The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-01 00:00:00

SHARE MARKETS—This day.

ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.

Closing
Paid. Business
1 1 >hare Railways. Price. i done.

.14. Wol., and Str. Val.
It Blythe and Tyne.
it Bristol and Exeter
it Caledonian

I all
100
100
100

Cork and Bandon
10 Cornwall

10 Do AIA gets no div; an
tillepcan.has
10 Do. B .p all
been paid to 13.
10 Dublin & Belfast June.! all
15 Don.,PerthotAb. Juno. all
st Edinburgh & Glasgow.; 100
it Glaeg. and S. Western.' 130
it Great Eastern, Ord. stk 100
it Ditto A stock • 100

Ditto East Anglian et 100
GreatNorthof Scotland' 100

st Great N orth ern ...... ' 100
st Do A stock
et Do t 3 do

124
1334 1314,
127 13)
S3O 92
or 661 I

Gt. S. and W. of Ireland 100
it Great Westerr ,Original 100
it Do Str Val eta.
,t, Do. South Wales CO
51 Do. '4 eHt Alid. -Oxford 100
Do Newport 100
Do Hereford 100
100
100

45 47
35 40
93 101
11,i 1111
61 65
102 103
33 40
ICBi 1081
91 D 3
61i 62i

st 'Lancashire tt Yorkshire
It London and Blaokwall

st Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast
st Lon., Chat, and Dover
st Lon. & Nor'% Western
st Lon. & So•ith Western
st Man., Shef., & Linooln.
50 Maryport and Carlisle.
124 Dot shares...
st ifetropolttan
st Midland
st

1041 ;05AI
126 i 1261
96 98

Do Birming. & Derby
Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland
15 Do. shares
6 Kid Kent ...
it North British

Edin., Perth, & Dundee'
'Nth. Eastern—Berwick
Do, G.N.E. purchase
Do Leeds
Do York

51 63
24 15
1041 105 i

833 64i
9:i 93i

it Do Carli®le I
15 Do. Stook. & Darling
15 Do do 1855-58
16 Do do 18 1C.411
it North London
10 Do New . .

35 36
0 10 t,
7 8 p
120 125
1 1i p

Do New, 1864
N- 'h 'hi,

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76

.orth Staffordshire
.O N. and S. W. Junction
at )Scottish Central

75 76
10} 11
132 136

at Scot N. E., Aber. stook)
et Do Boot Mid. stook..'
10 Shrews, and Welohpool
st Shropshire Union ....
st South Deyon
st South Eastern
20 Staines, Wok., and Wok
st Taff Vale...
10 Do C
st Vale of Neath

64 66
34 g 6
81 81t
8 9
160 165
36 44p
97 99

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81i I

Waterford (lc Kilkenny
West Cornwall
W. Hartlepool Har.&ll

Closing
Prioe.

Railways

Paid.

Business don

Mantle & St Lawrenc,
tom., Baroda&.Cent In,

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Do. E. Shares...
1214 I lullalo and Laaeiluroi
LO Do. Preferenoe
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( ip. at. bds. Aug. 1, 187
10 00. do. July 1, 187
)o. do. Juue 1, 18;
it ;lout ta.it S. E astn
it 'apcTown Dock Sori
10 Demerara 7 p.o. per. pf
,ek ',labial. Bengal gu. sp.
bok mast Indian. gu. 5 p. c
20 -

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4( !hand Trunk of Canso•
0 Do. Equip. Mort. Bonds
1 charge 6 per cent
10 Do. Ist rrel. Bonds..
10 Do. do. deferred......
10 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds..
10 Do. do. deferred......
10 Do. 3d Piet. stock
00 Do. do. deferred--

0 Do. 4th Pref. stook...
Do. do. deferred......
431, Ut.lndiarenin.gua.sp.(

20 Do.kG u 5 per cent ..
110 Po. New gun. 5 p. a...
)ok 3t. Scuth.ot India(Lim

guaranteed 5 per oent
dock Do. 4 per cent.....
stock Do
slut It. W. of Canada Shares
204 Do. New . .
LOO Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt
100 Do. 5i p. o. do. '77-8.. .
10 bad ian Branch Limited
stook Aldan; guar., 5 p. 0. ..
stook Do. 41 p. o. Extension
stock Dc. 44 d 0...... • •
20 Do. Fifth Extension.
stock sfelb.Corp. Ap. 0. "ids
50 llelb. & Hobson's Bay.
20 lewßrunswtok et Cands
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AWFUL POWDER EXPLOSION—This day.

