THE GARDENERS' PRONE: y AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE, 
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w ipposed to - rthquake ; | Smith, vicar of the 
a Timber Merchant—J. E. Parsons, Crown Street, S enter—S. | was supp pose sed to be. that eart q 3 Parish, took tis ome 
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Parenson, Liver KITEET, cotton 1 C CTI doors and windows rattled,' Aikas were thrown |said that the Object of the - 
market, Commission Agent- P. eee jun., Redruth. Cornwall, Cot | down, and people shaken in their beds, over its yon make representations to Government 
n d Ee Homme, ARUM fon aun New North om Renann, | e extent, particularly in the liigher ground, For tl vig au AM. "rans the erection or r 
B ham, late Upholsterer—Jonn Rawe, Tofthill, Durh: er- c e unpo A " & "iens 
T: SkiexéM, Leeds; ato Grocer OTI Sanson, Montpelier Road, Peckham, 50 0 miles round London the shock was distin y gunpow dl ctories in proximity to Populons 
Asian H: S SEXTON, N B Roa ad Tony New TOWA LT injuries and, secon to for approximate 
Orowndsie Hoad, Camden “town” Attorney at Law—W. H. Tren, Hen inflict ed. on house property down the river is somethin ng e claims for compensation, Sey 
and Chicken Lane, Walworth, Hetati Brewer A. Teossig Greok Street, fabulous;. but the most imminent danger arose from | having addressed the meeti ^ 
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Soho, Commission Agen nt- E. TuHo&NTON, Manchester, Accountant — W. eetin 
VEP alcon Cour t City. P r "ja the destruction of the river embankment. , The Tha ames resolved t th " the oe iy: disa, 
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Gilder— T. WALLEY, Caroline Terra Broo! Green, Hammersm: ith, Com 
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mea Traveller H. WOLLEN. Fare "Street, Cripplegate, Cheesemonger— 
F. Youne, Eli , Cla Tune 
the surrou arge quantities of 
ing country by means of obere. | in which the explosivo. anie being allo wed to o Sd 
le biletin produced a gap of 100 yards in width. It was | stored in the vicinity of porion places, 
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SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION Edinburgh, Artis E nappily low tide, or the results wou ave been|munications be made to the Home 
Roussel ars Grec Aberdeenshire, gamer = T =, disastrous. he embankm nt nham on th loc al magistrates, pointing out the à 
Armadale, Gro other side of the river was broken tl h ment of powder magazines an 
century ago, and it ee many months before the water in such | Places, and Regs. the discontine. = { 
was got o a bc try again here was j g ces and the ans to t new ERE 
pee ae i MA time in the case to repa ir ihe embank-|for the same seer in future, pe 
1 Bec DFUL EXPLOSION AT Err — On Saturday | ment talilieddy "eire pg ae This result was team to carry out the resolution, and it 
ing, at 20 mimitesrto 7 the efie si qetudE of|only achieved, however, by immense oo and that i it be an instruction to the committee to 
iani. Hall & Son, and of the Low-wood Company | the highest praise is "doniey vet by all w p de of carrying powder in barge 
at Belvedere, explo aH i, disastrous results both Price ig in the operation, Mr. Moore, the ud eer make proper representations to Gov 
to life and property. The scene of the catastrophe 
in the Eri een Plumstead 
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station of the North Ken 
ye 
Railwa * 
Ls and Erith Church, and closely ore on the They | were followed speedily by the ‘th "Fallos, ‘who politan Board of Works are required by their js 
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and between the 
bank the river, at the end of — were 
two » ee magazines, the property "M 
Hall | the yh 
& Son, of be am tford Powder UM id Teuila Before the troops arrived, the navvies b T months, ‘the Bank under the circumstances have us 
e Low-wood Com 
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Lancashire. The plot of lend on w which these magazines puddled it into a “solid bottom, by w erre means the 5 per - ve 
stood, and which is Md by ditches to render 
between the tw o Madian 
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atile. The "d. buildings near these wer ere t 
ences of the T: 
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quarter to half a mile away, stands a building sent dow. 
