The Express.
London, England, 1849-11-19 00:00:00

NARROW ESCAPE OF BLEt
FROM FIRE.

PALACE

Hit Graft the Duke of Marlborough and domestics
were stowed from their beds early on the morning of Friday
l.st, by a female servant of that estahlishment, who, fancy-
ing that she smelled something burning, wry properly and
Mldeny gave an alarm, when the musk bin at the
is
of the suUes was discovered in dames. The flu engine
was quickly beught to bear, and with a good supply of
mates the Ire was sees estlnutished.
Upon as examined's of the 'suck bin the fire was die-
s/mend to have comiesseed nearly at the bottom, and it was
Mead to have bees sesmiesed by spontaneous com
bni
roused by the prose,ur, had very ineosalderatelypleen
the gross pits, die praise of ens of the lawns, which bad
jail bees mews era whisk ammanted to beady a cart bud
fall, into the bin, whoa the new dung from the stables,being
placed there lady, mend it to ignite. The bin we sou
the wisdoms at the bay and straw lofts, and but for the
timely dismay, the meat serious conseciunces would have
ensued ; for had the Isms pined the ascendancy the whole
of that wing of the *me, hiding the chapel and library,
would most likely have been destroyed.

Itscrowr.—Liandewi-Valtrey (sineestre), Pembrokeshire ;
di'. Br. David's; val. 20W.; pat., St. David's Collage, Lim-
pets? Rev. B. H. Drowns. prom.
Psmrsvcras Cumaor.—Darwen, Lower, Lancashire; die.
Manekee•er ; val. 1501., with rm. ; pat., the Vicar of Black-
barn Rev. J. K. Glatebrook, prom.
Mairrimarur or ficmook—Goisborough Gram. Sch.,
Yorkshire; SW., with legalises, and permission to take
boarder,.

NAVAL
ADMILAVIT, Nov. 17. APPOUITMIXTII. —To study
stem at Woolwich : Commander P. A. Sr. Leger.—hadefo-
liable—Lieut. 11. A. llollingworth.
PORTSMOUTII, Nov. 18.—Tke Pandora, 8, Lieutenant
Wood, commander, arrived en Friday evening in Cowes
Roads, and came up to Spithead to land her invalids.
The Pandora left Yalandso on the 9th of August,
leaving them the steam-sloops Gorgon and Dr.ver
the former ship was to mail on the 11th of August for
Central America. The Inconstant frigate was entering
Valparaiso Day, with a onsiderable freight on board, at
the time the Pandora was leaving. The Asia flag•ship was
at Callao, and her tender, the Cockatrice, at Valpmeho. Thu
Daphne was gene to Pitmirn's Island. The Champion was
in Central America. The Pandora left Pitcairn 's Island
on the 12th of July and Rio on the 21st of Sept., leaving
in that poet the Hydra staamodoop, SA., packet,
Crescent depot ship, and Athol troop ship, which
arrived on 19th of Septembcr from England, oil well on
board. The Raleigh frigate wee at Monte Video, and the
Tweed, at Behia. A trial of sailing took place with the
Pandora and Le Genii, French man•otwar brig, in which
between Valparaiso and Rio the Pandora gained five clear
days. The Genii is on her way to Brest. The Pandora
brought home the following officers :—Lieutenant Jeffries,
late lint of the Driver, but now appointed flag-lieu-
tenant to Rear-Admiral Dixon at Csrk—the depar-
ture of Mr. Jeffsies from the Driver was preceded by a
splendid dinner given him by all the Akers of the
ship, who afterwards manned the boat and rowed him
alongside the Pandora in token of the high estimation he
was held in by the °Soon and men of his ship—Lient. G.
R. Tanen had been appointed by the admiral to Drive:. vise
Jeffries ; Lieut. Ache, late of Daphne ; Mr. Mace, n idehip-
man, from Raleigh; Mr. Tribe, invalided, late clerk in
charge of Panders, in whose place Mr. Elliott, clerk, had
been appointed; Dr. Johnson, assistant-surgeon, front the
Driver ; the carpenter and nine seamen from the Herald.
invalids. The Pandora sailed this morning car Davenport,
to be paid off. The Leander, 60, Captain Decree, sailed
yesterday to join the squadron ordered to assemble in the
Tagus. The Scourge, steam-sloop, Commander Lord M.
Kerr, is detained at Spithead for the return of the Stromboli
from fitieernees (hourly expected), to take out a number of
men for the Indefatigable. 60, and convey them to Plymouth
and thence to proceed to Lisbon. The Contest, 12, is rigged
ready for commission in the basin, and receiv.d her arma-
ment and sea stores on board on Wednesday. It is under-
stood Com. O,tle will be appointed to her, and that she will
hoist the pendant on Monday next.
Sir John Richardson, M.D., has returned to Ha:lar, and
reeverd his duties of chief physician of the Royal Naval

