The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-20 00:00:00

THEIDREA DFUL ACCIDENT AT THE
SURREY GARDENS.

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A DDI TIONA_L P'ARTICTJLA RS.
(FROM OUR ON% REPORTER.)
The report of the metal icholy and fatal accident that
occurred 1 ast n:ght at the. Royal Surrey Gardens, fall
particulars of which till be found in another pare of
our impr!ssion, spr,.!aii with the greatest raniditv
throughout the meti:opolis in an incredibly, short period
of time ; and, as is too often the case, with great exag-
gEration, and the -utmost horror and consternation
prevailed, almost every fanaiiy who had any of their
members absent fearing that they,- might have been
induced to visit the Gardens to obtain a glimpse of a
man who, by the eccentricity of his manner in the
pulpit, the style of his oratory, and the peculiarity of
his argureients, has. obtained so much notoriety.
This morning the excitement in the neighbourhood of
the Gardens was intense, and numbers flocked there to
learn, if 134os:dole, some particulars of the frightful
calamity, and to obtain a view of the grounds and the
building. A large body of police was in possession of
the grouneis and the avenues leading thereto ; and the
curiosity if the public was checked by admission being
refused to all except those connected with the establish.
ment, and those who had actual bus;:ness there.
The grounds, of course, show evident traces of the
large assemblage of persons, and ',their precipitate re-
treat, hut NO far as the building is concerned the damage,
with the exception of the broken rilass and balustrade of
the stairs, is, comparatively speaaing, trifling.
On making ii.quiries this morning in reliable quarters
there is much reason to fear that the lamentable accidnit
occurred from the vehement feeling entertained
by certain persons agai ast the Rev. Mr. Spur-
geon, but that they contemplated such a frightful
loss of life or such serious injury to members, no
one can for a moment believe. True, however, it is
that a number of persons were assembled to interrupt
the proceedings ; and it has been stated that several bad
stationed themselves in various parts of the building,
and acted in a concerted measure in causing a disturb.
ance, before the last interference on their part, which
was the precursor of the fatal result.
Mr. Superintendent Lund, Wpm was present from the
commencement, awl witnessed the whole of the affair,
states tbat, from the compact mass of persons in the
body of the hall, and the excitement that prevailed, it
would have been irepossiVe to have preserved, through.
out the evening, that order necessary, under the cir-
-1 cuinstiances, and the cause of the assemblage, and that
as soon as the first ebulition of feeling was displayed all
hopes of a restoration to order was at an end.
Ho attributes the result, to say the least of it, to the
rash and inconsiderate conduct of three mon in the
body of the hall who rose up, threw their arms in the
air, and shouted "Fire." The effect of that ominous
word, in a densely crowded auditory, was electrical, and
in the hope of safety recourse was had to flight, which
experience has ever proved is sure to lead to the most
direful results, and the loss of life and mutilation of so
many persons on the present occasion is but another
proof of the folly of such rash and sudden conduct. The
great rush, it appears, was at the western door, and in
their eagerness to get out hundreds and thousands were
thrown down and trampled on, but by the opportune
1 arrival of a strong body of police, and the cool and col-
lected manner of Superintendent Lund, whose conduct on
this occasion cannot be too highly admired, so arranged
and marshalled his force that to it is to be attributed the
saving of many lives and much injury to others. He
caused the police to concentrate in a firm body in front
of the door, and by giving a temporary check to the
immense body of persons who were pouring out like a
" rush of mighty waters," as described by an eye
witness, many of those who had been thrown down
were able to regain their footing with only a few
bruises. But the most strange and unaccount-
able conduct of all is the feelings which actuated
several of Mr. Spurgeon's followers in the midst of this
appalling and frightful catastrophe, and were it not that
we had it on the undoubted authority of Mr. Superin•
teudent Lund, we should be incredulous to the fact.
At the same time that shrieks rent the air from women,
children, and men, and all were seeking for safety in
precipitate flight, the jingling of the begging-box
was distinctly to be heard from a dozen different parts
of the building, and the reason alleged, we were in.
formed from another quarter, was that although an ac
cident bad prevented the rev. gentlemen from preaching,
the rent of the Music Hall must be paid, and in all
probability a heavy demand would be made for repairs.
The appearance of the body of the Music Hall as soon
as the persons had left was of the most peculiar cbarac-
ter, from the incongruous mass of shawls, capes, bonnets,
caps, hats, coats, Wellington boots, and other articles of
wearing apparel, which have since been removed to
Locke's-fields Station to be claimed by their respective
owners.

