The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-16 00:00:00

BORNEO.

Intelligence had reached Singapore of a victory
gained by the Dutch over the Chinese in the Sombas
River, in Borneo, after a bloody engagement.
It was reported that Sir James Brooke's mission
to Siam had proved an utter failure.
COMMERCIAL.
Freights from Hong-Kong to Liverpool 3/. 10s.
Exchange on London, six months' sight, 6s. 9d.
Calcutta—Exchange, 2s. lid. to 2s. lid.
Freights to Liverpool 3/. 10s.
Bombay—Manufactured goods dull. Exchange
23. lid.

ANOTHER DESTRUCTIVE FIRE

IN BERMONDSEY.

About three o'clock this morning, whilst the firemen
and engines were at full work in the task of suppressing
the threatened conflagration of a whole district in
Crimscott• street, Grange-road, Bermondsey, the sudden
bursting of an immense boly of flame over the adjoining
thoroughfare of Spa•road informed them that a further
and a fearful call upon their exertions was made within
a hundred yards of the spot where they were already
engaged. It was found that the workshops, sheds,
dressing-house, &c., of Messrs. Eastman and Soo,
the extensive tanners, were the premises then
on fire. Every possible effort was made to check it,
but nearly the whole was reduced to a heap of
burning ruins before the progress of the flsmes
vas at all repressed; and so late as half-past one o'clock
this afternoon, when our reporter left the place, several
engines were still necessarily at work. The smoking
ruins cover a space of about five acres. It is said that
two days ago sparks were observed flying from the chim-
ney of one of the workshops, and it is supposed that
some of these sparks falling upon a heap of dry bark
spread a smouldering flame through the combustible mass,
which broke out in this destructive fire, w hich involves
the loss of several thousand pounds' worth of property.
The has been no loss of life or personal injury sustained.

CAPTAIN COLLINSON'S ARCTIC EXPEDITION.--Fur-
ther official intelligence has been received from the expedi-
tion under the command of Captain Collinson, C 8., consist-
ing of the Enterprise, commanded by himself, and the
Investigator, by Commander M'Clure. Captain Collinson,
in the Enterprise, arrived at Woahoo, Sandwich Islands,
June 24th, and sailed on the 30th for Kotzebue Sound. The
Investigator arrived there on the Ist of July, and was to sail
in a few days to follow her consort. These ships had re-
ceived supplies and dispatches sent by the Swift, 6, Com-
mander Aldham, which arrived at Woahoo on the 6th of
June; and the Cockatrice tender, Master-Commander Run-
dle, sent by Rear-Admiral Hornby, C. 8., with dispatches.
&c., from the Admiralty, had arrived at Woahoo on the 3d of
July, in time to catch the Investigator. The expedition was
all well, in good spirits, and full of hope.— United Service
Gazette.

CONTEMPLATED REFORM MEETING IN LIVERPOOL.
—On Thursday a numerous meeting of Reformers was held
in the Financial Reform Rooms, Liverpool, Laurence Hay-
worth, Esq , M.P., acting as chairman, and Mr. Jackson as
secretary. It was unanimously resolved to forward the re-
quisition (which had been lying for signature in the town)
to the Metropolitan Reform Association, praying for a depu-
tation to meet the Liverpool Reformers, and a subscription
was entered into to forward the cause, and secure a hearty
reception to the deputation. A great stimulus was given to
the meeting by the reports that have been current regarding
intended Ministerial retrenchments.
ATTEMPT TO SHOOT AT BATar.—On Thursday a
man named J. Worthy was charged, before the magistrates
at Bath, with attempting to shoot Mr. J. Harris, of the Bath
herald-office. The prisoner. it appears, was for several
years a newsman in the Bath Herald establishment, but a
number of papers having been missed, the prisoner was
charged with purloining them, and dismissed from his
situation. This appears to have exasperated him greatly,
and on Wednesday evening he went into the office,
where Mr. Harris was sitting behind his desk, and as soon
as he entered he said, "You are the man I want," and
immediately presented a pistol to Mr. Harris's head.
The weapon was held within two feet of the prosecutor's
face, and he instinctively pushed forward and seized
the prisoner's wrist. Worthy, however, extricated himself
from his grasp, and again presented the pistol. lair.
g positin made his way round to the prisoner,
Harris thereupon dropped behind the counter, and in a
he again seized, and a desperate struggle ensued,
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which Mr. Harris asked the prisoner if he knew
what he was going to do, and he replied—" Yes, I'll blow your
brains out, you villain." Some persons engaged in the office
then came to Mr. Harris's assistance, and took the pistol
from the prisoner. The-cock was down and the cover of the
pan broken off,
the trigger, neither of the witnesses
to the police station, the prisoner
but whether was done in the struggle, or
aian3;gith an oath, " I meant to blow his
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brains out ; for he has taken a wa y my char.acter, and I may
as well be dead as alive.' At the station-house, when
charged with attempting to shoot ,Mr. Harris, he also said—
" I only wish I had done it." The char,,,,•e was drawn by
the inspector on duty, and found to consist of powder and
paper, tightly rammed in ; but no bullet ar shot has been
f iund. The prisoner, on being cautioned in the usual way,
declined saying anything in his defence, further than that
Mr. Harris had taken away his character and means of
living by saying he was a thief. He was committed to take
his trial at the next assizes for the county of Somerset.
SUICIDE ON THE SOUTH•WESTERN RAILWAY.—
' Mr. W. Carter, the Coroner for East Surrey, hell an inquest
at Mr. Smith's, the Two Brothers Tavern, New-road, Batter-
sea-fields, upon the body of Mr. Robert Henry Hancock, a
member of Trinity College, Cambridge, formerly possessed
of of a very large amount of property, and brother-in-law to
Mr. Gooch, late chief engineer of the South-Western Rail-
' way. The deceased, who was in his 37th year, and. who had
recently held the appointment of superintendent of the loco-
motive department at Windsor, was found killed on the
South-Western line on last Sunday night. Several witnesses
stated their opinion to be that the deceased had destroyed
himself, and it was shown that the pressure of indigence and
a great reverse of fortune, had unsettled his intellect. A
verdict in accordance with this evidence was returned.
Lord Nugent is seriously indisposed at his seat at
Lilies, Bucks.
Why is a dentist likely to be a melancholy man ?
A Because he always looks down in the mouth.