The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-19 00:00:00

DitBTRUCTIFB PIRBS TUTIRDAY.

Yesterday morning, about half-past 2 o'clock, a
fire wee found to have broken out in the premier of Mr.
Nicholas, curer and gilder, it, Tichfleid-arrest. The dieeo-
very was made by a piliceman, who perceived a etronliesimil
of burning wood. By the time the engines arrived fire
had spread to the he stables of Mr. Woolley, nett door,
cad to the premises of Aide" pirgeforte emkere,67,
Wells-street, Oxford-street, and in the course of an hoar or
two several neighbouring hoes were involved In the cala-
mity. The occupants of the houses end the her In the
stables were all got out uninjured, but it was not till the
@Aegean that the tire was completely ea garnished. Nothing
Y Imam is to the origin of the fire. The following is the
eSsiel report of the damage done:—" No. 11, Great Thee-
Ileid-street. Mr. Nicholas, carver and gilder, beck wcekehop
111110 story high. 60 feet by 20, together with the contend, en-
tirely destroyed. The contents were insured is the Sun /be-
hike, and the building belonged to the Duke of Portliest.—
No. 10i ditto, All Saints School, together with thetackdirell-
lag-houses, damaged b fire end water, insurance unknowe.—
No. 10. The Rev. A. back front scorched; inster-
awn unknown.—No. 9, Margaret-street, and the roof of An
Setats Chord' slightly damaged by heal—No. 6A, That-
field-street Mr. Woolley, job-muter and livery stable-
keeper, roof of stables partly burned off, and Bor 10 loads
of hay destroyed , insurance unknown at R—No. 67,
Wefla.street, Meagre Btodart end Sons, makers ;
manufactory, about 70 feet by 26 feet, burned down, mid the
contents coneumed, the timber in open yard end the work-
shop comideshly damaged by fire. The stock in trade,
Ac., were domed in the Norwich Unioe.—No. 69 ditto, let
out In ligeneente, beck front of building scorched.—No. 80
ditta, else Id out in tenements, similar damage ; both unlit-
euriA.—Nos. 72 end 73, Mortimer-street, A. jdyer
roof of bask workshop sad contents ocesidsrably
by fire, water, sad hasty removal; lerand-f7117.
Westminster Fire-odlos. The fire was szdagidebsdiIce-
men with the following enginer-10 A of the
3of B, sad 3 of C districts, with those of the Wed of
W sad parish.
la the afternoon, between the boars of live end de, a
Ire also happened in the Mostar Aram Tavern, Reamer
Wiest, tinion• street, Borough. Shortly after the home wee
dosed the inmates had repaired upstairs, whoa is alarm wee
gives that the premises were on flre. The flame were not
subdued until the bar, the spirits in most of the vats, the bar
parlour, the stairs, Ac., were nearly burned out, and the
upper part of de house also severely damaged. As to the
oriels of the are, not the least informadon could be obtained.
The loss will fall upon the County Fire-office.
A fire likewise took place about half-peat 11 o'clock oa
Saturday night on the premises belonging to Mr. RS* a
botcher, No. 136, Whit/chapel-road. It commenced in the
upper part of the building, and rapidly descended sa far as
the Brat floor, destroying the furniture and other effects, ad
doing serious mischief to Mirada below. So rapid was the
progrees of the fire that even Mr. Bilis did not know of Its
exhume until it was seen by the neighbours. The swam
wee Yawed in the Imperial ash

DEATH or LOIS DENVILLE!.IIfI.—We have to
record the death of Berm Doideendinh who warn fur four
years Speaker of the House Of CCOMODP. The deceased
peer (James Abercromby) was bent la 1776, and married in
1802 a daughter of the late Egerton Leigh, Esq., of West
Hall, Cheshire. He wee called Se the bar of Lincoln's Inn
in 1800, and wee fur some years a eseneeiseioner in bank-
IVY* H. wee 7va Jwilo-Adwents.l3seemal in
1 , Chief Baron ftvisew is Soothed in 1830,
Heeler of the Mint in 1834, mid Speaker of the Home of
Commons in 1835. He eel for Cam from 1813 to 1830, and
Mr Edinburgh from 1832 till 1839, when up= he estimenent
from the Speakership he was relied to the He le
soacesdad in he title and estates by his eon, Sir Ralpph~ Aber-
eromby, who was Attaché to the Miesion at Frankfort fros
1851 M Feb., 1824. Attachf to the Embassy at the Hague
from February to November. 1824, Attaché to the Embassy
at Paris from November, 1824, to December, 1828,
of Legation at Berlin from July, 1831, to Decemllejerec3lQ
Meier Plenipotentiary to the Germanic Coofederatice
tem January, 1839, to May, 1840, Envoy Bztrsordiesery
seed Mheiter Pleuipotendery at Turin from May, 1840, to
Nerember, 1861, when be wee transferred in the mom capa-
city to the Hague.
COMPLETION Or THE DTEE Or WELLINGTON'S
TOM IN ST. CATINEDRAL.-0. Thursday last, at
one tide& to the afiernoon, the Anal slab wee peed mar
the remains of the lee Dike of Wellington in the mypt at
St. Pears Cathedral, ht the presence of his Grace the meant
Duke of Wellington, Lard John Manners, Chief Noma.-
sheer of the Board of Works; Dr. Millman, Dore of 81.
Peers; and Mr. Penrose, the present architect to the oaths.
dral. The saroophegne wee then hermetically sealed. The
lemb is construed of the wee porphyry highly polished.
It lies immediately Mesa& the centre of the dome of the
noble eat hatred.

