The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-20 00:00:00

usent of Algiers ; this was followed by another loud explosion
and, by successive detonations, like the tiring of a broadside
from a ship of war. The inhabitatants of Algiers rushed in
alarm to the spot, where they found the light of the light-
house extinguished, and a scene of ruin and desolation. A
portion of the casemated rampart between the old Spanish
town called Pignon and the post and the houses built against
this rampart were only a heap of ruins, from which mutilated
persons, covered with blood and dust, were extricating
themselves. The pavilion, inhabited by Commandant
Palard, sub-director of the artillery, and the buildings in-
Ambited by companies of artillery workmen and pontWiers,
had been carried away. The explosions which caused these
disasters had taken place in the two magazines, separated
from each other by the ditch at the foot of the old Spanish
town upon which the lighthouse stands. Considerable in-
jury was done in the port, and especially on the Bouberak,
by numerous stones, thrown to a distance of 200 metres. In
the buildings there are killed 43 artillery workmen, 10 artil-
lerymen, 31 pontonniers, and 2 workmen of the second com-
pany ; there were, besides, 30 wounded. Sergeant-Major
Denot, his wife, who was pregnant, and a child, perished.
The Controuleur d'Armes, Piron, died after under-
going amputation of the leg. Five other non-commis-
sioned officers were crushed to death on the ruins.
The Commandant of Artillery, Palard, was killed under the
ruins of his house, which was almost levelled to the ground
by the violence of the explosion. Close to the pavilion oc-
cupied by M. Palard was the house of M. Segretier, Director
of the Port, who had at the time about twenty persons in his
drawing room. Mme. Segretier, hearing her child cry, left
her guests to go into the room where the child was, and, as
she was returning to the salle-a-manger to give directions for
tea, the explosion took place, and she was buried in the ruins
of the house, only one room of which was spared—viz., that
which she had quitted, and in which the company was as-
sembled. In that room only one person, Madame Sylvestre,
the wife of the Admiral's secretary, was injured, and that
slightly. When the spectators of this horrible scene had re-
covered from their first shock, they heard the last words of
the unhappy mother—they were ' Save my child.' "
THE BOURSE-.-MONDAY, MARCH 17.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents .. •• • • 117 90 .. 118 .. 117 85 .. 118
Fours. .. 106 50 .. 106 50 .. 106 50 .. 106 5()

Three per Cents." •• 85 15 .. 85 20 .. 85 15 .. 85 20
New Loan .. • .. • • 8G 5 .. 86 5 .. 86 5 .. 86 5
Belgian 8ank........ •• • • • • 652 50 .. 652 50 .. 652 50 .. 652 50
Belgian Fives, 1840 •••• • • • • 1051 i • . 1051 A .. 1(5 .. 1(5
1842 ..••.••• 107 .• 107 .. 107 107
Four-and-a-Half . 10334 .. 103% .. 10334 .. 103%
Two-and-a-Half.... 62 35 .. 62 35 • . 62 35 .. 62 35
Spanish Active •.• • • • •• • • 28% • • 39 • • 38% • . 39
Threes. ......• 41% 4118 .. 41% .. 411
Passive . .. 6% .. ..
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 6734 .. 67% • • 67% • • 6714
Roznan • • . ............... 106 106 .. 106 .. 106
RAILWAY SHARES.

St. Germain ..........1170 ..1170 ..1170 ..1170
Ver5ai11e5„R.8............. 670 .. 670 .. 650 .. 650
400 .. 400 .. 400 .. 400
Rouen .. 1180 ..1175 ..1180
Rouen to Havre 985 .. 987 50 .. 985 .. 985
Orleans; ..........• • 1332 50 ..1335 ..1332 50 ..1335
Strasburg to Bale ....
Avignon to Marseilles.... ll4O .. 1160 ..1140 ..1160
Bordeaux to Teste
Paris to Sccaux 7OO .. 700 .. 700 .. 700
RAILWAY SHARES FOR SETTLING, lfaacH 17.

