The Sun.
London, England, 1807-09-26 00:00:00

Eird3RSll.l.ll P9IVI2ER MILLS.

We gave, in our Paper of Menday last, a short
account of the exp:oston nt a.corning at Fa y(l'.
sham, in Kent; The Joins and scene of devasta-•
tion tt .occasioned ate scarcely to be described';
the building
.was the'grouud, the tirn-
ber4 splintered and dispersed in eery direction for
some rods distanet, and •t he inassve -press and mill
wheels displaced and thrown many feet distant from
their original coition ; the' trees and 'plantations in
the vicinity were- -also much torn and disfi fired',
and a building,icalled the lieceiviii;-1-louse,. only se-
parated from this Mill by a slight plantation, was
also much injured ; fortunately at the ipooent it
was empty, or the consequences would have beeti
moredreadtdl. •-
Toe quantity of composition contained in the mill
was 8 401 bi. the' usual charge receiVed twice a day
from the grinding house, and the master-worßer
had lett the null not a 'quarter of an hour prior to..
the explosion. . A labourer, named Thomas- Llelo,
who was wending, the gravelled walk- leading to
the will, about twenty yards distant, was thrown
down, as he, himself describes, from .the ci-f:;tt of
the shock, before he beard the iloise, but attempt.?
log to riAt a third time, was struck by,a piece of-
timber on the small part
.of the back, ,ind rendered
insrusible; he .was. conveyed to the- +yawn- Ititise,
and medical assistance procured, and is,, we under-
stand, now in a fair way-orrecovery.
' Of the, unfortunate sufferers, one alone eyince.l
somesigns of life, but tihit only in a taint respira-
tion, and heave of the breast ; one was thrown to
some rods distant, and fell among the willows
another (Scott, the tbreinan) •. was cut asunder •
through the middle, had one of his thighs broken,
an the back ()art of hiS scull 'blown uit ;" the utheis-
were all, inure or less; dish-gored, -their ciothes torn
off, their bodies scorched black and lacerated. Their
names were John Scott, -William. k.,tliot, Daniel Tap.
penden,- George .131utin, John Samson, and Andrew
Shilling ;, of these &Ott, Iltot.t, and Sanipson,.
have each left a wifw, rind ..I..ippenden and bithin
also each a wife' and two cohoren Spi,nng was
unmarricd, and has left 6onsiLL4aole prop,rty in the
funds-.

Of the three horses employed at the mill, two
were dreadfully shattereo, and the third was so
murli bruised as to make it necessary to kill it lin-
mcdiately. Tlic-exelosinn was ; heard 1n trie direc-
tion of the wihd, widen blew from toe North Last,
to a cOnsiderable distance, and ranch alarmed and
agita:ed the inhabitants.
The Corning Mal was No. 3, forming part of the
Royal Powder Works. The last accio,ot Of this
nature, and 'a similar one to the Ache, wok place
on the 7th of September, 1802 ; this wab the Lunt-
N0..1, and then also six twit and three
horses suffered ; this bas since men rebuilt, with toe
press separated from the mill by a high muund of

The corning mills are timber buildings, of an ob-
long "Inadrangular figure, SOITIeW bat
s.hittar. to a
barn, with four entrances, witts on each siLie ; the
internal space divided by two partitions into three
-c*Orripaiquients, the one containing a press w it a idets
.and eaotran, tor pressing what is called, in the lan-
guage uf the workmen,, the green charge, into Lake.s,
which cakes, after being .coarsely broken' with
wooden -mallets, in a wooden nihrtar, are, then
conveyed into sieves of copper, of dherent hogrees
of fineness, for the purpose et .bealg granulateu,
the machinery for which tOrnis the middle cow-
partintnt. Its the. third. is . the horse %van:. and
wheel, the cogs of which give motion to the whols
apparatus, and these form the second principal itage
'of the formation of the powder. These Mills are
each surrounded, at some distance, with a stockade
or palisade, and a ptattbi'm leads from that part
where the press is placed, to a shed at the exterior
of Mee palisade, in order that a com:• lineation may
be'had to the mill fur the tunibrils, vt-ithouLtlia ne-
cessity of their approaching near to it.
The report scented rather a protracted rumbling,
than an instantaneous blast, and hence it is. sup-
posed that' it must have been. communicated from
sonic one part to the other.
A representation of the ease has been made to the
Ordnance Board, and there is no doubt but that the
wives and familit's of,the unibrtunate men will be
sinticiently for, as. has been the case in all
former instances_

ATTEMPT 'AT SulcinE.---As the watchman in
Great MarlbOrough,street was going his rounds at
ten o'clock' on -Friday night, he discoyered a woman
in a kneeling posture; against' the railing of No. 50,
and on his nearer approach, he perceived she Was
suspended' from the railing by her garters.. The
watchman relieved the body, which, although %,s'ario,
was without the least sign of life, and aiist(d by
Foy, one of the Officers belonging to MitrlborOug,b-
Street Office, he conveyed, the unfortunate woman
to 'St.-James's Workhouse. Surgical aid u4is' ad,
ministered, and animation tbllowcd,.so:that she:was.
yesterday able to‘articulate, bin she is not yet known..
She is about 22 years of age, Of,interesting appear-
ance, and genteelly dressed. She proves to be preg-
nant, Which probably was the etinse of 'the rash at-
tempt. ,

On Monday ,morning, as Mrs:: carver, of Hemp-
nall, and her daughter, Mrs. Irwin, and child,
Were going to Norwich, in a (one-horse cart, they
were net in a 'narrow part of the road, near'Caiste'r.
Church,: by a waggon horses, driver of
which had committed Ow team to Of his tea to an ;
el-
derly man, Who was upon the wagon. In endear
vouring to pass, the wheels of the cart were caught
by the waggon,' and Mrs. Carver tieing thrown Out,
and the wheel passing over her, she received consi-
derable injury. The horse, then tearing the shafts
from the 'cart, ran full speed a considerable way
with Mrs..lrwin,. who held the, infant in her arms,
till at lengtha perpon stopped the horse, and the child
was taken from her with' little hurt; but the ma,
Cher received much injury, and, with Mrs. Carver,
Was conveyed to Stock Rummer, where every as
was procured for them. We arc happy to
add they are in a fair way of recovery.
A constant' frequenter of City feasts Aaving grown
enormously fat, it was proposed to write uti his back,-
Widened at the expellee of the_ Corporation 01 Lon*-
don.'