Cor readers will probably remember an explosion that occurred at Bromer-haven about four years since. A case about to be shipped at that port on board a steamer loading for America exploded on the quay, and it was subsequently proved that it had contained an infernal machine actuated by clockwork, with which it was intended to sink the steamer when she was well on her way across the Atlantic. By this means the perpetrators of the crime expected to gain a Inrge sum which they had insured on the vessel, and their infamous design was only frustrated by the accidental explosion of the case at the moment of shipment but before it was actually on board, The incident gave ocension for a letter in the leading London journal by a person using the nom de plume of Warhawk. He was believed at the time to be a Government spy, and his identity, as might be expected, has never been disclosed. Ho: gave valuable details of the employment of dynamite which was then coming into fashion by conspirators against society, and specially described the coal torpedoes which reasserted had been used. in the recent wars in North and South America. Considerable doubts were expressed at the time as to the sober accuracy of his descriptions, and it waa roundly asserted that he was merely carrying out the usual trade of a spy in magnifying the necessity of his profession. Circumstances, however, have lately enhanced the probability of his statements, Our Queen herself the other day changed from. her usual yacht beoango it was stated that a coal torpedo bad been concealed among the fuel; and there are not wanting those who suggest that the recent loss of the Doterel in the Straits of Magellan is due to a similar cause. It is even possible that some of the steamers which have come to an unknown end in the Atlantic during the last five years have been the victims of a repetition of Thomassen's crime. at Bremerhaven.
Those who derided the warnings of Warhawk will be somewhat astonished to seo in a recent nutaber of the leading journal another letter from the same pen on the subject gf the recent Fenian scares' in England." If his
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