The Sun.
London, England, 1828-11-14 00:00:00

SINGULAR ESCAPE.

The workmen employed in excavating,*
deepening the bed of the dry dock can only
low their occupation when the tide is out,.►JP),
at which time they pursue their occupation b',,d
by day and night, using by night fires end 00-/
lights; and as the part where they are at Fello
employed consists of,solid freestone rock, tbeit
are; from its hardneas, obliged to have keener',
recurrence to blasting the rockwithgunpowder:
and last night, between nine and ten o'clocj
they had prepared a blast properly charged, Ole
the workmen retired to a distance for safety
a match had been placed to the powder ;
ever, it did not ignite, and they all returned 10
their work again (26- in number), and begsti
their various operations, surrounding the .10,
where the blast had been prepared, and two mere
who had the management of that part of i 0
work, went, as
.the other men thought, to Pr,
pare another part of the rock for a second v
tempt ; instead of which. it appears the two ryes
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began to use their drill. in the hole where VI
charge was, and in the operation the drill str
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fire, and the blast exploded like the roar of iv
non. Out'of the 26 men, there was not ",e
that was four yards from the spot where the roc*;
was bored; it spas shivered and scattered abOili
them, and several large pieces 20 and 30 viols
distance ; yet not a-:than was hurt, except tii( 1
two who were working- at the drill, and reachil
over the powder at the time.it exploded. Veis
appeared at the time much hurt, and it
feared they had lost their sight; 1, however;
find, on inquiry after them- to-day, they are b`,ll
slightly hurt—indeed I felt a great, interest 'I,
the matter, for I passed the place last nicht
the other men were leaving their work at the re'
turn of the tide, and I had the fcrgoing narrr
tive from themselves, and they appeared troll
thankful for the providential 'protection they 10
been favoured with,--Liverpoot Paper 0
Tuesday.

BIRTHS. •
. On the llth inst. at Brighton, Lady Charlotte-Calthorre'
of:a daughter.
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On the 12th inst. is Vigo-street, Regentrstreet, t
lady.of Miles
.Marley, Esq. of a son.
On the 12th iast. at his house in (.3harlotte-stre':
Blootostoury-square, the lady of Arehihakl Bad(limot'
Esq. surgeon, of a daughter. • "
On the 15th inst. at Woodford; EsseX, the lady of tl!e
Rev. G. R. Gray, of a son.
The lady of the Ray. James Miller, of Durham, of a 0).
On the 13th inst. the - lady of Alexander Dobie,
solicitor, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 13th inst. at Alilford, Hants, Mr. Chadds Wea
Clark, of the King's-road, Bedford-row, to Catherine
Spence, eldest daughter of Thomas Davison, Esq. of BO-
.ford-row, and of Saltgrass, near Lymington.
On the 11 th inst. at St.. Mary's, Islington, by the
C. Simeon, the Rev. A. S. Thelwall, A.M., of Trinit,.
College, Cambridge, to Georgiana Anne, eldest datiglnet
of Mr. Tahourdio; of-Islington.
On the 11th inst: at St. Nicholas Church, Roeheri
by the• Rev. George Harker, Thomas Rawlings, Es,i; °e
the 40th Regiment, to Charlotte Ctirrie,'youngest daughter
of William Hillier, Esq. of Boley-hill, Rochester.
.01, the 11th inst., at "Ssimerton,- by the Hon. and ge:.;
B. W., Noel, John Janes Smith, Esq. eblest ,son •71"
John Wyldbore Smith, Bart. of the Down House, DorFet-
sh!re, to-Frances, eldest daughter of John Frederick
Esq. of Sonnerton-house, in the county of Sainerset.
On the 11th inst. at Shelton, in Yorkshire,
Locke, jun. Esq. of the. Ist or King's Dragoon t 630'
eldest on of Wadham Locke, Esq. of Wu-Melt:PA House, it
Wiltshire, to Caroline_, eldest daughter of Henry Dionne
son, Esq. of Skelton.
On thcßtli inst. at •Edmanton,• by the Rev. Dases'a
Warren, William Iletify,"-Elliot, Esq. surgeon, Ronater
terrace, Westminster, late of Finsbury- place, Lontlini, t°
Helen, youngest daughter of Capt. Roper, of Edmonton.
On the 11 th inst. at Nutfield, Surrey, by the Rev, :%lf•
Saadford (after a courtship of . many . years},
Saunders, Esq. of 13urstow-lodge, to Mary Ann, the
amiable and aethomplished daughter of William Cleraent!:
EN. of Kentings. Immediately after the ceremony, °-
happy couple set of in a barouche and four for the Vdir
finest.