The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-18 00:00:00

lIEIZ MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 17-
Iler Majesty, accompanied by her Royal High'
ness Princess Louise, walked and drove this
morning.

His Royal Highness Prince Leopold left the
Castle this morning for Osborne.

LATEST INTELL LGENO

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

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AMERICA.
(Per French Atlantic Cable.)

NEW YORK, Dec. 11.
The steamer Cambria (of the Anchor line) ar-
rived out yesterday.

The North German Lloyd's steamship Berlin
arrived out to-day at 7 a.m.

The Inman Royal Mail steamship Etna 100
arrived here to-day.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CLOSING PRICES.

Gold closed at 1201 ; the highest quotation dur-
ing the day was 1211 ; the lowest, 1201.
Sterling Exchange on London lOBl.
5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1889
" 1885 ll2.

" 1867 ll4l.
10-40
lllinois 132/.
Erie

Cotton—Ma upland 25/C.
Petroleum—Standard White 3lc.
Flour, extra state, $5.10c. to $5.70c. Corn, old
mixed, $1.12c.
According to Messrs. Moffatt, Davidis, and Co•'0
report the week's receipts of cotton at all porto
have been 110,000 bales, and since the Ist of
September 1,117,000 bales; shipments to England
36,000 bales ; to France, 9,000 bales ; to the
Continent, 16,000 bales ; and since the Ist Sept.,
575,000 bales. Stock, 337,000 bales. Middling/
11 6-16 cost and freight per steamer.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, Dec. 17.—Three o'clock—The market
closed as follows
( per Cent. . lO2 75
End of mouth --
per Cent
End of mouth 72 474
;redit Mobilier• 208 75
Transatlantic 237 50
-relit Fonder 1742 50
Paris Gas 1345

Bank Shares 28,12 b 0
DaFan Fives ; 5 40
Austrian Fives --
Ottoman Loan 330
Do. Debt 4l 90
Spanish Threes 25i
Home Debt
Deferred
Cash.
960
13?
1132 k
590

RAIL WA

Orleans
Western
Northern
trabburg, • •••

i.yons arid Mediterranean
Southern.... 'o6f
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman 45

80i
45
528 i

THE POiVDER-.IIILL EXPLOSION.

LATEST PARTICULARS THIS DAY.

A sensation, which it is almost impossible to de"
scribe, has been again caused throughout Honeslow
and the surrounding districts within a radius of 20
miles, arising out of the deplorable explosion theS
took place the previous afternoon in the gunpowder
mills of Messrs. Curtis and Harvey, at Hawn.
From an inspection made of the works the calf
thing that astonishes the visitor was not that three
human beings should have been thus prematurely
hurried into eternity, but that a far greater new"
ber of persons had not also perished, considering the
immensity of the work and the large number of well
women awl boys who are employed in different
parts of the establishment, namely, in the 1111°4
rooms, the packing houses, the drying, corning'
and other houses, which, if taken in the whole, will
approximate to 150 routs. This part of iNlessil'
Curtis and Harvey's property covered over 30 acres
of land, and each department appears to have been
carried out with due regard for the protection °f
the men and women engaged in their dangerous
calling. Each building was so constructed that 1°
the event of a blast taking place the doors would he
blown open, the vapour discharged, and the occupants
exposed to less danger than if the doors opened
inwards. The corning house, in which the disaster
happened, was not more than 30 feet square, 511'
the quantity of combustible matter in the place'
for it can hardly be called gunpowder proper—Was
stated to be under three cwt. Fortunately only
three unfortunate men were engaged indoors ; ha
there been more, they must all have shared the
same fate, for such was the tremendous 0113 r
acter of the shock that persons passing 01001
the public road, a distance of some three
four miles from the mills, were hurled t;
the ground, a van filled with potties Wa
overturned, and some thousand berries blown Over
nearly a quarter of a mile of ground, presenting
very strange scene. The poor fellow, Rutter, Wa
always considered a very sober and careful Din
tad well knew the whole of the regulations of tlio
place, and would always see that any man Whi,
dared to smoke on the premises was prope"
punished. Hodges and Waters were also old trust-
worthy servants, but we understand have left fe°ll,
ties behind them unprovided for. Dr. DiPl°?(2
the coroner, has been informed of the catastropo"
and it is understood that the inquest will be held °II
Monday.