The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-22 00:00:00

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The produation for the first tines of the nuw bur-
lesque untitled Der Franchnis, ea SAMMY svOnintl. has
been followed by a calamity malting in the total destruc-
tion by fire of the Standard Theatre, opposite the Great
Eastern Railway terminus, Shoreditch. The first Ultima.
tion of the outbreak was made by a pollee constable, who
had just commenced day duty, about half-pest nets rim-
day morubg. At that time largo volumes el smoke and
Barnes presented themselves in that pert of the theatre ex-
tending to George-etre* in a southerly direnion. When it
was amertainert that to the porno; of the building named
resided Mr. Thomas Douglass, brother of the proprietor,
with his family, prompt measures were taken to ream
them. On the arrival of the land deem engine from
Bishopegateetreet the flames bad attacked the stage, the
proscenium and "flies" being then in a general blase, and
the fire was travelling with alarming rapidity towards the
andienoe portion of the theatre. In endeavouring
to effect an entrance in the front of the house
the firemen were completely driven heck by the
heat and smoke. Captain Shaw accompanied the
second engine from Watling-street, and under his direc-
tion the members of the brigade were immediately sat to
work. The work of demolition had pert:Med the roof
of the building, and the flames were raging above with
great fury. Baas eight o'clock the roof fell in with
Inbred crash, and all hopes of saving any portion of the
Itiatatte were at an end. In the mean time a message was
ideepatehed to Mr. JohnDooglaaa, the proprietor, whoraddes
st Dation, who soon arrived on the spot. During the
progress of the fire • number of poor families resident in
larth-terildinge, at the aide al the theatre, were driven
been their homes, and hadtobutilyremovetheir furniture.
The properties, wardrobes, and dreming-rooms of the
theatre, were contained in six houses I. George-street, the
whole of which have been destroyed ; and in addition to
the total wreck of the large theatre, an outer building,
used for depositing the " fiats," or scenery, has fallen a prey
to the fire. The firemen ceased their labour. sheet Wi-
wi ten, but a hem was in mastant requisition thromb-
i eat the whole at yeeteedsy. We understand that
the buildiag is fully insured. Mr. Brittain Wright,
the ast`-qg manager, will, however, be a great sufferer by
the calamity, he having had the whole of his dresses and
properties destroyed, and other members of the oranpiny
will also be were beers. How the fire originated could
not be leered ; but the manager informed oar reporter that
be was on the stage at 2 °Week on Sandy wonting, whoa
Ilia appeared safe, and the fireman engaged at the theatre
treads the nasal inspection at the Zees of the periormanese,
and pronounoed all to be 'light. The theatre has been in
the occupancy of Mr. Douglaas for some years, and was
built by him in the plane of the old Standard Theatre,
which he opened in 1848.

THE TIPPERARY EtEdrlon. —A telegram in the
Sunday Gazette , dated Dublin, Saturday night, mays
" After one of the moat exiting contests ever whammed
in the south of Ireland, Captain White has been returned
for Tipperary by a majority of 300 votes. The polling
commeooed at nine o'clock this morning, and the friends
of both candidates worked from the starting point with
an amount of vigour and earnestness which indicated
that the struggle would be close and animated. At the
various polling places—Thurlee, Cashel, Tipperary, and
Nenagh--admirable arrangements were made to receive
the voters as they come in from the distant distill& of
the county, those in the interest of Captain White
mom ed by leading Roman catholic clergymen, while many
of Mr. Waldron's supporters were accompar4ed by ' terri-
torial' representatives or their agents. Mr. Waldron took
the lead from the opening of the poll, and steadily increased
his majority up to one o'clock, when there were recorded
in
his favour, according to the returns received as Thoth.,
1,180 votes against 1,010 for Capt. White. It would appear
that during the remainder of the day the tide of mimes set
in and continued to flow with the liberal candidate, and
at the close of the poll Captain White won by a majority
lof 300. Over 6,000 electors age reported to have polled.
More particularly during the later hours of the election
the priests worked with tremendous energy, and their or.
ganuation is reported to have been most perfect. Special
trains? the telegraph lines, and conveyances of every de-
scription were kept in constant motion. There was no
rioting of any merlons character, at least no reporta of such
have se yet reached here, but the excitement is immense,
especially at Cashel, Clonmel, end Thurles. It is said that
a train of cars cooveying some voters in the interest of Mr.
Waldron were ausiahed, but the telegraph, however, is not
particularly lucid on this point, and all details are
wanting." Our Dublin correspondent telegraphs.®" A
despatch in Sausders's Ileum Letter from Claims' gives 576
as the gross majority for Captain White. The precise
figures of the polling have not yet been ascertained. Cap-
tain White polled over 4,000 votes. It is reported that
there was stone throwing in the town of Tipperary, and
that violence was offered to some of Mr.Waldron's voters."
THE LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOVER RAILWAY.

