The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-10-21 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

By the arrival of the Minho screw steamer at
this port, on Sunday night, from Lisbon, we have
received advices from that city to the 14th inst.
The Peninsular packet Madrid had arrived from
Southampton on the 11th, and left next day for
Cadiz and Gibraltar.

The royal mail packet Tamar, with the outward
mail for South America, coaled at Lisbon on the
13th, filled up all her spare passenger berths, and
left in the afternoon for Madeira.

Hertfajesty's ship Brunswick left Lisbon for
~Talta on the 12th, and on the same day the Dutch
schooner Alberdina, Captain E• S. Scherpbier,
arrived from Newcastle with the captain, Richard
Sayton, and the crew of the brig Myth, of
Hartlepool, which was lost in Ist 45.30 N, lon
6,10 W, while upon her voyage from Barcelona to
Swansea in ballast.

BURGLARIES IN BRISTOL,—Witbi❑ the last week severa
daring burglaries have been perpetrated. On Saturday the
office of the Bristol Gazette was entered, and the thieves
having made their way into the counting house, rifted it at
leisure, forcing open all the drawers, and tossing the books,
papers, &c., about in every direction. The amount of
booty obtained was but small, consisting of about £1 in
silver and copper, taken from an iron safe, which was forced
open, and about tho same amount in postage and receipt
stamps; On the same night a burglary was committed on
the premises of the Bristol -United Gas Company, in Lime-
kiln lane. The robbers with great labour drilled through
an iron door leading to the book repository, having opened
which they came to a second door, which they attempted to
blow open with gunpowder, but failed in removing the bolts.
The plunder obtained was consequently confined to a small
number of postage stamps. On Thursday night the offices
of Messrs. W. Bevan and Qirling, solicitors, Small street,
were broken into, apprently by some person well acquainted
with the premises, as the drawer in which the cash was
kept was the cnly place which the thieves visited. This
was forced open, and about £7O in cash abstracted. Several
checks which were in the drawer were left. The police are
on the alert, and there is good reason to believe that the
perpetrators of the latter robbery will be detected.

APPALLING ACCIDENT AT THE SURREY
GARDENS.

FLIGHTFUL LOSS OF LIFE.

