The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-26 00:00:00

SERIOUS FIRE IN HOLBORN' LAST NIGHT.

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41.

NEARLY THIRTY HOUSES BURNT.
Late last night s tremendous fire broke out in
the vloinityof Brooko-ativet,Holhern,adjaoent to Fnrnivi'i•
inn, ►nd raged with terrific fury throughout the whole
destroying in its weer the whole of the extensive
warehouses of Hems. link* and Ow, the uphoirterers
at the corner of Brookeeereet sad Holborn, besides doing
very serious damage to twenty other houses and tending'

in the neighbourhood.
Meese. Meeting's eatablialusent comprised eight homes ,
ia Brooke-street and throe homes in Holborn, corn.
munioating with one another on every floor. The premises
were three and four stories high, sad extending along nearly
one-halt the length of Brooke-street, while at the rear stood
the distillery of Meson. Brett sad 00., the brandy mo-
cha" and the chambers on the west side of Fornivars.
pm. The preperty of Mune. Meeting was Lit
is charge during Sunday of • person who ante as
• hind of watchmen, whom duty it was to go through
the various salts of moms at nand intervals in the course
of the day. According to his statement he went his round
as late se 10 o'clook last night, when the place appeared all
moan, and returned to the dwelling portion of the mew
factory where some 30 young uses, amnion* gelid% All
remained quiet until about • quieter before 11, when arise of
" are" proceeded from the street, and on one of the young
men rushing up into the second floor of the factory he dis-
covered that the mem where the polishing proems
was carried as, wee on am and the flames were spreading
through the nage of remise en that floor with alarming
rapidity. The police immediately gave the necessary alarm
to the adjacent stations of the London Fire Brigade, and
almost simultaneously as they were (similitude:rang by eke-
' trio telegraph with the principal stations in the metrepolie,
the whole of the centre of Landon was lighted up by the
conflagration.
Captain Shaw, the head of the brigade fame, on *M.
big the serious extent of the fire, ordered the available por-
tion of the form with the steam lead engines to the spot.
By the time the fast engine arrived, however, it was evi-
dent that no efforts could save any material portion of the
premises of Messrs, Meshing. The two uppermost flows
tad mob of the teahouses from Holborn half way down
13nokratnet were in lames from one end to the other. As

maybe imegined,every expedition was used by the brigade in
getting the engines into play and although this was effected
with their usual alacrity, the remaining floors, loaded
with new upholstery and furniture of every description,
quickly igoited, sad the whole presented a general scene of
ruin.
The excitement in the neighbourhood was something
easing. The interim hest thrown out bed a large
Wise on the opposite side in Brooke.strest, mostly
occupied by working people and their families,
In Holborn the flame extended to the houses Nos. 138 sad
139, • tavern, and also to tour houses in Pereira...inn ;
and so serious an aspect did the fire assume that at • one
period it was feared that nothing (mold save the whole
block of property being burnt down. Captain
Shaw bad the assistance of his foremen, Mawr
Swanton and Bridges, and the branches of the
engines were brought to bear on r point that com-
manded a range of the fire. In many instances the brigade.
men entered the burning buildings, sod straggled to prevent
the fire deseredieg, bat they were overcome end bad to
retreat. In other directions the firemen were most encossit•
fat, and after the most daring exertions succeeded in
oheoking the raven* of the flames.
For hours until long met daybreak this morning, the
engines laboured unceasingly in subduing the great body
of fire which kept raging beneath the mass of ruins. The
walls had fallen in and this in some measure assisted in
checking the further program of the fire. As it was, the
property shove enumerated, in addition to Messrs.
Meeking's, was for the most part seriously damaged. The
houses 138 and 139 in Holborn, and the four houses in
Furnivars-inn, had their back windows burnt out, and the
roofs off, No. 5, 11 and 7 in Feunivaninn, and the pre-
mises of Messrs. Austin, fancy box maken, and Messrs.
Rogers, were partly burnt out.
There are a great number of damages, but as yet the bil-
ged° officers have not been stile to compile a full and cornet
list.
The amount of Insurance effected on the property known
to have been destroyed is 24,0001., divided between the
San, Royal Exchange, Plicsaix, sod the Liverpool. But
this, as is stated, will not paver the loss by • long way.
An immense commune of perms witnessed the progress
_ of the a:allegretto* in the various approaches, and the
police had so arduous deity in keeping the populace book
from impeding the operations of the firerres. Fortunately
no lives were lost.

