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DOCKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
. -
£ s. cl. £ S. d.
East and West 1n;..a... 6/. pr cent. Stock. - 141%
East Country - 21
London .. . - 117.74
Ditto Bonds- •• •• . 4/. per cent. - - -
St.llatharine -••• • - 4 per cent. Stock. - 82
Ditto, Scrip . - - 85 0 0 G 73.
Ditto Bonds • ....... 43•41. pr cent. - - -
So'athampton •• -•• • . 2/. per cent. 50 0 0, 50 0 0 -
33.72.xn0m5s
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
- - -
X. s. d. X. a. d.
Charing-cross ... • .. •• - - - 1514
Seuthwrk,NwSub.A.T. - 632 12 8 - 2
Ditto Nw of 7% p.c. 355. per cent. 50 0 0 - 6
Waterloo • ... •.•. - .• - 100 0 0 -3%
Ditto Old Ann. of 8/. 1/. 4s. Od. - 60 0 0 28
Ditto Nw ditto of 71. 11. Is. Od. - 40 0 0 25
Vauxhall .... ... Ay. 11. 70 10 3 - is
•
WATER-IXTOILIILS
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. ' per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
-
I £ el. d. X s. 4.
East London.... ••.• •• 1 81. 100 0 0 - 176
Grand Junction •• -- l 41. per cnt. 50 0 0 - $1
Kent................ 21.105. 100 0 0 - 75
Lambeth ...... •• •... , 51. per cnt. 100 0 0 - 99
New Rivr Lndu Brdgo I 21. 10s. - - 55
Vauxhall ............ 51. per ent. 100 0 0 - 98
West Middlesex . . . '61.0i. pr ent. - - 116
GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
- - -
X. a. d. Z. a. d.
British -••••.. • • - - 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0 14
Ditto Provincial.... 11. Bs. 20 0 0 20 0 0 18
Brighton • • .... -•• .. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 - 12
City of London .. •• •• 101. 100 0 0 150 0 0 230
Continental Consolidat. 925. pr share 75 0 0 31 5 0 1 34
E.gultable-• ••.•.. •• •• 502. pr share 50 0 0 50 0 0 1 27
Imperial .• .... •• •• •• 31. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 70
Independent ....... • • Gl. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 60
Lurdon• • .......... • • - 50 0 0 50 0 0 I -
- 50 0 0 50 0 0 I -
1)o., Paid. Preference 61. per cent. 25 0 0 2 10 0 I -.
Phcenix . ...... ••• • .. 434 L per ct. 50 0 0 49 0 0 I 28
Itatcliff ..... „ ...... 51. 100 0 0 90 0 0 I 75
United General ...... 7s. 6d. 50 0 0 50 00 I 13%
Westminster Chartered 31. 50 0 0 - 44%
Ditto, New •• •• - -12 s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 SA,

