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--u_ The new town council of Salisbury have fixed t'cl;, at tio,,) per annum. Hitherto the office hnd bee;: honorary and its duties performed r. gratuitously. DREADFUL CCIDI.NT AT ROTH F.Rit il'il E.-Th e following particulars of the circumstances and con- se Hieuccs of the fall of the lofty furnace-chimney of the cement rnanufac'ory of Messrs Hart and Christ- mas, Church Street. Kotherhithe, are the result of a eyeful enqnirv on the spot .estei-dav w is built l.y Mr Bragg, aibuilder whose experience ai;d ability are held in genera! repute in the neigh- 1. bourhood. The exact height of the chimney was frcvenfy-two feet three inches, and the foundation W is built on a stone base, six feet square, by about inches in thickness. Those who the tall of the iofiy pile, say that it swayed orer, in one Complete mass, from the base to the apex, increasing I,, iis fearful velocity as it descended, but remaining wholly unbroken till it was snapped asunder by the N,itii the roof of Mr Connel.'s house, The A civsh and confusion were then appalling. In the language of an intelligent person who witnessed the calamity, the chimney fell like a lofty pine, suddenly uplifted by an earthquake. The stone on which the ,a, built'is tilted up oil its cl;(i, nearly perpendicular, a circumstance that seems strongly «° Sj'1.0W ,'Vjt ''l0 had "ot sufficient solidity for a"d weighty a structure. The escape ot ,rs Conned) Was nicwt providential. Site had for any weeks been bed-ridden, and had that very f'1" within less than an hour, quitted her room ijj.| '-e ^rs,- ,ie. The room is in ruins, and the rub^i!? ^ai,i'cu'ai> '8 heaped up with bricks and direci'|'ue casement of the chimney, in the ,lov;r In \vj¡ich it feil some labourers were em- cl a *l0'e lor a litter way from the dencv '!selt must have had a ten- tookr.lac^ the foundation..When the fall into tiie eV. iu'i rTi-U "°W t*oafl was 'Actually driven is impressed whh a 7^(°TCC' a"d hb (1"Ure soil. The other '"n exactness, deep in the and whose C;>se is4ee '"k0" l° ,,MPi,ali legs eomfe h°Pel«», had one of his tu„t the lie el w as w h p i-e hiP so '>«her men are Ivin-it t in °"B l° be' Three feri"S from variouslnlirins s»f- engn-eer, was sooll *,Ir unel' 'he eminent assistance ti.„ „ -u sPotj rendering every undertaken to bury the dece °/ r°rks have -»■ for ,U„W> wto employ- iuent f,)r e W1 ow, who Ii left with One chi1d,

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