A morning fire at Blenheim Palace, the stately home of the Dukes of Marlborough near Oxford, broke out in the bakehouse in the north-eastern wing and quickly spread to the upper floors causing significant damage.  No serious injuries were reported.  The upper section of the destroyed wing contained the art gallery and an irreplaceable and complete casualty of the fire was the thirteen feet by seven feet Rubens masterpiece, "Rape of Prosperine."  (By John Osborne)

The Royal Navy's 16-gun sailing sloop H.M.S. Camilla left the port of Hakodadi, on the island of Yeddo in Japan, on September 1, 1860, but never reached its destination further along the coast. A massive typhoon struck the area on September 9, 1860 and the authorities assumed that the Camilla had been lost with all hands in that storm.  (By John Osborne) 

The evening express train from London's Waterloo Station, bound for Portsmouth, was less than ten miles into its journey when it derailed and several carriages were thrown down a steep embankment onto the road below.  Injuries in these cars were extensive and one of the casualties, Doctor William Baly, one of the royal physicians of Queen Victoria, was killed instantly.  (By John Osborne)

In southern England, at the Royal Engineer's base at Chatham, an explosion killed one man, injured several others, and caused significant damage. Just before noon, as soldiers were being instructed in the filling of hand-grenades with black powder in the north gun-shed at the installation, a trainee had a grenade in his hand ignite and cause the explosion of a nearby barrel of powder. The building was destroyed and secondary explosions continued for some time.  The trainee died soon after while eight others suffered serious burns.  (By John Osborne) 

Asley's Circus on Westminster Bridge Road was the most famous and popular in London. It had been exhibiting in nightly performance for some time four "ferocious" lions under a lion-tamer named Crockett. On a Monday morning, the lions attacked an unfortunate sub-keeper named Smith killing him instantly. When his body was found, the animals had returned to their normal docile state and performed as usual that evening.  (By John Osborne)  

The Bank of England, Britain's central bank, had recently seen large recent transfers of gold to the United States due to the current American financial panic over the political situation there.  Stress on the Bank was not helped by the £3,000,000 rush of British investors to take advantage of falling American stock prices. The relieve pressure on bullion, the Bank borrowed £1, 200,000 in gold from the Bank of Russia in exchange for a similar value in silver.  (By John Osborne)  

The Bank of England, Britain's central bank, raised the discount rate, or the rate of interest it charged smaller banks for loans of reserves from six to seven percent. The Bank cited the large recent transfers of gold to the United States, as well as the precarious position of the Bank of France which was under pressure from the current American financial panic over the political situation there.  Stress on the Bank was not helped by the £3,000,000 rush of British investors to take advantage of falling American stock prices.  (By John Osborne)  

Three separate fatal railway accidents, one in the south-east of the country, one in the south-west, and one just outside London, took four lives. Reports blamed the extreme cold which had effected the rails and the rolling stock and caused derailments and other mishaps.  In London, the Liverpool train pulled into Euston Station, only to discover the last two carriages absent.  They were found wrecked several miles away. Another fatal accident, in Kent, happened the very next day, and the crew of a locomotive were killed.  (By John Osborne) 

A series of gales raged around the coasts of the British Isles and northern France causing heavy losses in shipping.   The Dutch freighter Guttenberg, for example, bound from New York to Hamburg, was driven up on the Godwin Sands and her captain and several of her crew lost. The Spanish cargo vessel, Dulce Nombre de Jesus, carrying sugar from Havana, was wrecked and four men lost.  (By John Osborne)