The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-15 00:00:00

TSB WINDHAM LUNACY COMMISSION,

(THIS DAT.)
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TWENTY•FOURTH DAY.

Mel inquiry under this commission was resumed
thin morning at the Seesions-honse, Westminster, before
Kr. Samuel Warren, Q.C., and a special jury.
The examination at Kr. Freebeidge, the witness whose
'Jettisons was interrupted by the adjournment of the court,
was then proceeded with ; alter which, Mr. C. Robinson,
one al the firm of Robinson and Co., of 14, Mark-lane, was
examined.

"EARFUL ESPLOSION.-POUR MEN KILLED
AND SEVERAL WOUNDED.

A terrific explosion, attended with fatal remelt!,
on • large male, took plan. on Monday moroiscr,, about halt.
Tea eleven o'clock, at • kern owned by Mr. Dunmore,
of Menton Wyville, Leicestershire. A. steam threshing
machine was at work, belonging toa person named Butcher.
Prom the particulars at present supplied, it would appear
that the amine or boiler was rather out of coodition, end
that several men, including the engine-driver, were
wrapping a pipe that leaked, through which they
was conveyed to the boiler, when suddenly the boiler
exploded with an appalling report. The scene that
ensued is beyond the power of the pen to describe.
One of the poor fellows was literally blown to atoms,
his head being found in one place and his legs in soother
while the three other men killed presented a sic:teeing
spectacle, beinulotrc!ingly m bia The names of three
of them are, Woolman, aped 80 ; William Wool-
man, • lino young fellow, aged 24 ; and 'William Lee, aged
23. All of them were married. The boiler was torn to
fragments, pieces lying in many and onions directions.
One of the men killed was discovered hedged between the
wheels of the engine carriage. When extricated he was net
quite dead, and a larp fracture in the skull, through which
the brain protruded, was noticed. The poor fellow's moans
were of the meat harrowing :kind, but he soon expired.
Three men who have not been Med are fearfally mangled ;
me of them is not expected to survive. Such a
able catastrophe has not happened in the neighbourhood
before. TM deepest distress and melancholy are ems over
the entire vilhp of Mouton. Censure is deserved by some
party without doubt, as no steam pep was diked to the
mileage that it is 1144 exnctly known whether the boiler
through having generated too ranch steam, or the
.'=Plods'
being defective.

The Paris Moniker reports that, according to
recent letter from America, the fire at Charleston continued
its ravages, "being kept up by the negroes," and that the
whole city bad become a heap of ruins, the public build-
ings, private mansions, linden the riches of a town of 80,000
inhabitants, having ceased to exist. These sad details, the
ifouiteut very justly adds, require confirmation. We have
found none as yet is the recent advises from the States.
The Annuaire Eneyelopidique gives the following
statistics relating to suicides in France :—" The number in
the course of last year was 3,890, averaging more than 10 •
day. Of these, 842 were females, and 3,057 melee ;16
were children under 15 yeas of age ; 38 man and U IMAM
IMO 90 and upwards. The majority were between 40
sad 60 years of age. Suicides are most frequent in April,
May, June, end July. The means of death were—hanging
and drowning, in 2,833 cases ; suffocation with charcoal,
271; shooting with guns, 206 ; with pistols, 189 ; cutting
Instruments, 153 ; jumping from high buildings, 110 ;
poison, 93. In 44 cases the mode of death is not specified."
A. correspondent at Florence writes :—" In
Florence there dwells as elderly and eccentric Englishman,
with several hundreds per annum and • deficiency of
common sense. This gentleman first turned catholic, and
then mesmerist. A woman who was his ' medium'
having died, his confessor supplied him with another, •
medium in direct communication with the Blessed Virgin,
by means of whom not only was the mesmerist able to
perform all aorta of wonders, but he also reeeived several
warnings from the same Divine source, and menials, most
of which had a tendency to alienate the good gentleman's
property from his family for the benefit of a certain
jesuitical institution."
By royal decree, a great national library is to be
established at Florence, the foundation of which is to be
laid by the union of the two celebrated collections known as
the " Keels headline and the Palmitin'. The former,
now in the Uffisii Palace, consists of more than 175,000
printed and 12,000 manuscript works, the earlier part of
which were collected by the old goldsmith from which
the library takes his name, and who was called " Halluo
Inworum," from the fact that he read every book he

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Isrrasertso MEMORIAL or WILBERFORCE, Mg I
PRILLETHHOPIEL—A eery handsome stone seat has within
the last few days been placed in Holwood•park, Hatay
Kent, by penning= of Lord Oranworth (late Lord Oboe.
teller). ate memorial to Hr. Wilberforce, the great champion
of negro emancipation. The seat is of Forret of Dean 40014
and bee been erected et the cost of Earl Stanhope. The
obkiet of the memorial will be gathered from the following
inessiphom engraved apm it, and which is takee from Kr.
Wilberforee's diary, 1788 :—" At With, I well remember,
after a ooneereatiom with Mr. Pitt is the open sir, at the
root of ea old tree at Holwocd, just above the steep decent
to the Vale of Heston, I resolved to give notice ow a at
occasion in tee Hones of Commies, of my intention to kin
forward the abolition of the AIM trade." Thema ie pissed
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at the foot of the old oak beeeMh which this
comversation took place, and is intended ter the se el the
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the Hon. 0. fiessiape, sad Ohm
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pleases lis esoftsassies el Itessas tad thoos col Fames
end the Cliassel lasso's, under the supervivion of the Baia
et Trade.