The approaches to the place were completely blocked up with carts, filled with spectators, and when some of the crowd began to move away, the pressure became dreadful.

Some fell, and others falling over them they were trampled to death.

Terror took possession of the crowd, they became desperate, and their efforts only contributed to increase their danger.

As soon as this frightful confusion ceased, forty-two sufferers in the scene were carried to St.Bartholomew's Hospital.

Of these, twenty-seven were dead; and though every effort was made for their resuscitation, in not one instance was it crowned with success.