The Express. — London, England, 1864-10-03 00:00:00

, 1 ~f I N ti~ • ...AISPA.PF.R ••• ; • .. 7- 4 7 1 :r.girr> ; • ..' .-......;\ ', f ' ; . .c. • ' - . .4f ;:. r.' II -(";/, z • , • ;..emu „•, /A A •• 1-1 tilt AT it_ 13 rt 4%, Z~ f No. 5,664.] bi CAll FROM LIVERPOOL OR QUZINSTOWN TO NEW SOAK. THE LIVERPOOL NEW YORK, and PHILADMPHIA STRAM,HIP COM/A/1 Y Intend dia tom, dug they hall-powered Clyde-WS Ina lon w lMDmiNyti strrying the Undid Kates FROM LIYIRPOO I2I Mor NIW YORK. CITY Or WASHINGTON, Wednesday, October & (.I.As.GOW, Wed . „today October 12. CITY OF (ORK. Saturday, October IL And every WitOordig sad wiry attormais &Warder. c,bis passage by the toad stainers Idling every W IF,'-7, snl 21 guineas, according to the sccondsodatior n rr ab a a craws by the Saturday's stamads, IS &nem lcrward pew ge o p.m, Including all providons cooked. Pansingsrs Genera We United Mates, and Hilda Colombia , booked through very advantageous terma—lbe reread psrUcideas WILLIAM INMAN, n, swanning* Liverpool; sr to El sad MACEY, 61, King Williaradlnest. ma. PILLIPPS, GRAVES, PHILLIPPR, an d co. dimpsteh the undermentioned firet-elase Memmere : For ROITEZDAM, She BATAVLUt, every amsday merniag, from Hermitage Tier, at 10 am., calling at Bleekwall ter pea. meters at 11 km. Tares, It ta, Ll Hs, sad 17a. dd. : and the YVENOORD every Thursday morning early from ed Sha Tower. Pare 41,_ IoriiKKEN, neutral vessels, under Road= nag. taw ADLER, tIoWN, or SCHWALM every Thursday asserdng (weather ranting), at 10 a.na . from Honolydow a, sod from blackwaLL at 12 soon. Farm Lt, LI. sad 10a. For GOTHIONBURG. the GUSTAF WABA, on or about Oet. I, from Horaolydown. Yalta, Li la. and in IL 1 be taloned b the LONDON. lot freight, pomonek amply at Ol PFManila'Vs Univalve Mee.' FM.1.1 S. LAIS, PH11411 , 113, and Co., LC. OVERLAND BOOTM—OOMMUNICATION smug is nom AUSTBLIJA. ad, dl EGYPT. ihs WINSO74II and OMANI= KELLY lAVIIIIIIIOII COMPANY POOL MAMMA and manse Ceresand Pamela at their Louden. *See for Oibrultar, Malta, Eppt, Arden, Ceylon, Madras. Celestas, the Krona, and Odes, bP IYlr elesaseas Wallas Southampton en the eth sad 90Ih of imp mouth; for Of bruits; Mats. EMU Ades, sod Bombay braises of the lttle YJ t7th of saoh month; we for Mauritius. Clay Onerges food, blelboorne, sad Sydney, by the dews,, ire as Booth amptoo on the 20th of every otouth.—Tor further particulars apply at the Company a Offices, 1.V., Leadsaluilleturat, LC., Law dos , or erteatabglosn Southampaen„ BANK of AUSTRALASIA (iucorporated 1E34 Ito. 4, Threadneedle-street, landon, September 10.1861 The Court of Directors HELI4SI GIVE Nunez. that a PI CIDEND at the rate of 6 per coal per annum, and a BONTIS, • Adltional interest, at the rate cf 8 per cent per amenna, both trot of lemma-tax, being together at the rate of II per cent per ramile, or Le 16e. a share for the half-year, will be PAID to the ',petters at Ws °nice on the ofd capital of the earpceation of ....6,400 on and after TUESDAY, the IlthOetober next, between Ihr boon of 10 and S o'clock; and that a DIVIDE/CB and htihlS at the same rates, being together 14A Ern !nor'se thee be PAID on £78,000, the amount of pee will the Est In etaiment of 110 upon the new shams The Trainee, Books. both (mold and sew shares, will be dosed t. m the 1986 September, andeontinue en until the dividend and 1,n6" became payabie.—lty order of the Court, WILLIAM MILLIKEN, Seeretiny. T HE KING'S BUTTERFLY. ST. JAMES'S-HALL (entrances in R.rat street and Plocaoift).—Profemor ANDINSOY3 0 }..%TF ETALN ENT , the WORLD of MAGIC. sad Mks ANDER estraordhuu7 pawn of SECOND 21011 T have made • intone hitherto unparalleled la the annals of the art amniotic }.% LEY FAA-Nati. at S. Os Saturdays • fashionable juvenile day performance at 3 p.m. Loon open at 7 sad 2 o'clock. Stalls slumbered and strictly reserved). 35.: balcony, 2a.: aria and , la. Juvenile tracts for the stalls, la. each. besig-ved seats may be &toured at the Ticket-tem, 2b, Piccadilly T HE O X F O R D. FRE OXFORD and CANTXRBYRY HALL COMPANY , Limited -KATING F-XTBAORDINARY.—Mr. JACKSON HAINIZ, tl'e Americas Claampion Skater, appears "Villa "VOWING, and gives Ma wooden al entertainment on the Drairinp-room skates. emulating of Quadrilles. Varlovimmes, Ac. OPLIA TIC SLLEi TIONB from LA FAVORITE, MARTHA, LA TBOVA TORE, Be. Comedy by Casworth. Eugene, W. Randall. H. Ca vans% Herr Hermann, Ac.„ &e. -Adralasion, A: era : Stale and Balcony, la. Private Boxes, 10s. THE SOURCE of the NILE. —M r . H. W. PHILLIPS'S PICTURE representing Captains SPLICE and GIANT will be ON VIEW for a few dare at Mr. ROG Attfird I•ALILILY, 6, Saystarket.—Admiadon b) cards of address. ROOKS for AUTUMN and WINTER READING.—PantIlles returning to taws ay obtain an alusdant supply at the best New Books, as they appear. trots II bl Et 1.11 - I.6CT LIBRARY (latalteel).—Fet pperaaeep pe ec c app M ly to CHARM; LI/WARD MI: D I E, New 'trot ; city ee, 4, Klngetreet, Chempelde• FORTHCOMING 800 K & —Arrangements have again been made with the leadhur publishers for an early and abundant supply to iltDlloll LIBRARY , daring the ensuing meow°, a all the "iineipal New Books as they appear.— Pliepctuses on applkatloo.—MUDlEß IiBLELT LIBRARY ILltnited). Yew Oxiordatreet ; L'lty Mike, 4, kingetreet. aide. FIELD'S celebrated UNITED SERVICE SOAP .1 TABLLTS, 4d. end ed. nab, *old by all chandlers and Ergthroughout the ktosd bat th e p s eld's and use that the ons name of . 1 . C. aid üblic J. h YlE ould ask LD Is en eseltpooket, boa, and tablet Wholesale and for eaportatton at the Works, 1.711•101. LAMA L 1131111311, LONDON 5 whore abo may be obtained their Priam Medal Farman* 0111i1/11111. 'TOURISTS sod TRAVYjsyRS, Visitors to the .L &ashes, and others. exposed to the @earthiest rays of the me and heated particle* of dust, will find ROWLAND& RALY DOB a most ref. ealling preparation for the complexion, il l s ellingt cloud of 'anguor and relaxation. all a yi ng a ll h ea t and irritability, and immediately slfordeig the pleasing moieties attendieg restored elmtleity and healthful s t a t e o f th e s ki n. }Wales, tan spots, pimples, gushes, and discalorations are eradi cated by Its application, and give place to a healthy purity and dtli.acy of complexion. Price Cc ed. and as. 6d per bottle. &,1,1 by A. ROWLAND and WINS, 20. Hatton-garden • and by chenutta and perfumers. Ask for • Rowlands' Ralydor," and beware of spurious and pernicious artkka ander the name of • Kali dor." THE COMPANIES ACT, 1862. The Books aad Porno required ander the above Aet, alas all other blade of Account Books, with every Stationery requisite for Public. Companies, the Countiag•houye , he supplied es the US terms. Pristine of every deeeription. &wearing Die siattag, Ash rod Mk 0, lleatoreet LC.. and Loadoo-brldge, Li THE INDIAN stittr.