The Express. — London, England, 1867-12-17 00:00:00

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M. DIOCESE OF PETERBOROUGH. —At a general or dination held by the lord Bishop of Peterborough at the Cathedral Church of Peterborough, on Sunday, the 15th December, 1867, the following gentlemen were admitted into holy orders, wiz.: Deans—Albert Hermann Prichard, 8.A., Merton College, Oxford ; Edward Henry Cenge, 8.A., St. J o h n ' s C o ll ege , Cambridge ; Kenneth Mackenzie Poghe, Brasenose College, Oxford ; John Freeman, 8.A., Emmanuel College, Cambridge ; William Faithful! Lumley. Theological Associate, King'. Colle ge , London. Priests—Edisard Martin Ready, M.A., Wadhai College, Oxford ; Robert Handcock, London College of Divinity ; Osbert Mordaunt, MA., Christ Church, Oxford ; Henry John Rawlineon, MA., Oriel College, Oxford ; James Ledger Bete, 8.A.. University College, London ; Alfred Hayes Marsh, 8.A., Trinity College, Dublin ; and immediately afterwards iris lordship licensed the following gentlemen to miracles within the diocese, wiz :—Mr. Prichard, to Stockerston Mr. Genge, to general license ; Mr. Pughe, to Stoke Golding and Dad ttan Mr. Freeman, to Loughborough ; Mr. Lumley, well . SOUTH KENSINGTON 111t - srt , tt. —Visitors during the week ending Dee. 14, 1867 :—On Monday, Tuesday, and Saturday (free), from 10 a.m. till 10µm., 4,842 ; on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday (admission 6d.), from 10 11.111. till 4 p.m., 1,324 ; total, 6.166 ; average of cor responding week in former years, 8,412 ; total from the opening of the museum, 7,100,88 L TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (REUTIIeB Tunak.ve.) FRANCE. PALMS, Dm 16, Ensoc. The discnssion of the bill for the re-organisation of the army will commence on Thursday next. M. Picard placed upon the table three demands of interpellationa, one relative to despatches in the Green-book, which have not appeared in the Yel low-book ; a second concerning the interdiction of Italian and German journals in the French fron tier ; the third on the finances of the city of Paris. The Patric and Etendard of this evening give an energetic denial to the statement of an American journal concerning the rumoured arrival of a French envoy at Mexico. The Emperor Napoleon has not sent any representative to Juarez. ITALY. FLORENCE, Dim 16. In the Chamber of Deputies the debate upon the foreign policy of the government was resumed at noon to-day. Signor Crispi continued his speech by demon strating the violation of the September Conven tion by France. He maintained the universal character of the late Italian movement towards Rome, and averred that it was impossible tho tem poral power could be retained. Re pointed out the inconsistency between the principles of the Napoleonic dynasty and the present action of the French Emperor. " Parliament," said the speaker, " cannot discuss or determine the means of going to Rome. Italy must wait for a favour able opportunity. The present ministry is powerless to lead Italy to the fulfilment of the national programme." Signor Crispi quoted several former speeches of General Menabrea as indi cating the clerical and liberal policy of that minis ter. An excited debate followed, including much recrimination between the Right and the Left of the house. Signori Minghetti and Visconti- Venosta protested against the attacks of Signor Crispi. They defended the September Convention and their policy upon the Roman question. Signor Mari, the Minister of Justice, protested against the terms in which the arrest of Garibaldi had been condemned, and defended the magistrates who had confirmed that arrest. Signor Depretis appealed to the members to abstain from useless recrimination. The debate will be resumed to-morrow. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Disc. 16, EVENING. The Murgenpost of to-day says—" Weunderstand that with the new year Baron Werther, the Prussian ambassador, will assume the title of Ambassador of the North German Confederation at the court of Vienna." HUNGARY. PESTLE, Dze. 15. In to-day's sitting of the Lower House of the Diet the bill on the Hungarian quota of the public debt of the empire was passed by 239 against 110 votes. The debate has lasted nine days. The Civil Marriage and Laudwelir Billa will shortly be laid before the house. AMERICA. (Per the City of Paris, via Queenstown.) NEW YORK, Dec. 7. A resolution has been introduced in the Senate and referred to the finance committee, declaring that the national debt, excepting when otherwise provided for by the law, should be redeemed with legal tender. The Senate has adopted a resolution instructing the finance committee to inquire into the expediency of reporting a bill authorising the Secretary of the Treasury to contract for the re demption of the 5-20's a forty vear loan on bonds bearing 5 per cent. interest, both principal and interest payable in gold ; the government to have the option to redeem them after 20 years. A bill has been reported to the house to repeal the authority granted to the Secretary of the Treasury to contract the currency or cancel the United States notes. A resolution has been offered to the house limiting the assessment of the internal revenue to 300,000,000 dols. annually. The delegates from Kentucky have