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London, England, 1858-04-22 00:00:00

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THE GREAT FIRE AT CAI

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CHRISTIANIA, Antal. 13.
A great fire has taken place at Christiania—a fire

so extensive that had there been the least wind, no
doubt by this time throe-fourths of the inhabitants
would have been housed's. ; as it is the devastation
has been rapid and fearful. The fire broke out in
Skipper (lade, the next street to my office, about
one o'clock in the morning, in the very centre of
the town, and In a few hours about sixty houses, some
of them among the largest in the place, were reduced
to ruins. Although it may be said to have occurred
in the very kernel of the town, there

were still some old wooden constructions
in the back yards, among some of which the fire
originated, and spread with a rapidity which defied
all the exertions of the firemen, with the imperfect
appliances at their disponi. No doubt had these been
more ample, and the organisation generally more
complete, the devouring element would have been
kept within bounds, and the calamity the inha-
bitants are now visited with have been far lees
extensive ; as it is, about 1,000 people have become
haunter, and although the visitation chiefly affects
the middle classes, still there are a number of poorer
individuals who have lost their whole substance. The
value of the fixed property destroyed is estimated
at 110,0001., and about a similar amount in goods
and moveables. The loss is thus about 220,0001.,
which, coming so close upon the late monetary de-
rangements, cannot but add somewhat to the
general distress. At the same time, it no
doubt will be the salvation of many shopkeepers
who were tottering, as the unfortunate in-
surance companies will have to pay for
their old stock, &a Fully 2i quarters of the
town have been destroyed ; but it will
be a great gainer in ►ppearance, and at last
two years' work is cut out for a great num-
ber of artisans and labourers. It is not at all impos-
sible that the calamity may have arisen from inoen-
diarism, as the police had received several letters
from the working classes, to the effect that
if work was not provided for them they
would be compelled to take the initiative into their
own hands. No witnesses have yet been examined.
The Alliance, it is said, will lose about 20,0001., but
the bulk of the goods and chattels were insured in
the German company and the &midis. The houses
of course are insured in the state organisation, our
system of mutual insurance, of which of course I
have to pay my quota.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.

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PARIS, WIDNINDAT EV1141310.
A Paris correspondent of one of your contempo-
raries, who in consequence of his zealous advocacy
of the empire, is dubbed by the CAarirari, Sir Tom
Oallophtle, wrote on Sunday last, speaking of the
sanitation produced at the Tuileries by Bernard's
acquittal—" No exciting language of the French
press will be employed to create indignation." This
was certainly a most unfortunate prophecy, because
on Monday morning Louis Veuillot's inflammatory
article came out in the Univers, and this was fol-
lowed by M. A. Renee's more official firebrand in
the Constitutionnel. I am far, however, from say-

ing that the correspondent in question did not at the
time he wrote speak from the best available twines' of
information. He echoed I have no doubt the opinions
of the sober and responsible advisers of the Em-
peror, and his statement is to me a confirmation of
the view I took yesterday, that the ebullitions of
wrath in the two French journals are only things to
be laughed at. The discrepancy ia to be accounted
for in this way :—The Emperor has two sets of ad-
visers, one of which he commits with a cool head in
the morning, and whose advice, however it may
clash with his private feelings and wishes, he has
often the sense to follow, in deference to political
necessity. The others are evening advisers and
boon companions, who may for a moment be influ-
ential enough to obtain a sanction for a start-
ling newspaper article, but who do not
yet dictate diplomatic despatches, nor make
or unmake alliances. The paragraph signed
Rents smells of Chkteau Marg►ux and cigars.
There were revels at the Tuileries both on Sunday
and Monday evenings, and, doubtless, certain aides-
,de-camp and courtiers may have brought them-
selves to believe, amidst the jingle of glasses, that
the French people were very indignant. I believe
the opinion that there is nothing serious in all the
bluster that has been made will be pretty general
before the end of the week, although they do say.
that M. Granite de Cusagnac is preparing •
" thunderer."

M. Deco., the brother of the late Minister of
Marine, has been dismissed from the Prefecture of
the Lot and Garonne under the following circum-
stances :—A few days since he received orders by
telegraph to arrest seven individuals at Agen, some
if not all of whom were among the moat respectable
and influential inhabitants of the town. He replied
to the Minister of the Interior, by letter, that both
the Procureur Imperial of Agen, and the general
commanding the district, agreed with him that the
order to effect these arrests must have proceeded
from some misapprehension, and that fearing the
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bad effect which the execution of it would occasion
in the department he had taken upon himself to
wait for further instructioos. Immediately on the
receipt of this letter General &pintoes informed
the too scrupulous Prefect, by telegraph, that he
was dismissed. M. Dunce came to Paris to state his
case to the Emperor, who received him kindly, but
did not restore him to his Prefecture.

