The Express.
London, England, 1860-02-03 00:00:00

A MAATAMTAR COTTONAULL DESTROYED

BY Pita.

Yesterday morning a serious flee broke out in the
spinning milh of the Hanover Mills Company, London-road,
Manchester. The mills ere two in number, an old one seem
stories high. end a new one abutting against the other, eight
stories high, built on the fire-proof principle, the communi-
cation between the two being cot off by a heavy iron door.
The mill. started as usual at six o'clock in the morning, with
nearly 600 workpeopl• in the two buildings. The fire corn.
=moat about a quarter-past seven o'clock, through the friction
orapelley in the fifth story of the old mill. The flames spread
with a rapidity almost inconceivable, but fortunately the
wetkpeople escaped without accident, and the en. mtic ma.
eager lost no ume in sending for Mr. Rose and his tire
brigades, taking such steps in the meantime as wire at hie
command, in the hope of arresting the ft.mes. These, how-
ever were quite ineffectual, sea when' half an hear later,
I the re brigades arrived, the flames were bunting tram nearly
100 windows la either float of the old mill, end the whole
I building eppemed to be wrapped in a blaze. All Mr. Rose
I and his firemen could do was to save the new mill and the
engine and bailers. In this they succeeded to • great extent,
but not entirely, the top story and roof of the new building
being destroyed. In little more than an hour the building in
which the On broke oat was • heap of ruins, floor after floor
giving way in (pack succession before the destroying epos
and the great weight of machinery upon them, and dragging
down the greater portion of the outer walls upon them. The
meohinery memieted of 24 pair of mule anumieg hemp
avenging 650 spindle. each—total, 13,600 ; 90 thrombi
frames of 280 spindles each—total, 8.400 ; making altogether
22,000 spindles. There were also 138 carding engines in the
building. The loos upon all this valuable machinery will be
great, and the entire destruction by the lire, including
2b 0001.
=pith :my, and cotton, will probably be from 25,0001.
to 30,0001., the greater pert of which will moat likely be
covered by the Insurances. 'This, however, will not be the whole
loss. The company were supplied with orders for the whole
produce of the mill for upwards of three months for.
ward, and at is time like this, when the pro-
duction of such mills is remunerative to an extent almost
without parallel in living memory, the bas, which no in-
Prance, will cover, must be very great—probably not under
20,0001. In addition to the sum above stated. In estimating
the lore from stoppage, it asst be noted that though the
engines and boilers are sae, yet the machinery in the fire-
proof mill will have suffered great damage through the water
thrown in to put out the the when it had 'Tread to the top
story, and a considerable time must elapse ere it will be In
waning order again. As regards the wurkpeople the Ices to
them will probably be but of • temporary character, the great
demand for labour rendering it probable that they will soon
regain employment.

A memorial hu been presented to the govern-
ment to delay the departure of the outgoing Cape mail nut
week for a day or two, until the publication of the Budget,
the question of the wine donee being of especial Importance
to that oolong.

A Munich letter says :—" The ministry has just
given • proof of its liberal tondoncy, by appointing a Jew as
director of the State Lunatic Asylum. The pvtrnment
intends, It is said, to sabrait • bill to the chambers for the
purpose of regaining the position of the Jews in conformity
with the liberal spirit of the ags. Asa prelim'oary step, that
edict of 1815 will be ab3lished which prohibits the intro-
duction of foreign Jewish establishments Into the kingdom,

and orders Nat the Jewish families shall be prlgressively
diminished in the localities where they exist."

ACCIDENT TO THE DUBLIN AND HOLYHEAD
BMW= CAXIII./..—A telegram from Dublin, yesterday,
.taw that the Cambria, which IA Holyhead on Wednesday
sinning, arrived yesterday morning with port wheel disabled',
and in consagemse the Exprem beat from Kingstown did
not leave yesterday morning. The Casibria's paramegera
arrived safely.