been admitted to their seats in the house. General Hancock has revoked General Sheridan's order prohibiting the participants in the rebellion from serving on juries. The Louisiana convention have recommended that the present system of laws in the State should be revoked, and the common law of England adopted in their stead. The Alabama Convention has declared null and void all contracts made during the rebellion unless the monies paid were in the lawful currency of the United States, and also annulling all contracts for the sale or purchase of slaves. The new State con stitution for Alabama will be submitted to the people for ratification on the 4th of February. The conservatives are organising clubs to defeat the new constitution. _ . The Georgia Conservative Convention assembled atMacon on Thursday, and resolutions declaring the people of Georgia passed loyal, and protest ing against the Congressional reconstruction policy as wrong and oppressive, and calculated to establish the permanent supremacy of negro rule in theSoutb, and declnr the reconstruction conven tion to be an illegal body elected by fraudu lent votes, and forced upon the people by mili tary power. Lord and Lady Amberley were presented to the President yesterday. The frigate Novara, with the body of Maxi milian, left Havana for Trieste ou the 4th inst. The Herald publishes a telegram from Havana, according to which several shocks of an earthquake were felt at St. Thomas on the 18th November, when 30 persons perished. The sea overflowed the city, causing great loss of property. The United States steamers Monongahela and De Soto were totally wrecked at Santa Cruz. (DT ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK, Dac. 16. The Inman steamer City of Boston arrived here to-day ; all well. PROVINCIAL WORKHOUSE REFORM. —To-morrow evening Mr. Ernest Hart will deliver, by request, at a meeting of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, 1, Adam-street, Adeiphi, at S o'clock p.m., au address on a national scheme for tLe better government of workhouse infirmaries in England. Persons interested in the question are invited to attend, and join in the discussion. FATAL BOILER Ex PLOSION. —On Saturday a deplorable occurrence, causing the death of two men, took place in the boiler-house of the Northern Spinning and Weaving Company's factory, Palls-mad. The men were working with others at one of the boilers, when, from some unexplained cause, the " jack-heads" were not fas tened down, and, the steam rushing out with the violence almost of an explosion, the unfortunate men were killed instantaneously by suffocation. An inquest was held in the evening, and the jury found that the death of the men was caused by carelessness, but did not specially attribute the negligence to any particular person. They exonerated the company and manager from all blame.—Northern Whig. HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF THE HEART, 67, M ARGA RET-STREET, W.—The number of patients relieved during the week ending Dec. 14 was 104. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17. 1867. THE FENIAN OUTRAGE AT CLERKENWELL. The prisoners Allen, Desmond, and Ann Justice were brought before Sir Thomas Henry again yes terday afternoon, and again remanded. The place of their confinement Mace Saturday is kept secret ; not even their friends are allowed to know where they are lodged. Milbank and the Tower are the chief names mentioned by the " knowing" portion of the public, but the police consider the ends of justice will best be answered by keeping their knowledge to themselves. Bow-street was the scene of another excitement yesterday amongst the crowds who had collected to see the prisoners enter the court, partly because of the rumour which had obtained some currency to the effect that Manchester was in flames,and partly because of the unusualdis tance they were kept from the court, and the persis tence with which all who had to pass were prevented from loitering a moment on the way. All the police, who seemed to be more numerous than ever, were armed with cutlasses. There was a reason for the extra precautions that were taken both without and within. A letter was received by the chief magistrate, stating that it was designed to throw shells or hand grenades into the court, or to de stroy it in some other diabolical way. The super intendent in charge thought the information worthy of some attention, for a large body of police were at once stationed upon the roof of the court to protect the skylights, through which it had been intimated the weapons of destruction would be thrown. Happily the threat was not carried into execution. The prisoners were brought over from the opposite station strongly guarded. They were placed in the dock about 20 minutes past three. The woman, who looked very miser able and ill, was accompanied by a female warder, and was at once permitted to seat herself in a chair. On Saturday twilight was too near to allow of a complete view of the trio, but they could be plainly seen yesterday, and the daylight revealed the shabby clothing and unkempt appearance of the whole of them. Allen, as before, wore a white apron, such as carpenters wear at the bench, and both he and Desmond, immediately upon entering the dock, looked anxiously behind