—Witli reference to an edi torial article which appeared in the Times of Sept. 21, sod to some letters from correspondents, on the subject of the regulations recently published io the lodine goverment Ga:, tie, for the admission of military officers to civil sod political employment, we are enabled to state that it was not the intention of the home government that retrospective effect should be given to these rules on any new conditions imposed upon officen balding appointments, permanent or officiating," at the time of the reosipt of Sir Charles Wood's original despatch. Supplementary instructions on the subject from her Majesty's government will remove all misapprehension, with respect to the application of the rules. and relieve the minds of many officers who bad be lieved themselves to be injuriously affected by them.— Friioirrrct DEATH ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAT.-0. Saturday afternoon Mr. Rupert Clarke, coroner for Berke, held an inquest at the Railway Hotel, Twyford, on the body of a man named Parson; who was employed on the Gloat Western Railway a platelayer, and met he death under these cireunotanon :—He was at work on the line between Twyford and Reading, end during the temporary "beeps et a fellow labourer he perceived a down train advancing, and be accordingly stepped on the up-line, whoa the :t.4:1 up-train from Binnioghase rapidly ep pmached, and, atriking the unfortunate men on the back Tart of his head, the snipe hurled him body a diatom* of about fifty pada. One of his leg s also wee dreadfully cruelied. When the wend workman returned he missed Pincies, but noun found his mangled body. from which life bad entirely departed, and it wee evident from the fright ful way is which his heed had been smashed that death must Lave been instantaneous. The accident was not ob served by the driver of the train. Deosased wen a married man. sod lived at Twyford. A verdict of "Accidental Death" was returned. THE LA,T or THE WOL) INCLN DIAR I ES. —Oll Saturday, at Norton, East Riding, Benjamin Wilson, alias Big Ben, a desperate poaching character, and one of the men booed over to appear when called upon, on munition of bite one of the perpetrators of the great Wold fires of last winter, was brought up on remand on a charge of tree. /easing in pursuit of game during the sight of the 16th of : - ePtereter, 149, on lends of Lord Middleton, at North Conattoo. Palmer, the game watcher, lied at that time wly come into his /ordship's service, sod be with two others were watching, when a well-known dog which he. longed t o t h e prisoner, came up. Judging that Wilson mono" farivr, the three watched, and in 10 minutes Wilma end two other pouter", carrying s not. came up. On Wilson ordering ooenf kin campmate to" ram a charge into that gnu sad be iitnek," the watcher's two companion node off, being ai afraid ' Wilsoe'sdopetioe. Palmer, however, went up to the three, sod one of thorn clewed with him and threw him &an. a struggle ensuing on the ground. Darts( ibis Wil- N G le at the a etcher with a "tick on the heed, sad left him !reensible. Wilson was known, the akar , Wire not. lti...me elecooded, and had never been seen till last Sitar f,y• It seems be had been apprehended in Hull by Mr. .Seperiokodent Young, of DritSeld, for the Weld fire burl. to,. and had been handed over to Mr. Superintendent , per, of Norton, on the poaching charge. The bench .41 they never heard clearer evidence given, and should send Prisoner to gaol to bard labour for three mouth'. and •:. r wards to be booed over to keep the poem for 1 2 months. • ..is the able of the Wold :angers are in the buds of CRYNTAL PALLCI..-71/112-CROWN DAY.-SATUR -0(r. I.—Admissions of payment, 1,176; ditto by tiCktto, 2,625 ; table VW. hiiiillMlNEmom. TEL GRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (iguTia's =swum.) ITALY. TURIN, Ocr. 1. • signor Viola has been appointed Minister of Justice. Baron Ricaaoli has returned to Florence. Before leaving Turin lie held a conference with hie political friends, and urged them to support the Ministry. TURIN, Oar. 2. The Opinions, Perseveratua, Gazetta di Torino, Stamps, Disousaioac Monarchic and other journals, praise the Ministry for the frankness of its declara tions. The Pangoto, while supporting the pro gramme of the new Ministry, expresses fears that it is not decided enough for carrying out the con vection. The rumour circulated on the Paris Bourse of the intention of the Italian government to contract • new loan of 700 millioa lire is entirely unfounded. MILAN. Ocr. 2. Another political meeting has been held here. A resolution was passed expressing the conviction that the Franco-Italian Convention was a sign of great progress and of the resurrection of Italy. The 6:4;eention was also considered to present the mesas of realising the national programme which cannot be accomplished out of Rome. ROME. ROME. Stn. 30. The Osserratore Romano of to-day says :—" At the sounding of the retreat yesterday evening by the French Hussars, a popular demonstration was attempted by some persons among the numerous throng of people assembled. Seditious cries were repeatedly raised. Order was, however, quickly restored on the arrest by the French gendarmes of the originators of the disturbanoe." ROME, Ocr. 1. Yesterday the tribunal of the Consults passed sentence upon the persons implicated in the con spiracy of the 12th April, 1864. Palma was con demned to hard labour for life ; Fiori to 15, Fili berck and Fajoli to 10, and Romani to six years' hard labour. PRINCE H UMBERT. PARIS, Ocr. 2. The Paris evening paper state that Prince Hum bert has prolonged his stay in Paris, and will apeud thirteen days at Compeigne, returning to Italy probably about the 24th inst. FRANCE. PARIS, Oer. 1. The Chevalier de Nigra arrived here this morning. Baron de Budberg has gone to Darmstadt. Count Goltz is about to proceed to Baden. