The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-02-23 00:00:00

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.

PLYMOUTH. Fes. 20.—The American ship Margaret, M•Lel-
lan. having nearly completed her repairs, is expected to come out
of dock in a day or two.
GaAvitszisp. Fza. 2l.—Arrived the Clyde, Driver, from Bee.
gal ; Mulvey, Castle, Hall, front St. Johns, N.B. • John, Ms-
thews, from Gallipoli; Alex. Adams, Peters, from it. Michael's;
Alexander, Rickman, from Rostock; Enchantress, Kara. from
Messina; Lovely Ann, Chaplin, from Charente.--Sailed, the
Branstones, Wilson, for Rio; Britannia, Rube' for Lisbon • Iris
and Therese, Asten, for Marseilles ; Borneo, Ross, for Madeira.
OREENOCZ, Fza. 14.—The Ant, Owens, from Bristol and
Newport, was run foul of on Thursday night, between Lamina
and Pladda, by an outward-bound brig, which broke the fore-hard
and anchor stock, carried away the larboard bulwarks, stanchions,
Av. and damaged her bowsprit ;—gave them no assistance, although
almost in a sinking state. The other vessel was also considerably
injured, and lost her jib.
HawitultOW, Frs. 15.—The Cuxhaven, Brarens, which sailed
from hence for London on the 22d ult. after having nearly reached
the place of her destination, put back the 12th inst. leaky, with
loss of anchors and cables, and must discharge to repair.
SANTA Cauz, TENERIFTE, DEC. 28.—The Scotia is dis-
charging. Eighty logs of mahogany and a quantity of Logwool
are now on shore.

ViesseLs srosEN WlTH.—Cumberland, of Richmond, from
Newry, out 18 days, lat. 22. long. 18, offered supplies of provt-
sions to the Hope, arrived at Cork, by which she was spoken with.

DREADFUL EXPLOSION.

(FURTHER PAITICULAIIII.)
From the Caledoaias Mercury of Saturday.?
The explosion of Stobbs' powder-mills, on Friday morning.
shook the country for twenty miles round. This manufactory,
which has been carried on for many years by ?ileums. Hitchiner
and Hunter, at Stobbs, is situated in a sleep ravine, about four
miles south of Dalkeith, surrounded on all sides by a plantation of
young trees. The works are extensive. The horse, which was in
the waggon, was thrown to the distance of about thirty yards ; the
waggon was shattered into • thousand pieces, some of it being
found at a great distance from the works. There were two persoos
about 50 yards distant when the houses blew up, Mr. Hunter, and
one of the workmen, who was loading the cart with wocd. Mr.
Hunter was slightly hurt in the I*. He was driven into an ad-
joining drain, to the protection of which it is supposed he owed his
safety, the materials projected by We force of the explosion flying
over his head. The burning rafters of the buildings were scattered
in various directions, and sonic of these, being thrown on the top of
the knowe, among the broom and whine. set fire to them, which,
being seen burning, added considerably to the alarm spread by this
dreadful catastrophe. The adjoining trees are some of them tort
up by the roots, while others are cut asunder about the middle, as
if by the operation of a raw, the stump being only left standing ;
and altogether the adjoining country presents a striking seem of
ravage and desolation, and gives fearful evidence of the prodigious
power of the agency which could in a moment produce such terrible
effects. A ploughman, about a mile off, was thrown from his
plough to the distance of nearly thirty yards, but received nu
injury.
The quantity of gunpowder exploded is estimated at about
GO barrels, containing each 112Ihs. The damage to the work
is estimated not much to exceed 1,00 W., as the buildings are
Such parts of the remains of the unfortunate sufferers by this ac-
cident as could be found were interred yesterday. They had both
families. Walter Thomson has left a.widow and family of five
children, the youngest only ten months old, and the oldest only
thirteen years. The family of Cornwall, who had been employed
about these mills for 25 years, are mostly grown up.
A dreadful explosion took place at these mills on the 30th June,
1803. On that occasion throe lives were lost; Mr. Hunter, a pro-
prietor, was killed in his own garden, by a large stone, which car-
oied away his arm.

NORTH BIRWICI, Era. 17.
This morning, a little past eight o'clock, in conszrinence of the
explosion of the powder mills near Dalkeith, two dreadfidayares.
or rather loud peals of noise, were heard, like the distant ad
cannon. The whole of the houses in this place trembled,
down shook, and the doors in some houses flew open. It
a slight shock of an earthivake, or sonic other dreadful
of nature. I understand it has been more distinctly cats slit
south of this.

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