On Sunday night a deplorable calamity--resulting in the
death of seven persons, and in personal injuries more or less
serious to many others, of whom the exact number cannot at
present be ascertained, though at least six have been taken
to Guy's Hospital—happened at the Surrey Gardens, uni-
versally known as a place of popular recreation for the
inhabitants of the metropolis. Of late additional interest
has attached to these Gardens through the efforts of a com-
pany conducted on the limited liability principle, whose
property it has become, and who have expended a consider-
able sum of money on the artistic arrangement of the
grounds, and especially on the erection and decoration of a
large Music-hall, capable of accommodating 10,000 persons.
There, nightly, for some months past, at a charge so low as
scarcely to exclude even the poorer classes of the metropolis,
the public have had an opportunity of listening to some of
the finest operatic music by Mario, Grisi, Alboni, and many
others of kindred reputation, accompanied by an orchestra
of great efficiency under the direction of M. Jullien. 'f here
are many other objects of interest within the precincts of
the place, but music has been the principal source of attrac-
tion. So much for the Gardens, and now for the cause of this
deplorable calamity. During the last few years the Rev. Mr.
Spurgeon, a preacher belonging to one of the denominations of
Dissenters, and a young man not more than 25, has by a style
of oratory peculiar to himself become the object of great popu-
larity, chiefly among the humbler, but also among a consi-
derable number of the middle classes residing on the Surrey
side of the river, which popularity has gone on increasing to
such an extent that the chapel in which his religious services
were conducted became wholly inadequate to accommodate
the !Ambers who flocked to listen to him. In this emer-
gency he removed to Exeter-hall on Sunday evenings, a here
he has lately been preaching to crowded audiences, while
hundreds have gore Away from time to time unable to obtain
admission. For an hour or two, indeed, before the doors
were opened, large nu eibers of people were accustomed to
assemble in the Strand in front of the building on a Sunday
evening for the purpose of gaining access. The regular
members of his congregation were previously admitted by a
private door on the production of tickets, which gave them
that right, and after they were comfortably seated the gene-
ral public were allowed to enter until the hall was densely
crowded. The gates were then closed and a board hung
outside intimating to all who came afterwards that the build-
ing was full. This arrangement continued for some time,
and under it the popularity of Mr. Spurgeon went on
augmenting. In the course of the service a collection
was invariably made among the audience, the proceeds
of which, after liquidating the expenses connected with
the occupation of the hall, were partly destined, as he
was accustomed to announce, to the erection of a new
chapel for the especial use of his congregation, and which
was intented to accommodate some alm st incredibly
large number of people. At last, a week or two ago,
his services were discontinued at Exeter-hall, and he
sought for another locality into which to herd his
flock. The result was that he entered into an arrangement
with the directors of the Surrey Gardens for the use of their
Music-hall for four Sunday nights at £l5 a night, and
Sunday evening was the first on which he preached
there. Unhappily the occasion, fraught as it was with
so fearful a calamity, will not soon be forgotten. This
fine building is oblong in shape, with two, if not three
galleries, owe above the other, extending the a'hole length
of the edifice, with various points of ingress and egress. It
is lighted by windows of plate-glass and fitted up in all
respects with great taste. It is capable, we believe, of hold:
ing 10,000 persons ; but last night, while the service was being
held, and when the accident now being related occurred, it
is estimated that there could not have been less than 12,000
or 14,000 present, During the week it got noised about
that Mr. Spurgeon intended to preach there, and the result
was that an enormous number of people went to hear him.
Besides the large crowd who obtained admission into the
hall, there were at least 1,500 in the adjacent grounds for.
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streets abutting Gardens who were also excluded. They have now much
reason to be thankful for what, doubtless, they regarded as
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a misfortune at the moment. The regular members of the
congregation were permitted to entee the edifice before the
rest of the public, in conformity with the practice at
Exeter-hall, and it was near 7 o'clock before all who were
admitted were accommodated with seats or with standing
room, and before the service began. Several police
constables were stationed at the points of entrance, and
others in plain clothes were sc atoned through he audience,
among whom was Sergeant Coppin, who afterwards did
some service in mitigating the disaster. Mr. Superintendent
Lund, of the metropolitan police, happened also to be there
with his wife and daughter, and they occupied seats ime
mediately in front of the pulpit on the basement floor.
The service commenced by singing a hymn which was
followed by a chapter read from the Scriptures by Mr.
Spurgeon. This done, the minister stood up to pray, and
had uttered a few words when an alarm of danger was
given, and in a few moments the whole of the vast aseatubly
was seized with a feeling of consternation. The accounts
vary as to the exact words' used to sound the alarm. Some
say that it was a cry of " Fire," which proceeded from a
