The Express. — 1862-01-15 (London, England)

EARFUL ESPLOSION.-POUR MEN KILLED AND SEVERAL WOUNDED.  A terrific explosion, attended with fatal remelt!, on • large male, took plan. on Monday moroiscr,, about halt. Tea eleven o'clock, at • kern owned by Mr. Dunmore, of Menton Wyville, Leicestershire. A. steam threshing machine was at work, belonging toa person named Butcher. Prom the particulars at present supplied, it would appear that the amine or boiler was rather out of coodition, end that several men, including the engine-driver, were wrapping a pipe that leaked, through which they was conveyed to the boiler, when suddenly the boiler exploded with an appalling report. The scene that ensued is beyond the power of the pen to describe. One of the poor fellows was literally blown to atoms, his head being found in one place and his legs in soother while the three other men killed presented a sic:teeing spectacle, beinulotrc!ingly m bia The names of three of them are, Woolman, aped 80 ; William Woolman, • lino young fellow, aged 24 ; and 'William Lee, aged 23. All of them were married. The boiler was torn to fragments, pieces lying in many and onions directions. One of the men killed was discovered hedged between the wheels of the engine carriage. When extricated he was net quite dead, and a larp fracture in the skull, through which the brain protruded, was noticed. The poor fellow's moans were of the meat harrowing :kind, but he soon expired. Three men who have not been Med are fearfally mangled ; me of them is not expected to survive. Such a able catastrophe has not happened in the neighbourhood before. TM deepest distress and melancholy are ems over the entire vilhp of Mouton. Censure is deserved by some party without doubt, as no steam pep was diked to the mileage that it is 1144 exnctly known whether the boiler through having generated too ranch steam, or the .'=Plods' being defective.  The Paris Moniker reports that, according to recent letter from America, the fire at Charleston continued its ravages, "being kept up by the negroes," and that the whole city bad become a heap of ruins, the public buildings, private mansions, linden the riches of a town of 80,000 inhabitants, having ceased to exist. These sad details, the ifouiteut very justly adds, require confirmation. We have found none as yet is the recent advises from the States. The Annuaire Eneyelopidique gives the following statistics relating to suicides in France :—" The number in the course of last year was 3,890, averaging more than 10 • day. Of these, 842 were females, and 3,057 melee ;16 were children under 15 yeas of age ; 38 man and U IMAM IMO 90 and upwards. The majority were between 40 sad 60 years of age. Suicides are most frequent in April, May, June, end July. The means of death were—hanging and drowning, in 2,833 cases ; suffocation with charcoal, 271; shooting with guns, 206 ; with pistols, 189 ; cutting Instruments, 153 ; jumping from high buildings, 110 ; poison, 93. In 44 cases the mode of death is not specified." A. correspondent at Florence writes :—" In Florence there dwells as elderly and eccentric Englishman, with several hundreds per annum and • deficiency of common sense. This gentleman first turned catholic, and then mesmerist. A woman who was his ' medium' having died, his confessor supplied him with another, • medium in direct communication with the Blessed Virgin, by means of whom not only was the mesmerist able to perform all aorta of wonders, but he also reeeived several warnings from the same Divine source, and menials, most of which had a tendency to alienate the good gentleman's property from his family for the benefit of a certain jesuitical institution." By royal decree, a great national library is to be established at Florence, the foundation of which is to be laid by the union of the two celebrated collections known as the " Keels headline and the Palmitin'. The former, now in the Uffisii Palace, consists of more than 175,000 printed and 12,000 manuscript works, the earlier part of which were collected by the old goldsmith from which the library takes his name, and who was called " Halluo Inworum," from the fact that he read every book he  houtht Isrrasertso MEMORIAL or WILBERFORCE, Mg I