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London, England, 1847-08-09 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, AUG. 9.
THE contest for West Gloucestershire has offered,
in many respects, the most extraordinary and the most
discreditable s le which has presented itself dur-
ing the election. Mr. BRANTLEY BERKELEY,
who has, by a strange combination of circumstances,
become the representative, for the time, of electoral
independence, combined in his own person almost
every possible demerit which a candidate could
possess. Violent in language and in conduct, ludi-
crously ignorant even of his mother tongue, shame-
lessly eager to publish the vices and disagreements
of his family, he could not even declare himself
the champion of independence without ,an awkward
appeal to compassion on account of his past
servility. He declared that he Lad been a faithful
and obedient nominee, and called on the freeholders
of Gloucestershire to protect him against an ungrate-
ful master. On the corn laws he would have willingly
voted ; but " Lord FITZILARDINGE would not let me.
A dispute about wages has induced his haughty
patron to turn him off; and in his alarm and distress
he recollects for the first time that he has other
masters, whose concurrence may be necessary to make
the dienissal valid, and that there are other places in
Gloucestershire beyond the demesne of Berkeley
Castle.
The representation of Glonceetershire must be in a
strange state when such a candidate can command uni-
versal sympathy, and the support of almost every inde-
pendent voter in the county. There has probably no-
where been so much enthusiasm shown on half of the
most deserving candidate as thatwhich basbeen excited
in the cause of the dismissed and persecuted nominee.
The rough squatters and colliers of the Forest of Dean
voted for " Grantley " more from feeling than from
theory. " What right," they said, in answer to every
argument and solicitation, " What right had his
brother to turn him off? " It was not the time to
inquire what right his brother might originally have
had to appoint him. The present exercise of power
was more flagrant and more harsh, and the persecuted
tool had at least one merit, in the certainty that he
would beg tool of the castle no longer.
Among the middle classes the same feeling was
oombined with a determination at any risk to lien
off the insolent domination of the local dictator.
Against all the great nobility of the county, and in
opposition to most of the gentry, the small free-
holders- came forward with purse as well as person to
vindicate their rights. Feudal claims to obedience
have nowhere been asserted so harshly as within the
Briteetsv territories, and the discontent which they
have aroused is proportionally strong; but in the
present instance there was a circumstance which made
the tymnny of the castle more than usually insup-
portable. The ancient opponent of the BERKELEY
interest, the great tory aristocrat of the district,
who had long exercised in his own dominions a
despotism as complete as that of the BERKELEY
family, the Duke of BEAUFORT himself was under-
stood to have formed a league with his whig adver-
sary in support of the general principle of oligarchical
dictation. The Duke of BEAUFORT, who is at this
moment coercing his tenants in an adjoining county
to withdraw their support from his own brother, be-
cause, like Mr. BRANTLEY BERKELEY, he has refused
to obey the chief of his house—the duke, who, is
Monmouthshire, professes to sscrifice family feelings to
protectionist principles, was willing to co-operate in
the return of a whig nominee for West Glouces-
tershire. The insolent contempt for freedom
of election which led to this coincidence of parties
it was thought imprudent to avow, and the coali-
tion was not openly published ; but it was well
loosen that the dependents of Badminton would best
please their chief by supporting his brother borough-
- =Even intimidation was not considered a
t instrument for carrying oat the claims of the
stogie. When the first day's polling had shown that
ale independent electors were likely to secure a mania
rity, it was well understood that a regular system of
briber y would commence. if we may judge from the
• discreditable family disclosures which have taken
place, a much smaller sum than this election is said
to have cost would have long ago bought off the
rebellious candidate. But it seemed the destiny of
West Gloucestershire to serve as an example of owl
possible evil influence which can be brought to bias an
election. Intimidation, rioting, and corruption have all
in turn displayed themselves in their most revolting
oolours. The result is before our readers. It was not
possible that it should be a gratifying result ; but we
may. hope that the castle infinenes has received
an irrecoverable blow. Lord FITZKAIDLNOR pos-
sesses a vast fortune, and it would be difficult to have
turned a great estate more successfully into an instru-
ment of personal aggrandizement. An earldom and
a lard-lieutenancy have rewarded his undoubted power
and his doubtful allegiance to his party. At the last
general election he saw four brothers returned for
a county and for three great town' in the district.
His fortune ie unimpaired, shis resolution to dictate
to its dependents is unshaken; but the feelings with
which be is regarded, and which we will not trust
ourselves to describe, have already cost one brother
his seat for Cheltenham, and have roused the free-
holders of Gloucestershire to the struggle which has
just terminated. No political question was at stake.
It was a question of obedience or resistance to the I
castle. Mr. GRENVILLE BERKELEY who might have
appealed to the services of his father, who for many
years represented the county, preferred to take office
ati the right of Lord Fitzhardinge to interfere. His
opponent had, as he truly said, been a nominee, and
- MRS nominated RO longer. Mr. BRANTLEY BERKELEY,
with nothing personally to recommend him but a kind
of pugnacity which might pass for a blundering sort
of chivalry, was no longer the castle nominee, and
therefore he was supported by those who were deter-
mined to vindicate their long-neglected rights.