person in the uppermost gallery ; others that the word used
were, " The roof, the roof l" that they eman ted from some
people on the basement story and were accompanied by the
tinkling of a bell. But, whatever the cry, the people in all
parts of the hall rose en masse in a state of the greatest
terror, and made for every point of outlet from the place
with the most frantic eagerness. The scene is said to have
been one of indeseriabble agony and confusion. The
despairing shrieks of women and children were
heard above the roar of voices which proceeded from the
platform and from the ground floor of the building,
chiefly imploring the people to remain quiet ; but in
vain as respects the great body of them, for they
rushed terror-stricken towards the doors with the
most fearful precipitation, and numbers, finding that
a slow means of retreat, dashed themselves through the
windows, made of plate glass, a quarter of an inch thick,
and sustained more or lees injury in the attempt. One poor
woman, especially, was seen to throw herself first through a
window in one of the galleries, and then, alighting on the
portico over the front of the building, to jump to the
ground, a distance of between twenty and thirty feet. She
was found fearfully cut in the face and with nearly all her
front teeth knocked out. Many others leapt from the galle-
ries to the ground floor in their hot haste to escape. It was
stated last night, by Mr. Superintendent Lund, that during
some part of this scene of terror, Mr. Spurgeon continued
his prayer. This was probably done with the view
to allay
the excitement, but it was altogether ineffectual. 'We have
it also, on the same authority, that after the confusion had
in some measure subsided the money boxes were sent round
for a collection, but we cannot credit such an assertion. We
need hardly add that the alarm resulting in all this deplora-
ble loss of life was altogether a false one, that there was no
fire and no danger from the falling of the roof, The means
of descent from the first gallery was by a circular stone stair-
case, which was protected by an iron balustrade, and in the
overwhelming rush to escape by this outlet the balustrade
gave way and many people were precipitated upon the
stone floor beneath. There, it is supposed, some were killed
by the fall, or afterwards trodden to death under foot.
Five of the unfortunate persons who lost their lives were
taken to the workhouse, at Newington, and on the visit of
our reporter their mangled bodies had been decently
composed and covered over, through the considerate
instructions of Mr. Feist, the master of the establishment.
They consisted of four women, only two of whom had then
been identified, and one fine young man, 26 years of age,
and about 6 feet high, who bad been identided by a cousin
who accompanied him to the Surrey Gardens, as Samuel
Heard, a labourer, residing somewhere in the borough. The
two women, who have been recognised, were Harriet
Barlow, aged 30, married ; and Harriet Johnson, the latter
a single woman, who resided with her father at 6, Newnham-
terrace, Hercules-buildings. The poor woman Barlow has
left a husband and two little children to lament her lose,
and she was far advanced in pregnancy. Her husband,
who came to the workhouse to identify her, remained there
for some time in a state of distraction. The father and
sister of the young woman Johnson also attended on the
same melancholy errand, and we shall never forget their look
of mute despair when they were shown their dead relative
All these four hapless women were respectably dressed—two
of them, not then identified, rather elegantly, and one
of the latter wore a wedding ring. Mrs. Grace Skipper, a
lady of great respectability, residing at 40, Dobson-terrace,
Kennington, was also among the dead. She was removed
to her own house. A very respectable boy, about 13, name
unknown, was likewise killed in the crash, and carried away
by his father, who accompanied him, and who was in a state
of inconceivable grief. Again, it was ramoured that a
woman residing in New-street, near the surrey Gardens,
whose name could not be ascertained, had died, after being
conveyed home, from the injuries she had sustained, ae had
also a gentleman residing in Doddington.-groye, Bennington.
Of the people who were crushed and injured in the struggle
five were taken to Guy's Hospital—four men and a little girl
about six years of age. Their names were Thomas Fewer,
of 15, Grange-road, Bermondsey, who has sustained a simple
fracture of the left thigh; George Lane, a married man with
three children, living at 1, President-street, Goswell-road
having a comminuted fracture of the right arm ; John Ark.
wright, 100, Long lane, Bermondsey, single, much crushed
about the throat and abdomen • and E. Whitnall, 24,a
leather dresser, residing at• 3, iohn's place, Grange road,
Bermondsey, some rather severe scalp wounds and injuries
across the loins, The little girl., beyond a slight wound in
the mouth, was not otherwise hurt, but was much frightened.
She is so young and so terrified as not to be able to articu-
late her name, but it sounds like Margaret Restpn. She is
also unable to otata where she lives. bhe is dressed in a
light drab frock, a gray squirrel victorine, and a pair of
black cloth boots. Under the prompt and humane attention
of Mr. Valentine, the house-surgeon at the hospital, and of
Mr. R. Hicks, the dresser, they were all doing well at
eleven o'clock on Sande), night, and there was then no ap-
,
prehension that any ease there would prove fatal. An eye
witness of the scene in the chapel writes that, among the
wounded were two gentlemen with their thighs broken, and
women and men were to be seen stretched along the stone
steps with the raging
and maddened crowd trampling over
them,while others dropped through the gap in the balustrades

