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London, England, 1863-04-10 00:00:00

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rowed the ideas and principles on which these rights
were founded, they would even now at the eleventh
hour, ask themselves whither this wicked and unne-
cessary war was leading them, and whether it was
to be tolerated that men with arms in their hands
shoald assemble in public meetings to debate poli-
tical questions and the conduct either of the Go-
vernment or the constitutional Opposition. One of
the very worst of the many ugly features in the
present aspeet of affairs in the North is the discus-
sion of such affairs by the soldiery—not among
each other in their tents and by the camp fire—for
such discussions will take place while men are men
and feel any interest in the cause which leads them
to the battle—but by organised assemblages and
deliberate speech making, intended either to control
or to support the Government. And worse even
than these meetings is the public approbation with
which they are received. The Tribune of Wednes-
day last devotes a whole page to reports of military
meetings at Newport News, Aquia Creek, Belle
Plains, and Falmouth in Virginia, Fernandina in
Florida, Camp Reno in Louisiana, and other places,
at all of which the soldiers usurped a function
which did not and ought not to belong to them.
At a public meeting of the officers and privates of
r the 100th Pennsylvanian Regiment, known as the
Roundheads, held at Newport News on the 14th
inst., the lieutenant-colonel in the chair, a series of
political resolutions were unanimously adopted,
first by shouldering arms in token of approval, and
afterwards by acclamation. One of the resolutions
designated all who desired peace as " mean, cow
ardly abettors of treason." Another affirmed that

the assembled soldiers "spurned with contempt
every proposition of Northern Copperheads for
compromise." A third declared that these people
(the Copperheads) and other sympathisers with
the rebellion, " gave aid and comfort to
the enemy, disheartened the army by a show of
distraction and division in the loyal States,
and that they were, in fact, traitors, and merited
and should suffer the traitor's doom ;" while a
fourth warned the Peace Democracy "that persist-
ence in their evil courses would bring to their
own doors those horrors of civil war which were
"now only known at the South." A similar meet-
ing of the 111th Pennsylvanian Regiment was held
at Aquia Creek on the 11th. The resolutions having
been drawn up by the colonel, assisted by a major,
a lieutenant, and the chaplain, were read to the sol-

diers, drawn up on parade for the purpose, and car-
ried amid deafening cheers. They declared unalter-
able attachment to the Union; pronounced peace to
be impossible, except by the unqualified submission
or the subjugation of the South; and denounced the
" black-hearted traitors" of the North, who were
worse than the " black-hearted miscreants" of the
South, inasmuch as they lacked the courage which
the latter possessed. One of these meetings, held
in Louisiana, was avowedly convened for the pur-
pose of acting upon the public sentiment in Connec-
ticut, with the view of controlling the election of
Governor. The address to the people of Connecti-
cut, which was adopted, called upon them to be as
brave by their firesides as the Connecticut soldiers
were on the battlefield, and to exert all their influ-
ence against the Democratic and Peace candidate
and in favour of the Republican and War candidate
for the office of Governor. If these things be done
in the green wood what shall be done in the dry ?
There can be little doubt that these meetings, from
the suddenness 'with which they have been called,
and from the fact that they have broken out
simultaneously in Virginia, Louisiana, and the West,
have been instigated by the Government. The sol-
diers themselves would not originate them. But it
is a dangerous game to play. The army may be in
the humour at present to support the Government
by its voice as well tt6 by its weapons; but if Mr.

Lincoln and Mr. Seward do not see the imminent
peril of employing it as a political instrument

to denounce vengeance against political foes,
they are greater imbeciles than their enemies
allege. The day may come when the soldiers,
having been taught to express their poli-
tical sentiments in camp, may express sentiments
not at all in accordance with those held by the men
who are now in power, and when they may give
effect to their strong words by stronger deeds, and

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perhaps march upon Washington instead of march.

ing upon the "rebels," and make a clean sweep of
what they may have learnt to consider, rightfully
or wrongfully, the imbecility, the dishonesty, or the
treason of the present occupants of office. As the
President's reading is said to be confined to "Joe
Miller's Jests," "Zsop's Fables," and the New York
Herald, he may not be acquainted with the legend
of " Frankenstein ;" but it would be well, perhaps,
if some one in his confidence—Mr. Horace Greeley,
for instance—would read to him the suggestive

story of the man who made the monster, and what
became of him. He and Mr. Seward have also

made a monster. Let them beware of the creature

as soon as it ceases to be a machine and presumes to

think and act for itself. To teach the individual

soldier to think is no crime, bat to teach an army
to think en masse is treason to liberty.

