The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-12 00:00:00

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SINGULAR EXPLOSION AT MANCIENIIII.—There
have recently been erect= in Mancha= a umber of pillar
letter-boxes in the streets. They are way simple In construc-
tion, consining of en upright cest-iron cylinder, at the top
of which is an ripening for the insertion of lettere. n
opening has • Won lid over It to keep out wet and dirt,
opening with • hinge. The post-ofEoe otDciels take out the
letters by unlocking en iron door at the side. At an early
hour yesterday morning (about 2.30), police constable 76 A,
on night duty near the Corn Exchange. observed • men ran
away hos one or these pillar letter-boxes, erected at the
junction of Corporation-street and Hanging-ditch, and, sus-
posting =me mischief bad been attempted, the oiliest went
is the spot. Lifting the lid from the aperture into which the
letters AM dropped, ibe policeman Seabed the naked light of
Ws natant across the aperture to look into it, when • loud
'lepton= homediately succeeded, and the WS= was severely
band sod otherwise Wend. Had he stood in (sum of the
boa door at the side of the pillar he would In all probability
have been killed, • Liege Owe of iron from on. of the mies
of the doer being towed of by the explosion, and rented to
a distance of newly 160 yards. The officer was so mach
njared that be was obliged to go of duty, and was led to
the Boyd Inerroary, but it is believed the result will not be
aerie= It waa at lint supposed that the man who had been
seas to run away had planed powder or some explosive sub-
mimeo Ia the letter-box, Out this turns out not to have been
the ease. The pillar bee been placed over a gas main in the
street, and there is but little doubt that n
ear kage of gee from
ibis meta had asoended through the h and bad the
hollow of the cylinder which is the receptacle for letters, and
that the polionean, to opening and throwing his naked light
Wine, the aperture at the top of the pillar or cylinder, thus
unwittingly caused, the exploits which was near destroying
him. It I. to be presumed that, in future, the authorities
et ill take are that these pillars are not open at the bottom, or
point of insertion in tits earth, or similar aoaidemito may
near, and possibly with fatal results.

ELECTION OF Two MORE ROMAN CATHOLIC
taliors.—Oa Tuesday 1.. t, • meettag or all the Raw
catholic ;owlet's of Reiland sad Weise was held at the reel-
dime el Cardinal Wiseman, 1 York-
.. Pastawa-
squire, kr the purpose of Worthy; two won apt, ate sa
a salfrepa, or (a. he is technically termed) a mediator
to Dr. Ullathoree, of Birmingham, and the other at seeteesee
to the Right Rev. Dr. Wiring, of Nortkessplas, who hes
lately piped his ses in order to vend the remainder of
Ids days la the seehriee of s monastery. The proceedings
ea this works were sondscre4 with the usual 'screwy, and
is either cues we believe that three anus were down to be
llamado, to Ram lag the Pope to make his selection. Re-
wear hemmer, states that the coadjutor of Simi tam will
iNeha~l R. Deem Mope. Theoleetesl
Y !esir= Omit; mad that the ether appolat-
mai Mil wahrred either ea ohs `Very Rev.
Lk
Ad, • nephew offorsase the late Caramel Wald ; or= Rev. Dr. Ida•Www, ly Arehdeesse
Pepe MIL el Chi-
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Nee Prevost of the . Metropolitan Ciatladial sad
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