The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-14 00:00:00

INCIDENTS OF THE EXPLOSION.

A Mr. Clutton, a tradesman in Leather-lane, at the
time of the explosion was in his stable in Davies-street
attending to his horse, when he was struck dead on tha •
spot. On being examined his left breast bore the appear-.
ante of having been completely smashed in.
Mr. Terry, builder, residing at the house next but one

to his premises, was sitting in his counting-house reading,
when he was thrown violently from his chair to the
ground, the chair itself being shivered in pieces. Mr.
Terry fortunately escaped with a few bruises.
A tradesman in Woodbridge-street states that he was

passing Corporation-lane at a few minutes to four o'clock,
when be saw a man drawing a truck apparently heavily
loaded, and accompanied by two other men► and a woman;
On their arriving opposite the wall of the prison which
encloses the exercising-ground of the prisoners, and
into which they are usually brought at four o'clock, the
truck was stopped and the two men lifted out of it a
barrel, which they placed on the pavement alongside the
prison wall. The woman in their company immediately
stooped down, and at that moment, it is supposed, applied
a fuse to the contents of the barrel, the whole four imme-
diately taking to their heels, and the explosion took place
in a few seconds, with the results already described.
Some marvellous escapes are recorded. Mr. Frederick
Belcher, wholesale news-agent,writes :—" My boy, Frede-
rick Dimmock, was out leaving some parcels of news•
papers. When on his way to Clerkenwell-green, and
within a few yards of the wall of the House of Deten-
tion, be saw a man with a light coat on go to a barrel(
which was covered over with a tarpaulin, and set light,
to it. After doing so the man immediately ran up
narrow passage opposite, joined by another man, who was
on the other side of the way from the prison. Boy-like,
he went to look at the barrel, and it immediately exploded,
covering him in a volume of smoke and sparks and broken
glass blown from windows, blowing his cap from off his
head, and the papers from under his arm. How he escaped,
unhurt, being within a yard or two of the barrel, I cannot
understand. He arrived at my place of business as black
as a nigger, with the loss of his cap and papers, a little,
confused, but I am happy to state nothing further the,
matter with him."

At eleven o'clock at night the House of Detention wag
visited by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor. His lordship,
had some difficulty in obtaining permission to pass the,
line of police, and it was only upon the representation of
one or two gentlemen present who recognised him that he
was allowed to go by. While he was standing there
a man amongst the crowd attempted to steal
his lordship's watch. At nearly the same instant
a gentleman near him' found a fellow's hand
busy in his great coat pocket. He was seized
in the act of rifling it, and was arrested by a constable.
As the gentleman declined to prosecute him, the police.
max administered Lynch-law, and gave the thief a pum•
melling and shaking which he will not soon forget. So
zealously was the prison guarded that the Lord Mayor
found considerable difficulty in obtaining entrance, and
was treated with a want of courtesy seldom shewn by City
officials. In consequence of the desperate attack on the
House of Detention, the other prisons were watched with
special care.

Dr. Langford, a well-known medical practitioner in the
neighbouzhood, was proceeding in his brougham down
Rosoman-street at the time of the explosion, and his
coachman, who was driving, said he thought he had been
shot at.

CONVICTION FOR STABBING A WARDER.—Williara
Moss, 33, labourer, was brought up at the Liverpool As-
sizes on Thursday, on a charge of stabbing a warder in
Walton Gaol. Prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced
to five years' penal servitude.
A MAN DANGEROUSLY BITTEN BY A BoAR.--.
A well-to-do farmer, named Thomas Davis, of Dagan-
more, near Kells, county Kilkenny, was a few days ago in
the act of turning a boar out of his yard, when the fern•
cious brute suddenly wheeled round, and, before the unfor-
tunate man was able to make any defence, seized him by
the abdomen and thigh. Providentially a neighbour hap-
pened to be on the spot, who dealt the animal a swingirg
blow on the head with a pitchfork, which had the desired
effect. A messenger was immediately despatched for Dr.
Phelan, who, on examining the,wound, found the bowels
protruding, a principal artery almost severed, and others
severely injured. All that skill could devise was
promptly performed, and though the doctor reserves his
opinion for come days, a sanguine hope is entertained that
the poor man may ultimately recover.
AN UeLY CUT.--L:Lst week there canto among
the out-patients at the Charing-cross Hospital, a man
whose was cut so deeply that the imuncles at the ball
of the thumb were completely severed. Thd:- cut, com-
mencing at the middle of the palm in front, ran round the
ball of the thumb to the back of the hand. He gave an
account which still further slims, if any a dditional
dence were needed, that ruffianism in our streets is assum-
ing a worse and more savage aspect. The man in question
was looking on at the burning of Her Majesty's Theatre,
when he discovered a thief possessing himself of his watch.
He seized him at once, but the rascal drew a knife, which
he appeared to have ready for emergencies, and, without.
a moment's hesitation, endeavoured to sever the flexor,
tendons at the wrist. Indeed, he inflicted a slight wound.
at this part ; but a brisk movement saved further damage,
than that detailed. We are sorry to add that the robbe:
escaped with the watch and some money. --Lancet.