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London, England, 1867-12-14 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14.

Ir is our painful duty to lay before our readers
this morning the narrative of an outrage which in
the diabolical wickedness of its design and in the
murderous consequences attending its execution
has scarcely any parallel or precedent. The tale
is told elsewhere, but we may repeat its chief
incidents here. Yesterday afternoon, at about
ten minutes to four o'clock, in the light of
day and in the midst of the traffic of the
streets, a keg of gunpowder, covered with a
tarpaulin, was carried on a truck through Cor-
poration-row, Clerkenwell, and deposited on the
pavement against the wall surrounding the exercise
yard of the Clerkenwell House of Detention, in
which the alleged Fenian " Colonel " Berms is
confined. It was conveyed by three men
and a woman, who scarcely tried to con-
ceal themselves, trusting no doubt to the
suddenness and shock of the explosion to cover
their retreat. One of them applied a fusee to the
barrel, which, after burning for two or three
seconds, fired its contents. The wall of the
prison-yard, which is between twenty and thirty
feet high, and two feet thick, was lifted up
and driven in, brick by brick, for many yards
of its length ; and eight houses on the opposite
side of the street were shattered, and more or less
completely destroyed. The two immediately
fronting the part of the wall against which
the barrel of gunpowder was placed
were entirely demolished, with the exception of
the front wall of 'one of them. These buildings,
which are lofty and spacious, were sub-let in
numerous tenements, and densely crowded. The
injury done to life and person is appalling. Three
persons, two men and one woman, have been
killed, and lie now in the dead.house of St.
Bartholomew's Hospital. Besides these, a woman
and two children are miming, and are believed to
be buried in the ruins of one of the houses, though
up to a late hour last night the researches of the
firemen had failed to recover the bodies. Be-
tween forty and fifty persons have been wounded,
of whom most have received fearful, and some, it
is too likely, deadly injury. They include per-
sons of every age and both sexes—from the old
man of nearly ninety years, to babies and young
children. Thirty-two of these poor creatures have
been received at St. Bartholomew's, six at the
Royal Free Hospital in Gray's-inn-lane, and
five at the Clerkenwell Workhouse. The House
surgeon of St. Bartholomew's declares that during
his fifteen years' residence he has never seen
wounds so fearful nor so much blood. Happily
for the ends of justice, three of the four persons
believed to be concerned in this infernal massacre
have been arrested. Rumours that an attack of
some kind was meditated had reached the autho-
rities, and three policemen in plain clothes
patrolled the building. At the sound of the ex-
plosion they rushed to the spot whence the noise
proceeded, and arrested two of the men and the
woman—the last, it is said, an habitual visitor to
Braxe—who had conveyed the keg of gun-
powder to the place. The man who actually applied
the fume escaped, the constable who endeavoured
to seize him having been knocked down by the
shock, but it is believed that the fellow is known,
and that his capture will be speedily effected.
The feelings of indignation and horror which
this diabolic outrage excites do not need to
be heightened, and cannot, indeed, be fittingly and
fully expressed in words. Its wickedness is
portentous and almost superhuman. The mind
shrinks from dwelling on the sights and sounds of
distress which the Hospital walls enclose, on the
physical tortures of the unhappy victims of the
outrage, and on the mental anguish of those who
discovered there the friends and relatives they
sought for but feared to find. Possibly the
perpetrators of the crime did not know the full
force of the explosive material they used, nor
the strength and resisting power of the wall, and