men •pea him. Jacob
Puns said, " Whet are you doing?" Ho had scarcely
imam this words when he received a ►low on the head,
midis Imilakod him down. The villains then fell upon him,
sad mar of thou kept raising his head up, sod beating It
against the road until be was almost d•ad. He this, as
be lay ealiausted, beard ciao say to author, "Pool his
breath." ♦ hand was them pat uplift hie mouth, as if to
aesertaia whether he breathed or not. Deo of them then
said, "Let's throw him into the brook," and they then
►ogan to drag him along the road. After taking him a
Uitle way, they threw his into a cow shed, and madis off.
Malawi wee subomaeatly rendered to both the injured
Mae and from information given by Jacob Pains, Whit-
task sad Lys, were arrested. The attack upon Jamas
Pears, was so sadden, sad be wee so mach stupefied by
the blowy, that he is unable to speak to either of them.

FIREWORKS IN ENS CITE ON THE STH OY
Noutrusult—Tbe trustees under the set of parliament for
the improvemeat of Great Tower Hill ere taking the most
decisive measures for primacies the gnat disorder which,
on the emssion (tithe 6th of November of previous yams,
has ociearred on Great Tower Hill from the collection of
persons disehergier *quit" maim and other fireworks,
motrary to law. They have gives soder to all the inhabi-
tants a that locality, " That no discharge of "reworks will
be permitted within the icalosure, and all peTllOlllll
disrharg-
1a 'reworks within the said inelesam, or es emy ether
part of Great Tower Hill, are hereby lastiewl that they
will be subjest to reek proesediege ao the part of the police
es dm law directs." The cokes is slatted by all the Menem,
and Hr. D. W. Haney, the ireamiseloner of the City
pellet, has Wood spends dintMiese to the fine upon the
sobleet, and earner esofidesse in the so operatics of the
heaseholdess Ise the prosenatise of tke peace ea the day is
question.
LIVERPOOL, SATURDAT.—Thie British and North
Amnon Boyd Mal steamship Asia, Captain B. O. LW,
sailed hemOm Heresy at sees wetly. far Boston sad
with the veal mails for the Vatted States and
British North Malaga assestilans, 170 passagers, and a
fell tarp of atenhen4int w frsitEL Tao South Anserioaa
Navigation Osiapany'a straw steamship Lt Plata, Carina
Larne. also WIN Ise the Brans, with • full cargo mid a
ship Paw bog. NM win sail at Liaison, Cate do Off,
Pernanbeion NA* Ms ;mare, end Manta Tides. Tee
Phenix, Claptoks Nieppett, soiled this nearalog log Ka-
hane with shoat NO gamegiss and a ton saw.