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES. STOCKHOLM, Ocr. 2. The departure of the Prince and Princess of Wales for Copenhagen has been postponed until Tuesday next. Their royal highnesses will then be accompanied by Prince Oscar. THE VIENNA CONFERENCE. . VIENNA, Oar. 2. The next sitting of the conference will take place on Tuesday or Vilanesday, by which time the Danish plenipotentiaries expect to receive replies to the questions they had addressed to their government at Copenhagen. The proceedings of the conference are kept per featly secret, and the statements relative to what took place at the last sitting are pure conjecture. SANTO DOMINGO. MADRID, Ocr. 1. Advices received here from Santo Domingo announce that the Spanish general completely de feated the insurgents in an engagement on the 31st August. The insurgents lost six cannon, and their general, Martinez, was killed. THE BOMBAY MAILS. The following telegr►m has been received at Mr. Reuter's office, from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : SUEZ, Ocr. 2. The Carnatic, from Bombay Sept. 9, reached Suez at 4 a.m. to-day, having been detained three days at Aden, through a derangement of her ma chinery. Intelligence of the arrival at Suez of the Norma, from the Mauritius, has already been received by private telegram. The first of October falling this year on a Satur day, the opening of the Metropolitan Medical Schools was postponed till this day, except in four instance. Cayerat PALAU& —The illumination of the great centre basin during the playing of the fountains, will be repeated this evening at seven o'clock, accompanied by batteries of shells and Boman candles, and concluding with a fi4ht of roskets. THE MURDER ON CH•DWELL-HEATR. —Francis Wain, who stands charged by the coroner's inquisition with the murder of Amelia Blunt, was re-examined before the lifonl magistrates, and fully committed for trial. 31 ELANCUOLY BATHING ACCI MINT AT HASTINGS.— Mr. Itiehard Bageter. a young geotleman, aged 'xi years, who had corn* from Loudon on Saturday ' , mein to visit LI. family, residing in Eversfield-place, was drowned yes terday morning while bathing in front of his father's lodgings and within sight .1 many persons powerless to rescue him. The weather was exceedingly doe, but • strong easterly breeze prevailed, and produced • heavy des very dangerous for imperfect SIVIOUDOrn. Mr. Roister. acoompsoied by • young friend, tamed Stoddart, hired • bathing machine about half-past 10 o'clock, and both gentlemen considering themselves expert swimmers, un fortunately disregardwl the warning of the bath at tendants, William Noakes sod William White, not to venture out beyond the length of a rope attached to the machine, about 271 C As soon as they had undressed both of them struck out and swam, with apparent calm, about 100 yards from the beach. Mr. Stoddart went furthest, but lie turned and made for the slime Wont Mr. Hensler, who in less than five minutes was observed to be holding up his right arm and in apparent difficulty. The father of Mr. Hapser and his eldest brother, who were upon the beach, observed the critical position of their relative, but before they had time to raise an alarm the danger was sees by the bathmen Noakes and White, who immediately ran along the beach, and launched the first host they could Lt hold of—a small wherry—whieh half filled with water se she put off. Meantime Mr. Sashimi., who bad reached the shore and learnt from the distraeled father and brother tbe imminent dagger of h‘s (need, again dashed into the sea. sad fought as bnvsly as his diminished strength would alloy ia his ecoloseour to reach Mr. Boaster, who was be oomioe gradually weaker and still holding up his Leads for aid. the wherry maimed by Noakes pulled gallantly through the brad, we, sad hod reached within 11 yards of the Un fortunate g ,safJersam when he soak for this last time and a ll efforts t o ewers, Ms body were fruitier. Mr. Stoddart was gristly =hearted when he came ashore, and it is im peeeil)le 000po 've a more agooisiog seen. than the pain and di s k s ., o f th e deessesers family when all hope of the recovery of tbo deceased was lost. A reward of 101. ha. been offersdrfor the bc,iy. This nafortussas gentleman was the third ma of Mr. The mime Bander, of Great St, Hides's. lIRALTH AND Sorsion.wit BEIRTORRD without medi- Incoarsaldiaesom ones is by Da BorrY's dill asi health alaa restoring blca w saves Bily Paws Ito mat in other remed ltaralaniaA ies ra , sad ca. es thel anassuieb. servos, haw, liter. and Intestates of all chronic or recent disorders. Woo° cures aaunally of dyspepsia ilndlg, sdisa), constipatlon. diarrhea, cone, oonssarptloa, wasting, del %LI old or yoang. Da Barry and Co., Ns. 77, Regent-street, a, W. la taw, Liu, ts. td.: 110. 210L-lAdvartlattosat.j LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1864. THE DREADFUL EXPLOSION OF GUN POWDER AT MUTH. _..-- It la believed that the explosion on Saturday first bath Omega board oiled the barges ; and it in suggested—though there is not the milled particle of proof of it—that it might have been caved by a spark falling from • pipe, which one of the bargemen might have been smoking. It is, however, said that Mrs. Raynor, who was extricated from the ruins of her home alive, on being asked where her husband was, answered faintly, "Oh, I know, he must be haled. He came to my bedside and told me to get up, and I saw him blown through the wall of the house when the explosion took place.' If this is free, it would appear that the origin of the diming, was net on board the barges, bat both they sad the two magazines were blown to pieces. The quantity of powder which exploded has been imaieseely exaggerated by public rumour. it was Mated that there were sot leis than 30,000 barrels in the magazines, each barrel °detaining from 8014 to 1001 b. ; bet Messrs. Hal write to my that they bad only 700 barrels sa their Moak, besides 200 which were in the barge. The quantity is the other magazine has not bees stated. Whatever the quantity might have been, the results of the explosion were terrible. Not only were the magazine, afrosgly built as they were, rased to the ground—nothing whatever beingleft but their foundations—bat the very earth for the space of hundreds of yards, was tuned up in huge mares or blocks of a ton weight end up ward' in all directions. Of the poor man Rayste's home nothing remains but • few feet of one of the western walls, while the residence of Mr. Silver has the parlour and the flooring of the first floor hanging down ward in a slanting position over it, the whole of the upper part being gone. Mr. Silver was writing in his little office, and was Dearly buried amid the falling walls, Boon, and ceiling of the house, but he extricated himself, and was comparatively unhurt. A nephew and niece, who lived with him, were both in the house ; they were much injured, and the niece was not expected to recover, having been partly diumbowelled. The &brie lay soattered for many bun ' dred yards in every direction, and there were to be seen heavy beams of timber, some weighing over half a ton, in in the adjoining fields. A large portion of the Belvedere station, upwards of • mile distant, was carried away ; and at the moment of the explosion, the bricks of a new build. ing in course of erection at the station were scattered over the line. In the district, of Eritb, Belvedere, and Plumstead, not only were the windows, but the maims, and even the abutters blown out ; and there wee