MP. TOWNS END, M.P., AND ale CREDITOI3.—On
Settudoy mein a meeting of the creditor. of Mr. Townsend,
M.P. woe held at hie home, at Greenwich, to consider the
raret a composition. Party-two creditors Measles!.
ires Tacker, Mr. Townsend s solicitor, stated that be
W that morning inspired a letter from • gentleman of
perty, axing to pay all the debts, if Mr. Townsend would
biosdt+tsly resign his most, but Mr. Townsend had declined
to accede to this proper]. Mr. Townseed narrated the dr-
amestances which had led to his present embarrassed position,
and concluded by offering to pay his creditors 2e. In the
and to sign an agreement to pay for the future at the
sate at SON per maim It wa. ultimately remind, with only
sae diminutions, le eeeept 5. in the pound, and • sulnequent
Gomel moist of XV

MirrittO OP VII it ROYAL AORICI7L-
Tuner. Soctawr.—A public meetleg convened by the hi&
Aerie of the county and the mayor wee held on Saturday In
the Town-hell. Orford, with a view to induce the
Agrimilteral Society to hold its inertia" neat year al:°Z
'Sy. The meting was attended by Lord Bilks, Lord
Vassods, Mr. Cardwell, Y.P., Colossi North, M.P., and a
post amber of the treany of the neighbourhood. Resole-
Moms 'Pen carried embedjg the object of the meeting, ap-
poinog a committal, to scopenplish It, and pledging the
meeting to raise the amount required by the society. Sub-
scriptions amounting to more than 660/. were ennounoed.
THE EVIDENCE IN BERNARD'S CASE.—There
was • link wanting in the chain which connected the
prisoser, purchase of the chymical teatarials with the actual
attempt on the life of the French Emperor. Bernard was •
tepabliesn, a conspirator en orgaaiser of revolutionary
seetenineta. • enborner of revoktiosery agents ; he bought
wirearyaDd alcohol and compounded them, he bought grenades
msd despatched them, and he Wooed a needy Italian to enter
Sato his esbessea, whatever they were. His own account was
that be
edAlways and everywhere ; that he was en-
gaged In a gist kr the independents of Italy ; and that the
=sad tie revolvers and the INltTiete of Radio were
is stet this object. Orsini, and Nerd,
and R. Went to Paris to further revolutionary
sesemente Y gasral, and not to attack the
Bowels ale ; Vat while time tiny loomed the design of
assmolosiles sod conied it est without the essetios or
=tinof BormeL The, In fact, wsm the whole de-
e rinser, sod it certainly 1. not absolutely is-
asistang with the iorldhsce. It might possibly be that
Y so Oast end fanatioel as them Italians
obssid be mimed with a sudden impulse to Saks
the libisporees ilfa, and thee to remove what they cos-
Morel the post obstacle to the accomplishment of their
taLThe dosolly mechines which Bernard bad helped to
fousimit WWI in theirseesion, and they might
nu* them tie she had wooer center
OSA. Mao of tie tune which
soviets in Prams bwil orbal-
salsa Mts. Owes MEd Esillo am dive, but they
woos sot losinght to give widows egoist Sr pis,.
Oa the of the puy ows sot sad pasesses
; voi shish dog M was le Is ispostod, sod
tha▪ t
Off flitebar_ papaallap wad 1616 Omar nosy am
IPA earlmasa. Naas ow mamba that his
enstganieria, Team mad IsMy was gsgoillsd in 1836,
seised with anew in Moir Li • the verdict of the
Old jury ice, thaihra, sit Mania pisulaat .V• 11 la
Marra . Maga