The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-10 00:00:00

and crew of the FloridA. Another demand was
then made for our surrender, and Lieut. Porter an-
swered, " I will surrender conditionally.' The
enemy then stopped firing, and the commander
called for Captain Morris to come on board ; Lieut.
Porter answered that Captain Morris was on shore,
and that ho as a commanding officer would come on
board as soon as he could get a boat ready. The
enemy then sent a number of armed boats to take
possession of the F.orida. As soon as Lieut. Porter
was heard to surrender fifteen of our crew jumped
overboard to sscepe capture, of whom only six
succeeded, the remaining nine having been shot
in the water by the men on the forecastle and in
the boats of the Wachusetts. Mr Hunter was
wounded and a number of men killed. The enemy
made fist a hawser to the foremast of the Florida,
and, after slippirg her cable, towed her out to
I called in person on the President as scon as
possible, but could get no further information from
him, Oa the Bth I sent a protest to the President,
of which I send you a copy, marked 2. On the 10th
our agent was informed by the interpreter that the
President did not intend to ans-a er my protest, es
the Confederate Government had not been recog
nised by Brazil, and that 1 could find all the official
correspondence in the newspapers. I then wrote the
letter marked 3, in which reference is made to a let•
ter from the President marked 4. Just before leaving
Bahia, having received no answer, I sent our agent)
Mr Dwyer, to the President. The result of his visit
is contained in his letter marked 5. The Bahia pa=
pers contain a number of reports es to the killed
and wounded on board the Florida, all of which I
have thoroughly sifted and find no foundation for

the same.
At the time of her seizura there were about 25
tone of coal on board, most cf which was dust.
The list of officers captured is contained in the re-
port of Paymaster Taylor, marked 6.
The enclosed newspaper is an official extra, con-
taining all the Brazilian official correspondence in
reference to the Flor'da.—l am, very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
(Signed) C. MANIGATJLT MORRIS,
Lieutenant Commanding U.S. Navy.

Gedney v. Smith,

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

shall feel greatly indebted to you if you
kindly allow me, through the medium of your valuable
journal, to state that I am not in the slightest degree con-
nected with the person calling himself Dr. Goss, and
residing in King-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. This is
another of the gross cases in which a medical man is sub-
jected to annoyance and injury caused by an apparent
similarity of name.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant,
SAMUEL DAY-GOSS, M,D., F,R.G.S.
24, Newington-place, Kennington-park.

The Fatal Gunpowder Explosion at

Faversham.

The inquest on the bodies of Goo. Sherwood, 61, labourer,
and Henry Kecne, 28, labourer, who were killed by the ex-
plosion at Messrs Hall's powderworks, near this town, on
Monday afternoon, tcok place to-day, before Mr T. T. Dela.
sauce, coroner for East Kent. It was stated during the pro-
ceedings that it was 26 years yesterday since the last fatal
casualty occurred in connection with these works,
Mr James Tassell attended to watch the proceedings on
behalf of Messrs Hall and Son. The friends of the deceased
were not represented.

The jury h,sving been sworn, proceeded to view the bodies
which wore lying in a portion of the works near where the
explosion occurred. On their return the following evidence
was adduced

Christopher Johncock, labourer, employed by Messrs
Hall at the powder-works, Davington, deposed—On Mon-
day I was working at the powder boats from half-past 6 in
the morning until between 3 and 4 in the afternoon. I was
removing powder from the presshouse to the corninghouse,
and thence to the gkzinghouse. The dust which came
from the powder I took back to the chargehouse in order
that it might be returned to the mill. At half-past three
o'clock I was waiting in the boat shed for more powder,
when I heard a report proceeding from the corninghouse.
I knew at that time that Henry Keene and John Sherwood
were at work there. I had been in thecorninghouse about
half an hour before, and at that time Sherwood was stand-
ing on the platform and Keene was sweeping up the dust
with a hair broom. That is the usual mode adopted. On
hearing the explosion I put on my slippers and went to-
wards the corninghonse. I saw the boards and materials
with which the corninghouse was built scattered and fired
in all directions, but could not see anything of the deceased.
I ass'stcd in extinguishing the fire and thou returned to
the boat. I put the powder from the boat into the charg( -
house and left. I cannot say anything as to the cause of
the explosi.n.
By a juror—When I was in the corninghouse the ma-
chinery was not going.
The Coroner having brit fly summed up, the jury, with-
out retiring, returned a verdict of accidental death, coupling
with it an expression of their opinion that " every possible
precaution is taken in connexion with Messrs Hall's gun-
powder works to prevent accidents."
This afternoon Colonel Boxer attended at the works on
behalf of the Government to institute an examinaton into
the probable causes of the exp`osion.