St. Germain 1175 ..1175 ..1170 ..1175
Versailles, 647 50 .. 650 .. 647 50 .. 650
L.B 393 75 . 401 25 .. 398 75 .. 398 75
Rouen 1175 . 1182 50 ..1172 50 ..1182 50
Rouen to Havre......, 982 50 987 50 -. 982 50 .. 981 50
Orleans . . 1325 —1340 ..1320 ..1340
Strasburg to Bale.. 340 .. 345 .. 340 .. 345
Avignon to Marseilles 1140 —1155 ..1140 . 1167 50
RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, APRIL 3.

St. Germain ..............1075 ..1190 ..1175 ..1190
Versailles, R. 8............. 647 50 .. 655 .. 647 50 .. 647 50
L. 8............. 402 50 .. 402 50 .. 400 .. 400
Rouen ....................1180 .. I 190 ..1177 50 ..1185
Rouen to Havre............ 985 .. 990 .. 985 .. 990
Orleans ........ ....... 1320 ..1345 ..1320 .. 1342 50

Strasburg to 8a1e......•.•. 340 .. 347 58 .. 340
Avignon to Marseilles• • • • •.1140 —1167 50 —ll4O

. 345
..1167 50

THE WEATHER.—The severity of the frost has much
abated within the last few days, and except during the
night a more genial temperature prevails. A partial thaw
commenced on Tuesday, and the effect of the sun, which
should now be felt, on the 20th of March, has, we hope,
put an ent: to skating for the season. In the parks
and Kensington Gardens but few persons wet e seen on
the ice, and the amusement was very indifferent. We
have now had a winter of nearly five months—one of
the longest on record. The market gardeners, who have
nothing to bring to market, and absolutely nothing to
do, say that all vegetable productions will be fully a
month later than usual.

RE TAWELL.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

- ---
Stß,—ln your issue of yesterday, No. 16,406, I find iit
column 5, page 1, the following paragraphs--
" In deference to the wishes of the members of the Society
of Friends, he will not be executed in the garb of a Quaker.
Well knowing that you have ever stood the firm friend of
toleration and religious liberty,*rnay I, as a Dissenter, inquire
why so small and respectable a body of Dissenters should be
allowed to cast the stigma upon Dissenters generally?
I would in all Christian charity ask the Quakers whether
they would be contented if an Independent, and a true one.
without any nonsense, was to ask the executive power to
allow a Protestant Dissenter, and not a Quaker, to assume
the garb of a member of that body, under such circumstances,
"in deference to the wishes" of the aforesaid members. What
would be said by the purities?
My conviction, and that of many of my friends, is, that
tome one more qualified than ourselves should take the mat-
ter into consideration ; and, whether Jew or Gentile, let each
bear their opprobrium.
The honest press is, we feel satisfied, the best qualified to
bring the matter before the public.
I remain, yours most respectfully,
AN INDEPENDENT DISSENTER,
Manchester, March 18. And a lover of Fairplay.

Osborne House, with its prettily timbered demesne
and pleasure farms (recently purchased by the Queen,
but, it should seem, is not quite large enough), is, through
the instrumentality of Lady Isabella Blackford, placed
in Mr. George Robins's haads, to sell by public auction
in June. In the mean time Thornhill Park estate, upon
the purchase of which, and the completion of the splen-
did mansion, it is said 50,0001. was expended by Mr.
Barlow Hoy, late M.P. for Southampton. Mr. Robins's
commentary in respect to the next vacant seat, shall
speak for itself. Thus it is—" It is a fact not to be im-
peached—that if the new purchaser partakes of his hos-
pitality, and be of sound political creed, he will walk
over the course, whenever the next election arrives."

THE IRON TRADE.—MERTIIYR.—The iron trade,
which for several years past has been progressively declin-
ing, is now about to take a rapid stride in advance, and
this time we can congratulate our readers upon there being
no fear of a retrograde movement. In June last, the men at
the various establishments had an advance of 10 per cent.,
bat the price of iron having soon afterwards fallen, the iron
trade has ever since been making but slow progress. The
large numbers of railways now in contemplation in England,
Europe, America, and India, bespeak a flood-tide of prospe-
rity, and accordingly the price of iron is steadily, and, we
believe, permanently advancing. So encouraging is the as-
pect of affairs, that the spirited proprietor of the Cyfarthfa
Works has not only many hundreds of men employed in
erecting a stupendous steam-mill for the maaufacture of
rails ; but last week he freely announced the intention of
giving the men in his employ another advance of wages.
The manner in which this intimation is conveyed is too cha-
racteristic of the enterprising, clear-headed, and business-like
writer not to merit insertion : _ _