RICHARD COBDEN'S unopposed return for the
West Riding of Yorkshire is the most important
event of the present elections. It is the first that
indicates with any degree of certainty that the new
parliament will have a decided character. Before it
occurred there were symptoms leadin to the in-
ference that the principles ot free trade g would be in
the ascendancy, but this places it beyond a doubt that
we are to have a free-trade parliament.
The free-trade phalanx man strong even before this
victory. Bradford had elected Colonel THOMPSON,
the Nestor of free trade and corn-law abolition.
Wolverhampton and South Lancashire had contended
for the honour of returning Cittimas VILLIERS, the
accomplished parliamentary leader of the assail-
ants of the corn-laws, throughout and before the
campaigns of the league. The Stirling bmsba had
returned Mr. JOHN BENJAMIN SMITH, the first
chairman of the League ; Carlisle had returned
Mr. DIXON ; Leicester, Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY ;
Birmingham, Mr. SCHOLEFIELD ; Wolverhampton,
Mr. THOZNELT Dumfries, Mr. EWART, all earnest
and influential members of the League from its
original formation. Along with these were re-
turned almost every member of earlier parliaments
who countenanced and counselled the League in
its first efforts; and now, the largest consti-
tuency in England has, as it were, unani-
mously sent him who was the animating and
guiding spirit of the League, to be the animating and
guiding_ spirit of the free-trade party in parliament,
with all the prestige which attaches to the represen-
tative of such a district.
The members whom we have named are not men
to do their work slothfully under any circumstances.
And they will speak in the new parliament with the
conscious authonty which can only inspire men who
speak unequivocally the sense of a nation. North
mall South Lancashire and the West Riding of York-
shire, with almost all their boroughs, have sent repre-

mutative' to carry on the begun work of five trade ;
and to this end have chosen thepublie men of all others
most irretrievably committed to the principles of free
trade, or who have shown most ability in promoting
them. The electors are as earnest in the cause as the
elected. The great constituencies of the metropolis, in
the south ; of FAlinbargh, Glasgow, and Dundee in the
north; have shown themselves actuated by the same
spirit. Flushed with conquest, unflagging in splits,
increased in numbers, the free-trade party in par-
liament are resolute to advance; while the dispirited
adherents of protection have everywhere been ad-
mitting their late defeats, and deprecating the renewal
of the contest.
Be the new parliament what it may in other re-
spects, there can be no question of its proving sincere,
eased. sad active in completing the begun change in
war semearacial policy. We may look forward to it
for a essision of our whole system of customs and
excise. said for extensive changes in those navigation
laws which have been, according to some, the prop
and, say of our juvenile comineroe--accoeding to
others, mere fetters to cramp and palsy its energies;
but which, according to all worth listening to, are
now a thing of the past. The influence of that self-
dependence and spurning alike of unnecessary con-
trol and unneeded help, which is at the root of the
free-trade theory, will be felt in many other branches
of discussion and legislation. All deliberation on
the relations of labourers and their employers will be
affected by them. Their spirit will be felt animating
and modifying our foreign policy.
In our speculations on the indications and tendencies
of RICHARD COBDEN'S election, we must not, how-
ever, altogether forget the hero of the tale. A new
career is opening upon him : we hope and believe one
in which he will acquit himself as beneficially for his
country, as honourably foe himself, as that which
closed when the abolition of the corn-lace was
achieved. Our faith in RICHARD COBDEN rests on
our observation of the man and his conduct. Distinct
in his conceptions, resolute and prompt in action, with
comprehensive sympathies and a cordial disposition,
he is just the man to discern what is for the public
advantage, to prosecute it vigorously, and to minimise
opposition by avoiding all unnecessary irritation.
The judgment he evinced by withdrawing himself
from the scene of action as soon as his presence
ceased to be indispensable, is a guarantee that when
he returns he sees that there is something worth a
struggle to be effected, and has formed a judicious
estimate of the means which exist for, its accomplish-
ment He is uncompromised on two great questions
of the day—the education and the sanitary question
and his liberal and definite views regarding them, to-
gether with his happy knack of softening asperities,
and bringing the seemingly irreconcileable to act in
concert, may enable him to smooth the way to bar-
na action and the triumph of common sense.