to the corridor below. One man was for some minutes in
such a position that many thought he would have been
hanged. He was only released by a lady, who had thrown
herself off the staircase, coming i❑ contact with him in her
descent.

Our cotemporary, the Daily News, supplies the following
additional particulars :—" The Music-hall was filled within
a few minutes after the opening of the doors ; and by half-
past six from 200 to 300 people, who could not obtain
standing or sitting room inside, had stationed themselves round
the exterior of the hall, but within the gardens. Service
commenced at the time appointed; and for some twenty
minutes all went right. However, at a few minutes before
seven o'clock, those two cries which have so often proved fatal
in large assemblies were heard to issue, first from one and
immediately afterwards from several parts of the building—
the words " Fire," and " The gallery is falling," at first
whispered, were in a second or two shouted in agonising
accents by a thousand voices. Screaming and rushing, of the
most confused and terrifying description, followed those false,
and, as many think, malignant alarms. The staircases were at
once chocked by a dense stream of people, all rushing, or rather
tumbling, towards the places of exit; but this was not the
only movement. Hundreds rushed towards the windows, and
dashed through them out upon the iron balconies that
surround the building. The alarm in the body of the hall was
quite as great. The occupants of the benches on the ground
floor imagined that they were about to be buried beneath the
falling galleries, and there was an instantaneous movement to
the doors and windows. Most of the latter open from top to bot-
tom, doorwise, but were barred across on this occasion. However,
neither bolts nor bars stopped the panic stricken crowd, but
they jumped—men, women, and children—through the closed
casements, shivering sashes and glass to atoms, and presenting
bleeding faces, arms, and hands. In a moment or two after
the first alarm, a mass of people had reached the lower landings
of the staircases, and the pressure on the ballustrades became so
tremendous, that six er eight feet of the handrail and metal
supporters on the east side of the hall gave way with a frightful
crash, at a height of some twelve or fourteen feet from the
basement. A number of persons were at once precipitated to
the flagway of the passage, and in this fall some lives were lost.
At nearly the same instant the balustrade of the staircase at
the eastern side also gave way, but fortunately very near the
ground —not higher than six feet up. Here there was, of
course, also a fall of a number of people, but not to so serious
an extent as at the other side. The cries of the frightened
and wounded were now so loud and piercing, that they were
not only beard all over the gardens, but for a considerable
distance round the neighbourhood of `Val worth and Kenning-
ton. Many of the inhabitants' of these localities were them-
selves in the ball at the time, very many others had relatives
or friends there, and, fearing the worst, their consternation was
dreadful. Numbers rushed without hats or bonnets iuto the
gardens, calling for their children, brothers, husbands, or
wives, as the case might be, and were met by a confused mass
of people, who thought that they would not be safe so long as
they remained within the gardens, and were therefore flying at
the top of their speed. The gardens, with the exception of the
patch leading from the principal entrance, were in darkness ;
for, though the interior of the hall was brilliantly lighted, the
crowds inside prevented the lights from being any use to those
outside. The consequence was, that the persons who rushed
out through the lower windows ran in directions the most
contrary to the one they wished to roach. Some of them ran
into the lake situated in front of the panoramic view of Con-
stantinople. But the appearance of the gardens was melancholy
in the extreme. Everywhere about were wounded or
frightened individuals, some asking to be carried to the hos-
pital, others requesting to be allowed to, be where they were,
and the greater number calling for water. Persons ran about
crying " Police," and Are there any medical men hero ?'
and anxious relatives went from place to place to see if those
whom they sought were amongst the injured. The darkness, of
course, added very considerably to the confusion, and it was
some time before either dead or wounded could be remoyedt
though the police on duty showed very great acti-
vity in procuring cabs for the removal of the
victims. In the midst of this scene, several gen-
tlemen appeared on the balcony surrounding the ten
storey of the building, and shouted to the police So look
sharp after the pickpockets, adding that it was soma of those
villains who had raised the false alarms and so caused all the
mischief. About the same time some thousands had returned
to the hall, which is said to hold 10 000, and the Bev. Mr.
Spurgeon commenced his sermon by asking his auditory why
they had run out when an alarm was raised, and following that
interrogatory by an enquiry as to whether it was not their
conscience--the fear of what would follow after a sudden death
—that had induced them to do so. H 0 then proceeded to say
that he could not, of csmrse, atter such an occurrence, preach
to them as he would wish, but he would preach to thorn for
the usual. time if they thought at to remain. gore another
alarda and another rush took place, but not to anything
like the same extent as the former. However, those
who remained were evidently very ill at ease, and it is no
wonder that they were so, for the cries that reached
them from the outside were heartrending. Many had become
separated from their friends in the first great rush, and ran
frantically about the gardens calling them ky name, and
asking every one they met had trey teen pollens who were
quite unknown tt, the great number to whom these questions
were addresSed. Under these circumstances Mr. Spurgeon
brought the service to a conclusion, after a hymn bad been
sung The remainder of the congregation then left the hall.
A collection was made as they moved. out, and certainly the
rattling of money-boxes sounded not a little strange on so very
melancholy an occasion, when some hundreds were screaming
and crying, and Corpses were being removed from tho scene of
so fearful a catastrophe.
Tho same paper supplias another account.
Mr, 2..roirgestn made hie appearance i❑ the midst of his vast
auditory at half-past six o'clock, and gave out a hymn, which
was sung. He then proceeded with an " exposition" of a
portion of St. Luke's Gospel, on which he delivered a most
exciting harangue, which in some places was cheered by those
who took an interest in the proceedings. The next business
was a prayer, as exciting as the Scriptural corssusentary, and in
the midst of this the terrible accident occurred. From the best
information that could be gathered it appears that the catastrophe
arose from a cry of 0 Fire,"- raised by a concerted movement on
the part of a body of London thieves. At the western door, at the
northern entrance, and in the so.utkern entrance to the bnildiog
the cry was simultaneously raised, and it unhappily produced its
effect in each direction. From the western door, which is the
principal entrance, the people rushed in a body. Many of them
wore knocked down, trampled upon, and their arms and
legs brolch. Those in the first gallery who were alarmed by
the rumour rushed down the northern staircase, which gave
way, the result of which was, that five women and one man
were killed on the spot. Of the woman killed one Was i♦lrs.
Grace Skipper, of 40, Dobson terrace, Kennington, another
Mrs, Harriet Johnson (address unknown). To the other
persons there was up to a late hour last night no clue whatever.
When the alarm was raised in the galleries that the building
was on fire and was falling, the people, who were intimidated,
broke the windojcs and jumped out. Of these some hundreds
brel;o their arms and legs, and the shrieking and crying in the
darkness, which by this time prevailed, was certainly most
heart-rending It is but the most ordinary justice to Mr.
Superintendent Lund, and the police under his control, to
state, that if it had not been for their great exertions, some
hundreds of persons must have been killed or maimed

