The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-29 00:00:00

GMAT PIM Ar OZELSI.4.

Yesterday tameistp, about half-peat 1 deka,
a Ike was discovered ragbag upon the premises of Nom.
J. sad O. W. Todd, it• re, lalnerstreet, Chelsea. The
ealahlialisend in question covered an easeeive ores et
remizieg parallel with the backs of the karma is
dent and Prineehdreet, the =tames to the yard
...telay in Miner-street, at the aide at Mama
fly thitt;e englemie arrived the in seemed
see hamilahis prepedime that the imams bodies at
water thrown apes it Lei for • lengthened paid to
have little if asp Waal PIM attar pis el valuable brakes,
dote, Plash, end tesaiterip leek lire, mid in a short woe
at time the ymod jessweed erne harp body at lime.
fAill the embed en freately, end fry tarrying their
hem through moms hams is brad the bersuelma;
earleavoured to Name MI but ms
With only partial seems. The mei of the
asi the maehismodepertmesel having hies is, ale
MSt air, asteesened to defy all
=inelbfet to them. A sadden gut of wiad
onwied the dense emelt the back window of emend
at the hems in Prieseetrest, sad these were rapidly
es he. The seem now beanie meet pinta Thaw houses
as these sear* high, sad as fee the mast part let out to
reepestable and &dr families, few if any of them
being issereL The liresess attempted to stay the progreee
at the Ink as terse the private be.... were concerned, but
setwilimiedieg the met pmiesereethy emortions sevend of
them am neador galied. sad tha water pest d their COll-
- abbot elk* destreyed greatly demeged. Alto-
=shout Oboes leers have mimed in a more or lees
but eleld es tee are seriously burnt. The loss to
the lamdes era br eery asately felt. Shard" beton four
chin* a amnia leeideal eneurred. Sweat of the hare
pike of *alms bed meted moon 'mimeos, lemma to which
the he had in doe mums extended and burnt through,
N. lava being able to sustain the weight above,
the blame gave way, and the blazing As, one by one, fell
with a fateful mush into the back portions of the houses in
Primes-street, carrying down brick walls in their demote
and setting fire to whatever inflammable material they ante
in coated with. In one cues, a pile fell into the rear of
No. 20. and before the Cr. could be alti=Vid.the house
was half burst, and most of its conteats
After .meal hours' hard work the aromas bed the satis-
faction to perceive their labours were telling upon the Cr.,
sod at six o'clock all fear of its further extension was died.
Fated • but up to Lae in the afternoon it was necessary to
throw'water woe the ruins.
The origin of the in la unknown. It t. supposed to have
arisen in the *OOw-house or machine-room ; but °nada(
certain on the poet is. be gathered. News. Todd (who
have also as establishment at Lee, in Kent) are jointed to
some extent, bat the full amount is not known. The 10811
most tor several thoussod pounds.

ANOTHCI ATTEMPT TO UPSET A RAILWAY MATH.
—On the night of Monday last • most diabolical a
was made to upset a train on the Glasgow andS=
Western Railway, by some miscreant who at present un-
fortunately is unknown. On the night in question • large
stone, one-half of one of the blocks formerly used as
sleepers on the railways, and weighing, at least, 2 owt.,
was placed upon the up line of mils, in the
deep cutting • short distance west of the village of
Elderslie, and about • nide or somewhat less from the
Johnstoneatatioo. The oracles time when the stews
was laid down to unknown, but a goods train, due at
Paisley about two o'clock on Tuesday rooming, came in cow.
tact with it, and forced the stone along before it for some
60 or 70 yards, when it would appear to .have been pitched
out between the wheels, as it was afterwards found at the
bottom of the embankment, as the other side of the down
line of rails. The stools had been apparently selected from
• beep of loose blocks of limestone, whisk bad been need as
railway sleepers at one time, and which bad been thrown
aside after Isaias taken out.
Tag MnisooorzfAN RAILWAY AND INHABITED
HOMO Paoreorr.—From • statistical return made
by the Metropolitaa Railway to the House of
Lords, in connexion with their bill for
proeemeate, ice.," it appears that they propose to take
30 houses is St. Passcrea, 29 in St. James's, Clerkenwell, and,
25 in St. Sepulchre, in all 84 henna, and inhabited by 781
persons, to be displaced, the bosses having from 2 to 8
rooms each, and let to weekly talents, but the promoters of
the bill Mate that no inconvenience to these persons is
apprehended. By the mem company's extension to Fins-
bury-circus, the More shows that the number of houses
that would have been required to be talons in St. Sepulchre
would have been 90, occupied by 180 inhabitants; 22 in
Boltopb, 140 persons ; end 130 in at, Giles, Cripplegate,
tenanted by 780 persons ; the houses containing from 4 to 6
and groom. each, let to weekly tenants, bat principally cam-
sed of such pieces as Fig.troitoourt, Hoaepockleatlloy,
Flying-horosiard, Hartshorn-court, Maidenbeed4lley
Boaerhead-buildiogs, sad Angel-alley, to which people and
pleas, rye the return, "no inconvenience is apprehended."
MEDICAL APPOIIMIENTS AND VonAwcine.--Pro-
hero Savory, F.R.S., bee been elected without opposition
to the assistauit-surgeoncy of St. Bartholomow's Hospital;
Moms. F. H. Henanaa sad T. It. Adams have been elketed,
after competitive examinations, house physician and hoeee
surges& respectively to the Westminster Hospital. There
are Tesielaise fee the appointments of house surgeons to the
dispenearise of Lose, Newark-on-Trent, sod Birmingham
Eye loolibaliom
AGM'S TIIIUMPE4I.IM The new turf authority,
Thaameri ocautes,poodkard Ihinhass for the lstal stake*,
and Rea ter the Nogotti Nola at Basonsisa bonitos a
lot of at Ilor Nsormadist Oman Ilsothog, mat Jealousy
alone Ow Ss Limped Gnat Nallissal. Theebate et tbe Two
Thoimmat edam bo geteibte Ili Ile 'Metier" al Ws
ittresert O. Oft MMWOhnntar ft published
allaterowargootaosh to Kee tar pat. Ildeeelee Paany. lam
by psolt Ili evil; et pobeeetl^ Ilbeemibeeb Ile wee, tea
or,W toffsdieedf eft 111/ Doweling te ewe es eem,,—(A.4.
verelemenall