The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-13 00:00:00

A TERRIBLE SCENE.

The Cologne Gazette publishes the letter of an instru-
ment-maker, who was one of the sufferers in the dreadful
catastrophe at Konigsberg on the 13th of September.
He thus writes to his sister :—" As the gondola in which
the King was came by, and he alighted from it at the
garden, which was about 150 steps from the bridge, there
arose, directly on the spot where I stood, the cry,
' The bridge burns!' Then there arose a fearful press.
I felt myself lost in it ; it was stifling. All pressed to the
other side ; the balustrade suddenly broke, a piece of forty
feet, and all who leaned upon it fell into the water. Now
the thronging became greater; there arose on every side ;
frightful outcry. I clung on by a man, who again hell'
fast by others. At this moment a knot of men came by,
I received a push, and fell overhead into the water.
The push was, however, happily so violent that I
was thrown far over others who were already sinking
and could again rise to the surface. As I can swim I could
help myself; I looked around me, it was a fearful scene ;
over eighty human beings struggled in agony for life with
a terrible cry. I swam to the land when I suddenly felt
myself seized by the leg ; a fearful terror overcame me, I
dived under, exerted all my strength to get free. I got
free. Immediately afterwards I was laid hold of by the
shoulders ; it was a girl of eighteen or nineteen years
old, whose last chance of rescue it perhaps was, for she
was near death. I felt pity, put out all my strength to
get to land; but when I came near where the principal
fall had taken place a young man clung to my arm. On
one side the girl, on the other the youth—it was too much.
I cried for help, put forth my whole strength yet once
more. I was ten feet from land, when a rope was thrown
to me, to which I clung, but lost strength and conscious-
ness and went under, the girl and youth with me.
An hour after I opened my eyes; I lay on the land in one
of the gardens. A boat had come and had immediately
taken us out. That was an awful night. My coat had
been torn to pieces, so that I lay there only covered
with rags; I was already much swollen, for I had swal-
lowed a great mass of water, but I was again alive. I also
had the pleasure of again seeing my two companions in
misfortune alive. They, like myself, had been warmed
and brought to life again by continued friction. Not far
from us lay twenty-seven dead bodies with stiffened
features. How many more have been found I cannot now
tell you.—Your brother Henry."

A grand International Exhibition is to be held at
Washington in 1871.

An Irishman, hearing of a friend who had a stone
coffin made for himself, exclaimed, "Faith, that's good.
Sure an' a stone coffin would last a man a lifetime."

Carlyle, in his advice to young men, says, "If you
doubt whether to kiss a pretty girl. give her the benefit of
the doubt."

" Formosa," Mr. Boucicault's drama, about the
morality of which so much criticism has been made, is now
playing at the Tyne., Newcastle. It " draws "
better than any other piece of the season.

A lady thought it would look interesting to faint
away at a party, when one of the company began bathing
her temples and head with vinegar, upon which she
suddenly started up and exclaimed, "For Heaven's sake,
put nothing on that will.change the colour of my hair!"

At the Birmingham Police Court, on Monday, a
man named Joseph Addleton, and his niece, Sarah Ward,
were charged with obtaining .£27 2s. 7d. frcm the Post-Oleo
Savings Bank of Bewdley by ratans of a forged withdrawal
notice. The case was remanded.

ACCIDENT ON THE CALEDONIAN R AMWAY.—
There was a serious collision on the Caledonian Railway,
near the Greenhill Junction, an evening or two back. One
man was killed and another is so seriously injured that he
is not expected to survive. The fireman of a goods train
fell from his engine, and the driver stopped the train to
look for him. It was known that another train was coming
along, and fog-signals were placed upon the rails. These,
however, could not be acted upon, and the second train
dashed into the first, killing a drover in charge of cattle.
Qum= COURTSHIP.-" Martha, dost thou love
me ?" asked a Quaker youth of ono at whose shrine his
fondest heart's feelings had been offered up. "Why Seth,"
answered she, " we are commanded to love ono another, are
we not ?"—" Ah, Martha! but dost thou regard me with
that feeling the world calls love ?"—" I hardly
know what to tell, Seth. I have tried to
bestow my love on all; but I have sometimes
thought, perhaps, that thou wart getting more than thy
share."

A KILLED BY A FEttnET.—The death of
a child from injuries committed upon it by a ferret is re-
ported from Egerton, Kent. It seems that a few evenings
ago, a labouring man named Chambers quitted home with
his wife, leaving an infant, 14 months old, in the house.
In their absence, a stray ferret got into the room where
the child was lying, and attacked it. When the parents
returned home, they found tho infant dead; its eyes were
removed, and part of the nose had been gnawed away.
When discovered, the ferret flew at Chambers, and ap-
peared very wild and ferocious. It was killed as speedily
as possible. The presumption is that the ferret had been
" laid up " in a rabbit hole near, and, pressed by hunger,
had strayed into the house in quest of food.

lIIGII CHURCH PRACTICES AT OXFORD.—During
the past week the Rev. R. M. Benson, MA., incum-
bent of St. John the Evangelist, Oxford, and a promi-
nent member of the High Church party in that city, has
been holding a "Retreat" at his monastery in Marston-
street, Oxford, which has been attended by a large number
of clergymen from all parts of the United Kingdom.
During its continuance the brethren, as they are called, give
themselves up to fasting and prayer, maintaining the
strictest silence and reserve. The services in the chapel
attached to the monastery are incessant,the members of the
brotherhood appearing to spend the whole of their time
between prayers in the chapel and meditations in their cells.
As the whole of the brethren are clothed in long black cas-
socks, confined at tho waist by a cord, and wear largo black
felt hats, their appearance has caused some excitement
even in this district, which is pretty well seasoned to High
Church vagaries.—Advcrtiser.
" EXPERIMENTAL" POISONING- AT A COLLEGE.—
STRANGE AND DIABOLICAL AFFAIR.—A most singular case
of attempted poisoning at Rossall College,North Lancashire,
has just come to light. The son of a Dublin town coun-
cillor, named Hogan, has for some time been studying at
Rossall College, one of the most flourishing educational,
establishments in the north of England. A few mornings ago,
whilst at breakfast, he was seen to got hold of a sugar basin
and put something into it ; but the person noticing him—
a monitor, named Thorpe—did not suspect anything seri-
ous. Not long afterwards Hogan asked one of the col-
legians if he had seen Mr. Sleip, one of the masters, and
whether ho had been sick or not. Mr. Sleip had beer
called away at the ordinary breakfast hour, and was in hi,
usual health. Therpe, the monitor, having heard the in-
quiry of Hogan, thought of what he had seen at the break-
fast table, and subsequently the sugar basin was taken
possession of, and conveyed to Dr. Williams, the residentia'
medical attendant at the college. Ho found the suga
mixed with arsenic. Hogan, when this was made known
was secured and placed in one of the rooms.
seems that he had never been hoard to threaten the lift
of anyone. Hogan is a quiet youth, about sixteen yeas;
old, with a rather heavy, brooding look. When aske,l
why he had put the arsenic into the sugar which Mr
Sleip would have to use, Hogan replied that he had don.
so out of curiosity, that he wanted to make an experiment
and that he considered Mr. Skip the likeliest person
operate upon. Young Hogan, when his father arrived at
the college, stated that he had some more arsenic secreted
in a certain chimney at the college. This chimney wai
searched, and a bottle containing enough arsenic to poison
all the people at the college was found secret9dixjltilT;
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