The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-28 00:00:00

THE 'EARFUL ACCIDENT IN WESTMINSTER.

Yesterday aftermon appliestion was toads to the autbori-
ties of WeetmineLer Hospital to admit a young =slid
woman maned Charlotte, Cache, aged 24 pen, and bet
fast child, Sarah, aged 5 months, me the child was in danger
Of liste dm* and the woman wee in • very pre-
carious state, her kg being broken and her ribs fractered.
A young woman who was with the and Mime at the
time of the catastrophe gives the following account of what
bar them : Mrs. Cooke was seated, with her child, in the
front seats la this upper school-nom whoa the floor pare
way, and west down like the Orn d a trapdoor. She, like
the rest of the persons around, was dung down into the
lower hell. When the other sufferers were got out, she
wok dimovered theensiblo is the metre of the hall, and her
child, also faneasible, not tar from her. They were removed
in • cob to a frimid's boom sad a doctor was promptly in
atteadama. In fire bows Mee the Mimi was restored to
ocimeloniesses by the aid of brandy, but its life is despaired
of. The applicsat was in that if it was safe to m-
otor* the mother mel child to the hospital they would be
edreitied.
The portion of the floor which gave way was towards the
sod of the room where the platform was placed-in hict,
that part which is ordinarily occupied by " reserved seats."
All who bed boss upon that portion of the floor woes, of
mune, earrieirlowArsiffs it; bat they was not ih• only
victims. Numben of those immediately near the platform,
is Amorist to am whet heel happened, stopped over the
brink aad fell through, at to the people druggling beneath.
Many of them bohiod also rushed towards the chasm, and
met with same fate. Others rushed towards the only door
acoessible, and mdeavoured to force their way out in such
panic that they blacked it up. Frightful iajuries were re-
calved in the terrific crush which took plaice at that spot ;
left and arms bring broken, mid ethers contusions ans.
Maned. One of the school athers, a young girl sixteen
years of age, states that ohs fell with the floor. but her fall
wee Lorna by the top of the, doorway in the lower hall. At
she was Wiggling to get up sets an old woman pulled her
down, rad standing upon her With scrambled out of the pit
hermit The Matthew waa ultimately pulled up by alad at the
risk of hie own life, A boy, when the flooring gave way,
promptly passel hold of • hat peg attached to the well, and
clam on to it maafully until one of the clomps** in the
room rimmed him. The statement that those in the bond-
iog were principally ohildrea wag as error ; they were, for
the most part, Malta, when ages ranged bowl 90 to 60, and
oven 80 pars of sge, sod they were of both earn, the
tamale Wog in the minority.
Yesterday as armload°s ol the premiere woe made. It
was found that the Maas width had given way was, as has
been stated, composed of whitodothead that it was affected
by dry sat; bat it had bees embedded for 8 inches-not 3-
in the side walls. The building was erected in 1867. The
upper room was in the farm of a T, and it appeared to have
bean solidly mastroctect. Abed 500 persona were on the
floor at the time of the awaked. They we» in the act of
applauding • boy as the platform, who had just drawn •
sucosesful number; and it is conjectured that the vibration
thus caused proved too much for the beam, weakened as it
was by the dry rot ; Moos the catastrophe.
The Secretary of Westuiseter Hospital forwards the fol-
lowing as a correct list of the piteous admitted iota the
Westminster Homital, together with the madam of their
accidents and the probabilities of their recovery :
Adelaide Jane Fallen, metros of BURMA Prison, severe
injury to the spins. (Sipco dead.)
Mary Amber,. 10, Great Peter-etred, aged 12, fractured
ribs and conernsion of the brain.
Mary Neil, 5, dt. Matthew-mat, aged 14, fractured ribs.
Edward Neil, 5, St. Marahow-eziest, aged 12, fractured
leg and other injuries.
Emma Cooper, St. Mary's Hamm Charles-street, Drury.
lane. aged 13, severe fracture of clavicle and fractured rib..
Ann Keeley, 36, Lillingtoo-street, aged 66, severe lace-
rated wound of fan, ho.
Agnes M'Grath, la, Denmark-place, Soho, aired 13,
fractured rib, ho. (Not likely to recover.)
James It'Grath, marine store dealer, le, Denmark-
pima, Soho, aged 51, fractured scapula, Cc.
Liza Sharman, 14, Marlboro haqare, Chelsea, aged
48, lacerated wound of forehad sad 0011QUIAIOD of the
brain.
Margaret Darnley, 3, Artilleryaquare, aged 40, concus-
sion of spine.
Film Shaw, 22, flt. Am's-ciourt, aged 40, comusion of
spine.
Bridget Lynch, 1, New-strest-oottmes, Vauxhall-bridge-
road, aged 38, revere contusion of back and side.
Margaret Doooghne, 20, Little Chapel-street, aged 55,
!adored rite. (Not likely to remover.)
Aaron Chubb, aoropould fracture of arm.
Marmot Walsh, 20. Lower Garden-street, aged 45, frac-
tured ribs ad severe wicturion of arms.
Kate ficanimertoo, 24, York-street, Westminster, aged
50, fractured clavicle and other injuries.
Esther Miler, 6, Cobarg-row, aged 17, fractured clavicle
sod Injury to adorns,.
Patrick M'Auslly, labourer, 7, Woods-place, aged 49,
fractured ribs and severe matador' of arm.
Nicholas Murphy, tailor, 58, Upper Garden-atrest, con.
cussioo of the brain and fractured ribs. (Not expected to
, recover.)
Rupert Howell, confectioner, 7, Vincent-erne; aged 26,
concussion of spine sad other injuries.
A woman, name unknown, fractured ribs and severe com-
minuted fracture of log. (Net likely to recover.)
I. addition to the mess mantimed in the foregoing list
52 preoas who had sustaimed Ism severe injuries were sent
to their own homes, after having received proper adoption.
At the time of the amides% miry facility was afforded for
the admission of the injured, who wore immediately &I-
keda to by the home surgeon, Mr. St. Anby• Baskets,
and a staff of students. who were fortunately in the hospital
at the time. Extra beds were provided, and the senior
surgeon. Mr. Harmed Holt, was immediately sent for and
Wooded at mew. Mr. Holt, after examini ea all the patinas,
pre dam:aims far an immediate applieatioo to the lady
superiatandeat of the Naming Institution in Hearietta-
street, Coreatiardem, for extra nurses, so that the patients
might have every attention, and likewise directed that the
dreamers should resale in the hospital to afford the house
surgeon any extra aid he might require.