Two Young Lathes Committed for Theft.

On Tuesday an extraordinary charge was heard
by the Dover magistrates, in which the prisoners
were Eliza Harriet Cook and Marian Cook, the
daughters of a deceased Wesleyan minister. The
charge was that of unlawfully dealing with and re-
ceiving change for four £:.5 notes at the Bank of
England, on the 18th March, the said notes having
been abstracted from a drawer in Capt. Chadwick's
room at the military quarters, Western Heights,
after seven o'clock in the evening of the 17th. The
defendants were fashionably attired, and the crowded
audience included the principal inhabitants of
the locality, and many officers of the Royal Artillery,
83d, and 59th Regiments. Mr. Ritchie, a clerk
in the issue department of the Bank of England,
proved that he gave gold for four £5 notes num-
bered respectively (S.R.) 54,149, (S.X.) 27,418 (T. 8.)
006,207, and (T. 8.) 006,208, to two females, both in
dark dresses and wearing bonnets, the younger one
giving the name of " Mary Browne," and writing
" Dover" on one of the notes, and the cashier at the
London and County Bank, Dover, identified the
notes as those he had paid to Capt. Chadwick, 59th
Regiment, on a cheque drawn by the Paymaster of
the 59th Regiment. Capt. Chadwick said that these
notes, along with £4 in gold, were on March 14
placed by him in a cashbox, which cashb©x again
was put, along with other valuables, in one of the
drawers of a small chest of drawers in his quarters
at the Western Heights, Dover. Next morning the
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DENMARK.

(From a Correspondent of the Times.)

COPENHAGEN, April 5.
The meeting in the Casini, of which I spoke in
my letter, came off on the 28th, and is considered
by its originators to have been a complete success.
The resolutions, which have already appeared in
your columns, were adopted unanimously, and no
doubt really conveyed the full conviction of the
assembly, expressed by the different speakers with
as much firmness as moderation. While it was de-
clared that the only way out of the present troubles
lay in the giving up of the constitutional union with
Holstein and Lanenburg, it was at the same time
strongly urged that the Government ought with
the greatest determination to keep any description
of foreign interference out of Schleswig. To judge
from the proclamation signed by the King on the
30th of March, the Government has come to the
same conviction, for, as you will perceive from the
tenour of it, the general drift of that document is
towards the isolation of Holstein. The Go-iernment
only wishes to proceed gradually, and to avoid
violent or abrupt steps. The proclamation of the 30th
cannot be looked upon as having been influenced by
the meeting two nights before in the Casini, for
it is evidently a long-concerted measure ; but it
speaks highly for its having been issued at the
right moment that both the Government and the
nation at one and the same time have expressed the
necessity of such a step. How it will be teceived in
Germany is another question; I fear not very well,
for the German politicians do not at all wish to lose
that pretext for meddling with the affairs of Den-
mark which the participation of Holstein in the
joint constitution hitherto afforded them.

The Rigsraad for Denmark proper and Schleswig
is to meet on the 22d. We shall then hear of the
further measures intended by the Government; and
the Holstein Estates will reassemble in the course
of the summer, when the Government will make a
new attempt (the third or fourth within a few years)
of obtaining their assent to the introduction of a
morL liberal provincial constitution.
The principal topic of conversation of late has
been the offer of the Greek crown to Prince Wil-

Liam. This plan is not popular here, because the
succession depends entirely on the lives of the three
sons of Prince Christian ; nor has the circumstance
that Lord Russell has urged the matter on with un-
usual haste predisposed the minds of the public
favourably, and some of the papers even affect to
consider it a great sacrifice on the part of Denmark.
I am, however, positively assured, on the very best
authority, that the Government will raise no diffi-
culties, and the King has already declared that he
will raise no objection if Prince Christian is dis-
posed to receive it for his son. The rumour that the
proposed crown had already been accepted by the
Prince after the holding of a family council at
Laeken, must be received with great caution. The
Prince arrived here yesterday from Ballenstedt, in
Anhalt Bernburg, where his family still is, and
some conferences have been held; but he is not ex-
pected to decide till Tuesday, when a state council
will be held to discuss the subject. If there be
difficulties, they will be raised by the family of the
young Prince, but not on the part of Denmark.

