The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-07 00:00:00

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THE LATE GALE 01130.,4,-;;;;007
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Hartlepool, arrived in the south roads.. at o AL
The Industry, Captain Boddy,. from L onl-fo:Weeeee
on Saturday morning. The master r epC etas that Wil-
liam Cook, an ordinary seaman; of W...eA a, while fur-
ling the maintop gallant sail, below the Wore, lost
his hold from the violence of the gale, le )11 from the
yard upon the deck, and was killed on Cie spot. The
body has been 'ended. William Dentfore ' and four
hands belonging .o the smack Eegle, of London,
picked up by the se.`moner Unity,
of
Pa: south, 10
&earn Light,
miles S.E. of the were la eeded on
Saturday morning in e, destitute eeudeteeen The
Unity had her decks seiep'f, and the sa otelre's boat
and fishing gear were lose. The bark Bel; airs, Buil-
ford master, from Alexandria of and for lull, with
beans, was abandoned about 2 .a.m. on Friday, -Car
the Dudgeon, where she went cn her beam eild,'•
The crew, 17 in number, took to the,..ir boat, and we're
picked up by the schooner Labelle:, of Folkestone,
which landed them at Lowestoft on ;;Seeterriry morn-
ing in a destitute condition. They win'
.be forwarded
to their homes by Mr. Cole, the het, orary local
agent of the Suipwrecked Mariners' Soce tty. The
brig Rocket, of Sunderland, was sp ceteete with
on Friday by a local smack ; she ii,,,,d both
her masts carried away, and was being towed:
by an Ostend smack to that port. The
tide on Friday rose at Lowestoft an unusual heir ;ht,
and some damage was done to the harbour works.
On Saturday the wind continued fresh, and the ha.t,
boor was full of vessels more or less disabled. At'
1.20 p.m. a telegram was received from Admiral
Fitzroy directing the south cone to be again hoisted.
The intelligence which reached Shields on Satur-
day leaves no doubt that there has been a very
severe loss of Tyne ships during the late fearful
gale. A telegraphic message reached that town on
Saturday that the Scipio, of North Shields, was
lost, but that her crew were saved, The survivors
of the crew of the brig U. G., which was lost on the
Trinity Sands on Thursday, arrived .at Shields on
Saturday night. A telegram reached: Newcastle.'
quay on Saturday afternoon that the Itt.ege screw
steam collier Tom John Taylor had put into.' a York-
shire roadstead, three of her crew having been washed:
overboard. The master had his leg broken. The
greatest anxiety prevails with regard to the safety 01'
the 20 laden ships that were foolishly sent to sea on..
Wednesday night from the Tyne just before the
terrific gale came on. Another storm warning was.
hoisted in Shields harbour on Saturday afternoon
that a gale might b 3 expected from the southward,
and the warning had not been up half an hour when
heavy squalls came away from the southward.
Saturday night was more settled.
On Saturday,
at Plymouth, the weather con-
tinued rough. At 9 p.m. it moderated. The wind
was southerly. Many Merchant ships, more or lees
damaged, had obtained shelter in the Sound. The
schooner Lioness, Capt. Taylor, from Zante for Ply-
mouth and London, arrived on Friday ; the master
and one man had been washed overboard and:.
washed back again. Among other arrivals on Friday
were the Norwegian brig Albion, Capt. Crawford,
from Gottenbnrg (Falmouth last) with deals and
iron for Meruel-Kebir, near Oran, with loss of sails
and part of deck load; the Norwegian ship Norge,
Capt. L. Gjersten, from Akyab, with rice, slightly
damaged ; the Prussian bark Amazon, Capt. Zill-
mer, from Salina for Antwerp, leaky, with loss of
sails and bulwarks ; the Netherlands brigantine.
Pomona, Capt. Haddeman, from Rotterdam for Lis-
bon, with loss of sails, boat, and bulwarke, and rude
der damaged ; the Italian bark Ebe, Capt. Larganer
ooe, from Rio
Glory,
from Cardiff with coal for Buenos Ayres, -with loss
of foreyard ; the Oldenburg brigantine Feiediriche,
j ani e r oe, withap
t.. eof
Grigg,ee ;f
front
Copt.th the G
British. Plt
brig Little
Patras, with currants. Among the arrivals on
Saturday were the Italian ship Emilie Eloise, Capt.
Scopinieh, from Cardiff with coal for Malta, having
lost mainmast and mizenneast 150 miles vest of
Sally on the 2d inst. ; the Italian brig AtaLante,
Capt. Gorgonio, from Swansea wring coal for Na-ples ;
the Norwegian bark Phoenix, Cept. Olsen, from
Cardiff wits coal for Colonewith loss of boats,
bulwarks, (See ; the Bremen bark Arlon, Capt. Le-
vengen, from Bremen, for Havanna: ; and. the
Netherlands three-masted schooner De Hoop, C'apt.
Van Duyn, from Rotterdam for Singapore, with
loss of sails, water casks, bulwarks', &e. The chip
Gertrude, which. passed Plymouth from Loaeon for
Bombay, put back to tna Sound on Saturday
evening.

