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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 3, 3 January 1877, Page 4

Mr Spurgeon, declining to attend an [atrocity meeting at Kensington, writes : j— "There is no need for me to speak -further, as my views are well known. 'If I could speak thunderbolts and jglance lightning; I would exercise my [fullest powers of oratory against the m'oasters-wbo have made Bulgaria a pandemonium. This Turkish demon imust come to an end by its own hideiousness. England is aroused, and will :have no more of it." The number of persons killed or -.wounded through imprudently handling loaded shells, found in and round Paris .since the siege, bids fair to bring up the of the war to a high figure. Last, week says a London paper, M. 'Raynaud, an engineer, living at Montmartre, undertook to unload a large German Krupp shell, which had failed to go off as the enemy originally intended, and had been picked up by some curiosity seeker. Just as M. -Raynaud was about to set to his dangerous task the newsman entered the shop with the daily paper, and stopped to look on. M. Kaynaud had no sooner taken the shell between his legs to uniscrew it than it exploded. M. Rayjnaud was literally blown to pieces The poor newsman was cut in two. M. .Raynaud's child, who was close by, escaped without so much as a soratch. [Unfortunately, the casualties did not end ,here. When the shell exploded a lot ;of childre- were playing outside iu ;front of the shop. Three of them were ;Berioußly wounded by the fragments, |one dying a few hours, after. The shop (Was blown inside out, and remnants of jtbe bodies of M. Raynaud and the newsman were found on the opposite side of the way.