The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-23 00:00:00

RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.

MID-KENT (BROMLEY TO ST. MARY CRAY)
A special meeting of this cJmpany was held yes-
terday at the office, South Sea house, to consider a
bill now before Parliament, in cumptiance with the
standing orders of the Rouse of L ,rds, and also
an agreement en! Bred into with the South-Eastern
Company ; Mr. W. Dant in the chair.
Mr. WOOLCOTT read the heads of a bill to author-
ise the construction of a aation near Victoria-
street, PiLul co, and of a railway to connect the
same with the West-eud of London and Crystal
Palace Railway at -Battered, in &deft° afford
improved communication between certain of the
railways south of the Thames and the western dis-
tricts of the metrojolis. It contained clauses
authorisinc! the Mid-Kent (Bromley to St. Mary
Cray) Railway Company and other companies to
make working and other atrangements for the use
of the Victoria station and railway.
The CHAIRMAN said, the clauses in the bill af-
fecting ,heircompany were permissive, and tniblel
them to make working arrangements with the Vic-
toria S'ation Company, should that course ever be
requisite. No agret.m.,,nt for that imrpose could he
entered into without the approval of the proprie-
tors. '

A. formal resolution approving the bill was then
seconded and carried unanimously.
The CIIAIRAIA.N said, the next business he had to
submit was an agreement entered into with the
South-Eastern Railway Company for working the
line.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving the approval and
confirmation of the agreement, stated that it was
nearly identical with the agreemeet which had been
sanctioned by the proprietors on the 24th of
February last.

Mr. KNIGHT wished to know how they proposed
to work the line, and whAher any provision was
made for supplying a sufficient amount of working
stock to carry on the traffic -efficlen:ly ; and also
whether they had made any stipulation fur the
maintenance of way that it should not exceed a
urtain sum, othorwiie they might be overcharged
for the maintenance ?

eniGnajipeTanp nty, in reply
tp or
Ay
The CHAIRMAN said, the line would be efficiently
e
worked, and it was stipulated alit the traffic should
13: developed. Re had no doubt it would be the
interest of the South-Eastern Company to work
the line properly, and to charge them fairly the
expenses incurred.xin A f(al resolution, confirming the agreement,
was carried unanimously.
to a question, stated that
if the a wereKNIGHT,
confirmed by the South-
Easternfor traffic on the Ist of July.
's line would be opened
A vote of thanks to the Chairman concluded the
proceedings.
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MIDDLESBROUGH AND GUISBIIOUGH.
A special meeting of this company way held ou
Monday at Darlington, Ur. a Pease, M.P., in
tho chair.

The CHAIRMAN moved that the Amalgamation
Bill of the Stockton and Darlington Company,
which would secure a 6 per cent. dividend in per
petuity on the shares of this company, be approved.
The resolution was agreed to.

STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON.
A special meeting of this company was held on
Monday at Darlington, Mr. Pascoe Smith in the
chair.

The CHAIRMAN said, the meeting was called to
consider three bills promoted by the company and
now pending in Parliament—viz , one for new
lines in the North Rid II?. ; a second for new lines
iu connection with the Wear Valley ; and a third
for amalgamating the Stockton and Darlington,
Wear Valley, Middlesbtough, and Redcar, Mid-
dleEbrouvli and Guisbrough, and Darlington and
Barnard Castle ennpanies. He proposed that these
several bills b; approved.

The Tesolution-l-vas, after some discussion, una-
nimously adopted.

DARLINGTON AND BARNARD CASTLE.
A special meeting of this company wal held ou
Monday, at Datl ngton.
The CHAIRMAN proposed that the AmalgAma-
Con Bill of the Stockton and Darlington Company
be approved.
The resolution was unanimously agreed to.

