The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-19 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP PflanZET.
Owing to the high pretensions of holders, the demand
for all kinds of Hops is very inactive, at last week's
prices.

WHITECHAPEL.
For each kinds of meat we have a fair inquiry, at very
full prices. Beef, from 2s 2d to 33 2d; Mutton, 2s Gd
to 34 6d; Dtmb, 4s 23 to 53 2d; Veal, 3s 4d to 43 2d;
Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 61 per 81bs by the carcase.

COURSE OF EXC
imsterdian .......... 12 1

EIANGE.-TIIESDAY.

Ditto, three months .. 12 '21,4
dotterdam .. ••• • .. • 12 24
25 70
Brume's" • • .. 25 70
flamburgh .• LLB 13 lit
Paris, 3 dayesight 25 50

Gibraltar,• •• •• ~ ••.. •.
Leghorn .. •• •• •• •• ..,•• 30 70
en o a •• • • •••••• .• •. 25 67%
Milan •• .• •• •• •• .• •• •••
Naples .............. 4C3
Palermo, per0z........ 122
Sleesina •• •• • • •• •• •• 1224
Lisbon •• •• •• •• •• ~ •• ,• 53%
)p0rt0...............• 53%
Rio Janeiro •....... ••
tinenos Ayres .• ••
tiew York,6oday3'sight
Philadelphia ..........

Ditto. 3 months .... 25 67
Marseilles •.•••••• .• • . lb 674
Board GALLI •• • • •• • • • • .

rrankforten 122%
Berlin • • • • • • • • • •
Vienna, eras. f 10...... 12 40
Trieste. ditto.... • • 12 42
Peteratiirgh,Sll. Ebbe.. 67 '4
Madrid •• •• •• - •• •• 49%
CallZ •• ••• Of/ •• 41. •Z 49%
Barcelona •• .• ........
uvula •• •• •• •• •• ••

FSICEP OP EELLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Geld Inbars...£3 17 9
Portugal GoH Coin .. 0 0 0
vanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0

New Dollars ••.... 0 4 10%
k;11vorlr. bars ........ 0 4 11%

EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION.
For several hours last night a fearfully destructive fire
raged on the banks of the Thsni,s at Dock-head, B,r-
mondsey. The scene of its havoc was in Mill-street, a
narrow confined thorougiCare, which partly encircles
" Jacob's Island," a short distance from the Roman
Catholic convent, Bermondsey.
ha discovery was made shortly after ten o'clock. Some
shipwrights who were passing along Mill street observed
a glare of light in the land-side premises or warehouses
belonging to Messrs. Owst and Co., hoop-br!nders, and
they had scarcely time to acquaint the police of the fact
before the place burst into flames. Ere fifteen minutes
had transpired the flames had attacked the waterside and
opposite premises. Thousands were attracted to the
spat, and the entire neighbourhood was filled with an
enormous mob. Most of the engines connected with the
Brigade reached the fire in the course of a quarter of an
hour after the alarm had ben given, but the firemen
were unable to put them into operation for the want of a
supply of water. None was to be had from the
mill-dam, on account of the tide being out,
and unfortunately the only plug that could be dis-
covered in the neighbourhood was some 400 or 500 feet
from the fire. One of the large floating engines of the
Brigade was as soon as possible brought from its station
off Rotherhithe, which proved very efficient. Mean-
while the destructive element swept everything within
its range. Of Messra, 0 .vat'a Dr."^l
stanuag. Both the land-side and waterside warehouses
were almost in ruins. Next to these stood the ware-
houses of Mr. Brindley, sailmaker, as also that of
Messrs. W. and J. Heywood, boat builders; these sub-
sequently shared a similar fate. The fire spread to some
half a dozen other premises that adjoined, and among
them the extensive granary of Mr. Burton, granary-
keeper. Additional aid having arrived the engines
were supplied with water pumped in by others
placed at the plugs in the adjoining locali-
ties. With this supply the firemen, after consider-
able exertion, prevented the fire making further pro-
gress on the land side. It was not so, however, at the
water side. Three
,fine schooners, lying alongside of
the burning wharves, had ignited, and being aground it
wasimpossible to extricate them. All the shipping
lying in the river near the fire sent their crews to assist
the firemen in their efforts to preserve the vessels, but
eventually the ships were enveloped in the general con-
flagration. It was twelve o'clock before the fire was
finally checked. The engines were kept working till
nearly six o'clock this morning, at which hour consider-
able fire remained beneath the rainy, which occupy a
large
i space. How the fire was occ.;sioned it is at pre-
sent impossible to say.

FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION AT THE SOUTH LONDON
GASWORKS.—(THIS DAY.)—This morning, shortly after ten
o'clock, the inhabitants of Peckham and the Old Kent road
were suddenly thrown into a state of great consternation in
consequence of a loud explosion, which was found to have
taken place at the South London Gasworks, situated at the
side of the Surrey Canal, near the bridge, which resulted in
the destruction of considerable property and fearful injury to
several men, three of whom are so shockingly burnt by the
fire that their lives at present are despaired cf.
WRECK OF THE SHIP JOSEPHA, OF BRISTOL -
FIFTEEN LIVES LOST.—Letters have arrived, communicat-
ing this melancholy occurrence. The ship sailed from Bris-
tol on the 18th of-last March, bourid for Boston, and a crew
of fifteen hands, under the charge of Captain Cawson. No-
thing was heard of her till Friday last, when intelligence of
her loss and the lamentable fate of nearly all hands was re-
ceived. The circumstances are thus given :—On the even-
ingtts
of the 21st of April the people living Mat
Bay noticed thee
bar,bowsb a ofabout
a m
a vesseliew
nhorrotkhenajust
of h
aftta se H
eosfatihhgueh
an d -
fore-
rigging on th
Highland-
light, observedhdhy the
clinginga ido f
to i t. The m
glasses,
no
fewer
r remainder atd ' thanne rof th
e people
could be vessel
was a wreck, and with the cargo was washing along the
shore. The unfortunate creatures on the wreck could be seen
signalising for assistance, bat a tremendous sea that was run-
ning, combined with the darknes3 of the evening and a fog
which set in about the same time, prevented help being
given. Daring the night largo fires were made along the
beach. One attempt was made to gain the wreck. Two
boatmen contrived to get their boat over the surf, and had
approached within a short distance of the bar, when un-
happily a sea struck and capsized her, and the two
brave fellows perished. Some time afterwards the wreck
went to pieces, and two only out of the fifteen sufferers
succeeded in saving themselves—they were washed ashore
on some pieces of spars. All the others met with a watery
grave.

REUNION DES ARTS.—The second concert of the
season was most fashionably attended on Monday evening,
and went off brilliantly. Madlle. Anna Bochklotz Falconi
sang a " Sieilienne" by Pergolesi with admirable expression
and execution, and a solo on the violoncello by Herr Haus-
man was most effectively executed. Mr. Kiallmark played in
his usual masterly style on the pianoforte. The rooms were
completely crowded.
A CLIPPER BOAT.—Mr. Veal, a working ship-
wright of the Deronport Dockyard, has made himself a
sailing boat upon the lines supplied by Mr. W. Rundell, also
a shipwright in the dockyard, after as nearly as possible the
model of the America yacht. On Thursday last it was tried
against the picked boats of the port, and it beat them all.
Her hull and her sails were as much like the America as
possible. The boats with which she raced carried much
f
more canvas, and when going before the wind got ahead
the America model boat. As soon as it became needful to
close haul, she overhauled the whole of them, and won in
gallant style. It appeared to surprise many practised
hava beaten
builders that a craft with such limited sails should
their " crack boats," but so it was.
FEARFUL ACCIDENT,—A very melancholy occur-
rence boat-
builders
took place on board the stefomarmer Whitehaven, when
just off the Heads, on her passage
Liverpool to White-
haven, on Sunday morning last.ur Tohaee, Robert
d been
temporarily stopped for s o
m
e
p
p
Greenshields, the chief engineer, m
at was leaning over them for
ter which had got into mo-
enagndin e smr h.
a
the arrangement of some
sea struck the vessel, urging her
mentary disorder, when a
ahead, and necessarily
the engines in motion. Be-
foreii?g
setting
withdraw himself', or have the
engines stopped ,again, Mr. Greenshields couldhisrig
ht
arm was caught in the
d in aninstant was nearly severed from his
machinery, an
body. The unfortunate man made his appearance on
deck, holding the several
portions of the arm in his left hand,
a small piece of skin merely
attaching it to the remainder
of the limb.
The mutilated member was hastily bound up
by Captain Askew, who of Whitehaven,happened to be one
•
of the passengers on board ; and on the arrival of the White-
•.
haven in the harbour, ,r "Greenshields was taken to the in-
firmary, where amputation near the shoulder took place at
once.— Carlisle Patriot.

ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.--ENNISKILLEN, MAY
16 —A mounted policeman is just come from Lnrd Ennis-
killen with news that a Protestant farmer, named Lennard,
was shot yesterday, at five o'clock P.M. near Knockminnv,
not many miles from Enniskillen, on Mr. Arthur Coles' es-
tate. A dispute about land, from which some tenants have
been evicted, was the origin of the outrage. On Saturday
Lennard was at work,when a man, a stranger, walked up and
asked if he wanted a labourer ; he said no, and the man drew
a pistol, lodged four slugs in his arm and side, and retreated.
The wounded man is not expected to survive, and the de-
positiena are to be taloa to-day.