The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-09 00:00:00

TWO PERSONS BURNT TO DEATH.

At an early hour yesterday morning the inhabi-
tants of Carnarvon were aroused from their slumbers by
cries of " Fire !" proceeding from Bridge•street, the
principal thoroughfare, leading to the railway station. A
draper's shop, in the occupation of Mr. William Owen, Will
totally burnt down, and two persons—one a child three
years of age, and the other the servant girl—were lost
and buried in the dibris.

It appears that the inmates consisted of Mr. and Mrs.
Owen, and child, a milliner, end a servant girl ; and that
the family retired to rest, as usual, at 11 o'clock, when
shortly afterwards Mr. Owen found that his bed-
room was being densely filled with smoke. He instantly
gut up, dressed himself, and found that the smoke proceeded
from the shop. He gave the alarm sod endeavoured to
rescue his child, which slept in an attic with the servant.
In each attempt be failed to reach the top from the density
of the smoke which prevailed in every nook and corner of
the house. The neighbours by this time were
brought together, and the fire brigade were at
their post doing their work admirably, under the
superintendence of Inspector Davies. Thousands of
people had also congregated to witness the scene of devas-
tation. The mayor (Ll. Turner, Esq.) worked with consi-
derable alacrity, and encouraged all to do their duty and
ktepgood order. Fears were entertained at one time that
the fire would extend to the other houses, one or two of
which contained very combustible materials ; but by
five o'clock the fire was entirely subdued, though not
before the building was burnt to the ground, and the
stock, valued at several hundreds of pounds, consumed.
The child and the servant (Elizabeth Owen) were burnt
almost to a cinder. The wife and the other female servant
in the house were taken through the window by means of
a ladder, followed by Mr. Owen.

FENIAN EXCITEMENT IN CANADA.—The Dublin
Expreu of yesterday says :—" A telegram was received in
town on Wednesday, ordering the 69th Regiment, now
stationed in Dublin, to be prepared to embark at Kings-
town on the 20th, for Canada, to meet a threatened in-
vasion by the Fenian'. Two other regiments now in Eng-
land have also been ordered to hold themselves in readiness.
We understand that Lord Strathnairn, who is at present
in London, and was about to return to Inland, has been
detained in consequence of the receipt of the intelligence
from Canada.'

BRIGANDAGE IN GEICECE.—A correspondent of
the Times at Athens communicates the intelligence that
the moat celebrated of the Greek brigands, Kitzos and
Lapharanes, have been slain. On the 24th of June the
peasants of Argos, Mycena, and Lyrina enclosed the bands
and brought them to hay. The robbers fought like wolves,
and the gendarmes and peasants like men. One gendarme
and one peasant were killed and several wounded. Dark-
ness saved the brigands for one night. Next day the
bunt was continued on the bills between Ales
and Nemea. The pessanta would be satisfied with
nothing but the heads of the brigands. They
have so little confidence in their government and
its authorities that they fear to make prisoners.
" Throughout all Greece there is a persuasion that
every bri
gand has, or will easily find, • political patron,
who will obtain his pardon or escape from prison.
Brigands are also pretty sure of a speedy release by one of
the frequent amnesties which form • part of the trading
capital of Hellenic statesmen. As a matter of what
brigands call honour, a Greek brigand considers it an
affair of conscience to murder his captor, burn his barn,
or mutilate some member of his family on escaping
from prison. So the peasants gave no quarter to
Kitzcos or Laphasanes, nor any of their companions, end
the head of the King of the Mountains that surround the
city of Minerva was brought to the capital and exhibited
publicly to the people, as a proof that the real Kazoo was
not concealed in the country house or the cellar of some one
of his patrons. This ocular demonstration was necessary
to prevent the suspicion that some other slain robber bad
been called Kitsoe to make political capital for men in
office. In 1855, when the peasants were fairly supported
by the government of the day, 150 brigands were de-
stroyed by the activity of the rural population in the
course of six weeks. If the peasants are not now thwarted
in the zeal they are displaying, they will probably exter-
minate the brigands in the western part of the Pelopon-
nesus, Attica, and I3,eotia. In Acarnania, Btolia, and
Pbthiotia the enterprise will not be so easy, for the bands
are stronger and more numerous."
THE AMERICAN LIFE RAFT.—This diminitive
specimen of nautical architecture, which arrived at South-
ampton • fortnight ago, having been navigated across the
Atlantic by three men, in 43 days from New York, has been
a source of great attraction airing the present week's
regatta at Cowes, and her Majesty the Queen went along-
side in her yacht and looked at the little craft. The rat
left Southampton yesterday for London for the purpose of
being exhibited at the Crystal Palace. This frail structure
is so made that it can be taken to pieces or put together
in about 20 minutes.