THE OXFOEDPfaAMINATIONS AT hiANCHE:TER.—The
Oxford examination of pupl-,, not members of the Uni
verity, commenced at th., Royal Institution, Maaches-
t,r, on Monday, and is expected to lamt during the
week. There were 125 candidates present, 26 being of
the senior cla,,s and 99 of the junior. The subjects were
—R udiments of Faith, MathemaVcs. Lang uages, Physics,
thawing, and Music. The Rev. J. L. T. Rogers at-
tended as a delegate from Oxford, and the examiner was
the Rev. H. Hiuhton, of Cathorpe, near Rugby.
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The plaintiff, Mr. Stephen Parker, late school-
master in the gaol of Newgate, biought this action
against the defendants, Sir R. W. Garden (Lord
Mayor of London), Alderman Wire, and Alderman
Finnis, to recover a sum of 451., being a half-year's
salary at 901. a-year, on the ground that he had
been dismissed from his situation without any rea-
sonable cause.
The defendants pleaded that the plaintiff was
dismissed from his situation for disobedienceof the
governor's orders, and on the ground of insubor-
dination.
Mr. Edwin James, in stating the case to the jury,
said the plaintiff was engaged as long back as 1847
to act as schoolmaster to the criminal children con-
fined in Newgate, and that he had always conducted
himself with the utmost propriety, and discharged
his-duties to the entire satisfaction of Mr. Cope,-the
late governor of the gaol. The present governor,
Mr.,'Weatherhead,. an entering his of de, however,
imposed new duties upon. him, and the plaintiff, in
adiition to officiating as schoolmaster, was called
upon occasionally, to officiate as chaplain,.when that
reverend gentleman was on sink Wave," or
"urgent:private httsinesn;" thirdly, to ietas chapel
cleKk;_ fourthly, librarian as book-
binder; sixthly, he was required to blear} out the
&lapel, the schoolroom, and the closets, and to keep
all in order awl, lastlY; to cemb:_ne with hie duty-
as sehoulermer the face of turnkey during - the
sessions of the CeutraFCrirnival Court. (Laughter.)
Be thought the -jury would agree with him that
these were not duties for a schoolmaster, and that,
under the circumstances of the ease, the .defendants
werenot justified in dismissing the plaintiff from
his situation:"
Mr. Stephen Parker, the plaintiff, said that dur-
ing the governorship of Mr. Cope he only officiated
as schoolmaster and chapel clerk, but that duringthe
regime of Mr. Wi atherhead he had been 1
upon to perform the additional duties mentioned
by Mr. James. He had endeavoured to discharge
those duties to th•t best of his ability, with the ex-
ception of taking up the keys to the governor at 7
o'clock in the morning, and to that Ito ohjeeed.
Lord Campbell—Was there any additional salary
allowed you ?
Mr. Parker—None whatever. Mr. Weathethead
also wanted me to be on duty at 6 o'clock in sum-
mer, and told me that "by" the new rules which
he had made I should adhere.
Lord Campbell—That " by" should b 3 "to."
(Laughter.)
Mr. James—The schoolmaster is now abroad.
(Laughter.)
Mr. Parker—l told Mr. Weatherheacl that I did
not like the duties of turnkey.
Lord C.,anpbell—l really should have thought
there was more respect for literature in the City.
Mr. Parker—ln consequence of my refusal to
dischargc., the duty of turnkey I was suspended by
the governor.
Mr. James—No', I hope, suspended per collum
outside the building ? (Laughter.)
Lord Canvbell—Did he put on a black cap;
Mr, Pat kt-T—No, my lord, but I wa- suspended.
Mr. James—Not by the hangin in, I hope.
(Laughter.) Who suspended you ?
Mr. Pat ker—The governor.
Mr. James—Was the chaplain present to admi-
niste-r religious consolation to you ? (Laughter.)
Mr. Parker—He was no'.
Mr. Francis (junior counsel)—Were you really
suspended ?
Mr. Parker—l was.
Mr. Francis—How did you receive your punish
men t ?

Mr. James—l suppose you were quite resigned ?
(Laughter.) .
Mr. Parker—After my suspension I presented a
pe' ition to the gaol committee I.)r redress, but they,
took exception to some expressions in it, and dis-
mit•se.d me.

