The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-27 00:00:00

FOURTH AND LAST ROUND.

This round of shell was drawn from the guns,
owing to the discovery that a portion of the Arm-
strong shot of the previous round, weighing about
601 b., had dropped near a cottage 500 yards off,
burying itself four feet in the ground. Had it been
possible to remove a bed-ridden female from the
cottage the firing would have proceeded, but Colonel
Wilmot, the commandant, declined the responsi-
bility of risking the Woman's life. The terrific
showers of splinters from inclined or sloping targets
will be a new and unanswerable argument in favour
of ships with inclined turrets.
Mr. Whitworth's party included Lord Torring-
ton, Mr. Macdonald, and Rear-Admiral Halsted.
Sir William Armstrong was alone.

DREADFUL EXPLOSION AT WIGAN.—On Monday
afternoon a steam boiler used at Barleyhurst Colliery, near
Wigan, exploded, scattering the building round about it
into fragments, killing the engineman, blowing his body a
distance of 160 yards, and wounding several men, none of
whose hurts are, however, serious. The colliery is served
by three boiler.; and it is not a little remarkable that one
of them exploded about a fortnight since, inflicting great
damage ou the surrounding property, and injuring several
people. In the second instance, the accidont is attributed
to the carelessness of thefunfortunate engineman who has
108 t his life.—Manchedter Examinfr.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(RE VTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE ETNA.
(Via Roche's Point.)
NEW YORK, APRIL 15, 5 P.M.
Mr. Stanton telegraphs as follows :
Mr. William Hunter has been appointed acting
Secretary of State during Mr. Seward's illness.
President Johnson has announced that he will
make no changes in the Cabinet.

Mr. Seward's throat is not cut, but his face is
gashed. He saved himself by throwing himself out
of bed. The surgeons report his condition un-
changed, and that he is doing well.
Mr. Frederick Seward's condition is critical.
The assassins have not yet been apprehended.

ROME.

PARIS, APRIL 27.

The Moniteur of to-day says :—Despatches re-
ceived here from Rome justify us in the belief that
the negotiations between Cardinal Antonelli and
Signor Vegezei for the arrangement of the difficul-
ties relative to the installation of the Italian bishops
are proceeding favourably.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 19.

The Sultan has ordered machinery and engineers
from England, to work the coal mines in Turkey
on his own account.

The Russian Railway, between the Black and
Caspian Seas, is progressing rapidly, 2,000 forced
labourers being employed. It is to be finished next

year.

Letters received here from Bokhara state that
the Emir is preparing an expedition to assist 'the
Khan of Kokan against the Russians.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, APRIL 27.

Herr von Bismarck was present to-day at the
sitting of the committee appointed to examine the
Bill for the increase of the Prussian navy. The
Minister expressed the hope that the Government
would succeed in obtaining the port of Kiel for
Prussia, and, under certain conditions, for the
German navy. The latter will grow out of the
Prussian fleet by developing the maritime resources
of the other States of Northern Germany.
Herr von Bismarck further said that he
wished, in the interest of the country, that
the Prussian Diet would declare that the
acquisition of Kiel was necessary. The acquisition
of this harbour was intended by the Government,
but on the basis of a common understanding. The
tract of land situated between Holtenar and Fried-
richsort and the opposite villages were also required
by the Government. He declined to state whether,
under certain emergencies, the realisation -of this
scheme, so far as Foreign Powers were concerned,
would be effected by force.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, APRIL 27.

Baron Werther, the Prussian Ambassador at the
Court of Vienna, read yesterday to Count Mens-
dorff, a note proposing the convocation of the Diet
of Schleswig Holstein. The note does not mention
that the elections are to take place on the basis of
the electoral law of 1848, and it is therefore sup-
posed that the electoral of 1850 will be the basis
of the election.

EXECUTION OF LEDUC.
BOULOGNE-SUR-MLR, APRIL 27.

Leduc, who murdered his two children last
November, was guillotined this morning on the
Place Imperiale.