When the rush took place they planted themselves in a
body before the door, and while large bodies of people were
lying upon the floor, and running the risk of being trampled to
death, resisted as long as they could the progress of the im-
petuous crowd. Until 11 o'clock on Sunday night, dead and

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dying were conveyed to Guy's Hospital, to which institution,
by the proper directions of the superintendent of police, they
were conveyed. Mr, Spurgeon continued his discourse after
the terrible catastrophe, remarking that people would rush
from danger to save their bodies, while they oared little about
tho salvation of their souls. Mr. Cat ter, the coroner in
whose district this lamentable accident occurred, will no
doubt institute a strict investigation into the eircustances.
Viewed from the orchestra, the body of the hall presented a
scene of dire confusion and agonised excitement—the people
tossed and tore each other in terror. Fortunately, from the
floor being encumbered by seats, a moment's obstruction was
given to the rush. That moment saved the lives of many
who would have been overwhelmed in the trennenduoas pell-
mell hastening the furious onset towards the doors. This one
instant gave time for more tranquil observation. The
preacher recovered himself, implored silence, assured the
people of safety, and then, while the shrieks and screams still
resounded, and terrible groans were beginning to be heard,
even at that moment lie set up a hymn, which, at first loudly
ehaunted from the orchestra, soon spread itself over the
troubled congregation in the body of the hall, who now seeing
the roof still above them, pa the galleries still crowde,d
' with listeners, anxious and terror-stricken, yet eagerly
hanging upon the preacher's words, thus encouraged,
joined in the hymn of praise and faith, and thus uttering
that poise and faith, found safety in that confidence.
Not so in the galleries. There, a rush was made to the
circular staircase stn the right aide, facing the entrance. Down
this a streem of itightened men, women, and children poured,
rushing on in terror, and impelled from behind by crowds in
still greater alarm. Turning upon the stairs of the second
gallery, a slight curve is made by the balustrades, Here,
unfortunately from the overwhelming pressure, the mahogany
hand-rail broke, and the balustrades, thus loosened, gave way
ono after the other for about three yards. Urged on, driven,
pushed down by the surging crowd above—those below came
on, as it were, with certain death before their eyes—and ere
they could restrain themselves, fell over the side, down the
well staircase, on the stone floor beneath. The first
that tumbled over was a woll-dressed woman, who
strucli upon her head, and died without a groan ;
the second, another respectably-dressed female, who
with a child clasped in her
fell screaming in an agony,
arms ; then came another woman—then two men,
clutchir.g eaerly ht each other, at the stones, at air, as they
sack into the abyss; others followed, topplieg over each other;
while above, a fight,a fierce fight, was furiously raging for life,
between those from above and those below ; the first still sti iv-
' big to come down, the others struggling to stand still, or go t
upwards. Meanwhile the crowd from the end of the hall
below, were rushing round the passage, forcing their way
I outwards over the dead and dying, The groans and screamsl
were such as might be fancied of Pandemoniuni
appeared a policeman, then another then came ap;use itn tabs;
rush—and then a moment, if not of silence and order, of
better disposition and less foal fu I selfishness. Yet,
above all, arose the hymn of praise. Those who had
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gave occasion to a new panic, which Mr. Spurgeon vainly
attempted to tranquilise by another hymn.. An attempt was
aend outside,
then made to resume the sermon, and it will hardly be believed
that at this period the earnest entreaty of several gentlemen could
not prevent many well-dressed ladies, young and old, from
dragging in their husbands and brothers " to hear the sermon."
At last, on the remonstrance of the inspector in attendance,
that " he was hindered in removing the dead by the crowding
of the people," a gentleman took upon himself to explain the
actual position of affairs to Mr. Spurgeon, who immediately
dismissed his congregation." To set them in motion, to clear
first the galleries and then the hall, to break up the groups loi.
teeing in the gardens and about the carriage road, to stop ingress
and secure egress, was the work of much labour and time,
facilitated, however, as it here was by the arrival of a strong
body of police.

