The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-29 00:00:00

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CALAMITOUS FIRE IN BETEINAL-GRO3
(THIS DAY.)

TWENTY HOUSES, TIMBEEFYARDS, AND '
YBEfiILSES BURNED AND DAMAGED:'4
Shortly after midnight a dreadful fire btit
forth in the neighbourhood of Bethnal-greetreed, 44,1,_
shoed an immense amount of dansege among ei 7:
property in Squire-street and South.strest, tAidT:
habited by poor families.
The alarm was drat given about halliost 12, ,iii
the premises of M.Z. Sharp, cabiest-roaker, .4.4.
in the main road, were (mind to be all is 4 6.
all also the workshops at the beck. Adjoiaing vi;.l
number of similar buildinpbelongtog to diffareet tutu
bring adjacent and in the adjoining street, beside+ 144
there were timber-yards, cooperage, eownhedeokhismil
other promises, the wboie covering upwards of half at ~.„
of ground, and flanked by the dwelling.hees ida•
1 ie. Owing to the <Matadi, of the pp.---...
is figr. Sharp's workshop very few .14-Q
elapsed ere the hoop awl the back pewit
were in flames from sad to end, sod despite the oh"
the police and inhabitants to confine the rithellisf to la
property, the above-sassed premises caught ens tive.
other. In less than half an hoar the whole area Of Ilk -
ings was included in the pima rain, the fire rape A,
terrific tense, and lighting up the gast.eid of 1.471
to ea extraordinary degree. The excitemsat alley
the poor creatures inhabiting the homes ahltgil
on the burning building became truly heartrending, it,o
evident that their heaves could sot e cape, and the sic
tines to save the little property they pommel es,
attended with considerable risk. Some meshy k
their efforts, but moat of them lost all, A, at
es the lire brigade arrived the of ioars tad arcem, •
in command placed the different engines in the ,
rims street surrounding the fire, and attattid ,
on all points, but although they worked very vigorostio, 4 ,
was nearly 5 o'clock this moraieg before the firs wan fed,
checked. and the engines continued working Oa the nee
for hours afterward..

The details of the extent of the fire will be best saki.
stood by the official report of the fire brigade to the smie
Loedoe insurance offices sent in this morning, aid vbiii
we subjoin

01,71CIAL REPORT OF THE LOWS.
At half-put 12 o'clock a.m., 29ib lost., called to a lap
bre is Bettnal.green-toad. It proved to have origisitof a
the premises, No. 72, is that road, in the ocelostise
lb. J. Sharp. eabioet maker, which ware buried dm
coosistiog of front dwelling home of six room, with lit
workshops, one Boar high, fifty feet long hf tom,
Content. of building bared in the Atlas Firsofio, yI
building is the Guardia. Fire-ofßoe.
Premises, No. 74, Betboal.gramvoad, occupied ligik
i. W taff, Liao works. Book windows of dwelliesAme
hsesed out; workfliops in roar, 60 feet by 30, deimm
Contest., ko.. insured in the Pliamix.ofllat
Premises, No. 76, Bethsel.gross.road, ocespied y 11/.
Elmo, dealer in wardrobes. Beek wiodows burst orgy
mitosis damaged. Insured in the Pbcenii-odim.
Premises No. 78, Bethnal-arms, was complld by /b. I.
Wilson, cooper. Back workshops, timber-yard, sad eat
io open you!, coosumed. Back of dwelhophocie,
, and starched, and Imitators damaged, imorad in did,
aid Guardian offices. . .

Promisee No. 80, Bethnittgrsen.road, in the camas
of Mr. Bond, tool maker. Workshops at the back bud
does, contents isearrid is the 800 and Guardian o 5
Pismires No. 88, Betbsal.gress.road, teamed 1,7
J. Thompson, pewterer. Back workshops pseUp b
insured is the Guardia, and Pbcenic offices

Premises No. 64, Squire.atraet, Bethnal.greea.road.ildi
ocoupatata of Yr. Stamford, cawkeepor. A nese sf s,
she& tad haylofts over, semi, doettoyad. Back of 44
hig•hoase damaged by firs, removal, eat water; inendh
the PhossieFire•efitoe.

P, maims No. 63. Squire street, in the enmeshes id It
W. J. Averuell, timber merchant. A warehouse ei to
floors about 45 feet square, Mused does. Timbsrtet
and stook therein measly destroyed, and beck part nim
homes seriosmay damaged. Windows binned out &Mba
niters meth damaged. The property insured in the
Sao, and Pbceuis Fire-o6ices.
Two houses, Non 60 sad 61, in Squire-street, tenth
tesemeate, pertly destroyed, with entente; insistent
insured.

...id: louses in Soutb4trett, Betboel.rresn-reed, Net
P, 10, end 11, ell let out in tenements, nearly bamsdilsesl
inmates not insured.

Houses Nos. I, 2,3, 4,5, and 6, deo in South4truld
out in tenaatry, greatly damaged by fire; tarok= pay
destroyed by removal, kc. Inmates not insured.
Timber yard of Yr. W. H. Smith, in Hares*
Betboal.green-road, damaged and fire insurance ulna
Ilse number of engines at work at the fire we. is
steam and seven manual enema, is charge of 50 fume,
The cause of the fire as recorded in the repsri
unknown.