Loss of Life, and Fifty or Sixty Persons
Severely Injured.

This morning, shortly before seven o'clock, an explosion

—which shook the metropolis from its centre to its outskirts
and caused the utmost consternation—occurred at the Powder
Mils of Messrs. John Hall and Son, situated at Erith
Marshes. The explosion, unfortunately, has been attended
with loss of life and serious injury to upwards of 50 or 60
persons.

In London the general opinion was that the violent con-
cussion heard—the breaking in of shutters, the smashing of
glass, the rattling of chairs, tables, and even bedsteads
was caused by the gas works having exploded in the Old
Kent-road, for windows and doors were shattered in the
districts of the Rosemary Branch, at Peckham. The
glasses at the 'Waterloo Arms Tavern, George-street, Cam-
berwell, wae sent dancing about, and the tables and chairs
in the Father Red Cap, at Camberwell-park, were forced
riund the large club room. The inmates of the Anchor
of Hope, in Southampten-street, were terribly frightened,
it being apprehended that the building was falling. Every
house in Camberwell-grove, stretching a distance on each
side of the road nearly half a mile in length, was
shaken, shutters forced down, &a. The same effects were
experienced at Stoke Newington, six miles further north-
wards. At Blackheath, the front of the premises of Mr.
Tripp present a picture that could only bo caused by a fire,
or some violent explosion within the building. Most of the
houses from this spot to Dartford, are also more or
less injured. People flocked from their houses and
made towards gas-works and firework factories, bat they
were enable to learn the least intelligence as to the locals of
the disaster, and many contented themselves by concluding
that this Wand had been visited by the shock of an earth-
quake, and they expressed their thankfulness that their
houses had not been swallowed up.

It was not until an express was dispatched from
his place that the Londoners could form any approximate
dela of what had really taken place, and then they proceeded
by rail or any other conveyance to Erith and Dartford—
probably twice as many proceeded to the latter town, it
being known that it was the great nucleus of powder manu-
facturers. Upon reaching that spot of ground upon
which the Belvidere Gunpowder Magazine stands, known
as the Belvidere Works, the work of devastation
was apparent. Had an army entered the town and fired a
park of artillery into the building, they could scarcely have
been more riddled, and very likely not more people have
BRITISH POSSESSIONS. I been injured.

Adjoining the mils of Messrs Hall were two or three cot-
tages, occupied by those engaged on the works, the first of
which Rayner, the foreman, lived in with his wife and
family, and, unfortunately Rayner, is one of the persons
killed by the calamity. Mrs Raynor and her daughter
were in bed at the time, the father having gone to the
mills, but so violent was the shock that the whole line of
cottages wore demolished, and the unfortunate occu-
pants wore scattered in all directions. All of a
sudden one magazine blow up, with a report—to use the
hackneyed term of "like a park of artillery" would convey
but a faint idea of the noise occasioned. This was suc-
ceeded by another and still morn violent shock, which
levelled the next magazine partly on to the ground, and
blew the tops and sides of the building high into the air.
It now became manifest that a fearful amount of personal
injury must have been inflicted upon many persons. The
dust and smoke, after the lapse of three or four minutes,
having cleared away, the spectacle that presented itself was
awful, and can scarcely be described. A new building in
course of construction for some candle works, at which a
numb_r of men were employed, was literally shaken to its
very foundations; the men were hurled in sundry direc-
tions, and a great many frightfully injured.
_ _

What has become of the other inhabitants of the work-
men's cottages is at present unknown, but up to 1 o'clock
eight of the sufferers had been received at Guy's Hospital,
were their wounds were immediately attended to by Mr
Sidney Turner, the house surgeon,whose efforts to alleviate
the agony of the sufferers were most praiseworthy. Not-
withstanding every exertion, Elizabeth Wright, who had
sustained a compound comminuted fracture of the skull,
and other extensive injuries, died shortly after her admis-
sion to the hospital.

The following are the names of the persons now under
lurgical care at Guy's Hospital :

James Eves, fracture of the skull and ribs. In a dying

Edward Singleton, fracture of the arm.
Rebecca Wright, fracture of the collar bone and severe

contusions.
Mary York, fracture of the thigh.
Minnie York, very severe bruises and burns.
Harriet Rayner, fracture and severe internal injury—not
likely to recover.
Dinah Rayner, severe contusions.
Elizabeth Osborn, contusion and burns.
The amount of powder exploded is very uncertain ;
rumour puts it down at between 80 and 90 tone, but persons
acquainted with the works say that is an enormous exagge-
ration, as not more than 9 or 10 tons were stored in the
mills.

