JULY 5. EXPLOSION AT HOUNSLOW. Yesterday evening the Powder Mills in the neighbourhood of HounsloW blew tip with a tremendous explosion. Two mvn who were unhappily on the spot at the time, were dreadfully scorched and otherwise much injured. One was blown fifty yards from the place on which he was standing. His thigh was severely lacerated, and he wa, taken up almost lifeless: Both the unfortunate sufferers were conveyed to St. George's Hospital, and every assistance that medical skill could afford was immediately procured, but we are sorry to say little hopes were entertained of their recovery. One in partiaular was so severely injured, that at a late hour last night he was not expected to live till morning. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. POETRY. LITE RATUR E. TO SLEEP. (TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN.) 41S Tho' pictur'd in thy form I see The likene,s of the dead, Yet, gentle Slee;! oh, deign to be The partner of my bed. For in the calm thy slumbers give, How doubly blest am 1 ? Thus, without life, how sweet to live—. Thus, without death, to die ! C. T. Aulu.c Gcllius, an author of no mean authority as to grammatical correctnc,is, has given us, in the 16th chapter of the first hook of his Nodes Attica, an interesting disser tation, to prove that the word Mille is a singular ;n Latin, and means one thousand; whereas Millia implies thousands in the plural. The following Anacreontic, or Catullian epi gram, which is not a week old, will best elucidate this grammatical point:— Basia redde mild, dederam qum B Cidoris; Temporo si last, tingit lionesta pudor. Baia sod minquana, certo sine fmnore, credo; tibi mille dedi, migia redde tuiht. Z. N. B.—An English translation will be received with thanks. _MISCELLANIES. From the late debates in both Howes of Parliament, it appears, that the Cabinet is thus divided on the question of grunting the claims of the Roniun Catholics :—For their claims--Lord Camden, Lord Ilar— rowbv, Lord Mulgrave, Lord Aleiville, mid Lord Castlereal , h.— Against them—Lord Liverpool, Lord Chancellor, Lord S:dr!iooth, Lord bat turst, Lord Westwordand, Lord Buckinghanithire, Air. Vansittart, :Ind Mr. Limhorst. _ _ Since the late grant of Parliament, the Piineesses have had their fl WI private stables, horses, earliages, servants, &c. 'I he livery is ciaalar to the Royal Dukes. Their principal aniimquent is riding on I.oisehaili. going to Froginure, or to the Princes Elizabeth's Cottage, at Old IVindsor. Mr. Curran is elected Presi,!ent of the Dublin Library, in the room of the late Richard Kirwan, Esq. This honour was contested by the D shop of Cloyue. The votes u ere—for Mr. Curran, SOO ; fin. the Bishop, 97. Mr. Eliot Dais was on Monday elected Representative for the b rough of Colchester without opposition. In consequence of the ill ness of Mr. Branistone, who was to have nominated Mr. Davis, that Gentleman was proposed by Mr. Jackamitn, and seconded by the Rev. John Sinythies.—Mr. Harvey, of Feering-Muse, was proposed by Mr. .Kendall, and seconded by Mr. Gilson, but declined the horAnn. proposed by I:'e lomination, expressing his determination to offer himself at the 6ener.l Election. On Tuesday last Ilia well-known Baron llomPEscn died in his house at Darchett. Ills temper had created him many enemies, and his conduct on sevetal marking occasions few admirets. His quarrel with a young gentleman in the Strand, w horn he afterwards despe rwely wounded in a dui 1, and his privateering expedition against some detenaless Danish Islands, have left stains on his memory, which time only can obliierre. On Monday last, at Mattel:est...l., Mr. Sadler, the celebrated aero rmit, made his twenty-third ascent, and alighted at Oakwood, shout six miles from Sheffield. Ile made the passage in forty-eight minutes, so that he m us t have travelled at the amazing rate of a mile in a minute. Canterbury Races are fixed for Tuesday, August 11. Brighton races commence the 'l4th inst. . __......