The next point was to get out the linv, Mr. Spurgeon to
secure him as well from the too eager care of his own " follow-
ing," as from the possible, and by no means improbable,
indignation of the excited mob, who might perhaps have
regarded him as the cause of a calamity, which, fearful as
were its consequences, they had already greatly exaggerated.
The rev. gentleman was found stretched upon the ground in a
state of great mental prostration, and finally, by the assistance
of one of the firemen of the gardens, was conveyed through
the cooking department to a private exit, where a cab having
been procured, he departed in safety for his residence.
The publicans in the vicinity of the Gardens reaped a
rich harvest from the excitement consequent upon Mr.
Spurgeon's appearance, and there can be no doubt that
the light fingered gentry did not lose the opportunity
profittint by the occasion.

LATEST PARTICULARS.
Mr. Superintendent Lund reports that he was present
in the hall from the commencement of the service, until
the fatal occurrence took place. He occupied a position
on the platform very near to Mr. Spurgeon, and had an
uninterrupted view of the whole body of the hail. He
asserts that about the time stated above, he distinctly saw
three persons in the body of the hall suddenly rise, and
lifting their arms towards the roof, shout, " Fire I. fire 1 "
He is convinced they were not swell-mobsmen, as was
first supposed, as he states thieves never occupy so
prominent a position as the persons he saw, generally
stationing themselves near the doors, to rob people as they
make their exit. He believed, and is supported in his
opinion by many other persons, that the alarm was raised
by some opponents of Mr. Spurgeon who had repaired to
the hall for the purpose of disturbing- the proceedings. It
is to be regretted the vagabonds in question are not in
custody ; but it is said some slight clue to their identity is
in possession of the police. We sincerely trust such is the
case, and that the wretches will speedily be in the hands of
justice. Mr. Lund related that as soon as he perceived the
immense audience making a desperate rush to leave the
building, he sent one of his men to Mr. Spurgeon, who
was continuing his prayer, notwithstanding the great
confusion, and prayed him to desist. With apparent
reluctance he did so, Mr. Lund's message being that
it would be impossible to clear the hall if he continued.
The terrific scene, described above, followed ; but during
which we have the authority of Mr. Lund for stating that
he saw at least a dozen men and boys hurrying about with
money boxes in their hands, which they shook fu.rioualy
about, and endeavoured to procure contributions from,
the cangregation, who were struggling fraaticallv fcm
liberty. The exact number of dead is not knows, but
that seven were killed is certain, tho bodies having bean
identified. They are as follows ;-....
BODIES IN NEWINGTON WORRHQUSE.—SaTHUE4 Heard,
aged 30, labourer, 8, Alle-street, Bermondsey, New-road ;
Mrs. Barlow, married woman, 19, Bath-street, London-
road; Harciat Johnson—address unknown, but supposed
to he in the Westminster-road ; Eliza Mead, aged 43, 7,
Love-lane, Stockwell, married woman. The identity of the.
fourth woman in the above workhouse has not been clearly
established. A young man viewed the body this mornings,
and states his belief that it is that of his sister, named
Harriet Mathews, of Newington. There is some doubt,
however, that this is the case, as the deoeased's clothing
was marked with the initials " M. H.," exactly the reverse
of those for Harriet Matthews.
DEAD AT THEIR OWN RESIDENCE.—Grace Skipper, Doh.
son-terrace, Kennington, servant. This young woman,
it seems, was accompanied by some of her friends, by
whom she was conveyed home last night. She was quite
dead svhen taken from the hall.

