The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1860-11-06 00:00:00

FRIGHTFUL EXPLOSION AT KING'S-CROSS.

On Thursday morning, shortly before 10 o'clock, an
explealion, attended with seri ~,, s and fatal circumstances,
by which two unfortunate workmen instantaneously lost
their •nd two others, and a cabman passing at the
time, were seriously injurel, took place at the under-
ground railway, King'seruas. At the time above speci-
fied an engine and tender. the pnlerty of Mr. Jay, the
coutractur of the Metropolitan Underground Railway
Company, used for the purpose of drawing dirt wagons
throught the tunnel of the above railway, commit.
Matting from King's-cross to the extreme north end of
the Great Northern Railway terminus, was brought to a
stand just outside the mouth of the tunnel, preparatory
to etarting with a train of wagons. Just as the engine-
driver .11.1 in the act of starting the engine, the bottom
of the fire box exploded, cato.ing the locomotive to bound
into the air, and pitched forward to • considerable ills-
Immo. falling upon its snit' • complete wreck. The
funnel was blown over the high stone wall into York.
row!, by which • cabman was knocked down and serious-
ly injured on the head. One oust' was mail to have been
blown over some carriage*, standing about 80feet distant
upon the Greet Northern Railway. At all events, the
body was found at the 'pot indicated, totally unrecognis-
able, the head and face being disfigured in a most horrible
manner, and the body frightfully mntilated. Another
unfortunate man was killed precisely iii the seine horrible
way, 'asides three other., as Aimee stated, who were
more °ries, injured by the flying fragments. The tender
gut detached, and was driven down the tunnel with
great velocity. Crowds of people quickly gathered upon
the heelle, that now ',resented • fearful 'spectacle. The
fragments of the wreck were scattered in every direction.
The meet where the iudipan and buffers of the engine lay
together was saturated with blood, and this, without
doubt, was where the explosion must have taken
place.
The subjoined are the latest particulars gained on the
spot, and it is believed from the mist reliable source :
On the nuirning of the accident shortly before 10, the
migine and tender attached, on which were the driver
and stoker, were standing about 15 cards outside the
top of the tunnel alluded to, waiting (or orders to go to
the bottom of the tunnel to King's-croft. Around it
were. standing.
..fames Church A breaks:min, and Mr.

Peach, one of the contractor's foremen. Suddenly the
bottom of the firebox exploded in the manner described.
The explosion im said to be • moot unaccountable 30e,
inaomuch an there waa no strain apparvntly upon the
engine at the time, and the boiler is perfectly sound.
The engine, although rather in old one. is represented
to have been put lute an efßcient state of repvir, and
wax considered by the men to be in an excellent con-
dition. The following is a correct account of the killed
and injured up to six o'clock in the evening, at which
hour poor Church wan still alive, hut gm wally sinkii.g,
and but faint hopes are now entertained of his recovery:
(image Wiggins, engine driver (killed); Charles
Tann, stolt,r, 'X, Ht. George's-terrace, Agar-town
(killed) ; James Church, break-man, 2, Great William
-
street, Caleilunia•road, suffering froui comminuted
fracture of the thigh and the left arm, • severe scalp
wound extending along the whole of the right aide i.f
the head ; lying at the Greet Northern Hospital in a
precarious condition. John Hay aaaaa nil. cabman-, 1.1,
Tbornhill-strect, cut over the temple ; slightly injured
Peach, foreman of the works, slight out in the head ;
no other injury.