scarcely a books that bad not suffered more or lees. The Belvedere Hotel had all its lower windows crushed is ; whilst, singular to relate, with me exception, the upper ' 4l. 6lernes escaped. Round to the westward, up the hill, at Eardley-place, nearly all the windows were smashed ; and two shops—one a grocer's, and the other a pastrycook's— have the whole of their shop fronts destroyed, framework, shutters, and all, as if a coal waggon or some heavily laden vehicle had been dashed through them. Some of the villa re sidences had their walls split and their onlinp cracked, and their furniture dashed about and broken. Woolwich also suffered immensely ; the Barrack windows on the Common were smashed in every direction. So great was the shook that it was at first thought that some dreadful disaster had happened at the Arsenal, and the greatest alarm was felt is the town in consequence. It was not until portions of Mears. Hall's books and papers were seen floating in the air that the exact truth was ascertained. A man Tamed James Girnee, who was at work just off the spot where the explosion took place, ballast heaving, states that he hap pened to look toward, (ho (magazine, cud at the moment he sew something bright on board one of the barges. He said to has mate " Why there, a flash of lightning," and almost before he got the words out of his mouth, there was an explosion. He was blown up into the air out of the lighter at least thirty yards (according to has own words) and fell dowel on the deck, from which he rolled into the river, and swam ashore. As he was doing so • large pieos of timber struck him on the kip and injured him so severely that he could scarcely reach the shore and crawl on to the bask, where he laid for some time in great agony until he wee fortunately discovered and removed. The shock is thus described bye watchman at Gravesend: —" I was on the pier," he rid, " when I suddenly lost my balance, and almost instantaneously I heard as awful ex plosion. On turning round I saw, as it were, a pillar of fir e rising to the clouds, which it appeared to strike, and then Nereid out like a Lugo fan, presenting a most beautiful and grand spectacle." Sergeant Cox, of the polio, division stationed at Erith, give. the following narrative of the circumstances :—He was getting up about a quarter to seven when be heard the explo. sioo. He ran out and found all the tack wiodows were broken, the sashes as well u the (gleamed. He looked in the direction from whence the sound proceeded, and imagining from the smoke that one of the magazines had exploded, he proceeded to the scene of the disaster. procuring assistance by the way. Mr. Churton, and Mr. Tipple, tao medical gentlemen of the vicinity, were on the spot almost as soon as the police, and, with Mr. Matthew. son and other surgeons, did all that was possible for the sufferers. On arriving at the scene of the dimmer, having literally picked his way through the beau of rubbish and masses of 11C0001 and brick that had been strewn about by the explosion, Sergeant Cox went to the place which, alas ! had been occupied by Mr. George Ray nor's cottage, the man ager of Muses. Hall and S‘m's magazine, and there in the garden found the body of the unfortunate man lying on the ground. He was dressed, but had not got on the usual slippers that are worn in the magazine. He was much cut about the face, as if by splinters, and the back part of the head, over the left ear, was cut open, the braiu protruding. He was quite dead. Sergeant Cox next saw Mn. Rebecca Wright, who was removed as soon as possible, under the care of the medical men. A son of Raynor, named Oliver, was next dis covered. His head was smashed in • fearfulimanner, and death must have been quite instantaneous. There was no indication either upon father or son that concussion had caused death; it must have been from the splinters or brick, hurled In all directions by the fearful explosion. Elisabeth Wright, aged 13, a daughter of the poor woman previously mentioned, was next found, and she was carefully removed to Guy's Hospital in the train, but died a few minutes after her admission. She had sustained a compound fracture of the skull, a fracture of the left thigh, end was severely burnt on the chest and upper extremity of the body. The bodies of Raynor and his son were removed to the Belvedere Hotel sod placed in • shed to await the coroner's inquest, sad shortly alter the body of a man, apparently about sixty years of age, not known, was foetal in the mud of the river, sod he wee also conveyed to the some place. Amongst the others lotted those whose names we append were conveyed to Guy's Hospital. and it is needless to say they received every attention from Mr. Sidney Tuner and the other officials :—Mary Yorke, 38, fracture of thigh ; Lennie Yorke, 7, canned aim and leg, with buns ; Harriet Ray nor, 40, wound on shoulder and face ; Minh Yorke, 6 , wound, on feu, tack, and legs; Elizabeth Osborne, 7, wounds on face and hands ; Edward Singleton, 24, fracture of arm and burns ; Jane Eves, 38, fracture of skull—very dangerous (since dead). In addition to this list we have to gin • further number, oomprising George Smith, William Mildred, William Li- ; wards (who was thrown • distance of upwards of thirty yards from where be was standing) ; William Johnson, who was much hurt about the heed and shoulders; and George Hubbard, who was found lying outside at the back of one of i the cottages. Two children, named Alfred Reynor, aged 12, sod William Yorke, aged 11, were taken charge o' by Captain who resides at Belvedere. The first named was found on the tint floor of the cottage, part of which yet rumens standing. The poor little fellow was cevered with plaster and dust from the ceding, but irre spective of the fright did not sustain any injury. Two younger children beloeging to Mrs. Wright are in the oar, of Mrs. Price, of Leasnees-heath, and that asingdetes the bat of those who have bees foiled. It is most laniesUble to have to record that the bodies of two of the men who worked with Raynor have not yet bees recovered. Their ' names are Yorke arid Wright. I ' A very short time elapsed after the catastrophe before ca important discovery was made. It was found that the embankment of the river had bee& broken to the catgut of between 170 and 180 feet, sad although fortunately at the time it was low tide, it was felt that unless most energetic , uertiona wets used, the river would overflow and canes the most senate destruction. Some three or four hundred own ham the min drainage weer at Omer= Point were speedily en the spot with shovel sad Mr, and by great ex intros raid by relays of the Saginaw, Marines, and Artil. ley, to the number in the aggregate of