The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-12 00:00:00

EXPLOSION 07 d BOILER IN EASIER ROSS.

TWO MIEN KILLED AND THREE SEVERELY

INJURED.

The district of Easter Ross was thrown into
extreme excitement on Saturday morning by the explosion
of a steam boiler, accompanied by a sad loss of human life.
About 1 o'clock that morning, a portable steam thrashing
machine was being removed from the Hill of Fearn to
the parish of Tarbet along the highway by steam
power only. After being about two miles on the
journey, the machine stuck fast on the road near
the Free Manse of Yearn, when the engineer, Mr. Teller,
a millwright from Tain, put on extra steam. The boiler
was an old one and long out of use, and immediately on
the additional steam being put on, the boiler burst, and
Mr. Teller and one of his assistants were instantaneously
killed, their bodies being soon after found, sadly
mangled, about 60 yards from the scene of ex-
plosion. The boiler was driven a distance of
about 40 yards, and knocked down a wall against
which it landed. The wheels of the engine, which were
very heavy, were driven to atoms and scattered at long
distances around. Three other men were severely injured,
and strange to say, three escaped without injury. Drs.
Ellison and Vass, Tain, were at once sent for the re-
lief of the surviving sufferers, who were in the meantime
kindly attended to by Mrs. Macdonald, of the Free Manse
of Feorn. Two of them are doing so well that their re-
covery is anticipated, but the third is in a very doubtful
state.—Nerthern Ensign.

One day last week a fire took place in Red
Lodge Nursery, a mile and a half from Southampton, and
burnt about ten rods of furze. There was no wind at the
time. When the fire was extinguished some labouring
men noticed that a little plot of heath in the centre of
where the fire had been was not burnt, and that the fire
had burnt everything round the heath, and had ap-
proached close to it. In looking about, the men dis-
covered a pheasant's nod containing six eggs amongst the
heath. A few hours afterwwards the pheasant was seen
Pitting on the eggs. Some time after the nest was
visited, and the parent bird was absent, but the
eggs were nearly hatched. When the nest was
again visited, the pheasant had hatched the leggs,
and carried off the young birds. It is remarkable
that the heath was not burnt, as it was perfectly dry;
and it is believed that the pheasant had by flapping her
wings kept the fire off.
The North German Lloyd Company are having
three new monster steamers built, to be called the Rhein,
Main, and Donau, to carry on the mail communication
between Bremen, Southampton, and Now York.
There are snake charmers exhibiting at a circus
in Southampton, and yesterday some consternation was
caused in the neighbourhood of the circus by one of the
large mikes escaping.
OnEvscAaviz, Arousr 12.—The Allan Com-
pany's steamer Hibernian, from Quebec on the ^2nd inst.,
arrived in Lough Foyle at 4.60 a.m. to-day, with mails and
passengers. She landed the mails for London and pro-
ceeded for Liverpool.
LONDON DEmourioss.—That not very hand-
some but historical brick and stone front of Burlington
House, which faced the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, has
now nearly disappeared ; the corridors have been carted
away, and nothing is left but the centre portico, which
formed the subject of a discussion, the other night,
in the House of Commons. This old Bur-
lington House frontage is represented in one
of Hogarth's prints, called "The Man of Taste,"
in which Kent, the architect, painter, and sculptor is
caricatured, and Pope is depicted in the act of white-
washing. So far the country has a pictorial record of
this old building to refer to, but many each places have
been destroyed during the last 20 years to make way for
London improvements, without even a photograph being
taken of the demolished structures. The Illustrated
Lopoo,l News strives to keep pace, as well as
it can, with these Metropohtan changes, and
gives us some admirable pictures of London, past and pre-
sent, but it is a disgrace to the governing powers of the
country that some more systematic pictorial record is not
kept for future reference. The Record-office preserves
documents, but not views of places, and imitators of Stow
and Strype, if such writers exist, have nothing but their
memorie* and chance collections of pictures to work
upon.