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.s3rtunatc explosion, only by the UT gent and unusual solicitations oi 'he Captain of sloop, who at length pre- vailed on him to take passage on board his vessel.

 It is said also to be worthy of remark, that d meeting of a number of our most valuable citizens, which was to have been held at Phelps eoupting-room, commencing about an hour previous to. the disaster, failed of being held. in coh- sequencc of non-altendanee oi several of the gentlemen invited. IIadit been heldasappointed, itwouldprobabkhaye confined until the fall of the building.

 The cause of this painful disaster is apparent to all who visit the ruins.- The building was erected 1.-the winter. and there was little cohesion of brick and mortar. There is neither haicnor lime enoughin the mortar now geners s,.Iy used. In this vast structure there were neither party walls, as in o great d building there should have been,snor aanehors, as the irons for connecting the materials and adding strength to the hntIdine. are called. Worst of all, the beams of the mass that has fallen, were not mortced into the timbers of the section that remains; and there appears to have been a complete breaking oil, exactly as if the foundation of a part of 14hc building had given way, and there was no connecting fixtures between the two portions of the edifiee, by which the whole strength should have been united. Ehe consequence was, that the building has yielded to the pressure of the enormous weight Of iron, tin. wire, ,cotton, ,and other goodsstoredwith- zn it-the balance not being evenly pre- served. The store had been occupied but three or four weeks, and it is evi- dent that the laws of grayitation have only preserved it so long. Any consi- derable disarrangement of the equilib- rum, would have produced the same result al. ,.,.s earlier day.

 MT. Goddard, one of the deceascd was q most estimable and worthy man He was industrious, but poor. He ha; left a numerous and excellent family in narrow circumstances.

 P. s.-Half pdst r o'cloa.-We have just returned from the scene ol death. The body of poor Goddard has been taken out-his head doubled over upon the breast. The body of young Seymouris seen. but not yet removed.

 The dead bodies of three black men have been taken out during the morn ing.

 T O'clock. The body of Mr. Stokes IS seen; but it will be some hours be- fore tine. rubbish can be removed fromit.

 The roof of the superb three story dwelling adjoining is destroyed.