—The directors of this company have taken the earliest
opportunity of giving effect to the recommendation of the
shareholders at the meeting of Friday week, and have
elected Messrs. Grosvenor Hodgkinson, Hilliard, Harkey,
Hothem, and Taylor as members of the board. Having
completed the formality, the remaining members, with the
exception of Lord Harris, resigned their seats, The new
board have elected Lord Harris as chairman. and Mr.
Grosvenor Hocigkinson, deputy-chairman. Since
their appointment the new directors have been busily
occupied in making themselves acquainted with the unser-
cial condition of the undertaking, and in considering some
mode by which its affairs can be placed on a more satis-
, factory basis. Various plans for the reconstruction
of the company have been submitted for this object,
but none have yet been decided upon. It is understood
that as soon as some general scheme for reconstruction ham
been agreed upon, the holders of debentures, preference
and ordinary shares will be invited to a conference to ocrei-
eider what course will be most advisable to adopt under
existing circumstances. About a million and a half of
new capital is absolutely necessary for placing the under-
taking in a state of thorough ethcieecy, and removing it
from under the control of the Court of Chancery. A
more cumbrous and inconvenient mode of management
for a railway could not well be imagined than the Court
of Chancey. We believe that it has been decided
by the representatives of the court that the whole
of the net earnings of the line shall be di-
vided in certain proportions, one portion being
applied towards the payment of the interest on
the debentures, and the other to the pf-yment of the
debentures themselves. Am the liabilities of the company
on this account reach to about four and a quarter millions,
deberture holders may probably be able to calculate the
date at which their loans will be paid off, and preference
sod ordinary shareholders the time when they may reec,ve
scene return on their investments. It is to the interest
therefore of all persons connected with the undertaking to
endeavour to arrive at some mutual arrangement by which
the necessary new capital may be raised, and a thorough
reconstruction of the company be effected. By mutual
forbearance, and by the exercise of a spirit of compromise
and conciliation among all classes of proprietors end cre-
ditors. some plan may assuredly be found by which the re-
construction of the company may be effected upon terms
which shall be satisfactory to all parties, and conducive to
the prosperity of the IllidertakiDg.—Bailway New.
WRECK ON THE IRISII COSST.—WEEFORD, Ins-
JAND, OCT. 20.—During exceedingly stormj weather
yesterday morning (reports Wm. Coghlan, Req., the col-
lector of Customs) a ship was seen on the Lae( Bank.
The lifeboat Civil Service, belonging to the National Life-
boat Institution, immediately proceeded with all partible
despatch to the vessel, but on arriving alongside it was
found that she was abandoned. The lifeboat was, how-
ever, fortunately the means of rescuing the lives of a coast- 1
guard officer and four of his men, who had just boarded
the vessel,
_and whose boat bad been lost while =
so. The lifeboat, after placing the five men on
the steam tug Ruby, which had then arrived, returned to
the ship and used all possible means for about eight hours
to get her off the bank, but without effect. Theeasel
was found to be the barque Volans, of Liverpool,und
from Glasgow to Valparaiso. The barque's crew of ten
men had succeeded m reaching the shore in their own
boat. This lifeboat, whose cost had been benevolently
contributed by gentlemen this connected with the civil service
of the crown, has only recently been placed Os
station. The crew entertain the greatest confidence in he
ther
capabilities, she having behaved exftedinej well in
tremendous seam which she encountered in the service.
CHOLERA IN TES TYNESIDE TOWNS.—Cholera
prevailed vary much last week in North Shields, in the re-
spectable quarters of the town, and there were from 20 to
30 deaths, mostly among sickly females, and diarrhoea has
been very general. The river side and the districts occu-
pied by the poorer classes have been free of the disease,
however, and it is thought that the water supplied to the
special district has something to do with the outbreak.
Cholera has appeared in isolated cases in Newcastle, Gates-
head, and South Shields, but not to an alarming extent.
The Tynemouth poor-law guardians have employed a pro.
poly qualified protessimal man to make an analysis of
North Shields water.