CANALS.
Names of (3 Dividend! Names of d 'Dividend
Companies. d per {Price. Companies. Annum. Price.
' ce.
se Annum. A „i
5C2
- •-••-••••-••••-• .--..-- ...........
X X
Ashtn& Oldh 97 71. 113 Macclesfield . 100 21. 10s. 50
Barnsley.• • • 160 121. 180 Neath -.• .. 100 16'. 340
Brknk&Abrg 150 5/. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 100 201. 185
Birmingham 40 41. 87 Peak Forest. 78 37. 18s. 70
Coventry.... 100 251. 210 Regent's.... 33 11. 2s. 18
Derby ••• • • 100 61. 63 Rochdale.... 85 41. 5034
Ellsmre&Chs 133 565. 41 Somrset Coal 150 71.105. 130
Grantidunetn 100 Si. 8434 a Do.LkFt 12 61. p. e. -
Grand Surrey 100 11. 10s. 30 Stifrd &Wore 140 281. 410
Grand Union 100 11. 10s. 24 Shrewsbury.. 125 151. -
Grantham .. 150 -
,-- Stoarbrldge..l246s 1s _
.. 300
Kennt & AVII 391 78.6 d. 534 Severn and? 27 0
Lancaster . 1,101 21. 3234 Wye Rail. j
Leads& Livrp 100; 301. 317% Warwick&-/
Leicester - - 103 51. 63% Birming. j 100 47' 63
I
Leiestr &Nth 83, 41. 46 Warwick& /
Loughborogh 142; 701. 510 Napton.. j 100 31. 40
Aonmouthsh 100, 81. - Worcstr & /
78 3'. 43
Mntgemrysh 100, - - Birming.
MoltnNl wbry, 100 - - Wilts & Brits -11 s. 9
LT3T OFSMOTTZSB COMPANIES' PIZICES
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
----- --
£ s. d. £ s. d
Bank of Scotland
British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 233
Caledonian Bank
City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 13
Clydesdale Bank •.• • • • 634 per cant. 20 0 0 10 0 0 14
Commercial Bank .• •• 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 174
Eastern Bank .. ••• • • • 61. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 9
Edinb.St Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 5 0 ON. 17s
Exithangeßnk of Scot.. 4/. percent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 22
file of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 -
National Bank 636 per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 15M
Northof Scotland Bank 4/.percent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 3%
North British Bank ' - - - -
Etoyalßank of Scotland 51. percept. 100 0 0 100 0 0 136
Union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent.' 100 0 0 50 0 0 92%
Western Bank.. -.• • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 7534
Aberdeen Fire and Life 7341. pr cent. 12 10 0 2 0 0 2
B. Accord. Life and Fire - 20 0 0 010 0 -
British Guarantee Ins. 47. per tent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 17. i Od
Clledonian Fire Insur. 10/. pet cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21
Church of England Ins. - 50 0 0 2 0 0 -
City of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 21. 121
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 20
East of Scotland Life - 10 0 0 015 0 98.6 d.
Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 -
Ilercules Insurance Ce. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 -
Incur. Co. of Scetlnd•• 51. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 , -
Life Assoc. of Scotland GL per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 11.10 s
Mercantile Life .. •• - 41. per cent. 10 0 0 010 0 4s. 3d.
National Fire and Life bl. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 205.6 d
North British Insur.
North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 -
Scottish Life and Guar. - 20 0 0 011 0 -
Scot. Ma 3. and Gen. Life - 0 0 015 0 -
Scottish Union 'mace. 6341. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 243.0 d
Standard Life •• ••.. - 51. per cent. 50 0 0 45 0 9%
United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 16s Od
MrSCELLAINTZCUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
--
X. s. d. A. s. d.
Auction Mart •••• • • • • 27. ss. 50 0 0 - 25
Australian Agrieulturl 11. 100 0 0 30 0 0 16
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 1i.160. 10 0 0 10 0 0 2134
Ditto, half Shares..
CanadUppr Canada Bonds 56/1.. - - 2100 --
a ... - .......
- 89
City Navigation .... ppeerrsceenntt.. 100
_..0 0 32 10 0 26
- ._ - 91
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& bs, 21 100 0 0 100 0 0 94
Equitable Reversionry 5/, pr cent. 100 0 0 ,100 0 0 103
Gen.SteamNavigatlon 11. Bs. 15 0 0 14 0 0 2734
London Institution ... - - 78 15 0 -
Russell Institution.... - - 26 5 0 -
Penlnslr& Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 0 0 50, 0 0 80
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4341. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 91
Royal Mail Steam.... 61 18..4. p. e, 100 0 0 60 0 0 51
South Australian ... .. 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 -
pan Dieman's Land- - 100 0 0 29 0 0 -

SCENES OF THE CIVIL WAR IN HUNGARY IN 1848-9.
BY AN AUSTRIAN OFFICER.—A second “lition of this
little volume has already made its appearance. " None
but a soldier," says the United Service Gazette,_" and
he an eye-witness of the exploits he narrates, a sharer
in the sufferings he depicts, could have written such a
da-hing volume. It is full of military adventure of a
thrilling kind." And the Britannia remarks, that " the
romance and peril of war, with its wild joys and deep
but transient sorrows, never had a better narrator. The
volume completely exhibits the character of the Hunga-
rian contest, and is the more to be admired from the
soldierlike and gallant spirit it evinces."
TO INDIA AND BACK IN THREE MONTHS.—
Lieut. IL M. Taylor, of the 25th Reziment, embarked on
board one of the Peninsular and Oriental steamers on
the 20th of October last, for Alexandria, and having
hastened thence to Madras, remained there twelve days,
when he returned and reached Southampton by the
same steamer on the 25th ult.

