The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-01 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE.-TIIIS EVENING.

FOREIGN OFFICE, SEPT. 26.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
William Lowther, Esq., now Secretary to hor Majesty's
Embassy at Berlin, to bo her Majesty's Minister Pleni-
potentiary to the Argentine Bepublic.
The Gazette of this evening contains the Speaker's
warrant for the election of a member for the borough of
Bradford, in the room of Henry Wickham Wickham, Esq.,
deceased.

THE FENIAN OUTRAGE IN HOLBORN.

THIS DAY.

M'Donell, under the careful attendance he is re-
ceiving at University Hospital, is happily recover-
ing from the effects of his wound. He passed a
very comfortable night, and now the strongest
hopes are held out as to his ultimate recovery.

FIRE ON THE ESTATE OF SIR E. HALSB

THIS DAY.

BARKING, Tuesday Morning.
The greatest possible excitement has prevailed
during the last 24 hours in this usually quiet town,
owing to the raging of one of the most extensive
conflagrations that has occurred for many years
past in this part of the county of Essex. The fire
was caused by the live coke flying out of a steam
thrashing machine.

The estate on which the fire occurred belongs to
Sir Edward Raise, Bart., and the place where the
fire occurred is called the Barking-lodge Farm, and
is let to the Metropolitan and Essex Reclamation
Society. Whilst all hands were busily engaged in
their farm labours, thrashing wheat and other pro•
duce, the results of a bountiful harvest, a volume of
sparks and burning embers were draughted from
the engine, and after rising high into the air
dropped like a shower of sparks after a discharge of
a thousand rockets.

The first building that the tire fell upon was a
barn, brick and timber built, 100 feet long and 25
feet wide. This building was filled with grain, and
but few minutes elapsed before the whole structure
presented a huge sheet of flame. From this part of
the premises the high wind which prevailed at the
time drove the flames into the cow houses, which
covered a space of ground in one direction of 75
feet by 34 feet. Several of the farm labourers
managed to rescue the whole of the live stock. At
this point an attempt was made to cut off the further
spread of the flames by pulling down the contiguous
cart house, a building GO feet long and 20 broad.
This was found impracticable. The fire was too
strong, and the flames rose like an immense sheet,
and completely lapped round the whole building.
Being composed of brick and timber, it was expected
the fe:u•ful element had gone as far as it could, and
that no further loss of property need be apprehended.
Unfortunately such was not the case, for the wind sud-
denly blew to half a gale, and wafted the flames into
the lofts over another stable, and speedily worked
downwards until the whole building sent forth huge
sheets of flame. This building was 40 feet 1.).1‘.4
and 15 feet wile. The llamas could not be arrested
even at this point, for they got across to two other
stables and provondor stores, one being 40 feet by
15 feet, and the other 25 feet by 15 feet, both brick
buil . Up to this time the farm produce stacked in
the hoinstead had escaped, and the local engines
had arrived. It was therefore hoped that the wheat
and other produce would be saved. Not so, for the
burning embers as they rose in the air fell upon a
stack of straw containing 40 loads, which was
quickly in a general blaze, and from thence the fire
reached a load and a-half stack of wheat contain-
ing 80 loads, and it was attacking with full vigour
another range of low houses nearly 50 feet long and
15 feet wide.

At this period the scene was such as can with
difficulty be accurately described. The flames rose
so high, the burning timbers making a noise like
several furnaces in full play, and the smoke was so
dense that it was a work of to little difficulty for
every one to approach the blazing premises. A
telegraphic message having been sent to London
for additional assistance, three engines, one
a land steamer by Shand, Mason, and Co.,
and two manuals came to the spot, and Mr.
Swanton sent a powerful body of the salvage
corps to the scene. Everyone present laboured in a
most praiseworthy manner to get the flames
extinguished, but they continued to defy the exer-
tions of the firemen. Fortunately they succeeded
in cutting off the extension of mischief at the last-
named cow-house, and they and the salvage corps
saved a quantity of the wheat.

At noon this thy the fire was not entirely
extinguished, and there seems no chance of its
being done for several hours. The loss of
property must be enormous, as nearly the whole of
the buildings above referred to are either burned
down or gutted. The I:,ss upon the London,
Guardian, and other offices.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.—Thfs Day.

LONDON, Oct. 1.--Wind this day at noon—North-
Westerly ; moderate breeze and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

PLYMOUTH, Oct. I.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—South
Carolina, from Callao, with loss of bowsprit, and other
damage.
CLYDE, Sept. 30. Wind N. W.—Arrived—Matilda, from
Cardenas; Amelia, from Pernambuco; Clydesdalo, from
Quebec.

BRISTOL, Sept. 30.—Wind N.W. —Arrivod—Baldwin
from Riad bud°.

OFF CROOKHAVEN, Sept. 30.--Wind N.W. —Arrived—
City of London, screw steamer, from New York.
FALMOUTH, Sept. 30.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Pakihu,
front Rio Janeiro; Motcorado, from Demerara for New-
castle.

OFF DOTER, Sept. 30. —Wind N.W.—Arrived—Dande-
nory, screw steamer, from London for Port Phillip.
GRITESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived—Jessie, Lily, and Vidolia, from Guernsey ;
North Star, steamer, from Christiana; Maria Pia, steamer,
from Lisbon ; Elizabeth Jane, from St. Kitt's.
Sailed—Saturmes and Davana, for Shanghai; Cologne,
steamer, for Boulogne; Fulton, steamer, for _Dunkirk ;
Charles Howard, steamer, fcr Marseilles.

DEAL, Tuesday Morning.
Passed in tow.—Flying Spur, from Poo-chow-Poo ;
Gambia, from Philadelphia—both for London.

Nearly the whole of the outward bound to the westward
sailed ; the rest preparing to start.

BOROUGII OF THE TOWER lIAJILETS.—Major-
Gen. Baiubrigge and Mr. Nassau J. Senior, two of the
assistant. boundary commissioners, attended yesterday at
the Court-house, Wellclose-square, for the purpose of in-
quiring into the boundaries of the borough of the Tower
Hamlets. Hitherto the borough has included several im-
mense parishes in the east of London, together with
several of smaller dimensions in the northern suburbs.
Under the new Reform Act, the whole of Spits Melds,
Bethnal-green, Hackney, and some adjacent parishes are
to be severed from it ; and these formed no part of the
commissioners' inquiry 3 esterday morning. The proceed-
ings were of little interest, as the borough of the Tower
Hamlets, as now constituted, is bounded by the Thames
on the south, the new borough on the north, the county
of Essex on the east, and citY. of London on the west, so
that it could not very wellite extended in any direction.
ME WARD OF BRlDGE.—Yesterday Mr. Joseph
Causton was elected to fill the office of alderman of this
ward, vacant by the resignation of Mr. Alderman Abbiss.