The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-07 00:00:00

BREVET.

Captain and Brevet-Major INTrn 1 Griffin Sutton, retired
upon full-pay, late Riding Master Cavalry Depot, Maid-
stone, to have the honorary rank of Lieut.-Colonel.
Lieut. John Anthony Kysh, Paymaster 91st Foot, to
have the honorary rank of Captain, under the RoyalW ar-
rant of Jan. 27, 1860.
Paymaster John Giddings, 32d Foot, to have the hono-
rary rank of Captain, under the Royal Warrant of Jan.
27, 1860.
The undermentioned promotions to take place conse-
quent on the decease of General Sir Edward Bowater,
Colonel of the 49th Foot, on Dee. 14, 1861.
Lieutenant-General William Lindsay Darling, Colonel of
the 98th Foot, to be General.
Major-General Henry William Breton, Colonel of the
56th Foot, to be Lieutenant .General.

Brevet-Cotonel George Thcmas Con°lly Napier, C. 8.,
from Lieutenant-Colonel half-pay Unattached, and Aide-
camp to the Queen, serving on the Staff of the Army in
North America, with the local rank of Major-General, to be
Major- General.
Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Wellington Henry
Stapleton Cotton, Major on half-pay, unattached, to be
Colonel.

Captain and Brevet-Major John Williamson Lovell, C. 8.,
Royal Engineers, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain George Ronny, 73d Foot, to be Major.

BANKRUPTS.
The portion of the Gazette containing the Bankrupts
had not arrived when we went to press,

COURSE OF EXCIIANGE.—This DAY.
Amsterdam
Ditto
Rotterdam — 11 18i 11 19

Antwerp.. ..
Brussels

25 52i
25 522

25 55
25 55

Hamburgh — 13 77f
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort on Maine — 1181
Vienna
Trieste

13 8
25 30
25 571-
25 57i
118}
14 50
14 50

Petersburgh
Berlin

Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples
Palermo
Messina
Lisbon
Oporto
Foreign Gold in Bars (standard) ....
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard)
South American Doubloons

48k
484-
25 75
25 70
25 70

48
48
25 80
25 75
25 75
391
119
119
511
52
£3 17 9
0 4 111
0 5 1f
0 0 0

3"
118 k
1181
511
611

SERIOUS EXPLOSION OF GUNPOTVDER

On Saturday morning an alarming explosion of
gunpowder occurred in Wolverhampton, by which
three persons received serious injuries. Some
sinkers had been engaged sinking a well at the rear
of a block of buildings in a district known as
Springfields. On Friday night they placed in the
fire-grate oven a flask containing about three-
quarters of a pound weight of powder ; and they
lighted a fire in the grate the next morning for-
getting the powder was there. Whist tic() of the
men, and a woman who had brought the breakfast
of one of them, were sitting in the room where the
powder was lying in such dangerous proximity to
the brisk fire, all taking their morning meal, tho
powder became ignited. In an instant the cast iron
oven and grate were shattered and the brick-work
in which they were set dislodged from its place, the
doors in all the rooms downstairs blown off their
hinges, the windows and their casements forecd out,
and the three persons lying unconscious and
man
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burst
it, and on regaining consciousness he found himself
lying at the bottom of the cellar steps in great
eyesight apparently gone. One of
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on fire, and crying pitifully for some one to put
out the flames. He was shockingly burnt, and also
cut in the face, and when his clothes were removed
the skin peeled from his legs. The woman was
also sadly burnt, especially about the face, and is
severely cut on the knee. All three were removed
to the hospital. The maimed finger of the first
man was amputated ; an operation was also per-
formed on the wounded limb of the woman. The
second man and the woman lie in a precarious
state.

By advises received yesterday from Rome we
learn that a train has passed over the line of rail way from
Rome to Ciprani, the Neapolitan frontier, and under the
extraordinary energy displayed by M. Falamace, the emi-
nent Spanish contractor, there appears to be no doubt that
the whole line between Rome and Naples will very shortly
be completed. It was feared that some delay might have
been caused by the non-c .mpletion of the viaduct over a
large valley at Velletri ; but, although on the lbt of Deeem-
ber this bridge, which is almost a reproduction of the
Crumlin viaduct, of nearly 500 ft in length, and 170 ft in
height, was scarcely commenced, by the exertions of the
contractors for this work,
Messrs. Kennard Brothers, of
Lend( n, a train passed over it on the 30th. The unprece-
dented speed with which this bridge has been erected shows
the great advantage of iron over other materials for works
of this description.
The dollars brought by the Mexican packet have
been disposed of at 591 d. per 05., showing an advance of id
on the prico of the last arrival, although the present has
been the rate for several days. The bar silver has not yet
been sold.