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ROYAL Cousoz or SURGEONS or Esoimm.— I
IS. following guetiones, having undergone tie neasmory
emonisatisos foe the diploma, ware 'Amato' mambas GI
th. Collage at a meeting .1 the Coast of Famsciatars n *a
27th lost., Pic :—Yon. Ebenezer Shedd, L.E.A. Nos-
trils' (lmaidons) ; John Elorpo Bryan, Northampton (St.
Nary's) ; (Narks Onsiory asyworth, Opeoby (Lauda*);
Thome Rall Redwood, altywoey, llssuienth (St. Suttee-
lauenes) ; Mart Antony Kilroy, Vireo's, county Cavan
(Dahlia); Goonelia, Cavan (Dahlia) Jobs Wm.
Armistand, Leads. and Charles Pitt Weikatell Not*,
Poway, Conwall (EL Tkomer).

rm. RBOINT SWJMDLI AT

Mr. Charles Ashworth, the violist' of the late
almoner swiedhret filbrinisbery, Irvine to the Times :
" r inzio= wawa*. te ape& sintil.after ese of
Use lied. Midi!' dills temeaded till iss.
mermen ' es a gross plow a
itamand that I shall be allowed
== toixr=heir that this polies shall do en t
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thus yes toe) shall take some
=rat So. assertala Use ate the 4■llllllollllllll
snit to. Ilse senelabie • After this
114001r6 Use minds haat sad spoke
is asto the bush, sad the same msg..
trate, intoM" min*
the r
with
a wan of thalami (usderelood by
'Talks bliss away), ' No, aeriaialy not, titer what we lie:
based ; emtelnly sot.' 'I was Uses taken out of' teak by
Use eases, without bath( spy Wit, of IaTIO4 linos
am %timed Met it is the lioua duty el every
.4:22. beerinp Were Vie Itairepolsts•
la your colurom chiefly prove it before any pd.
Melee ie rnmaadd. ID mil span bhu to webs his Maio% is
erase thin ft may be ameriaimit if there be endielent
=Lsfor • remand. Now, if this Jed sad mazy=
adapted by the SkreirebarY mentsizates my
meld hive hoes dean aid I ooald is as bear have proved
NW I was the perms I represented myself to be, and *et
I was sot guilty of tbe offends eksiged spinet see ; and I
meld she bey* procured bail to say moan for etym.!:
ease= the following day. Bat, Is addition to the
iailiated as nee by the remand withal* beleg perMit.Te
arks sing bow meet the ccedainef the
testy mill limy ray *stab, ring.. aid
mow (wham Shaer bedess &MY WO. to IPloill
control of their own Mileare), and time bsssmee ponies
te the perpetration et the Fewest whelks over am-
=Mid is our days And yet these vary men have never
so much se publicly apologia/id for their treatment of sin
or offered to procure and return the articles al which I
wee robbed, ar to make any oseipmmatios whatever for the
km end gross izidignity I suffered at their beads. Is era.
denies, I would Gully further remark that the siting clerk
in his hatter iv you saps, the warrant was iameeled by the
megietregas sad himself, sad' it bare every appeaseses et
baillgesaisis desuneet, wee to a praelleed eye, sad our
y reguler is every remota.' Yet be, la Ibis wisher*
the reessistrates, when the swindler was oreassftled,
said, I did =Cook at the warrant very mrefally—l did
not look at the date.' After this, further oommust on my
part seethe wholly needless."