HURRIC.ANE AT LIVERPOOL

. (From the Second Edition of the Liverpool Courier, of
yesterdey.)
We stated in our early impression that the barometer
had fallen seven-tenths cf an inch in the course of yes-
terday, and that there was every indication of a coming
storm. The gale came as was anticipated, and was mere
serious than any w e have had since the memorable
storm of January, 1839, when so large an amount of life
and property was destroyed.
The wind began to rise yesterday about five o'clock,
and continued t r increase in violent guests till three or
tour o'clock this morning, when it had attained its max-
imum strength, and blew with tremendous force, rocking
the houses in exposed situations like cradles. In merry
exposed places so great was the violence of the gale that
families left their beds and sought shelter in the lower
rooms of their house, preferring an imaginary safety
there to restless tossings in bed,
„and the multitude of
thoughts of a sleepless night.
In the town the ravages of the gale have been much
less severe than might have been expected, though a con-
siderable number of chimneys are dismantled, and slates
are scattered about the streets. In some places the
windows of houses have been blown in. One of the
windows of Trinity Church is riddled of the glass. Be-
tween six and seven o'clock
this morning a chimney
was blown down at the Crooleed Billet, in Exchange-
street East, and fell upon the roof of a room in which a
servant maid slept, but happily without making its way
into the apartment.
The force of the gale was severely felt
,about the
Old Church, especially upon the new range of offices
known as Tower-buildings, from some parts of which
the lead his been stripped ke
Paper, and is now hang-
ing from t re roof like ribbaads.
Various chimneys were blown down in the neigh-
bourhood of Matthew-street and Stanley-itreet.
At Bootle tlangele was sevsssie• felt, and broken glass
and damaged chimneys are piellllEu'.
The storm was most severely felt at Birkenhead, and
on the Cheshire side of the Mersey generally, where it
raged with extraordinary violence. In Grange-lane, and
those neighbourhoods exposed to the action of the wind,
the roads were literally strewed with the wrecks of
fallen chimneys and dismantled reefs. Christ Church,
in •xton-road, has suffered severely from the gale,
about three yards of the spire being thrown down into
the body of the church, cud the base of the spire being
so seriously injured as t r make it a matter of necessity
to take down and rebuild the remainder. The pinnacle
of the Scotch church, in Grange-lane, has been blown
down, and thrown through the roof. A house near
Grange-lane, in an exposed situation, has suffered so
much from the gale as to have the entire roof carried
away, le tying nothing but the bare rafcsrs standing. In
Grange-lane a small, chapel has been much damaged by
the wind, the windows being completely blown out.
The new market at Birkenhead has sustained consi-
tlerable injury, the roof being stripped of the lead, and
it has been found necessary to keep the doors closed to
prevent the roof being entirely carried away. A con-
sider able portion of the roof of this structure has been
blown off.

On the Chcstlr and Birkenhead Railway, near the
Bebbington station, a luggage train was thrown off the
rails by the violence of the wind, and impeded the way
for some time.
In the George's basin two fl,t t sunk this morning
rout seven o'clock. On the river, one of the largest
hulks, the Akbar, lying in the Sloyne, was shifted from
her mooring, ald now lies stranded on the Devil's Bank
near to Rock Ferry. The boats plying o•Woodside and
Tranmcre have suetait el a little injury by coming in
contaat with the landing places. At Seacombe the land-
ing stage was carried away about half-past seven this:
morning by the violence of the seas, and it now lies at-
tached to the ship only by the chain. This casualty
prevented the boats making their usual trips, and pas-
sengers f.nm this ferry, as well as from Egremont,
where it was also impossible to effect a landing, had to
go round to Woodside.
The thickness of the morning prevented a communi-
cation by telegraph before nine o'clock. At 9 45, A 31.
a signal of distress was made, to the (fleet that a large
tine:-masted steamer had a signal f distress flying on
,he Burbo bank. The steam-tt, immediately proceeded
to her assistance, with a life-boat in tow. The vessel
proved to to the screw-steamer Diana, from Waterford.
The crew and passengers were saves, but the fate of the
vessel is uncertain.

The City of Dublin Stzarc-Packet Company's steam-
boat Trafalgar, was expected at three o'clock this
morning, but has not y( t arriv6d. Doubtle,s she and
many other vessels will be kept back by the severity of
the gale.