it as if in search of friends. Before the proceedings were commenced Mr. Superintendent Durkin handed Sir Thomas Henry a medical certificate as to Justice's health, and his worship handed it to Mr. Poland, the barrister, who appeared to prosecute on behalf of the Trea sury. The learned gentleman read the certificate, and, addressing the bench, said that as he had only been recently instructed, and as important inquiries were being made, he feltiit to be his duty at once to ask for a further remand. The two chief reasons were that several necessary witnesses were confined to the hospital in consequence of the injuries they had received, and that the woman Justice, accord ing to the medical certificate that had been pro duced, was so unwell that it was undesirable she should be any longer detained. The learned gen tleman intimated that on another occasion some very material evidence would be produced. The magistrate agreed with the reasonableness of the application, and after a consultation of brief dura tion a remand for a week was granted. As the prisoners were being motioned to leave the dock, Allen said, in a very confused kind of way, " I should like to ask a question or two of these people." It was impossible from his gestures to understand who "these people" were, but Sir T. Henry, interpreting the expression to refer to the other prisoners, said he could not allow one prisoner to examine another. Allen said he had only one question to ask. " Ah, but you cannot do that," the magistrate replied, " and I should advise you to reserve, at least for the present, anything you may have to say in your defence." The prisoners were then removed to their secret abode. The police authorities at Great Scotland-yard and the military have entered into the best arrange ments possible for acting in immediate concert should any of the alarming reports that are dis turbing London just now turn out to be true. In structions were yesterday sent from the Home office to the vestries of the various metropolitan parishes, inviting them to swear in special con stables, to assist the police in the protection of public and private property against fires or any other dangers with which they may be threatened. Detectives are on duty everywhere, as far as the City and public buildings are concerned, and extensive means of communication have been formed for any sudden emergency. The Home office authorities have been examining officially the fragments of the barrel, with a view to deter mine its contents at the time of the explosion. From the thickness and width of the staves the barrel probably contained between two and three hundred pounds of gunpowder. There can be no question that the pieces of wood smell strongly of something resembling petroleum, but that of itself suggests that the cask had been used for other pur poses before the fatal one of Friday, as much as that it was petroleum, and not gunpowder, that was employed. Princess Teck and Prince Arthur visited the ruins yesterday afternoon. The traffic in the neighbourhood is now proceeding as before, but Corporation-lane, in which that part of the prison walls situated against which the attack was made, has been boarded up at the ends, and very little of the damage can now be seen by the general public. These barriers have been erected previous to work men being employed to pull down the ruined pro perty. In the meantime the tottering walls of the houses have been shored up, and supports have also been placed against the prison wall. The lane at the back of Corporation-lane is still closed, as a good deal of the house property in it has been greatly damaged. The swarms of sight-seers who still arrive can only observe the shattered upper stories and roofs of those houses in Corporation lane which are not utterly destroyed, and that a large portion of the wall of the House of Detention is wanting. Only a small body of police are on duty outside the prison,but the precautions taken inside are very elaborate. The friends of all the prisoners are prohibited from coming to the prison, " until further notice." Inspector Potter has received OW. to distribute amongst the sufferers by the ex plosion on the part of the government, and the funds set apart by the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the relief of the sufferers by the calamity are being given away in sums of from 21. to 3/. The windows which have been smashed by the concus sion in the neighbouring streets are being repaired by quite an army of glaziers. The Common Serjeant yesterday afternoon, at the conclusion of a case in the Central Criminal Court, said he had some information in reference to the alarming outrages that had recently taken place in the metropolis which he thought right to ' communicate to the jury. He had received certain information upon the subject which he felt it his duty to communicate to the Secretary of State, and he had received a reply , marked private and confidential, from Mr. Hardy in reference to the subject. He could not, for obvious reasons, go into any detail of the contents of this letter, but he might state that Mr. Hardy informed him that since Saturday last there had been three attempts to set fire to different places in London by means of Greek or liquid fire, and that, having regard to