PRINCIPLE IN THE I.IsTS WITH PREJEDICE.—A great
statesman of the last generation declared that " the
wars sif all nations were at an end, anti that the future
conflicts of the earth that would fill the page of history
were to be tbc 'ram iif principle !" the truth of this
prophecy is living gradually developed ; the war of prin-
ciple sages with unseen vigour. Among the foremost
competitors in this vast arena, stands Profe,sor Thomas
Holloway ; with it, fatnessa hut pimple remeiliea, a Pill
and an Ointment, lie may truly be s sid to have suet:etas-
fully combated with Prejudice and Disease ; the latter
in of course the ever-impending foe in all amen, but the
former, more esircially in oar favoured laud, the inevi-
table Oppontlit of all iorpivation and invention ; from
Holloway's flint " esssav in the lists," the medical profes-
sion have been in array againat him ; how tacitly how-
ever Lave they been induced to 'succumb, and own thst
the unity of curia,ae evinced by than great man, and the
sufficiency if the two reine'ien, hose sati•factortiv
proved the fallacy of the Ilypothesia that divers inalsilies
moil varied features of disease require an many
distinct and different remedies. Again—Profisniiiitial
Prejudice has been •iroweily overthrown from
the glaring ci,iifeu,iun coneurred in by all that these
remedial agents have accomplished what the combined
learning and talent of the faculty could never attain—
Unis creel Diameminati ~,, . It would be folly to ca'eulate
the proportionate dills:lance between the number of
applicants for medical aid (in common parlance) at a
pubic dispensary, and the incalculable multitude that
are the daily recipients of Holloway'. twin remedies as
applicable to their teed in the variouill,ll4,s of
' We would simply salt tie reader (conceiving it possible
that lie could accompliali the feat) to take a flying vi
to our numerous dein i deucies. Having first traversed
India witnev.aed the iiiiivers3l popularity of
Pill+ and ointment in that visit UPI tleu,ly
populated region, let him bend hie ssouthern coarse, and,
creasing the esuator, step suddenly into the peace
enshrined poisseailions of Amanita, if Ire would aak what
is the gold digger's remedy for internal Anil external
iliveas'e there, be would meet with the realism., Hul-
loway's Pills and Ointment ; let I take • still more
extended stride, and touching OH rio flight, New Zen-
Intl and the inrounerable intends on tbe Pacific Ocean,
step finally 4,n the flourishing soil of Itritiali
America, be will still find these medicines the Plike
adopted sis rifles fiir with the Savage and the
Settli7r. What priticipli of diaseliduation Call be worthily
compare I with this in .ghty organisation instituted and
consummated by Thomas Holloway —we my, iione ! Let
it then advance, conquering and to conquer its foe,
disease; and its aim anti object the alleviation of Inuuau
suffering.

lign.Lo.r•T.in PILL% •ND In. . infitunnution of the
Eyelids—There IA • illonue affecting the edges of the eyelids,
winch much disfigures the fms, and Impair. the kigl.t. The
eye looks a. if set in • liright red rho 1 Inflamed
pr..eved, n slight acrid Ms:oar...a. Many Col,yria.or
c ydn..". are pre.eril..l for the cure of thi• di,order, with
result of lea% ing It no better. and ually
si.rse, than before their amilitation.
Aril rubn.l Into the temples at night. and lightly Neeimr,,,,,f
the di.eased eyelids, will always effect • cure, provided the
stomach lie kept In order. and the menitions rectified by using
the liliu, which net hanaoulotuly with We Oisitausot

ecncral• Nctus. A HIDICSCITATILD 111Citinult.—The following strange
story appear* in an American paper There is now
Ito use in concealing the fact Must Albert W. Hicks,
"Letter yell (dome.' "We don't get Tea •0 gi•Ni •• who was osteneildy °events-A for pirsey Oil fkitioc.a
this in f:ngiand," mid a Britieli vieitaut ehinit spi-Lffing !eland on the 12th of hod July, is till living. though in,
the pore th.l-01,0N in a 31.isdarin's verandah. " Ns'." • dangerout titte, but likely. to recover the full use of
replied the Chineman, "8 send you forte mat, hi* faculties awl limbs. The sight of his kit eye is gone, ,
.• betirr to 104, then Foreign Meech int Meth likii`•*l. and his left k* cunt 1111 l es paralysed ; but, apart trona
Now this though a fact, it nut the whole truth ; the these injiiries,Tie Would Appear to have sufferesl noth-
was tice of colouring the %wilco of Tea for lenglieli ing, d Iris residence at his sister's lioine in Pont:liken,
supply is resorted to. NM II ig SO enable the Chine.: tee hae prow,' ovary way beneficial. It will he retinae-
Tea-men and othera to iorreoar their profits, fur the bred that much essumwtat was excited hy the utterly
powders 0 colour misleads the consumer, as it OCCailiOn• I fearless moaner in which Hicke conducted hinseelr pre-
the rested wurthl vs leaves to hot like the good. end sious to l.is execution. He Ittigised at the i is• of the
enal4"' thl.'" to b ;nix", off at a full Price- 11105:stm5N I gallows. and he Wait only anxious, as he repeatedly mini,
end to., lowest', Knowing that dry paint connot ini- to has a• things conducted aceofaillg to egreesso.t.' lit
prove the quality. and that most Con-smilers prefer to this agreement it Is now believed that a prominent Fele-
"lici IC trill otiose," have long imported Tea without eel emcee had a part, and it is on reciirsh in the ,holy
powdered rata, ou the Ito I, and supply it secured in paper*, that he wee present at the execution. wearing
packets. See advertisement in this shay's paper. . his I)eputy Manahal'u badge, although no longcr iii the
HER MAJESTY'S SrAiitiouNDS.—Tuiraday being the Marshal's tone. It was also remarked at the time that
first day of the regular bunting season with the Royal Hicks Was only pulled up a distance of two and a half
pack, the meet, as usual. was, at Salt-hill. and the day feet—utterly insufficient to break his neck-- and that he
was everything that could he sletire.l. There were not wait allowed to remain thirtwn minutes hanging. Ile
less than 300 horsemen, including many of tile officers was then cut down, and pronounced dead, after which
in garrison at Windvor, and many uf the more celebrated his body was immediately handed over to the care of
sportamen of the iseiglshourliond. Through the kind Dr.. J. T. Hell and theory 1). of Brooklyn.
