The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-04 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Dust's, Aram 3.
The Longford Liberal Club, in conjunction with
the Irish Tenant League, have at length pitched
upon a candidate to put forward at the approaching
eb etion f,w that county. The man of their choice is
Mr. S, rjcant Shea; bUt there has not yet been suffi-
cient time to a.stcrtain whether that gentleman will
consent to conic forward. It is said that Mr. Har-
man King, a member of the Leitrim family, will
stand on the conservative interest, and Mr. SoliCitor-
liencral Hughes is expected in the fichl as the whig
candidate. to addresses to the electors have yet
made their appearance.

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Itov.o. MustAin' ACADI3IY, WooLwien.—lt is i
&rioted that Colonel Lewis, CM., Royal Engineers, is to
succeed the late Maior-Deneral Parker as Litat.-Oovernor
of the Woolwich Academe.
1/4..5T11 1W I.IIECT.-ariEr. St. Silt Jolts NIACLEOD,
C. 8.. K.C.ll.—On the 2nd iwtant, this distinguished gene-
ral edits r died at his resident, in two at All aili.uteed age.
The late Sir John Macleod entered the army as an ensign
in th,, ;nth IlighTind Regiment in 1793, and the mat year
st est 3 in Holism, in the anluous c.unpsign under the Duke
of York. Ile was pnwnt at the attock and capture of Fort
Si. Andre:, the bombsrdineut of Nimeguen. and the sortie,
the attack, and th feat of the army at Beirren-Hansel,
CiuildertManwl, and Thuil. In 1811 Col. Macleod screed
in the campaiim under Lord Lyntsloch, and commanded
the whith tarried the vilLsge of Mersent on thu
11th January, on which 0CC411.011 he was severely wounded.
In ISL'i be was nominated a Comiwnion of the Bath, and.
in 1932 was knighted. The late nir John Macleod was in
ISM appointed colonel of the 77th Regiment, which is the,
vacant. The colonelcisx of three infantry regiments are
now vacant, iris., nth, bOth, and 77th.

AIARMING FIRE. TN VIE CITY.—I'ERILM."S POST-
TION.—A fire of a very alarming character, which would
inevitable have been attended with the loss of several lives I
but for the prompt attendance of the public fire escapes,
broke out shortly before 4 o'clock yesterday morning, on
the premises belonging to Mown. Gordon and Sun, seed- I
men, No. 2.5, Venchurch-street, at the corner of Rood-lane.
The police on duty in the neighbourhood were the first to
raise an alarm: their attention was drawn to the fact of
smoke issuing from the fan-light over the front shop-door.
One of the men got upon the other's shoulders, and looking
through the window of the fan-light, could perceive a
ere light at the furthermost end of the warehouse. Feel-
ing convinced the place was on fire, they instantly pro-
ceeded to arouse the family of Mr. Gordon, while parties
were sent in dill: rent directions for the aid of the engines.
With some difficulty Mr. Gordon and the domestics
succeeded in ga'ning the street, and soon after
the engines coming up no time was lost in bring-
ing
them into operation against the portion of the
premises on fire. While the firemen were so engaged, the
most piercing shrieks for help attracted their attention,whim
it seas discovered that the fire had burnt its way into an
adjoining house, namely, that of No. 31, Rood-lane, in the
occupation of Mr. Silvrlock. Already had the Humes pos.
sissiou of the staircase, and the occupier, with his wife,
Cattily, and domestics, were at the third floor window sup-
plicating the fireman and bystanders to rescue thcin front
a horrible death. The police obtained then jumping
escapes—large canvas sheets for parties to throw themselves
in—but the great height of the third floor windows from
the pavement appeared to terrify them to that degree, that
they remained and must have speedily sunk front the over-
powering smoke. hut for the providential arrival of the
public escape from .Alchrate. This was immediately placed
against the building, and the conductor, by the aid of an
additional ladder, contrived to gain the window where the
family were, and rescued the whole of them. They were
brouait down the ladder, and sought refuge in one of the
opposite houses. It was nearly an hour before the tire was
got under; the premiss of Mr. Silverlock sustained great
amount of injury. The cause of the fire was traced to a
Hue in Mr. Gordon's premises having been blocked up.
Berth parties were insured.
SIR JAMES GRAUAM AND CO. AND NIR. LOCKS
Klan's MUTION.—Sir,—It is worthy of remark that Sir
James Graham and most of the twelve members who voted
with him against the Ecclesiastical Titles Assumption Bill,
were absent yesterday from the division on Mr. Locke
King's motion, from which it may be inferred that these
gentlemen being favourable to a 10/. county constituency,
ware unwilling to swell the majority against Mr. Kimi's
bill; and Lord John Russell can hare no e•scuse for not in-
meeting a clause in his promised reform bill extending the
smutty fr.suchise as proposed by Mr. liing.—Your olmlient
arrant, Ezzoasms.