The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-26 00:00:00

SHOCKING BOILER EXPLOSION.

Yesterday a terrible accident occurred at the
house of Mr. W. Longley, Park-street, Leeds, about half-
pet I o'clock p.m. A boiler iu the kitchen exploded, killisg
Mrs. Loogley on the spot and severely Mr. Long-
ley, his daughter, and a servant girl. t'heboiler, which was
made of mat iron, was one of those ordinarily knows
as closed self-feeding (fire-heck) balm, and wee used
for domestic purposes, IIMU the matter has bees
fully investigated it is impossible to state poitively
the cause of the explosion, but it very probably
arose in consequence of the boiler barb( become red hot,
owing to the water having been damn olf and the feeding
pipe having become frozen, thus preirentiag the boiler
being gradually refilled as it became empty ; eventually the
ice in the feeding pipe had thawed, and the cold water
rushing into the red hot boiler generated • quantity of
explosive steam, which mused the boiler to burst Malan-
taneously. The noise of the explosion was very loud, sad
its consequences, as already indicated, most dimetreos.
The door and window of the kitchen were blown out,
the walls were nearly destroyed and the furniture
smashed, and the window of an oljoioing room was
shattered to i4oces. Three of the unfortunate sufferers
who were in the kitchen at the time were recovered with
the fragments; Mrs. Lonsley's body wee shockingly mu-
tilated. Mr. Laogley's iejance include severe bruises of die
head and fare, and he lire in • precarious state. The servant
girl was also much out and bruised. Mims Loagley, who
is about 25 years of age, was in a purge adjoining the
kitchen, and was knocked down with great violence ; one of
her leis was broken in two places. Mr. Longley is • part-
ner iCI the firm of Messrs. Thomas Langley and
builders, aud is • member of the Leeds Town CounciL

DEATH Or THE EARL or MIXDOEOUGH.--We
have to onnousee the demise of the Earl of Merborough,
who died yesterday at the residence of Colonel the Hoe.
Jame,. Lindsay, lif.P., in Portionn•aquare, after a short
illness. The late Right Hon. John Seale, Earl of Mex.
borough, of Lifted, County Dui:meal, Viscount Polling-
ton of Fenn, and Hiroo Pollington of Longford, in the
peerage of Ireland, was only son of James, second Earl, by
114iraheth, daughter and heir of Mr. Johu Stephenson, of
East Burnham, Bucks. He was born July 3, 1183, and
married August. 28,1007, lady Anne Yorke, eldest daughter
of Philip, third Earle( Hardwick', by whom, who survives
his hmiship, he leaves servicing issue three sons and a
daughter, namely, Viscount Pollingtou, (now Earl of Men-
borough), the Hon. and Rev. Philip Yorke Basile, the Hon.
Charles Stuart Baylis, and lady Harsh, married to Colonel
the Hon. James Lindsay, M.P., of the Grenadier Guards.
The deceased nobleman is succeeded in the family human
by his eldest son, Julio Charles George Yisoonet
Minton, born June 4, 1810, and married Feb-
ruary 24, OK to Lady Rachel Walpole, eldest
daughter of the late Earl of Orford, who died 21st Julie,
1864, sod by whom he has an only son, John Howard, bon
in 1843. TI6O present peer was educated at Trinity College,
Cambridge, at which university he graduated M.A. in
1830. In littl he was returned to poiliaineut fur Genoa,
, and remounted Pontefract in the House of Commas, from
Mb to 1847. The Earl and Countess of Warwick, the
Dowager Countess of Caledou, the Marchioness of Water-
ford, Lady Stuart de Itotliany, Colonel and Lady Harsh
Lindsay, lied other families"( rank are placed in motu-ning
by the illannee of his lordship.
Tae FATAL ACCIDENT AT TIM 8111PINTINIL —The
unfortunate person who was drowned en Mcmday through
skating on to the cat ice has been ancertebed to be Mr. C.
A. South, of It, Hallunion.street, Procadille, a clerk in the
home of Menem. Maurice sad Co., is the dity.