the diabolical character of these outrages, it was impossible to rely entirely upon the police to pre vent them, and that it was therefore the duty of all well-disposed persons to do all in their power to co-operate with the police and assist, so far as it was possible, by their own exertions to protect their propert y. Great local efforts are being made in Clerkenwell for the relief of the destitute. Last night a large meeting took place in the Arawell-street schools, under the presidency of Mr. Churchwarden Willcocka, to consider the best measures for raising funds. In opening the proceedings, the chair man defended Clerkenwell from what he con sidered the bad odour which it has recently acquired on account of the meetings on " The Green," and he called upon the audience to show that meetings in Clerkenwell were not neces sarily Clerkenwell meetings. He also thanked the government, on behalf of his brother ratepayers, for the prompt assistance they had rendered. Mr. Maguire, the incumbent, moved the first resolu tion, expressing sympathy with the sufferers, and appointing a committee to take steps in relieving them. The rev. gentleman, in the course of his speech, detailed what had been done already by local organisation, and gave some particulars as to the actual distress existing. Every family, and every house, have been visited. Many of the in , habitants in Corporation-lane were watchmakers, who have suffered severely. They have lost gold and silver watch-cases, and even precious stones, that were buried in the ruins, in addition to which their tools and benches have been destroyed, so that they are like men without hands. " These men," said the speaker, " must be set upon their feet again," and the meeting loudly cheered the utterance. A wonderful proof of the sym pathy excited by the sufferers he gave in the statement that a letter which he had sent to one of the public journals had &freely realised 4001. Amongst the subscribers were the Marquis of Northampton, who owns property in the district, and who sent 1001., and Sir W. Martins, who has contributed a similar sum. During the afternoon Mr. Dlaguire received an anonymous letter containing a fifty pound note. The distribution of relief has been actively carried on, and 351. and fifty blankets have already been given away to the necessitous. A letter from Mr. Montague Corry, Mr. Dis raeli's secretary, was read, amidst loud applause, to the meeting. It said—" You are aware that as soon as passible after the explosion on Friday night her Majesty's government took measures to relieve the immediate necessities of those who were suffering so terribly from its consequences. They have every reason to believe that to a certain extent those measures have been sufficient and effectual. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, how ever, thinks it possible that it may be imagined that the relief thus given has been of a nature to render further assistance unnecessary. He desires me therefore to beg you to inform the meeting which is to be held that the government, in the course they adopted, only contemplated the mitiga tion of the more urgent and pressing distress of those who have been injured in person or property. Not only has experience shown that in cases like the present private agency is the most efficient channel of relief, but the government also feel that they would not be justified in arresting the sympathy of the public with the victims of the atrocious act." The resolution was seconded by Mr. M'Cullagh Torrens, M.P., who told of the patience with which the sufferers in the hospital bore their pain, of the care with which they were tended by the medical attendants and nurses, and also of the prostration of mind which overcame them and stood in the way of their recovery, in consequence of the loss they had sustained by the outrage. Seeing this he, upon visiting the hospital on Sun day, felt himself justified in promising them in the name of his constituents relief out of their troubles. The hon. member carried the meeting with him when he warmly praised the Chancellor of the Exchequer for proving himself superior to red tapeism, and referred to the feeling shown by the Queen in the condition of the injured. While thanking the government fur what they had done, he urged, however, that private local benevolence should take the lead in raising and dispensing assis tance. Other speakers supported the motion, one of them (Mr. Holland) protesting with great warmth against the use of the word " calamity" instead of characterising it as a "murderous, traitorous outrage." The meeting became exceedingly ex cited during the speech, and a disturbance was im minent, when, upon Mr. Holland moving an amendment to expunge the word to which he ob jected, a gentleman named Paris protested against the alteration. Mr. Maguire, with the view of throwing oil upon the troubled waters, substituted " atrocious crime" for " calamity," but this did not satisfy Mr. Paris, who said he would not subscribe if the original wording of the motion was not adhered to. The rest of his speech was made amidst hisses, groans, and recom mendations to the speaker to bring his remarks to a speedy termination. The disturbance became greater when a Mr. Orr recommended that they should wait to see