The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-16 00:00:00

THE LONDON MARKET-SATURDAY,

To-day proved all but a blank, the attendance being
neagre, whilst very little inclination was manifested to
,pecule.o. The following are the few quotations return-
(hie :

THE DERBY.
20 to 1 agst 131uo Gown (offered)
1000 to 30 agst Harvester (takee)
1000 to 15 agst Restitution (offered, take 1000 to 10)
1000 to 10 agst Franciiise(offered)

(From this Newmarket Correspowknt (:),* the Racing Times.)
" There is a history in all men's lives
Figuring the nature of the times deceased,
The which observed—a man may prophesy
With a near aim of the main chance of things
As yet not come to Iife.”—SIIAKESPEAUE.

I have no doubt but there will be some acres of paper
.vritten on by prophets and tipsters, with an aim of pro-
thesyiug the winner of next year's Derby, but 1 must ask
he question, what conclusion can they come to at last,
'►hen they have cudgeled their brains to put their
•enders on the winner? I must answer that Lady
Elizabeth will be the selection of every man of
common sense who studies public form—her performances
if last year being too fresh in the memory of your
•eaders for me to recapitulate them here. In my opinion
er performance in the Middle Park Plato was one of her
eery best, as she was giving the winner 10Ibs, the second
1113 s, and she was only beaten about a neck from Rosicrucian.
ihould she ►come fit and well to the post for the Derby,
,he will be meeting Sir Joseph's horse on 91bs better
erms—but I shall be told May is a bad month for fillies,
nd that the Derby has so very seldom been won
by one. In answer to this we seldom or ever
►ave seen such a ono is Lady Elizabeth. Vi►ago,
frerhaps, may be compared to her, and she was good
nough to have won twenty Derbys, but we very seldom
4ee such fillies as Blink Bonny and Lady Elizabeth.
:achievement showed seine brilliant form, loth as a two
bud three year old, but lost the Middle Park Plate, and
wits out of all form on the Oaks Day. The enemies of
Lady Elizabeth‘will argue that she may be troubled with
,he same complaint on next Derby-day, and in my opinion
hat is the only hope Sir Joseph Hawley can have of pull-
ing off the blue ribbon for the fourth time. Some of the
tasters have commenced finding fault with the marquis's
beautiful filly, and we are told by ono of them she is a
loubtful stayer. If he saw the race when she b at Julius
le must have eyes like the purblind Argus, for in my opi-
lion that was the most brilliant performance on record to
seat the winner of tho Cesarowitch at 111bs, and it was
wident she was the best stayer of the two, as it lookcd
my odds on Julius at one time, but when they breasted
'he hill the race became terrific, and the filly won by
lownright gameness. There aro saveral horses in the
Jetting, who will be written up by some pro-
phets as having chance for the Derby, and
;o whom Lady Elizabeth could give two stone.
see they take 16 to 1 about Typhoeus. She was giving
him 61b., and was a long way before him in the Middle
Park Plate, and he will have to give her 51b. in the Derby,
vhich makes 111 b. in favour of the filly. She was as
sagged as a sheep when she first came out at Northamp-
on and won both her races in a canter ; and every one
..hat saw Suffolk must acknowledge that he was the most
furnished and best-looking two-year-old that had been seen
for years in the month of March, and she beat him in
t canter. For me to write any more in favour of
the daughter of Trumpeter and Miss Bowser would
only be like gilding refined gold or adding colours to the
rainbow, as her performances as a two-year-old have never
been equalled. She was out thirteen times, and was only
beaten once, and by fresh horses that she was giving a lot
•of weight to. Rosicrucian, in my opinion, is the next best
public performer, as he breasted the Criterion hill like a
lion ; and Sir Joseph may back the other two as long as
ho likes— he has no chance of winning the Derby with either
of them : and should Lady Elizabeth by chance go wrong
Sir Joseph is sure to have a rattling favourite in Rosicru-
cian, and with Wells in the saddle again will once more
land the cherry and black. Sporting writers were all wrong,
myself included, when we stated Wells was aeon for the
last time in Sir Joseph Hawley's colours at Newmarket,
►s he told me at Liverpool that ho had no notion of re-
tiring from riding in public, and that ho would ride again
next year, and has great hopes of landing his favourite
;olours once more, and winning the Derby for Sir Joseph
the third time. It would be a pity for such a floe horse-
man to retire so early in life, for good Derby jockeys
Are as scarce as good Derby horses, and Sir Joseph is too
good a judge to put up a muff on his Derby favourite, if
his favourite jockey can ride the weight, which he is
determined to do, from what he told me at Liverpool.
When I say a muff I don't moan such jockeys as Tom
French, who rode for Sir Joseph at Doncaster and Now-
market, for in my opinion there is no jockey in England
can give Tom an ounce. His employers can depend on
him having a clear head, as he never puts the enemy into
his mouth to steal away his brains. If Sir Joseph wished
to change Wells for Tom he could not have him, the
latter having two masters who have a claim on him
before Sir Joseph. Not that I suppose for a moment Sir
Joseph over dreamt of changing his jockey 33 long as he
can ride the weight, for Wells's two last performances at
Newmarket clearly proved that he has lost none of the
fine horsemanship that he has so often witched the world
with even from his boyish days. There is no jockey in
England knows how to steer a horse better than John
Wells. Rataplan was his first Derby mount, and he got
fourth in a large Yield, his second mount was Hermit—not
the present one—when he got thir3, he was second on Yellow
Jack, and it was evident he got more out of Jack than
Sam Rogers did, as ho was a long way before the horse that
beat him in the Two Thousand Guineas. He was third
on Adams in Blink Bonny's year, when a sheet would
have covered the first five. He then won twice, for his
favourite master, Sir Joseph, on Beadsman and Musjid, and
should Rosicrucian and Wells bath keep well until next
Derby day he will have a great chance of winning again,
and no would bo more proud than your humble servant to
see Wells land Sir Joseph's colours once more, for when he
was on Musjid I knocked a great city bookmaker out of time,
who laid me the nice little bet of a 1000 to 4 about a
treble event—Promised Land for the 2,000 Guineas, May-
onnaise the 1,000 Guineas, and Musjid the Derby. It will
be seen from the foregoing remarks that I have most
fancy for Lady Elizabeth and Rosicrucian, and should they
both come fit to the post, I should most certainly give the
preference to the filly, although Fordham has hitherto been
very unfortunate in his Derby mounts, and, on the con-
trary, Wells has had his share of Fortune's favours at
Epsom ; but on public form the filly must boat Rosicrucian.
I shall not give an opinion about the steeplechases to be
run next week at Kingsbury and St. Albans, as I don't
know what is likely to run. Speculators would do well to
see the numbers up before they invest their money ;
but should Chimney Sweep run at St Albans he will

