The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1861-08-22

We clip the following from the :. f. Ballsti1''
London Correspondent. under dates June 22d and
10Th by Pony
QUEEN NICT0EI, AGAIN l. PUBLIC-Our eX-
celleut and much loved Queen has 50 far recovered
the shock caused by her mothers death Is 70 re
sumo the public duties Of her station. She held a
Drawing Room II =. James on wednesday last, at
which numerous presentations were made-among
others, Mrs. Adams. the wife Of your new Minister
nj the Court OF Great Britain was presented 10y
Lady John Russell. Her M4ies;y's birthday cele-
brauou mas been postponed IN consequence Of her
domestic loss, but will be held early in the ensuing
month.
TINS Omar FEE IN SouTHwAEK-Jus as 7 had
posted my letter last Saturday. the report reached
me that q fire Of most alarming magnitude had
broken ont near London Bridge, AMI within u
remarkably brief space Of time the fact was made
apparent enough TO the whole x London and the
country round, for IL the shades Of evening fell,
the SKY was lit up with the portentous glare, and
every pinnacle and church sJeeple stood out with a
prominence that not even the brightest sunshine
ever lends to them. You have, of course, had
many Of the particulars Of this disaster by mall
and telegraph during the week, 50 that l need rot
risk the repetition OF news already given In your
columns. 1t Will be enough 10 say that now We
know somewhat better the extent Of the loss incur
red, 1t Is the general opinion Of the most compe-
tent authorities that London has witnessed no such
calamity of equal magnitude since the Great Fire
Of Charles lis time The lowest estimate Of the
extent TO which the Fire Insurance Companies Will
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course, By no means represent the amount Of
loss actually incurred, for there are hundreds Of
sufferers who can prefer no claim on the compa-
MES, in the shape of waTehOusemen, clerks and
llborers, all thrown out of work by the fearful
visitation. The cpntagratiOn i now thought TO be
confined within safe bounds, but Is by no means
out yet, nor Will it be for days, possibly FOR weeks
to come. Last night, 1t blazed up atresh, and At
one time seemed to place q ue.ghboring wharf,
stored with turpentine and other inflammable ma
tcrilIS, in the greatest jeopardy, As the wind was
blowing pretty strongly At the time, and famed
the flames ia q dangerous manner.
| have visited the scene Of disaster several
times during the week, and each visit but serves
TO impress more strongly the frightful extent Of
the calamity. While the fire was yet raging most
furiOusly, / assembled TO the top of the London
Monument, 300 feet in height, and standing right
opposite the burning pile, with only the river be-
tween, j; would nave been difficult to conceive a
more awful OF sublime spectacle. 1t was like
gazing right down into the crater OF 4 volcano :;
aud the frequent explosions that took place, as
casks Of oil or other infammaJie commodities
burs: with the heat and sent streams of living
flame, lava-like, III torrents into the river, helped
out the volcanic illusion most strongly. Nearly
three acres of ground are covered with IA mass of
ruins, over which now hangs a dense cloud of
smoke, while below burns hercely a mass OF ig-
nited material which no amount of water can
drown out, and which it will require weeks TO
cool even when the fire is extinguished.
DEArus's DoGyGs-Ablul Nedjid has died, a
decrepit and worn out old man, at the age OF 80 !;
and is succeeded 10y his brother. Abdul Aziz, of
whom not much is known, save that he is likely
to stick stoutly by Britain.
The Lord Chancellor OF England died suddenly
last Sunday, u vigorous, clear-headed and active
public man, at the ripe aye of 50 years. Lord
John Campbell, the son of Il poor Scotch clergy
man-a lawyer, who had To push his own unaid-
ed way in the world, and who once was 4 Par
liamentary reporter and theatrical critic for the
Morning CHroaicle-is succeeded on the wool
sack by Sir Richard Bethel, now Lord Westbury,
the son of a poor country surgeon. So you see
the o Country is not So very aristocratic
after all.
New YORK, July 5th.-The Saronia, from
Southampton, July 4th, with three days later news,
has arrived.
The great fire in London was still burning.
The Patterson family case has been decided. The
appeal was dismissed, and the first judgment
confirmed.
Two Bourbon committees have been discovered in
Naples, and five hundred muskets seized.
\ plan To assasiuate t;aribaldi had been discovered.
\ royal rcScIi pt had been sent to the Hungarian
Diet. in which the address was stignatized as dis
loyal, and hostile to the rights of the Crown. The
Diet was requested to alter the form and contents OF
the address. 1t viii be dissolved il it refuses.