FATAL FALL TaOM THs 01111ZBELLAD. —Mimi Mary
Ann West, and forty-neves, of Reigate, annoy, has been
staying at Llandudno for several weeks. Ever since the
death of • very neer Mauve. she haa BUSSIMd from low
spirits and melancholy, so much so that her family made it
• point for one of them always to aooompany her in
her
walks and drives. On Saturday morning weak, however.
she went out unperceived by bet friends, and notwithstand-
bg every inquiry made by anxious and alarmed minds,
nothing wee heard of her till the evening, when a little boy
found her lying in a dangerous position on one of the most
precipitous parts of the little Ormeshead. Sabesemently
she appears to bay, fallen a depth of 100 yards. Mr. John
Williams, Bodafon, who was driving homewards, wee one
of the first gentlemen from the town who beard of the fatal
occurrence, and seeding a messenger for a boat proceeded
to look for bin. West, the deceased lady's mister-in-law,
who was searobing for the decasead very near the spot
where she unfortunately lost bar life, and gently breaking
the intelligence to her conducted her homeward', ; the
body, which was found afterwards floating under the reeks,
was taken to the police station. The coroner's jury rr
tweed a verdict of " Accidental death."
Nona 'NADIR& Some forty years ago, ths
urns ',boat town, one of the most brilliant of dandies, and
the idiot and poorest of well-bore fashimateles," wedded
with the daughter of • man in a lucrative, but not'
a dignified, bosh:sm. The dandy addressed himself to
master its details, and for thirty seen he has himself
been at the heed of it. There are mores of mime
of good stook whose revenues come from the
counting-house, and who make no secret of it. Others
are a little ashamed of their position. One of the
oldest wholesale and retail firms in Loadoe is carried
on under names whose owners were gathered to their When
• century ago. The reel proprietors are never mesa upon
the premises. and the highly-aids:id manager of the Nad-
ia,' is boned never to reveal their Dames or whereabouts.
By-and-bye they will know better and be ashamed of their
weakness.—Ackaurner.
Dtarii or Mu* 8100IIIINZY.—The death of thin
well-known American authoress occurred at bar residerce
in Hartford, Ct., on Saturday.
Jima 10, at 10 o'alock
a.m. Ifrufligonreey (by her maiden name, Lydia Huntley)
had been in failing health for some time, but had been
confined to her room gibed only three weeks. She had
attained an age al 74 years, having been born
on Sept. 1, 1791. In 1819, she wee married to Mr. iligoarney,
• herder's.* dealer in Hartford, and a man of much mince
and literary taste, sad she bad by him two children,
Mary, the oldest, now the wife of the Rev. Frauds T.
Russell, of Gomm, New York, and Mare., whose death,
• few years ago, was the subject of one of her works,
entitled " The Faded Hope." Her first volume, entitled
" Moral Power, in Prose and Verse," woad in 1814 and i
since that time she km bees me of the most prolific Asir
rime authors. Together, be publicatioes anather nearly
fifty volumes,reany of which attained a very biro eircdatioa.
A prominent teeters in the, character of lira Sigoorser I
was her greet benevoleem She is said to have nude it •
point to give at least one-teeth of her income to charitable
objeds.—New York Tribune, Jam' 12.
Joan birroaut Ai:hat/J.—The New York Tribune
save :—" It seems settled that an indrotamet axed trial for '
twerps is to be rpm& for John Mitchel, now of the
New York Ram
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