The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-26 00:00:00

THE INDIAN MAILS.

The steamer Cadiz was to bring the Bombay mail
to Suez. She would be then on the 19th inst. The Nubia
waa due at SW the mine day, but she reached some days
before her time. The Cadiz is a feet steamer. The Verde
will bring the Marseilles portion of the Bombay and Cal-
eatta mails from Alexandria, and the Repoa the heavy por-
tion. If the Cadiz arrived at Suez at her proper time, the
Vortis will reach Marseilles to-morrow, and the mails will be
delivered in London on Saturday. The heavy portion will
not be delivered, probably, before the 4th of next month. Sir I
Colin Campbell should have strived out at Calcutta about
the 16th of this month, nearly five weeks after the death of
General Barnard at Delhi. It is expected that the latest
news from Delhi, via Calcutta, is up to the 11th or 12th ult.
The news from Delhi, rift Bombay, may possibly
be up to the 20th ult. If the Cadiz arrived
at Suez in time, news from Bombay yid Trieste may be ex-
pected to day. General Windham will reach Calcutta about
the 3rd of October. The:European, with the:Australian mall,
should call et Point de Gaffe on the 7th inst., about a week
after the Nubia left there with the Calcutta mail. Officers
are booked already to go out by the next five India mail
packets. The Peninsular and Oriental Company have 23
steemen in the Indian Sees, seven of which are in the
government transport service. If any very important event
took place soon after the departure of the Celeutta and Bom-
bay mail, it Is possible that such news would be sent to
Ceylon to be sent home by the Australian mail steamer,
European, and it could be telegraphed from Marseilles this
day week, or from Cagliari meek earlier. News from Bom-
bay, ni Cagliari, may be also hourly expected.

A fire, attended with the destruction of some
thousand pounds' worth of property, happened last eight in
Holborn, neer the Bridge. The premises in which the
fire commenced belonged to Mr. Orenville, gun and pistol
manufacturer, situated at No. 44, in that street, and the
building was flanked on one aide by the premises of Mr.
UUmer, patent rem maker, end Mr. J. 0. Pryor, a gateau.,
whilst the entire row of homes in Bartlette-buildings and tire
or six others in King's Head-court, abutted upon those of Mr.
Granville. The fire was first discovered by one of the City
pollee, who mimed as alarm, and in a few seconds the lteyal
Society's escape from Hatton-garden attended, ender
the personal direction of Mr. Inspector Baddeley, The
first thing Bought to be dolmans to Dearth the building to we
whether any of the occupiers were therein. The conductor
earthed all the beds but found no one in the upper part of
Aim house, and he had barely sufficient time to leaee the
piece before huge sheets of flame came rolling up the ULU-
, ere, and a loud and Earful explosion (supposed to la gas)
thilowed which sent two or three of the shutters into the
street end blew the door open. The engines of the London
Sigel% West of England, and others, attended from Hol-
born, Perrlogdon-street, Watling-street, Waterloo-road,
Seuthwark-bridge-road, and the West-end stations. The
mains of the New ltiver Company having been procured,
the engines were forthwith set to work, and copious streams
of water were poured upon the flames, but notwithstanding
they continued to spread so fiercely that before eleven
o'clock, less then a quarter of an hour after the
outbreak, the building from the base to the reef
presented a general blaze, and before midnight
the roof fell in, when the Mimeo rose to suet a
height as to illuminate the whole of that portion of the
metropolis, causing the steeples of the different churches sad
the dome of St. Paul's to present a most extraordinary
aspect, whilst shower after shower of sparks and Inge
pipers of wood in a thorough state of ignition kept dropping
upon the neighbouring houses and amongst the many them
send persona who had congregated in the = thorough.
fares to witness the progress of the condo
The firemen entered the burning premises at all valets,
and also mounted the roofs of the adjoining house, on bath
sides ie Holborn, but so rapidly did the dames extend that
wry shanty the back part of Mr. Ullmer's premier and
those of Mr. Pryor became ignited, and the various hewn
in King's Read-court and Bartlett's-beadier were eland in
Jeopardy, so that nearly all their inhabitants rushed oat
Into the street, with their children and any article
of furniture they could lay their hands upon. Mr. lx.
Spector Mitchell and Acting-Inepoctor Harding, with a
I strong body of police were quickly on the spot, and rendered
I the greatest eminence to the firemen, by protecting the
goods taken out of the different houses endangered. Er.
Harding, in assisting a family in the adjoining house, was
nearly suffocated, and was obliged to crawl upon his hands
and knees to get away.

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