The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-09 00:00:00

' TOTAL D]

THE EXHIBITION OF 1851.

Ws latierstasS that the menthe committee yes.
lorday Teethed a espy of the knew's, Septet, addressed
to Berl Grey„ >loll the Gomm( of the Cep el Good
Hope :
" Gsversaint Ems, Cope of Geed Reps,
1116 Legal% MO.
" tly the bower M whatowletigo the vs.
Wet of yam Modship's Lehr Magellehse of the Plot
sail the led Apell Wt. esiesios Y the premed
iMftteel of as Works of labsehy of el Statism to bs
hills Lefties is Mil. Presmaleg Weft w he wromeste
flr too gmenossats of Bristol' eihisiel, me well es for foreign
geotermames, to appoint mated authorities is monasskase
with her liejosty's sad burins is Wail that
the 'reeks seer to the lishibillos hem this @ohm will be
priseipally egriealtural, I sequestad the Cqw of Geed Reps
=morel Society to ant as the rostra eatkeelty hem,
hey have emented te Es. 1 sodas orgy el ea ad-
milismeat whit they hem hosed so the esteem,* whisk
yew lentehip wineerosiee Shat it is istooded to held • imal
ealdtsides ea the NM Nevesstise asst, whet the artists@ to
be seat be liaglead will be sleeted by coopmest jades,.
The MAN/111117 M 11111 moiety will esoisotoiceto with her
Megistre sommimhems, sad I shell, it aseeramy, report
say fares: psemetilags to year lordship.
I have, ta. (Sigasti) H. G. SILITH.
T the Right Ho& dm Reel Grey, its. Se."

As the tire draws nem fee the exercise of the invidl
ow pewees of njeedoes, applieante for apses begin to
show their anxiety la various +aye. They sertaialy watch
the doltathe Mail thamitten with a jealous eye, sad
will submit, without entering a protest, to have their
skims by thews Wirt Many argeseate are urged
against the policy of Twang the pewee of ealsetion in the
Weal sotahluses, the lest and taissest being, that massy of
the mambas are themselves inteeerted is semis thesshe-
twigs to which they would probably give es unfair pre-
hisses. It is urged, that, wishes' waturiag be impute say
wilful perversion of the jury data to any mesa, h is obvi-
ously impolitic, to subject the &delfts of anybody to the
charge of self-interest. The flopplestental inhibition al-
ready mooted is evidence of the pawing anzietyer apptiesaits
is,spas% NMI* is ainitted es all bands that it is imperative
that the enembnion shoot to as early decision as this
bead, in order to glee njesled and:leash the power of via&
eating their Maims to antis, in any way they may think
gestolf.

PION OF A COTTON-MILL
BY FIRS.

A firs occurred on Thursday morning, which
resulted in the total destreetice of one of the largest conce-
al& is the aeighbourhood of talsagow, the property 01
Moses. Cooper, Walker, and Company, situated at Mile-
End, Calton. The premises in question were of great extent,
sad sneered a large arm, Wog, moreover, in the immediate
vicinity ottwe ontan-saills„ aimed equally large. The omen-
as. powerioom Jason belongleg to Mr. (haat is widths 40
yards, to the east of the ruined building, while, on the weer,
Mr. Walker's mill oases wattle len than a stont's throw ;
bat to the north and south the ground is unoccupied for a
coadderable distance. The mill which has been destroyed
attended in length from east to west nearly 160 feet, and
is breadth about 60. It consisted of Eve storeys, each filled
with valuable 'machinery, there being in all, we believe,
upwards of 31,000 spindles at work. The machinery was of
the very best description, being employed in the production
of the linen qualities of cotton yarn. Employment was
afforded to between two hundred and three hundred work.
people. Atomised to the west gable, but separated from it
by a dividing wall of considerable thickness, was a two.
stony building, newly finished, aad unoccupied, and which
is the oily part of the range that ism escaped destruction.
The boiler home, which is a smallyection et the southeast