nearly 2,000 OM% sad the re of sandbags supplied from the military stores, they saleseded is keeping out the water, although about one o'clock, when the tide was at its height, the water was found to be making its way through the Mak, and the greatest 'prober:roes were excited. Fresh debriments of troops, however, arrived, and Mr. Webetees nark', by redoubled exertions, .uooeeded is oaring the bank temporarily wore. By this time, the locality of the disaster brims become generally knows, the Booth Eastern Company brought down by every train daring the afternoon husdreds—one might almost say thostrods—of people. By the 2.15 train from Cha ringror Captain Harris, one of the assistant commis :laws of metropolitan police, with Inspector Walker, and a Wong detachment of the A division, arrived, and aided the kcal and dockyard and Royal Animal constables, under the able disestione of Mr. Bray, the esperiatendeut of the die t:rid. fa keeping the grimed. The extent of the awe of derstrien we, however, so great, and the visitors in• !cressing hundreds from Woolwich and the surrounding districts. r well is the zeirepobis, every hoar to such I an err* SW it was found seeessary also te all in the aid of the military, and pickets of the sth Fusiliers were refined at intervals, with their arms end Med Myra& llejor General Wards, the °mammalian of Ike Iftsohale garrison, Colonel Masters, and other ineedes d Me staff, were on the ground superin trills the operations during theentire day, and did not leer until past six o'clock in the evening, when all fear of the embankment giving way at the next rising of the tide i i was ersidered to bar been effectually provided whir. . The MIS who had been at work during the day were re. Herd at about Sr. o'clock be 13d of the flappers and Miners from Woolwich garrison, under command of Captain Webb. I and they were to continue strengthening the embankment throughout the night. A farther detachment of the Mk Fasiliors sad a large body of police from London also arrived to relieve their acemades in guarding the ground, and additional police were also stationed as &lib, Danford, Abbey Wood, sad adjacent villages, to protect the houses the windows of which bad been shattered by the explo. ▪ and which would be easily accessible where not boarded up for protection from robbery. Yesterday it was found that the prectutioms which bad been taken to prevent the inundation of Erith would prove ineffectual. It was found the new embankment had begun to give way : it had sunk considerably, and it is raid that the water bed actually commenced in one place to trickle through. The wind blew almost a gale from the eastward, driving jibe water against the yielding barrier with a force that Wiener was evidently not stroog enough toner. As troops of the garrison were returning from church a tele graphic message was received hear the scene of the explosion, requesting all the troops might be sent thatoould be collected. Upoe the receipt of th is communicatiorehiajor•Gemeral Ware despaired 500 of the Royal Hone Artillery, a body of the Sappers and Misers, and a picket of the Sib Fusiliers to Faith. These mon were under the command of Colonel Hawkins, ILL ; Colonel Price, C. 8., of the Royal Hone Artillery; Colonel Arran, C. 8., of the nth Brigade; Colonel Gage, Royal Hone Artillery ; Brigade Major Hays ; Captain Mangles and Captain Willem*, A.D.C. Major- General Ward. himself proceeded to the ground, and took the command in chief. Sandbags and entrenching tools, picks, rammers. sho►els, Lc., were forwarded by rail sod artillery waggons by Cap tain Gordoo. of the Royal Horse Artillery, the principal engineer of the arsenal. Upon arriving at the scene of the threatened inundation it was found that not s moment was to be lost. The 150 navvies had been hard at wok during the night, and they were completel► worn out. They were immediately dismissed from their labours, and the troops took their place. The artillerymen stripped to their work, and went at it withs will. Numbers were toldotf to fill the sthdbags,of which several thousands had been brought down from thew...nal, which was fortunately so near, and the vast, will the Sappers, began the labour of 4:matrix:nog a new embankment The whole area occupied until Saturday morning by the powder mills sod other buildings of Mum. Hall at once assumed the aspect of a camp. By slow degrees the tide roes, and its progress was re garded with no little anxiety by the officers in command of the works, but owing to the unwearied exertions of the men wider them the barrier advanced in proportion. It steadily lin:reseed in height and width, ►nd when at three o'clock th e water rose to its greatest height the presser*, though ren dered immense by the wind, which blew with extraordinary force right up the river, was met with • resistance that proved effectual, and the danger was pronounced to he over. To show how real and how imminent the danger had been, it is only necessary to state that all the efforts of the mili tary had only been sufficient to raise the barrier 12 inches above the level to which the river reached at the hour in question. At half-past four the trumpet sounded, and the troops, amidst loud cheers, threw by their tools, having tri umphantly accomplished their work. The number of excursionist. to the spot was extraordi nary. Some 20,000 went down during the day from Lon don-bridge station alone, and it may safely be estimated that from other natio°s and by other routes at least four times that number found their way to the 'pot. The road way on one part WI so completely blocked up that the military, on their return at five o'clock in the evening were brought to • dead non, which was only pat an end to by their charging forward and tumbling the luckless civi lians into the fields sad ditches at either side—an operation which was, strange to say, provocative of much merriment to all coooerned. LATER PARTICULARS. Terrible and destructive as was the explosion, the amounts which have been published, obtained in the con fusion and excitement, are fortunately much exaggerated, both as to the amulet of property destroyed and the number of persons killed and injured. Instead of a million pounds worth of property being destroyed, as at first supposed, a quarter of a million is more near the truth, while the deaths may be set down at Mout twelve in number, Instead of forty es at first stated, and the persons more or lees injured are abonttwenty, the most serious cases, nine is number, bevies bees taken to Gay's Hospital, those suffering from braises only having been accommodated in the neighbourhood. The town of Erith, at first reported to have been almost destroyed, 1 1 has escaped any serious injury, which