The Sun.
London, England, 1818-10-03 00:00:00

IRELAND.

All the cavalry re.nitimnts are *Tanta to eight
troops, except the Royal Horse Guards Blue, the
Ist Dragoon Gturrits, Bth, 17th, 21u, 22d, 24th,
and 25th Dragoons, who retain their nine, ten,
awl twelve troops.

Saturday the 4th, or Queen's Own Dragoon's,
were reviewed by General 'Gordon in Cork—tWo
troops from coot:try quarters had arrived in that
city for the purpose.
The Colonelcy of the 89th Regitnerit vacant
by the death of General Carl Lindsay--:he Aro also
'Governor of 'Claremont, county of Tyrone.
The 98th and 99th Regiments, the former from
New Brunswick, acrd the latter from Halifax,
lately arrived trans Chatham, vrtre ordered to be
reduced on Tuesday last.

NOTTINGHAM EXPLOSION.

(PURT HER PA RTICUtI4IS.)

The shock, which at first was conceived to
be an earthquake, in a few minutes filled the
streets with a terrified multitude running it; every
direction. A thick smoke and strong smell of
gunpowder, with fragments of paper flying about
in the air, quickly spread fresh alarm. Some ran
towards the Barracks, others to the Military
Guard-house, and many, as if bereaved 'of reason,
Tan about in wild dismay without 'knowing whi-
ther or for what object. At leogth the cry be,
came general that an explosion of gunpowder had
completely destroyed the Canal Company's ware-
house, in our neighbourhood, and that another
explosion might be momentarily expected. The
distress now became agonizing ; however, our
fears in this respect were not verified, and I ven-
eered to direct my steps towards the scene of de-
structiom. All the adjoining streets were strew-
ed with glass, and the roofs of the ,houses dread-
fully shattered.

The greater part of the 'inhabitants had fled
into the adjoining meadows, but even here the
destructive effects of the explosion were most dis.
tressing ; for, with numerous fragments of the
ruined edifices, several mangled bodies were found
there, wlrich had been carried across the canal by
the violence Of tine concussion.

this melancholy affair happened h at pre-
' gent not well known. Various reports are in cir-
culation, but from all that f have been able to
learn, I believe the following statement will be
found pretty Correct :—A canal boat, with other
merchandize, had 21 barrels of gunpowder,
weighing about I cwt. each, on board. The pow-
der had imust been delivered at the warehouse, and
the boat was still lying 'under• the archway over
which the warehouse is built. Some of tilt gun-
powder had escaped through a crevice of one of
the barrels iat carrying. A mats in the boat, who
was heard to say he would have a flash of his
own, took a hot coal and set. fire to the train,
which quietly commie.oicated with the barrels,
and in a moment this immense pile t.f buildings,
four stories high, built in the most massive man-
ner, fun of corn and other merchandize, became
a mass of ruins. The adjoining wharfs and build-
ings have suffered dreadfully, and the destruction
its glass has been great, at a very considerable dis-
tance from the focus of explosion.
Twelve bodies have already been found ; the
wharf itself they dare not yet search into ; all they
venture at present is, putting into sacks some of
the corn, which lies in great quantities upon the
wharf. Above one !mocked soldiers are employed
upon
this work, while others are keeping guard.
The engines are all drawn up in readiness for tear
of fire ; in short the whole town is in a state of
uneasy and anxious suspense not easily to be con-
ceived, and inspossible to be described.

POETRY.

tIYMN.—.WRITTES AT SEA.
Ob Thou, who bidst these ocean-streams
Their primal bounds and limits keep ;
Who layiPst thy temple's starry beams
Unshaken on the Mighty deep;

Conduct ut-o'er the trackless waste
That spurns the print of human feet,
nut where thy presence may be traced
In every wind and ware we meet

And as these liquid plains we rove,
Should stormy winth "resistless blow)
O sa.e us fromthe flash above!
0 spare ult froru the gulph below !

And in those soul-Appalling hours',
When death tides high on every wave,
Assist, oh ! Lord, our feeble powers,
And save,--uten thou alone canst save Z

And on those plains of early day,
Where first the star-light was unfurl%
That'Sbetl salvation from its ray,
And splendour user a nighted world;

Ohs! shrond us from the scorching beam,
That preys on life's diminished wing,
From fever's wild delirious dream,
The tiger's wrath, the serpent's sting.

kat teach us,--,=more than all the rest,
To bow submissive to thy will,
In all thy tender mercies blest;
In all thy judgments, patient still!

That thou, life's weary voyage past,
IV favoring gales or tempests driven,
Our stedfast barks may gain at last
Their wished for port,--their Pail fit Heaven,'

REGISTER OF FASHION.

ARRIVALS.

The Duiless of Devonshire, at .Warren's New Hofet, New-
street; Hon. Mr. Foster, and Captain and Mrs: Clifford, from
Chiswick;at ditto; the Earl of Cassillis, at his house in Privy-
gardens, from, a tour; Lady Louisa Ann Stuart, at her 'Janie
in Stotland-yard, from her seat, Pure Cottage, Hanti; Sir
Geo. and Lady Anson, at Lord Anson's house, in St. James's•
square, from their seat, Crogan, Wales; the Hon, Colonel
Lygon, at the Earl of Beaucham?s house, in St. James's-
_square, from his seat, Farmington Lodge, Gloucestershire;
the Hon. G. and C. Cavendish, from their father's seat (Lord
G. H. Cavendish), Eastbourne, Sus4x the Hon. Mrs.
Dawson, at the Earl of Carhampton's house, in Bruton.
street, Berkeley.square; Robert Peel, Esq. and family, at
Blake's Mote; Jermyn-street, from their seat, near Man.;
chester.