The Sun.
London, England, 1842-02-28 00:00:00

( A LATER ACCOUNT: )

A few minutes before twelve o'clock this day one of the most
dreadful events which it has been our duty to record for so.ne
years past, has occurred at the firework-manufactory of
Mr. D'Ernst, situated at the bottom of Princes-street, Lam-
beth walk, and which has been attended, it is supposed, with
the loss of eight or ten lives. From the confusion, alarm, and
anxiety at present. existing in the vicinity, no certain informa-
tion could be obtained beyond th .t, every human being who
was on the premises, at the time of the awful catastrophe, was
launOied into eternity. The premises which stood on an ex-
tensive plot of g ound, are levelled to the earth, and in there
place an immencee mass of ruins is only to be seen. At
the time mentioned the whole portion of the southern
part of the metropolis were thrown into the utmost consterna-
tion by two loud reports which shook the houses, while in the
immediate neighbourhood the furniture was displaced, and
which was thoug!A to proceed from an earthquake. The
reports were instantly followed by- a noise resembling
the discharge of artillery in rapid succession. The first
impulse of the inhabitants in the neighbourhood were to
rush out of their houses, when a sight, which can never be
forgotten, met their eye—it was that of the entire pre-
mises, enveloped in smoke and fire, rising in the air, and
with them the whole of the unfortunate uersons at work.
To such a height did they ascend, as to r ndcr the
mass of ruins visible to those who were passing over
the metropolitan bridges, and which descended as rapidly.
The instant they fell fire was seen to burst out from the aper-
tures, but owing to the prompt arrival of the engines
the flames were quickly got under, and then a sight pre-
sented itref which harrows the imagination ; remnants
of human bodies were to be seen amidst the burning
ruins, and from it being known that all the men were at work,
every exertion was made by the firemen an t police
to extricate them ; by a cyoarter ;past twelve three blackened
muses, which once *item living beings, were got out, but
so dreadfully disfigured, as to render it almost impossible
to identify them, and at the time we write, two more
bodies were taken out. The general impre:sion i . that more
are still burned. How or by what means the accident
happer.ed will be for ever a mystery, as none of those who
were within escaped to tell the cause. From the inquiries
which were made, it was stated there were four barrels of
' powder on the premises at the time, besides other combt.stibles.
Thousands of persons are on the spot, as well as a large body
of the police. The mutilated remains recovered were taken to
1 the workhouse.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON FEB. 28.—Wind this day at noon, W.
DEAL, FEB. 26.--Wind S.W. to W.N. W., moderate. 27,
A .34., S. S. W. ; r. ,W. S. W., moderate—Arrd. Milford,
Shields, for Grenada. Arrd. from the River, Eliza, St.
Helena ; Ocean, Sierra Leone ; Orleans, Hobart Town ; Mid-
Lothian, Bombay; Milani', Trinidad; Hope, St. Vincent. It
has blown hard throughout the day, during which several
vessels drove considerably, but have brought up with a second
anchor. It is now (7, 4..30 more moderate. The Ergo, for
Malta, slipped anchor and cable, and proceeded for Ramsgate.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 27.—Wind S. S. W., fresh —Arrd. Roch-
dale and Trinidad packet, Demerara—sailed 16th ult. ; Sharon,
Pennington, New Orleans; General Parkhill, Hoyt, and George
Wa-hington, Burrows, New York—sailed Bth inst. ; Gazelle,
Newfoundland; Vagellan, Bouch, Lima; Jem, Menzies, Tam-
pico ; Adams, Gay, New Orleans; Gondola, Rennie, New
York and Charleston—sailed 6th inst. The General Parkhill
and George Washington, got in contact this morning in the
river ; the latter lost bowsprit, had bow stove, azc.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 27.—Wind S. S. W. to N. W., strong.—
The Isadore, from Cardiff to London, which was ashore near
Ryde, has been got off, and towed in here.
COWES, FEB. 16.—Arrived the Medora Norna, Bridgeman.
Charleston; Magnet, London, for Grenada.
GUERNSEY, FEB. 23.—Sailed John, Havannah.
BRISTOL, FEB. 26.—Sailed Emley, St. Vincent.
SWANSEA, Fag. 25.—Acrd. Enchantress, Edgar, Cuba.
FALMOUTH, FEB. 25. —Wind N. W. , to W. S. W , strong
breezes, and squally. 26. —Wind W. S. W. to N. W., do., with
violentsqualls.—Arrived the Wanderer, Palk, Ancona; Tyrian
packet, Vera Cruz, sailed Bth ult., Tampico 19th, Havannah
2d inst., with 170,000 dollars; Bragarza steamer, Gibraltar,
left 17th inst., Cadiz 18th, Lisbon 21st, Oporto 22d, and Vigo
23d ; 'Traveller, Brand, Jacmel, sailed 3d inst. Eliza,
Cornish, Constantinople, sails split, &c. ; Briton's Queen, bound
fur St. Michael's, with fore and mainmasts carried away, 24th
inst., in lon. 9.
Coax, FEB. 25.—Ski., Mozambique, for Bermuda.
KINSALE, FEB. Cantab, Rio Grande; Diadem,
Bahia.
SOUTHAMPTON, FEs. 26.—51 d., Mary Wood (s. ), Gibraltar.
Orr DA RTMOUTH, FEB. 25.- -Elise, Baltimore, for Bremen.
PLYMOUTH, FEB. 27.—Wind, variahle—Arrd., -Wolverme,
Portsmouth, for China. It has blown all night from S.S.E.
to S. S. W., but is now moderate. The William and Charles,
Butcher, fouled another schooner in the Sound, slipped, and
ran into the pool with damage.
PENZANCE, FEB. 23.—Arrd. William and Ann, Casey,
Swansea, with bowsprit, &c. carried away, and other damage,
having been in contact r;ith a large brig lath inst. off Lundy.
MILFORD, FEB. 26.—A head-board, marked " Michael
Edwards," in gilt letters on a black ground, was picked up
yesterday near the Crown Rock.
GALWAY, Fzn. 25.—The Albert Edward, Prince of Wales,
sailed the 18th inst., put back 20th, with pumps out of work-
ing order; she has had to discharge part of cargo, but will
proceed in a day or two.
DUBLIN, FEB 25.—Arrd. Demerara, Miller, Demerara.
RAMSGATE, FEB. 27.—Arrd. Jane, London, for Tobago,
assisted in.
The vessel which sunk near Scilly, 11th inst., is supposed to be
the William Preston, Cowper, of South Shields, from Odessa.

