The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-27 00:00:00

THE CATASTROPHE AT NEWARK.

The Leeds lifercztry,in an article on the late terrible railway
accident, says it is to be feared that a wholesale system of
plundering the dead, and the injured, who were for some
time after the accident rendered insensible,was pursuedby
some infamous persons who were hovering round the scene
of this terrible disaster on Tuesday morning. Mr. Thomas
Barraclough, manufacturer, of Morley, authorizes us to state
that he witnessed a policeman take two rings off the fingers
of a dead lady who wore a black silk dress. It was stated
in our columns that Mr. C. A. Wilson, of this town, had
lost a brag,
watch. It appears to have been taken out' of a
black bag, the lock of which has evidently been tampered
with. No further information has yet been obtained as to
the large sum of money of which Mr. M. K. Hirst's dead body
was-despoiled ; but if these ravages of mangled corpses have
been so reckless as we fear is now beyond doubt, it is not
so difficult to explain away the fact which, when first
mentioned, was rather perplexing, that ladies yet living
on recovering consciousness found themselves without
their bonnets, boots, and purses. Mrs. F. Robinson, as
has been already stated, had on going the up journey
an insurance ticket. Mr. C. A. Wilson saw it then,
but neither that lady's purse nor the ticket have been
found. Mr. Turner, of 40, Fenton-street, states that in
the uncertain twilight he saw, while assisting the disabled,
a policeman and 03e or two others rifling the pockets of a
gentleman who had been killed. He heard one of the
wreckers " say, " That'll do ; let's get away ;" but he
could not distinguish the nature of the spoil which he
feels certain they carried off.

THREATENED ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP THE
POWDER MAGAZINES AT GIBRALTAR.

A letter from Gibraltar, dated the 20th, says :—" The
inhabitants of this city have been in a fearful state of
alarm for the last twenty-four hours, and considering how
their feelings have recently been rather roughly shaken
by the Bonell brigandage, and the attack on the young
officers on the Western beach, it is no wonder if
public excitement has nearly reached its climax when
it finds that even within the fancied security of the Bay-
side barrier, danger of a terrible type lurks in every
direction. It appears that yesterday forenoon, a fisher-
man coming into town from the New Mole, picked up a
letter lying in the road between Jumper's Battery and the
Ragged Staff. The letter was written in Spanish, and in-
dicated in the plainest terms that the powder magazines
of the rock had either been undermined or were at
the mercy of a band of desperadoes, and that very shortly
the whole place would be blown up. This letter was im-
mediately placed in the hands of the authorities, and every
magazine was at once most carefully examined, but
nothing was discovered to give rise to any sus-
picion of foul play ; nevertheless, the most energetic
measures were taken to render what was already quite
secure if possible more so. As might naturally be ex-
pected all sorts of rumours have been set afloat, and every
idea has been used up, from mania to Fenianism, to
account for the plot. The general impression appears to
be that the whole affair is a hoax on the part of some of
the lowest class inhabitants to keep up the alarm created
by the recent robberies and brigandage in the vicinity."

DEATH U11"I'llE EARL OF lIADDINGTON.
The death of the Earl of Haddington is announced.
The melancholy event occurred on Saturday, after a short
illness. The deceased nobleman, George Bailie Hamilton,
eldest son of the late Mr. George Baillie, of Jerviswoode,
by Mary, youngest daughter of the late Sir J. Pringle,
Bart., was born at Mallerston, near Kelso, on the 14th of
April, 1802, and was brother of the late Marchioness of
Breadalbane,the Countess of Aberdeen, Lady Polwarth, and
the Countess Ashburnham. He married, 16th September,
1824, Georgiana, daughter of the Yen. Archdeacon
Robert Markham. The late earl succeeded to the
peerage in 1658, on the death of his cousin, Thomas
Hamilton, 9th Earl of Haddington, who died sine prole.
He was appointed a lord in waiting to the Queen in Sep-
tember, 1667, having previously, in April, 1859, been a
representative peer for Scotland, and his lordship
was High Commissioner to the Church of Scotland from.
May 1667 till the resignation of Lord Derby. His lord-
ship was also appointed a deputy-lieutenant of Roxburgh-
shire in 1831, and of Haddingtonshire in 1851, and was a
deputy-lieutenant of Berwickshire. In 1861 he was
appointed colonel-commandant of the East Lothian
Yeomanry Cavalry. The first peer of the family, an
eminent Scotch advocate, was ennobled in 1562. He
became first Earl of Melrose, a title he subsequently
changed for that of Earl of Haddiugton. Pile Earls of
Haddington were the heriditary keepers of Holyrood-park
from the reign of Charles 11. till 1843, when the late earl's
kinsman compromised the family interest for a pecuniary
compensation of £40,000, and the office is consequently
now abolished. The deceased peer is succeeded in the
family honours by his son, George, Lore Binning born
26th July, 1827, and married 17th October, 1854, to Helen,
second daughter of Sir John "Warrender, Bart., by the
Hon. Frances Henrietta Arden, by whom there is a
youthful family.