may be accounted for by a strong wind blowing towards the metropolis, and it was no doubt owing to this circumstance that the shock of the explosion was felt so severely throughout London and its suburbs. The little hamlet of Belvedere, situate about a mile and a half from its spot where the powder auguries; stood, has suffered severely,so far as ►he breaking of the glass in the windows and shops is concerned, but the damage done in any other way is inconsiderable. So at Plato/teed, Abbey Wood, and Woolwich, the more exposed portions of which have sustained much damage by breakage of windows, bat very little beyond that. Here sad there a few tiles have been dislodged from the roofs of house and bricks die • placed, but these cases are fortunately few in number. With the exception of a substantially boils brick house, now in ruins, erected near the magazines, and occupied by the fore man and manager and their families, there wereeo buildings on the marshes within a mile of the works, besides a few mud hovels, occasionally inhabited. The works destroyed were not manufacturing powder mills, but simply a powder stme or depot, ►nd the number of persons employed there were but few. It is owing to this that the lass of life has been comparatively small. There can be no exaggeration, however, as to the scene of destruction and desolation presented' on the spot where the magazines once stood. With the exception of a portion of the side wall of the manager's home, not a ►estige of the annieroas buildings is left standing. For at least a mile round the marshes are covered with bricks and timber, a great portion of the latter being mach charred, as ifiby firs. The most serious part of the catastrophe was the breaking down of several hundred yards of the river well or embark• meat, protecting the marshes and land surrounding tram the overflow of the river Thames. Fortunately it wen low water at the time of the mplasion, or the omesqnsacer would have beau most disastrous, resulting not only in the flooding of the =amiss and the destruction of a large quan tity of agriculturol produce, and the drowning of some thousands of cattle and sheep depantaring on the marshes, bat also in indicting the most serious damage upon the extensive coattail works of the main draimge system at Crosses= Point, Master within about one mils d the sows of the explain. [Stamped, ld. Additional.] The owe resented to the spectator yesterday was of a most singular description. The heaps of brickwork and 'barred timbers lying in all directions, the rains of the manager's house and of two or three hovels that stood near, the large working parties of moldier' in all directions, the mounted °Mears controlling their operations, the pickets stationed for a mile round the marshes, the camp lira for cooking the sailor of the men, the 'Gooding of the bugles at interval., and the long trains of artillery waggons stand ing about in all directions, gave the place every appearance of the entry of an army into a village after a snare bombardment. The number of persons who yesterday visited the scene of destruction was enormous, and the police estimate that at least 100,000 persona ware piesent during the day. From, an early boor in the morning until dusk long trains came in from the London-bridge station, crammed to suffocation, while frequent trains from Maidstone, Strood, Chatham, Rochester, Grandma, Dartford, and other places on the North Kent line, deposited.their thousands at the Erith station. Long after dark the platform and grounds of the Belvedere and Erith stations were crowded with thou sands of people waiting to be conveyed homewards. Neither at Belvedere nor Erith, after three o'clock in the afternoon, wee refreshment of any description obtainable, and such wu the rush at the public-houses, that the proprietors deemed it prudent entirely to close them soon after that hour. This, combined with the tedious'es of veldt some hours ter the kolas, was the 01111118 Of great cootusion unceget the assembled thousands, and the police, of whom there was • strong form present, bad much difficulty in preserving any thing like order. Never before was such a scene exhibited in the usually quiet localities of Erith and Belvedere as was to be seen yesterday, • large portion of thou sasembled being some of the wont portion of the London east end " roughs" who are in their element in such scenes Si those of yesterday, and whose riotous and disorderly on duct added 'gristly to the ooninsioo. What the scene would be when it became quite dark, under these circum stances, may be easily imagined. Upon inquiry at Gay's Hospital last night at 9 o'clock, it Appian that of the nine persons brought in there, two are dead: one, Elizabeth Wright, aged 13, who died almost immediately after admission on Saturday morning ; and James Eves, who died yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock. A third sufferer, named Elias Osborne, aged eight years, pre sents • pitiable spectacle, her face, head, and bands being frightfully lacerated. She is not expected to survive the night. The other six are all going on favourably, and no fatal result is apprehended iu these cases. SCENE AT THE RAILWAY STATION. The scene presented yesterday at the London-bridge ela tion of the North Kent line was one th►t almost baffles de- ecription. The railway authorities, in anticipation of a large extra traffic yesterday, consequent upon the desire of the public to witness the scene of the explosion, had made ar rangements for the running of several trains, in addition to those usually running on the Sunday, but their arrange mute fell far short of what was required, and the result was, especially in the after-part of the day, considerable confusion and disappointment. The trains commenced running as early as seven o'clock in the morning, and from that hour until eleven several thousand persons had been conveyed to the scene of destruction. Oa the reopening of the station at one o'clock the rash of people into the booking offices warn tremendous, and • the platforms, both on the high and low level, speedily became filled with a dense multitude of people impatient for conveyance either to Belvedere or Frith stations. From 1 o'clock until 3 the trains departed in rapid succeasioo, no leas than 10 trains besides the two ordinary ones having bees despatched between those hours, bat still there was no perceptible diminution in the crowds on the platform. Boon after 3 o'clook a telegraph arrived at London-bridge requesting that no more trains should be despatched until the ordinary train at 4 o'clock. As the line was completely blocked up telegraphs were at coos sent down the line to the effect that on ao account wee a train to leave a