The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-26 00:00:00

Liverpool Cotton Market.—This Day.

The market opens strong. Sales probably 20,000

bales.

LONDON GAZETTE. —Last Evening.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 17.

The Queen has-been graciously p1ea,30,1 to appoint Henry
N'irton 6naw, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul at Saints
Croix.

(Nora.—The appointment o! Mr. Wlnew to be her Ifn-
i -6.,y's Co "sal at Sainte C oix, wiieh app:mled in the Gozebta
ui July 3 last, is eanceited. M Wiqlieur retains his ap.
puintwent as her lidesty's Consul at Islay.)
DOWNINii-STREET, SE:I. 22.
_ _

The Queen has been pleased to appu;.ut Captain James
George Mackenzie, R.N. (late Governor and Commander.
in-Chief of the Faßland Ts!arids and the.r depoodencies),
to ha Lieutenant-Governor of the Is:and of Saint Chris.
topher.
WAR O_ FILE, PALL-MALL, KEPT. 25.
COMMISSARIAT DEPAI: i 'N.C.—Deputy-Assistant Com.
missary-General Arthur &nu:: Bxy:‘e3 to be Assistant..
Commissary-General, vice Rolle-ton, deceaved.
MILITARY STORE DEPARTMENV. Thpu: y-Assist ant
Supetintendent of Stores M. J. ingr .m to ba As&staut
Supetintendent of Stores, vice E. Fayre,, de:ea..ea.
ADMIRALTY, SErr. 22.

The undermentioned Ass's.a.nt-Surgeons have tb's day
been promot3d to the ra,-'t of Surgeon in her Majesty's
Fleet, viz.:—James Aleza ider Srene, Esq., William
Robert Bennet, Rig., M.D., Robe:;; Ferguson, Esq., M.D.,
and William George RiO'lgs, E_q.

COURSE OF EXCRANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 17

11 17}

Ditto 3 Months. 11 If' 11 0
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 45 25 52/
Brussels
Hamburg — 13 81 13 9
Paris Short 25 20 25 27/
Ditto 3 Months. 25 40 25 45
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 119} 120}
Vienna — 13 2U 13 au
Trieste — 13 20 13 20
Petersburg h
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
0
Milan
27
0 27
Genoa
Naples — 26 50 27 '0
Palermo
Messina • ........ 26 45 26 60
Lisbon
51/ 512
• ...... _
51} 511
......

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THE NEW KIND OF GUNPOWDER.—We stated
about a week ago that a series of experiments were
to be performed to test the qualities of M. Gustave lieu-
mayor's new gunpowder. These experiments took place
in the presence of M. do Sebach, the Saxon Minister; M.
de Querlaade, an officer attached to the Austrian Embassy;
Gen. Beuret, Director of the Gunpowder and Saltpetre
Establishment ; M. de Puymory, Director of the Gun-
powder Manufactory of Le Bouchot, and other' competent
persons. M. Neumeyer was accompanied by Dr.
Klein, a young German advocate, who has un-
dertaken to propagate the invention. The property of
this new gunpowder consists in its ndt exploding
unless subjected •to a strong pressure. Its ingre-
dients are the same as those of the common sort, but the
proportions are probably different, a. circumstance which,
of course, is the inventor's secret. M. Neumeyer makes
four kinds of gunpowder, viz.,. one for 'ordnance, another
for muskets, a third for fowling-pieces, and a fourth for
mining purposes. The three first are granulated, but the
fourth is a very fine powder. A certain quantity of the
other sorts was set fire to in the open air ; it burnt
away with a fizzing noise like that of sulphuric acid
dropped on a brick ;it emitted a smell of sulphur. Eleven
kilogrammes of the compound were introduced into three
small wooden ,barrels, which were then carried with
place, butild
their bungholes left open into. a small house built of stone
and roofed with tiles. The door was locked and a train
fired. A thick smoke firsot
iis.esauled
fromexplosion the
took chimney ; and
was followed by flames; no
after a few seconds the roof was thrown down, together
with part of ono of the walls, whilst the three barrels.
though somewhat injured, were found entire; so that the
above-mentioned effect must be attributed merely to the
pressure occasioned by the heat and the gas. In another
series of experiments, a cartridge containing 38 desigms of
gunpowder was introduced into a Prussian needle-gun.
At a distance of 150 metres, the olive-shaped bullet went
through a target composed of a piece of oak between two
pieces o
an aggregate thickness of abort a
foot. The r'hfiesafinrmeqinugantity of gunpowder introduced into
the gun without being rammed, simply fizzed and did not
expulso the bullet. We understand that these experiments
aro to be continued.

ELECTRICITY.—An Austrian chemist, M. Leinel-
broek, has discovered a way of enclosing electricity
in smell glass capsules which will explode under the in-
fluence of the slightest shock. The capsule is enclosed in
a steel cone, so that, if shot from a rifle, it will enter
_t.14.?
flesh, and the explosion which follows is sufacion
ht
or=
a man. Experiments have been made on oxen downa' as if
with perfect success, these horses having fal.l3l°.nury
, inflicted
We do not
struck with lightning. Even the sligh,te_stthl. •
by this means is said to have caned ""
, but, admitting it to
warrant the truth of this sta
teruA:nantage of the invention,
bo correct, we fail to see the au •
since in war the chief object to he a.
ed at is fortunately
not killing, but disabling the enemy.
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, Better late than never.