The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-11 00:00:00

THE CLERKENWELL UUTRAGE.,.

BOW-STREET-THIS DAY.

ANOTHER REMAND -FURTHER IMPORTANT INFOR

MAT I ON.

To. day ;William and Timothy Desmond, Jere-
miah Allen, Nicholas English, John O'Keefe,
William Barrett, James O'Neill, and Anne Justice,
were again placed before Sir Thomas Henry charged
with wilful murder.

The interest that has attached to the examina-
tion during the last two months still continues, the
court being crowded to excess.

Mr. Giffard, addressing the magistrate, said that
since the last examination of the prisoners some
very import.tnt information had reached him, there-
fore he proposed to-day that the reading of the
depositions of the witnesses should be completed,
and at its termination he should have to ask for
another remand until that day week.
Mr. Harper (who appeared for the Desmonds)
asked whether it was fresh evidence ?

Mr. Giffard was understood to reply that it was
not.

Mr. Burnaby then commenced reading the depo-
sitions. On coming to that of Worth, the late
warder at the House of Detention,
Allen said—l wish to be allowed to ask the wit-
ness a question.

Sir T. Henry—You had better defer it until the
whole of the witness's evidence has been read.
Allen—l merely wish to ask him if he has never
given me the office to follow other people beside—
Sir 'l'. Henry—You hear what he says ?
Worth—Yes, sir ; but to my recollection I had
never seen the prisoner at the House of Detention
until the day of the explosion.
Allen—l can bring undeniable evidence that he
has done so on more than one occasion. I have
been engaged by a police Inspector at Bayswater,
and also in this (the F) division as well.
The reading of the depositions having been com-
pleted,
Mr. Lewis said—l propose to call witnesses on
the part of the prisoner O'Keefe, but as I un-
derstand that the fresher evidence which I have
heard has come into the possession of the
prosecution will more than likely occupy the whole
of next Tuesday, it would be a great inconvenience
and expense if I had to keep the witnesses in London
until another opportunity was afforded me to call
them. What I propose, therefore, is not to
call them at the conclusion of the proceedings
next Tuesday, but to ask for a further remand for
a week, when the witnesses could attend and give
their evidence.

Mr. Giffard—That is quite reasonable.
Sir T. Henry—Very well, let it be so.
Allen—May I bring witnesses for my defence on
that occasion. I believe some of them are iu court
at this moment.

Sir T. Henry—You will have an opportunity o
doing so when Mr. Lewis calls his wituesses.
The prisoners were then removed.

SubsequEntly Mullany was placed at the bar
and remanded on the charge of treason-felony.

GREAT CONFLAGRATION AT THE
OXFORD MUSIC HALL.-THIS DAY.

This (Tuesday) morning, at a few minutes past
three o'clock, an alarm was sounded in Oxford-
street and Tottenham-court-road, and cries of
"Fire" and " Help" followed. The brigade engines
were immediately pulled out of the stations in
Crown-street and Wells-street, when the fire-
men were informed that the outbreak had
taken place iu that splendidly-appointed place
of
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fire could be observed from the outside of the
building, but upon the firemen entering the build-
ing they found that the flames were attacking with
a n fulld vigour
some theoth
er roof,
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o f t balcony,he n o
b the
stage,structure.
Telegraph messages were, therefore, at once
despatched to the chief stations of the
Metropolitan Brigade, and the London Salvage
Corps in Watling-street, and forthwith Captain
Shaw and Mr. Superintendent Swanton started to
the scene with a body of firemen and salvors, and
several laud steamers by Shand, Mason, and Co.
By this time the flames had played fearful havoc to
those parts of the hall before enumerated, and
it was the opinion of the firemen that the
whole of the noble building would have been
consumed, but the mains of the New River and
Grand Junction Companies having yielded copious
streams of water, the land, steam, and manual en-
gines were called into operation, and it was
remarkable to see with what execution the
water from the steam power flew over the roof
and into the balcony, and even deluged the pit, the
promenades, and the stage. This immense distri-
bution of water at the same moment over so many
parts of the house enabled the brigade to suddenly
stop the flames from lapping round the front of the
house, which unquestionably must have fallen a prey
to their fury had it not been for the almost super-
human exertions of the brigade, who, regardless of
the danger of falling burning materials, kept on
successfully at their posts, and eventually had the
satisfaction of seeing the fire palpably diminishing
and succumbing beneath the weight of water that was
falling, and, before seven o'clock, the fire was pro-
nounced to be safely extinguished. Mr. Morton's loss
will be considerable, amounting to thousands of
pounds sterling. The catastrophe could not have
taken place at a more unfortunate time, for whilst
Maillart's comic opera of " Les Dragons," and
Mackney have been drawing crowded houses, so
that money has been obliged to be turned away,
the tide of prosperity has been suddenly
changed. Many of the ancient music scores have
escaped the ravages of the flames by being deposited
in one of the patent Reliance fireproof safes. The
origin of the disaster cannot be accounted for.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
This morning, shortly before four o'clock, this
splendid building, which owed its existence to
the untiring energy of Mr. Charles Morton,
was totally destroyed by fire. The inte-
rior of the once splendid hall is now one
blackened heap of rubbish, and all that re-
mains of the splendidly decorated ceiling is the
remnants of a few charred rafters, which threaten
every moment to fall to the ground. The fire
seems to have originated in the corner nearest the
grand staircase, and it is supposed to have been
caused by an uuextinguished fusee burning into
the cocoa-nut fibre that formed the stuffing
of the seats in the balcony. This supposition
is very likely to have caused the calamity, from
the fact that those who saw the fire com-
mence say the stuffing of the seats burnt with the
rapidity of gunpowder, and fairly carried the
flames from end to end instantaneously.
Mr. Morton was, at the outbreak of the fire,
sleeping ou the premises, and was one of the first
persons to enter the hall before the flames gained
the ascendency over the building. Of course, every
effort was made to suppress the flames, but all to no
purpose, for such was the rapidity of the fire, that
within the short space of an hour,.from 25 minutes
to 4 to half-past 4, the hall was destroyed, and all
the flames extinguished.
The artistes' dresses and many valuable instru-
ments belonging to the members of the band have
been destroyed ; but the greater part of the valu-
able musical library to the hall has been saved.
The hall was built during the winter of 1860 by
Messrs. Holland and Hammond at a cost of £20,000,
and it was arranged as to afford accommodation to
1,800 persons.
Mr. Reed, the photographer of Tottenham-court-
road, has to-day been engaged taking views of the
remains of tile building.

The building, we are glad to say, is fully in-
sured in the North British Insurance Office.

An index to the 7 blies newspaper is announced
fur early publication, by Mr. Palmer, of Catherine-street.
It is to appear quarterly, in small quarto, and doubtless
will form a very curious and interesting volume.

A Glasgow contemporary states that a Catholic
hierarchy is about to bo established in Scotland. The
archbishop or cardinal is to be Bishop Lynch, now residing
at Carstairs ; and Father Parkinson, "an Oxford convert,'
will be bishop of Glasgow.
Viscount and Viscountess Boyle have arrived in
Paris on their wedding tour.