TERMINATION OE TILE BUILDERS' STRUM-

Nrernme or rue Karma AND Igor.—The London
&ribs ODMlllittee last night received the following W
gner from Mr. Bream, secretary of the }omen' mom'
miter* at Birmingham :—" Birmingham, Friday night.—
A depatatios of eight members of the strike committee WI
demon met, aerie romnbin of the maid onmaikbee
when, after cooridanble diecussioo, the diaaharge note vie
uocooditionally withdrawn. The employers' amociatiee
meet gain os Wedoeedsy neat to comider raise for the
future regulatke of the Wade, and hen agreed to meet se
equal somber of the men early in the mweing week tower
to some dash* arrangamenin fee the furnat% A large
meeting of the men is being held this evening, and resolu-
tions ere peopseed, sad which will no doubt be adopted, 6w
resuming work on Xotviay monde( neat.' From Xr
Ward, Secretary of the Nottingham fitoomnamais'ilociety
''Nottingham, Friday Night.—A deputation from the
leas cenimilese met the employers lad sight, sad attar
soros diemiesios arrangemeate were sad* for the was re.
seeing work on Xonday wrong seat. We are sole
misting the masters at the present time. The strike
may moos, therefore, be enmidered is have really termi-
nated, cc there is no doubt that the men at Waled'
Covistry, Wolverhampton, Dudley, sad other towns, will
follow the action of the Birmingham end Nottingham