About eight o'clock a fore and aft-rigged schooner,
named the Sailor's home, and laden with stone, on ac-
count of the Corporation, hove round the Rock Perch,
having on her mast a flag c f distress. As soon as the
vessel came within view of the Half-way-house, or life-
boat station, a boat belonging to the active and ever-:n-
-d body attached to the life-boat station be-
tween EgremoLt and New Brighton, put out to her as-
sistance. We have learned that scarcely had the crew
left the schooner when she sunk.

At the not t% end of our docks, that portion north ff
the Clare we Dock, and which from their exposed posi-
tions to gales from tl.e W.N.W.. affords but little shelter
for such crafts as may be found abreast their commo-
dious barbcurp, the gale blew with terrific violence.

Many of tF c houses in the vicinity of the North Shore
have suffered considerable damage ; and the neat ma-
rine villas in Bootle Bay hare all of them been injured
in some degree by the violence cf the storm. The

shipping in; e Nelson and Coßingwood docks have not
sustained much positive injury, but nevertheless, they
encounteredi n no small degree the fury of the elements,
and had not their rigging been made taut in anticiimion
of the event which has occurred, there can be no doabt
but that serious ccidents would have occurred in those
dock;

At an elrly hour this morning, a small smack, named
the Duchess of her', the captain of which found that his
light anchors would not withstand the fury of the storm,
atempted to make the entrance of the Nelson-dock, in
the basin of which he expected to find ishelter; but, un-
fortunately, the tcmpest was so violent that
was that she
that the little
sunk near to the entrance of the harbour of refuge for
which
bhseheaemweasunmmaakuinagg: 161 e. and the result

A flat Roan Runcorn was sunk this morning opposite
the Collingwood-dock. These e:e two men and a wo-
man on board, all of whom were saved through the able
assistance of some boats.

There was not, fortunately, much shipping in the
river, and even the few large ships which were moored
there lay more to the Cueshire than the Lancashire
e a s t, a
r anedp
consequently
the not th-P. as usual in this latitude. However, all
t:
e g
escaped, as the gale came from
river made much lee way, and in
l ships
iin
the
ono or two instances we observed this morning that the
vessels had made considerably to the east; and there is
no doubt that, bad not the gale abated with the top of
the tide (six, A.m.), more than one of the few vessels in
the river would have drazged their anchors.
we should state that all the life-boats from Egre-
meat were out daring the morning rendering all the
assistance in their power, and, that they were ably
assisted by ono or two of the steam-tugs belonging to
the river.

The N .W. light-ship broke adrift at noon, but was im-
mediLt -ly replaced.

_
The arometer is more elastic, and the convex bulb
indicates a change in the weather, but the wind is till
violent and gusty.

TERRIBLE STORAL IN NOTTINGHASISIIIRE.—A
storm, of an unusually violent and destructive character,
visited Nottingham and its neighbourhood on Tuesday
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was ushered in with flashes of lightning and thunder at
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intervals, being followed by heavy rain for a time, during
which and afterwards the wind blew in fitful but tre-
mendous gusts from the west, with a degree of violence
perhaps never before experienced during the present
generation in the midland counties. The consequence
was that upon the inhabitants cf Nottingham arising
from their beds yesterday, they found many of the streets
strewn with chimney-pots,slates, and portions of
brick chime) s; and soon tf.erwards damage of a more
serious nature became known. About half-past seven
o'clock in the morning a tall chimney, attached to
Mr. Smythe's house in the Park, fell with a tre-
mendous crash upon a wing of the building, two stories
high, carrying its the roof and forcing' the whole, with
a bedroom floor and the contents of the room, into
the kitchen below. Mr.* and Mrs. Henry Smythe
were sleeping in the room at the time, and were buried
in the ruins the crash had created, but happily they
were extricated without either cf them sustaining serious
injury. Of three servants also who were in the kitchen
at the time of the accident, two escaped with slight
bruises; but the third, Sarah 13ritton, aged fourteen, who
was engaged lighting a fire at the time, was buried for
more than half an hour,beneath nearly two tons' 'weight
assistanceofbricksas p
andm other materials. a
.number of workmen weretorials. As soon as possible
employed in clearing away the brohea timbers, and all
parties were freed from the debris. Unfortunately, it
was found necessary to convey the poor girl, Britton, to
the General Hospital, her legs especially being dread•
fully crushed. Early in the morning also William
Woodward, f North Bridgford, was carried to the hos-
pital, ho having b: en seriously hurt on the head, right
arm, and back, by the falling of a hovel in which he was
engaged milching cows. Several of the cattle were also
much bruised, and some parties who were assisting him
at the time sustained injuries of a less serious nature.
These are the most serious cases that had transpired at
the time our dispatch left Nottingham, but very many
similar incidents of a minor description were to be met
with on every hand.
SUPPOSED INCENDIARY FIRE, NEAR ROYSTON,
A correspondent writes—" I regret to inform you of a
dreadful firs, which occurred on Saturday night at Ash-
well, near Baldcek, supposed to be the act of an incen-
diary. Several farms were burnt down and a number of
cottages; and damage done to the amount of 10,000/.
and upwards. A high wind added much to the confla-
gration, which it was painful iu the extreme to behold.
People seem at a loss to account for the act of the villain,
as there is nct a single able-bodied man in the union,
nor has thero been eluting the winter, all the labourers
having been well employed."

