The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-15 00:00:00

THIRD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

Bank of England Return,---This Day,

An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for,the week ending on Wednesday, the 14th day
of Oct., 1863:

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notcs iesucd

Government Debt £11,015,1C0
Other Securities .. 3.634.v0d
Gold Coin & Bullion 13,e67,9:5
Silver

.£28,537,325

£28,587,925

BANKING D
t'ioprietors' Capi-
tal X 14,553,000
Rest
Bublic Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
rniesioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-

,EPARTBIENT.
Government Seen-

rities (including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity) £10,945,363
Other Securities „ 21.340,145
Notes
Gold and Silver 682,656
Coin

counts) 4,616,052
Other Deposits 16,352,518
Seven Day and
other Bills .... 721,115

X3?,369.569
M. 1

439,269,5t9
.RSIIALL, Chief Cashier.

Oct. 15, 1863.

FOURTH EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-FAST 7 O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.--This Day.

NEWMARKET RACES.—Tins DAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAI'II.
£5O PLATE.

Miss Armstrong
Senorita
Eight ran.

LATEST BETTING.
CAMBRIDGES HIRE.
11 to 2 agst Limosina (taken)
6to 1 agst Catch-'em Alive (taken)
100 to 6 agst Bathilde (taken)
100 to 6 agst Birdhill (taken)
25 to 1 agst Borealis (taken)
100 to 3 agst Hubert (taken)
40 to 1 agst Roman Bee (taken)
40 to 1 agst Carnival (taken)
50 to 1 agst Gemma (taken)
50 to 1 agst Anfield (taken)
Only Limosina, Catch'em Alive, and Hubert in request

Terrific Explosion at the Chartered Gas

Works at Westminster.

SEVERAL PERSONS SERIOUSLY BURNED.

This (Thursday) forenoon the inhabitants of the Horse.
ferry-road were thrown into a state of the most painful e tt.
citement owing to a loud and rumbling noise proceedireg
from the immense pile of premises known as the Chartered
Gas Works, situate in the before-named thoroughfare. J
an instant hundreds of the inhabitants rushed out of their
houses in Marsham-street, the main road, and also ire
Medway-street, the houses in each street being in such
proximity to the factory that the residents were appre -
hensive that their habitations would be blown down,
as it was imagined that some of the immens e
gas-holders, which tower high above the surrounding
dwellings, would blow up. Fortunately such did no t
occur, but the circumstances attending the affair are of a
most lamentable nature, and it is feared that the injurit s
received by some of the workmen employed by the co:ae-
pan), will disable them from resuming their employment for
a considerable time, and in two or three cares it is expects d
that they cannot recover from the burns they have received.
On inquiry made at the works it was with great diii l-
enity that any information as to the cause of the disaster
could be obtained, but one of the men employed on thho
works stated that whilst the work people were engaged
putting down a new pipe in the yard, or repairing it, a large
plug suddenly flew out and allowed the gas to rush out in
immense volumes, to the extent of several thousand cub io
feet per second, In the space of a minute or so
great number of the men became encircled in fire,
their clothing becoming ignited, and the flames attacking
their arms and faces with full vigour. Several men rug":
to the works and turned off the gas, and the poor felltioßas.
were extricated, and the fire about their clothes was
guished. Mr. Pearce, surgeon, and other gentsmechealw Bo
men, attended, but eight or nine of the poor fellows w°`°'
to
frightfully burned that they were obliged to
the Westminster Hospital, where everything:se,
but they
them that humanity or surgical skill could de:
the
pipe hect
still remain in a precarious state. Vitt pipe, it seen is,
1"
:0 dons sor
been bladdered or not is not known. This of the ex,
leads to the retort-house, and hence we
plosion.

SHIPPING—This Day'
--4-----
this day at nOOll-IVorth.
LONDON, Oct. 15.--w-fad and cloudy
Easterly ; moderate breeze, weather, with.
. _

rain. - ' i 4 —Wind S.W.—Arrived—Sedulens,
PLYMOUTH, Oct. A •
from Taganrog. —Wind,lvariable.—Arrived—Aima.
HOLYHEAD,
- of for Curacoa. Sailed—Elizabeth , for
zone, from Liv
Halifax.
Oct. 14.—Wind S.W.—seliied
—Rlekard, for
CmtniFF,
Shanghai,
Oct. 14.—Wind S.E..._A
oowrs, Oct. 14.
rrived—John, from
Swaroe-
for Havre, leaky.
swANSEA, Oct. 14.—Wind S.W.—
Sailed—Mangoateen
1
for Cub'
XILFORD, Oct. 14,--Wind s._ .
Armed—Bella Leondra,
from New York.

(Br MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
Arrived, Oct. 14---A.GrgßolvEsExp, Thursday Morning.
,'
from ; Brothefrrsom ,
from CuLtbrileham ; Celicia, rDo
ma n tz ic;ClaraGroningen; planning,fiele na
licia, from Honkleur.
Arrived, Oct. 15—Victoria, tram Aarhuu3; Hendricka
Margaret a, from St. Petersburg; Ellen and Agenoria, from
Croostadt ; Maria, from Gottenburg.
DEAL, Thursday Morning.
Passed—Her Majesty's ship Dee, from the west for the
river ; Jovenner, trom Shadac for London; Zenobia, for
Port Natal; Bi.boa, for Bilboa •' Nautilus, for Bermuda;
Lady 'Melville, forr 6alcutta---allfrom London.
Passed in 'row—Rambler, trom Calcutta for London;
Eliza, from London for Para.
Anchored—The Venus, of Guernsey, from Gottenburg
for New Zealand.
Sailed—The Chanticleer, screw steamer, Polefathro out, Lady
Melvilie, Lady Raglan, and Black Pliuce,
ward bound.

CRYSTAL PALACE.-6tie Wednes-
day, Oct. 14.—Admission on payment, 2,436; ditto I,y
season tickets, I,ooo—total viglitors, 3,44.