CITY OF LONDON RIFLE BRIGADE.—On Satur-
day last the G company (Bassishaw ward) of the London
Rifle Brigade invited Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Stone (the
alderman of that ward) to meet them at their annual din-
ner at the Guildhall Hotel, Guildhall lintel. Upwards of
60 sat down to dinner, including a few visitors from other
corps. Among those present were Mr. Carritt, C.C., Mr.
Heath, C.C., Captain Hale, Adjutant Royal London
Militia, Captain Britten, of the same regiment, Captain
Engelbach, 21st Middlesex Artillery Volunteers, Captain
Rose, Queen's Westminster; Captain Dighton, Lieutenant
Rogers, and Ensigns Howell and Porter, of the London
Rifle Brigade, Mr. Loveridge, Mr. Hughes, &c. Captain
Sewell presided, and performed the duties of host in the
most agreeable and entertaining manner. He spoke in
high terms of the spirit and enterprise of the members of
the company. They had lost 20 during the past Year
by deaths and resignations, but they had enrolled 25
recruits, so that they had increased five. The actual
strength of their company was 95, of whom 75 were
effectives, out of which 44 wore extra effectives, and five
had not been able to complete their class firing, They had
earned for the brigade £lOl in grants, and their average
drills had been 25 per man. Alderman Stone had given
five guineas to be shot for next year, and the ladies another
fivo guineas, Captain Dighton two guineas, and Captain
Britten, Corporal Harker, L.R.8., Mr. Carritt, Mr. Heath,
and Mr. Beck would give a guinea each. Alderman Stone
proposed " The health of the Ladies," and called on Ensign
Howell to expltkin the nature of the prize to be offered for
competition, which ho (Alderman Stone) understood had a
matrimonial tendency. Ensign Howell said their company
was essentially a bachelors' company, for there were only
air. married men in it. The prize he proposed to give was
a five-guinea challenge cup, to be held by the winner for
12 months, and then competed for again unless the holder
got married during the time he was in possession of it, and
in that event he became the absolute owner of the cup.
There was also attached to the cupa wedding ring. (Much
laughter.)

