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Southland Times, Issue 544, 20 August 1866, Page 3

,;-•-."We extract the from the "Home News," 2nd June : —" Another tremendous conflagration, demonstrating the extremely dangerous character of modern combustibles, has just occurred at Bow-common, near a canal, which appears to be a general depot of inflammable matter. The fire commenced in a lucifer-match manufactory of considerable extent, from which it wa* quickly communicated to Borne pitch-and-tar warehouses and works of several oil refiners. It may easily be imagined that a vast mass of materials so intensely inflammable produced an extraordinary volume of flame ; but the scene which followed when the fire reached a stack of petroleum casks, 600 in number, is said to have been indescribable. Each cask, as it became ignited, exploded with great force and scattered the blazing petroleum in all directions. An immense quantity of the oil, pitch, and tar flowed into the canal in a burning state, setting light to three large bargeg, one laden with coal, which were burnt to the water's edge." We have heard on good authority, says the ' Dublin Medical Press,' that two deaths occurred recently in Dublin under most anomalous circumstances. In one case death resulted in 12, in the other in 3@ hours, the only symptoms being rapid prostration, failure of circulation, and the pouring out of great effusions of blood in and under the skin. The case bore great resemblance to that of a medical student, whose death we recorded some six weeks ago. We understand that the I features of the disease were so unusual that the physician who attended one of the cases oould only compare it to the " Black Death" of the 16tii century. The news by the Northern mail is most unimportant, no business of interest had been transacted xn the Assembly up to the departure of the steamer, The general intelligence is meagre in the extreme.