"1‘;) all the Workmen of Cyfarthfa and Hirwain Iron Works.
" London, March 1, 1845.
"I have much pleasure in communicating to you that it is
my intention to advance your wages after the expiration of
the present month of March. The improved state of the
trade enables me to do this ; but you must be well aware that
some old orders and contracts still remain on my books at
low prices to be executed, and that the very heavy losses
which I have sustained in carrying on my works for the last
four years, will not allow me to give you the benefit of the
improved prospects of the trade before I myself enjoy a little
of them ; and I have fixed the end of this month as the
earliest period at which it will be mutually fair and reason-
able to commence an advance of wages. Trusting that you
will adhere steadily to your work, and enable me to execute
some of my standing orders without interruption, I am, your
friend and master, " War. CRAWSHAY."
The other iron-masters, as in duty bound, are about to follow
the example so nobly set, and we hear upon good authority
that the next advance is to be 2s. Gd. in the pound, or 12*
per cent.— Cambrian.

THE SUGAR QUESTION.—The dock establishments
and other places in which sugar is deposited in bond pre-
sented a most bustling appearance on Saturday, owing to the
new sugar duties coming into operation on that day. Very
little sugar had been cleared from bond for some time past,
in anticipation of the reduction of duty, and from an early
hour in the morning the avenues leading to the docks, and
the streets in the neighbourhood of what are termed the up-
town warehouses, belonging to the St. Katherine and the
East and West India Dock Companies, were crowded with
waggons awaiting the clearance of sugars at the reduced
duties. Considerable delay necessarily took place, as accord-
ing to the provisions of the new Act, not a single package of
sugar could be delivered out of bond until a sample had been
furnished for the inspection of the landing surveyors, and
pronounced by them to be inferior to the standard samples
with which the several departments in London and at the
outports had been provided by the Commissioners on Friday,
as was stated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the
House on Friday night. The additional amount of respon-
sibility and labour which devolves upon the Customs' officers
is very great indeed, at the dock establishments of the dock
companies and Customs; officers remained for some time
after the expiration of the legal hour of business in order to
facilitate the deliveries of sugars for which warrants had
been passed in the Long-room in the early part of the day,
and as far as possible to prevent complaint or dissatisfaction.
It was remarked that, considering the difficulty attending
the commencement of the new Act being brought into opera-
tion, the deliveries took place with very little delay. We
understand that the standard samples which have been fur-
nished to the revenue officers at the several departments, for
the purpose of comparing with the sugar in bond previous to
delivery under the Act, have been selected in a very liberal
spirit, the samples being of such good quality that scarcely
any of the sugar imported from the West Indies, and very
little of the description usually imported from the East
Indies within the limits of the East India Company's char-
ter, will, with reference to it, come under the denomination
and be liable to the duty as " white-clayed sugar, or Sugar
rendered by any process equal to white-clayed sugar," &c.
The amount of duty received at the Custom-house, on
sum,
taking Sa-
turday, for sugar alone, was about 105,0001., a large
taking into consideration the great reduction which had
taken place.
ANOTHER COLLIERY ACCIDENT FATAL IN ITS
CONSEQUENCES.-011 the evening of Saturday last, an
inquest was held before the Coroner at Wigan, at
the house of Mr. Hill, Robin llood, Hallgate, on
the body of a boy, named Thomas Martindale, who
met with an accident at Swinley colliery, about a
week previous, in consequence of which he died that
morning. It appears that the father of the deceased
and his three sons were going down in the basket to
their work, when they were all thrown out and more
or less injured. At the time of the accident they
had got beyond the five-feet mine, when the
basket in which they were descending, from somo
means or other, was interrupted, by which Martin-
dale and his children were precipitated to the bottom.
The deceased was found to have received several very
serious injuries on the head, and parts of his body, the
father had an arm broken, and was seriously hurt, but
the other two escaped with a few very slight bruises.
The jury returned a verdict of " accidental death," with
a doodand of ss. upon the engine.-13olton Free Press.