measures, but bad not yet decided on the means of
or coercion. In feet, this part of their report
arilin:lve the only really important question node-
' cided by the die namely, the means of executing its
decrees. No one doubts that the revision of the pact,
the suppression of the convents, and the expulsion of
the Jesuits will be voted, by the same majority that
has voted the dissolution of the Sanderbund. The
means of enforcing these decisions are, however, still
to be found.
Le Coserrier Suisse says that, in consequence of the
late resolution of the diet, twenty-eight federal officers,
of whom seven are colonels, have been called on to
renounce the service of the Sunderbund, or to be die-
missed the federal service. Their answer must be re-
mitted before the 10th instant, otherwise they will bo
forthwith cashiered.

frbe Court.
OSBORNE, SATURDAT.—Yeattrday being the anni-
versary of the birthday of Prince Alfred, her Majesty gave •
fête to the servants and labourers employed at Osborne, to-
gether with their wives and families, in the same manner as
last year, upon the occasion of the birthday of the Prince
Consort, which will occur this year during the absence of
the court in the north. At 3 o'clock about three hundred
persons sat down to a substantial dinner of roast beef, plum-
pudding, &c.; otter doing ample' justice to which, Mr.
Toward, the Queen's bailiff, proposed a series of loyal tour,
' which we need hardly say were drunk with the greatest en-
' thusiasm. The sports of the evening, which are described
elsewhere, then commenced.
The royal dinner parts in the evening included the
Grand Duke Constantine, the Reigning Duke of Nassau,
Count Menhdorff, Baron de Brunow, the Counter of
Deur, the Berl of Ilehester, Viscountess Palmerton, Vis-
count and Viscountess Sydney, Viscount Jocelyn, Admiral
de Lutke, Col. the Hon. Charles Grey, and three gentlemen
of the suite of the Reigning Duke of Nassau. The band of
the Royal Marines was in attendance pit dinner.
This morning the Grand Duke Constantine of
Russia took leave of the Queen on his return to town.
Prince Albert accompanied the Grand Duke to tke Fairy.
His Imperial Highnt as left at Reif-past ten o'clock, attended
by Baron de Brunow and Admiral de Lutke. The reign-
ing Duke of Nassau, attended by bis suitn, also left to-day.

—aunt Palmerston took his departure this forenoon.
SUNDAY.—This morning the Queen and Prince
Albert, and the ladies and gentlemen of the court, attended
divine service in Whippingham Church.

Lord Monteagle, Mr. C. K. Murray, and Mr. Mae-
gre. Or, M.P., had interview' with Lord J. Russell on Sa-
turday, at his official residence in Downing•street. Lord J.
Russell went to his residence at Richmond, on Saturday
evening and bas proceeded to Osborne, Isle of Wight, on a
visit to her Maiesty.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had
a special general meeting on Saturday.
Despatches were sent off on Saturday evening from
the Colonial-offico for the Governor of Ceylon and the
Governor of Malta.
The Dukes of Wellington and Rutland and Sir F.
Trench attended the esrly service in the Chapel Royal St.
Jame,'s yesterday. Prayers were read by the Rev. Dr.
Wesley, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. F. Per-
kins. At thedaily service the prayers were read by the Rev,
Mr. Relmore, the lessons by the Rev. Mr. Povah, and the
communion service by the Rev. Dr. Wesley; the sermon was
preached by the Rer. F. Perkins. Kr. Cooper presided at
the organ.