what the government would do further before entering into local subscriptions, his argument being that the outrage resulted from a conspiracy against the nation, and that the prac tical object of the meeting was to encourage Fe nianism. An announcement of the chairman that Mr. Pickburn, the proprietor of the ClerkeitiseU News, had handed in a cheque for 1001. restored immediate order and good humour, which was increased by the reading of a subscription list, announcing various sums from 1001. to a shilling, "a policeman" and " a cabman" being each en tered for the latter sum. Messrs. Tommie and Lusk, the borough members, each gave ten guineas. The remainder of the meeting was occupied in the formation of a committee, and the details of an organization to carry out their purposes. A hearty vote of thanks was passed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer for his prompt kindness. Towards the close of the meeting Mr. Maguire announced that his friend the Rev. S. Herring had forwarded him over 390/. as the result of an appeal he had made through the press. The subscriptions were, therefore, said to have reached little short of 1,0001 During one of the later speeches the Rev. J. E. Thoreaby called for three cheers for the Queen, which were given with much enthusiasm. The amount of damage produced by the ex plosion appears to have been considerably under stated, and can be properly estimated only by those familiar with the neighbourhood. The House of Detention consists of five blocks of buildings, which, with their respective yards, are enclosed by a thick wall of brick, about 20 feet in height, over looked on the south by the fronts of the houses in Short's-buildings, and another thoroughfare, which also faces the entrance to the prison ; on the west by part of those in Rosoman-street ; on the north by Corporation-lane ; and on the east by the backs of thu houses in Woodbridge-street. A great por tion of the wall surrounding the prison is of com paratively recent erection, but that in Corporation lime was very old, and evidently of no great strength. A few pounds of gunpowder skilfully applied certainly would have sufficed to lay the whole wall in ruins. The largest portion of the House of Detention runs parallel with Corporation lane, a wing running from the main build ing towards that part of the wall which was blown down. The walls of this portion of the prison are everywhere heavily indented with the marks of the tremendous storm of bricks. hurled against them by the force of the explosion, which also dislodged a large number of slates from the end of the roof, and smashed several of the skylights. It seems as if it was the aim of the conspirators to blow down part of the prison as well as part of the wall. Hence, probably, the large amount of explosive material ignited by them. Of the damage done to the various houses in Corporation-lane the public is but too well aware. So unsafe is the condition of the different habitations fronting the ruined wall, that they will have to be immediately taken down. In St. James's-place, a narrow lane running parallel with Corporation-lane the houses were inhabited prin cipally by mechanics and their families. These have suffered fearfully. The yards of the dwel lings on the southern side are tilled with broken tiles, bricks, and other dEbris; the window frames [STAMPED, Id. ADDITIONAL.] and doors are completely smashed in, and in several rooms the furniture of the humble occu pants has been either wholly destroyed, or ren dered utterly useless. On the northern side of the lane many of the window-sashes have been blown in, and much of the furniture in the different apart ments seriously damaged. In Rosoman-street the shop fronts were blown away by wholesale, while windows were completely demolished by scores. In Plummer-place and Northampton-buildings, , localities inhabited by numbers of the artisan class, great damage has been done, scarcely a house escaping injury. In Plummer-place the window frames have been flung violently into the rooms of the inhabitants, inflicting an Irreparable amount of injury on the property contained therein. In Coburg-street an immense number of panes of glass were destroyed, especially at the backs of the houses. In Meredith-street and Corporation-row similar results were observable. In Woodbridge street, a highly respectable thoroughfare, inhabited principally by working jewellers and watchmakers, the devastation was fearful. Not a house had escaped. Those on the eastern side had their front windows completely blown in, those on the west side suffered both in front and back. In Sekforde street hundreds of windows were destroyed. In St. James's-street, St. James's-walls, and a few other thoroughfares, the damage was compara tively slight. In Woodbridge-street numerous pailfuls of broken glass were collected in the diffe rent areas. At the bottom of Sekforde-street, oppo site Clerkenwell Church, a china dealer lost a large quantity of valuable stock, consisting of expensive vases, &c., displayed in his shop-window. These were shattered to atoms by the force of the explo sion, although more than 150 yards distant from i the spot where the barrel was fired. Very many domestic animals have perished. In several in stances cats and dogs were observed to