Cross-examined by Mr. Chambers, the Common
Sergeant—l had 1,728 pupils to instruct during my
years of office. In the last year I had about 196.
The Common Sergeant here said that in conse-
quence of the change in the law giving summary
jurisdiction to magistrates, the number of criminal
children in Newg:.te had rely much diminished,
and the duties of the schoolmaster being therefore
considerably lessened, the governor, in the exercise
of the power given to him, directed him to occa-
sionally discharge the duties of turnkey, in order
that his time might be filled up, The learned coun-
sel then adverted to a passage in tl'e plaintiff's pe-
tition to the gaol committe_,, in which, offensively
alluding to Mr. Weatherhead, the governor, he
sail, "If I m•ty be permitted to draw a paralel
from Scripture, I would say that Governor Wea
iherhead is like Hainan in the Book of Esther—
(laughter)—or if I maytake a less dignified paradel
like the late Ecaptror Nieh,-das, r King Bimta,
the auto,rat of Naples." (Continued merriment.)
The Common Sergeant—Did yourefuse to apol
gise for those offensive expressions, and to with-
draw them when asked to do so by the gaol com-
mittee ?

Mr. Parker—l was ready to wildraw the ex-
pressions, but I conscientiously felt that I could
not apologise to the governor Ix those expressions.
(Laughter.)
Mr. Janr2s —You could not fur the life of you
apologise.

- Mr. Parker—No ; I'd die first. (Laughter.)
The Rev. Mr. Davis, the ordinary of Newgate,
gave an excellent character to the plaintiff for
ability as a juvenile teacher, and also for moral
conduct, and said h 3 hid never himself had any
reason to complain of him. He was in every re-
spect satisfied with the plain•iff's conduct. He
(Mr. Davis) felt that the two duties of schoolmaster
and turnkey were incompatible, and that their
combination was injurious to the mural influence
of a schoolmaster, whose character ought to be up-
held.
Mr. Alderman Sidney gave similar testimony.
The Common Sargeant submitted that there was
no contract between the defendants (the gaol com-
mittee) and the plaintiff, and that the declaration
wai bad in that respect.
Lord Campbell directed that the declaration
should be amended forthwith.
This having been done,
The Common Serge tilt addrlssed the jury on the
part of the defendants, and contended that the go-
vernor of the gaol had full authority to impose
what duties he liked upon the schoolmaster, and
that the defendants were justified in dismissing the
plaintiff in consequence of his insubordinate con-
duct, which, if overlooked, mig'it have interfered
with the proper discipline which it was necessary
to keep up in the prison.
Mr. Henry Barber, minute clerk to the Court
of Aldermen, read his minutes of the proceed-
ings touching the inquiry into the complaint of the
governor against the plaintiff, and of the decision
of the Gaol Committee thereon.

Mr. Wetherhead, the governor, was then called,
and in cross-examination by Mr. Edwin James he
defined the duties which he told the plaintiff he
was to superadd to bis duties of schoolmaster.
Exempti, gratia ; he was to perform the duties of
an under-turnkey, by order of the Gaol Commit-
tee ; he was to come on duty at seven o'clock in
the morning in winter, and at six in the summ r.
He was to perform the necessary duties of a turn-
key in the gaol until the chapel hour, when he was
to act as "chapel clerk" from half-past nine till
ten. He was then to attend school from ten till
twelve. He was then at libsrty to go to dinner
till ono ; and from ono to two he was to take the
key of one of the gates. From two to four he was
to attend school again, after which he was to take
the duties of "turnkey" for a short time again, and
then- his duties ceased for the day. [This enume-
ration of only some of the duties of " the school-
master" excited repeated outbursts of laughter.]
Mr. James then replied, iu a running emiaten-
tar3,,, upon the whole case, and said his learned
friend the Common Sergeant had h id it down that
the governor could order his client to (...o every-
thing. Now, it was a rule of the gaol that the
erisoners were to be "shaved" once a-week ; and
only imagine his client, after ho had been ofliciat'ng
.at the morning service as "chaplain," and then
reading
.the. "sublime Milton" to the prisoners,
then going in with the "lathering-pot," soaping
them over, and giving them a " close shave."
(Much laughter.) Why, it would make his clien',
the schoolmaster, 1 ok most ridiculous in the eyes
of the prisoners. The aldermen of London, an I above
all, the " Gaol Committee," might be so deeply realin the Scriptures as to object to have Governor
Wetherhead compared to " Haman," or so well
ye:sc..' in miscellaneous and profane history as to-
ot-pet to have him likened unto " Nicholas of all ,
he Ru soias," or "King Bomba" of Naples ; but
was his client's scholastic dignity to be lowered—
was he to be degraded to "lather and shave"
prisoners, and to go down on his knees and scour
out the close's in the face of his pupils, or e'.se be
dismissed for not, with mild complacency, obeying
the Governor? No, "Sooner would he be a dog

