The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-20 00:00:00

EIGHT PERSONS KILLED AND SIXTY

INJURED.

It is our duty to record a most appalling and
lamentable disaster in connexion with the services
which Mr. C. H. Spurgeon commenced last evening
in the Surrey Music•hall. In order that nothing
which the diligence of the reporters have been able
to collect may be lot, we give their several narratives
se they reach os.

The seem that took place hat night (Sunday) in the
Barmy Yule Hall attached to the Royal Blaney Gardens,
were ne► as can with difficulty ►e dew/Abed and which will
long be remembered by the many thousands who flocked to
the place for the purpose d hearing the Aev. C. H. Spur-
geon preach a sermon la the new hall. The rev. gen-
tleman and hie friends had takes the building with
the two-fold purpose of making known his religious views, li
and also of raising a nia of money to build a new ebspel,
or as he tams It a new %throe& sufficiently capacious to
mat the many thousands of his hearers, Enter Hall
having been found too small to acoommodate half of the per-
eons who regularly attended his ministry. The conroquenes
was, that this, the largest hall in or near the metropolis,
was engaged by the gentlemen soanected with New Park-
street Chapel for taros or four Sunday evenings, and
although no charge was made for admission, it wu publicly
billed, sad advertised is most of the daily papers, that &col-
lection would be made at the analusios of each torsos to
defray the @spewse of the hall, and also for raising
fonds to erect the now tabours's. This appears not
is the least degree to have durusel the curiosity of
the public, for as early es Ave o'clock, one boar and a
half before the time &snoozed Am the service to commence,
t►ousands after thousands of waU-sinased persons, fuddles
men and women and also a large number of children, could
be seen muffin their way towards the garden', and before
the clock slunk sin there mart at a moderate calculation
have been Ave or sin thousand persons waiting in Penton-
street, the carriage ways leading to the entrance of the gar-
dens, and indeed almost every foot of vantage ground near,
were literally besieged by parties a mains to obtain ad-
'duke.

By Ise Wastes after ids o'clock the whole of the three
spasiou galleries were Sited, the orchestra was also densely
crowded. By the Um Mr. Spurgeon took his seat, notwitk-
staadlug the immune sise of the plane, there was not nfd-
Met ram for a doss. sore to enter, and who. the mats
Meuse filled there were some two or three thousand per-
' sous who were content to stead In the pussies, and there
were eaanderably more steadies on the green sward
outside looking through the windows.

The proceedings comseaced by the immense coagula-
tion—probably the largest that ever attended my minister
eines the day' of John Wesley—singing a hymn, after which
the rev. gentleman read a selection from the 16th chapter
of St Lake's Gospel, in which le forcibly showed that " No
man eau serve two raeden, for either be will hate the one
and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and de-
spise the other. Ys cannot serve God and Mantuan." The
preacher, in introducleg his subject, end that there wets
many present who bad inquest', neglected to serve God,
although t►ey knew it wee their duty ; bat the feat wee,
they had done so, sad they thought it wan so dn, they ima-
gining that they could run with the ham, end se the Isms
time ma with the hounds. If the presest essgregaties
professed to be Christians, lit then act es each; bat iPtlier
did sot profs= to be each, let them say so, and there would
be as end of the eau, for yon "cannot serve God sad
Mennen." After dilating at oessiderable length upon the
gospel another hymn was sung, when Mr. Spurgeon
of up another prayer, In which he alluded to certain
perms', whom he knew, he said, to be present, who
had been backsliders from the house at God,
he also said, he could me present many females
who had departed from the paths of virtue, and
were hinging their lathes' grey halts with sorrow
to the grave. Ti. melting manner in which the
preacher delivered the prayer appeased to rivet the
attention of all present. and natty ma eye could be seen
shedding teen, when all of a sadden a cry wee raised, "The
place

_ le ea lin I" Bach a sane se then sassed it would be
out of the question secarately to describe. Is ea tritest
the sawn of the wanes rest the building, thawed.
=on a inn so UN Cows, sad in then newsy to get ewe
any armee sad ehildren an eves eampting We,
were famed dews and trempied upaa. The wane ea the
platform la rain tried all they meld to iodine the mealpeor
floe to sediment that no danger wee to be appellesheil
provided the puttee kept their pleas' bat es* eme the
eseitemest eimeneest apes the midis. sham else raised
Met ince. wemee, sad althea were famed &wale lintble
eenfesies, sod, Wig trampled upon, it will be ems from
lee following that sighs lime have bees lost sad a great
somber serioesly, If sot totally, Wend. The preacher,
lanai that It was snarly impossible to quell the die
tarbesee, called epee those ender the pulpit to slag
"Praha Gad from when all blessings flow." The eho.
Asters Imandiaisly did se they were desired, but without
the ham Whet, sad mos to the epper galleries
soramensed breaking the widows aid Jemptcg out. At
the manse time a gent nth wee made down stain,
sad N great was the pressure against the banister
of the easiness Indies be the north gallery that the
semi me forced down, sad es the parties made a rush to
sane they kept &Wag ever sack other sad slighted upon
the posed, a distance of as least seven or 'Sett feet. Sere
the pose mann laid, being trampled upon by these who
wen se fertente as to nape with their live.

At the same time a gees& emslaught was sada is the
gloss doors as the ground leer, sad of demolishing the
doors and large sheets of plate gloss the parties war
trawled through the apertures, bat la so Nisi essay panne
heads were amok at, sad several bad legs sedans brakes.
Being thus nattered usable to move either one way or the
other, owl', to the serious setae of the lajuries they had re-
solved, and, OW: beiag trodda epos by numerous parties
they were satiated by Mr. floperistatdant Lead, of the P
division of police, sad • amorist body of coutables, whom
be Immediately soot for. Had hmu been for the aid thus
rendered, there is so doubt that the lost of We wall have
bee. far mots serious thea It really was.
Mr. Spurgeon, Audis' that it was impossible to obtain
aytNng like nada*, sessammett staging again, is whisk
the eougregation ea the *Mona joined most fervently.
bane, this had no effect, sad doors, windows, shafts, sad
heather, mad be heard braking, which bed the effect
of Waist, persona in the phis, to believe that the Wadi's
was rally ea fire. This sawed soother pant rush
towards the dare, sad a semis like the former anted,
sad we, women, sad shadrea wore agate oast dam, and
trampled upon. Tits shrieks sad groans aria beesse feat-
ha, sad, in spite of these ea the platform eadeavouriag to
marina, the coagregates that the building was perfectly
safe, thr nal exathatod, sad as the persons came down
stain they enthused to fan over that part of the stair-
sem that bad boas firmed away, by which it is roughly. uti-
lises& that upwards of My wow was moat or las
Namely Waled.
Ups, inquiry at Gay's Hospital lost night at 11 o'clock,
it was loused that throe as sad • female bad boos received
tato that isseitution, wet of whom were saffering from
lactated thighs sad broke' heeds, sad nuns Patience, 01
the same hospital, has bees so trampled apes that ohs vomits
blood.

• gnat malty other passe', both male mad female, were
so seriously injured, that they were obliged to be removed
to their normal,* bosses, sad it is impossible to tell whether
they aro fatany hart or sot.
1 Whether the dtresten will allow presebiag to take
plies mat Bandy is siesediegly questioaable, bat if
they do it is to be hoped that ma doer sad window will bs
ealemesed, so that es the seddea slum et fire the congre-
gation may be enabled to drat their limps without resort-
lag to the fearful **Wiest of breaking the wieder!, sad
issaylag est is the mutter they did last eight.
Teo mash prudes mama be ghee to the polio, trader Mr.
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