A NEW METHOD OF PRESERVING THE DEAD.—
There is on exhibition at the Morgue, in New York city,
the body of a man that is being subjected to the experi-
' mental process of preservation. The body is that of a
drowned person, and supposed to have been in the water
three days prior to its recovery. It is enclos,)d in a metallic
case, perfectly air-tight, and, as yet, although forty days
have elapsed since the commencement of the experiment,
shows no signs of decomposition. On the contrary, the
body hardens each day. The result is obtained by forcing
the air from the case and supplying its place with a certain
gas, which this discoverer claims contains the requisite
preserving qualities. He even expresses the belief that
the body is the course of time gill become as 4514 as stone•

up St. James's-walk, where Desmond stopped in ti te middle
for a minute or two, and then went on. The e xplosion
followed, and then he saw Allen and the womue Justice
running away very fast. As she approached he s(i..zed her,
and another officer secured Allen.• While Ci...nstable
Sutton had the woman in custody he saw Des-mon.l run-
ning round the prison wall, and caught ,1:11n as be
was passing with his left hand, which was at that
time disengaged, and called on the people passing to
help him, which they did, he until then holding
Desmond and Justice each with one hand. It will be
recollected that the little boy Abbott spoke to seeing,
about a quarter to four o'clock, a large barrel dose.to the
wall of the prison, and a man who had left it there: cross
the road. Shortly afterwards the man returned-with
long squib in each hand. One of these he gwwe to
some boys who were playing in the street, and the
other he thrust into the barrel. One of the boys was
smoking, and he handed the man a light, which the
man applied to the squib. The man stayed a short
time until he saw the squib begin to burn, and then
ran away. It has been supposed hitherto that the
man who actually fired the train escaped ; but it is now
said that a woman who was an eye-witness believes-
Desmond to be the man. She speaks to the man whe
applied the fuse wearing a light-coloured hat at the time,
and there is this peculiarity in the matter, that when
Desmond was arrested he wore a black hat, but on being
searched at the House of Detention, a light soft hat was
found thrust below his waistcoat.

There is a curious point about the name of the woman.
A man of the same name wa; implicated in the affair at
Liverpool, when a seizure of arms was made by the police,
and many of the rifles were found to have belonged to
London volunteers. The man Justice—whether or not
the husband of Mrs. Justice now in custody we have
yet to be informed—was then discovered to have left -the
46th Middlesex Volunteer Corps, taking his rifle with him..
It is said that Mrs. Justice is a sister of " Colonel" Burke.
Burke's history is the history of Fenianism. In 1862 he
was serving in the United States army as a sergeant of
Engineers, and he;became a captain in the same regiment,
the sth New York. He was present at the meet.
ings held in New York, at which the Fenian
plans were concocted, and afterwards, with several other
officers holding commissions in the American army, he
came to England to assist in carrying out those plans.
For some little time he resided at Birmingham, where he
purchased large quantities of revolvers, rifles, and other
war stores. When the rising in Ireland was decided on,
Burke was appointed by his superior officer, General
Massey, to the district of Macroom, in the county of
Cork. The entire direction of the movement in that Oil.
entrusted to him. He was apprehended on the
night of the 20th November. The other prisoner, Casey,
who was with Burke when he was arrested, has not yet
been proved to have taken any prominent part in the
Fenian movement.

A good deal of praise is deservedly awarded to the
policeman Sutton for his arrest of Desmond. While
holding the woman with one hand he contrived to seize
the man with the other as he was running round the
corner of the prison. The examination of the prisoners
at Bow-street late on Saturday was necessarily incom-
plete. There was no room for doubt that the prisoners
were the guilty persons. The only unexplained cir-
cumstance is, that with so much suspicion they were not
prevented completing their crime. How the prisoners
came to have time to place the barrel, to light the fuse,
fix it in the barrel, and allow it to burn for some minutes
before the police came up, we must wait to have ex-
plained. A woman who sat at a window nearly opposite
the barrel states that the fuse was burning full five
minutes. She has probably exaggerated the time. She
states that she had just began to suspect something wrong
when the explosion occurred. When she recovered con-
sciousness she found herself weltering in blood.

