The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-08 00:00:00

TO TIER ZDITOR 01 TIM ZSPRZBB.

SIR, —The explosion of Saturday was heard in
the par;shes of North Bar Jingham and Beeconsthorpe
'haggis miles from Cromer, in Norfolk.
These places cannot be much lees than 110 =Pee from
Belvedere, but the ooecussion was so great that the Osumi.
expremed their alarm in their customary manage by crow-
ing, a fact of which 1 am assured by the isdepsodent testi-
mony of three ear witnesses!, none of whom kriew anything
of the explosion whim they made their stetements.-
1 am, Am, J. A. B.

A SOOTCII SYNOD IN ENGLAND. —The second
annual meeting of the English Synod of the United Presby-
terian Cbaroh is to be held at the Moorfields,
on Monday neat and three following days. The opening
sermon is to be preached on Monday evening by the Rev.
Dr. Hugh Cr:ghtoo, of Liverpool, the retiring moderator,
after which the synod will be oonalitated. and a moderator
for the ensuing year will be elected. Meetings for besieges
are to be held in the forename of Tuesday, Wednesday. and
Thursday. A public meeting for the exposition of the
united Presbyteries priadples will be held on the *wooing
of Wednesday. Addrwes will be delivered by Dr. John
Cairo., of Berwick-upoo•Tweed ; Dr. Fracas Skinner, of
Blackburn ; Dr. John Edmond, of Millbury ; and Mr.
Alexander M•Leed, of Birkenhead. The synod till meet
at Maryland Point, Stratford, on Thursday, the 13th irst.,
for the porpoise of laying the foundation-gloms of f. new
church there.

ENTERTAINMENTS POE THE TROOPS —A general
order from the Hone Guards has been promulgated at
Chatham garriatio, in which it is announced that by can.
mod of the Field Marshal Commanding-in-Chief arrange-
ments have been made to provide a regular supply of dia-
grams and magic-lantern slides to illustrate the lecture* sod
entertainment* which may be given to the troops at the
various stations in the United Hiogdom daring the approach-
ing winter mouths. He directs special attention to the
rules which have been drawn op for regulating the service,
and looks for the cooperation of commanding °Moors towards
carrying them out, by is.nnog the circulation of the slides
and diagrams with that regularity upon which the swam
of the measure will mainly depend, and by the maintenance
of order sad decorum during the delivery of the lectures.
The text books which lecturers may require for the prepara-
tion of their lector's will not be supplied at the public ex-
pense, but will be provided by the garrison library commit-
tee oat of the library funds.

Tsz WINDSOR TRAGEDY.—Yesterday morning,
at 9 o'clock, the funeral of the murderer and etticide,
John Richard Cook, and the four murdered children,
Mary AD., Agnes Josephine, Eugenia sad Louisa Eliza-
both, took piste at Old Windsor. The churchyard is about
a mule from the home of Cook, sad was reached about
half-put 9, when the body of the murderer was take.
through the west door into the body of this church, tits
ooffins containing the murdered children being taken round
the church to the gnat door on the south aide of the surd
building, when the Ray. J. Blunt having previously nut
the proomion, commuted reading We banal service, the
coffins being also placed in the body of the church while
the service was coetinued. On leaving the church the
coffin containing the body of Cook was taken to and placed
in a grave or hole which lad been dug in an Mature
ooroor at the west extremity of the churchyard, mar the
wall which separates the graveyard from the rod, and here
it we. delimited without any ceremony, wide the four
little elm some of the girls were placed in one common
grave, over which the remainder of the service was per.
formed by the vicar, the relatives and coved standing
mend.

Fray
ACCIDVNT AT DEVONPORT DOCKYARD.—
Au e agiewdriver (J. May) was killed et Ike North
Smi on Friday zooming, by being drunk by • pert
the mackizery.