The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-27 00:00:00

TEE FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION AT LEEDS.

At present there are few additional particulars
to report in connexion with the fatal boiler explo-
sion which has happened at Leeds in the house
of Mr. Longley, a builder. Mr. Longley, his
eldest daughter, and the servant girl remain much
fa the same state. Fortunately the injuries sne-
tain4 by the servant were not of a very serious
nature, and she has since been removed to her
parents' hone, at Kippax, near Leeds. Mr. Longley
is much scalded about the face and hands, and has
received some severe. contusions on the head and
face, Miss Longley, besides having a very severe
compound fracture of the right leg, is much burnt
about the face and arms, and also scalded about the
chest and body. Both she and her father are in a
critical position. The catastrophe occurred on Tues-
day (Christmas-day), and the facts connected with
it are substantially the same as were reported in
The Sun yesterday, with this exception, that the
whole of the persons injured were in the kitehen
when the explosion took place, Miss Longley not
being in the adjoining passage, as previously re-
ported. The Christmas dinner was in the course
of preparation for the family at the time, but the
unfortunate calamity changed the house into a
scene of mourning and woe instead:of festivity, At
the time of the explosion three of the children of
Mr. Longley were in an adjoining room, the door
of which was blown down, but the children were
not injured. The boiler was completely blown out
of its place and dashed across the kitchen, almost
every portion of which was injured. The melan-
choly catastrophe has caused great excitement in
Leeds, and much sympathy has been expressed for
the sufferers. The accident has also, no doubt,
caused persons, both in Leeds and elsewhere, whose
houses are fitted up with similar boilers, to adopt
precautions to prevent similar explosions. The
boiler was a self-feeding, L-shaped (fire-back) boiler,
and as previously stated, it is very probable that
the explosion was caused by the water having been
drawn off in consequence of the feeding pipe having
been frozen, and when the water in the pipe thawed
by the heat of the fir• it rushed into the red hot
boiler, generating a quantity of explosive steam,
and causing it to burst instantaneously. Yesterday
an inquest was opened respecting the deceased,
Mrs. Longley, before Mr. Blackburn, the borough
coroner. The coroner stated that it was very impor-
tant, for the information of the public, that the
cause of the explosion should be fully inyestigated,
and he suggested that a scientific examination of
the bodies should be made. The jury concurred in
this view, and Mr. Hetherington, C.E., and Mr. T.
W. Lord, both of Leeds, was instructed to make
the necessary examination. No evidence was
adduced, and the inquest, after being formally
opened, was adjourned for a week.

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The complications incidental to a fugitive slave
law are just now most strangely exemplified in a
case pending before the law courts of Canada. In
the autumn of lest year Mr. Seneca Diggs, a cotton
planter residing in Howard county, Missouri, ob-
served a strange negro walking across his estate.
As a matter of course, he challenged this visitor,
cross•questioned him, and, not being satisfied with
his explanations, proceeded to detain him. The
negro, Anderson by. name, accompanied his captor.
submissively for a short distance, but as they ap-
proached the planter's house he seized an opportu-
nity, broke away from his enemy, and ran. Mr.
Diggs started instantly in pursuit of the fugitive,
but, though three of his own negroes joined in the
chase, Anderson succeeded for more than an hour in
eluding their gripe. At length, as the runaway was
approaching a fence, the planter overtook him, and
brandishing a stick over his head, called upon him
to surrender. In reply, Anderson drew a large
dirk-knife and threatened death to any one who
touched him. Despising such a menace from the
lips of a slave, Mr. Diggs closed boldly with
the fugitive, who immediately made good his
words by stabbing his assailant to the heart.
The unhappy planter reeled back into the ditch,
and after a brief struggle, " departed," as a New
York paper observes, " for a land where he will
inevitably be convinced of certain facts concerning
Diggers which he was fond of denying in his life-
time." Anderson made good his escape, crossed the
Canadian frontier, and commenced a quiet and in-
dustrious career as a free man upon British soil.
A short time ago, however, he was tracked to
his abode by certain emissaries from Missouri, and
claimed, not as a fugitive slave, but as a murderer,
under the provisions of the Ashburton treaty for
the extradition of criminals. By that convention
it is enacted that any person or persons against
whom offences punishable by American law can be
established by Canadian law shall be delivered up
to justict, and the question was whether the act
committed by Anderson could be brought under
such definitions. That Anderson killed Diggs, and
killed him wilfully, was admitted; but was he
justified in doing so ? Had Diggs a right to arrest
him ? If he had, the killing was murder; if he bad
not, it was justifiable homicide. According to the
State law of Missouri there was no doubt about the
case. That law enacts that any negro found more
than 20 miles from his master's plantation without
a pass may be arrested and taken back, and it fur-
ther ordains that the captor shall receive for his
service a reward of five dollars, besides travelling
expenses proportioned to the mileage. Conse-
quently Diggs was acting legally in apprehending
Anderson, and Anderson illegally in resisting Diggs.
It is perfectly true that the fugitive was defending
his liberty, and perhaps his life; but the law of
self-preservation. it was said, could not be pleaded.
A curious case was put by way of parallel. The
law of Canada, like that of England, permits im-
prisonment for debt, whereas certain States of the
American Union recognise no such practice. Sup-
pose therefore that su inmate of a debtor's prison
in Canada should effect his escape by killing his
gaoler, and seek an asylum in one of the States
where incarceration for debt is unknown, would
that State be justified in refusing to surrender the
fugitive ? Would it not rather be compelled to
measure the crime by the usages of the State where
it was committed ? In the same way, were not the
Missouri authorities justified in demanding the sur-
render of an offender who had been guilty of what
by Missouri law was a murder, however it might
be regarded in Canada f
These arguments might perhaps have been hard
to answer, but there was a loophole for escape.
The Canadian Courts were bound to respect Ameri-
can law, but were they bound to respect Missouri
law also? The law under which Diggs attempted
to arrest Anderson was a law enacted for Missouri
exclusively. It was not valid in the Union gene-
rally, and would not be recognised for instance,
in New York or Massachusetts. Now, it is
held that engagements between nations must
be interpreted by national laws. Great Britain
contracts, not with a State of the Union, but with
the Union itself. The British Empire treats with
the United States, not with the State of Missouri.
It recognises federal, but not municipal laws; and,
as Anderson's act was criminal by the latter only,
and not by the former, the argument was alleged
to fail,
This was' the position in which the case was left at
the departur9 of the last mail. The Courts were
exceedingly per
clexed with the law, and painfully
embarrassed, we nucty well presume, by the dilemma
before them. In their' hearts and consciences the
Canadian authorities must have felt that Anderson
slew his enemy in defence of all that man holds
dear; they must have felt that to surrender him to
his pursuers to be burnt alive—a fate probably
reserved for him—would be a most dreadful