statics Wars As Adios swam had useived a. telegram that the trims is front had left the station in ad. vance. This was a wise precaution, for though it involved considerable delay, the train leaving London-bridge after 2 o'clock occupying over 2 hours in the journey usually per formed in three-quarters of an hour, it provoked accidents that would otherwise have occurred. At 4 o'clock there could not have been lees than 5,000 penman crowded together on the London platform of the low level station, and at this moment an uptrain ran into the sta tion on the off side. It had hardly stopped to =able the passengers to alight, when • terrific rush was made from the opposite platform and across the lies, carriages were scaled in all directioes, and the people made their way in through the windows before the up passengers had vacated their seats. As may be supposed the greatest possible con fusion maned, se not one-tenth part of the people could obtain admission into the carriages, although as many as _ _ ' eighteen and twenty crowded into one compartment—in ' tended to accommodate only ten pawns. All remora seance or expostulation on the part of the railway officials was treeless, and the train left with its heavy freight at ten minutes past four, arriving at Belvedere at twenty minutes past six. Two more train left London between that time and five o'clock, when it was announced to the thousands still waiting that no mere passengers would be taken down the lies except the ordinary pasisengen of the day, and that those holding return tickets for Belvedere and Frith would have their money returned on presenting their tickets at the booking-offices. Similar scenes were also taking plans at Charing-cross station, though not to so great an exteet. The trains leaving London-bridge being thus filled, it bonnie impossible to take up the numerous wingers at the various station, down the line, these at New-cross and Woolwich being some hundreds in number, and conaidenble disappointment and inconvenience ensued, especially to the ordinary passengers, who were thus kept waiting for hours, the company being unable to clear th e local station, above two or three times daring the day. It is stated that 50.000 persons were taken down the line from London-bridge sad Cliaring-arces during the day. As may be coejected, the scene at the Erith and Belvedere stations towards evening when everyone was anxious to get home, wasters of great omit arias. At Belvedere, especially,for which the great bulk of the tickets had been taken, as being the nearest station to the scene of the explosion, the scene between five sod six o'clock was terrible. This is • small station for the accommodation of the few hundred inhabitante of the hamlet of Belvedere, and totally without acooramodation for any large traffic. At and around this station at the above hour several thousand persons of al sexes, classes, and ages had congregated in one mass, and as each up train arrived the struggles of the people to obtain admiesion into the already overcrowded carriages was ter rific. At six o'clock, the platform, the fields adjacent to the station, and even the line itself, became blocked up with the returning crowd. At this time an empty train of car riages was sigoalised coming down from London to Erith to take up psaseegers. The crowd at Belvedere determined to mire upon this train and prevent it going on to Erith ; and with this object, as the train approached the station, blocked up the line, necessarily bringing the train to a standstill. A rush was made to the doors on both aides of the carriages, and in less than • minute they were all filled to overflowing. The guards, portent, and police on duty were powerlere to resist the invasion, and the train, after proceeding further down the line, to shunt, returned heavily lades to London. Great prin. is due to the railway guards, porters, and °thereon duty for the manner in which they performed the arduous duties falling upon them so unexpectedly. lip to 10 o'clock but two accidents had been reported ; one being the catching fire of one of the carriages of the train leaving London-bridge at 3 o'clock, freer the Mottos of the wheels e impelling the train to rehire to the stellar for the carriage to be taken off, during which time • lady had her foot severely burnt, and the other that of • lady having her leg broken in the straggle to get into • carriage at the Plumatead station. At 11 o'clock the brains were corningAn rapidly to Losdon bridge, the painergere by which reported that a lugs num ber of persons were still waiting down the Hee. A lugs Haber al prime were takes down to Erith per steamboat, and the road from Woolwich to Belvedere was crowded with vehicles and pedestrians. Oar Woo'wadi cerrospoadsat writes : "Sunday, 9 p.m.— The streets of Woolwich aro ►t this boar crowded by t►oossads of moons who bars visited Wooden, sad boys bon toto/ly amble to obtain ram acooolioodatios for (TWOPENCE their return. Throughout the day the entire line of route from London to Frith has presented a epectacle resembling that of the road to Epsom on a ' Derby day.' Carriages of every description from the baronche tothecostermonger's barrow have ;eased through Woolwich in a continuous stream, and the prewar, on the locomotive department of the South Eastern Railway has been such that it was impossible so ac commodate the traffic, although amerces exist Arsine were in requisition. The rash this evening at the Belvedere, Krill, and Pltimstead stations of the North Kent line by passengers anxious to returned home baffles description and several accidents have occurred. At Belvedere the station and its approaches were literally blocked, and several persons were more or lees injured. At the Plumstead station a woman was pushed down and had her leg broken, and it is astonishing that lives were not lost. Appalling as the accident has been it might even have proved wore insomuch as two additional maga zines, coetainiag an immense quantity of powder, are still existing on the river shore between Belvedere and Woolwich Arsenal. One of thee, stores, which is only a quarter of a mile from the magazines blown ap, contained at the time of the accident upwards of 1,000 barrels of powder, and although every window in the building was destroyed, sot a. single barrel of the powder was touched. The services rea -1 dared by the Royal Artillery, Fusiliers Military Trein, Engineers, and Mertaes, is reptiriog the river wall have been invaleshis tlywerds of 2,00 ff Nand bags, with a waggon train containing every de scription al tools, wee famaxdrilsosa the Maya Armada early on Saturday morning, and Major-General Wards, commandant of the garrison, with a staff of oaken, wee* quickly on