Fifteen individuals, moat of them journeymen,
were arrested in a tavern in the Rue St. Sauveur
on Jan. 18. This morning they were placed at the
bar of the Correctional Tribunal of Police on a charge
of belonging to a secret society, and having in their
possession munitions of war. It is alleged that
when the police came to arrest them they threw
away under the tables some cartridges, in which,
however, there were no balls. The trial will not be
over till late this evening.
The following electoral address has been issued
by M. Picard

Elootors,—The names of MM. Jules Fevre and F. Lion-
ville, with whom I have the honour to see myself associated
to represent the opposition, might axon's me from
Issuing soy profession of political faith. As an
opposition candidate, I offer you my name that you
may rally round it, sad by the perseverance of your suf-
frages in this patriotic circumscription, afford fresh proof
of your cooatancy. Tho Poseur this name is among you the
more important and significant will be an electoral victory;
for it will not be en honour done to as individual, but a de-
claration of principles. It will be, in the eyes of all Mods
of liberty, a new engagement. Liberty should be the first
of our dogmas. Nothiag bat liberty can secure the public
revenue, the sebty of Individuals, the foto-eats of the
labourer, sad permanent material prosperity. If elected, I
shall join ray efforts to those of the rspremitatives whom
the opposition *Motors of Paris have alnady sat to the
Corps Usialati. I shall fight by their Ida wit► osircr,
with disolpilas, sad with hope. EINEM nom).
General Perrot's address is u follows:

Oeitlemea,—You are called tiptst to make choioe of •
deputy to the Corps Legletatif ; I solicit your suffrages. I

should be proud and nappy to be honoured by your mandate,
An old soldier of the empire, and a child of Puts, I an not,
to very many of you at inset, a new man. When I was mom,
meader-In chief of the National Guards of the Seine, /
chewed myself to you in a character which I shall always
maintain—that of a Mend of order, and • defender of the
laws which govern our country. In cue of new relations
being established between um, my medial endeavour madd
be to make myself acquainted with your hawed%
and I should warmly support every measure cal.
=hoed to contritinte to the wellbeing of the people.
The support given to my candidature by the government
only increases my confidence in the success of it. We ali
desire the glory and happiness of France and that is the
object of the Emperor's constant wliciLmde. You win
appreciate the military frankness with which I declare to
you, without any reasne, that I am devoted, heart and soul,
to Napoleon 111. sad his dynasty.

PRIMO; Guard of Division on the Reserved Lai,
and dread Moir of the Legion of Honour.

All the ministers were present this morning 4
the funeral of M. Louis Fould, which took place et
the early hour of nine o'clock. Immediately after
the interment they proceeded to the Tuileries,
where, at eleven o'clock, a council was held, at
which the Emperor presided.

The Bonne opened with some little buoyancy,
but became heavy at the close. The Rente rose
100. for cash and 50. for account, closing at 69fr.10c.
in each case. Mobilier rose 2fr. 50c. ; the Western
railway rose sfr.; the other lines left off with
scarcely a change from yesterday.

TURKEY.

The following telegram has been received :

MARSEILLES, APRIL 21.
Constantinople letters of the 14th confirm the
statement that Faad Patha has been definitively
appointed to represent Turkey in the Paris Con-
gress; he will leave about April 24, and during his
absence Mahmoud Pacha, Governor of Smyrna, will
take the portfolio of foreign affairs ad interim.
M. de Talleyrand received orders to leave en the
12th. The Constantinople journals announce that
the Conference will not meet before May 10, and
that the Powers are agreed upon the subject of the
organisation of the Danubian Principalities.
An agent of Rothschilds, of Vienna, has proposed
to the Porte to establish a bank, and there is some
hope of an arrangement.
A French company, with the Duke de Valmy at
ita heed, is likely to obtain the concession of several
mines.

A Franco-Dutph company is a candidate for tba
conossion of the railway from Varna to Rout-
chouk.

A letter from Colonel Tarr, received at Marseille;
contradicts the assertion of the Press* cr Orient re.
lative to the treason and condemnation of Colonel