NOVEL ENTZETAINNENT IN A WOREZOIIBI.--011
Thursday *veva' the mambas of the North London Band
of Hope, Caledonian-rood, gave a concert In the vestry-hall
of St. Pancras, before an audience numbering lately 900 of
the intones of the warkhouss, including the halt, lame,
bind, sad ova the quisely-disposod from the lams earth.
The number selected to form tbschoir was 125 voices, and the
=emits& of shoat 30 sell of the number
glad, composed by Mr. Heedwidgs, the soczettuy
of the moiety.
NUEOLANT AT Oxwmo.—At Oxford this week a
burglar was apprehended under remarkable circumstances.
Oa the sight of Tuesday last Alderman Thompson and his
family sad servants, residing at Thortibury-lodge, in the
Ceeseeni, retired to bed at the usual hour. After mid-
night the alderman opened his bedroom door and left the
room. A little dog kept in the house in the meantime ma
into the room, and at one commenced barking vociferously.
Mrs. Thompson, scarcely able to amount foe the distorbanat
felt somewhat slangy, sad got out of bed to so-
ordain the amps, wins, to her consternation, ohs
discovered a um on his hada aid knees secreted
underneath the bad. As may be imagined, an alarm
was instantly naiad, the intruder crawled away,
soil endeavoured to snaps down the stairs ; but the whole
household was *weaned, and two of the sideman NMI
dared him to erased on pain of his lifa. Orsaininnicatioe
was mods with the Udvaraity police, who were quickly in
attandans, and he was taken into custody. He bad left
his shoes in the front garden, and bad dently evaded a
large mastiff dog kept in the outer promises be administer-
ing shlovolorm. On being searched a bottle of chloroform
was Mud in hi pasha, sad he was also In possession of a
black bag onhasing several implements used for house-
breaking. The prisoner was brought up in custody, oa
Friday, before the mayor and other nit y magistrates,
charged with having been found in the hones of
Alderman W. Thompson for an unlawful purpose. He
made the following voluntary statement :—' My Was is
Harry Loom. I was isduad by another man to get is. I
bid the man who want by the house gocd evening. I told
him I was • wheelwright. He asked me whether I should
like to earn a few ghillie's. I said ' Yea.' He gave me Is.
sad I went and bad some supper and 1 laid out 6d.
When I cams back to him he said I need oot be
afraid of the dog, and he patted the dog on his head and he
was quite quid. I was to go wader the bed and come out
and let him ia, and I thought there ma ealy a wean there.
When I beard • man get out of bed I got from under the
bed, sod asked the muter to let me go, but he would DOt.
C oLto the house about 8 o'clock, adl palled my shoos off,
the nos told me to do so. The chloroform I bad In
Load= for the toothache." Mr. Carr (to the police)—ls
there not some denied*a of this man in the Moe avid Ora
about • largo burgivry S Police-ollssr—Ygs. The prisms,
was that remanded for • week. He appeared quits mos-
oared as to the ism of the proceedings, although he cos.
dead Woad decorously.
BREADALBANE aND BRONINLAW.—MaItoa was
all excitement yesterday at the smouncoment that these
Derby favourite. were really bold. Hitherto various an-
nouncements have appeared. to which only the teem
" rumour" could be applied, but ths sale is now completed,
the sum being 11.0001. and various 000tiogeocies for the
two bones, the ham being Mr. Chaplin, of Linolo. Oa
it. ban known that the booms were to remain io training
at Lantos Wold, under Mr. l'Anines charge, the pleasure
inponnisd by the Holtman' was as intone as if the Derby
was eresdy won. Mr. PAnson is a lucky man to have
• suppose= of "ansatiose' horses. Hs not may refused
15.01101. for Blair Athol, but also 30.0001. for the Blink
Bonny family. Blair Athol was meetly sold for the
stud at 7,5001. ; therefore it will be son that Mr. nano
has in two mouths sold three horses for the extraordinary
sass of 18,5001. He has still in hi. ponensioe the following
mares of this tames blood :--Quesa Mary, Balc-at-the.
Bonder (sister to I:Urania), Cellar Oa, Bosomy Brant
Kook Bonny Bell. and Borealis, besides younger stock.
This blood (the Queen Mary dynasty) has never been imam
to ban either curb, minis, or Ashen, or to breed a
roarer. Qum Mary, by Gladiator, was the foundries of
this remarkable dynasty. She is sew in foal to Stockwell,
has a yentas Mt by Itatopia, and • 2-vr-old (Bork* by
Noirmisistsr. She teed Haricot (dam of Caller On, whined
the St. Low). Henn, Balrowei (fourth for the Leger),
Blooming Slather (Gorse and Maid Mahon dam), Bonnie
Sootiod (who en sand boat with Artillery few second pbos
is the Lager), Blink Baoy (winner*, th•Dsirliy sad Oaksand
dam of Blair Athol, winner of the Derby sad Iwpr). Bala
namos. Bab-a-the-Howstor, Boon Benet Knot, Bee ay
Ball, He. ; therefore Mr. l'Ausces is yet well in far future
rialiations.” Breadalbane is brother to Blair Athol, but
of a larger frame, sod in consetrenes of Blink Sonny's
death, was suckled by a fan man. Breesielsw Is hall
brother, being by Stockwell, out of Queen Mary. The
public bang to the former moat, as being nearer akin to
Blair Athol. but Mr. I'Anses doss not hindf awe which
of these kinsmen is the better horse. Both were wisely
kept in last year, sad the deliene-growieg_ yonder, ale
now the simonise of the spotting weed. As untried
herein their prim ass rionsodieg maraillem —Than
TDB MONT OEMs Pus—The works are still
pmgrawan fee the temperary 'envoy which is to ends
thellontOsele to be trevansd in four bons only. For the
Italian ads of the mended; as which the iimecel is nen
and, the rope system of the eagater, Avila, is to be
adopted, on condition that the Italica=mast a
subsidy of • million end is hall Imes ter
the expanse of We
ay eilViesdileast
Though the genesmat may bo • to ad&
budget with die am, yet IS Inthonght It maydo need
ol ouespmemaloalw the Inca sf Tura, which wadi the, he
the principal esters, him Image into Italy, in • entmer-
oil point of view.—lhalder.
By advions mama Shin sail the Hong Hoeg
and Chine Gesoljingany me blamed of the soseendal
lighting up Glebe ally el Barg Kong with gas.

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