drop sud denly, as if stunned by a violent blow. Birds, too, perished by dozens. The number of individual; who have been admitted to the hospitals unfortu nately affords no real criterion of the real number who were more or less injured by the explosion. The resident medical men have under their care a large number of sufferers, chiefly from fright, and it has been estimated that were these added to the list of those in the hospitals, the number:of victims would be swollen to at least 280 or 300. The number of families who have suffered in a lesser or greater degree from the effects of the explosion amounts to several hundreds, and so great is the terror in ' spired amongst them that on Saturday they in several cases commenced moving, with what they could save from the wreck of their furniture, away from the scene of disaster. At least eighteen out of every twenty families thus smitten are those of honest, hardworking people, upon whom the blow ' has fallen with crushing severity. Those who were in the neighbourhood of Corporation ; lane on Friday evening will never forget the scene presented. Everywhere the inhabitants seemed absolutely paralysed with terror. In the houses ' women were fainting, mothers were rushing through ' the streets screaming for their children ; fathers, just returned from work, were gazing in horror at , their demolished homes ; daughters were franti- I cally embracing their aged parents ; and above all hovered the thin remains of the accursed vapour which had wrought such ruin and misery. To describe the effects of this outrage on the minds'and i feelings of the Clerkenwell population is simply impossible. The very men who were foremost in cheering Finial' on Clerkenwell-green are now the loudest in their denunciation of this, the latest fruit of Fenian agitation. The number of houses damaged may be roughly estimated at GOO. The most complete measures have been taken at Woolwich by the military authorities, in conjunc tion with the police, to guard against the possibi lity of any attempt to commit destruction upon any portion of the government property. The Royal Arsenal is very strongly guarded both inside and outside, especially during the night ; and the division of metropolitan police is rally armed, the men being strictly ordered to keep within call of each other. The military police has also been augmented, and also the detachment of Royal Marino Light Infantry on duty at the Deptford Dockyard. THE LIVERPOOL STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE AND TEE FENIAN Ouvitacss.—Yesterday moining, Mr. Baf fl es, the Liverpool stipendiary magistrate, on the head con stable (Major Grew, C. 8.) entering the police-court, said— " Major Greig, as the police magistrate of this borough, and therefore specially interested in the preservation of public order, I feel bound to take the earned opportunity afforded me to convey to you as head countable, and to the officers and men under your command, my best thanks for the admirable manner in which you carried out the instructions of the magistrates with regard to the threatened demonstration in our streets yesterday. Having been at the polioe-office during tho greater part of the day, I can bear the most ample testimony to the excel knee of all your aminements, and to the highly satisfao- 1 tory wanner in which they were carried out. I think the authorities of this town may fairly claim some credit for the quiet determination with which ; they prohibited the intended procession or processions, and I am glad to see that our exuruple has been followed elsewhere. The immediate danger has been averted ; but after what has occurred in London we cannot be too much upon our guard against the reckless atrocity which seems to care nothing for the lives even of innocent womcn and children, provided their own disloyal purposes may be effected. I believe that, had it cot been for the vigilance of the police of this borough under your command, exer- . deed now untiringly for some months, we might have had to rue results as fatal to life and property as has been the event which took place in London on Friday last, and which has excited everywhere feelings of horror and alarm which will not be readily subdued. I feel sure that you will not relax your precautions, and I trust success way always attend your efforts to preserve the public peace and order." Warm and hearty applause from a crowded court ; followed the delivery of this address ; and Major Greig , having briefly but suitably replied was loudly cheered. DIsTRESs IN BEDFORDSHIRE.