responsibility, and yet, as judges bound to admi-
nister the law uprightly, they may have hardly-
seen how to evade the conclusion. We are not
surprised, therefore, to find that they have taken
refuge in indecision, and remitted the case suc-
cessively from one Court to another. First the
magistrates gave up the attempt, and referred
the matter to the Attorney-General; then the Attor-
ney-General, after two months' consideration,
alleged his incmpetenee; and now the Court of
Queen's Bench has cognisance of the question, by
which tribunal it must finally be decided. Before
this time, indeed, judgment has doubtless been
given, though on which side it would be hard to
conjecture.
The tone of the correspondence from Canada pub-
lished in the American, journals is very remarkable.
The reporters who transmit from Toronto the ac-
counts of the proceedings are evidently under the
impression that our colonial authorities will do
their duty, whatever pain the act may cost them.
They observe, too, that the Canadians, however sen-
sitive they may be to the horrors of the case, will
certainly not oppose popular force to the execution
of the law. There will be no rescue. If the sen-
tence goes against Anderson he will be given up,
e observed
nto f th
e New York Tribune
by people and judges
alike. The
theTlhaw will o
rr se
be
precords it as a proof of the " strong love of law
c o
which pervades the community," that a certain ma-
gistrate,
presumed to be hostile to the prisoner, has
not been tarred and feathered, and he cannot con-
clude his letter without suggesting that the unfortu-
nate slave, even, if delivered over to his pursuers,
might be " met" on the borders of the colony by
people less accustomed than the Canadians to respect
the decisions of Courts. There
are only four routes,
he observes, practicable at this season of the year
from Canada to the
States.
Verbutn sap. The
Canadians are full of sympathy. They have sup-
plied the prisoner with necessaries, and with money
for his defence. They would probably not refuse

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BIRTHS.

BAKER,—On the 26th inst., at Wrsgby ParsonagetWake'
field, the lady of the Rev. Chas. Baker, M.A., incum-
bent of Wragby, of a daughter.
CIDAIR.—On the 26th inst., at 2, Upper Hyde-park-street,
Hyde-park-square, the wife of Hugh Adair, Esq., M.F,O
of a son.

BETHUNE.—On the 23d inst., at 56, Westbourne-terrace,
the wife of Admiral Bethune, of a son.

MARRIAGES.

MACANDREW—REviNs.—On the 20th inst., at All Saints'
Church, St. John's-wood, Sir John Macandrew, K.C.8.,
to Eleanor, the eldest daughter of the late John Be'
vans, Esq.
MUMFORD-11./31MOND.—On the 22d inst., at St. George's
Church, Ramsgate, Mr. Saml. P. Mumford, of Lewis'
ham-road, to Mary Hannah, only daughter of the late►
John Hammond, Esq., of Dumpton, Isle of Thanet.