The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-11-15 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SERIOUS ACCIDENTS.—OR Wednesday the following extraordinary explosion occurred in the dwelling:house of Mr. J. B. Buckstone, in .Suffolk-street, Pall-mall East, adjoining the Haymarket theatre. For some time pa.4t a number of men have been repairing and painting it. They tiperienced a strong smell, as if the gas were escaping, when one of the men who was standing•oni board'swung about midway between the flooring and the ceiling drew a congreve match across the .upper part of the van, when a loud explosion took place.. The windows wert forced out, three the painters at work hall their clothes set on fire, 'and a number of vessels containing turpentine and oil were soon in a blaze. The screams of the -men brought assistance to the spot, and after some trouble the flames were extinguished. It was then 'found that the three men 'were much burnt, two •so seriously that it was deemed prudent to remove them to the 'Charing-cross Hospital. _ _  Auftiisr on t §-orinkr.—A case came before the Court nf Queen's Bench ?last week, in which 'a writ of habeas icorpus had been issued by Mr. Justice Crompton, directing the keeper of Stafford gaol to 'bring up the body of ,one Eggington, in order that he might •be discharged, upon the ground that he had been:illegally arrested, as he was taken upon a Sunday. The gaoler, in his return, stated that, after the prisoner's arrest, a 'second warrant had been issued by the justices of Liehfield, under which he was now detained. Mr. Gray contended that the return was no answer to the writ, as the gaoler could not take advantage of the illegal custody of the prisoner to detain him under a new warrant. Mr. Pashley, in support of the return, submitted that, as the prisoner had been arrested and kept in custody in consequence of his alleged illegal detention of certain books and -papers, the dharge against him was of a criminal, and not of a civil, nature, and he was, therefore, 'not privileged from arrest on a Sunday. Mr. Cole, on the part of the Town Council of Lichfield, which had instituted the proceedings against the prisoner, also supported the return. Lord Campbell was of opinion that the prisoner ought to be discharged, on the ground that the commitment was not for any indictable offence, and, therefore, the warrant under Which he was arrested ought not to have been executed on a Sunaday. It necessarily followed that the detention under the second warrant was illegal, the arrest under the first warrant having been illegal. The other learned judges concurred. Rule absolute for a habeas corpus. SUICIDES IN PARlS.—Suicides in Paris continue to be frequent. One, which occurred on Thursday, was attended with singular circumstances. A young man, M. Augustus D---, living in the Rue St. Denis, employed in a mercantile firm, did not appear at his office at the usual hour. His employer went to see after him, and learned from the concierge that he had gone out shortly before finely dressed. The following morning he again absented himself from his duty, and his employer went again to seek after him. The concierge told him that he was in his own room. He went up, but received 'no reply to his knocks. The employer then sent for the youth's father, and the door was opened. He was found lying dead in the bed—he had committed suicide by means of the fumes of charcoal. A letter, addressed to his father, left open on a table, requested that no attempt should be made to discover his reason for committing suicide—it was, he said, a secret, and should die with him. It turned out, on inquiry that, after leaving home grandly dressed, he went to pay visits to all his friends. They asked him if he were engaged to figure in any important ceremony, since he was so fine ; but he gaily answered, Oh, dear, no! The whim of going to see all my friends seized me, and I am come to shake your hand !" In the evening he went to his café, -and played at cards as gaily as usual until ten o'clock. He then went to a hairdresser's shop, and had his hair cut and dressed. On going home, he carefully pasted paper ,over the crevices of the door, windows, &e., of his room, to prevent the entrance of the 'slightest portion of air ; and he then lighted the pass of 'charcoal which he had previously prepared.—Another young man, a shopman employed in a linen-draper's establishment, also committed suicide the same day by means of charcoal in his 'lodgings in the Rue Blanche. To prevent any pain lie stupified himself by drinking the liquor produced by boiling down a quantity of poppies.—