—Offing to the in creased disuse of straw as a material for bonnets, the straw trade—on which thousands of the residents of Bedford. shire and the immediately contiguous districta entirely depend for their sustenance by plaiting and otherwise pre paring the material fcr manufacture—is depressed to an unprecedented extent, and several suspensions of traders in straw have been announced during the last week. The poor people of Leighton Buzzard, Luton, Newport Fag. ' nell, 'Tring, and other towns and villages, especially the females, have already begun to experience much distress ;; and the applications to the local boards of guardians for relief have materially increased within the last fortnight, and are sure in a short time to be so numerous as to severely test the capacity of the several workhouses, and the existing funds of the different unions in the district. BURSTING OF A RESERVOIR. —An alarming and destructive accident occurred in Kelso on Saturday night. The town is supplied with water from a large iron tank or reservoir, capable of containing about 60,000 gallons, and this is tined on massive stone walls to a height of 60 or 70 feet. Into this tank the water is pumped by esteem engine, and on Saturday night it was tilled, no one sup. I posing that there was any danger. The man in charge had not long left the place when aloud report was heard, caused by the bursting of the tank, and the water rushed out, carrying all before it. A dwelling-house close by was ; completely shattered, but the inmates, with the exception of a daughter of the proprietor, eaceped. The poor young lady, however, is so severely injured that her recovery is doubtful. She was so completely buried amongst a mass of rubbish that it was an hour before she could be extricated. A medical examination showed that she had received cute and bruises all over the body, and that her left thigh was broken. Several persons narrowly escaped being carried away by the rushing water. The damage to property is considerable, besides the incense. nience that will be felt in the town till arrangements can be made for a fresh supply of water. It is not yet known where the blame lies, if b la me there be. The sides of the tank were nearly aa inch in thickness, sod it seemed quite secure.— Edinburph Courant. CRYSTAL PALACE. ONE SHELLING DAY.-- MONDAY, DEC. 16.—Admissions on payment, 385; ditto by season tickets, 1,139; total visitors, 1,524. 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Horn, and itaano.o Breit. ed "Gitire elfin 11 no.meuto." Le Norte dl Arta, 1 "Deb vieni non Lunar." f Figaro. Mnzart. Sono de Pieces, lu £ major, for Pianoforte alone—. Handel if. Serenade, •• Jaime a tot meg PART cheats dans rombre" Schubert. Senate, in A major, ter Pianoforte end Violin Song, "L Parfet' d'amor " ;Pang, quartet, in D major Beethoven's pianoforte quintet belongs to the same period as his well-known septet for stringed and wind instru ments—both having been composed in 1;96, when the composer was still under the influence of that admiration of Mozart which gave the tone and bias to his earlier works. Melodic beauty and exquisite symmetrical pro portion, with refined structural finish, are the marking characteristics of this phase of Beethoven's genius ; with occasional trait', however, of that grand originality which was so soon to break through all the trammels of classical precedent, and so nobly to assert itself in a long series of works which seem ultimately to have attained tho highest possible degree of sublime idealism in music. The quintet performed last night (for the first time at these concerts) is • model of beauty both in idea and structure. Although strictly cencertante throughout, the pisneforte part nesesearilv stood& pro minently forth from the importance of the instrument and the rich variety of ;brilliant passages assigned to it ; in the invention and development of which, here and in other works of the same period, Beethoven ranks as an originator, apart from the higher consideration due to general conception and composition. The broad and clear development of the first movement, the flowing graceful beauty and tenderness of the andante fits first phrase reminiscent of Mozart's " Batti, batti,") and the brilliant animation of the final rondo of the quintet must always exercise a strong charm, especially when so admirably played as it was last night. Mr. Halle, whose finished execution and refined style could not be heard to greater advantage than in such music, was worthily supported by Mr. Barret (oboe), Mr. Lazarus (clarinet), Mr. C. Harper (horn), and Mr. Winterbottotti (bassoon), the quintet being given in its original shape, the same work existing as • pianoforte quartet, with stringed instruments, so adapted by the composer himself. The exquisite andante movement, with its rich series of solo pongee for each instrument (admirably played in each In stance), was received with general delight, and at once en cored. In his solo performance of Handers "suite,"ineled ing the well-known " Harmonious Blacksmith" variations, Mr. Halle again displayed that excellent mechanism and thorough appreciation of a special style of composition for which this artist has long been eminent. In the duet sonata of Mozart, one of the composer's latest and best pieces of this class, Mr. Halle we, associated with IL Sainton—which is as much as to may that it was played to perfection. Often as this beautiful sonata has , been heard at these concerts, it has never exercised a greater charm than in its last night's performance. Haydn's fresh and melodious quartet, No. ti of Op. bO, capitally played by Messrs. Sainton, L Ries, H. Blagrove, and Paque, closes the list of instrumental pieces of last night's concert. The vocal music was to have consisted of two songs by Schumann, and two by Mendelssohn, rang by Madame Sainton-Dolby ; but that lady not having recovered from the hoarseness which prevented her from singing at the Sacred Harmonic Society's concert on Fri day night, Madame Sinico gave the pieces specified above, I in each case with that versatile power of appreciation of very opposite styles which rendered this lady for several past seasons so valuable a member of Mr. Maplesoo's operatic company. In each instance Madame Sinico was greeted with loud and prolonged applause, Siebel's song from " Faust " being repeated. In the absence of Mr. Benedict Mr. G. A. Osborae accompanied tho vocal music with great tact and skill. elniberdity ftttelltgenct. OXFORD, Dsc. IG. Mrstest EYERCISE.