Was it gunpowder or nitro-glycerine=a compoune
the highest explosive strength—that was in the barrel?
This question, suggested by the smell of the shattered
staves, and by other circumstances, was discussed with
animation on the spot. Opinion is divided. The barrel
was such as liquids are stored in ; but that goes little
towards any evidence of value ; for, in the first
place, it would have been thought necessary by the
conspirators to disguise the outward character of the
cask containing powder or other combustible substance";
and, in the next place, it may be presumed that, if powder
was used, it had not been purchased in such bulk as a
whole caskful, but had been made up of less suspicious
quantities, and placed together in the handiest receptacle
which could be found ; and such a vessel as a beer-barrel
would be as likely as anything to present itself to the
minds and the hands of the men ,engaged in the
enterprise. A ground for suspecting- the employ-
ment of an explosive liquid is in the fact that the
hair of one of the children, whose neck and face were
much lacerated by cuts from the broken glass of the
window near which she was sitting, and almost imme-
diately opposite the barrel, was damp and smelt strongly
of nitro-glycerine. Although the hair has been cut from
the head of the little sufferer, there is still a faint smell
in which Mr. Christopher Jefferson, the resident surgeon
of the Free Hospital, and Dr. O'Connor can trace the
presence of this powerful acid. Some of the medical
reports say distinctly that the faces of a few patients,
whose names are given, were blackened from the explosion
of gunpowder. An officer from Chatham, who was
present, stated that 100 lb. of gunpowder—which is but a
small part of what it is supposed was used—would have
wrought all the mischef that has been done in Corpo-
ration-lane and the adjoining thoroughfares. During
Saturday morning fragments of wood and brick
were picked up in various cut-of-the-way places
within a 200 yards' radius, and amongst them was a por-
tion of the infernal machine itself, found on the top of a
house in Rosoman-street. It was part of an oaken cask,
three-quarters of an inch thick. As stated before, showers
of bricks were hurled against the House of Detention,
where many windows were broken, but, as we are informed
by a statement placed outside of the prison entrance on
Saturday, none of the prisoners were injured. This
unusual announcement was explained by the next sen-
tence—" No visitors to prisoners this day."
No information is as yet forthcoming as to where the
gunpowder was procured. It is said the police, amongst
other precautionary measures, have informed all oilmen,
gunmakers, and dealers in explosive materials to pay par-
ticular attention to persons who may apply for gun-
powder, gun-cotton, or anything of an explosive character.
Drysalters and turpentine distillers, dealers in petroleum,
naphtha, and other volatile oils, have also been requested
to ascertain, if possible, the name and address of all such
persons who may purchase any of those combustible
krticles. It is stated that the informer Devanney has
dentified Desmond and Allen as Fenians.

On Saturday morning Mr. Smith, the secretary of the
Royal Free Hospital,Gray's-inn-road, received the following
•telegraphic message regarding the health of the suf-
ferers :

" WINDSOR CASTLE, Saturday.
"From Sir T. Biddulph to the Secretary of the Royal

Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-road,

" The Queen desires to express her sympathy with the
sufferers from the explosion. and h.gs to inquire after
them."

OUTRAGE WITH GREEK FIRE.

On Saturday night, at a quarter-past eleven, a despe-
rate attempt was made, by means of Greek fire, to burn
down a very extensive range of premises in Bishopsgate-
street. Those who are in the habit of passing along this
street will remember the shop of Messrs. John and Henry
Parnell, wholesale clothiers, No. 187. At one side of the
shop is Two Swan-yard, through which the pedes-
trian may pass into Liverpool-street. Almost the entire
length of this yard on the one side is occupied by the
warehouse of Messrs. Parnall ; and from the character of
their trade there is almost always on hand a valuable and
extensive stock of goods. There are several unused doors
in the wall of the warehouse in Two Swan-yard, and above
each is a glass fantail light. The destructive fluid was
flung at one of these doors, and the miscreant must have
intended it to have gone through the glass. Fortu-
nately, the bottle struck the upper portion of the
door, the fanlight was not bruken, and the burning fluid
ran down the door, setting it on fire. Had the stuff gone
through the glass it would have fallen upon large piles
of shirts which were stored in a room into which the door
formerly opened. A 3 soon as the flames were discovered
the fire brigade, which has a station nearly opposite in
Bishopsgate-street, turned out, but water was utterly
useless in subduing the fire, the dreadful liquid floating,
still in a blaze, upon the face of the water. Ulti-
mately the fire was extinguished with 'wet sand. The
fire brigade was most prompt, or the consequences would
have been very serious. o.le-half the door bears visible
proof of the destructive character of the fluid, and at
midnight on Sunday patches of blue flame played about
the stone steps above the wet sand which had been used
to extinguish the fire. On the bricks also, on one side of
the door, the same blue flame was plainly visible. There
are usually six people sleeping in the house, including one
of the firm (Mr. Henry Parnall), and at the time of, the
occurrence four of them were in the house. Noqeason for
the outrage can be assigned.

7'111:' FENIAN u 1177 M GE 11V CLERKE.Ar-

WELL.