used as a i 
agazine for 
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gunpowder by he 
midwa the sit 
i the tide rose the large detachments of soldiers ases of the county, Aem placed 
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ern 
on the spot, immediately realised the dang er and subject, The meeting was then adju 
C i to obtai 
telegraphed for the navvies: from the Crossness station | the inquest, in order to obtain some idea o es: 
of the Metropolitan m [4 Works, and General|of claims for compensation. A meeting with a si 
Warde, the comman veined p ua ec object was held on Thursday at Belvedere, E 
1500 Sappers a nd Min wed ul Artille pot.| METROPOLITAN Boarp or WomRxs,— 
keep ie account with the Bank of England 
Marines, both from the garrison at Woolwi dh. the e 209,0007. to place out at interes D 
hile others| to trea va this Case as an exceptional one, and ta 4 
subsequent military operations were greatly facilió| New Narr scttirrd —The | 
tated. | Fortunately the river was low, and before| recommendation of the Mar v p. Sidera 
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and Sheriff Dakin and Mr. H 
day and sand bags, sufficient to Labs is Taylor, a leading member of the Court of 
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Mesi the South Eastern Railway OM fua a the commission of the peace for Middlesex ; 
wn a special train to bring up the Godha to|also appointed them magistrates for tle c 
Guy's s Hospital. Seven persons are now lying in that | Wes = — 
more or less injured, aa two others di 
| soon after their admission, Nin 10 are known Thursday thethanks drm Common Comit 
inc lading Mr Ra r, Messrs. Hall’s 
the under Morelioper, a nd the | for the distinguished services which he has re 
of the main drainage of London. It appears that two 
barges left the Thay nig mills of Mess rs. Hall & Son 
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pe r men [osi ng to et to the barges. How the explosion | the cause of suffering humanity all over the 
donee i Appena unknown, and it is Toata, al is usual | without distinction of class or : The Lori 
at all who co i ess 
artford, on F ases, uld throw light on the |in a sho Spies , expr 
both completely ‘laden. with aan of gu npowder, for the | miter ave perished in the dm On Sunday | and Sir Moses made a suitable 
purpose of depositing them in the hee m They | thousands upon thousands of people visited the scene PROPOSED OPENING or SouTHY. 
were then known to have, each two and a boy ms | of the explosion, travelling mosey by the North Kent | the Court ot Common Council on Th 
"board, but oes there were any. Le. | Railway, and it requir dt the aid of a strong body of open Southwark Bridge free to the publie f 
^ — ascertained. owever, ea ‘the | police at the Erith and Belvedere Stations x maintain | as an experiment was present th 
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n, which t took mx 
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"precis ely 20 minutes 
explosio 
before 7 o'clock, firs& occurred on board one of the 
barges, that it w: i 
subsequently pe third and 
su pposed that the explosion 
whilst 
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| order and prevent accident. On Monday also sevi y Estates Committee, and ordered to ept 
thousand persons vis sited the scene of the catastrophe lated among the members, for further 
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more ent one, E is 
was can sed by a man on 
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round it Tu m During the whole day the|—Two of the great features of the buildin 
navvies the ropolitan Board Md Works | arches—disappeared on Saturday last and on 
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lighted tobacco from 
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although this is but a sara In an instant both the 
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bar, ere blown to atoms, and the agazines 
instantly followed. The er re. e x w 
in Ar larg d 
the barges, Eac iF hema" contained bot it 0 Ib. of 
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not to have exceeded ba 
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ever being left but their peel ns, but the ve 
space of bundreds o 
earth itself, for the 
T a mile 
br 5 was imei away; and the bricks of a new build- e ag 
ion ly was so dr fully mangled that he died in in s tha C re Hare pita by means 
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beams of tim hing ‘over half 
ying in i adjoining dr " X 
the e Stati 
and yum e the powder T, 
were har um work s reus thee img re river embank- | ceding Saturday. The ea 
ment, and == Lr with those of the aon A party of Royal Enginee m 
on the previous “da ere crown ed with co ployed for some days previously in lodging ¢ 
success, On a Mon nda ay there „was the highest tide o of the | powder to demolish the large arch which 
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nothing beyond the wash of the bu waves went | span of 59 fee 
ong north-e easterly wind beat dead against it, | work, in i Portland — nt, semicircular 
uilt on three bands, e 
f the oem 2 feet 6 ctm ph so that the total depth of 
over the embankment. The excitem po 
e Ee alone. he | on Sunday er led to a shocking accident. There | was 7 feet 6 inches, ne width of the top ba 
apisine is said by the agents | was nse crowd of persons at Are Title side 6 feet, and that of the lower one 3 feet. 