We regret to state that the abEeace of Philip
Howard, Esq., Member for Carlisle, is occasioned by the con-
tinued illness of his father.

MR. HENRY VINCENT IN DEVIZES.—On Wednes-
day, February 23d, Mr. Vincent arrived in Devizes, for the
first time since the Tory riot in 1839. His intention was to
attend the Anti-Corn-law tea meeting, but finding, on his ar-
rival, that the party was a private one, Mr. Vincent wrote a
letter to the Chairman, stating he had no desire to intrude
himself among them, but hoping that a public meeting would
soon be held in defence of popular representation and free
trade. News of Mr. Vincent's arrival soon spread, and at eight
o'clock the Temperance Room was filled with a highly respect-
able party. Mr. Vincent was enthusiastically received, and
addressed the meeting for the space of three hours, on the
" first principles of Government," and urged the necessity of
union between the middle and working classes, to obtain po-
litical power for the people.— Wiltshire Indepependent.
MORE MADNESS.—On the day that the great fight
between " the powers of light and darkness" (to quote the
Guardian), was going on in Glasgow, we had a small conflict
of the same sort in Aberdeen. Dr. William Henderson,
equally well known for his pious zeal and his pious mistakes
(to call them by a mild name), had politely given notice that,
ar the general meeting of the Shareholders of the Aberdeen
and London Steam Navigation Company, he would bring for-
ward a motion for altering the times of the sailing of their
vessels, from Saturday to some other day of the week. The
discussion came off on Tuesday, and, on a division, it was
found that the Sabbattarians could only muster 18 votes, while
their opponents had not fewer than 70.—Aberdeen Herald.
On Sunday, the 13th inst., a troop of maskers, who
had bound themselves together with ropes, promenaded the city of
Lyons, bearing a large flag, on which was inscribed Auz Peuplea
Inalheureux! This being considered by the police as an excite-
ment to disturbance, they were all arrested.
A narrow board, nearly three feet in length, with
the letters" ERNST" cut deep, and gilded, has been picked up
near the Osmington station, and forwarded by the Inspecting Corn.
mender of the Coast Guard to George Arden, Esq., Lloyd's agent at
Weymouth.—Doryet Coun y Chronicle.