The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-24 00:00:00

SHIPPING-THIS DAY.

LONDON, Oct. 24.—Wind this day at noon—North•
Westerly; moderate breeze, and fine clear weather.

(EY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning,
Arrived—Syren, from New York ; her Majesty's ship
Oberon, from Rio Janeiro ; Concordia, steamer, for Bou-
logne. _

Sailed—Albion, steamer, for Boulogne.
DEAL, Friday Morning.
Passed—Elizabeth Douthwaite, from Havannah ; Aro-
mingo, from New York ; Kingston, from Algoa Bay—all
for London; Lord Londesborough, from Smyrna, for
Hull; Citizen, serew steamer, from London, for Bordeaux;
Lucknow. from Sunderland, for Portsmouth.
Anchored—Westgold, from Norway, for westward.

With regard to the silk trade Messrs. Durant and
Co. state :—The periodical public sales commenced
yesterday and are concluded. The quantity printed
was about 1,600 bales Bengal, 5,000 bales China,
and 1,000 bales Japan, with about 700 bales Ccn-
ton silk. Unfortunately the proportion of currently
useable silk which the importers were disposed to
sell at market quotations was small, hence, although
there is a general disposition for business little was
done at the sales. Large arrivals are just being
landed—about 4,000 bales China with 500 bales
Japan—which attract considerable attention.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY OF CANADA.—Th e
recent half-yearly report of the directors having caused
much dissatisfaction among the shareholders living in Bir-
mingham, a meeting was convened by advertisement, and
held on Thursday, at the offices of Mr. B. Chesshire, soli-
citor, Temple-row. Mr. Chesshire was called to the chair.
After considerablediscussion, it was proposed by Mr. Har-
rison, and seconded by Mr. Bodin, that the filline,ieg
so-
monstrances be forwarded to the board of directors :—" 1
It appearing from paragraph 12 in the report that the direc-
tors still entertain the question of an amalgamation with the
Grand Trunk Railway, and this meeting being fully con-
vinced that the position of the two companies is so widely
different that it is quite impossible it could be effected upon
any terms without endangering the ruin of the Great
Western, as 'reference to the financial position, the state
of the track and condition of the rolling stock of the Grand
Trunk will convince any one, therefore it is hoped the ques-
tion of amalgamation will be altogether abandoned. 2d.
That the late attempt to obtain a bill from the Canadian
parliament for this object has created a want of confidence
in the directors, and this meeting considers that the pro-
visional agreement, signed by the board in contemplation
of such amalgamation, ought to be disclosed to the share-
holders. 3d. That this meeting has read with alarm the
report of Mr, Sharp, the car superintendent, from which it
appears that upwards of 50 carriages and cars have been
entirely broken up during the past half-year as unfit for
further service ; and it having been stated that the rolling
stock of the Great Western has been used over the Grand
Trunk line during the past winter, and no reference been
made to it in the report, it is felt that some explanation of
such unprecedented damage should be given by the board."
Birmingham Daily Post.

RELEASE OF THE REPORTER GRAY.—By the
liberality of friends, Mr. Gray, who was convicted of libel
at the Central Criminal Court about six weeks ago, and
fined £5O, has been released. The fine was paid on Wed-
nesday,

The Confederate steamer Nashville, which
escaped from the Tuscarora at Southampton, in England,
is penned in Ogechee River, with no chance of escape ; her
chief officer has been taken plisoner.—American paper.
A FAMILY NEARLY POISONED BY CHEESE.—
Some consternation was caused in a family at Byker, an
an evening or two ago, by the sudden and simultaneous ill-
ness of the lady of the house and four of her daughters. It
appears that the persons affected had that night at supper
eaten a portion of American cheese which had been pur-
chased at Newcastle, and that soon afterwards they were
seized with cramp, vomiting, and diarrhoea. A gentleman
residing at Newcastle, who was a friend of the family, had
been paying them a visit, and on his road home he became
subject to similarly alarming symptoms. After reaching
home he remained unconscious for several hours ; but, hap-
pily, all the parties, though affected in an alarming manner,
recovered. The cheese was of a pale and rather crumbling
appearance, and the persons upon whom it had so serious
effects had not eaten more than one ounce or two ounces
each.—Newcastle Chronicle.

LIVERPOOL, COTTON MARKET, October 23.—The
demand from the trade continues very moderate, and is
freely met generally, but Surats of good quality command
full price. The sales were 4,000 bales-3,000 on specula-
tion and for export.
EXPLOSION AT A PERCUSSION-CAP MANITFAC-
TORY.—ShortIy after 2 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon
an alarming explosion took place in one of the cartridge-
filling huts detached from the percussion-cap manufactory
of Messrs. E. and H. Ludlow, Aston Lanes, Witton. It
will no doubt be remembered by most our readers that
since the fearful explosion in Whittall-street, filling of per-
cussion.caps and cartridge cases manufactured on the pre-
mises of Messrs. Ludlow, in Legge-street, has been carried
on, for safety, in detached huts, at a distance of about
twenty or thirty feet from each other, at Witton. It
was in one of these huts that the explosion occurred.
At the time named it seems that two young women
(which is the number of persons allowed to work in each
hut) named Amelia Homer and Catherine Caydey, re-
siding respectively in Lancaster-street and Dartmouth-
street, were engaged in opening damaged cartridges, some
of which were the remains of a recent order, and others
(wet ones), returned from the store in Bingley-hall, at a
bench in the cartridge filling room, when, from some un-
explained cause, they exploded. The women were burnt
severely about the face and upper extremities, and one of
them in her fright leaped through the window of the hut
into the yard, quickly followed by the other. Mr. Starkey,
the foreman, who was a short distance off at the time, per-
ceiving dense smoke issuing from the building, at once wen,
to the spot, and finding that the l oor women were very
much hurt, had them conveyed to the General Hospital,
Fortunately, there was but a small quantity of powder in
the hut at the time, or the result night have been much
more serious. The room in which the occurrence took
place was not damaged. The cause of the explosion at
present remains a mystery, and it is stated that at the
time it took place there were no fires or gas burning in the
building.On
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Post.

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According to the Gazetta Polska, the projected
railway from Bialostok to Pinsk is to be continued as far as
Odessa, via Kiew.

A letter from Calais states that the Albert
Edward steamer, from Folkestone, put into that port two
days back with 74 passengers, having found it quite im-
possible to get into Boulogne,