Such a calamitous occurrence has had a most dis-
tressing effect on the Rev. Mr. Spurgeon's family. The
whole of them are suffering the greatest distress of mind
from such an untoward occurrence, aad it is feared that
the rev. gentleman's health and mind will be affected by
it. He is labouring under such an alarming state of ex-
citement that we were informed to-day, on calling at
his residence, No. 3, Bengal-place, New Kent-road,
it had been found necessary to remove him to the
country, and that in all probability a considerable period
must elapse before the reverend gentleman will (if he
ever can) resume his ministerial duties.
At the police station at Locke's-fields, the police were
engaged nearly the whole of the morning in giving an-
swers to numerous inquiries made by distant relatives
of the dead and injured persons, and at the top of the
street, emerging into the Walworth-road, a large crowd
of persons had assembled to obtain a sight of the origi-
nators of the melancholy accident, whom it was stated
in a morning contemporary, but after waiting a con-
siderable time their patience being exhausted they de
parted, no person being sn custody, but it is hoped they
will be discovered and, if possible, severely punished.
An official survey of the building took place this
morning, when the roof and other parts (the staircases
excepted where the balustrade gave way) were found to
be secure, and not the slightest indication of insecurity
could be fount in any part.
The following is the official list of persona killed and
injured :
At the dead-house, Newington Workhouse :
Samuel Heard, 30 years of age, 8, Alie-street, Ber.
mondsey New road, labourer.
Mrs. Barlow, 19, Bath-street, London.road. The
unfortunate deceased, who vvaa a married woman, and
the mother of several children, was encieutc, anti when
removed to the werkle,use she, as well al tile others, were
promptly attended to by the surgeon. Seeing the state of
the unfortunate woman, Mr. Henry Matthew, surgeon, of
Walworth-road, and Mr. Otway, surgeon, of Canter-
bury-row, Newington-road, performed the Cm3areau
operation, but unfortuately the mother and child had re-
ceived such injuries that killed both.
Harriet Jounson, address unknown, but supposed to
reside in the Westminster-road.
Mrs. Elizabeth Mead, aged 43, of No. 7, Love-lane,
Stock well.
Harriett Matthews of Newington. The deceased's
identity is doubtful. A young man has seen her and
believes her to be his sister and that her name is Matthews,
but the frightful appearance of the features prevents his
positiv&y stating she is his sister. Her linen, however,
is marked " M. H."

The following persons, who were removed to their
homes, are also dead :-- _

Grace Skipper, a servant in Dobson-terrace, Ken-
nington.
John and Mary Aldis, man and wife, Mansion-house-
street, Kennington.

The following were removed to their homes much in-
jured :
Ellen Stanton, 5, Penton-grove.
John Alwortb, 1, Russell•place, Old Kent-row'. -
Eliza Fletcher, 24, Bath street ; rupture of blood-
vessel.
llenry Sage, 17, Apollo-buildings, Westminster-road.
Ellen GoAard, 1, James's-grove, single woman ;
ribs broken.
Sarah Bridges, 4, St. David's street.