wing of the mill, when the propeUing power was situated,
has also escaped the common nails, though somewhat
damaged by falling brick'.
On Wednesday, evening when the workers left at the
usual hour for the night, everything appeared safe, nor was
the lent indication of the impending catastrophe visible till
a few litigates after four o'clock on Thursday morning,
when the private watchman, ()harrying a red glare of light
flashing from one of the windows on the fourth fiat, near
the northeast corner of the mill, immediately roused one of
the proprietors, Mr. Cooper, who occupies a house in the
Immediate vicinity. From their contiguity to the been, of
conflagration, the Calton firemen were soonest on the ground,
bat, notwithstandieg the promptitude with which they had
turned out, the flames, in the brief interval, had progressed
with each rapidity that the fourth and fifth flats were com-
pletely gutted, the roof fallen in, and the flames
spreading rapidly along the top of the building
in a westerly direction. Unfortunately, the roof in falling,
had, by its nano, so completely blocked up the only staircase
giving some to the interior, that the firemen could not forte
an entrasce into the building at this point, so as to intercept
the flames in their devastating progresa. Tide was the state
of matters when the central and other engines, under the
active supseintendence of Mr. Tamer, arrived. P.rie lying at
a glance that aeons by the staircase was impowitile, and that
the flames, if unchecked, would speedily envelope the whole
mill in one common destruction, the superintendent got es
many of the ladders joined together as reached the fourth
flat, In hopes that, by introdue cog sole it his ire 'there
the roof might be east about the centre, and thus a barrier in-
terposed to the further spread of the flames. The ladders were
accordingly raised against the south wall, and one or two of
the most daring of the firemen springing up, succeeded in
breaking through one of the windows on the fourth fiat
and getting into the interior. The flames, however, had
apparently spread along the inside flooring quite as rapidly
ne on the roof—the partition, not being et sufliei. nt thick.
seas to resist for any length of time the fierce &MIS by
which it was assailed, had given way, and the firemen were
met In the face with .4 volume of smoke and heat so
, intense that they were compelled to make a precipitate re.
treat. Mr. Turner next divested hie attention to the ex-
, trews west of the building, and, placing his ladders once

The Executive Committee have issued the fanoyieg docu-
ment is reply to a letter addressed Is them by the Pruden
Commission:—
"is regard to the epee it pes,ithitg cam which you
base sociested has to be pesitbd for foreign eibibiters, no
each provision Ise bees may sad there are difficulties
peaky to Loader whisk reader it extremely difficult to
may seek a regalatisa lase West.
4.1 a regard m the sem/ =ealiesitioarde by the Prussian
Cemosiiss. bee have seceded to
the tome of the = who bind le have the oppor-
taaity of *Wag eat and dipkylas their own goods so
peculiar amain after tied ova testa, that they might do
se at their own east oak" motels reetzietioas ; but the cos-
adoleases are quits read, to ell mos to make provision for
raddiYg~Ly and WOW= el si eitieles to be admitted for
,to se de es provella. of mum tehm enwhice
op plass the obis* de esidlides
" But the sesusimismess dam it neeneary that the cen-
tral 00•111111111011 fa seek ossatry should depute some
qualified sad respesile puns or poems to be present
when the podia thole awn esaatry are aspeeked, to see
that they are delivered is a sound ooaditisa, to canoe per-
!loos of snacks east separately to be mrey joined and
pined together, sad to superintend ether iiib of a like
character, which the magaitade of the work preelades the
eossiednen themselves from andettak, however
&axioms they may be of giving the greatest possiWe soiferaco
in a general way. The sommissiesse have this estiegemiso
of knowing from the arrasgements which have been
reported to theta foss Freese, Blue* Belgium, de. that
their own wishes in this respect are entirely coinitident
with those of the *yelp' exhibit tee, and they out entertain
ao doubt whatever that the Prudes coremiNat will bays
any dank, in seeiag that the interests of their own saki-
biters an properly attested to is these respects.
" It is also proper to state that is most man whisk have
coats aeon the oomialseiesere, grist anxiety hoe boa mai-
hated by the exhibitors sad theft spool, sad 11 the or
=lnfos appoisted to take charge of the objects lei Imo odd. I
kited, to be permitted to arrange their Gera dopeolool of
the exhibition in seek a manner as should, la side spoke.
do moot pasties to their ow* pretnetions. The zirgalaties
alluded to wee mode veldt the view, as far u possible, of ea-
esureging sash • system, as moth more likely to be satisfa•
toey to exhibitors of any otiaatep sad close, than any mode of
display which the eemadmienen in Eastland might them-
selves have undertaken." . . .

1/;:isDar.e.:::inteag the 111111141110111 ankles Intended to be
seat irons !loony, Y s large bell, weighing 650 lbe , manic
teetered by Frederick at Kleinwelke, In Sauey.

