The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-21 00:00:00

ALARMING ACCIDENT IN NOTTINGHAM

Yesterday an accident of an alarming nature
occurred at the warehouse of Messrs. J. and it. Hardy,
Lace manufacturers, Stoneyahest, Nottingham. About
11 o'clock a workman in the employ of lir. Bass, plumber
and gas fitter, was doing some minim and alterations is
the gas pipes in the top room but one of Marra.
Hardy's warehouse, and after he had cut the pipe in two,
be was not aware that after stopping the gas on one side
of the cut any pis would come from the other side. It,
however, was so, and when he went to repair it with his
soldering iron it instantly ignited in consequence of his
iron being too hot. The girls is the roots, on seeing the
light, becsme suddenly terror-stricken, sod rushed franti-
cally to the staircase screaming as loudly as they could,
and the inmates of the other rooms in the warehouse
hearing the cries, and thinking the place was on fire,
also rushed to the staircase in great ooesternetioa
and confusioo. The result was that the handrail of
the staircase gave way, and numbers of the unfortunate
girls were pushed and fell down on to the staircase below,
others rushing over them in their eager flight to get into
the street. As soon as possible, Meson. hardy and the
men connected with the establishment west to the some
of the disaster, nod rendered every assistance In their
power to the unfortunate girls }Yin; bleeding and injured.
It was found necessary to remove four or eve of them at
oaos to the General Hospital, and about twenty others
were more or less injured.

DEATH 04 MR. F. GoLarxiD, M.P.—We regret
to announce the death of Mr. Frederick David Goldsmid,
M.P. for Bonitos,. He died on Sunday night last from the
effects of a severe cold caught in returning from the House
of Commons. He had been ill only four days. The deceased

gentleman was in his 54th year.
THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE..
Betting is still 6 to 4 on Oxford.
On Tuesday, Laurence Donnelly, a rail ray guard
on the Dublin and Belfast Railway, pleaded " Guilty" to
the charge of steeling a bracelet, value 100/., which had
been forgotten in • railway canine. He got an excellent
character from the officals of the company, which the
magistrate took into acc:uot, and sentenced him to three
months' imprivonmeat with herd labour.
The Lurgan Gazette reports a case of forgery by
a clerk, who pastel a fain cheque in the name of Richards
Brothers and Co., Beloit, got 192/. 2s. for it in Dublin,
and has escaped—it is supposed to America.
The Dorf Zeitung, in Hildburghausen, had lately
• heeding article consisting of two verses of the Bible, and
nothing more. The verses are to be found in Micah vii.,
3 and 4, and are as follow :—" That they may do evil with
both beetle earnestly, the prince uketb, and the judge
ssketh for a reward ; an 1 the great man, he uttereth his
mischievous theirs : so they wrap it up. The best of them
is as • brier; the most uptight is sharper than a thorn
hedge : the day of thy watchman and thy visitation cometh ;
now shall be their perplexity." Messmer paper contained
the debate in the chamber on the decision of the Supreme
Court against the liberty of speech in the chamber. The
Dorf Zeitung received a wsroing.
TZWILEBBURY Buenos. The poll yesterday
between Mr. Martin, the liberal candidate, and Sir E.
Lechmeth, the conservative, was remarkable for the close.
nom% the conservative having been returned by the nar-
rowest majority, and the polling being throughout the day
pretty even. The conservative took the lead, and was never
headed, although it wee a seek to neck race from the he-
sitting to the end. The constituency actually on the
register membered, 325. Of these five are dead, and Mlle
15 were declared neutrals, leaving little over 300 of the
electors were polled out. No regular special statement of
the poll was put out, except by the conservatives towards
the middle of the day, when they clawed a majerity of ter.
At the close the numbers as reported by the conservatives
was 150 for Leohraere, and 147 for Martin. It is believed
these figures are pretty correct. At all event' Sir E. Lech-
mere is returned.
SuccouNo ttr FaaNca.—The Correctional
Tribunal of Valenciennes has just pronounced an
portant judgment. A seizure of tobacco made at Vithigne,
at the end of 1864, led to the dm:ovary in the depart-
merit of the Somme of a vast enterprise for smug.
glint in which were concerned more than a hundred I
persons, living is the departments of the Need, I
Pas-de-Ca'ais, Oise. he. It was proved that the
pelecipal person, IL Marcel, of Camon, had in-
traria oc4 into France during the years 1863, 1864, anbefo d 1865,
90,000 kilos. of tobacco. From the proceedings re the '
court, it appeared that Marcel introduced it in various
shapes, as the case might he. sometimes among beet root
pulp, cereals, coats, &e. The loss to the Treasury is esti-
mated at • million of francs. Forty-seven persons were
found guilty and sentenced to flees amounting to upwards
of 1,100,000 fr., and to terms of imprisonment varying
from three to six months.
One of the double-humped or l3actrism camels
in Edmond's menagerie bas lately given birth to a
fine male calf at Bilden, Suffolk. This is the second in-
stance of the kind occurring in this country. the other
having been calved at Hackney is January, 1864, in the
same collection.
AN ANctr-vr Strovz.—The oldest stove, probably,
in the United States, is one which warms the hall of Vir-
ginia's capitol in Richmond. It was made in England. and
*est to Virginia in 1770, and warmed the House of Burgesses
for 60 Tests before it wee removed to its present ithatioe,
where it has been for 30 years. It has survived three British
monarchs ; has been cotamparanuas with four kingly nth.
earchiaa, two republics, and two imperial goversinests of
France. The great remblie of America has been for
by
istereecise strife, the broacher partly healed, sad still tite
old stove remains unmoved in the midst of all. Edo per-
palm!—Rem York SUA.