The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-10 00:00:00

ii,S7,ISUN, LONDON, BATURDAY, roteEMBER
.10; 1B7(.

THE MONEY MARKET,

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

On the Stock Exchange to-day business was very quiet
in the absence of any definite news as to the probable
course of the war. •

Consols remain unchanged, and are quoted 91k to 92k
for money, and 92 to 92i for the sth of January.
In the Foreign Stock market Italians Of 1861 are 551
to 55-2 ; Spanish, ; Turkish Fives, 441 to 44fi ;
and French Scrip, to I prem.
A communication has been addressed to the Turkish
Ambassador in London on behalf- of persons largely inte-
rested in Turkish securities on the subject of no announce-
ment having yet been made of the drawing of the Turkish
6 per cent. Bonds of 1865 for the past half-year. which
should have been effected last month in Paris, and the
opportunity was also taken to seek for some assurance
that the drawing for the loan of 1858, which should be
made during the present month in London will be punc-
tually carried out: In reply, his Excellency M. Musurus
has stated that the Imperial Ottoman Government have
decided to make payable in London all the loan coupons
which have heretofore been payable at Paris only, that
this decision will remain in operation during the siege of
Paris, and that, to soon as circumstances *ill permit, the
drawing of those loans will be held iri that capital. In
the meantime, the cfrawiligs of all loans appiinted to take
effect in London will be duly proceeded with as in all
former years.

On the question of establishing a money-order system
between England and the United States, New York ad-
vices mention that a proposal for the purpose, in response
to a suggestion from America, has just been received at ,
Washington from the British Post-office, embracing the
introduction of,a plan similar to that now in force between
England and her colonies. To this, however, the Post-
master-General of the United States objects on the
ground that there are many material defects in it, and he
therefore urges the' adoption of a similar system to that
now in operation between the United States and Switzer-
land, Switzerland and Belgium, and Great Britain. With
this view he has forwarded to our Post-office a draught
of a convention and detailed regulations, " which it is
confidently believed will be accepted, and ratified." The
Swiss system now in operation with America is said to be
working admirably. No motley is sent across either way,
but the two offices at Now York and Berne receive
deposits and send lists of depositors to each other twice
a week by mail. A letter from the depositor notifies the
consignee, who goes to the office, proves his identity, and
draws his money, less a small fee to the Government.
These advices add that it is the desire of the Postmaster-
General to establish an international money-order system
to all parts of the world.
Advices from the City of Mexico of the Ist ult. state
that the progress of President Juarez towards recovery
from his recent attack of paralysis continual
The Colonial produce markets this week have been
without much alteration, and a steady business has been
transacted.

The Glasgow Herald states :—" Advices from New York
report the failure of the Northern Transportation Com-
pany, with liabilities $400,000, and assets $1,200.001

DESTRUCTION OF MARSHALL & EATON'S
FURNITURE FACTORY AT' BETHNAL
GREEN.
GREAT LOSS OF PROPERTY-THIS DAY.

The most extensive conflagration that has occurred in
the East End of London for some time past happened in
the premises belonging to Messrs. Marshall and Eaton,
furniture manufacturers and Japanners, carrying on
business in Mape-street, Bethnal Green. The building
in which the disaster took place was- over 70 feet long,
and three floors high, each of the latter containing pro-
perty of great value. The discovery appears to have
been made by a dog belonging to one of the neighbours ;
his repeated barking called the attention of one of the
police-constables on duty in the district, who, thinking
that thieves were breaking intolsome of the contiguous
houses, went to search the district, when to his no
small astonishment he saw flames curling in huge
bodies round the principal factory of the firm.
He at once gave alarm in the usual way and sent off for
proper assistance, Mr. Inspector Edginger being present
to direct the turncocks. In spite, however, of the exer-

tions of the firemen under Captain Shaw and Mr. Gate-
house, the district ;foreman, and the salvage corps under
the personal direction of Mr. Superintendent Swanston,
the work of desolation continued, and the mastery could
not be obtained over the flames for some time, and not
before the extensive factory was burned out and the roof
destroyed. Fortunately, the fireman succeeding in saving
with slight damage the timber piled away upon the roof
of an adjoining building. The origin of the fire is at pre-
sent unknown. The loss will fall upon the Commercial
Union Fire-office.

