The Express.
London, England, 1859-07-14 00:00:00

THE Mien OP 111.8 ROT WIMTHER.

Several serious occurronoes took place yesterday
trout the beet of the weather.
and H
Two men, named George Gardiner sad Heide.,
were engaged in a tield at Battersea, whoa they were struck
down by tbe heat, and am now in a very dangerona condition.
A gentleman riding on the roof of a Paddington omnibus,
fa peering down Ontord.etreet, wee suddenly attacked with
vertigo, end was with di/lenity saved from fallMg off. After
having been seen by a surgeon, he WU 00IIVOrld to his TIP
Adam* in a cab.
Two ladies, whilst occupying chairs in Hyde-park, wen
suddenly taken so seriously dl that they had to be attended
by a medical gentleman, who recommended their immediate
removal to their homes.
Several cases were conveyed to St. George's and Charing.

cross Hospitals. -
At lAMI • man named Joseph Smith, who tram at work in a
dell In Barnt Ash-line, fell down, and died suddenly on

Tuesday rfternoon.
The heat bee effected the blather of the butcher. and
meat salesmen of the metropolis very seriouely, a very
roes body body of the trade in different parts absolutely closing
their shops, while the vendors of other perishable commodi-
ties have been great losers. The state of the weather hag
very moth increased the noxious effluvia arising from the
Thames, end somewhat injured the steam boat traffic, al-
though large numbers have availed themselves of this means
of transit to Greenwich and Battersea Pal Its. On Monday the
thermometer stood at 88 deg. in the shade, and had tecressed
to 90 deg. on the succeeding day, and was by no mesas
the mercury at
diminished but rather hummed yesterday,
noon giving en sweep temperature in the metropolis of
90.6 deg.
The Snreunkry Journal rya that on Thursday morning
David Owen, a lad about 12 years old, whose parents live in
St. Austin's Friars, died from sun•stroke after a few hoed
Sinew. The (tithes of the lad is employed se cowmen by
Kr. He mock, of the Priory, and the deceased wee in the
hay-field with him for some hours on Wednesday. He, how-
ever, appeared to be pretty well when be came home, but
about two o'clock on Thursday morning ha became seriously
ill and died about eleven.
The Newcastle Chroniele of yesterday states—" The yea.
thee hoe been extremely hot on the coast during the past
two days. Had not • fresh bretze blown it would have beem
almost unbearable. On Monday, during the heat of the day,
a boy belonging to North Shields, end a woman at Tyne-
mouth, remised whet appeared to be stin-strokrs. The boy
had to be taken horns in a cab, end wee very ill."

DASTRUCtiVI PFLOUIRAI YTSA
BRAD MANED
I.

The moot extenaive conflagration that has occurred
on the Surrey tide of the river for many years took place yes.
terday Menthe°, at I o'cleck, and at 9 o'clock last night was
far from being eadeguis. The premises in which the
climates. originated were the flour mills, at Shad Thames, Bs,
mondsay, belonging to Meseta. Parke. The buildings Gotha
pled a portion of both sides of the =thorned, whilst the
back nut to the edge of the St. Saviour's Dock. The neigh-
booting buildings contained a large quantity of combustible
materiels. The premises in which the fire occurred were six
stories high. The discovery wee made by one of the work.
mee employed on the fourth floor, and every effort was made
to stop the progress of the fire, but without memes, for in
less than half an hour the whole wealth= was • mar of
llama. In • very brief period the two powerful Memo float.
leg engines from Southwark-bridge and Rotherhithe ata
tended, as well as the land engines from Bermondsey vestry
and Stoma the brigade from !Mous sta. ions. A god sup.
ply of water wee quickly obtained, but, notwithstanding,
the work of devastation continued, and floor after
floor continued to fall. At length the flames buret
through the roof, and ignited the adjoining warehouse, •
building even larger than the flnitthamed. The beat then
became so intense that the wharves on the opposite
side were smoking and cracking, and they were ex.
peed momentarily to emit huge sheets of flame, more ems-
alelly the turpentine stores don t south, in which hundreds
of Mends of resin, turpentine,were deposited. Under
the direction of Mr. lialyon, the chief manager of the
r end Biscuit Works, men were employed in
throwing the water upon the surrounding factories, end
the =Ma were tally charted at the back, by which
: Karel other land engines could be set into operation. The
two steam Scots were kept at work as long as the tide would
admit, and were succeeded by the lend engines. Although
the firemen had succeeded by helf-peat nine o'clock
haat night in getting such control over the
flews es to prevent them from reaching the other
wharves and warehouses, they were even thee not entirely
extinguished. The mill belonging to Mesas. Parkes is
entirely claimed, including the costly machioory end many
thousand quartets of wheat, flour, &c. Other
premises are likewise injured by fire and water.
The misfortune is supposed to have commeaced
in the following manner —A number of men were employed
in the dressing-room on the fourth floor when a wire of a
machine broke, and the same was required to be instantly
repaired, when • men took a light into the piece to see to put
on amoeba wire, but the moment be entered the husk from
the wheat MON in contact with the light, and it was with
difficulty that any person could teatime to reach the street
in safety. The loess will fall principally upon the San,
Norwich Us= Atlas, West of England, and the Royal
Insurancecomps:Mee.