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, WEDNESDAY.—The Raleigh, 50, Cap-
tain the Hon. C. Hope, waa paid off this day into ordi-
nary. It is a pity that so fine a ship should have been
condemned t.) so unworthy a service as mere hulking in
the River Plate, where her anchors were down for three
years. We think Sir Thomas Herbert might have
changed the scene a little with great benefit to the health
and efficiency of the ship's company, and without the
Least detriment to the service.

Lieutenant the Hon. Francis Egerton, lite flag-lieu-
tenant to Commodore Sir Thomas Herbert, is promoted
to the rank cf Commander.

Strong gales have been blowing on this coast all nigh
and day.

♦PPOINTMENTS.

Chaplain—Rev. Eiward S. Phelps (1536) to the I
lustrious, 72, depot ship of ordinary, Portsmouth.

ANOTIIER ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

The Lords of the Admiralty, on obtaining the sanction
of the House of Commons yesterday evening, have lost
no time in deciding on the plan to be adoptcd for ano-
ther expedition to proceed in the direction of Davis's
Straits, Lancaster Sound, and onwards to Melville
Island in search of Captain Sir John Frankia and the
officers and crews of the Erebus and Terror, and an ex-
press messenger was dispatched from the Admiralty this
afternoon to Woolwich, with orders to Commodore
Henry Eden to get the Acorn, 12, sloop, and Minx
steam-vessel ready f)r sea at the shortest notice. The
messenger was also bearer at the same time of dispatches
for Captain Sir John Hill, superintendent of the vic-
tualling-yard, Deptford, to have the necessary provisions
ready to be sent to Woolwich and put on beard those
vessels. The Acorn is at present at Chatham, but she
can soon be brought round t ) Woolwich and made ready
for sea. The Minx is a steam-vessel propelled by the
screw, and the last trial she had when fitted with the
diso engines gave a remarkably favourable result, with a
very small consumption of fuel—an object of the ereatest
importance in a voyage to the Arctic regions. The disc
engine has since been tried for a considerable number of
hours consecutively, and found to continue to work well,
without being liable to get out of order, and appears to
be in every way adapted for the undertaking the Minx
is now ordered to be employed upon, if their Lordships
should decide on using those engiees now on board the
vessel."

DESTRUCTIVE CONFLAGRATION

IN LAMBETH.

This morning, shortly before one o'clock, a fire broke
out in the extensive timber-yard belonging to Mr.
George Myers, of the Ordnance-wharf, Belvedere-road,
which, in the extent of its ravages, has very far ex-
ceeded any catastrophe of the kind with which the me•
tropolis has been visited fir many years past.
The exact locality may be thus briefly described
:
The York-road is a well-known thoroughfare, extending
from the Waterloo-road to Westminster-bridge-road.
Within about 200 yards of the latter a narrow turning,
known as Guildford-street, firms a communication be-
tween York-road and Pedlers-acre. Both sides c f this
street were formerly occupied by the extensive premises
of Messrs. Grissell and Pet), the celOrated builders
and contractors, and a cas:-iron bridge thrown across
e thoroughfare connects the workships on eitbel. bide.
Mr. Myora' timber wharf extends across York-road, nod
occupies a very large space, bounded on the south by
the rear of the houses in Pedlars-aze, on the east by
the f.ctory formerly occupied by Messrs. Grissell and
Peto, ou the west by Heath's extensive livery-;tables,
ope ling to the north on the back of the houses in the
York-read.

The fire i 3 supposed to have btoken out in this tim-
ber-yard, and su rapidly did tho flames extend that
the whole of one side of Guildford-street, and no less
than eight large houses in Yerk-road are levelled with
the ground.