The Paris journals and our correspondence of
Saturday have reached us.
The movement of parliamentary reform in France
is going through a series of phases, which, mutate
mutandm, exhibits a reproduction of those which were
manifested in England during the fifteen years which
preceded 1830. A manifesto issued by the "Central
Committee of the Electors of the Opppposaiition of the
Department of the Seine," and addressed to the
provincial committees has appeared. This docu-
ment indicates a distinctness of purpose, a command
of resources for the working out of that purpose, and
an organisatioa of agitation more formidable than
any which has been witnessed in France since the
revolution of July. The party which is thus brought
to co-operate for the attainment of a reform in the
electoral and representative system, includes expressly
every section of the chamber from the centre to the
extreme left, and implicitly also the legitimists
who have spoken in a favourable sense through their
avowed eels= of the prem. The object of this
agitation is smelly stated. The basis of the present
representative system is a constituency limited
by a tax-paying test to about 200,000 in a population
of above thirty-four millions, that is, one voter to every
170 individuals. The system of centralisation estab-
lished in France at and since the great revolution,
places the entire, patronage of the country m the hands
of the government in Paris. Hence a machinery of
corrupt electoral influence of such appalling power as
to render representation even of that constituency a
fiction. But, besides this, the representative chamber,
consisting of 459 members, contains about 200 place-
holders, who hold their incomes and rank at the
pleasure of the government. It is contended, there-
fore, by the advocates for reform, that, under aneh a
system, representative government is a mockery ; that
a total and radical reform is imperiously called for
both within the chamber and without it, a reform
which would reduce the court and government influ-
ence (which, after all, must subsist in a greater or less
degree) within limits more consistent with the free-
dom and independence of the nation.
The reform banquet lately given in the gardens of
the Chateau Rouge, and attended by twelve hundred
electors, was only the first of a series of like demon-
strations to be made throughout the kingdom. The
present manifesto is accompanied by a form of peti-
tion, to be signed by those who dab* reform ;
quote, modelled modelled on that of the Chatemildsage, are to
be got up in all the chief places et the provisoes,
where the spirit of reform is to be roused by *ratio=
from popular speakers, who will visit them *am
Paris for that purpose. The profeseions, orgenisittlem.
and proceedings of this national ream ineesistien
are evidently modelled on those of al sseisties In
England—peaceable and legal mew dome ass to be
resorted to. Discussion and the pus se the only
machinery to be brought We LIEWILESIL The
right of petition is the iEgis wain the shelter
of which the reformers will protect themeekes, The
most unequivocal indication of the &roadie
character of the association is the alarm it has given
to the government. The ministerial organ of Satin►
day devotes its leading article to the expansion et Its
ire oa the occasion, and stigmatises the central Leah
mittee as a revival of the Jacobin club.
The frequent charges made by the opposztion
against the ministry. for its disposition to favour
absolutism and the Jesuits in its diplomacy, have
elicited one or two expressions of qualified disavowal
both in the tribune and in the press. M. Onizot
delivered a speech in the Chamber of Peers, which
we lately noticed, in which he referred to the affairs
of Italy and Switzerland in terms which have been
eulogised by his organ, the Journal des Dibats.
"This is the first time," mays that journal, " that the
reforms of Italy have been officially mentioned in the
tribune."
In expressing, in the name of France, his sympathy for
the regal& movement which is taking plea in Me state of
Italy, in our day, to declaring that it was the duty of all the
nations and governments of Europe to lend their support to
the difficult and ornletinte task which the Pope wishes to
carry out, IL. Outset has shown how he Peacetime that the
liberal sad commervative policy which he has ceased
to prams, ought to be applied. ' To announce to the Italian
te that at present they can preserve their in-
tend safety only on condition of remaining in
good intelligence with their people, to proclaim aloud
that ft is important for France that these governments
shall not be lorded over by say other power ; to say, in
due, to the populations themselves, that the reforms which
they desire wadi' cease te be possible en the day when they
418,
should ones to demand them pesesabl and legally, is to in-
trodaee into Italy that moderate whieh for 17 years
has constituted the strength and of Frazee, and
whisk will one day, we lope, eons to the strength and
happiness of Italy. We have no doubt that this ma=
reply of M. Ouizot to all the absurd rumours and
which have been disseminated relative to the oaths of
French diplomacy in Italy will be rewired with enthusiasm
beyond the Alps. France will behold there a first and
great application of the iwell.known words—" All parties pro-
mwe progress; the conservative one alone can effect it."
The charges of ministerial corruption continued to
be made the subject of comment in the chambers
and in the pram One involving the conduct of
Marshal Soult is at present the subject of dis-
cussion. The particulars, however, would offer little
interest to the English . public, unless the matter
should assume a more serious form than it has at pre-
sent, which is scarcely probable.
The act in favour of the Lyons and Avignon Railway
was unexpectedly rejected in the Chamber of Peers
on Friday, notwithstanding it was strongly advocated
by the cabinet.
The Prince de Joinville has been ordered to send
some ships of his squadron to Algiers, on the pretext,
as is said, that a Turkish fleet is expected there.
M. Olozaga, accompanied by his family, had arrived
at Bayonne.
The Phare des Pyrinfes says that Mr. Southern
arrived in Bayonne on the 2nd inst, bearing de-
spatches from Mr. Bnlwer to Lord Palmerston.