At Guy's Hospital :
Thomas Peachy, 40, George-road, Bermondsey ; frac-
ture of the thigh.
James Arkwright, 40, James-street, Long-acre; in-
jured thigh.
George Lane, 33, Goswell-road, comminuted fracture
of the r►ght arm.
Margaret WeJton, 12, a little girl, who accom-
panied Mrs. Mead, of Stockwell, who was killed, slightly
injured.
Edward Whitnsll, 24, 3, Jobu'e-place, wound of the
hand, and otherwise much injured.
Mrs. Keeley, nurse of the hospital, injured isthe
chest. . .

we are happy to state, are progressing favourably.
An invest will be opened in the course of tomorrow,by Mr. Carter, on the bodies of those killed.

His Excellency Count Kielenausegge, Hanoverian
Ministerdet this Court, has arrived at Hanover, from
his estates in Holstein. His Excellency, accompanied
by the Countess Helene Kielmansegge, is expected to
arrive in town this week to resume his diplomatic duties.
The Ladies Jane and Caroline Charteria have arrived
at Claridge's Hotel, from Tunbridge Wells.
Sir Henry Barkly, the newly appointed Governor of
Victoria, with Lady Barkly and family, left Claridge's
Hotel on Saturday, for Southampton, where they ens-
barked for Australia.
BRITISH MISSION TO Moscow.—The return of the
British mission from Russia in the St. Jean d'Acre, 101,
Capt. Geo. St. Vincent King, C. 8., will, it is under-
stood, obtain for that officer the dignity of a baronet.
The epecie ex the Orinoco is expected to be delivered
about Wednesday next.
The Duke de Nemours and Prince Joinville visited,
On Thursday last, the United States steam-frigate Mer-
rimac, lying in Southampton Water.
The anniversary of the Battle of Balaklava will be
commemorated on Saturday next by the officers who
took part in that engagement dining together at the
Clarendon; Mae Earl of Lucas, KiVats Rill Min_sle.

THE APPROAOIHNO PRESIDES TLIL
ELEiTION.

