The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-22 00:00:00

OItSAT TIM AT STANGATZ

About half-put 11 o'clook lael night am °itemise
sad deminetim Ore broke out in the imp engines=l
peteet nos revel abetter works tolooging to the
Jessings. inlets lathe Palsormsd, Miugste. Is less Shia
half so hoer the whale beteg with its salmis stash and
plant ware omapletely dsetroysd. The building has • long
frontage of about 100 pads is the l'illumro4 roar stories
Mgt, sad cam& beckwnsde fee several b,ed saris to
the Mats of the river Tints, iiessedistely apposite the
Haase al Commies, end was fitted with the mast easily sad
complicated mechbray. The he we. Ant diatoms& by •
moiler on ems el the edjelolig wisvirma, Vibe
at 001111 gave the alarm, the powerful
slam engine from Hodges' was spas the
spot is • few deatay spedily followed by •
bet of of the teigsde wpm, both Muss mil
miasmal. Unfortunately it was low water, sad some tine
elapsed before the mime mid be get to work, sad when
they were .cabled to des all Asses of Nevin the faders
from destination was at se soul, sad the effects al the Am
men were dbacted to prwreet the flames spreading to the
imps Mild* entaidits of Messrs. Nixon end Hay-
ward, and the lisam. Wardle. About 12 *Wok the mei
of the fastery fell la with • tamnandoss meth, carry's( with
B the Mailieuelissidesey and • wasitashls prima! the
crib el thobsilihig..blab wale direst thiekeem Beveled
the Muses bed • Jersey mime from !king crushed by
Me fall* mums of iron sad brickwork. The Amiss now
brim toll vent Met Welt into the sir. The heat new Memo
se Manse from the pest body of Im sod thelerp pant*
ofd Tabot km, that the firemen were com polled to season
from their posts, sad allow the flames to burs with.
est rep halibut sleet is eitiegeish tins, se far as
Mason Inning's fastag woe cosesmod. Mach appreberkin
was felt that a row of private dwelling-boos cm the south
aide of tbe Pianos's' would tam err, sad the Ansel
brought the engines to bear epee them, sad owe playing
upon them at the time thin report wee rumen. All further
Amps of Pe estriesios of the lire at the river ids, tow.
ow, was by ibis time at se ad, although the Iliumee ware
Mill Miming Mimi, au Yams. Jeanine premium The
origin of the la the confusion that mimed, could eat be
sesertehted, as uy estintste ride as to the assert of
ad, whisk meet weeetworily be very psi,
rrTatsr"the tally of valuable machinery and
plant on the prelims. A large quality at I=lll,
wee Mend co the .1111=b10. At Z o'clock OM umnine the
Ire use only partially got under, sad the firemen were
still mitt vely at work. A large number of =sale
essemSed at every piss where • view of the
soil be obtained.