LIST eF INJURED PERSONS AT GUY'S HOSPITAL.—ThaI tlaß
Peachy, 15, Grange Road, Bermondsey, broken thigh, anti
other serious injuries ; James Ark wright, James-street,
Long Acre, contused wounds all over the body ; George. Lane, Gas well Road, arm broken, and other injuries;; Margaret Weston, 21, Cumming-street, general bruises;
Edward Whitnall, 3, John's Place, general bruises.
Besides these persons at Guy's hospital, there is a little
girl who has not yet been ownel. She is very beautifully
dressed, and, wo regret to state, somewhat seriously
injured.

INJURED PERSONS CONVEYED TO THEIR OWN TIOXICS.--ft
John and Mary Aldis, man and wile, Mansion House_
street, K.,nnington. Ellen Stanton, 5, Penton (`trove..
John Allworth, 1, Russell Place, Old Kent Road. Eliaa
Fletcher, 24, Bath-street, London Road, ruptured a blood
vessel. Henry Large, 17, Apollo Buildings, Westminster
Road. Ellen Goddard, 1, James-street, single woman.
ribs broken. Sarah Bridges, 4, St. David-street.
All the above are more or less seriously injured, and it
is feared death will supervene in some instances.
The above list, forms only a moiety of those known to
be lying in various houses suffering from wounds received
during the rush, but whose names and addresses have not
up to this time been clearly ascertained.
As before stated, the exact number of killed is not
known. It is rumoured that four other persons besides
those already identified had been killed, and have either
been conveyed to their own residences, or were lying in
the neighbourhood.
Ir.
It is said
M. Jullien was telegraphed for last night. lie was at
Brighton. Upon arriving in London this morning t e was
much excited upon being made acquainted with
-what had
occurre
hail to Mr. Spurizeon,by some lae objectede,to letting the
Mr. Carter will commence an - • enquiry into the cause of
the accident to-day.

LATEST SPORTING INTEhLIdekCi

TATTERSALL'S.-LART NU HT,

CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES,

10 to 3 agst Vengeance (taken)
11 ... 2 ... Polestar (taken)
11 1 ... Malacca
12 ... 1 ... Poacher
20 ... 1 ... Porto Rico
20 ... 1 ... Merlin
25 ... 1 ... Hospitality:
30 ... 1 ... Coup de Main
33 ... 1 „. Thames Ditton:
1 ... Emily
1 Bandalore '
••• 1 ... Little Dario] It

R3f.(11 DERRY.
12 to 1 agst. Sydney (take 14 to 1)
15 ... 1 Tournament (taken)
28 ... 1 Saunterer (taken), I

The Duke de Nemours and Prince Joinville visited, on
Thursday last, the United States steam-frigate Merrimac,
lying in Southampton water.

LORD PALMERSTON AND PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.—It
is believed in the best informed political circles th,4
Viscount Palmerston is availing himself of the le ;sure,
afforded by the recess to mature and perfect a sci4me
representative reform. Tile Premier may not go so far,
as Lord John Russell, who in his reform bill of 1852 pro-
posed to reduce the borough franchise from a rating of
to £5, and to abolish the property qualification ; but
Lord Palmerston's govcrumcnt will, it is hoped, introduce,
early in the next session, a reform bill which will satisfy
the just expectations of the country, and be supported by
the united and energetic action of the Liberal party. If
the bill should be thrown out, Lord Palmerston can then
appeal to the country, and the political life of the nation,
which has somewhat languished of late through the war,
and other causes, will again bo aroused by the appeals
which will then be generally made to the friends o 4
progress and the opponents of legislative :imprOvement
and reform.