the spot. The explosion has ceased an Mimeses amount of damage at Woolwich. At the Royal Animal the royal gun factories sustained the greeted amount of injury, and in the other departments windows were blows out by hundreds. At the Royal Marine Hospital two massive gates were thrown off their hinges, and 6/ey large Nuns of glass were broken ; and at the Dockyan: Royal Artillery, and Royal Marine Barracks, broken windows are almost numberless. At the time of the explosion a complete shower of papers, ooesiating of amounts and documents relating to the powder factories, fell over the area of Woolwich, Plunistead, and. Charlton, and an oil portrait at Lord Neiman, partially blackened by powder, was picked up at Plumatead railway bridge. The whole of the available police force from the A it, and M Divisions were on duty at the scene of the,catas trophe during the day. And front the exertions mad* by the military, and the labourers employed by Menem. Web ster, the contractors for the anthill sewage works, the river wall is believed to be perfectly ware, and the whole of the military returned to barracks this night. An immense number of detail., illustrating the damage which was done by the explosion, have been collected by the industry of the reporters. The following will ONTO as a few specimens the neighbourhood of Newington, Camber well, Dulwick, Peckham, Sydenbam, Er., the shock was felt with tremendous violence. In the Walworth-road, at Sutherland Chapel, • large number of the window■ were shivered, and at a shop in the same thoroughfare the shutters were hurled into the ,roadway, the plate glass front at the same time splitting in all directions. From the houses in the vicinity of Kennington-park the people rushed into the streets from their beds, and the utmost constoru•tion prevailed. The windows of the houses were in many places shattered, ►nd many describe the shock am of that ♦iolence that heavy article. of furniture were rocked about. At a large building in the Walworth-road the brickwork was found to be split up, and some men going to work describe the shook se something terrible, lasting several minutes, as though the ground up heaved. In Francis-street, Newington, • gentleman de scribes the effect as truly alarming, the doors of his house being dashed open, locks aid bolts being torn away. At other dwellings the result was the same. In the Lucas road, Walivorth, the house, No. 22, was so shaken that part of the roof was displaced, sal the furniture In • back bed room mowed from its position. la Kassiogion-mad sad Kennington-lane the windows of several homes were shat ter:el. In the neighbourhood of Norwood some boilers in course of construction were so injured by the chock that they will have to be shored up to prevent them falling, and in the Norwood-lane some newly-erected stabling was so shaken that fears are entertained of Its giving way. The inhabitants of Clapham and Wandsworth also felt the terrible coecussion, many perms stating that it resembled an earthquake. One man state* that it seemed, as he pained over the common, to roll along and shake the ground be neath his feet. The effect of the explosion was felt at the Crystal Palace and surrounding neighbourhood ; indeed, at the Crystal Pekes the officials rushed out in great terror, firmly ordieving that the great towers had fallen, and they could scarcely credit their senses when they fouled that the building stood intact. Even at Nottisophill the shook wan so severely felt that it is stated the two 'lomat staised-glan• windows over the communion-table in one of the churches were blown out and smashed. At the house of Mr. Simkins, tailor, of New Church-road, Southamptonotreet, Camberwell, two young children be longing to • lodger were heartily tilted oat of bed, and the building itself was much eb•kes. Mr. D. Smith, boot maker, of Edward-street, New Church-road, states that he was standing in his passage, when he was mired with at locution as if he was about to be suffocated, sad believed at the moment that the house was about to fall. la the the tame neighbourhood, at the wood yard of Mr. H. Fielder, • large stack of timber was thrown down, and s portiest fell upon the roof of a small house adjoining it and dashed it in. Fortunately, although several persons were in the house, no one was injured, with the exception of a. little boy who was asleep in the top room, and was somewhat severely bruised about the bead sod face. A somewhat singular incident occurred at t►W house of • poor man named Hughes, living in Lock's-fields It seems that he was warming some coffee for his breakfast, when the atone mantlepiece was broken to pieces, part of which fall upon his head and iallieted a somewhat mum wooed. The man states that when the shock took place, and before the stonework struck him, he felt unable to more from the strange feeling which came over him_ The shock of the explosion was distinztly felt at Galldford, a distance of 44) miles as the crow the., from Eritb. CLIMILIDCII, SUNDLY.—The effecta of the explo sion were distinctly felt in this town mad neighbourhood. li. is said that they were also noticed at Swathing, in the filo of Ely. TO TBR ZDITOZ OY 1112 =rum. &r,—lt is with very deep regret that we have to coadra the fact of the explosion of our gunpowder magazine, aid an adjoining one belonging to Days, Harker, and Co., at Erith, this morning, at a quarter to seven o'clock. We have to lament the death of nine, or possibly tee pare seas, end the injury, more or lees serious, of as many more. The quantity of gunpowder then in store in our magazine was about 750 barrels, with perhaps 200 same in the ber g. moored alongside ; the contents of the other building we do not keen. There was at first much apprehension of the breaking-in of the river wall, but weary glad to my this wmi allayed by the moat energetic and judicious efforts of the general comreseding at Woolwich, who promptly brought • large number of troop, to the place, and left nothing uadoire to avert the danger. Ur. Webster, tbis. eminent contractor, also kindly and elbciently as.sited. There baa been considerable damage to the glass in the neighbourhood ; bat we hops that ho this mad to the total destruction of the magazines the injury to property hes been confined. The cause of this sad calamity is beyond even the reach of conjecture ; the place was for the storages of powder only, and no mechanical operations were required there. Our foreman, whose lose as a faithful and respected servant we much lament, had held that position for 12 years, and had bees accustomed to gunpowder all his life ; his assistants were always chosen for their steadiness and intelligeem. 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