' and:bay.'the Moon than such a tomelfh Ulantient
relying upon the faith and honour of aßritish.jpry,
preferred appealing to,them ; and he OW. Jame 4.)
had no fears for Ate issue: (Tetuilifer,-) • He 'woad
now`lertve his client's case, hie profetrion, and his
dignity in their hands, satisfied that., they
.would,
in in the honest and f-arless discharge of Aeli.
give him a verdict for the full amount of his claim.
The Common Sergeant having replied: upwr. the
whole case, and. urged . anon the jury the danger of
insubordination upon " Newgate bird," concluded
by urging thitllie plaintiff had failed-to Millie out
blame, and by urging themto return a verdiot for;the defendants."
Lord Catipbell, in summing up, said' he had
through life entertained the`most profound respecit
for the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Conumn
Council of the
.City of London, and lie should con-
tinue to do so through the remainder of his life ;
and such being his feeling,: he could not but regret
the course taken against "the schoolmaster," the
plaintiff in this case. For his own part, he regarded
the-office of cfacho dinaster" with reverence, and to
those who held Mit office the highest resrect .thould
be paid in this country ; and sorry should he be to
see the office degraded by being united. with that
of " turnkii," and in the discharge of lOwer
duties. Well, indeed, had it been said by the
learned counsel for the plaintiff, and by the rev.
ordinary' of the prison, that the duty of the
" schColatastee'. was incompatible with that of the
"turnkey," -and that - his moral influence would
be loWered and endangered in the eyes of his
scholars by such a combination of duties. The
jury: has heard the evidence, and the question
for their oensideration7would be, . was- the plaintiff
dismissed from his office without reasonable cause ?
The.jurk inquired of his I,..rdship if they could
giVe mule damages than the plaintiff sued for, and.
upon beimg advised by the harped julge that they
had better limit their verdict to the sum claimed by
the plaintiff, they re'urned a verdict in his favour
for 451., being the half-year's salary, to which he
considered himself ,entitled.
Verdict for the p:aintiff accordingly.
PO

ILICE INTELLIGENCE.--,Tunas 22.

MANSION-HOUSE. Isabella M'lntyre, a
poorly-clad-gill of 19, was brought before the Lord
Mai: or, charged wi h attempting to commit suicide.
She had been of served wandering, with a dis-
consolate air, without bonnet, upon London bridge,
and once mounted the seat iu one of the recesses, as
if with intention of jumping ovt r ; but immediately
after she again g, t down on to the pavement, and
took her way towards the end of the bridge, having
reached which she ran rapidly down the steps and
plunged into the water. As she did se, she was
seen by a waterman close by, who immediately
jumped in after her, and polled her out, just as she
was about to sink at a spot where, from the depth
of the water arid the rapidity of the current, itbeing
then nt at ly high tide, if she hai sunk she would •
in all probability have risen no more. Upon being
taken to the station-house she avowed her inten-
tion to destroy lerself, saying it was not the fir.t
att..mpt she had made, but that st,m9thing seemed
al ways to prevent her ti om -acceetling in her object.
Af er her clothes were taken off' by the fun hie
search r Viat they might be dried, a small packet
of oxal.c acid was found in her pocket, and upon
being qu, stionnl as .0 how it came into her posses-
sion and why she tmd it, she said she had bought
it at a chemist's upon the pretence of wArting it to
clean straw-hats, and ha'l taken one-half of it think-
ing it would kill her, but been disappointed to flirt
that it had little effect upon he,-, and that it was
in consequ nce of that failure she had jumped into
the Thames.