Ti;e flames were first discovered by a policeman of
the L divisor), who lost no titre in dispatching messen-
gers to the various stations of the fire brigade, and in a
very short time Mr. Henderson, the foreman of the
southern division of tm'e f.)rce, arrived on the spot with a
good supply of engines from the Southwar k-bridge-road
and adjacent stations. Before, however, water could be
procured
the flames had attained so great an ascendancy
that the atmosphere was illuminated for miles around,
and the utmost alarm was occasioned among the inhabi-
tants of the neighbourhood. In less than half an hour
f.om the period of the outbreak, the promises on the
west side of Guildford-street, formerly occupiel by
Messrs. Grissell (now in the tenancy of Messrs. Nickels
and Co., india-rubber-web manufacturers) became ignited,
and all efforts to stay the ravages of the flames provel
utterly futile. In a very short period the window frames
at the back of the houses in York-road caught lire, and,
before any effective moans could be adopted to prevent
it, the whole range numbered 7,8, 9, 10, 11, and 12
was one mass of flame. The awful progress of the
fire for some few minute: previously had forwarned the
inhabitants of the danger to which they were ex-
posed, and a very large quantity of furniture vl as
hastily thrown out of the houses into Vie centre
of York-road, as the only chance of saving it from
being reduced to ashes. The firemen worked bravely,
but the extent of the catastrophe was so great that it
soon became evident the fire must exhaust it:sa.
It is quite impossible, owing to the confusion that pre-
vailed, to give anything approalhing an estiTate of tho
damage that must accrue feom this frightful disaster.
The great quantity of furniture strewed about all tha
thoroughfares in the district gives too much reason to
fear that the poorer classes will suffer very severely. On
the question of insurance, also, no certain information
could be obtained.

Thu atmosphere was very brilliantly illuminated by
the reflection cf the flames, and about half-past one
o'clock almost every metropolitan church steeple might
have been clearly discerned. Tho new Houses of Parlia-
ment, with their exquisite Gothic tracery, seen from
Hungerford-bridge, formed one of the finest pictures it
is possible to imagine.
The number of spectators WR3 riot excessive, owing to
the lateness of the hour.

Mr. Inspector Beckerson, of tho A division of police,
and Inspector Evans, of the L division, were in attend-
ance, with a very large body of constables.

THE SALE AT MARLBOROUGH llOL'SE.—Marl-
borough House was on Tueeday crowded with fashionable
company, assembled to view the effects of her late la-
mented Majesty the Queen Dowager. The invitations
were from ten to four o'clock, and during the whole of
that I eriod the principal rooms of the mansion were
filled with a constant succession of visitors, including
many leading connoiseurs and collectors, all of whom
appeared desirous to possess themselves of some relic of
the departe 1 Queen. Among the more distinguished
company we remarked the Duchess of Norfolk and Laly
Adeliza Fitzalan Howard, the Duchess of Sutherland
and Lady Constance Leveson Goner, the Marquis of
Stafford, the Earl of Jersey and Lady Clementina
Villiers, the Eight Honourable Sidney Herbert
and Mrs. Herbert, tho Countess Dowager Wal-
degrave and Mr. Harcourt, M.P., the Vis-
countess Forbes, Lord Harry Vane, M.P., Colonel
Sibthorp, M.P., Mr. Quintin Dick, M.P., Lord Ernest
Bruce, M.P., the Marquis of Douro, Lady Charles
Wellesley, and Lady A. Pierrepont, the Duke and
Duchess of Northumberland, Admiral Sir George Sey-
mour, &e. The company, en entering the mansion,
passed int) the dining-room, where an immense display
of linen of all descriptions was exhibited for sale, includ-
ing some very superb table napkins bearing the royal
arms and cypher, which were eagerly bought at prices
ranging from three to four guineas per dozen. A very
handsome dessert service of ruby glass and some china
services were displayed in this room, which also contained
full-length poaraits of King George M. and Queen
Charlotte, marked at 504 Passing through an anteroom
the company entered the ch awing-room, which. from
the valuable nature of the property it contained, formed
the chief point of attraction. The demand in this room
as so great during portions of the day that nearly a
dozen salesmen were kept actively employed, and it was
with some difficulty the property Was cleared away, so
rapidly were sales effected. The upper floors of the
mansion were not thrown open to the public, it being in-
tended to remove their contents to the lower rooms as
the sale proceeds. We believe that a much larger quan-
tity of property remains to be disposed of than was ori-
ginally expected, owing to her Majesty the Qaecn having
declined to purchate the effects contained in Bushey-
house. The sale will continue to-morrow and during the
succeeding days ( f the present week. _

