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_ the window-frame was found torn from its place and the glass 
all shattered. But what was most singular, this was evidently 
effected by a force acting fromwithin. The bolts, which could 
not be drawn, brought the window-frame with them six or 
eight inches towards the street, particularly at one end, and it 
was clearly by the distortion of the frame the glass was broken, 
as the shutters were not taken off at all—the injury was exactly 
what one would expect to see if a quantity of gunpowder had 
been exploded in the room, and had forced out the window 
as the weakest point. The same circumstances almost exactly 
took place, under similar conditions, with respect to a window 
at Mr. Hoge’s, situated near the angle between Honan’s-quay 
and Arthur’s-quay, and looking out upon the latter. This 
window is not so large as the one before spoken of, and the 
effects were not so violent; they were sufficiently so, however, 
to break some of the panes, and the slighter parts of the win- 
dow-sash, the fractures running in such directions as showed 
that the force came from within. Indeed, it could hardly be 
otherwise, as the shutters lay close on the outside, and gave 
them complete protection. This was further proved by the 
fact, that some windows in other parts of the same side of the 
house, unprotected by shutters, had several panes broken, yet 
not a trace of broken glass could be found anywhere, neither 
in the room, on the window-sill, nor in the area below, nor on 
the flags around it. Some towels also, and a sheet, carried 
out of one of these windows, could never be found afterwards. . 
A singular instance of the force of the squall occurred at the 
rere of the house, where a large piece of cast iron, of several 
_hundred-weight, lying against an open window, was blown 
down by the blast, and shook the whole house in its fall. 
The circumstance I have spoken of, of the force in both 
these cases acting from within, might be explained ifone could 
suppose a sudden and violent expansion of the air within the 
room, occasioned by a vacuum, produced by some cause out- 
