The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-12 00:00:00

Vol. 11.

THE LAKES OF KILLARNEY; REMINISCENCES OF
DUBLIN, &c.
111.
WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID.
"That three score years and ten our course may run."
A pe,pnlar review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner-
/ounly-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that heresies
be young, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and em-
-itters old age, with tables and rules for the diet and physical regu,
1 ttion of every-day life.

IV.
THE PASSIONS.
" What passions hurt the body—what improve,
Truths as refined as Athens ever heard."
KOB3TICT : -Life's pilgrimage, from infancy to old age. The advent
fthe passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casualties
licentiousness and dissit-.'Lion, with illustrations, graphic, narrative
and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages.

THE MARRIAGE STATE.
" TO be or not to be, that is the question."
PIItOGISAMME :—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and re-
Ulm regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and
(..hoice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and
lgure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them.
Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion.
By R. J. CITLVERVrELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A.
till five. itveningts. seven till ni ns.
(1811). Twenty-flue years Medical and Forensic Referee in these
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THE BLOWING UP OF THE
TURKISH THREE-DECKER.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 25.—A most dreadful ca,
tastrophe, attended with great loss of life, has just
occurred. The Neiri Shevket ship of the line, of 120
gluts, bearing the flag of the grand admiral, was
totally destroyed by an explosion of its powder maga-
zine on the 23d inst. (as stated in The Sun of Satur-
day). This dreadful accident occurred in the arsenal
at about ten minutes past ten A.M., and was so terri-
fic as to have been heard at a great distance. It is
surmised by well-informed persons of the Admiralty
that it is owing to accident. Others, again, give it out
as the determined act of a sailor who was punished
for misdemeanour, and detained in the hold of the
ship. The most reasonable rumour, and on which I
place most reliance, is, that it is owing to negligence,
as several canisters of the powder conveyed to the
magazines on shore were in a bad condition, and a
quantity of this combustible was spilled. It is likely
the lower deck was not swept, and some dull mariner
emptied the contents of his pipe on the floor, when
naturally it formed a train, and running to the pow-
der magazine caused an instantaneous explosion,
which was so powerful that it divided the ship into
two parts, and blew up the upper deck, with the
guns and rigging, fully twenty-five feet in the air.
This part fell sideways into the sea, and disappeared
for a few minutes. The lower deck was then ob-
served to catch fire and burn with intense violence
for seven mtnutes, when the ship gradually sank. Im-
mediately after the explosion hundreds of kaiks and
lethe human he beings, embarkations repaired to the scene of disaster, and a
number of mutilated remains, showing but little re-
semblance werea
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temporary m
shore, 36 died immediately after ; and most of the
Of
h one the
113 tai,o to t o
sufferers were in such a dreadful condition that no
hope whatever was entertained of their recovery.
One poor fellow, a lieutenant, was picked up nearly
drowned, fearfully burnt, and a spike through his
shoulder. lie died six minutes after having been
conveyed to the ambulance. A gallant Armenian
porter had both his legs cut clean off, and still cou-
rageously dictated a letter to his mother, informing
her of his sad state.
No official list of the loss of men and officers has
yet appeared, but it is ascertained beyond all doubt
that the most gallant officers of the Turkish navy have
been lost. We have to deplore the death of six cap-
tains, who were on board the admiral's ship in con-
ference on a point of etiquette, as also of the aide-de-
camp of the grand admiral, of 14 lieutenants who were