90 barrels ; so a the whole station of 1 Belvedero, and the most fran demolished this arch in the ordina way 
cre Ibs. only into the carriages as they. arrived. ‘The | necessitated the use of extensive 
e ground, tidy what- | railway authorities at co Bridge despatche have involved considerable labour, 
ry | trains after another as fas b could | suggested that it would form a good e 
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z 80 with safety. >t bring up the people, but| the Royal Engineers. Mr. 
spite of all their efforts there was great} material of e re rom is p à pU 
-| delay, and the last up- prin did is iif 3 oe Diem A Ag eed to t , an 
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= At intervals during the night, gore Be a| |n each haunch of the arch to receive small c 
| n stopped, either there or at Erith, a frightful Mer powder. This method was adop being 
made at it, and the people c crowded the carri | the more expeditious plan of usin 
| "d almat to suffocation, in spite of the efforts of the pália | at each haunch, which o» 
and the railway company's servants to restrain ced | some of the bricks to fl 
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bu bteoda the buffers until t d a off by main | explosion, and the part of fei 
orce by the police. this ‘ of the e having been clear 
Tian "E Morand i Piel E ween the tu i 
after ees The effect was very satisfacto 
were the windows, ad . e window sa sa ~~ and even nir 
low; * = ere was s 
Hotel had all its lower v windows crushed in . To the 
ward, up the 
cely a house 
At B Büvedens. the 
the explosion was opened on Tu em village opened, and the pai 
of Belvedere, It was un that the fone now | several pieces in esr fall. The di wii 
in hospital, and who may be expec ve some| western arch took place on Saturday Y 
dri on the subject, y will not be in a condition to be | same manner. 
ined for som eeks to come. The le pre ves io. Scuoor or Nav. 
to the id f Council on Educa 
, the 
. | inquest on ae bodies of three of the persons killed b by | arch were broken and slightly push 
ned rts ed "e 
and two e. [A the whole of their — broken 1 in, 
as if a coal waggon had dashed through them. 
of the E ee had their wah split and their 
ourned for a week. The inquest on the 
two "Persons io died in 1 Guys Hospital, and also 
Admiralty and peed e Ins 
deierm ned to 
rof 
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a nav sedare 
ux a train a£ the Erith platform on a Sanita night, took | The ios lis for e instruction pin 
Woolwich a sed suffered Mom i the barrack 
on the Common wer 
every dive 
was the s hod that the inhabitants | 
rins of books of Me essrs, eni 
into the streets that the | Monday 
truth developed itself. In the metropolis the dite | stplosion vas held at the Pier Hotel, Erith. Archdeacon collection more complete. The school 
ce on Wednesday, when the jury n both case x eea quem pe docky officers 
id to the l architects an 
rection ; | pe er case their opinion ues aa > was no evidence to iron " Satin engineers, fore : 
show how the explosion and that the|&c. The Admiralty have deposite 
that had exploded, and | practice of E stoves or or Tight of any description | naval models at the that 
| on boar vi wder barges shou ld be discontinued. On | tne Committee of Council t 
veni ng a public m ct of the | builders will give the i pe 
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