DEATH OP LORD DUNBANDLE.—The Right Hon.
Denis Daly, Baron Dunaandle expired at his residence, Due-
sandls, county Galway, on Friday last. His lordship was
elevated to the peerage a few years since by Sir Robert Peel,
of whose policy he was slwsys an adherent. He is succeeded
in his title and estates by his son the Hon. Denis Daly, who
had offered as a candidate fur the representation of Galway.

•
Advices from Berne to the 3rd instant have been
received. The committee of the diet appointed to re-
port
on the insurgent measures of the separatist can-
under had not yet presented their report. They were
stood to be agreed to pronounce against these

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TINE EXPRESS, MONDAY, E'V'ENING, AUGUST 9, 1847.

REGAL SPORTS.—The following account of the
amusements provided at the rural fête at Osborne, on the occa-
sion of PrinteAlfred's birth-day, we print literati/a from the
Cowl Circular of Saturday : .. Dancing, cricket, quoits,
trap-bat and ball, and rounders, whipping a ball out of a
hole (six persons hooded), foot-ball, foot-races, donkey races,
hopping !witch, hurdle races, jumping in sacks, blind-man's-
buff, leap-frog, long rope, follow my leader, and skipping,
wheeling barrows I blindfolded), snapping et gingerbread
(hands tied), bobbing for apples (in water), dipping for a
piece of money (in meal), climbing poised poles, winding
strings around pegs, &c., &c. These sporta afforded
amusement to a large conrourse of happy people.
The bands of the Royal Marines and 43rd Light
Infantry were present by her Majesty's command, and to
their mar some forty or fifty couples threaded the mazes of
the good old English country-dance. The Queen, the
Prince, the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, the Reign- I
ing Duke of Nassau and their respective suites, Count
Mensdorff, hie Excellency Baron de Brunow, Viscount Pal-
merston, and the ladies and gentlemen of the royal house-
71,,,,,,,
hod wererment during the whole of these festivities, and
hie and his Royal Highness appeared to take the
lamest in the amusements and happiness of the
group by wheat they were surrounded. The royal
daises loomed asst the hart Interesting part of this scene.
The Prime of Wass era Prince Allred appeared in the tor- 1
red costume of British seamen, and with their royal sisters
appeared to ogler fay into the humours of the day. The
whole modelled at sunset, and the enthusiastic cheering
which medusa through the woods of Osborne on the de-
=o( the royal party will not easily be forgotten by
rho were fortunate enough to be present.
VACANCY FOR GREENWICYL—NO sooner had the
excitement attending the election for this borough passed
away than intelligence was received that one of the mem-
bers was no more. Yesterday morning a report reached
Greenwich that Mr. Barnard, who has sat for that borough
dace 1832, died on Saturday. The first effect of this melan-
choly news having subsided, the filling of the vacancy was ,
a traded stilted of discussion. There seemed to exist no,
doubt that Mr. Hawes would stand, if solicited ad pro.
idea wash support as would hold out a fair hope of succor.
Ice this event, a contest would most likely ensue, for the 1
high 'position at which Mr. David fialomons was placed on
the poll at the recent election, after only a few hours' can-
Men, will possibly induce him to stand: also.
FIREAr—RARROW-ROAD.—Yesterday, at a quarter 1
pest 12 at mewl, a fire broke out upon the farm pre-
[ Wass belonging to J. Neald, Esq., M.P., known as °eking
lei-ho, -Harrow-road, about eight miles from London, 1
and at 9 o'clock tot evening, the hour the reporter left,
although all danger of any further extension of the detente-
tire element wee Over, it was the opinion of the firemen that
the fire could not by possibility be extinguished until a late
hour this day. The dames when first perceived were raging
in a rink dame hay standing in the rick -yard, and surrounded
by numerous other stacks, barns, the farm-house, and other
farm property. The precise cause of the disaster
could not be ascertained, but is supposed to have
been occasioned either by lightning or from the hay
having been stacked too soon. A number of parsons
hastened to the spot, and with the aid of buckets of
water they attempted in rain to assuage the flames, for,
owing to the small space between the stacks, the flames
speedily communicated to a era stack, and from thence
travelled right sad left, until the whole of the ricks in the
yard, numbering six were completely enveloped. Engines i
were procured from Willesdon, and afterwards from
Leaden. Although a powerful stream was distributedl
over the homing mass, net the least impression could be
made upon the Ramie, and they continued to rise most fear-
fully. The engines were left behind all night, and at nine
o'clock mess were engaged in euttieg out those portions of
the ticks into which the fire had not penetrated. At least
'wo-thirds of each rick had been destroyed. It is alacrity'-