TUB HOP DUTY.

more on the top of the two-sterey~brick erection formerly
mentioned, succeeded in getting some men on the top of the
roof itself. It was, however, in vain, the flames had acquired
such overwhelming strength and volume, that any attempt
to stand against them was hopeless; and after sn ineffec-
tual endeavour to cut the roof, the men were beaten
back, and compelled to descend. The flames were now
left to riot ;mauled on the valuable property on which
they had seised; and leaping from fiat to fiat, were soon
seen bursting out in awful strength Item emir,' window of
the building, lighting:sip the horizon (or several miariround.
The sparks were driven by the wind, which blew Irish from
the west, to a great distance—same of them, we have been
soured, finding their way sa far as the powder magazine.
Conesderable alarm was excited for the safety of Mr.
Grant's mill, in which direction danger was mostly
to be apprehended, but the workmen in that tstablish-
, meat being all on the alert in the different fists of
the building, nothing was permitted to lodge about it.
By the exertions of the fire brigade, the cotton store and
picking room, which are detached from the main building,
were also saved, although the latter being eovered
wit► an asphalts roof, was repeatedly is imminent danger.
Thu left to Itself, the fire raged on till there was nothing
to consume, and by eight o'clock in the morning the destruct- '
don was cemplete, the roof having entirely fallen in, carry-
ing with it the whole machinery and Iron suppmts of the
differenefists to the basement storey, where they now lie in
one proligious mime of rain. So intense had been the
heat, that even the side walls have given way, and little
now remains of the once extensive range incept the east
and part of the west gables, and them, too, are in a totter-
ing and very unsafe condition. Two engines were playing
on the rains define the whole of Thursday, there being
still a good deal of heat about the debris A lame detaish-
meat of police, under the orders of Captain Smart and
Amiatant-Superintendents Mackay and Bikers where in
attendance, and proved of much service in facilitating the
operations of the film brigades. It is impossible to form any
idea as to tinsmiths of the fire, the place where it first was
discovered being, of all others in the mill, that in which the
leant danger was to have bun apprehended.
We believe the probable lose in buildings, machinery, dce.,
will not be short of 34,0001 or 36,0001., which is only par-
tially met by insurance, the amount covered, we have been
informed, being not more than 22,0001. —North British
Mali.

[The following speared in part of our impression yes-
terday.]
A deputation of members of parliament from Kent
and flume: waited on the Chaamllor of the Bachman at
his official residence in Downing-street yesterday, for
the purpose of presenting to the right hon. gentleraut
the memorial of the bop-rowers, agreed to at the meeting
bold at Hunt Green on Thursday, the 31st alt., praying
the further postponement of the collection of the ai-
rfare of duty for the year 1849. The members present
were, Mr. Thome. Law Hodges, West Kent; Sir E leaned
Pittner, West Kent Mr. Frowsy, Emit Sussex ; Mr. Faller,
But flassex ; Mr. Carters, Bye; and Hr. W. B. Hope,
Maidstese.
Kr. Hodges presented the Insureds!, mad stated the case
of the hop growers in its support.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer replied that he had
already postpeaed the collection of the duty for an entire
year, sad that on account of the lemmas of the present
mane, and upon the representation of the bop-growers
thelautres, he had farther postpoised it far ea, month, from
the 16th or October to the 15th of November instant, and
that now he should insist upon its collection, and enforce its
payment where satemary.
The deputation then retired.

EXPLOSION AND 1.088 OP LIFE AT SEACOMBE.—
Between wren and eight o'clock on Wednesday evening
last, an explosion of naphtha, attended with fa•al conse-
quences, occurred in Mersey-street, Higher B.,acornbe, Che-
shire. The house in which the melancholy occurrence took
place is used as a Roman Catholic school and reading room,
In connection with St. Alban's Chapel, Liecerd, and is under
the superintendence bf the Rev. Mr. Lennon. It appears
that on the evening in question, previous to the COMMIllid•
meat of the duties of the school, Mr. Johnson, the school-