M. Michel Chevalier, • few days ago, wok
a letter, of which the following is a tranalation :—" I heit
laid before the Emperor the letter with which yea as
trusted me, in which Mrs. Cobdsu inform' you al br
desire to offer a bust of her husband to his Majesty. 16
Majesty is touched by the sentimeets expressed is 61
letter, and of Mrs. Coledsu's thought of eroding bin 161
renessabsaner, which will recall to him so eminent no
whose ohameter, abilities, end services be appreciate{ effil
whom he has keenly regretted. His Majesty ample!
with pismire, and degree that you would kindly Well
Mrs. Cobden, with the dos expression of his thuh-1
have the honour, /cc., Plenty private secretary to it
Emperor."
The French Exhibition will remain open uti
the end of August.

THE GUARDO' BOAT DLUB•HOUSE AT NAM,.
HUD.—A sea club-house, designed for the scammaide
of those noblemen sod officers who are member dile
Guards' Boat Club, ill being erected on the oar* haw
the Thames, Dear the wasters side of Maidenhearbdip
It is • building of was prolamine's, and the easiest
the pleassotest on the river, as it embraces as mai
view of Cliefdso House end its grounds, the mat ef lis
Dowager Duchess of Sutherland. It cootaiu air lamb-
viz., a dining and reading-room. two bedrooms, a dradliP
room, sad an aote.room. Formerly the officers if Or
Guards belonging to this club used to row oo the Thom
is the vicinity of Whitehall, Vauxhall. sod Clithosi ad
while the steamboat, have drives them from their al
water the Great Western Railway bite placed at tisk dii
soul a rowing and fiehieg retreat wbieh aeo be mid
by way of Taplow Station alter about an boar's je'.
from tows.
FINSBURY REGINTRATIoN SOCIETY.—On Thor*
'reales • meeting, comprising severs) of the electors rib
borough of Finsbury, was held at the Angel Terse,wedi
M'Doonell is the chair, for the purpose of forming a
1 having for its object the correction and pariliticsi et
1 list of voters for the borough. Dories the last elestisi
was found that the electoral lists contained utimanies Ye
cumin sad errors which entailed much treuble sad bob
valiance both to ceedidatea sod electors. To prenatal.
Is future the idea of • registratios society, havutgkr
object the purification of the registry list, and free boa
political bier. was suggested, and the object of the
of Thursday was to carry out this idea. A committer
' nominated, and a chairman, vice-chairman, tremem
sserstsry were appointed. Asubsiniption of ss. and
constitutes • member of the society. Mr. UMW Wilt
Lusk, the new nimbus for the borough, were lilted"
attend. The former gentleman was pretest, sad erFalld
himself in favour of the establishmeot of the society, if it
saccesity of which he was convinced from the mediae
he bad squired during the recent mutest.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC GOSSIP.—Tbe GIMP
ter Festival will commence on the Mb of fiegbareter, at
be conducted by Dr. Weals,. Bribes Last Atifit
Meodelssoba's St. Paul sad IthjaA, Scoffs
gains sod The Hasid& will be the Prierrird v."
performed. The elegem @weed are Madam TWO
Louisa Pyre. and Eleanore Wahiawa. Madame lit
deradorff, Dr. Goes, Henn. Cummiep
sad Seatley. Madame Arabella liarlderl 7wirrie
pianists. Mr. Alfred Mottos has bens &sea •
conductor to the Liverpool Philharmonic Borrissr. It
operas talked of for the Limited Lability OrmfdP
mew am L'Africaine, possibly • serum of Lai/...
de Saba, Mr. Henry Leslie's Guardia* Stork sod 11
Osboiwe's opera. It is sow said than Mr. Tots Holder. wo
tenor who his lately been moth talked shout is off
saisatour world, has been urged by Mr. Gip tar*
Italian news of 1866. The disciples of HOST '.gar!.
is • high state of triumph, Trietaa and reel* Wig
actually got to the length of firs reprffestailo Its
u
voice of the heroine, however, Modem. Szhoorr vos Olen
fold, writes • German friend, " was utterly fitilbill 11.
We stay have moro to say of thnse performers'a lif.
while, a second Guam letter brings the sad mug
Herr Scharer von Carolsfeld, the original Triages,
almost immediately after hi, irritant from Munich to DIE
dolt, of typhus fever. The only novelty gives at 1.
Opera House in Berlin, dories it, past seams of 250 silid
has been Herr Wisest's Star of Turas. The Paid
Teethe was destroyed by fire on the effories of the
after • perform:weft of La Juire. For the inautuldr,
' • Mozart, statue at Vienera, Sieger Retrial has opts=
portfolio, sad lent two of the nisnosenpt eomesetls.
whisk are hoot there, it is said, at the induce d se
i
" better half," with an eye to the future.-4Mearres.
Lee surrendered to Grant under an app
; Tim rdie-busters could hardly wait for the ruffle te
cut of the way ere the tree was felled, its roots Sisal
the whole cut into pieces sad every available bit cartiai
la triumph. It is held ss excesdiesly primithor owl il
"simedeth"...jl3ras" enlibeolreryPanmg"elsedoe w?hintoetOfim, liao"hilF.delelesserlYtheaPPl:6lll.."ll.l7
1 20 dole.—Richnond (U.S.) paper.
The Vie Parisimuse states that the heat It .
al'
'as great is Paris during the week that ladies have ,
I wausisat "to weer their hair is their wastrelimi