lrinaisrliseeidia.,
SU,PENHON OF THE IVORXS AT THH LOUVRE.--We
believe we may now safely sta`e, that the works of the
Louvre are to be suspended. The exterior walls will be
completed, but the interior, with the marvellous richness n!:
its proposed direction, will be left to be carried our "under
more favourable auspices. This cessation frr.;-,1 the lola
investment in stone and cement, which has been going or;
in every part of -France during the last three or four years,
is a healthy symptom. To spend tens of thousands upon
statues of clerical nobodies, raised by the vicious system of
lotteries ; to authorise hundreds of town halls,
pride of h
and prefec-
tures,t and sous-prefectures, tatobwere-rbournilt,Caolarisreto-
fu
or re-decorated ; to gratify the municipal
provinces, by allowing every n,
les, to borrow heavy auras of money for the elaboration of
more or less desirable improvements—was to bring about
much of the financial difficulty under which France is now
labouring. At the present moment,
fused, is terrible evidence
of the
grave
, consequences
onto-
' which ever-speculation and the daring application of ques
tionable
EthielEriens mayu reAduleetta great and remarkable city.
14th inst.,
THE
from Hamburg, dated the
by the success it has obtained at Copenhagen
says :—" The Washington Cabinet, encouraged
upon the principle of the perfect neutrality of' the Elbe,
and going
admitted into European treaties, has recently presented,
through the American consul, Ur. Ames, a note to the
executive power of our republic, in which he asks from the
Senate a statistical return of all lighthouses and sea signals
maintained on the Elbe by our state, with their annual cost,
and the amount of dues levied to cover that expense on ships
navigating the river, either on their entrance or on their
leaving the North Sea. In the note alluded to, the
American Government expresses a great desire to know the
exact amount levied by Hanover by these tolls daring the
last ten years. And, as they are paid at ,the Hanoverian
office, the consul of the United States has received orders
from his government to ask officially from the Senate how
far it would support public force against American captains
who might reinse to pay the tolls. It is as well to mention
that the tariff decreed at Dresden in 1844 was neYer
officially recognised by the United States Government,".

OUR MELBOURNE CORRESPONDENCE

(Per the Formosa, via Ceylon)

MELBOURNE, Jun- 28

The splendid clipper ship Formosa takes her
departure for Point de Grille to-morrow, and,
anticipating from her splendid sailing qualities
that she will reach that port in time for the
Overland Mail to England, I take the opportunity
of sending you a few lines respecting the present
aspect of affairs in this and some of the sister
Colonies.

Our local politics have been of a somewhat tame
character of late. The general subject of public
comment and discussion was the approaching
general election, which, according to present
arrangements, is to come off towards the:
latter end of August. This, it may be.
observed, is the first appeal to the people,
under the New Constitution Bill. Accord-
ing to the provision of the enactment in question,
the colony of Victoria, for the purpose of electing
the Legislative Council, is divided into six pro.,
vinces, each to return five members. The qualifi.-±
cation is the possession of land yielding 5001.
a year, or worth 5,000/. Six members go out every
two years, and the House is not subject to
dissolution. This is considered the weak point of
the Constitution, and all the Liberal candidates
make its reform part of their political capital. Up
to this time only 24 or 25 candidates are in the
field. and for two of the provinces there are two or
three candidates more than the number to be
elected'. This, of course, increases the deficiency
of candidates in the other provinces, in one of
which only two candidates are announced. The
result will be that anybody whoeither has or will de.
Clare he has 5,000/. in band may obtain a seat in the
Upper House without much prospect of opposition.
It is not that there are not many men perfectly
able to qualify, but the plssessors of wealth in this
colony are still incorrigibly bent on money-making,
and those who have higher aspirations prefer the
Lower House. The Second Chamber, in truth, is
not popular. It was constructed by a Legislature
which represented only a small proportion of tke
present inhabitants of the colony—namely, the
old colonists and squatting interest ; and the most
conspicuous feeling displayed during the debates
upon the new Constitution. and which pervades its
provisions, was jealousy of the newly imported
element.

There is little or no competition for seats in the
House of Assembly, for although sixty members
are required up to the date of this communication,
there are not more than forty candidates. The 60
members are returned by 37 constituencies.
Melbourne returns five, Geelong returns four,
South Grant, the county in which Geelong stands,
three ; 14 places return two each. and 20 places
one each. Some of the latter are small consti-
tuencies, but with population much scattered.
Melbourne and its suburban municipalities, making
five electoral districts, have twelve members
assigned to them—less than their fair share what-
ever rule be adopted. For the city only one can
didate has yet addressed the electors, and only
three others are even spoken of. These statistical
facts will show you how lothe really respectable
and influential parties are to come forward to
obtain senatorial honours. The question of State
aid is a stumbling block to many of the candidates,
and, from all I can learn, the opponents of that
principle will have great difficulty of meeting in
anything like respectable numbers in the House of
Assembly. Nevertheless, as a minority, the party
will be strong, and countenanced, as it will be out
'-ors, it may soon be converted into a majority.
The official return for the month of June of
arrivals and departures at this colony exhibits a
more favourable state of affairs than any previous
month of the current year.