The Press. — 1854-06-10 (London, England)

JUNE 10, 1854.  thation explosion soon afterwards took place, blowing up the deck, and severely burning two and slightly in luring a third seaman employed on board. Ma. Wuzzat TOWN, of Sandwich, was fined 100/. before the magistrates in petty sessions, on the 29th ult., for letting a horse without a licence. Mitigated to 251., and 41. 3s. 10d. costs, on immediate payment. A FRIGHTFUL MURDER was committed on Wednesday at No. 2, Mead's-place, Newington-causeway. The victim was a widow named Murray, the occupier of the house, which she let in lodgings, and the murderer is an advertising agent, Henry Summers, who lived in her house. The other inmates were alarmed by a scuffle and cries on the morning in question, and found the poor woman lying in the passage and Summers leaving the spot with a claspknife in his hand. The woman still breathed, but died in a short time afterwards. Her body was then discovered to have been terribly cut in many places. The murderer was arrested and examined that same day at Southwark Police Court, and remanded. It appeared that within the last two or three months he bad become possessed of a large sum of money through the death of a relative, and since then had carried on a very dissipated life, being continually intoxicated, and in a state of great excitement, so much so that his conduct had been remarked by several individuals who encountered him. A FIRE, which resulted fatally to a young woman, named Sarah Green, occurred at Messrs. Moses,' chinadealers, 134, Lower Marsh, Lambeth. The fire occurred in an upper room, in which the young woman and a child were living, and it is believed that a spark from the fire ignited her dress. She was discovered with her clothes in flames. The firemen cut them from her body, but she was so frightfully burned that she expired shortly after removal to Guy's Hospital. The child had a narrow escape. SEVERAL DESTRUCTIVE FIRES have happened during the week. On Monday night one broke out in Gresham-street at a stationer's shop, and before it was quelled inflicted serious damage to several adjacent tenements in Gresham -street and Aldermanbury. Some extensive warehouses filled with most valuable commodities were exposed to extreme danger, and saved at much hazard and difficulty by the firemen. On the same day a cork-manufactory belonging to Messrs. Shabar, in Ratcliff-highway, took fire and was extensively burnt. On Tuesday a mill at Barcomb, near Lewes, belonging to Mr. Billiter, used for grinding flour and expressing linseed oil, was nearly consumed by fire, together with a large stock of oil, the whole damage being estimated at 8,0001. While the fire was raging a quantity of oil escaped into the river Ouse, whose waters were covered with flames for a considerable distance. That day an alarming fire occurred at the pauper lunatic asylum at Colney-hatch. The conflagration was stopped in time, resulting only in the destruction of a wooden " drying-house." Fortunately the inmates were kept quiet during the agitating interval before the flames could be repressed. THE number of British ships wrecked in the month of May amounted to 101. The record for April contained a list of 99 ships, making a total of 200 losses in the two months.