The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-30 00:00:00

A NIGHT OF FIRES IN LONDON.

There were no fewer than ten outbreaks of fire
in the course of last night and this morning in different
districts in London, destroying a considerable amount of pro-
perty. The following is an extract of the return made to
the insurance offices interested, by the officers of the fire
brigade :
. . .

3, Crown-court, Charterhonanumare, in the os-
cnpetioa of Mr. Mitchell—upper part of house damaged.
At No. 28, Upper Charlton-street, Fitzroynquare, let oat
in tenements ; landlord Mr. Yeo—house damaged-
At No. 25A. Houndalitch, in the occupation of Mr. Harris,
jeweller and cutler—shop burnt.
At No. 32, Famound•road, Grove-mad, Victoria•park,
house of six moms, occupied by Miss M. Lane, haberdasher
—burned down.

At No. 12, Bon-street, Bishopegate-street, an umbrella.
makers, carried on by Mr. G. Moore—front-room, third.
floor, burnt out and rest of house damaged.
At No. 115, Centrallwtrest, fit. Luke's, occupied by Mr.
Palmer, stationer and tobacconist—house damaged.
At Queen's Head-yard, Borough, Br. Pitt, carrier--rieble,
cart houses, 100 feet long by 15 tweed, with hay lofts above,
destroyed, dwelling.hoose damaged.
At No. 79, Golden-lane, St. Luke's, Mr. Snelgrovit,
dealer in waresshop burnt.
At No. 11, Branch-place, Horton. W. ',eery —lower part
of holes pertly destroyed. The other fire was at Bow-
comtnon. In most of the above eases the wide' were
insured.

WRECK OP A LARGE SHIP IN THE THAMES.

Lent evening an alarming occurrence took place
off Wapping, which might have involved a serious
• loss of life. A Aim barque, called the Beslids, which
has recently discharged a cargo from China in the St.
Katherine Dock. was being towed down the river by
the Monarch tug, from those docks, on her way to a
wharf lower down the Pool, to talcs in ballast; when
on getting nearly abreast of the Wapping entrance of the
London Dock. a sudden and heavy squall of wind from the
southward and westward caught the ship, and being light,
having not the least ballast us her, she took a list on the
port aids and immediately went right over on her beam
ends. As may be imagined the occurrence created some
excitement in the Pool, sod boats immediateleput off to
the aid of the crew, who were to be seen scrambling op the
rigging. Fortunately her meats and yards, as they rimed
upon the water, gave a buoyancy to the ship, and pre-
vented her at once sinking. Capt. Pain, the dockmaster of
the London Ducks, had warps laid out to the vessel, with
with a view of getting her out of the midstream and nearer
in shore. After much exertion. the ship was got into the
Middlesex shore, close in by Wapping Old Stairs, where
she gradually filled with water. The barque now lies on
her beam ends. necessarily much damaged. Attempts will
be made this afternoon to float her, but it is
considered very doubtful. Fortunately, however, she
is oat of the fairway of the river. It is reported that one
of the mew was much Injured by the anchor or chain in
some way falling upon him when the ship went over. The
cause of the vessel capsizing is attributed to her having no
ballast, a practice of frequent occurrence in movie; ships
from one dock to another. It is stated that the Beals& had
recently changed hands and was bound to the North.

EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.-FALL OF 4
WINDMILL.