PA RLIMILLICTAZT REPOII.II COMMITTEE.—At g
meetiog of the gthontive committee held on Wednesday lest,
it WAS resoleed—That this committee have observed with plea-
tura Mr. Donconthe's notice of =tire for have to bring in
a " bill to make provision that at all future electioro of
members to WRVS in parliament for the boroogns of Gloucester
and Wakefield the electors thereof give tbeir votes t y way of
banal," which comes on next Wealnesday, February t h ;
respectfully thank him for his wall-timed effort in this dim.
don, and beg to offer him any co-operation in their power.
DIOCESE or Dirliti4ll.—Ye.tcaday afternoon a
deputation from the diocese of Durham waited upon Lord
Pelmereton, at Cambridge-house, fur the purpose of &eking
his lordship to interfere with the Ecclesiastics' Commis..
stoners in their proposed intention to alenate a portion of the
patronage of the diocese of Durham to the biehi.prio of Ripon.
The Rev. J. Caudill, incumbent of St. Merprees, Due-
him, staled the awe to his lordship, who promised it every

CONSECRATION OF THE BISHOP OP SIERRA LEONE.
—Yesterday morung the Rev. Dr. Edward Hyndmart
Beckl.• was oonseerated Bishop of Sierra Leone. The cares
mony took place in the private chapel of Lambeth Palace,
the Archbishop of Cantertury being assisted by the Bishops
of London, Oxford, sad Barbadoes. The see bemires vacant
some months slime by the death of Dr. Bowen. who, like hie
predecessors in the ate—Der. Ytdall and Weeks—fell victims
to the climate. The sechb'alarip's chaplain (the Rev. I.
Thomas, rector of Allhall are Barking) performed the service,
and the sermon wits preached by the Rev. T. Bedew in-
cumbent of St. Thomas-in-the-Rolls, Chtincery-lans. 'Dr.
Bookies, the new bishop, hers for some years past held ate.
pointeseete in the dioceses of Barbados and Antigua. He
111 young man, apparently about 35 or 36 years of age.
MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL.—The annual meeting of
the governors of this hospital was held yes sedgy in the
board-room of the institution, Hon. Captain Maude, 11. N.,
in the chair. The report stated that tae patients admitted to
the wards of the hospital during the put year numbered
2,037, of which 803 were medical cases, 660 surgical cur,
and 682 cues of accident. The out-pstients ter the tem
period for whose *Kiel accominotletioe we hospital build.
!whims been enlarged, numbered 18,498; no that in all the
hospital relieved durmg 'be twelve months 20,636 awes al
Buttering and sickness. Toe °Minery income of the charity
Vies stated not tot need 7,1371. Ss. 9d. per alumni whereas
the expenditure was fur the same period 10,9141. 18.. lid.
The actual deficiency on the twelve months smounted to
4,6861. le. Sd. The report was adopted, end the proceedings
terminated.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—The Saturday Concerts, which
have beau discontinued during the cons ruction of the new
concert hall, will be resumed to-morrow. Mee Eleanor
Armstrong and Signor Belletti are announced as vocalists.
and Madlle. Marie Wire& will appear for the first time at the
• Palace as solo Osmium A large Increase of the orchestra is
promised for the performance of Beethoven's symphony,
No. 7, Festival Overture by Rice, and raw overture to
"Faust "by H. Hugh Pierson. The neuritic merits of the
new ball are highly spoken of.
TIM WEST-END 'TRADE.—SeIdom hae a year
opened with more brilliant auspices than the present.
The early assembling of parliament (motels a loog seams •
the Megaton panic has ~bolded, and the enlightened free:
I trade manifesto of Louis Napoleon bat imparted °madams
to the trading circle* of this country, which can scarcely
Gil to have its effect on the retail trade of the metropolis.
Trade mediates like a pendrlum. the swing forward giving
en impetus to its return backwards. We bare now had a
succession of bad or average seasons, and there is every
evidence to show that the backward swing has common
• and that the London tradesman may fairly anticipate s series
io.f
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be got
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torsos
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hotel-keepers inform us that all their best spawning' are
already engaged. The country is Ina condition,of unexampled
prosperity sa regards its export and import trade; money is
superabundantly plentiful, without the too influent dis-
tinguishing characteristic of this condition, reckless and
maniacal speculative enterprises by means of which cep!.
tenets ere west to niters the bursting plethora of their
banking books • sad altogether we think we are justified In
predicting—if tUrthiag unforeseen interV6ll.--ft long, bustling,
and profitable stearsa—lilwall's Mercantile Circular far
February.