A correspondent writes :—" Miss Sallie M, Mon
roe, of New Britain, Chenango County, a practising
physician of the hydropathic school, has permanently
adopted the masculine attire—not merely bloomer's, but the
veritable dress of a gentleman, from hats to boots. Miss
Monroe, who makes a fine-looking cavalier, either on horse-
back or en foot, usually wears a blue coat and buff waistcoat,
with plaib flat gilt buttons, blue trousers, boots and hat, all
good cut. She is a young lady of irreproachable character,
skilful in her profession, brave, energetic, ambitious, and
eminently self-reliant.—Now York Home Journal.
DEFENCES OF THE MERSEY.—The Mersey Dock
Board agreed, at their meeting yesterday, to adopt the
suggestion of the Government authorities for the removal
of the fort at present being constructed near the landmarks
at Bootle to a site still further north, at the extremity of
the dock estate. The Government will be wholly reimbursed
by the Dock Board for the expense incurred—viz., £8,500.
The chairman of the Works Committee, in alluding to the
subject at the mewing of the Board yesterday, explained
that the engineer of the Board had been rather too candid
in divulging that the site of the fort at Bootle was of great
importance to the Dock estate. The Government, there-
fore, were under the idea that the Board would only be too
glad to bear the expense of the removal.
POACHING AFFRAY, NEAR KIRHHAINI..—On Sun-
day morning, about two o'clock, James Barnes,
Luke Kirby, and Ellis Kirby, gamekeepers to Mr A. L
Birley, siw seven or eight men in the act of setting nets
and driving hares on land belonging to Mrs Alice Mahan,
at Croales Moor Side, near Kirkham. On approaching the
men two showed fight, and six ran away. The poachers
taken were Cumming Hall and Thomas Sharpies. Hall
struck Ellis Kirby with his stick, and knocked him down.
Then a regular fight ensued. Both poachers had their
right arms broken, and were sadly bruised and disfigured
all over the body. They were sad spectacles when
brought before the Bench on Monday. They were each
committed for three months.

Baron de Fabrice, Minister Plenipotentiary for
Saxony at Brussels, had an adience of King Leopold
two days back to present his credentials.
John Downing, a lad, 15 years of age, died in the

United Hospital, at Bath, on Saturday, while under the
influence of chloroform, which had been administered
with a view to a surgical operation.
A loyal woman has written an able paper on the
crisis, in which she protests against killing off all the men.
She says : —" I do not believe in fighting for the country
and the flag to the last man ; and it seems to me anybody
is an idiot who talks such nonsense. What would the
country be to me or any other woman if the last man'
was gone ? "—Kew York paper.

"There are now (says the Union) in France six
cardinals, 15 archbishops, G 9 bishops, 155 vicars-general,
660 canons, 3,396 cures, 29,630 officiating priests, 10,000
supernumerary ditto, 30,000 seminarists, and 50,000 per-
sons belonging to different religious orders."
'fHE FRENCH POST-OFFICE AUTHORITIES.—The
Post-office authorities have issued a public notice that the
postal convention between France and Italy relative to
money orders came into operation yesterday, and that
henceforth orders payable in Italy, for any sum not exceed-
ing 200 f., may be obtained at all the principal poet-offices
in France and Algeria. The charge is 20c. per 10f. or frac-
tion of 10f.
A letter from Mont-de-Marsan (Landes) men-
tions that a fire-ball of the size of a bomb burst near that
town, at about noon, two days back, with a detonation
equal to a simultaneous discharge of several pieces of artil-
lery. Its direction was nearly north to south.
The exhibition of the various paintings sent in
for the competition for the Grand !Prize of Itome was
opened yesterday at the Ecolo des Beaux Arts. The com-
petitors, ten in number, had for subject :—" Homer in
he Island:, of Scyros. Three young shepherds, after
having called away their dogs, who were about to attack him,
are receiving him with respect and admiration." The grand
prize was awarded to M. Maillard, pupil of Messrs, Cog-
niet, Gorgnu and Lnentlein.
The Council-General of the Bank of France has
given notice that an extraordinary division of 35f per share
will bo made, on and after the 10th October, of the reserves
made in 1831 and 1851, with a view to the eventualities
Which the liquidation of the affair of Constantinople then
presented.