The Sun. — 1851-05-16 (London, England)

GREEN FRUIT. —The demand for Oranges has iroPr°red. 1,000 boxes Iles‘ina 8A) boxes Palermo, and 400 W at Lisbon, sold by Keeling and Hunt, at public sale, went at rA advance of is to Is 6d per box. Lemons have not improrst in value. Nuts are not meeting with the consumption tb, was expected, and an imprcvcni nt is looked for nextinont  FATAL OCCURESS,CE AT BLACILFRIARs-BRIDGIV° Yesterday morning, about half-past five o'clock, a man eb°4 40 years of age was passing over the Blackfriars-bridgef; wards the City. On getting about midway he moue,'" the seat in one of the recesses and got over t ed wall. One of the London Fire Brigade men, name" Hinter, who was proceeding towards the floating engine.d6 go on duty, seeing that the man contemplated NW° rushed forward, accerapanie by two or three other peesoett in the hope of preventing him from destroying'hirtre:6" The fireman, at the risk of losing his own climbed over the wall, and the men who yore near held one of his arms, while he, with the other, succeeded in grasping the hand of the unfortunate rra., i_' He held him up in this state for some time, but his weir' was so great that it was impossible for him to pull him ot He called for some one on the bridge to get a rope to 105 under the man's arms, but before that could be accomplieb7 the weight of the poor fellow nearly exhausted him, ec,,, being unable to keep his hold any longer the man fell into the river beneath and immediately disappeared. Boats vie! instantly put off from the steamlxat-pier, and the rife' dragged near the spot where the deceased had fallen, but the body could not be found. Who the unfortunate deceased was is at present unknown. From his dress he appeared to have been a labouring man or journeyman bricklayer. Teo much praise cannot be given to the fireman, who thus 0 heroically risked his life in endeavouring to save a fellose creature, for had the men on the other side of the buttress of the bridge for one instant relinquished their hold of hio ne must have been pulled by the weight of the suicide into the river along with him. Intelligence has been received from the Civil Coin' missioner of the Seychelles Islands to the effect that there is an a most inexhaustible supply of guano in that region. These island, about thirty iu number, are a group resting' 00 sand and coral in the Indian Ocean, northeast of Modsgasear, between 3 deg. and 5 deg. south latitude, and 55 deg. and 56 deg. east longitude, and were formally ceded to England, together with Mauritius, in 1815. No particulars have yet been given regarding the quality or precise locality of the guano which has been discovered, but if it should at all approach the Peruvian in its chemical properties, it May prove of immense importance not only to the agricultural interests of Great Britain, but indirectly to the promotion also of the prosperity of Natal and Mauritius, as well as to the much-desired extension of commerce with Madagascar', Its situation, however, near the equator and in the midst of the ocean (the African continent being distant about 80° miles), would lead to the supposition that those peetili° conditions of climate which have operated in favour of the Peruvian guano may be in a great measure wanting, and that hence its nature is inferior. F 110•: aro) Loss of