Dreadful Boiler Explosion near Glasgow

At an early hour on Wednesday morning a ter-
rific boiler explosion, resulting in serious loss of life,
occurred at the Mossend Ironworks, near Holy-
town, a station on the Caledonian Railway, about
13 miles from Glasgow. The works in question,
which are the property of the Mossend Iron Company,
cover nine or ten acres of ground, and comprise seve-
ral large sheds occupied by forges, together with an
extensive rolling mill. The machinery in these two
departments was dtiven by separate engines, these
again having each its own set of boilers, and it was
to the boilers connected with the rolling mill that
the accident occurred which it is now our painful
duty to record. These boilers were five in number,
and were placed side by side on a substantial
foundation of brick, their ends pointing towards
the north and south. They were all 25 feet in length,
and four of them, which were egg-end boilers, were
5 feet in diameter, while the fifth, a flue boiler, had
a width of 6 feet. The fire hole extended along the
south ends of the boilers. Beyond this is a tramway
on which some coal laden trucks were standing at
the time of the accident, and south of this again
stands the rolling mill. On the west side of the
boilers, at a distance of about 20 yards are the forges,
and on the east side, about double the distance off,
is an engineer's shop. The chimney which carried
off the smoke from the furnaces stands on the north-
west corner of the square site which the boilers oc-

cupied.
At the time when the accident occurred-2 o'clock
in the morning—there were upwards of 300 men
engaged in the works, the greater portion of them
being dispersed through the forges and rolling mill
in the immediate vicinity of the boilers. At the hour
mentioned the whole neighbourhood was alarmed by
a dreadful crash, followed by a shower of bricks and
other debris, which flew in all directions to a dis-
tance of 300 or 400 yards. On repairing to the site
of the catastrophe a scene of ruin presented itself
such as has seldom been witnessed. The site for-
merly occupied by the boilers presented a yawning
crater, the force of the explosion having completely
torn up and scattered to a distance the mass of sub-
stantial brickwork. As for the boilers, one with both
ends blown out lay along the tramway to the south
of the firehole, where it had thrown down the chim-
neys of two the rolling mill furnaces; the greater
part of another lay a little further to the south among
the ruins of the rolling mill sheds ; a third had been
precipitated about 30 yards to the northwards of its
bed, where it lay in the shape of a huge spiral riband,
while the remaining two bad bean burled northwards

quite out of the works and alighted in a field at a dis-
tance of about 250 yards. Besides these ponderous
masses, domes, ends, and other fragments of boilers
had been thrown to great distances both to the north
and south. One large piece, for instance, weighing
about two tons, had flown across the turnpike road
on the south side of the works and alighted in a field
at 300 yards' distance. The roofs of the rolling mill
sheds were completely destroyed by the falling
debris, and those of the forge sheds and the engi-
neer's shops suffered considerably. But the worst
remains to be told. Of the persons employed in the
neighbourhood of the boilers seven were either killed
on the spot, or so severely injured that they did not
long survive the accident ; while several others were
more or less hurt. The following is a list of the
killed :—Joseph Swift, leaves widow and 10 chil-
dren ; James Mulhecom, widow and two children ;
John Trueman, ireman, widow and three children;
Charles Carrol, boy ; William Douglas, only sup.
port of a widowed mother ; John Duncan ; and Peter
Tracy, newly married. The following received con-
siderable injuries :—Henry Leadbetter, Jas. Berry,
Bernard Clinton, John Haney, boy ; John Oaks,
boy; and Titus Lowe, a young lad.
Beyond the range of the works the falling debris
injured the roofs of many houses in the village of
Messend, and in one instance a piece of a steam pipe
was driven through the wall of a house into a bed-
room, where several persons lay asleep. No one seems
to have been injured by these dangerous missiles,
though there must have been many hair-breadth
escapes.

The cause of the accident has of course been a
fruitful theme of speculation. The prevailing
opinion seems to be that the boilers had been
allowed to get overheated, and that while they
were in that state the fireman, Trueman, incau-
tiously turned on the supply of water. In con-
firmation of this it is alleged that the valves which
have been found were open, and that several
of the boiler-plates show unmistakeable indi-
cations of overheating. On the other hand it
must be stated that the boilers were supplied with
th

e usual precautionary appliances, and that True-
man has always been regarded as a reliable man.
In the course of yesterday the local authorities
visited the spot, and commenced an investigation
into the circumstances.

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