Hospital.
kto rat MARINI.B.—By the death of I.!iut.-Colonel Wil-
liam Taylor, of the Chatham Division, who died on Tutslay
lut at tiou;hses, the following promotions take place :
Major—John Ashmore, of the Portsmouth Divi,inn, to be
lieut.- colousl. First lieutenant—William Frances Foote, of
the Woolwich Division, to be captain. Second lieutenant—
m Penn Burton to be lint Fentenant. Lientemint
Foote vacates the adjutancy of the Woolwich Division, on
promotion.

MILITARY.
GUI:ZEES PRIZE MOWRY —SUMO dap IWO, We intimated
that the rolls of nemes of officers and men of the 16:h Lan-
cers, and 13th Foot, entitled to the unpaid prize money, had
bean received. It may now be ad led that similar rolls of the
names of claimants of the 4th Dragoons, 2nd Foot, and 17th
Foot, have also been received, and that in the course of next
month it is expected that elaims will all be paid by the
India House through the Frtze Department at Chelsea
11,tpital. In fact, a notice that the prize money due to the
16th Dragoons, 2nd Foot, and 41st Foot will be paid on the
3rd of next month, at Chelsea, has been issued from that

department.
Taa STAFF AT PORTSMOUTU.—MsjOT Harvey, half pay,
formerly side-de asap to Major General Lord Frederick
Fithclarence, has been reappointed to that office.
MOVIRTNT OF TROOPS IN IRELAND.—On the embarks-.
don, at Cork, of the 26th Foot, for Gibraltar, in January
next, the 47th Foot is tr remove from Butterant to Cork.
TOR LATII LIZUT.•COL. HARCOUTT MASTS'S. —This
officer, who died last week at Norwich, was formerly in the
4th Light Dragoons, and served under the late Lord Keane
in Affghanistan, when he was present at the storming and
caption of Ethane*.
HIATT or MAJOR ROCNII MRADE, K.H. DE.
PUTT ASSISTANT ADJUTANT (AORTAL. This 'distin-
guished offieer, for many years Deputy Assistant Adjutant-
°mond at the Roue Guerd., died very nets'. awry on the
evening of Friday last, at his roidenc• at Brampton. Tte
deceased entered the army in 1809.
CIIATHAM, Nov. 17.—0 n lea's: Lieu:. Cul. M'Phersou,
17th, and Unit. Boxer, 80th.
A district court-martial sat on the 13th, 14th, and 18th
inst, president' Majgr Langford, Royal Marines, for the
trial of three men, Koval Sappers ar il Miners, two men, 17th
Relit., and two men, Royal Marines.
CHATHAM GARRISON.—C.AoneI Wears, K. 11., the c ins-
mandiust at Chatham, who has rrcoveredfrons a e in-
disposition, is now acting for Colonel SiMplloll, commandant
of the garrison, who is on leave of ab ence.

MEDICAL
ROYAL COLLEOE OP SOIIOEOE/I.—The following gentle.
ism having undergone the necessary ezeminations for the
diploma, were admitted members of the college, at the meet-
ing of the Court of Ezamir.ers on the 16:11 met.: Messrs.
Thomas P. oat Wright, Chatteris, Cantbridg. shire • I.lur
Anderson, Old Kent-road ; Herbert Taylor Ittade, Quebec;
Edward Egan, Dublin ; Armstrong Todd, Dublin ; Beni.
Webster, Morley Lodge, near Leeds ; James Shepherd,
Northallerton, Yorkshire; William John Tennant, Dublin;
and Edward Oullidge Pitt, Brunswick place, City-road,