An item referred to tidings recived from Athens, Greece reporting an explosion on board of the French corvette l’Embuscade when a quartermaster of the artillery accidentally a rocket activated with as result that 20 cartouches each filled with 2 kg gunpowder lying on deck to dry exploded. The quartermaster was immediately killed, three other killed or heavily mutilated, 2 heavy wounded and 7 or 8 less seriously injured.