_.. At the Newcastle races on Thursday se'nnight. just as the last race was finished, the temporary stand belonging to the White Hatt inn, being loaded with about 11.00 persons, gave way in the middle, and in. r ,, lved nearly 100 in the crash. About forty persons were seriously hurt, and ten or twelve must dangerously, several of them having broken limbs. M. Degen made an experiment of his flying machine, at Tiroli, on the 10th inst. lie took his flight from a scaffold erected in the grand walk, and alighted safe in the old park of Sceaux. He yed up by a small balloon, to which were attached wings made ot tall( ty, 2 test in length, and eight and a half in breadth. Tuesday morning at ter: o'clock, the Ist and Qd regiment of life ;lard, mustered, with their appointments, in the fullest order, in Hyde Park, opposite the Barracks, for the purpose of being inspected by the tommander-in-Chief, Lord Heathlield, and the usual Staff. The bands Of both regiments make a nouvelle appearance; the blacks in long Moorish turbans, and the other performers in Austrian costume, attract ed general admiration. They performed several pieces of martial to the great entertainment of a numerous assemblage of Ladies. The Duke of York arrived, with his suite, about a quarter past ten O'clock, when a slinver descended, and, for a time, put the Ladies to th e "Jute. Fine weather, however, soon returned, and the regimen's went ihron2ll a variety of evolutions in a brilliant style. Several per sum of disti nct i on were present. There are at present in commission in the British Navy 737 ships of War: besides which there are repairing and building a number which make th e total amount 1,014, of which 26t are of the line, 37 from 50 tog.} guns, Q 35 frigates, 183 sloops of war, 14 bomb and fire-shin 09 ;voted brigs, 44 Gu tt ers , an d 70 g'tn. brigs, &c. FASHIONS FOR JULY'. EVrNTNG Derss.—Ail embroidered crape round robe, decorated at the feet with a deep vandyke fringe, short melon sleeve, bosom and back to correspond. White or blossom satin under drm. Hair a dis heveled crop, ornamchted with a small cluster of the Chinese rose on each side, and confined with a comb of pearl at the back of the head. Necklace, car-rings, and bracelets, of pearl and wrought gold. Gre cia, scarf of lilac silk, with embroidered variegated ends. Slippers of white satin, and gloves of French kid. Fan of imperial crape and ivory, embellished with gold antique devices. PROMLNADE DRYSS.—A round high robe of fine cambric or conot muslin, with nageoner's sleeve, and high, WI gathered collar. A cottitge vest, of lid ht green or lemon coloured sarsnet, laced in front of the bosom with silk cord, and trimmed round with broad thread lace ; the vest kft unconfined at the bottom of the waist. A Highland helmet, composed of the same material as the vest, with long square veil ,if white lace. A rosary and cross of the coquilla nut. Half-boots of pale green kid. Parasol of the same colour, with deep white silk awning. Gloves of buff coloured kid. BormstrcAr. Ercrutzt s.—D ,ctor Thornton, Member of the Uni versity of Cambridge, and of the Royal London College of Physi cians, %rill deliver a Course of Botany, comprised in six Lectures, in the Philoinathic Rooms, Burton-street, Russell-square, commencing on Monday, July 6, at nine in the evening. precisely. Doors open at half-after eight ; tickets of admission to the Course, 1-Is.; for a single Lecture, 3s. Young Ladies and Gentlemen, during the vacation, at half-price. Tickets can be had at the Rooms. The Lectures will be given twice a week to the end. A JILT IN HUMBLE LlFE.—Monday, •—• Casnsore, of Cow-cross, sold his wife, to whom he had been married ten years, in Smithfield-- market, to a dustman, for Its. to whom the lady, nothin,r loth, was de. livered in due form, viz. with a halter round her neck, and so far all parties seeuwd Lontent ; but as love is a fleeting passion, the spirit of turbulence found little difficulty in banishing it from the fair one's breast, and in consequence of some contradiction from her new ina morata, while passing up Fieln-lane, in the course of the afternoon, situ fairly knocked lum down. The Man of Dust was preparing, like ano ther Petruchio, to tame his Shrew, by arguments of an equally tOrcible nature, when, I ,rtimately for her, a Jack Tar espoused her cause, towed her oil' triumphantly towards Wapping, and left the for saken swain to brood over his lost money, cxc (aim against the fickle. uess of the set, acid seek consolation in the best; manner he could, for the effects of hie drublung. 1