NEW York, Oct. 7,—Ae the day of election ap-
proaches the Republican journals begin to be filled
with rumours of projected fraud from the opposing
party, of which the folio wing, from yesterday's
Tribiotc, may be taken as fa it specimens :
" Preparations for enormous _frauds have been, made
in view of the approaching e:eo -ion in Pennsylvania.
This we intimated this other day, at el now have positive
cla!a upon the subject. In Phila.dea,.ohia it appears that
between 10,000 and 15,000 names ha ive been added to
the extra assessment lists, mainly by th,e Border-Ruffian.
Democracy. There are 4,000 in Miilward's district
alone. We are informed that if the attertspe is inside to
carry it out on any such wholesale scale as .isr Threatened
collisions at the polls cannot be prevented. The people
of Pennsylvania will not submit with patience to Cahfor-
nia ballot-stuffing, or be barefacedly cheated out of their
rights." .
The friends of -Mr. Buchanan do not manifest
much confidence in carrying Pennsylvania in the
gubernatorial election next week, but speak boldly
of their chances -in November. The States of Ohi-o,
Indiana, and Pennsylvania are to vote next week-
These elections will show how the public current is.
running in those States.
Virginia is just now the hotbed of American
' politics. The Democratic party there take the
ground of disunion if Fremont is elected. I sent
you last week some extracts froina speech of the
Governorof the State made in Richmond, in reply
to a remarkable speech from Mr. John M. Botts.
The day after that letter was written another nul-
lification ex-Governor of that State spoke from the
steps of the Merchant Exchange to some thousands
of the democracy of New York, in which he made
use of the following language :-.
"To resume the threw{ of wy discourse, you will -
per-
ceive that under:these doctrines which they propose to
adopt a convention should be called in any of the States,
if it happen to suit the advocates of the higher law doc-
trine, and overturn the existing Government. When
you come to take these things in their connexion, there
could not have been a more fearful precedent. To show
how determined this sectional party were to carry out
principles which would confiscate our property and die-
turb our domestic peace and tranquillity they bad nomi-
nated a candidate on the sectional platform. Fremont's
letter of acceptance shows that he understood that, be-
cause he made a distinct allusion to the subject of this
difference, in which they have endeavoured to get up
civil strife in the bosom of the Slave States themselves,
merely because that species of cause was unequally die-
tributed, co that we have a right to expect, if this party
should get into power—we would have a right to expect
from their Administration the whole power of this party
would be used to get up stria within the Southern
State, nut merely to set the black man against the
white, but to sow Feeds of dissension among white
men the., s)lve,. We know that in the Slave States they
cannot effect any such purpose, for white men under-
stand the vital interests of the white race to preserve the
existing relations of things. But this party would be
willing to use their power, if it should be given them, to
effect such a result. Suppose that they were to elect a
President upon such prii c plea, and that they were to
administer the Government in that way, where would
the s,,eih be placed ? Do you suppose that they would
agr. eto sacrifice their own constitutional rights ? Do
you sups ode that they would remain in the Union ?
Well di .I Mr. Fillmore ask of the citizens of the States
who her they would suffer the Government to be admi-
nistered in any such a way. It wan an appeal made to
the sense of justice of 10,000,000 of people in these
United States. Could the south consent to remain in
the Union in which the constitution was to be treated
as null and void, so far as they were concerned ? It is
utterly impossible that the Government should be ad-
ministered upon such principles without leading to the
destruction of this Union. I want to ask you, northern
men, whether there can be any consideration in the
election of a sectional President, such as Fremont, to
justify the north in imperilling such institutions as ma-
terially, politically, and socially affect the preservation
of the Union ? Before doing that, permit nee to show
you those doctrines upon which they are agitating the
public mind and seeking to subvert the social system of
the south would be as destructive at the north as at the
south. I will show you that these doctrines can lead to
nothing but anarchy everywhere. This higher law pro-
scribes the institution of slavery and nullifies the protec•
tion of the constitution, because it violates that cardinal
political maxim that all men were created equally."
It is not the large southern slaveholders who make
use of such rhodomontade, or, to use an Ameri-
canism, have not yet incorporated in the mother
tongue such hyperlenten. Mr. John Minor Botts
has effectively replied to all such sentiments—re-
plied, too, in the State of Virginia, and among
slaveholders. His speech is worth reading as a
specimen of manly out-speaking in a community
opposed to him in sentiment, and particularly sore
on the questions he attempts to discuss. It is
the most remarkable document which the " cam-
paign." has yet produced ; and it is particularly re-
markable for the common sense view of things in
the midst of ultraisua.
Of the slavery question, which is agitating the
country, he speaks distinctly. No northern re-
publican over used more explicit language than
the following :
Now, gentlemen, I want to tell you something about
this question of slavery, and what I think about it,
(
And, first of all, I want to tell you what is my own
