An hour and a quarter earlier an attempt was made
to blow up the Times' office, in Printing-House Square, by someone who fixed -a tin-box containing explosives on the ledge of one of the ground- floor windows. Mr. Alfred Evans, of Playhouse Yard, who heard the explosion, says that on rushing out he saw flames tieing over the large front window of the Times' publishing office in Playhouse Yard, and rising at least ten feet from the box of explosives. He immediately threw a bucket of water over the tin-box, and extinguished the flames. Another account represents the watchman as having extinguished the fire, -and does not make so much of the flames. But there can be little doubt that the attempts on the Local Government Office and on the Times' office were concerted, though it is quite possible that other besides political motives may have -entered into the attempt to destroy the Times' office, where -there have been several symptoms within the last year or two of serious disaffection on the part of some of the employes.
