The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-26 00:00:00

from the skilful collocation of various edifices, and a
finer opportunity has seldom occu-red for producing
this kind of harmony than that which presents itself
in the intimate association of the Houses of Parlia-

ment with the new bridge and the contemplated
river works.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT IN —THREE
Ltvrs LOST.—Last Friday evening a dreadful a,:titlent oc-
curred on the premises of Messrs. Smith, chemists and
druggists, St. Saviour's, Norwich, by which three persons
lost their lives, At tin o'clock in the afternoon. the
Mown. Smith received an order from Messrs. Andrews and
French, in this city, for two gallons of naptna. Robert
Curtiss, an assistant in the warehouse, cave orders to a
porter, named Henry Nichols, to "put up •' the quantity of
naptha immediately, it being a rule of the establishment
that articles of that inflammable sort should not he parked
or interfered with by eandlelight. Nichols did nit put up
the naptha when i e was told, but after dusk he went with
a lighted candle, accompanied by two lads, named John
Godbolt and Thomas Lamb, into an outhouse in the garden.
where the naptha was kept. While they were emptying
the quantity of naptha required from a large into a smeller
vessel, it was igrited. A terrible explosion ensued, and the
two lads were instantly burned to death. Nichols was also
dreadfully burnt. but he lived till the following morning.
Robert Curtiss, who was in the laboratory at the time of
the explosion, heard .t, tad ran to the outitouse whet, the
Depths was kept, sail saw that it was Kited with flaws. lie
broke several pars of glass, and called loudly .i.s.-t-
-ance. Several persons came to the sprit, and the door of the
house was forced r pea, and the bodies of the two i ids were
found quite nut-sit. Nichols was couve)ed to rho hos-
pital, where, in splto of every attention, be lingered in
great agony till tots o'clock in the morning, when he died.
EMBARKATION OF TIIE ORLEANS FAMILY AT
Sorruattrrox.—A number of the members of the ex-royal
family of France and their suite, consisting of the iz.
Queen of the French, the Prince and Princess
de Joinville, Dukes d*Aumale and de Wortemhurg,
Prince Philip de Wurtemburg, Countess de Montes-
quieu, Counts Dumas and t habanncs, arrived at South-
ampton at Id o'clo:k on Saturday morning. They pro-
ceeded at once to Itadtey's hotel, near the terminus, where
apartments hal been engaged for them. At one o'clock
they all stalked Into the dock. The aged and enfeebled
Queen was supported by her sons along the muddy and
crowded roadway. a striking expression of the mutability
of human fortune. On arriving in the Jack, a number of
persons had crowded around the Pensular and Oriental
Company's steamer City of London, to see the exatoyal
family go on board, some of whom were going nut in her
to Portugal. Tail crowd which witsemed the embarkation
treated the Queen and hey Nally stideetke most profound

reaped..
A RIGTIT HONOVEABLE BITPIRCAIOO.—The Wp-
rern rehotmer yacht, the prophdy isf the Dalt,. of Mail-
borough, whose &Torture from Portsmouth for Melbourne
Walt re ported it the Fspreas of Thursday lett, hie taken out
a general , et:LN.; :tag , : t eir,:ll, `Aug,
bOetsand shoes, ',randy, wines, ale, cider, &c. The s• elite
of the who`e 'a about '50(10:. The duke's second son, Lord
Alfred Churchill, 3oes out :ither, acting es sapereargo—an
unJsual office for the so". of althea AM. It is understood to
be his intention to sell yach eskAtunralia,
obeala a favourable opportunity !4 •
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