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Explosion at Karnes Gunpowder Mills.

SEVEN MEN KILLED.

Oa Friday morning an alarming report re2vhed
Glasgow that the Karnes Gunpowder Mills had
been completely destroyed by, en explosion nn
Thursday afternoon. The works in question ar e
situated in Argyllshire, distant two or three milea
from Tigh-na-bruaich, in the Kyles of Bute- They
consist of a large collection of detached one storey
buildings, scattered over some 40 or 50 acres of
ground. Of these erections only
five have suffered
from the explosion—namely, a corning-house, press-
house, dust-house, and two
glazing-houses, all con-
nected with the latter stages of the manufacture..
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Tbey are, we understand, constructed almost;
entirely of timber, with galvanised roofs. With
regard to the cause of the explosion, in the absence
of any other feasible explanation, it is supposed to
gh
afternoontning . ItVfasabout
a quarter before when the
have been occasieetherd by lightning.
theeein
whole country, for some miles round, was
startled by the tremendous report occasioned
by the
blowing up of the corning-house. Panesof glass were broken at Port Bannatyne, and in
Inothesay windows and doors were shaken in such
an Alarming manner that some people supposed
an earthquake had. taken place. The sound of
the explosion was also distinctly heard at Tar-
bert, notwithstanding a strong westerly gale which
was blowing at the
time. There would probably
be three or four men in
the corning-house when the
accident occurred,
all of whom have lost their lives.
Had the Weather been calm, the probability is that,
seeing the buildings are placed at considerable
distances from one another, the disaster would have
been confined to the corning-house. As it was,
however, fragments of burning wreck from that
structure were carried to leeward, and in conse-
quence, after the lapse of a minute or two, the dust-
house, press-house, and glazing-houses, above-
mentioned, exploded in rapid succession. In the
interval between the first and second explosions,
the workmen employed in the dusthouse and glazing-
houses managed to get out of doors, and took shelter,
some under the steep banks of a rivulet which rune
through the works, and others beneath a bridge
which spans the stream. The men in the press-
house, however, from some cause or other, did ".
their
make their escape, and consequently, lige
were
_
unfortunate companions in the corning-
house,
involved in the destruction of the baildieg• I"ne
5 quantity of
of the five houses contained a larg
• however, was
powder. The force of the cal:dole
masts of timber
• sufficiently great to scatter the ira",m
• and the remains of the unfortunate sufferers all
round the scene of the divster.

z EMPEROR on the open.
THE LATE SPEECH o.:h
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cotained 2,042 words, was
ing of the Chambers,
cipal capitals of Europe in one
telegraphed to all tirejwini
London, which is now connected
hour and a quarter.
„ different telegraphic communications
with Paris by f°,,--ace, easily bear transmitted in 16 minutes.'
the speech coular
NHS LiENIUS.—Some irreverent• .•ea
BEETirov--
~s of a mind impaired I If such sub-
have dared tod pronounce the later works of
Beuti"ven the
Pru*
Symphony the Mass in D, and
ether works . .
lime ereatkiosnosfußsetuetehLovneoura,s
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period are the offspring of
an impaired mind, it. were to oe wished that some content-
, porary composers might be visited with similar mental
affliction, for assuredly the work; o; art would gain thereby.
As well, however, might " llentlet" and "Lear" be
classed as the inspirations of a mind impaired, and equally
acute would ba the criticism which would preter the earliest
of Shakapere's plays to those philosophical works. It would
be well if such critics would occasionally question their own
capacity for judgment rather than the sanity of an acknow-
ledged great author, who in the progress and development
of his genius outstrips their powers of comprehension. The
fact is, that all Bethoven's works, both early and late, are
the natural products of the different phases of an intellect
which knew no bounds to its progressive advancement ;
and, as a necessary consequence, a larger knowledge of the
art generally, and longer special study of the works indi •
vidually, are required by the more elaborate than by the
simpler compositions.—iondoe .Bedew,