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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A_ FRIGHTFUL atrocity was committed on Friday evening, apparently by Fenians. "Colonel" Burke is detained in the Clerkenwell House of Detention, and a barrel of gunpowder was placed'against the wall and exploded. Fifty feet of the wall and three houses were blown down, twenty or more persons injured, and some killed. The excitement in the district was tremendous, so great as almost to impede the efforts to rescue the wounded. Burke does not appear to have escaped.

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