The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-01 00:00:00

SOUTHWARK.

RODBEELY UT A RIITIICEIT MILITAET OFTICEIL—Thos.
Cullen, a tall venerable looking man, who wan stated to
have been a quartermaster of the Rile Brigade, was charged
with stealing a great co►t from the lrst•claa waitiog room
of the Dover Railway station at London Bridge,
Mr. A. Cochrane, of Darlington, said that on the previous
day he went to the station aforesaid, and left his great coat
at the waiting room while he went to the platform. On his
return the cat was gone, and on looking round he saw
prisoner going out with the coat on his arm.
Prisoner said he bad taken it by mistake.
One of the ulcers of the Eastern Counties Railway
informed the magistrate that three years ago prisoner wee
tried and sentenced to be transported for seven years, et the
Central Criminal Court, for stealing articles out of the
' waiting-rooms, but his sentence wu commuted to two years,
on account of his former position in society. Ito, however,
lost his pension.—Prisoner wu committed for trial.

FIRE IN MARYLEBONE.—Yeeterday morning a
fire attended with a great destruction of valusWe property
broke out in the Conchntakers' Arm, tavern, No. 24, Bt.

Marylebone-lane, Oxford-street. A police Constable' wee
paring along his but, and perceived smoke issuing from the
bar windows. Ile immediately sprang hie rattle, and called
up the family and chmesties. By the time he had dons so
the fire had reached the stein, and immense volume' of smoke
and flame kept pouring up so that it was utterly impossible
for any one to descend by the staircase. Stvaai of the
inmates having gained one of the front windows, they
begged some one to go and procure the Royal Society's fire
escape from the end of the lane. Whilst the intelligence we.
being conveyed to the conductor, a man living in
the neighbourhood brought a ladder to the spot and
he misted three or four persons down. Two fire escapes
belonging to the society by this time had arrived, when the
conductors were informed that Mr. Sadler's two female ser-
vants were in the second floor front. They immediately
placed the machines to the window, but on ascending they
found the rooms in one body of flame, so that anyone
therein must have been beyond the reach of help. They
then made an attempt to search the third floor when they
perceived the two females walking over the roof, and before
they had time to reach them they passed through the trap-
door in the roof of the adjoining house. and were received
below in safety. The various engines of the pariah and
London brigade quickly attended, bat uufortunately the
fireman hid to wait nearly 10 minutes before water
could be procured to work the engines. The fire
being thus unrestrained, and the trap-door in the real
being left open by the females when they camped, caused
the flames to travel with terrific violence, and in a brief
period they shot through roof, and fora time threatened
to destroy the sarroun houses. Water at length having
been Formed from the West Middlesex Company's mains,
the engines were worked with full vigour, in spite of which
the Aunts continued to extend, and they were not extia-
gnished limed the whole of the upper pert of the extensive
was Unread out. The bar is also partially burned.
tr.llleo.rLizately the liquor vats escaped. Mr. Sadler wee
insured for °entente in the Alliance Fire-office, and the
building was insured in the Imperial office.

await RAINBOWS.—Two of thaw beautiful phi,-
comma called loser rainbows were visible on Senility even-
ing about nine o'clock te the west of Carlisle, and extended
over an area of nearly 80 degrees. The moon was very
bright, and the atatospbire apparently free front clouds, yet
it rained slightly. The more southerly, or that neatest the
earth, was by far the brighter, but the ether, making a
llaarrggearr arc by about 8 or 9 deg., was perfeet and distinctly
visible from the crown to both beats.—Corack Patriot.