that the property was art iiiMermi.—Lemnrin.—A fire
took place on Saturday meraMg ea
_the premises of Mr. Sim-
sone,Windmill-street,Corad, lueifer match manatee-
turer. The fire originated is the workshop, and was occa-
sioned by a work boy, who onelleatelly let fall a match-box
upon acme ignitable materials. TbeWest MEngland engine
was almost immediately on the ogee. red a plentiful supply
of water having been obtained, the lee Reis prevented from
extending its ravages beyond the premiss whaseit caigi-
nated, which together with the peepwty they eostaised,
were entirely deetreied. We vadaMairlehot MA Memos,
is not insured.•••—WHlTECllkrli.Thill abseil
matertaelesttweire o'clock, the premien of Mr. 82,
h-etnet, Whiteehapel, were Membered by a policeman
to as fire. At that period the Inmates, omitting of
sneer se eight persons, were is their beds asleep. The con-
Mabie. Oar amilarahle resbie,susessded in making the
residealesessibis et** bat by the time be bad
secomplited his *W s *Week the el the shop was 'upped
in • caespheis bleep, sad fradikathefile wee impossible te
litlearakerses,the whelk of peruses Wag Is thole
aoh russet by teetl # out of the sessed ilser
and pails slag the reef et the adjoining lease.
dabs prkit, London Brigade, and West el lagiesdih=
pay quickly attended, and, with the tio:finamaillbil
la et war, the flames were speeilly
sot venal the whets ef Yr. Ityasma's ewh
trade was ed. no erre of the esailrr
unknown. The it t'a fall on the Globe rhos.
EXPLOSION OP FIRESTORM! IN LAMBETH. Oa
Saturday afternoon, shortly after one o'clock, an exploders_
of a fearful eheresser, Model with great dee&e,
t=ty, seemed wpm the pasidase Ur.
, firework asitafasestrer, Psspee•ln Lambeth-
walk. The premises extended from the teat dwelling-house
nearly 100 feet back, and were adjoined ea either aide by
numerous workshops and privets hena. At the time of
the explosion a number of the truisms were engaged in
the several compartments of the tesextj. Many of the
houses in the immediate vicinity of Regent-street were
&skim to their foundations. The windows and roofs were
essaiderably damaged, and in two or three buildings the
giwere thrown from one ride of their rooms to the
n, an instant a thousand or two of rockets shot forth
bum Kr. Derby's factory high into the air; these were fol-
lowed by other fierce explosions, which had barely subsided
when volumes of black smoke and large sheets of flame were
to be seen curling over the roofs of the surrounding houses.
With all possible expedition the parish, West of England,
and five of the London Brigade engines reached the spot, at
which time the whole of Mr. Darby's back premises, with
the exception of the powder magazine, were blazing, u were
the workshops adjoining, belonging to Mr.Dslley, an engineer.
Before a drop of water could be thrown upon the dames,
they had communicated to the front dwelling, and there is
no doubt that had it not been for the exertions of the firemen
this place would also have been levelled with the ground.
As it is, the whole of the back windows are demolished, and
several of the rooms severely injured by fire. After some