Yesterday a heavy gale blew at Preston ; in the
afternoon there was • complete hurricane. About 3 o'clock,
when the storm was at the highest, • windmill in North-
road, belonging to Yr. Thomas Hayes, was blown down.
The men belonging to the mill had josh furled the sails
when the accident occurred. The roof and the mils of the
mill were blown off with terrific force. One of the mile
fell upon • house adjoining. It cut the roof in two,
smaahed in all the floors, and completely filled the kitchen
with dAris. There were several children in the house, but
fortunately none were hart. Another large piece of the
sad. fell upon the next house. It crushed in the front
ceiling, displaced the brickwork, and hurled the coping
stones into the street. The yards of several other houses
were very much shaken. A third piece of wood from the
roof of the mill was hurled a distance of 00 or 70 yards
into Kirkhamatreet ; but this, fortunately, did not cause
any damage. One of the mils, together with the driving
wheel and its shalt, was thrown into the mill yard. It
was about three tons weight, and, in its doormat smashed •
wall. went through the roof of the office, and did very
great damage. A large portion of the List sail which fell
was carried about 100 yards. It struck one of the
windows of the Romeo catholic school is St. Login,-
square. The window, with its heavy stone mullions,
was driven in and broken to atoms. lo the school,
and immediately in front of the window which was
broken in, there were 32 little boys sitting at the dealt.
Several large pieces of atone 'truck the desks, but mom of
the boys were hurt. One large piece of stone was driven
right through the school. It pared amongst large num-
bers of girls, caught and smashed a desk, rod then buried
itself iu the door. A little girl was struck on the head
with • piece of atom. She was the only one injured.
C,uosideiing the densely populated nature of the district is
which the accident happened, it is marvellous that many
lives were not lust.

SESPICIOCS DEATH or A CHILD.—KINnABUIRY,
NEAR EDGEWAIA, FRIDAY YOBSING. —This morning, Mr.
James Bird, the coroner for the western division of Middle-
sex, resumed the inquiry into the death of Elizabeth Clarke,
at the Red Lion lou, Hyde. The inquest iv is pruoesding
when our report was Ilespatahed, but the inquiry will be
again adjouroed. it being understood that the body will
be exhumed, and also, iu all probability, the body of the
first child that died.
GALLANT REset:E.—" An Eye-witness" writes to
the Times, from Portsmouth :—" This afternoon the maul
calm of the dinner-boar on board her Majesty's ship Warrior
was startled into nowonted activity by the cry of ' Man
overboard.' which originated from a dockyard artificer
having fallen overboard from a stage over the aide. An
ordinary seaman, hearing the alarm. run down the side, and
in his eagerness to save the fast-sinking loan, slipped over
also, sod both were in imminent danger, as neither could
swim, when Mr. J. R. E. Porker, midshipman. leaped
gallantly from the gangway, a height of upwards of 20 feet,
and socneeded, though nearly drowned himself by their
frantic embraces, in supporting both men till succour arrived.
Luckily there wan not a very strong tide, or we could hardly
bare hoped for so happy anend to our gallant friends
*mortices." • - • •

A Vass- or THE NILE. —A correspondent of the
Times. writing from Alexandria on the 20th, says :—" I
have just returned from a trip on the Nile; it is a sight
never to be forgotten. and which probably will not recur.
For some distance thin side of the river, at Kafr Lee, the
fields are Bonded, especially on the northern aide of the
, railway, where the waters stretch in a wide sheet over both
the western and eastern Woks. Large boats are to be seen
; transporting produce from village to village, steer-
' iag their way atoms date palms sad sycamores, their
keels glidiag over submerged cotton sod halloo coma The
iron bridge looks like a low wall &ratio; on the surface
of the water, with just apace beneath it for the stream to
Neaps; beyond, on the other bank at Karr lava, the
waters reach as far as the eye can see. Aaoroding the river
by steamer, large trees are to be aeon stamling out of the
water miles away from laud. sod the villages are dotted
about like islaada. Boom are high enough to permit free cir-
culation. but others have only a few yards of dry ground,
where the people huddle together. On both aides of the
Ni!e the dikes appear like black lines, sod, where not
broken through, save to coated neighbouring villages
together, but inquiet breaks occur. In many places
encampments of villagers and Bedouin, are to be seen on
narrow sandy shim or fragments of dykes, where they have
sought refuge with their cattle, which browse on the scanty
hard tufts of Kalish grau lu some places the mitten
plants are not entirely covered ; bat their upper leaved are
yellow soil sickly, the lower ones black and roues. If the
water were to drain off quickly. some of these fields may
recover ; but, ocaerearily, their yield will be small.'

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