THE LATEST DYNAMITE EXPLOSIONS

Dunstan Times, Issue 1205, 3 April 1885, Page 3

THE LATEST DYNAMITE EXPLOSIONS

The Pall Mall Gazette of January 26 writes:—“ It is estimated that LIOOO will cover the damage done by the explosion in the Tower. The explosion in the House of Commons did more injury to the upholstery, bat even there it is estimated that everything there can be restored for less then L 10,001). We have not yet heard how much it will cost to repair the broken glass in Westminster Hall, bus it will pro .ably be less than LSOOO. On the whole, L 20.000 represents the outside damage done by the three car. fully planned explosions about which all the world is talking this morning. Mo one was killed ; about a score of men, women, and children were slightly injured ; two policemen have lost their hearing ; and that is all. A wretched twopenny-half-penny affair ifis to be sure, and one which ought to be most reassuring and even comforting to all those who have watched the progress of the struggle .between soc ety and the demons of dynamite. For what does it prove? This huge Loudon of ours, in which are the nerve centres of the Empire, the rulers of our world encircling realm, crowded as it is with vast and incalculable treasures of every kind, has been exposed for two years and more to the attack of conspirators who have the whole armoury of science at the disposal of agents absolute y free from scruple or remorse. Never was so vast, so vulnerable a target exposed to the malice an t ingenuity of the sold ers of despair. And now, after two years’ campaigning, in the course of which they have made nearly a dozen different attempts, wliat have they done ? Altogether they have not done mo'e damage than' LIOO.OOO would easily make good. Tftey have not killed a creature,. blocked a railway, destroyed a building, or in any way cheeked for a moment the even flow of English life. They may succeed yet in committing aci irae worthy the wickedness of their intentions, but hitherto there is not a single railway company in England which has not, in the ordinary course of business, worked more havoc upon the lives and property of the general public than the Infernal Brotherhood hive been able to effect in twice the peril I, with all their dynamite.”