penuissi tttt umf Mr. Cantrell. of Hayti' Farm, although at These gewsrisseo are responsible for lila retuscitetion.
die sacrifice of sense of hie newly sown fields being sea the eteete,Gbyektd heth, invented by Professor
ridden ssser, the deer "Crenbourn" was uncarted in one Verges's, Was the immediate instrument. 'l'k, body of
of hi. fields about a nide from Sciltdiill, and, after the the polite was wrapped in warm blanket., and reinsieed
how tieing given. the hound. were •• hid on. and at woe, tw thou Wow. of Dr. O'Reilly, in lirooklyis. whey.,
i.o ay lily wela in lwailtiflll .tyles iii the turd '0 ef )1,11e17. ity. stu•re iii ttteiiul'
Stel.e, tiuiivliiiij at Mr. Drake's faros, near Anis:wham. ante. The pulse was found to be wholly quiet, but alter
after a Ciao' run, which improvesh toward., the last. varmint experiments the uietlical men came to the con.
'rite nobic 'matter wao ahaelit iia lug to •it -4,0 clusdeii that it Woo only a esoe iif
The body was therefore at once piecesl in the ciectro-
THr. LATE DUKE or RIcICIoND.—The funeral of the chymical bath, and while subjected to the
'etc Duke of Itichmousl took place on Tueolee. The charges of the battery and the action of the acids, Dr.
mortal remainv of the Duke were mini-wed at WI early Crane commenced a eseries of experiment's for the infle-
lour or Mowley morning for (tioidWorfill•park, Sussex. liii of the lungs. In the course of about two beers
There were a great iii mire wislications on the part of the thene were partially sues:costal, the pirate beginning to
Royal family sand nobility to be alkeed to here their give faint Wiliest of respiration ; awl these cheering
carriages follow, but it optiesito that the Duke leftS signs asist,tsd thus medusa men in attauud.inre to ee.
document written shortly after the interment of hi* doubled exertions. A cautery was applied to the right
father-in-law, Field-Married time Marquis of Anglesey, foot, and received answer in an immediate contraction
wherein lie Term:sets that his family will ace that his own of the leg; the same experiment was repeated under
funeral should be conducted in the 'noel priir.te and the right ear, taking care not to injure the jugular vein.
quiet way. In accordance with the wishes of their and the head at once commeneed calling in a manner
leineetei relative, all the offers were deelined. and the bid eating acute feeling. Very alowly, but *tea.lily.
funeral arrangeinente were on an unosteutatioue scale. Albert W. Hicks regained coneciousnees. though for
ltu Tuesday forenoon the funeral prosession left (loud- ..eetrall days unable to speak, his throat lacing too
wood-home for the Cathedral shortly Isadore 9 o'clock for severely injured. It was then found that hie left eye,
interment in the family vault in that tine old ecelesias- the side on which the 'wow had been—had loot all
find edifice. The mourners included the Duke of Rich- power of sight, and Meat hi* left arse abd left leg were
ttttt nd. Lon'. Henry, Alexander, and George Gordon utterly paralyzed. In this: condition he Weal conveyed to
Leiinwx, wino of the deceased : the Earl of Bewhorough, Pusighkeepicie, where his sister, Mrs. Gevan, hives; and
Ills Serene Highness Prilite Falweed of Sam-Weimer, under her roof he is now sheltered, though the friends
and lord Bingham, sons-in-Ism of the late Duke • and of the family do not desire to give too much publicity to
Dr. Hare. Lords George, Arthur. and William 1.:11110%, the fact..
tiro:lsere of the deceased, were also present on the
mournful occasion.