TERRIFIC GUNPOWDER EX-
PLOSION AT BIRMINGHAM.
TWENTY KILLED AND FIFTY WOUNDED.

CENTRAL PRESS TELE,GRAIf.

A terrific gunpowder explosion, resulting, so Ear as can
be ascertained, in the loss of at least eighteen lives, occur-
red yesterday at Wilton, four miles from Birmingham,
•
almost doss to the premises of Messrs. Kynock, where so
many recent eitpldsidris hare taken place. The works
at which the 'accident occurred belong td the Messrs.
Ludlow and Co. The report of the explosion
started all Birmingham at about half-past twelve o'clock.
More than seventy persons were soon found to be injured;
Pighteen of them, some reports say more, were dead ; and
of the fifty others many are not expected to recover. All
the living were removed to the Birmingham General Hos-
pital. The dead were unrecognizable, and were found
in the neighbouring fields, in some cases headless trunks
In addition to the eighteen who were killed twelve others
are on the point of death. The scene at the factory where
the calamity occurred and at the hospital whither the
injured were removed was last evening most heartrending.
The 'majority of the killed and injured are girl, and for
hours hundreds of parents were clamouring in the utmost
state of anxiet• to be admitted to see the dead, to discover
if their Children were daltitigelt Witt: This; how-
ever, • was resolutely refused, and indeed the
corpses are so frightfully mangled and torn
to pieces that recognition is almost impossible. The heads
and limbs of several were blown completely off from the
trunks of their bodies, and the scalp of one was found
at a distance of thirty yards from the place where lay the
head to which it belonged. Skirts, petticoats, and frag-

- -
ments of stays were picked up dissevered from the bodies
which they had clothed. At present the authorities, pro-
bably because they cannot.do so with any degree of accu-
racy, refuse to give the names of the killed.
The work of identification cannot be completed till
to-day. The explosion is said to be the most
disastrous that has ever occurred at Birmingham. The
demand for ammunition has lately been so great that
manufacturers have had to employ inexperienced hands
to enable them to complete their orders. The following
is a list of the injured :—Anna Conway, Emma Williams,
Lolly amith, Kate Carroll, Ann Bragg, Lucy Hilliard,
Caroline Bunn, Sarah Mc Kenna, Emily Shelley, Char-
lotte Morgan, Mary Ann Hatchford, Elsa Brown, Mary
Ann Cross, Louisa HatlOy, Elizabeth Clarke, Anna Ren-
shaw, Elizabeth Alcock, Ann White; Emma Hanson,
Maria Shelley, Jane Hickman, Sarah Hemson, Mary
Knighton, Mary Ann Wheat, Ann McGavon, Margaret
Burns, Ann Eacles, Emma Turner, Rose Ward, Alice
Winterton, Mary Ann Bennett, Elizabeth Taylor, Alice
Ward, Selina Green, Louisa Jones, Clara-Siviter, Harriet
Newton, Elizabeth Noakes, Ann Brookes, Sarah Wil-
liams, Bridget Kingston, Mary B arcott, Mary Ann

Reeves, Fanny Clarke, Jane Burton, Mary Ann Wood-
man, Elizabeth Crowshaw, Elizabeth Nicholls, Mary. Ann
Bradley.
During the night two more persons have died, making
the deaths up to this time twenty. It is now thought that
thirty more will succumb. One woman who was terribly
burnt is expected to be prematurely confined. Several
of the girls were so charred that their clothes fell off
them, and blankets had to be procured to remove them
into the hospital.
After the explosion a dog was observed running out of a
shed with the arm of a woman in its mouth.

,iessrs. Ludlow, the proprietors of the manufactory,
have announced to the hospital authoritieS that they will
pay all the expenies incurred on behalf of the persons
injured.