BIALYS Of LONDON.—B appears from the return
lamed by authority of 3b llogistrar-Gazierel that la the
week that elided hi* Ikersrdey the births is Lowden sad
Mee other cities sr boroughs of tie Oohed if Loh= 11111116
4,368, the deaths 2,982. The usual rate of mortality hr
the week io those tee large town was 28 per 1,000 ponces
Idris& bed we Les than is the previous week. oboe it VMS
29. is Lead= the With. 4 1384 Up. and A•l2s 1011‘ bo
all 2,310 children, were seesawed is the week. is sem
nepoodieg weeks of tee F 186544 the avenge auseber.
oerreeted far honest of .tics, was 9, 116. Modeles
Is the same time wore 1, The avenge amber 1=
elaveatti week tee years (canacted) is 1,499. The
snore shoos or excess of 39 over the calculated esetbar.
Whoopiessoili acid typhus were decidedly sicsistal tims
as other esesplaist in the symotic clam, sad the ambers
lebrtea to than disown wen slant equal, 88 to the fee.
ter. 86 to the latter. These were lee deerha from pthileis.
sad 200 from brooshitle, both smokers bang above the re-
spective avenges. A Wino-crostes aged 37 years, resolved
• Seel iMary from $ maws be Its Xilliassokeet, sod
died so 6th Kara is Osy's Haspital. A hoseekeeper, mod
90 yams, wee cruelacei_ by a hone again{ a well,
and died In SR acraelow's Hospital. Os the
7th Met, at 14, Jantildes-villea, Eleclosay, • llemak,
Qicesa's pewterer,god 33 pan, died of " shame-
tioo from vast of proper food sad siverislimest.',
At the Royal Observatory, Oreeswish, the ems IS A& ef
the berometer is the week irse 29.08 is. The reeding
rose to 72.93 is. on goads, and to 29.60 is. os Xmas.
'Tin mesa Misspend/ore of the ale is the week was 38.3 &&,
which is 6.4 deg. below the aneeps of the esme meek is 58
veers. The meesittestemperaben was camidaably
below the average ib the week. Tire highest day
temperatese wee 4414 on Friday. The leant sight
terepentan *eat deg. as Saturday. The thensemeter
fib os Os eights below, or to • pont little above the
freeing pelt* *ter. The wind was penally
On iletdsl. Moe LILL lie rim
Lehner( AND COUNTY LAND AND BUILDING QM-
PANT. —7llO amid 11911111111 meetiag of the shareholders of
the above somposy was held yeAerdey at the Logos
Torero, Ibidossesiootsst. W.I. &Emma is the ask. la
*peered by no report that the whole of tha properties as
which a prod' was estimated le hot year's balaseeolreet
bon, with ego isomplees, he.. mid, and yielded a morphia
sessiderably beyond the eitimete the mode- The hale*,
at nail of profit and Ism aceonet is 30,8881. lls. 3d., ash
of which the aireetere ressucemoded that a dividend at the
seta of 20 per cost be esehred, aid that 10,0004 be pined
in the reserve fool, The chairman bristly mov the
Word* of the septet sad entement of anocials, ed
which
wee amid to after wormal gentian had bees put by
shersholdes and morosed by Xr. 'lsnot& se cif the
directors. 'The sheiks of sew dinetors wirs thee mitered
wen, ease Midi the peeseelikige terminated with a von
el *mike * eel
quugss.oro=itsgar.—The ship Commo-
dore Pony, LOOO trenburdie, Women to Krems. T. N.
Mario soil Oct, salmi es the 16th WM from Ossossok
siessosisterabi Darold OwesAisimwasder r lb*
seeped, PorsjdoihreLsreisoriemietad by 11.111L2
meirei. • is the
that bee maid am elm MA swier sy
Iti stem
es, sods tbs immediele Mortis of the
•Osissiest.• flhe soriteles al divided iMaciM
sfembloend Ihrennedeetemishil 3011
scr Margie Imo n deg*

VPUBLIC COMPANIES. Registration
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IlalL" kept la Mock by ARK aad FLINT. Mailman aad MIAOW,
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JOHN BROODEN recommends the public to
livre caret
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Ltd ewe eted." at to law N 7. beluga deladom JOHN
BROODAWII GOLD C -ate Dote arm this Pricatah
sad at mac octorso's whoa Mactutactory. IC. =WM-
street. Covent-gardee, This calabllahment el at
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sod at Saturdays at 1 o'clock.

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TO ootuaromurra.
Aeiellosessate intended for " The Weever " Loudon Zrenins
least be at the Othoa Seaverle-dreet, by Tye
= ea the day of pehlkatton.

Rowan. TER AFTER MIGE.
WAIT.
Tirwo.ut KAUFL Itosom them,
nockAßßnobn AHowe,
Mums, and Compton : Madam Mime, dc.—And
EAST &RAVING. Mimes L. UMW and F. NI/40R

FRIWOESIS.
Tuts Mums, lISsitTIITRINGS AND FIDDLE-STRINGS.
—AURAE NA ?OWL Mows. D. Donde:Gilt. J. Brougham
. Vanden Mt D. Piabar. D. ilium, Ikeyton. Mains :
Dodd: and Miss M. OUver.—kail AN AMYL' APOLOGY.

LYCEUM.
THIS ZWDN. TEI ROADSIDE INN. Nara. H. Wield-
tomb. Fitzpatrick wad Misery , Nlu Ells pithy. THE
STRANGER. Maar,. Ryder. ffersaaaa,wkidicono. Fitzpatrick :
MAW Beatrice aced 11ra itareasa.—Commeace az 7.

11111TANNIA.
run Memo. THI RAND OF FAT[-Kgpor and
Ide speadoes Doc. CINDZKILLA. Mfr Fiber Jacobs.—
And nnarxr ISTIARIL —Comma at baltpss4

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22.