THIS MAIL STEAMER CoNNAUGHT.—The whole of the
consistieg of 40 bags it letters and newspapers, on
board the Galway and Button mail steamer Connaught,
which was burnt in the Atlantic, was saved. As soon as
the "trainers:aught fire Lieut. Ca -ill. It.N., the Admiralty
agent on board of her. commented gutting up the
bags on deck from the Mail room below, and they were
put in the first boat that left the Connaught for the
American brig which saved the passenger.. Besides
the passengers nothing was saved from the Connaught
but the nsails. Lieutenant Cared has received the
special thauks of the Postusaster-General for his lair'
lions.
ScIENCI CERTIFICATES Poe TEACHERS IN ARTISAN
Cite-sew—The number of entries' fur the certificates of
the Committee of Council on Education for teaching
sciences bearing on industry, and for which examine
thane CotilllieliCe in the first week of November at South
Kensington. has increased about 50 per cent, beyond the
number of last year, while the number of candidates
has advanced from 57 in last year to 90 at the present
time. Time increase extends to all the subjects of
examination except the first—via., descriptive geemetry,
usechanical drawing. and building construction, in
which there is a decrease from '-e) to 9. In physics the
increase is from 23 to 43, in chemistry from 53 to 86, in
geugoly and minenalogy from 5 to 11, and in natural
history from 3to 6.
SINGULAR FATAL ACCIDENTS IN LIVERPOCiL.—On
Thursday the Liverpool borough coroner held inquests
in two cases, the jury returning verdicts of " Accidental
Death" in both. The first was that of an infant aged I
nine weeks. It appeared that on Monday night the
parents of the child, who revile in St. Annwetreet,
when they went to bed left a bucket of dirty eater half
under the bed. While they were asleep the child fell
out of bed. headforemost. into the bucket, and was
drowned. The other was that of Margaret Bowmen, a
widow, who about six weeks ago was sitting up late in
attendance on a vpirit shop, when her tap-string caught
fire in the Mimeo( the candle. She immediately three
off the cap, and put her foot Upon the iuurmummuut part. In
doing tide her underclothing was ignited, and she was
fearfully scorched about the legs awl lower parts of her
person. So serious, indeed, were the injuries +he
received that she died from their effects on Monday
n ght.
66. Quzze STREET, LoNDON, 23rd August, 1860.
Messrs. Si. Wortherspoon and Cu., 46. Dunlop-street,
Glaegssw.—Dear Sirs,—l have, as requested, to-day
visited the Royal Laundry. with reference to the adver-
tisement sd the Nottingham firm, who stet.: that their
Starch has been used for many years in the Royal
Laundry, anal have been assured by Mr. Thornton. the
Superintendent, that none but yourselves have any right
to *tats that they :supply starch to Her Majesty's
Laundry. as no other etarch is there ivied, nor hat been
used for some years, hist the Genlield Patent Starch.-4
have been further assured that your etarch continues to
give complete eatisfintion, and that though trial has,
been made of sample* of various starches, none of these
have been found lie srly equal in quality to the Glenfield.
I am, dear sirs. Your obedient Servant, Wit. SLACK.
THE LoNGEST VFNAEL IN THE WORLD—We have
just reivived an official report of the performance of a
river steam-vessel, or articulated train of barges,
belonging to the Oriental Inland Steam Company. and
intended to navigate the eliallow rivers of the East,
which lioiwesses peceliar scientific interest from the fact
of this comienite vessel being the longest vessel ever yet
constructed. being nearly half as long again as the Great
Eastern. It appears thet on trial this great vessel or
train was found to be easily manageable, and attained •
ittiefactory ride of seetd ; and its success solves the
important problem of hoe to carry a very large cargo ou
• very small draught of water, against a rapid stream.
The train consists id a steamer and five barges, of the
collective length of 900 feet. But these large', instead
of being towed asunder like common barges, are joined
to one another by circular jointa like a hinge, so that
they constitute one long flexible vessel, with only oise
bow and one stern. The purpose of this arrangement is
to obtain the necessary displacement with small noise
tance, and without the risk of damage, should the
vessel get agronold, and all these conditions are effec-
tually fulfilled by time arrangements adopted. The train
is 30 feet broad and about-7 feet deep. At • draught of
water of 3 feet it will carry about 3,000 tons of cargo.
