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THE FREE PRESS
BURLINGTON
Foreign News.
FRIDAY MORNING. JULY 3, 1857.

following items OF foreign intelligence
The London correspondent of the New
York Commercial, under date of 10Th, has
the following remarks upon the weather and
the crops
The prospect for the grain harvest, the
silk crop and the vintage constitutes Tor the
moment the chief European question with
regard to the first magnificent expectations
continue to be entertained. On the second
there can be little doubt that notwithstand-
ing the favorable commencement, the result
will be as bad, if not worse than last year
The disease OF Douglass Jerrold is differ
rently stated to have been disease Of the
heart and rheumatic gout His illness was
quite brief.
One of the largest fires which has happened
in London during the last twenty years, oc-
Cured few nights since, the goods depot
of the London and North-W estern Railway
at Camdentown "a suburb adjoining Re
gents Park having been totally destroyed.
The following is brief account
The conlagration commenced suddenly,
about ten in the evening, while number OF
clerks and others were employed on the pre-
misses, and in the course Of few minutes 1t
became evident that the whole OF the build
ings, covering five acres, with the multitude
Of tracks and goods which they contained,
would be swept away. The loss has been
stated to be equal to 81 $50 900, but prob
ably about one third or hall that amount
would be more accurate.
Under the buildings were $50 valuable
horses, belonging to Messrs. PickiOrd, the
carriers, by whom the business OF the sta
! tiOn was carried on, and there was only Just
time to drive them out and to leave them to
run off wherever they pleased. One OF them
a remarkably fine but vicious animal, called
| the 'Manhater, which would obey no one
but his particular driver, was found unman-
ageable and was obliged to be allowed to
remain. lie was, therefore, burnt to Gin
der and paid the penalty Of bad DISPOSE
tion.
The general troop were all ultimately re-
covered, but their tumultuOus rush in
body through the neighboring streets and
roads on dark night, caused great peril
and a number OF accidents, which in one
case, that of a mounted policemen who was
galloping to the fire and suddenly found
himself IN the midst Of them, was nearly
attended with loss Of life. They were all Of
enormous size, and had the momentum of a
a troop of elephants.
The half OF the submarine cable which
has been completed at Birkenhead was beng
transferred to small vessels, to be tranship-
ped on board the Niagara as soon as she
arrived in the Mersey, which 1T was expect
ed would be in the course of few days
This course was rendered necessary because
the Niagara could not come up to the wharf
Experiments with the cable demonstrated in
the most satisfactory manner that telegraph
ic communication along the whole length Of
wire was perfect. The shipment of cable
at Greenwich on board the Agamemnon had
been unavoidably delayed, but would, it was
expected, be commenced on the 10th OF June.
\ large number of men were at work upon
the Niagara at Portsmouth, where the yes
sel attracted much attention and had been
subjected to u great deal of critical lnspec-
tion. The London Times is complimentary
enough to remark that the critics agree
upon one point-the vessels ugllness -
The beau ideal of beauty in English naval
architecture is a full and bluff model, and a
Dutch schuyt would look more handsome to
them than clipper model.
The London Times of June ii says
The tedious process Of shipping the 1000
miles of coil which have been manufactured
at East Greenwich, was to have COM
Yesterday, but owing to ~ -.44cnceC
to be done y ene amount o! worE
Dolore the lofty hold of the Aga
, lnemnon is fitted to receive it, the shipment
is not likely to begin before Monday next
D small engine is being fitted to wind tn,
y coil on board, and the whole operation 0
shipping will occupy, 1t Is calculated, a
: least six weeks. The two in-shore ends ar,
, nearly finished and the centre piece Of stee
wire cable is progressing rapidly. Though
both at Greenwich and at Btrkenhead th
manufacture will continue at one end whil
the other is being shipped it is not expect
ed that more than about 24OO miles will b,
completed in all. This will allow between
/ 600 and 700 miles for slack in paying out
In France the crops present SO promising
= an appearance that it Is hoped the mex
, harvest will nearly suffice for the entire
G consumption.
e Nearly three thousand emigrants left tn
t port Of llavre during the month of May io
e the port of New York, and not more THAI
Q two hundred for all other ports. This i
e an increase of more than a thousand on tn
S same month of last year.
e The following are the details of terribl
. accident at the llauensten Tunnel in Swift
+, zerland, contained in a letter from Ba.lc
s Of the 4th
' The IIauenstein Tunnel is on tine centr
c railway which unites Basle to Aarau, Iu
c cerne, Berne and other towns in the reigl
g borhood and Is five kills metres (about thre
< miles) in length. The cutting of the tur
e mel having been commenced at both end,
d progressed satisfactorily until only abou
= three hundred metres remained to be pier,
" ed. In both sections are several shafts /,
Z extracting earth and letting in air, and
= the northern one, one of the shafts, whic
II is about 500 metres from the spot where IL
= works are going on, was supported by soil
c wood work to prevent the fall of earth an
} stones
J. In the tunnel fire was constantly kcr
up, in order to increase the circulation
air, and at the very bottom of the shaft
forge was established. The wood work
a the shaft became extremely dry, and at las
r on the 2sth ult, il caught fire The lam,
v shot up with extraordinary rapidity, an
% set fire to all the wood work in the shat
y which was not less that two hundred metr
L deep After while "a thick column
&c smoke succeeded the flames and indicat,
a that the bottom OF the shaft had fallen in al
Of that cosequently the retreat ofthe laborer
"a whom it had been impossible to warn, w
"a cut off People rushed in crowds to the entr
1t nee of the tunnel to render assistance to ii
victims, and they reached the mass of cart
et which had fallen in but large quantit
I'd of coal which had been collected near SUI
Dc denly caught fire, and it created such yo
n umes of smoke and gas that many wei
overcome, and had to be dragged away b
the Others seven were dead, and hundr,
s. others were got out in pitiable state. \
=, hopes whatever are entertained that any
" the men buried will be got out alive; f
though they had an open space of about st
" metres, and though in it there is n sprir
ye of water, and they had four horses whiC
Is they might kill for food, it is certain tn
lg the noxious gas must have suflocated then
v, of the "a men buried, thirty-two are Swis
at four English, and eighteen Germans.
he Since the above account WAS written. il
N. telligence has been received of the extric
he tion of 32 dead bodies but l6 of the labo
,e, ers employed to open the gallery ha