peeition upon it; and for that purpose I had better, as
it has appeared already in print, and that there may be
no ini.representation upon it, read what I have already
said. These gentlemen have seen it, and I want them
to see it again :—My position on the question of
slavery is this, and so far from wishing to conceal
it, I desire it should be known to all. Muzzles were
made for dogs, and not for men, and no press and no
party call put a muzzle on my mouth so long as I value
my freedem. I make bold, then, to proclaim that I
run no slavery propagandi,t. I will resort to all proper
remedies to protect and defend slavery where it exists,
but I will neither assist in nor encourage any attempt to
force it upon a reluctant people anywhere, and still less
will I justify the use of the military power of the coun-
try to estehlish it in any of the territories. If it finds its
way there by legitimate means it is all well ; but never
by force, through arty iastrumentality of mine. lam
myself a iilaveholder, and all the property my children
have in the world is slave property, inherited from their
another ; and he who undertakes to connect my name or
my opinions with abolitionism is either a knave or a fool,
and sornetioies both. And this is the only answer I have
tai make to them. I have not connected myself with any
sectional party or sectional question ; and, so help rue
God, I never will. That i= the only answer I have to
make vou upon the position I occupy on the slavery
questica. (lateens.) Why, gentlemen, there never was so
arrant and s,o impudent a humbug—that was my expres-
sion—l will use it again—there never was so arrant and
impude
nt
a humbug attempted to be practised upon
the credulity of humanity as this question of slavery.
Why, gent I e men, slavery is in no more danger than the
coat I have on my back is of being taken away—not
halt as much, because they talked about lynching me,
I lnflieve, and yet I am net afraid of anybody taking my
coat od ; nor am I afraid that any man in this State
will dare lay the weight of his finger upon my coat.
What will you expect the north to do ? They will resist
the extension of slave territory, and they will resist the
admie.ion of Slave States. As Mr. Seward truly said,
the day cf e•mipromise hat passol away. Aye, and it
has pa,isetl away by the judgment and decision of the
Democratic perty, who are alone responsible. (Cheers.)
Well, :low, how are they going to disturb slavery as it
exists in the States ? Are they going to send an army
down here to de so ? I don't understand by what pro-
cess they mean to du it. I will tell you where the dan-
ger ie. In your runaway slaves—an evil which has
been greatly aggravated by the additional facilities of
travel afforded by the railroads, and the greater intelli-
gence which the slaves acquire by increased intercourse
through the same medium. Your remedy is to prevent
them as best you can, and to punish an abductor wher-
ever you can find him. There is another danger, and
that is, by keeping the Democratic party in power.
(Cheers.) Now, I will show you that if you expect that
Fillmore or Buchanan will either help you to the exten-
sion of slave territory, or the admission of Slave Sates,
you are mistaken. I say that all men at the north are
opposed in the abstract and upon principle to the exten-
sion of slavery. They will not disturb it where it esists,.
but they are not going to help you for the extension o t
`'lava territory. And why ? Because it helps to ra;
ea-, soes your political power against them. Why do yon
want an increase of slave territory ? Why do you.wast
t
18, 19, or 20 Slave States instead of 15 ? Why,it not
because you have not got land enough to occupyall the
It
slave labour at your command. It is noti that.;it
is
is not because your limits are circuinscrbe .d
bsoause you want to increase the political power of the
south, to give her additional power in the Senate of the
United States. For the same reason
it.
It does not
that you want it
the north do not want you to extend
n the political
increase the number of slaves, but increases
Po'vt r, and for that reason the
Well, now, if you expect on
the
other hand, that Fre-
ertb is opposed to it.
ment, the Black Republican candidate, is going to cbs-
turb the institution of slavery you are mistaken. That
do s
either he or his party will o I very much doubt. Do.
on sentiment. I mean to
not mistake this for an abolit! .
•being
hay that, power the object of the party, I doubt
not behave themselves
b it theyes in power
very mile would
better
than out of it.

The Arrogant, one of our finest steam-frigates, now
iu the West Indies, has been ordered home.
The
Capt. Leavlev, of and for Lon-
don from Jangernautporatn, with Lieut. Dashwood,
R iNi., and 11 passengers Royal Artillery, from the Mau.
the
pilot-boati
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pu
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,s e reports off Plymouth, on Satur-
day, -
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Tne
Espiegle, 12 gun-sloop, is ordered to be paid cff at Sheerness on Friday next.
We understand that the office of Dean of hor Ma-
jesty's Chapels Royal, which is generally conferred on
the Bishops of London, will, by her Majesty's desire,
remain in the hands of Bishop Blomfield. We are in-
formed that, shortly before his retirement from the See
of London, he rendered to her Majesty- his resignation
of the office of Dean of the Chapels Royal, but that ter
Maint3r Was graciously pleased to express a wish that
he should continue to retain it.
IRE AUELICIN MAILS.-The British and North Ame-
rican Loyal Mail steamship Asia, Captain Lott, lift the
York, the usual mails, 145 pabseugers, and a full
Mersav, at one o'clock on Saturday afternoon, for New
ergo. •