From inquiries made by the police it appeared
that althouga she was a steady girl she was of an
unhappy temper, and had quitt(d a good situation,
as a domestic servant, wi, bout any sufficient cause.
The Lord Mayor announcal his determination to
punish all such attemp's in future, when th.y
came before him, and iu defauh of tail for good
behaviour, committed the prisoner for a mouth,
with a recommendation to the chaplain's cara at
Hollo way.

CLEitICENWELL—Iienry Edward Tottem,
reTectably-die;'sed man, about 30 years of age,
described as a confidential clerk, was ch-itged with
embezzling several sums of money belonging to his
employer, Mr. John. Jay, the contractor, of the
City Basin, City-road.

The prie'oner had a ealary of 21. 10s. per week.
It was the practice of the prosecutor to 'have the
whole of the cash-looks gone over ar.d checked with
the voueh;:rs, for the purpose of .eeing if they were
correct. A. short tiate sine; when the books were
given out, the prisoner inf irmed one of the clerks
that he would find. some mistakes in the b3oks,
and asked him not to take any notice of them. He
said be would not take any notice to the other
clerks, but further he could not promise. Upon
g ling over the books it was ascertained that there
were several defalcations, and some of them ap-
peared to have been effected in this manner :—lf
one c f the workmen bad only one day's work to
charge it was ente: ed in the book as such, and the
amount put down in a separate o,llllnn. In two
or three instances the figure one" had been al-
tered to " four," and the prisoner had pocketed
the extra money. There were now sew nil charges
against the prisoner, and the books had cot been
gone over for the whole of the par iod that the pri-
soner had been employed. The prosecute-, as the
dpeerrcscoluitwaas
vtytlbteadreccaesiep;t oafn
daagso:t:d salary, h
efiitl co
resinlasi-
d
been altered there was at present no opportunity
of telling what was the amount of the prisoner's
defalcations.

Mr. Lewis, who appeared for the defendant, hav-
ing consulted with the prosecutor and Mr. Val-
lance, his solicitor, said his client would plead guilty
to the charge of larceny, and would take a sentence
to the fuil extent of the magistrate's power—viz.,
two six months' imprisonment, one to commence at
the termination of the other.
Mr. Corrie said if it was a case in which the pro-
secutor would be satisfied wilt his judgment, he
would deal with it. The prisoner had lost his
character and his situation.- He should send him
to the Home of
.C..rrection with bard labour for
six calendar months.

THE SUICIDE AT THE MUSEg3I OF
PRACTICIL GEOLOGY.-INQUEST.

Yesterday Mr. Langham, deputy coroner for
Westminster, held an inquest at the board room of
the workhouse of St. James's, Poland-street, on
the body of Henry Matthew Witt, aged 28, who
was found-dead in a closet of the institution, as
already related in this paper.
Mr. Edward Best, assistant to the geological
survey of Great Britain, was called, and said—l
have known the deceased for three years intimately.
He was a single man. Last saw him on Friday
afternoon at five, when I left him, as I was going
to post a letter. Had noticed he was suffering
from extreme excitability of late ; E 0 much so that
I went home to sleep with him one night. He had
a fear that a Oren:Leal work he was engaged on
would not please his friends. He seemed to fear
be would fail in his task, and lose the confidence of
his friends. He used to think he had not money
enough, though he was not in indigent circum-
stances.

Mr. J. Gould, of I, Cranford-villa, Oakley-square,
Chelsea, a manufacturing chemist, and cousin
of the deceased, said—l attribute the deceased's
act to over study. He had told me he feared he
should fail in completing the task be had under-
taken. He had undertaken to re-edit " Ure's Dic-
tionary of Chemistry." I had looked over the proof
sheets, and was of opinion that the deceased was
capable of doing it. He spoke about his money
affair 4. His friends were
all well off, and it was
all fancy. He was to be paid for the work as he
did it.

