The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-12 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The Madrid journals of the 6th contain nothill
of political interest. A royal decree ill the Gaze'
re-establishes the community of monks called the
Gtaronimos of the Escurial. They are to be sit?'
ported out of the royal estates, and are to be e:"
elusively employed in taking care of and preserving
the magnificent building of the Escurial, which (70
late years has been greatly neglected. It is on
special request of the King Don Francisco that the
appointment of the monks has been made. The
surveys of the railway from Avila to Segovia, all
embranchment of the Valladolid line, have been
completed. Reports had been received from the
Captains-General of Cuba and Porto Rico to the
Bth and 14th ult. ; they stated that perfect trio!'
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uillit 7 prevailed in both islands, and that the'l
sanitary condition was excellent.

EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION, AND IMMENSE SACRIFIO,
OF PROPERTY AT BRISTOL.—BRISTOL, May 11.- '0”
the most extensive and destructive fires that has oe;
curred in Bristol for the last half-century broke out 0.;
an early hour this morning, at the extensive sue,'
refinery of Messrs. Eyre, Stock, and Co. in in the
Market-street. The origin of the catastrophe
wrapped in the most profoued mystery, no one beill
able in any way to account for its occurrence;
the loss to the proprietors of the firm, as well as 0'
some of the leading fire insurance companies, will be vet
great. A night watchman, who is kept on the Pre ;
ridges, states that at three o'clock this morning he WO',
over them, and found everything right. At a litt
after four o'clock he observed fire near a stove, at
part of the factory where the workmen usually det,r2:l
sited their coats and hats. In this stove no fire 104
been kept for some time past, nor had there been lig
of any kind in the place. As soon as he discovered 1111
fire the night watchman gave an alarm, and the ei
lice engine, and those of the Norwich Union, "A 4°o
of England, Sun, Crown, Imperial, and other off ice
were speedily on the spot. The fire, hove- rare
spread with the utmost rapidity, and the whole of tlli
extensive premises were soon wrapped in one mss. I I),
flames, which towered to an immense height, overtopp 1111,:
the great stack of the engine-house, and illuminat. int
the prominent objects of the city to its furthest extreiellt
ties. The process of refining is carried on in differttc',
compartments, and it becoming soon apparent that tb
hulk of the premises would be destroyed, the efforts 4
the firemen and others were mainly directed to savin ~
the boiling house, in which was machinery of an extet
sive and costly description, and also some wareroons °I,
in which were stored a large amount of manufacture ;
stock. Happily these exertions were in a great degre
succes,ful, for although an immerse range of building
running through the entire depth of Old Market-street an
Jacob street, were reduced to a heap of ruins, the boilint
house and much of the refined goods were rescued from do'
truction The spectacle presented by the conflagration wtO
at its height was of thegrandest kind. The peculiarnat
of the materials imparted to the flames a hue of tb:
deepest crimson, while the smoke ascended in bl ic7
inky volumes, that greatly heightened the brillianc2
the fire. The loss has not as yet been correctly as' 03'
tamed, but it is believed it will fall but little, if anythi
short of 30,0001. The building which was saved vvtilt.;
with its machinery, insured in the West of Engitarior,
e 4,n001. The oily insurances on the destroy( fr
portions of the property, were 5,000/. in the Imperia
4,0001. in the Globe, and 2.0001. in the Birmingha
office. The immediate money loss is not the whole e_
tent of the calamity, as from 100 to 150 workmen
thereby suddenly deprived of their means of livelihood