Star.
London, England, 1824-10-07 00:00:00

The Ticket No. 5,556, drawn' last TuesdaT, a Prize
of £20,050, was sold by. MA Irrin and CO. 8, Cornhill; and no,
Oxford-street.—The New Scheme contains Two Prizes of Thirty
Thousand' Pounds, and -Thirty other Capitals, to be drawn 3d
Novzsraza, and is on the same approved plan as the last, on:y with
this difference--in that the largest Prizes were Twenty Thousand
Pounds, in the present Scheme, Thirty Thousand Pounds.
Seventeen, out- of Thirty-eight Capitals, drawn on
rotesday last, were Shared and. Soh by Brae, inchiding Two of
.L'A.l,ooo.—The New ,Lettery -Scheme (tor which Bisti is the Can-
tractor with Vovernment) contains Two Prizes of ..16—.4,000, and.
Thirty other Capatals, all Sterling iVrgley, and all to:lie decided in
thsc. Dsy, 7/4.1 November. Ticlets and Shares for which are now
on Safe at Lic Coaticecor.:: fnes, 4, Cornhill; and 94. Charing Cross.

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The powder-works of Papamow are situated on a
rising ground, about three miles to the northward. of
the cantonments of Allahahad. About half-past four
F.M. the deep silence of an Indian day was broken by
sudden arid most awful explosion. The
.sensation in
the cantonments was, as if a masked battery of great
guns had opened at the very don s of the bungalows.,
Every house shook to its foun,!ation, doors flew open,l
bursting their bolts and bars, and strewing the floors
with glass. On tu,hing out to ascertain the cause, a
most awfully sublime sight met the eye. Rising on the
clear blue sky to the north, a mighty condensed cloud
was observed, upon which the sun shining brightly,
shewed distinctly in its womb, cloud rolled on cloud in
wild uproar and. agitation. The direction of the cloud
put the cause beyond a doubt, and we hastened to Pa-
parn,:w, where we witnessed a Most heart-rending sigh:.
Two sifting-'rouses, said to contain about 300 b.trrels of
gunpowder, b/ some unhappy cause had exploded,
and nearly forty people connected with the works had
been blcr.vir up and scattered around, in a manner too
horrible for description; whilst their wives and children,
with loud lamentati-ms, were endeavouring to discover
the shattered remains of their relations, four only of
whom were found alive, and of whom hopes are enter-
tained. A long range of the new high wall, building
all round the work, was blown away nearly by the
foundation ; trees lay torn up by the roots, and the roofs
of all the mills were shattered. Great alarm was en-
tertained for M rjor Lindsay's family, whose house, as
superintendent of the mills, is at a short distance. We
were'rejoiced to. find them safe and unhurt. Mrs. Lind-
say's escape was wonderful; she had retired after din-
ner to a -small sitting-room, with two glazed doors,
fronting the works, and was reading when the explo-
sion took place. The doors, which were secured by iron
bars, were torn from their hinges, and one of the bars
thrown to the opposite side of the room, while the glass
like a shower of hail, strewed the floor of that room
and of the adjoining hall. Such was the power and
effect of this awful explosion, that in the fort, five miles
distant, doors were torn open, and broken, apparently
by greater violence than in the cantonments.

LIMA.
EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED LIMA, APRIL 27.

84 On my arrival in this city from a commercial jour-
ney into the interior, I felt no small anxiety in regard to
the course which might have been pursued by the Spa-
niards in their newly acquired pOssession of this city,
and the castles of Callao. It appears, however, that
they have conducted themselves in a very moderate
manner, having in all instances respected English and
North American property, with the exception of rob-
beries committed by some Black tr;.;ops, who were in a
state of insubordination at the first of the affair. These
outrages, however, were son put a stop to by some
severe examples having been made, and both property
and persons in this respect were probably never more
secure than its the present day.
44 How long the Spaniards will maintain this city is
extremely doubtful, as it would appear that Bolivar,
who is in Truxillo with a large .al-my, means to risk a
battle for it. General Canterac has an equal or supe-
rior force in Huancayo, about 50 leagues to the south-
ward of this, and is expected to march upon Bolivar
within a very short time. All, therefore, is yet in un-
certainty asTespects the fate of Lima. Meantime business
is nearly at a stand, scarcely any sales being made except
in flour. One of the articles that. is likely to command
a ready sale here is glass, of which a pretty large assort-
ment should be sent by every vessel coming from Ger-
many. Glass of other countries cannot, from its high
charge, come into competition with the German glass.
I Silk velvet is also likely to be an article of extensive
sale. Other articles we expect a demand for are cotton
hosiery, if lower charged than. the English ; wax cloth,
and German broad cloths. These articles are all in
demand in the markets of Chile.

" Owing to the unsettled state of things, but few goods
are landed now and brought to Lima. Instead of which,
they are transhipped to other vessels in the port of Cal-
lao, and a market sought on the coast for them. Al-
though business. is extremely dull here at present, and
prices low, owing in a great degree to want of confi-
dence and the tear of change, yet there are but few
European goods in the market ; and when the event
takes place, which we look to as near at hand, business
must immediately improve."

WEST INDIA COMMISSION.'
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EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM TRINIDAD, DATED JULY it
You will have observed; by our island Gazelle of
the 7th instant, that hii Majesty's Commissioners of
Legal Inquiry had taken their departure for St. Lucia,
where it is to be hoped, for the sake of all w ho may have
an interest in that island, that their labours will not be
one-tenth of what they had to contend with: here.
" Mr. Maddock arrived, in company with Mr. Dwarf
ris, in Januar y last, and they proceeded immediately to
business: the latter Gentleman was, however, obliged
to return to. Europe for the recovery of his health ; but
Mr. Henry, the senior Member of the Commission, ar-
rived previous to the departure of Mr. DWarris. The
investigation continued without intermission, so that
nearly six months were taken up in hearing complaints;
and it is a well-known fact, that numbers who felt them-
selves most seriously aggrieved were deterred from ex-
posing their suffeiings, under the impression that the
authority of the Commission extended only to the inquiry
as to the existence of abuses, without any power to grant
redress; consequently, the dread of giving cfferice, whilst
being obliged to remain at the mercy of the party against
whom they intended to complain, naturally kept many
silent, w ho would, under more favourable circumstances,
have greedily solicited a hearing.
4.4 The visit of those Gentlemen to this unfortunate Co-
lony, has given xise to hopes which evei y upright man
connected with us must wish to see realized; and these
hopes have been strengthened by the knowledge of our
fate being in the -hands of mos. of honour! Mr. -Hem".
possesees.superior qualifications (or colonial investigation,
having for ,ease jean presided over the Law Courts tit