master, and six of the whole" Were in the front room, on
Its LATE PLAT* ROBBERIBL—Martin Maguire the second floor. The matter was engaged la pouring some
naptha into a lamp from a tin an, contaiciog about hall a
lit Mt Implicated, along with Maeatilry sad Birrell, in the gallon ; and a lad named John Crone, about ten years of
kifie sallmelve plate robberies, bat who woe discharged from age,was holding a candle by his side, Never having before filled
p wady through want of proof befog produced of his hand- the lamp, Mr. Johnson was Ignorant of the quantity required,
„mac ..me lamed et the her, at the itieet.peei Police and before be was aware, the Inflammable liquid ran over, and
ceining 'anew:it iv Ith the lighted candle which was held by the
(bead, rialladab ea a abuda al baaLalt bad fa"' PC."ll°. boy Crone, ignited. The rem, which followed it Is int-
• Old wank Inewilli the lime to hare hem stoles. Police presidia accurately to describe ; but from what we can
slime. Jebel= elated that ea the pnvioas Friday afternoon learn, an instantaneous report like that of a cannon was
be estakiel befteittene Wm M. climb ca go in snitch of baud, followed by a tremendous crash occasioned by the
Am osmiwomippmagag ha that purpose to wenheas. falling of the partition wall, about twelve feet long and
e._ nine feet high, which WY forced with such violenee against
all the Weill. 1.14111.111111,• cape bag wee "la ur •
• the opposite side of the lobby that se ral deep indents.
Inas is is aldbes woo Wreaths= to Chester. Be tioas were math in the rimier work. Inv
soma places large
cll., MOON and sew the Primer go ion portions of the wall were removed, without beiog nattered,
• Mllletes lloble•Rewes. He then proceeded to the aid forced against the wall forming the other side of the
(Chemeroatte whom he met with HUM me lobby. But the most melancholy and heartrending part of
al the Westin re of the Liverpool pollee km the occiarrence remains to be told. In the reading-room,
all they west together to___Wr• .Iloolee..eng took the immediately above the Nene of the explosion, were fon.
ot has 41101611. Bator MM.' that en algirw teen pumas, one of whom was in the set of reading aloud.
swa moiater to Mono_ they timid Wm Oa nee ring the report, and the noise which followed,
a mime. ate II ehmamsella• He (Sato) told him they thought that the arches en which the houses were
that they wow WOW MIS bee weedy ea the charge of built bad glvea way, and a rush instantly took place
glean air* wank ISM HAW. Oa the gad ot Odder to the door and window, thron' which a safe exit was
Let he
______,(1111110) agliaellohad.,,_ _
_„th_,a,Prholnir en a Marge M made. Bat what was their horror on beholding the
tabimfmmor• Mme ems of 011ontalthite• end, es much- ghastly visors and burning clothes of the poor unfortunate
git in es Meg ••••gam._.____, ,_hlallghi Parket a key whist creatiru who had previously occupied the apartment w-
igwam a tholioaramm W mallww!, lag la this Meet he &math ? Mathew Riley, who tired in the bouts, got out
°l•ll.l46armad held a • .watell pledged le a "Wither imt• of the window, and the first person he saw was the lad
He endued m the wadi from tier pewhether. Creeds, who was enveloped in flames, but his feature" could
mid hag therwather sad maker's same had been taken sot be recognised. Riley immediately clung round the lad,
how lt, hot, higlalegama et lahramtle• he was Poseemed and rolled with him on the door until the flames were m-
oo, he took it telnueeiry, to Mr. Hill, a watehmaker, who, on . The poor little fellow was then removed to the
Wing it tekesaelsso4 Ahat.,, .he wee the meher, and Abbots( erd Howl, end afterwards to his own residence,
that he had it to the Dome of Halifax.—Mr. Newton Bridge, fieacombe, where he died between eight and
Wheeler, the. ler tag Immo?, hen hitorrelitea alas yesterday sawing. J. Mlimry, a joiner and builder,
the @Math NC Minted to say atatenrat Rude to Ida by who was is the reeding TOM at the We of the explain. on
• third ball retailed is wolirt• Mr. halides chid reaching the bottom of the stairs met Mr. Johnson wham
he alemld WM Vag _lam that make( Ihealg he efts thee presented a very disarmed appearance, and who was
alltilla the Prhoma which _
aim we.
I°_.set °WOW mains% but main went shoat the legs sad body. Wl:Mary succeeded
