The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-04 00:00:00

DESTSUCTION OF 1811 BOOMS AT ANTWERP

BY 7121.

The Indepesdaiste Beige of yesterday evening
contains the following letter from Antwerp, dated Monday
morning, 2.30 a.m. :
" At the moment I write an immense disaster is occurring
is our city. The Bourse of Antwerp, that place to
which ea many glorious souvenirs are attached, and which
by its late improvement, its fairy-his covering, had become
the admiration of all f is nothing more than a heap
of rubbish and smo ashes. The glass roof fell with
a frightful crash, and the enormous pieces of the metal frame-
work broke like glass on falling to the ground. Every part
of the building, in fact, is destroyed, and it was with great
difficulty that the neighbouring houses could be pmerwid•
The civil and military authorities, the troops, the Ammo,
everyone indeed, did their duty, but nothing could be done
as to the Boone, which will be burnt to the last fragment of
wood.

"The ere appears to have arias in an upper room, on
the side of the Courts flue den Claims. It wee there, st
least, that the names were Met seen, sad In half an hour the
place was enveloped in fire. The Bourse contained the
dumber of commeroe, the tribunal, and the record officer
the syndical chamber of the stockbrokers; the ',salmi
chamber of the Antwerp brokers; and the Werra& bureaux.
Nothing, absolutely nothing, I. saved. All the archives of
these various bodies am lost. • • • I have just retarned
from the scene of the diameter, end In spite of the nailed
efforta of a crowd of workmen and the engines the fire con-
tinues. The ceilings which surmounted the arches of the
Interior galleries have just caught ere, mad port et the
turret on the side of the Place de Wets has &Ben."

A correspondence from Spain mentions the death,
at Mama, al M. Poitavin, the celebrated Feta& sarcsaat.
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The large storehouses of the Roman Foram hare
jest been purchased by the Pontifical Goverameat, l• order
to continue the exrAvatione for open as to public view the
Temple of Caner, which was one of the most celebrated
monument' of the Forum.

The Dutch Minister of the Interior has submitted
to the King a detailed report on a sew submarine telline between the British and Dutch toasts. Tho=ki e:
proposes, contrary to the opinion of Ms predeotes=
grants new conosseion te Romanian, who has o
it from Hanover and Dentauk.

A sad event occurred in the church of St. Cathe-
rine, at Liege, three evenings ero. A young trouten,
whilst in the act of confeetion, Bank to the floor, and on
being raised by the priest and two other meow was found
to be dead. She turned out to be in the sank* of a drew-
asekur of the tilt', mat out to receive payment at • hiL
Roma or 8841.—At the Liverpool Police
Court yesterday ansidayclijcitin Collinsen. who seat be was
a Wive of 11•Dand, we with having to his pewee-
aim tee ems pound notes had been stolen. Deteatims
Comm said that to Jaw lest Bell. wee made up la •
basineos pored at Demedisy, sad posted for Lembo. The
money, however, was stoke, and nothing was breed of It till
Monday, when the paisonar presented two of the 11616111 five'
pound soles* the cashier of the Nora ad Bank Wales
Dank . The prisoner, who was then given into custody, said
be got the netts from • Jew, esseaniLams, who ibis in
Leedom. The primer who could give no satisfactory account
of himself, was remanded till Friday, at the request of the
Post-ogioe authotities.