AWFUL EXPLOSION.-(From a ...
The Times, 1824-10-07T00:00:00

AWFUL EXPLOSION.-(Frorn a Calcutta paper of the- 15th of Anril.)_The powder-works of Panamow are situated on a rising giound, about three miles to the northward of the canton- ments of Allahabad. About half-past foar p. m., the deep silence of an Indian day was broken by a sudden and most awful cxplo- sion. The sensation in cantonments wvas, as if a masked battery of great guns had opened at the very doors of the bungalows. Every house shook to its foundation, doors fiew open, bursting their bolts and bars, and strewing the floors with glass. Oa rushing 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 beheld, upon which the suw shining brightly. showed dlis- tinctly in its womb, aloud rolled on cloud in wild uproar and agl . tadon. The direction of the cldod put the cause beyond a doubt, and wc hastened to Papamow, where we witnessed a most heurt- rending sigbt. Two bifting-houses, said to contain about 303 barrels of powder, by some unhappy cause (which, I suppose, it will be impossible ever to ascertain) had explorded, and nearly forty people connected with the works had been blown up and scattered around, in a manner too borrible for desoription; whilst their wives and children, with loud lamentations, were en- deavouring to discover the' shattered renmains of their rela- tions, four only of whom were found alive, and of weira hopes are entertained. A long range of the new high wall, building all round the work, was blowu away nearly by the foundation; trees lay torn up by the roots, and the roofs of ail the mills were what - tered. Great alarm was entertained for Alajor Lindsay's family, whose house, as superintendent of the mills, is at a short distante:. We were rejoiced to find them safe and unhurt IMrs. Linrvlt- escape was wonderful she had retired afterdinnerto a Sm-lUsphiOj roon, with two glazed doors, fronting the *orks and was rentlil.e when the explosion took place. The doors, -which were seechZ,b, iron bars, were torn from their hinges, and one ofthe bars tird. the opposite side of the room, while the glass, like a shower osf b2l't strewed the floor of that toom and of the adioining hall. SuchCier& the power and effect of this awfui exploston, that in the fort; fitn) miles distant, doors were torn open, and brokenapparently-by greatc. violence than in the cantonments. t RoaBESity IN HY.D-PArrC.-O0n Tuesday evenivg, about' eight o'clock, a most impudent robbery was committed near the statue of Achilles, in Hyde-park. A gentleman, named Mackenzie, residing in Portland.street, Oxford-street, was passing through to Knightsbridge, when a fellow came up to him and requested to krnow if hi name was Orchard. Alr. Mackenzie replied in the negative, upon which the other rejoined, " You are a d-d liar, for yoar name is Orchard," and so saying gave a whistle. In a moment he was joined by two others, who began to strike Mr. A1ackenzie with their fists. lSlr. Mackenzie ran awav. but when he reached his friend's house at Knightsbridge, he found he had been robbed of his watch end silver snuff-box by the assailants. Mlr. Mfackenzie gave immediate information at all the police-offices of the circum. stances, with a description of the thieves, and we understand one of them is well known to the officers. On Tuesday se'nnight, a shocking affair happend at J, Gardon's Esq. at Reddisham.hall, near Beccles: two of hise raet servants, the coachman and footman, disagreed, when, in the irti. tatiqn of passion, the coachman stabbed the footman in the bedy, which occasioned his death.-Bury Post. On Tuesdav evening three trunks were stoleh frora Elawkins's Bristol coach; and on the following day two of thera were found under a hay-rick at Brislingwon. One had been cat opcn and cash, notes, and wearing apparel, value upwards of I01, tlaken out.-Wlocestcr Hcrat.l During the last contest for Westmorland, between Mr. Brougham and Lord Lon&dale's interest, some one remarked upon the strenuous canvass that had been made among the sons of the Churcl, and that no less than 108 clergymen had voted for the Lowthers. A partisan of Mt?r. Brougharn upon this gravely said- *' The Lordgave thc wsrd,and great w as the com any ofpreachersv" " Living always in the world," says Horace WValpole, " makes one as unfit for living out of it, a always Ulving OUt of it does for living in it.-"