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

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The Industry, Captain Boddy, from Lent!Ta'•*!:-„,..-:F-4 tAN€_,;..,a,
Hartlepool, arrived in the south roads at LoweorOft,),Z,w: 'iih,..,
on Saturday morning. The master reports tt.Y!',;fWj?lj.z,;l
Liam Cook, an ordinary seaman, of Wells, ; otilAkTl, ~,-:e *!.. .eIA tc
ling the maintop gallant sail, below the NotOlgtjaLW..!-.*-I'4'./
..al
his hold from the violence of the gale, fell from VIII a -
.J•
yard upon the deck, and was killed on the spot. The
body has been landed. William Dentforl and four
hands belonging to the smack Eagle,. of London,
picked up by the schooner Unity, of Portsmouth, 10
miles S.E. of the Spurn Light, were landed on
Saturda,y morning in a destitute condition. The
Unity had her decks swept, and the smack's boat
and fishing gear were lost, The hark Bellairs, Bull-
ford master, from Alexandria, of and for Hull, with
beans, was abandoned about 2 n.m. on Friday, near
the Dudgeon, where she went on her beam ends.
The crew, 17 in number, took to their boat, and were.
picked up by the schooner _lNtibella, of Folkestone,
whi,:h landed them at Lowestoft on tiatur(lay morn-
ing in a destitute condition. They Will be forwarded
to their homes by Mr. Cole, the honorary local
s"tiipwrecked Mariners' Society. The
agent of the
was spoken with
brig Rocket, of Sunderland,
on Friday ,by A local smack ; she had both
her masts carried away, and was being towed
by an Ostend smack to that port. The
tide on Friday rose at Lowestoft ar unusual height,
and some damage was done to the baxbour works.
On Saturday the mind continued fresh, Land the har_
hour was full of vessels more or less dis'abled. At
Admiral
1.20 p.m. a telegram was received from
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 feet,-f ul
gale. A telegraphic message reached that town ,on
Saturday that the Scipio, of North Shields, wa s
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 large tcrew
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 of
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 be 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 less
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 viaahed overboard and
washed back again. Among other arrivals on Friday
were the Norwegian brig Albion, Capt. Crawford,
from Gattenburg (Falmouth last) with deals and
iron for Mersel-liabir, near Oran, with loss of sails
and part of deck low:; the Norwegian ship Norge,
Capt. L. Gjersten, fralai Akyab, with rice, slightly
damaged ; the Prussian bark Amazon, Capt. Zill-
mer, from Salina for Ant'a'arp, leaky, with loss of
sails and bulwarks ; the Nherlands brigantine
Pomona, Capt. Haddeman, fro% Rotterdam for Lis-
bon, with loss of sails, boat, and bialwarks, and rud-
der damaged ; the Italian bark Ebe,4 Capt. Largane,
from Cardiff wit'a coal for Buenos A/ res, with loss
of foreyard ; the Oldenburg brigantine' Friediriche,
Capt. G. Poolte, from Rio Janiero, with .coffee; and
the British brig Little Glory, Capt. Grigg, from
Patras, with currants. Among the arrivals on
Saturday were the Italian ship Emilie Eloise, Capt.
Scopinich, from Cardiff with coal for Malta, having
lost mainmast and mizenmast 150 miles west of
Scilly on the 2d inst. ; the Italian brig Atalaute,
Capt. Gurguilo, from Swansea with coal for Naples;
the Norwegian bark Phoenix, Capt. Olsen, from
Cardiff with coal for Colon, with loss of beats,
bulwarks, &;!. ; the Bremen bark Anion, Capt. Le-
vengen, from Bremen, for Havannah ; and tho
Netherlands three-nnsted schooner De hoop, Capt.
Van Duyn, from It Aterdam for Singapore, with
loss of sails, water casks, bulwarks, &c. The ship
Gertrude, which passed Plymouth from London for
Bombay, put back to the Sound on Saturday
evening.
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Explosion at Karnes Gunpowder Mills.

SEVEN MEN KILLED.
On Friday morning au alarming report
ire
had
d
Glasgow that the Karnes Gunpowder Mills
been completely destroyed by an explosion aorne
Thursday afternoon. The works in question
eituated in Argyllshire, distant two or three miles
from Tigh-na-bruaich, in the Kyles of Bate. They
consist of a large collection of detached one storey
40 or 50 acres of
ground. Of these erections on
buildings, scattered over some
only five have suffered
two glazing-houses, all een-
from the explosion—namely, a corning-house, pr
house, dust-house, andess-
nected with the latter stages of the manufacture.
They are, we understand, constructed almost;
with galvanised roofs. With
eregard
l
of the explosion, in the absence
of any other feasible explanation, it is supposed to
have been occasioned by lightning. It was about
yt
to the of
timber,
a quarter before three in the afternoon when the
whole country-, for some miles round, was
startledby the tremendous report occasioned
by the
blowing up of the corning-house. Panes
of glass were broken at Port Bannatyne, and in
Rothesay 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
was blowing at the time.
heard at Tar-
bert, notwithstanding a St
rong westerly gale which
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
seeing the buildings calm, the probability is that,
are placed at considerable
distances from
however, fragments toon e
theanother,
e er s i et
gh disaster-ehe us e . wouldt haves
been confinedwas,
structure Were
of burning wreck from that
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 tooksheltor,
some under the steep banks of a rivulet which runs
through the works, and others beneath a bridgo
which spans the stream. The men in the press-
house, however, from some cause or other, did not
'make their escape, and consequently, like their
unfortunate companions in the corning-house, Droviener°
involved in the destruction of the building•
of the five houses contained a largo quantity of
ver, was
powder. The force of the explosion,
11°:eof timber
sufficiently great to scatter the fragmee-
sufferers all
and the remains of the unfortunate
round the scene of the disaster.

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telegraphed to all the PrinaniPdt, which is now connected.
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the speech could hav,,e.7l
BEETIIOVEN'O6 tir" the later works of
pronounce
the Mass in D, and
have dared
rioducts of a mind impaired I if such sub-,
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v-onld ho tho criticirrn which would profer the earliest
of SlM:spores plays to these 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, aro
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,--louden .Revieze.