TER Member for Dudley pined an easy victory
over the Government, or rather over the CHAN-
crtgos of the ESCESQIIER, last night. A ma.
jority of 72 accepted and confirmed his Resolu-
tion, " That in the opinion of this House it is
" expedient that the reduction of Fire Insurance
" Duty, made in the last Session, be extended at
" the earliest opportunity to houses, household
" goods, and all descriptions of insurable pro-
" perty,"notwithstseding Mr. Giseeroer's earnest
remonstrance against any such arbitrary anti-
cipatieo, on the part of the Legislature, of the
financial statement of the year. Mr. H. B.
SHERIDAN described his repeated Resolutions
in favour of a reduction of the fire in
surance duty to a uniform rate of eighteen-pence
(he would prefer a shilling), as "standing laetrile-
" time" or "admonitions " to the Government,
which the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQOZR for the
time being was bound to take into his most
serious consideration in framing hie Budget.
The partial success be achieved last year
in obtaining a reduction of the rate of insurance
on stock in trade, has, it seems, excited in his
" over-sanguine mind " that sort of gratitude
which consists in a lively sense of hymns
to come. He tells a story of some " right
" hoe. friend" of his, who first gave him the
hint of moving a Resolution, instead of bringing
in a Bill, because a Resolution was so much more
easily carried than • Bill, and was a peculiarly
binding form of "admonition," which no Govern-
ment could decently disregard. If we may be per-
mitted to indulge for • moment in the fashionable
jargon of the day, and to borrow a figure from
gunnery, there is an " initial velocity" in a Resolu-
tion which compensates for the want of that "force
"of impact" which belongs to a Bill. Mr.
SHERIDAN, armed with his annual Resolution,
finds himself almost as formidable as the man
who has only one book in his library. With •
piety and confidence of manlier that may well have
jarred a little upon the nerves of a Finance
Minister in the last month of that interesting
condition which surrounds him with an almost
maternal mystery and importance from January to
April, Mr. SERRIDAN dexterously contrives to
force Mr. GLADSTONE into • false position, and to
reduce him to the dilemma of treating Parliament
with " compulsory disrespect," or of appear-
ing to dispose of his surplus as Mr.
BERMUDAN directs. There was an episode
in the debate on the Friendly Societies Bill
last Session, which suggests that the Member
for Dudley may, not without a natural human
relish, choose the tenth day from the close of a
financial year for a rapier thrust at the amo'tr
propre of a Chancellor of the Exchequer. The
misfortunes of our friends, we are told, are
never entirely disagreeable to us ; and
it may be refreshing to pay off an intimate enemy
by forestalling the merit of his good intentions or
convicting him of contumacy ; when your intimate
enemy happens to be • statesman, jealous of his
" initiative" and of his just renown. The
Member for Dudley very dexterously wraps
himself in the mantle of Parliamentary pre-
rogative, and raises the standard of the
rights of the Legislature ; be dictates to Mr.
GLADSTONE the disposal of his surplus, or visits
him with an "admonition " which is almost a
censure. This is a proud attitude for the
Member for Dudley ; and as his cause is
undoubtedly a good one, and he has the whole
will of the House with hint, and the wishes of
the public, it must be confessed that he has chosen
well the ground, the time, and the object of his
attack. Mr. GLADSTONE, in moving the previous
question, characteristically enough grappled at
once with the high constitutional theory, to the
greater glory of the mover of the Resolution. No
Minister, no member is more constantly and em-
phatically solicitous of the rights and prerogatives
of Parliament, more earnest in maintaining, more
respectful in observing them, than Mr. GLaneroxs.
No member of the House could with a better
grace assert, as he did last evening, the distinctive
rights and duties of the executive government in
conducting the financial policy of the country.
Mr. GLADSTONE contends that the " potency " of
a Resolution of the House is relative, not absolute,
in its nature and operations ; it depends on "the
" subject matter." A Resolution urging the Go.
remnant to increased expenditure, involving, per-
haps, increased taxation, would not have the same
potency as • Resolution tending to reduction of
the burdens of the people. But the "initiative"
of the Cniatcsuon of the Elmo:Kris, on the other
hand, should be absolute, and in practice it is so.
For example, Mr. GIALDSTONZ cited the large
minority in 1861 against the repeal of the
paper duty, or rather in favour of repealing
certain " war taxes " on articles of necessity in-
stead. Yet the Government proposed and carried
the repeal of the Paper duty. Only the other day
the House negatived • resolution urging the repeal
of the Malt duty, not on the merits of the ques-
tion, but because it would not interfere with the
responsible " " of the Government. On a