Dr. Wilson, 16, Great Rider-street, deposed to
the deceued's symptoms, which were those of a
person who had taken some strong narcotic poison.
A phial was handed to km, and it contained a
email quantity of nicotine, or essential oil of tobacco

—a speedy and deadly poison.
Dr. Hofmann, Professor of Chemistry to the
Government school of Mines. said—The deceased
was my assisisnt, and a man of considerable ability
and great p °miss 1 had observed the deceased
desp,nding, but attribute dit to ill heslth. I con-
sid red him sane I have madean examination of the
contents of the bottle, it:is nicotine, and is found in
tobacco and snuff. A small quantity would produce
death. A dog of moderate size would be killed with
one drop. Never heard the deceased say anything
abut taking away his life. I spoke to him of his
prospecrs, and he told me they were very good.
Mr. B. Hun', keeper of the records at the Mu-
seum, proved that deceased bad been in a despond-
ing state for some time, owing to the idea that he
could not c nnplate the work he was engaged on,
and about money matters.

evidence having been given, all confirma-
tory of th 3 above,
The jury returned a verdict that the deccaserd
destroyed himself while labouring under inaluity.

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continued 'fill rliative-Of : ' lifid i three 'On. irri -
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ing. thilii.6°-ak----suveril baai-Almere swept away,
large trees were torn ist,Wahetoott-anattatricwi
miles away by thiffiiiisi of wiroi,a;-7-in4 tbe.or.9o-
- animate ted. AticiiifddelPitattibikk- tbe 'pro= • -
party of James A. Tol'perit 4%6,
r.l,3E,P,r_p.finsi.cler-
able -damage was done ; and 'ailiio at,11,1 ayfiekl:Print#.
works, late the property of _Messrs. John Monteith '
aud Co. ; and Birch Vale Printwork& -.--. 6':, .t. , )
In the village of Hayfield tee dsinage.doee was
also very large. -The river,E:herowi' runs through
the centre of the village? and on the right bank of,
the Stream stood a tow of stone hoUSOS.; 'The .watti. ,
rose so rapidly, and ruslied.downcivith:anehleerful
impetuosity, that the foundations of :fivo,-(if-030 -
houses_ were washed away, the,flood curyinguar
at the same time the back _part of-all-the-houses
wit-h
the surface of the gardens, theTigglyen.Pigi ---, -
&c: ;. leavingthe remainder of the houses standipt
as a section exposed to view- in. every f100r..z,.-Tte
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cries of the occupiers • were heartrending; many
could not get out, and were fearful of-being buried,
under- the ruins ; beds, becieeads,2-and'itnititire
were.sw_ept down the torrent ; and, ,notw-i*itnnik•
ins the neighbours gave every aid" in-their power,:
the,greater part of the furniture -w-f.s either- wholly ,
lost or destroyed. On the opposite aicle•of the -
stream -stands " Ned's Mill," which, nes
.-. wOrked:
by water power, having a stone weer,, by. moans Of
Which the water was conveyed .t.i, the will wheel
The -whole of the wear, the mill wheel, framing,- 1-
(kC., mere carried away 430 entirely that DO-traces • -
of them are left. The lowa story of _the building-
was flooded.
Not only have great lengths of stone wall)" beek _
washed down, and the crops in the neighbourhood
completely swept away, but the solid rocky bed of
the-river has -been lowered -tour feet, and :tii hip
stones thence displaced. have b,•en carried mile* -
down the. btreatn. ThOmat MiuTiOt, Asci„-is: ther
owner of the I.roperty.
It is difficult to account for this suddeninunda-
tion. It is conjectured that a *waterspout may ,
have burst on Kinder Scout, and found its 'way -
into the beautiful limpid stream which, takes -its
rise on the summit of the_ mountain, and thus -
speedily reaching the valley through which that
stream pursues its course. It is stated that this -
locality was visited by a similar calamity in 1809,
when great damage was done in the..vill:ige of
Hayfield, the. bodies being washed from the aravea
in the Lur ial . yards. Oa' Thursday .and Friday
much &image was sustained from Howls in the
Vale of Riate,i.:which skirts the oppoilith. sideLtof
Kinder Scout.—Manchester Guardian,

THE TRAMES-ST:REZr.

