The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-17 00:00:00

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and doors are completely smashed in, and in
several rooms the furniture of the humble occu-
pants has been either wholly destroyed, or ren-
dered utterly useless. On the northern side of the
lane many of the window-sashes have been blown in,
and much of the furniture in the different apart-
ments seriously damaged. In Rosoman-street the
shop fronts were blown away by wholesale, while
windows were completely demolished by scores.
In Plummer-place and Northampton-buildings, ,
localities inhabited by numbers of the artisan
class, great damage has been done, scarcely a house
escaping injury. In Plummer-place the window
frames have been flung violently into the rooms of
the inhabitants, inflicting an Irreparable amount
of injury on the property contained therein. In
Coburg-street an immense number of panes of glass
were destroyed, especially at the backs of the
houses. In Meredith-street and Corporation-row
similar results were observable. In Woodbridge-
street, a highly respectable thoroughfare, inhabited
principally by working jewellers and watchmakers,
the devastation was fearful. Not a house had
escaped. Those on the eastern side had their front
windows completely blown in, those on the west
side suffered both in front and back. In Sekforde-
street hundreds of windows were destroyed. In
St. James's-street, St. James's-walls, and a few
other thoroughfares, the damage was compara-
tively slight. In Woodbridge-street numerous
pailfuls of broken glass were collected in the diffe-
rent areas. At the bottom of Sekforde-street, oppo-
site Clerkenwell Church, a china dealer lost a large
quantity of valuable stock, consisting of expensive
vases, &c., displayed in his shop-window. These
were shattered to atoms by the force of the explo-
sion, although more than 150 yards distant from
i the spot where the barrel was fired. Very many
domestic animals have perished. In several in-
stances cats and dogs were observed to drop sud-
denly, as if stunned by a violent blow. Birds,
too, perished by dozens. The number of individual;
who have been admitted to the hospitals unfortu-
nately affords no real criterion of the real number
who were more or less injured by the explosion. The
resident medical men have under their care a large
number of sufferers, chiefly from fright, and it has
been estimated that were these added to the list of
those in the hospitals, the number:of victims would
be swollen to at least 280 or 300. The number of
families who have suffered in a lesser or greater
degree from the effects of the explosion amounts to
several hundreds, and so great is the terror in-
' spired amongst them that on Saturday they in
several cases commenced moving, with what they
could save from the wreck of their furniture, away
from the scene of disaster. At least eighteen out
of every twenty families thus smitten are those of
honest, hardworking people, upon whom the blow
' has fallen with crushing severity. Those who
were in the neighbourhood of Corporation-
; lane on Friday evening will never forget the scene
presented. Everywhere the inhabitants seemed
absolutely paralysed with terror. In the houses'
women were fainting, mothers were rushing through '
the streets screaming for their children ; fathers,
just returned from work, were gazing in horror at ,
their demolished homes ; daughters were franti- I
cally embracing their aged parents ; and above all
hovered the thin remains of the accursed vapour
which had wrought such ruin and misery. To
describe the effects of this outrage on the minds'and
i feelings of the Clerkenwell population is simply
impossible. The very men who were foremost in
cheering Finial' on Clerkenwell-green are now the
loudest in their denunciation of this, the latest
fruit of Fenian agitation. The number of houses
damaged may be roughly estimated at GOO.

The most complete measures have been taken at
Woolwich by the military authorities, in conjunc-
tion with the police, to guard against the possibi-
lity of any attempt to commit destruction upon
any portion of the government property. The
Royal Arsenal is very strongly guarded both inside
and outside, especially during the night ; and the
division of metropolitan police is rally armed, the
men being strictly ordered to keep within call of
each other. The military police has also been
augmented, and also the detachment of Royal
Marino Light Infantry on duty at the Deptford
Dockyard.

THE LIVERPOOL STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE AND
TEE FENIAN Ouvitacss.—Yesterday moining, Mr. Baffles,
the Liverpool stipendiary magistrate, on the head con-
stable (Major Grew, C. 8.) entering the police-court, said—
" Major Greig, as the police magistrate of this borough,
and therefore specially interested in the preservation of
public order, I feel bound to take the earned opportunity
afforded me to convey to you as head countable, and to
the officers and men under your command, my best thanks
for the admirable manner in which you carried out the
instructions of the magistrates with regard to the
threatened demonstration in our streets yesterday. Having
been at the polioe-office during tho greater part of the
day, I can bear the most ample testimony to the excel-
knee of all your aminements, and to the highly satisfao-1
tory wanner in which they were carried out. I think
the authorities of this town may fairly claim
some credit for the quiet determination with which ;
they prohibited the intended procession or processions,
and I am glad to see that our exuruple has been followed
elsewhere. The immediate danger has been averted ; but
after what has occurred in London we cannot be too much
upon our guard against the reckless atrocity which seems
to care nothing for the lives even of innocent womcn and
children, provided their own disloyal purposes may be
effected. I believe that, had it cot been for the vigilance
of the police of this borough under your command, exer- .
deed now untiringly for some months, we might have had
to rue results as fatal to life and property as has been the
event which took place in London on Friday last, and
which has excited everywhere feelings of horror and alarm
which will not be readily subdued. I feel sure that you
will not relax your precautions, and I trust success way
always attend your efforts to preserve the public peace and
order." Warm and hearty applause from a crowded court ;
followed the delivery of this address ; and Major Greig ,
having briefly but suitably replied was loudly cheered.
DIsTRESs IN BEDFORDSHIRE.—Offing to the in-
creased disuse of straw as a material for bonnets, the straw
trade—on which thousands of the residents of Bedford.
shire and the immediately contiguous districta entirely
depend for their sustenance by plaiting and otherwise pre-
paring the material fcr manufacture—is depressed to an
unprecedented extent, and several suspensions of traders
in straw have been announced during the last week. The
poor people of Leighton Buzzard, Luton, Newport Fag. '
nell, 'Tring, and other towns and villages, especially the
females, have already begun to experience much distress ;;
and the applications to the local boards of guardians for
relief have materially increased within the last fortnight,
and are sure in a short time to be so numerous as to
severely test the capacity of the several workhouses, and
the existing funds of the different unions in the district.
BURSTING OF A RESERVOIR. —An alarming and
destructive accident occurred in Kelso on Saturday night.
The town is supplied with water from a large iron tank
or reservoir, capable of containing about 60,000 gallons,
and this is tined on massive stone walls to a height of 60
or 70 feet. Into this tank the water is pumped by esteem-
engine, and on Saturday night it was tilled, no one sup. I
posing that there was any danger. The man in charge
had not long left the place when aloud report was heard,
caused by the bursting of the tank, and the water rushed
out, carrying all before it. A dwelling-house close by was ;
completely shattered, but the inmates, with the
exception of a daughter of the proprietor, eaceped.
The poor young lady, however, is so severely injured that
her recovery is doubtful. She was so completely buried
amongst a mass of rubbish that it was an hour before she
could be extricated. A medical examination showed that
she had received cute and bruises all over the body, and
that her left thigh was broken. Several persons narrowly
escaped being carried away by the rushing water. The
damage to property is considerable, besides the incense.
nience that will be felt in the town till arrangements can
be made for a fresh supply of water. It is not yet known
where the blame lies, if blame there be. The sides of the
tank were nearly aa inch in thickness, sod it seemed quite
secure.— Edinburph Courant.
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