—An exercise for the degree of Doctor in Music was publicly performed this morning In the Sheldonian Theatre, in the presence of the Vice- Chenoellor, Dr. Corte, choragus of the university, and a numerous audience. It was composed by Mr. William Pole, F.R.S., of St. John's College, and consists of a eases for double choir, with soli and full orchestra. Mr. Pole is, we believe, a gentleman well known in scientific as well as in musical circles, and his taking this degree is a proof of the increasing extent to which the higher branches of music are cultivated by amateurs of the present day. FATII. GAROTTE OCTRAOE.—A garotte outrage resulting in the death of the victimhas occurred in Mile-end. The person whose life has been sacrificed was Mr. Thomas Obrun, who for 27 years was chief oil cooper at the St. Katherine's Docks. The facts were disclosed at the inquest held last evening by Mr. l.ichards, deputy coroner, at the Fountain Tavern, Stacey-street, Mile-end. The widow of the deceased was represented by Mr. Cheeks Young, I solicitor ; Mr. Mumford, superintendent of the Dock police, I watched the case for the St. Katherine's Hock Company and Inspector Brady represented th e Commissioner of Police. Mrs. Mary Ann Obelus, 183, Oxford-street. Mile end, said that the deceased was her husband. On the morning of Tuesday, the 3rd inst., he left home in perfect health, to attend to his business at the docks. He was 48 years of age. He returned at 2.5 minutes past 5 o'clock. His face was cut and bleeding, and so were his hands. He said that as he was passing by the railway arch in Lucas ' street, Mile-end at about a quarter to 5 o'clock, two men rushed from underneath the arch and knocked him down. They attacked him from behind, so that he could not defend himself. While he was on the ground one of the men turned him over on the back and then knelt on his chest, and seized hold of his throat. They undid the fastenings of his clothes, and took Is. 9d. out of his right hand trousers pocket. He at that moment became insensible from the pressure on his throat. Witness .lid not know whether he had lost anything more, but he had received I 9f. the day previous. When he recovered consciousness, !be found that the men had gone away. He gut up, and !with great difficulty walked home. Near his own door he . fell en the pavement, and when he arrived at the house he was in such a condition that witness bad to assist him into the parlour. He was quite sober. He wished to go to the police-station to give information of the outrage, but witness dissuaded him, because he was too much injured to stand the excitement. A woman whom witness did not know called the next morning and asked how Mr. i Obrun was. The deceased was attended by Dr. Mahoney. He died on Weduesday last from the injuries which he had received on the evening of the 3rd inst. After some unimportant evidence the coroner said that he would adjourn the case to enable the police to make further inquiries, and to see if the woman who so strangely called to ask after the condition of the deceased could not be traced. A post-mortem examination of the body of the unfortunate deceased has been made by Dr. L Mahoney, and it has been thereby ascertained that the deceased's ribs had been broken and forced into the lungs. This is just such an injury as would be occasioned by a man kneel mg on the deceased's chest, as he described to his wife that his assailants had done. The deceased's throat was also seriously injured by the pressure apparently of a man's hand. THE DESTRUCTION OF THE GREEK WAR STEAMER BOUBOCLINA.—Yesterday the Liverpool coroner held an i nques t upon the body of Stelianos Permian:es, the quartermaster of the Greek gunboat Bouboulina, can teirly destroyed by an explosion which took place on as she was lying in the Mersey on the 29th ult. Mr. Crus, the Greek Vice-Consul at the port, having iden. tified the body as that of the quartermaster, evidence web taken as to the finding of the body lying face downs arch. upon the sand near low-water mark, opposite the Brunt. wick pier-head. The coroner having remarked upon the entire absence of any testimony as to the cause of the explosion, informed the jury that divers bad been em ployed to examine the wreck, but their operation* not being much advanced it was useless to call them. The jury returned the verdict, " Died from drowning, throus h the wreck of the war steamer Bonboulina, from an explo. aiou in the river Mersey on the 29th ult., but from what cause the explosion took place there is no evidence to show." _ _ PATCNT-OFFICI MUSEUW, SOUTH KENSINGTON. — Number of visitors for the week eadieg Dee. 14, 1,9b9. Total number ainoe the opening of the Museum free daily (12th May, 1858) 1 210 :S.M. 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