Na wa• mmoolorh ha the me benne that Me whale fa patting out the fire, and pushed Mr. Johnson into tie
Wry ef the ow Wield be fate.-111r. Wheeler street, whim he exclaimed, . Don't mind me ; look to the
Mawr Mrtjae=abollea Use but It wee rime- (dandles." He next met a lad named Riley, sad after.
waled kJ en. selling the aka is reseed with wards another lad named Duffy, both et whom he treated
his oarsmen.—Same neat ea le stem that mr. Beitho's Is a swam maul. M.lleary, on Baas Into the whoa.
Asp, fa Halifax, was sabred tn the sight of the 14th of nem, fond the shake, tables, beak" -At., la 'awes,
3•17. by .mealm of arcing a *odor „Vire oat of the door, wind ultimately he, with some amistaime, latanded is
to a draw way to the wee' wipes lo esseetth the an Zdtiard Barns, a boy twelve years of I'm
Isle Liverpool nbathea rebberdea. The Welt bees Is so -moth band that little bow are entertained of his
pledged is thL he
el X•raillf•—lhollohmor. Impetuously reermesy. A lad aimed Patrick linty is also fa a daa-
lemileast. '' me ticket tonal Mma. sod Yen lowed it in prows math A youth Bused Con about sixteen years of
the ahem What le the the ad sea dl. • blather about cep, sad Mr. 'nein are also suffering mach frost the
it _„r' The ken •••••Img with ills attunes, who Warta received ; but it is probable that the last-named
harermea • mamba Mat he wished to knew whether the slate:ye may rawer. Peter Riley escaped with little
ericamination would be We here or eleswkete.--11r. ham It to nagoarible, however, to state what may be
Rah*. said this -a• Via almaralarmam. —Mow : the torah to the guffaws, as op to tie time of the pre-
4te
Ima prove that i the witek, ad gave a fill seat parasitism being collected, sot twenty-four hours
for it.—Mr. Rosittce : ea ere at MeV le all had easpeed hem the period of the aellt• James
yea like Mont it —The ptiethar nee phased oaths a Bum. whip was is she maim goon, au seek, his
noses& (It may he nisesetne to lids ems to tbot injured brother, Pik aim into We ewe, sad was shoat
some time ego a maa et the awe et Mumay, alms Hawkins, mellow era a wall haled the berme, whisk to Me
sus, snag with Was, tried and • convicted foe having &WC wee oaly OW am or des Am high. tip the
rebind a septa' of a venal at tear asaMethes, by wage M wide (the he... Udall beat ez.lenweis we mit hill•
Matthew ,
" Wen the elli'• Hawkins kept, Wire the pie of ghat :me= Wes he wee
a bete wee, • itmea kr Mama. AlterhelerWelithl vb. if his ith _ .thirih—l-le ha& Yd It
In remedy, Ids with weal le the llegae WOW le Whe let- ase
Jame' Om WM/ holhohreolabalibtal . WI Edward
%r ether her, holm 01l am aggatimallA• sod DOWN Wow. la ea yt, bare bees
Oa morshfall tort% el= to the odder at MK killed by the sa ham the yard The houses of the
was thead, end es nee deseleed, elld being taken Wm the row la whim the wheel is sheen being te Mr. Cornelius
lwatiled Inferno dem. DatlWllkWMMr. Hams4jaadarebattleswinwBLsableeandr
neath.
wressihowit obareettlalifte hada
ingsmf the
da li solgalarhahlar "puttee 4
limns eseivai.easoiwhieba
tespeauthe sieselsoprosimee laiterftwappospre
hti:
beeslm
pendia to methikb a sem the ethenthe seeotagaith a view lethease It ; balm& is the present dau-
b. bad • saner Meted IherVilliVil al Walt: pale INONIPOINO Oi the arab, that oak's some proper
Wee from the realm et Mr. ._ et esesentithe le labia. K
$ the
with it
rer was ghee late the weedy tert Meortheno go- Ma tow mama sag imam _ „num.
odd sa her tend the we wet Mwmg_tlehmshere mid CHILD MORD= Ilt MARTlMSOng.—Yesterday Mr.
le mow bamthemill in Turk Ottege• what "wee P•' Walden, M.P., held so *art at the Meleheas Work-
Vtre j=ehllairl=l rant that mixt, Pm." "
padaam%a ""ts= tafeah "%is tenth..-111hewhirineresitt
gelee ire ft( god la hie statetheat wile Mr. „dam, ai karmia.path: IL was then quite
Rodeos to day Is that al", Hawkins is the Pt". to tusk ad lost a. raw Is was tiered In a white
wham he anodes. olio gown and pettithat, and was covered with a dark
A Twass-remon nowt VP.—Tbe Skipping. Go- apron. Dr. Allen easadaed the body. All the math were
242ilte " jiff grithie bi°4l.ew efrairesatC:Arelhwal‘ 11..44'
mums-h abaoat It age. II"
"millwero "lathy
gested ertier wee tit
wraith el .000 people who we ea mak of It& Demand waa about • Meth old.
beartgiatlialtlY anima from a oraha two 41•78 NM% Vollglet.lllM Ithrier against sow puma or pews*
-.4 nes Wag her Pemba." inkitenth• .