The insurance effected on differ nt goods stored
in the warehouses on Knill's Fresh-wharf, situated
at the back of Thames-street, and which took fir 0
on Monday morning last, is supposed to reach the
general average of insurances, namely to three-
fifths of the value of the property destroyed by fire
and water. The amount of property thus spoiled
or consumed is estimated at about 100,0001., and
this is shared by two or three ,hundreci_persona to
whom the go cis re•pectively belonged. It had
been erroneously stated that no insurance what-
ever had been eff, cted ; but on one parcel of fruit
alone the insurance was to the extent of from
8,0001. to 10,0001., and on watches to from 15,0001.
to 20,0001. The quantity of silk was less than is
generally warehoused, but the insurances taken col-
ively will be found to reach almost if not quite
the proportien enumerated above. No description
can convey an accurate idea of 'he &maga that has
bean caused, or of the. scene to he witnessed on the
upper sturiee of the building. Tue fire it is pre-
sume I originatA in the third story, in which w, re
deposit d silks, chemicals, drug, &c., and. in the
stiries above and below were driedp f ui s, etsential
oils, mu-ical hist uments, chests of china ornaments,
In di a r uwbobol, g
ergoloshes,
tfitgus
e,
sraisins, lTmhoenred saes eodns ,e
lot corks,3,ooo packages of Valencia raisins, and cur-
rants usque ad infinitirm.- The immense power ex-
erted by the floating enginefortunately allowed water
to b 3 thrown upon the upper st zies of the Wilding,
where the fire had gamed an almost irresistible
hold. The quantity of water whi.h can be thrown
from the engine when in full play and at a mode-
rate height is 15 or 12 tons per minute. This ad-
vantage enabled the firemen to get the mastery,
and_althou_h the roof and two first diaries fell in
Of one pottion of the warehouse, considering the
itiflarnmable nature of the goods and the commu-
nication between the warehouses it is surprising
that there was not a further extension of the mis•
chief. The volumes of Thames "water which had
been thrown _upon the building, and Which had
soaked through the immense bodies- oflaalf-burning
fruit-barrelg, and timber, &c., sent forth an exha-
lation more nauseous and sickening than all the
vapours from the other buret and charred materials
could subdue. These premises were erected in
1828, of er the destruction of the old ones by a
similar fire.

CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-road.—
OPEN- EVERY EVENING.—The follow-
ing company of Vocalists are engaged for the pe"formance of
S elections from all the popular OPERAS, MADRIGALS,
CHORUSES, GLEES, D UETS, &c., viz. : —Miss Russell, Mrs.
Badzey, Miss Brinell, Miss Ray, Madame Bartoletti,
Mips Montague, Mrs. Lawrence, and Mrs. Anderson ;
Barr F. Jonghmans, Mr. Henshaw, S. loner, J. Barker,
W. Melling, Senor Antonio, E L, Edirne, Mr. Badzey,
Senor Tiroli, Mr. Cozens, Mr. 8011, and Mr. Bemard ;
Messrs. John G. Forde, and E. Mack uey. Pianoforte, Mr.
Cecil' Hicks ; harmonium, Mr. Courtney; Director, Herr
F. Jonghmans. Commence at Seven o'clock precisely.
uppers, &s., until twelve o'clock.
I Mr. AUGUSTUS BRAHAM will appear every Evening
Lay Selection from "LX DAME BLANCHE" (THE WHITE
Y), first produced at the Canterbury Hall. English
word!3, by Desmond Ryan, Esq.

THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, JUNE 23.
THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
SO—highest since noon yesterday.
63—lowest this morning and during the night,
76—this day at noon.

BAROMETER, 30.40.
WIND, North-easterly; light, wi h very sultry weatler,
and heavy clouds, prtending a thunderstorm.

HIGH WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE.

THIS DAY—Morn., 0 min. aft. 0—
.Even., 5 min aft. 12
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