EXTENSIVE FIRE AT BANBURT.—A tremendous
conflagration occurred yesterday in the warehouse of Mean.
Otlby, the railway and aural °ankle, whose premises
abut immediately ua the large brewery of Meson. Hunt
and Edmunds, in South Bridgeostreet (the cattle-market).
It commenced soon after 10 o'clock in the day, and rapidly
nixed on the very great quantity of combustible goods and
Ignited some hey, which was rapidly curled in flaming
to the many thatched roots in the direction
of the wind, in a line at the back of the buildings
which front to the street. Within little more than
one bout the fire extended over • large space. There
was a breeze blowing at the time, and the fire seemed
bounded by the two large breweries, Mr. Wyatt's being at its
terminus, aim. The utmost exertions were made by the
united population to insist in controlling the firs and m re-
moving furniture. Of the latter there was sad destruction
from persons desiring to remove from unfounded alarm.
lied the town not been supplied with water from the new
water cowpony's works, end if It hid occuned at night, ono.
eighth part of the town might have bee annihilated. The
' teen engine and one from Mr. Samuelson's foundry, togs-
, ther with the invaluable hydrants of the water c..mpany,
were moat iffemirely handled, sad the entire of the
appliances were most elective—the engines from
Brickley, Wrorton, dc. The principal scene of the
destruction was at Mesas. Gilley's, where the yre
mine seemed utterly burnt out, sad nothing but redthot
and roofless walla tottering over the wreck. The Crown
Inn end buildings near it formed the next great eons
f destruoioo, while ibis thatched roofs and rafters of upwards
of 20 other buildings and upper parts of houses were
thoroughly burnt off. Water well supplied, and energy
well directed, sand en immense quantity of 'anomaly-endan-
gered property. The breweries at either extreme seem to
have escaped with slight injury, though Bunt and Edmunds's
' wee considerably endsagered. The cause of the fire in
unknown, though it has been surmieed that the intense
rays of the min thrown from en adj. iioing window on
to some infitormable inherence may have originated it.
There have been only a few elgbt accidents ; but several
Ferrous attempted to steal plate, dm., which they wire pro-
fessedly removing for sakty. Many poor people will need
aid for their heree in furniture, do.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN SCOTLAND.—On Tuesday
morning a *adieus fire broke oat in the store at Devonside,
Tillioniltry, in 000nrxion with the mill belonging to Mr.
Vines, Downside. The wools and yarns in store, to the
value ot from 15,0001. to 20,03001., were totally destroyed.
The property was not insured. There is toms uncertainty al
to She "Via of the See.—deorstriati.
SHOCKING DEATH 01, A CHILD ON THE NORTH
Eastman RAILWAT.—On Monday evening, a frightful
acumen took place at the Scarborough station of the
North Eastern Railway. A party of ',bibles., belonging to
Mr. M'Bean, jet ornament manufacturer, were walking
about near the rails, in charge of a young girl, their nurse-
maid. One of the children, a boy of six or seven years of
age, who from efil ctioa was somewhat Imbecile, strayed from
the girl aid wandered upon the lines. A Wipes train was
rapidly coming op, and before the child could be assisted the
train knocked him down anon the rail*, end the whole of
the carangos passed over hie body, literally severing him in
twain. Death was instarraneon•—flfeerkester Gasedisu.
SERIOUS ORANGE AFFRAY AT PAISLEI.--The
Jforth Braid* Deily Mad *aye :—.• On Tuesday Paisley
was the scene ot much excitement on account ot the pro-
ceedings of the Orange Lodge, and the find and serious
results which followed. As early as six in the morning the
lodge murtend in the High.strett, to the number of four or
five hundred, 'memo whom were • odtaiderable number of
women, and headed by • bend of music, they proceeded to
parade the tows. titimetely they directed their steps to
Johastone, and on reaching Atillan.too, which is close to
the parliamentary boundary of Paisley, they were attacked
by • body of miners. Some of their musical inetrumenta
wen dm:gaged, and sea. re woonds on the head end other
I pars of the body were gives and received by both par-
. ties-one of the miners assailing the orengemen had
his band severely cut w.th • armed. The Paisley
land Johnstone Lodges proceeded i n the road to Paisley,
with the intention ot separating at the West Tull.
On nechieg the bridge ever the Bleak Cart, at the south
end of the villege, they brand their further progress opposed
by two or three hundred miner., who, as aeon as they made
their sppeerence, aiteeked them with stoves sad bludgeons.
The procession was drives tack into the village in disorder,
but, after a short delay, they ioduced four or five of the
smutty pollee to serromposy them again to the bridge, high
they again 'squad to erase. A desperate encounter the
issued, in whim themes and Imbed freely used, In
sibitte.n to less daegerous weapons, such as Marketers,
Bpaling 'Mho, dm. A continued suaression of Photo see
d, but epporently the greeter number of them were
discharged et too greet a dietance to do much harm.
Alter the eery was over, the onenbatents presented a horrid
spectacle. On the middle of the road, where the fight had
beau hottest, lay extended the dead body of • strong muscular
man, apparently about fatty years of age. aid skull had
teen severely fractured, end he was etabbed, apparently with
• clasp knife, in the left breaot. The body was oonveyed to the
village, whither also the goon seriously grounded were taken.
prooiaelon thee re-formed, and, accompanied by all when
crald walk, proceeded to Paisley, which place it reached
without snub:elation."