PASSAGES IN TES LIFE OF MRS. MARGARET
MAITLAND, OF SUNNY SIDE. WRITTEN BY HERSELF.
—We are pleased to notice that a second edition of this
charming and touching story has already been required.
We may truly say, with the Athenauni, that " Mrs.
Margaret Maitland has been to us a welcome guest.
Tho tale has given us much pleasure. As regards
purity of mind, generosity of heart, and quiet observa-
tion of character, Mrs.
.Margaret Maitland, of Sunny-
side, might 'chins consulship with the Rev. Micah
Balwhidder without the good man being in any point
or principle discredited by his kinswoman. There are
Mistress Maitlands in real life, but we are not sure that
the maiden aunt has ever before found so favourable a
representative in print. Some of the other personages
are marked out with a t3ucht like firm and delicate.
Grace, Mrs. Elphinstone, her son and the Dominic)
are all real persons."—Athemeum.

A KEEN ATTORNEY.—Mr. Tom Chippendale by
no means exaggerated his title to such knowledge of the
world as can be acquired by long and sharp practice in
the law. He knew the seamy side of the world as si ell
as most men. Ile was one of the underling, working
agents of the old Tory party, and a subtle hand at elec-
tioneering pclitice. He justly enjoyed the reputation of
being one of the keenest men in a prof -ssion which af-
fords the most favourable opportunities for the exercise
of a low sagacity, and which seldom rewards cs they
deserve its honourable and honest members. By the in-
d, fatigable exercise of his special talents, ho had accu-
mulated a handsome fortune, and was at the top of the
tree in his particular line. An ext,esive intercourse
with all classes had educated hta natural shrewdness in
the quick perception a character, and few men knew
how to turn that detective faculty to great ,r advantage.
Like most persons of his stump, he had two sets of
manners—the one to freeze and repulse, the eth, r to
conciliate and cajole.— The "Ladder of Gold" in Bentley's
Miscellany.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL
On Tuesday a court was held for the dispatch of
business.
Alderman Haesphery was re-elected governor of the
Irish Society. Mr. Dakin was elected deputy-governor,
in the room of Mr. T. B. Simpson.
Upon the application of some of the members,
The LORD MAYOR sent the reflex-bearer to the Co:n-
missioners of Sewers, who had just commenced their
sitting above stairs upon important public business, to
order their et:endaneb in the court. The order was
peremptory, and the Commissioners were obliged to ad-
journ the appointed business, which included the elec-
tion of the medical officer, and other matters of general
interest in the city. The court was by no means nume-
rously attended—a circumstance mainly attributable to
the expected discussion upon the old theme of corpora-
tion reform.
The TOWN CLERK informed the Court that he had
received the amounts of the Commissioners of Sewers,
audited by Messrs. Begley, Chatteris, and Kendal, from
the auditors.
Referred to the Commissioners of Sewers.
MEASURES FOR INCREASING THE FRANCHISE.
Mr. Deputy BEDFORD moved that the petition pre-
sented on the 17th of January, on behalf of the citizens
of the Ward of Farringdon Without, for the adoption
of measures for increasing the franchise, be taken into
consideration.
After some discussion, in which the arguments which
have been so frequently used upon the subject of corpo-
ration reform were repeate 1 with additional force, the
Court determined by a large majority that the further
consideration of the petition be adjourned until the sense
of the freemen of the city on the subject shall have been
ascertained in the respective wards.
REPEAL OF THE WINDOW TAX.
Mr. ANDERTON gave notice of a motion that the
Court petition the House of Commons to repeal the
window tax.

SUPPLY OF WATER TO THE 31ETROPOLIS.
The repot t c f the Navigation Committee, delivarel in
on the 17th of January, on the report and survey by
engineers, relative to noticos of application to Parlia-
ment f)r taking water from the Thames, was;token into
consideration, and rcf:•rred back to the committee, with
directions to watch the proceedings of the water com-
panies, and report to the Court the steps which might
appear to the committee to be expedient to to taken.
Adjourned.