Sushi a vessel is greatly needed at the present moment
to carry up roadway materials in India, and to bring
down cotton, flax, and other articles of agricultural
produce.
SPORT IN SOUTH Arnica.. During the visit of
Prince Alfred to Bloemfontein, he was entertained by
Mr. Bain, who deter 11l itt el to give his !Loyal Highness,
some sport. Accordingly he collected I,floo Kaffir.' to
act as game heaters, and so well did they do their work
that before the Prince was ready an immenee multitude
wildebeteites and other gains climbed past. Hog-
spears, &assegais., and guns found plenty of employment.
The litoemfautein Gazette tells the result :—" While
the game were careering past the house, the Prince
dropped two bleeboks. The hunt afterwards resembled
Mote the end of a battle than • hunt. There, advanc-
ing rapidly in line. were the Isuntemen (how many we
cannot tell, but all lioweliallig guns), said, further on,
Were time unarmed enemy, falling thick, and graduady
edging away, in the direction of the living hedge of
Kaffir's, who having forced them back. The slaughter
was tremendous' considering that it did not endure Le-
yond an hour. How many fell on the spot, or died
afterwards of their wounds, or were taught by the Kadin
it would be difficult to tell. The Prince shot 24 to his
own gun. Young Mr. Jocelyn shot four. The number
which is reported to hays fallen may be accounted for by
keeping in view that one rifle bullet may kill, and tiers
teiuly wound, come three antelopes. under the circum-
stances we have been describing. A gentleman interested
in the result took some pains to ascertain from the
Kettles (echo reaped the benefit of the hunt) the ap-
poximate tally. They say that between 900 and 1,000
lied come to grief in consequence of the hunt, consisting
of hlesbok (gazelle albifrons),wildebeestc leatoblepasou)
uttrieli 'polite or striped quaggas (rpm* burchellid, and
springboks. In the stampede, eveu horses which had
been peaceably grazing on the flats joined in the rush,
amid two even took shelter in the W. C. at liain's Vice.
In the excitement four Kaffir hones were shot. It-is
conjectured that altogether the gales has been
thinned to the tune of 5,000 head. It would
be Li:dig:ins to relate what every one killed, including Sir
George Grey, Sir Walter Currie, Major Caren, Mr.
Rivera, Lieuteeant-Culainel Bisset, the 'Dirty Boys.'
and others. Suffice it to say, that such a hunt, taken
with all its concomitant circumstances and incident..
hail not taken place in Any part of the civilised world
within the preeent century,' —Lireepool Altana.
A Pails Finite PitevitlitTlLL—Arrangements had
been made for a prise fight to take place on Tuesday
morning between a man named Taylor, of Stanningley,
iwar Leed., and a Bradford bet-amuse keeper called
Woodruff°, on a retired part of Sowerby-moor, five
miles from Halifax ; but the combat was prevented by
the naterference of the police. The stakes, we under-
'daunt, were 1:25. Mr. Superintewlent Wardle of the
Halifax divisiou, load intimation given to hint thet the
fight was likely to take place in the pariah of Halifax.
The meta under his direction had instructions to bold
thein.elves in readiness. The police were put upon the
track by a number of cabs entering Halifax from Brad-
ford very early on Tuesday morning. A gre it number
of rough-looking men followed on foot. Mr. Wanlle
aseetrablesl upwards of 'A) of the police, and the greater
nuuiber followed the cab. to Ludlenden Foot, where
the people got out of them WO ealked up • eteep hill
to the moor. In the °purse of an hour about 400 per.
mina had collected. The police stopped the formation
a a ring or any preparation for fighting. The morniog
was very nutty, and the police could not see more than
a few yards before theui. The mob inade • ditour mu
order tii 'beeps the police, and prepared to hold the
fight near the original place, but it was prevented. The
police then kept the principals in view. The umb were
filially dispersed to their great dieathdactien. The
party returned to Halifax. hut in the COUrile of a few
hours they left, thitortialbly for Bradford.
THE FoUR MIssING Segeneree. —No doubt is now
entertained reepecting the melancholy fete of the four
steamers which have long been missing—namely, the
Edinburgh, iron *crew steamer. 800 tons, belonging to
Leith. outward bound to Crunstadt ' • the Moscow. also
an iron screw steamer, 600 tens, of Landon, bound to
the seine pert • the Viscount Landston steamer, belong-
ing to Sunderilod; anti the Thor, from Copenhagen fur
Hull. It is computed that the loss of these steamers
•nal cargoes will exceed £150,000.