The scene of this outrage was visited yesterday, despite
the mi3crable weather, by scores of thousands of persons.
One effect appeared to impress the minds of all spectators
—that it was impossible to have fired the large quantity
of gunpowder employed by the Fenians without knowing
that it must endanger the lives of a large number of
people. Looking at the narrow street, one rather
wonders that the 100 of life was not greater. The
place where the breach in the prison wall was made
is cut off by barriers raised across the lane. Enough,
however, is to be seen to shew how disastrous the
explosion was to the property within a large radius.
Apparently several of the houses will have to be taken
down before they can be re-inhabited. What most strikes
the visitor, perhaps, is the caprice with which the explo-
sion, it seems, did its work. Here a house is unscathed,
there one further off has had most of its windows blown
out. A cupboard of crockery in one of the ruined houses,
opposite the gap in the prison-wall, is as whole
as it was when the explosion shook the ground ; but,
at a distance of some minutes' walk, the china-shop at the
corner of a street by the church of St. James's, Clerken-
well, might be supposed to have had a bull behind the
counter. The old tavern adjoining the gate of St. John
of Jerusalem, where Johnson and Boswell used to sit
over their port or their punch, and where the Doctor's
venerated chair is still shewn to true believers, has felt
the shock immensely, the doors being loosed from their
hinges, and the thick plate-glass broken in splinters.
A visit to the hospitals discloses the frightful nature of
the injuries inflicted by this explosion. Up to last even-
ing the dead were four in number, three at St. Bartho-
lomew's Hospital—Sarah Hodgkinson, aged 35 ; William
Clutton, 55 ; and Minnie Julia Abbott, 8 ; and at the
rßoyatFree Hospital in Gray's-inn-road, Martha Thomp-
son, aged 10 years. The family of the Abbotts, who
lived in a house in Corporatkiklalle inunkfekly
opposite the scene of the explosion, appear to have
suffered most severely of any. Maria Abbott, aged
31, the mother of the little child Minnie, now dead,
is a patient at St. Bartholomew's, suffering from cuts
about the face and eyelids, as are also three of her
children— John Abbot, 13 ; William, 11 ; and Anne, 2 ;
while a fourth, Arthur, aged 5 years, lies in a dangerous
condition at the Royal Free Hospital with a rupture of
the right eyeball, and his face terribly burnt and lace-
rated. The boy William, at St. Bartholomew's, is suffer-
ing from concussion, with part of his nose cut off, and his
face, neck, and hands lacerated. Again, Hannah Maria
Thompson, 8 years old, sister of the child of that surname
who has died at the Free Hospital, is a patient there,
from lacerated wounds on the neck and scalp ; Elizabeth,
17, a sister of the two, remains at St. Bartholomew's with
a severe cut on the forehead, as do Harriet, another
sister, with both arms badly lacerated, end with a severe
wound in the head and bruises of the face and limbs, and
Elizabeth Thompson, 40, the mother, suffering from con-
cussion. A Mrs. ITartley has had her left ear nearly
severed, and has sustained severe wounds on the side of
the neck and forehead. Sarah Hartley, 41, a member
of the same family, with her infant son Alfred, and
another child of three years, is also among the patients
at St. Bartholomew's. Those are only a few of
the worst cases taken from a long catalogue of the
innocent sufferers who were removed to the two
hospitals after the explosion. A child of eight
years, one of the Thompsons, with not less than seventeen
wounds, is described as lying at the Free Hospital with
the patience of a little martyr, asking only as her eyes
wander over the strange walls or rest upon the unfamiliar
faces of the attendants, for her mother, who is one of the
victims at St. Bartholomew's. Her sister, 10 years old
(now dead), had suffered most frightful injuries, there
being not a feature of her face distinguishable, except
some of the lower part of the mouth, and what was once
the face is little better than a charred and blackened
mass.

The Duke of Cambridge visited St. Bartholomew's
yesterday, accompanied by Lord Colvile, Lord
Barrington, Lord Bingham, Lord Henry Lennox,
Lord George Lennox, and Lord Broughton. Major
Teesdale was also present. The Duke, led through
the wards by Mr. Luther Holden, Professor of
Anatomy at the hospital, saw all the sufferers, and then
proceeded to the House of Detention, where Capt. Codd
took them round. Mr. Foster White, the treasurer of
St. Bartholomew's Hospital, received a telegram on Satur-
day from the Prince of Wales, sympathising with the un-
fortunate sufferers. The following notification, printed in
very bold and striking type, has been issued by the
police :